Search results for: 'the works'
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BUTLER, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Illustrated with wood engravings by John Farleigh.1934
A fine binding for this attractive edition of Butler's major novel, first published posthumously in 1902, a powerful autobiographical work recording his pained and satirical dissent from patriarchal Victorian hypocrisy. Farleigh was one of the best wood-engravers of the pre-War era, achieving his greatest success with the illustrations to George Bernard... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 43801
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ERASMUS, Desiderius - KNIGHT, Samuel. The Life of Erasmus.Cambridge : 1726
First edition of Knight's biography of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, who first visited England in 1498, later spending a number of years Cambridge. This copy with the frontispiece and plates listed in the list of cuts, with the additional plates as called for in Lowndes. Samuel Knight was an English clergyman and antiquary, he served as chaplain... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 117410
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CHRISTMAS - CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT. The Wonderful Christmas Story told by St Luke.Snowshill, Cotswolds : November 1928
A beautiful arts and crafts style calligraphic Christmas gift, inscribed in orange ink to the final leaf "Written for Miss Ellen D. Sharpe by her friend S. B. Russell at Snowshill, on the Cotswolds, in November 1928".
The work was created by Sydney Bolton Russell (1866-1938), the father of the arts and crafts furniture designer Gordon Russell... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145380
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POLIDORI, John William. The Vampyre; A Tale.London : 1819
First edition, in the second and earliest realistically obtainable issue, of this seminal vampire novella. This attractive, untrimmed, copy is beautifully presented in a 20th-century morocco binding signed "J.G. 81" to the rear turn-in. It additionally, and highly unusually, has two sets of integral publisher's advertisements bound to the rear, dating... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 141658
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GUEULLETTE, Thomas-Simon. The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour.London : 1893
First Smithers edition, one of five copies printed on Japanese vellum. Originally published in 1715 as Mille et un quarts d'heure, contes tartares, these stories - referred to by Smithers as "very lively, ingenious, and entertaining imitations of the 'Arabian Nights'" - were the work of the lawyer, bibliophile and prolific compiler of tales, Thomas-Simon... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 126130
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound.London : 1820
First edition, second issue, with "miscellaneous" spelled correctly on contents leaf A3, in a handsome Riviere binding, of one of Shelley's most important works.
This lyrical drama revisits the Greek myth of Prometheus who, defying the gods, gave fire to humanity, resulting in his eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus. Inspired... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 144509
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SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Lyrics and Ballads.London : 1894
An attractive copy of Scott's poetical works. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 145592
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DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist;London : 1846
First one-volume edition of Dickens's second novel. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 140379
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci.[Livorno,] Italy : 1819
First edition, one of 250 copies only, of Shelley's verse tragedy which proved an unexpected publishing sensation, despite its action being far too lurid for the London stage. It is scarce in commerce - the second London edition (the only second edition of his own Shelley lived to see) is the one more usually met with.
Shelley had been fascinated... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 144510
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SMITH, Adam. The Wealth of Nations.London : 1991
A handsome leather bound volume of this classic work which was first published in 1776. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 121749
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BROCK, H. M. (illus.); JERROLD, Douglas. The Essays.London : 1903
First edition of this collection of essays edited by Jerrold's grandson, featuring Brock's delicate illustrations. The brothers C. E. and H. M. Brock collaborated closely with the publisher for J. M. Dent, perhaps most notably illustrating the novels of Jane Austen. They "worked closely together in the same studio and gained stimulation from each other... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 105771
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KINGSLEY, Charles; Warwick Goble (illus.) The Water-Babies.London : 1909
First Goble edition. The Water-Babies was first published in 1863, and first illustrated in 1886 by Linley Sambourne. London-born Warwick Goble (1862-1943) was an illustrator of children's books who specialized in Japanese and Indian themes. Having worked for monthly magazines until 1909, he then became resident gift-book illustrator for Macmillan,... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 134693
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RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice.London : 1905
A handsomely bound copy. One of the key texts of the aesthetic movements, The Stones of Venice was first published from 1851 to 1853 and was "a revolutionary success" (PMM). Its importance lies "in its celebration of the Byzantine and the Gothic, which had an immediate effect on Victorian architects, who began to introduce Romanesque forms and Venetian... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136701
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BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson.London : 1901
First Railton edition, one of the most attractive illustrated editions of Boswell's great book, presented here in a handsome period half morocco binding. Herbert Railton (1857-1910) was one of the finest "black and white" architectural artists of the period, "who rapidly developed his own, distinctive broken-line technique which enthused many followers,... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 140188
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INGOLDSBY, Thomas, pseud. of Richard Harris Barham. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.London : 1864
An elegantly bound edition of the Ingoldsby Legends, which were first serialised in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837, and first published in book form 1840-47. The plates by Leech, Tenniel, and Cruikshank are wonderfully spirited and inventive.
