Search results for: 'the works'
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THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. The Sporting Magazine.London : 1793-1870 & 1892
First editions of the first periodical devoted to general sportsmanship, The Sporting Magazine, issued from 1793 until 1870. This complete collection provides an invaluable resource, reflecting the changes in society and attitudes across the turn of the century, and placing them in relation to the pastimes and sports of British society. Each volume... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 128768
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (trans.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from the German.London : 1821
First edition in English of Goethe's Faust, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book is most often met with in the publishers' reddish-brown paper boards, the flimsy backstrip having perished. This copy, however, has an attractive contemporary polished calf binding by the London binder Charles Murton, who Ramsden notes specialised in blind stamping.... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134583
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ARNOLD, Matthew. Poetical Works.London : 1910
Handsomely presented copy of Arnold's complete poems, first published in 1890. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140552
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GORE, Catherine. New Year's Day, A Winter's Tale.London : [1846]
First edition, in a beautiful signed Kelliegram binding, with their signature onlay illustration, of the second of three Christmas books by Catherine Gore.
The "Kelliegram" binding was one of the many innovations of English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest connections in the history of the binding... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 143157
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SINGER, Charles, & others. A History of Technology.Oxford : 1956-58
A very handsomely bound copy of this monumental history of technology, "the first major work in English to embrace the whole subject from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century" (ODNB). The set comprises mixed editions: first editions, first impressions, of volumes III, IV and V; second impression of vol. II; third impression of vol.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 148169
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NOLHAC, Pierre de, & others. James I and VI; Queen Anne; Marie Antoinette; Empress Josephine; Queen Victoria.Paris : 1897-1906
First editions and first editions in English. A handsomely bound set of these lavishly produced biographies, published by Goupil & Cie, the leading art dealership in 19th-century France. James I and Queen Anne are number 420 and 93 respectively from a limited edition of 800 copies on fine paper. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 111444
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TOLSTOY, Leo. The Novels and Other Works.London : 1930
The centenary edition of Tolstoy's complete works, printed for the Tolstoy Society, presented here in an attractive binding by Bayntun. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 148024
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WILDE, Oscar. The Works,London and Glasgow : 1957
A handsomely bound copy of Wilde's works, first published thus as the New Collected Edition in 1948. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 148360
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DICKENS, Charles. The Works.London : 1899
The Gadshill edition, "printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868" and including H. K. Browne and George Cruikshank's beloved illustrations. A handsome set of what is generally considered one of the best editions of the collected works of Charles Dickens. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 141805
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works.London : 1869
A handsomely bound set of Thackeray's works. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133911
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WORDSWORTH, William; Thomas Hutchinson (ed.) The Poetical Works.London : 1908
A beautifully bound copy of the Oxford Edition of Wordsworth's poems with charming floral details. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145357
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BURNS, Robert. The Complete Works.Philadelphia : 1895
The Ayrshire Edition, number 23 of 50 sets only, very handsomely bound. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 146510
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Complete set of works published in the author's lifetime, all first editions.New York : 1920-41
First edition, first printing, of every book published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his lifetime, and his posthumous Last Tycoon, together comprising five novels, four short story collections, and one play, uniformly bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco. Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 140791
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BURNS, Robert. The Poetical Works.London : 1879
An exquisitely bound set of this attractive edition, edited by the Scottish essayist and poet of the Spasmodic school, Alexander Smith (1829-1867), and which was first published in 1865. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 149641
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic Works.London : 1826
An exquisitely bound copy of this attractive Regency edition of Shakespeare, printed on strong, fine india paper by Charles Corrall for the pioneering publisher William Pickering using his miniscule diamond type in double columns: the text is tiny but perfectly legible.
The plates were prepared for The Plays of Shakespeare in Pickering's 1825... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 141562
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Complete Works.London : 1959
A finely bound copy of the Tudor edition, first published in 1951, this copy in an attractive Cosway-style binding. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 149569
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DEFOE, Daniel. The Novels and Miscellaneous Works.London : 1854-61
A lovely set, handsomely bound. The first six volumes were published as part of "Bohn's British Classics"; the seventh, Robinson Crusoe, was published by Bohn in a similar format seven years later. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 146298
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GASKELL, Mrs. The Works.London : 1906
The Knutsford edition. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 126818
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.London : 1959-63
An attractively bound set of Austen's collected works, this set unusually including the volume of her juvenilia.
Though Austen's novels remained in print throughout the 19th century, it was the scholarly work of Robert William Chapman (1881-1960) that produced the first modern edition in 1923; his work continued to be issued in later editions... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 148022
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BROWNING, Robert. Pocket Volume of Selections from The Poetical Works.London : 1899
An attractive copy of Browning's verse, in a lovely Florentine binding gilt tooled in an unusual style. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 149733
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
First UK edition with Rackham's illustrations, 100th edition overall; number 212 of 500 copies, finely bound.
Grahame's timeless classic was originally published in 1908 with just a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club published in New York in 1940, and it was the last... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 148419
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OWEN, Robert. A New View of Society: or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice.London : 1813-14
First edition, first issue of the four Essays, one of 40 specially bound presentation sets printed on thick paper, parts III & IV "Not published", inscribed "From the Author" on the first blank.
Edouard Dolléans states that just forty copies of A New View of Society were bound for presentation: "En écrivant les Vues nouvelles, Owen a surtout... Learn More£87,500.00Stock Code: 130529
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works.Stratford-upon-Avon : 1904
Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies printed on handmade paper of which this is number 346. A particularly handsome set. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 148163
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CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia; The Viceroy of Ouidah; On the Black Hill; The Songlines; Utz; What Am I Doing Here.London : 1977-89
First editions, first impressions, of all of Chatwin's works published in his lifetime. Chatwin (1940-1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. His first book In Patagonia established his reputation as a travel writer. In 1982 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel for his... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 117554
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![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with] Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/4/148042.jpg)
CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; [together with] Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.London : 1872 & 1879
An attractively bound set of early editions of Carroll's classic works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the 59th thousand, and Through the Looking-Glass the 27th thousand. These books earned the author "a place in the firmament of the great, for they are not only acts of imaginative genius but they also revolutionized writing for children" (ODNB).... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 148042
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
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AYTOUN, Edmondstoune William. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems.Edinburgh : 1863
First Paton edition, superbly illustrated. "The book brims with Paton's half-page illustrations, headpieces and tailpieces (augmented by a few landscapes by his brother, Waller Paton) - the armour and historical costumes (Paton was a noted collector of these) perfectly realized to the last detail, the compositions unusual and forceful, the squeezed-together... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 137470
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![The Complete Short Stories; [together with:] The Collected Plays [and:] The Selected Novels.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/130862detail.jpg)
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Complete Short Stories; [together with:] The Collected Plays [and:] The Selected Novels.London : 1961-65
An attractive set of Maugham's collected works, with three volumes each of stories, plays and novels. The books are later editions, with the collected short stories first published in 1951, the plays in 1931, and the novels in 1953. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 130862
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.Edinburgh : 1906
The Winchester edition, the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 143945
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.Edinburgh : 1906
The Winchester edition, the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 149107
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BIBLE; English; NT. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.London : 1865
First trade edition of this wonderful example of Victorian book production. Longman employed the finest wood-engravers of the day and the project was overseen by the antiquary and illuminator Henry Shaw (1800-1873): "He provided initials and ornament for the prestigious New Testament published by Longman in 1864 with engravings of works by artists from... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133743
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EURIPIDES. The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments.London : 1782
First Wodhull edition, the first in English of all the extant writings of Euripides: "although Wodhull advertised his version in February 1774, and thought to complete it within a year, it was only in 1782 that, prompted by the appearance of two rival partial translations, he overcame his fastidiousness and published The Nineteen Tragedies and Fragments... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137652
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TROLLOPE, Anthony. Works.London : 1864-83
First editions, from the library of Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, with his bookplate to vol. 1 of Can You Forgive Her?. Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 125520
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CANNON, Richard. Historical Record of The Fifteenth, or The King's Regiment of Light Dragoons, Hussars:London : 1841
First edition. "Reputedly, William IV proposed that a series of regimental histories should be compiled, whereby the general public could be apprised of the distinguished services rendered by the regiments of the British army the work of compilation was entrusted by royal warrant to Cannon. He started immediately and the first volume to be published... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125526
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BASKERVILLE, John (printer). The Book of Common Prayer,Cambridge : 1761
Second Baskerville edition (first published the previous year), this the preferred of two impressions, with the lozenge-and-star border framing each page; here in a particularly elegant binding, possibly executed by the leading German binder John Baumgarten.
John Baskerville (1706-1775) was the most significant English typographer of the 18th... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 133632
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WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation,London : 1653
An exceptional set of all five editions published in Walton's lifetime, including both issues of the third edition. The development of the text can be traced through Walton's extensive revisions and expansions in the editions of 1655, 1661, and 1676, which reflect both changed political circumstances and Walton's growing ambition in his work. This much-loved... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 145726
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CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England.Oxford : 1807
Large paper issue - Lowndes notes that only 50 such sets were printed - of this very appealing Oxford edition presented here in a choice Regency binding. First published between 1702 and 1707 (with the first octavo edition appearing in 1705-06) Clarendon's great History has "remained in the mind because of his literary achievementthe fashioning of the... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 106106
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RUNCIMAN, Steven. A History of the Crusades.Cambridge : 1951-52-54
First editions, handsomely bound by Bayntun for Birmingham lawyer Gordon William Quance, with his monogram to the front of each volume. This important history of the Crusades is a "major achievement of narrative history infused by passion and at times romanticism, as a result of which he has been compared to Macaulay. Inherent in the work is regret... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 148385
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RUSSIAN ARMY REFORM. Polozheniye o pereformirovanii armeyskoy kavalerii (Regulations on the Reformation of the Cavalry).St Petersburg : 1833
First and only edition, genuinely scarce, a single copy traced to the Russian Presidential Library. A handsomely presented volume, a contribution towards Nicholas I's efforts at far-reaching reform of the army, a volume which would have had minimal distribution among those directly involved in the administration. This copy identified, by the gilt-stamped... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 133891
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EDMUNDS, Henry (comp.) Extracts, from the several Treaties subsisting between Great Britain and other Kingdoms and States,London : 1758
Third edition, in a decidedly distinguished binding, in the style of Jonas Hanway's first binder, possibly executed for a member of the Admiralty.
The third edition - preceded by those of 1741 and 1747 - was issued against the background of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) and updated to take into account the latest maritime treaties: with Algiers... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 121023
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HAYLEY, William. Plays of Three Acts; written for a Private Theatre.London : 1784
First edition. Lovely copy of the collected theatrical works of this now largely forgotten, but once highly popular writer, exceptionally prettily bound and with an attractive provenance. Hayley is best remembered today as a friend and patron of George Romney and William Blake, and biographer of Milton.
Hayley (17451820) "although affluent was... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139629
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DEFOE, Daniel. The Chimera: or, the French Way of Paying National Debts, Laid open.London : 1720
Rare first edition of this comparative examination of credit in England and France with a comprehensive discussion of John Law and the Mississippi scheme; the latter is discussed with a blend of admiration (in principle) and mistrust (in practice). Defoe's attitude towards credit can be gauged from his decision to sell his shares in the South Sea scheme... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 122924
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BULSTRODE, Whitelocke. Essays upon the Following Subjects.London : 1724
First edition, the presumed dedication copy to Thomas Parker (1666-1732), the first Earl of Macclesfield, with the Macclesfield library bookplate to the front pastedown (south library), blindstamp to the frontispiece and title page, pencilled shelf marks to the initial blank, and shelf labels to spine; subsequently sold as part of the celebrated sales... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 139490
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BARETTI, Joseph. A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages.London : 1760
First edition of this major English-Italian dictionary, inspired both by Baretti's adulation for Samuel Johnson and by his contempt for the previous English-Italian dictionary of Ferdinando Altieri, whom Baretti castigates in his preface for his ignorance and his "love of obscene words and phrases... as well as of scurrilous sayings and senseless proverbs... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 131203
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BRAUDEL, Fernand. The Mediterranean,London : 1972-73
First edition in English, handsomely bound. First published in France under the title La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Époque de Philippe II (1949), this English version of The Mediterranean corresponds to the second French edition of 1966. The first draft of La Méditerranée was written during Braudel's five years in a German POW... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 148722
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The History of Pendennis.London : 1849-50
First edition in book form of Thackeray's second major work, published serially in 23 parts between 1848 and 1850. Arthur Pendennis was used as the narrator of many of Thackeray's subsequent books, and is "an admitted alter ego who undergoes subtle analysis and complex criticism" (ODNB).
The History of Pendennis was interrupted for three months... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 145512
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BROCKMAN, Stuart (binder). The Times Atlas of the World.London : 1993
A superb binding executed by Stuart Brockman, for the celebrated Wardington collection of atlases, which contained many designer bindings commissioned by Lord Wardington.
Stuart Brockman (b.1972) is the son of the bookbinder James Brockman. Trained by his father and now working alongside him in Oxfordshire, Stuart was elected as a Fellow of Designer... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142425
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CROYDON, Edward (publ.) A Guide to the Watering Places, on the coast, between the Exe and the Dart;Teignmouth : 1817
First edition, a superior copy in red morocco, with the bookplate of John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury.
Fisher was "a highly cultured prelate, a generous patron of both authors and artists, and a capable sketcher; he was chaplain to the Royal Academy in 1807 and helped to set up the British Institution the previous year. For the last twenty-five... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 100333
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GALLEY, Edmund - WHITE, F. Faulkner (illuminator). The Galley Memento.[Exeter : 1879]
Handsomely bound and illuminated presentation album, one of just two copies, presented to honour the work of solicitor and county clerk Ralph Sanders, one of two men instrumental in reversing the miscarriage of justice in the case of Edmund Galley, who became an international cause célèbre after being wrongfully convicted of murder and transported... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 132619
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1903
Deluxe edition, number 56 of 250 copies signed by the publisher, this copy in a striking and unusual arts and crafts binding, perhaps the work of the Guild of Women Binders, though unmarked, exhibiting their adventurous style. Goldsmith's masterpiece was first published in 1766. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139010
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RABELAIS, François. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.London : 1892
Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies. A handsomely bound set of this attractive edition of Rabelais's great work, with excellent presswork by the Chiswick Press, and extra-illustrated with many colour plates after Jules Garnier. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 100271
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COSWAY-STYLE BINDING - DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.London : 1837
First edition, in an extremely attractive Cosway-style binding featuring an oval miniature portrait of Dickens aged 27 after the painting by Daniel Maclise.
All plates are present and in their early states with page numbers as called for, but with no titles or imprints. Two plates by R. W. Buss were suppressed and the replacement illustrations... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 149754
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HAMILTON, Anthony, Count, & Mr. Abel Boyer, (trans.) Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont:London : 1714
First edition in English of this anonymously published account of Anthony Hamilton's brother-in-law, French nobleman Philibert, Count de Gramont (1621-1707), and the intrigues of the Restoration court. This first edition is commercially uncommon, particularly in such an attractive binding.
"The book was greeted with considerable critical acclaim... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133350
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CORELLI, Arcangelo. [XII Sonatas or Solos for a Violin with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello.[London] : [1706-40]
A handsome Regency-era presentation binding incorporating a variety of exquisite lyre tools, a suitable binding for one of the most influential opuses of the 18th century.
"Within months of their publication in 1700 in Rome Corelli's Sonate e violone o cimbalo had been accepted by the musical work as having a special status. No other collection... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 111109
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![The Essays of Elia; [together with:] The Last Essays of Elia.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/4/144785.jpg)
CHIVERS BINDING - LAMB, Charles. The Essays of Elia; [together with:] The Last Essays of Elia.London : 1902
A highly attractive copy in a beautiful example of a "vellucent" binding, by Cedric Chivers of Bath, of Charles Lamb's largely autobiographical pseudonymous essays, dealing with mankind at large through the medium of his own experiences and impressions.
Chivers's binding style is produced by hand-painting the backing sheet of the binding, which... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 144785
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JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain. From the Year 1793 to 1817.London : [after 1835]
First edition, later state. First issued in 1817, the work sold slowly, which led Jenkins to issue copies as demand necessitated. The earliest copies of this book have the text printed on paper watermarked 1812 and 1816; this copy is printed on paper watermarked 1835. An attractively bound copy of this magnificent illustration of the high-water mark... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 94719
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WHEATLEY, John. An Essay on the Theory of Money and Principles of Commerce.London : 1807
First edition of the first volume of Wheatley's Essay on the Theory of Money; a second volume followed in 1822. In the preface Wheatley notes that "It may, perhaps, be necessary to offer an apology for presenting to the public the First Volume only; but the work admits of a distinct division: the first part relating to the refutation of our existing... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 129391
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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov.London : 1965
A handsomely bound copy of Constance Garnett's translation of Dostoevsky's work, first published in 1912.
In 1894 Constance Garnett visited Moscow where she called upon Tolstoy who was impressed by her work and, "praised her current translation his The Kingdom of God is Within You and encouraged her to attempt others"; advice which she enthusiastically... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 148369
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PERROY, Edouard. The Hundred Years War.London : 1951
First edition in English, first impression. Perroy's work was first published in French in 1945. This copy has a press review from The Economist of 17 November 1951 loosely inserted. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 148245
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ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.London : 1842-45
First edition, with the plates in the proof state, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel); no publication before this astonishing work had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the region.
The... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 132530