Under the guise of Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Everard in Kent, Barham "discovered" old documents... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 143170
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CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.London : 1881 & 1872
A handsomely bound set of early editions; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the 67th thousand and Through the Looking-Glass is the 24th thousand. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 130475
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HARDY, Thomas. Complete set of first editions of the novels and short story collections.London : 1871-97
A complete set of first editions, finely bound, of Hardy's novels and short story collections.
The entire collection, with all half-titles and illustrations present as called for, comprises the following: Desperate Remedies, 1871; Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872; A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873; Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874; The Hand of Ethelberta,... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 126114
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CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [together with] Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.London : 1868 & 1872
First edition of Through the Looking-Glass, together with an early edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this being from the 12th thousand, published just three years after the first edition of 1865, handsomely bound as a set by Bayntun of Bath. The Alice books earned the author "a place in the firmament of the great, for they are not only acts... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 145478
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FOWLER, W. Warde. Tales of the Birds.London : 1899
Handsomely bound copy of this work by historian and ornithologist William Warde Fowler (18471921). Originally published in 1888. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 140819
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THORN, William. Memoir of the War in India,London : 1818
First edition. A well-provenanced and superbly bound copy of this handsomely and uncommon account of Lord Lake's expedition against the Maratha chief Jasvant Holkar Rao, the Second Anglo--Mahrata War, an early campaign of British Empire building in India. The author was "an avowed military man and a constant traveller... witness to some of the most... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 143003
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SKELTON, Sir John. Charles I.London, Paris & Edinburgh : 1898
First edition, a handsomely bound copy. Skelton was a Scottish lawyer and literary figure; "In his historical work he characteristically displayed something of the spirit of the advocate" (ODNB). He also wrote a number of works on Mary Stuart. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 102763
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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. De rerum natura.Paris : 1744
A handsomely bound copy of the Latin text of Lucretius' radical work On the Nature of Things, a philosophical poem written to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience in the 1st century BCE, "with a view to abolishing superstitious fears of the intervention of the gods in this world and of punishment by the gods in an afterlife" (Slavitt).
It... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 146640
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LENNOX, Charlotte. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune,London : 1777
The eighth edition, first published in 1755 in 3 volumes and subsequently expanded to 5, of this much republished account of one of Henry the Great's main advisers.
Charlotte Lennox (c.17301804), was a Scottish novelist and writer, best known today for her second novel The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752), an imitation and... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 134471
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BELL, Robert Anning (illus.) English Lyrics from Spenser to Milton.London : 1898
First edition thus, illustrated by Bell, part of George Bell & Sons' Endymion Series, in an attractive arts and crafts binding. The binding is not signed, the "M.S." initials could be that of the binder, or simply in homage to Milton and Spenser.
Artist, illustrator and designer Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933) was an early member of the Arts... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 142777
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CHRYSLER, Walter P., & Boyden Sparkes. Life of an American Workman.New York : 1937
First and limited edition, number 64 of 500 copies privately printed, presentation copy inscribed by the author, "To W. S. S. Rodgers with my friendship and affection 1/19/38 W. P. Chrysler", on the first blank leaf. The book's foreword describes the printing of this edition, designed as a Christmas remembrance for the Chrysler family to distribute... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 122166
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HUNT, Lynn Bogue. An Artist's Game Bag.New York : 1936
First and limited edition, deluxe issue: number 14 of 25 copies; with a fine original watercolour signed by Lynn Bogue Hunt, showing a pair of mallards on a riverbank. Hunt (1877-1960) was one of America's most admired and popular sporting artists.
"The Derrydale Press was a small publisher of finely crafted sporting books featuring topics such... Learn More£5,950.00Stock Code: 115522
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GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS - DOBSON, Austin. Poems.London : 1895
Signed limited edition, number 77 of 200 copies printed on hand-made paper, with proof impressions of the etchings, and signed by Dobson in pencil on the portrait frontispiece. This copy is elegantly bound by the Guild of Women Binders, and belonged to the Marchioness of Crewe.
The Guild was established in 1898 by a bookseller, Frank Karslake,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 144802
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IBSEN, Henrik. Hedda Gabler;London : 1926
Appealingly bound copy collecting Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder, issued as Volume X of the Uniform edition of The Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 101293
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LANG, Andrew. Helen of Troy.London : 1882
First edition, in an exquisite Sangoski & Sutcliffe binding preserving the original cloth, of Lang's retelling in verse of the classical narrative of Helen of Troy.
The Scottish poet, author, and anthropologist Andrew Lang (1844-1912) is best-known as a collector of folk and fairy tales, and for being the author of the Fairy Book series. He... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144513
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SAINT-MARTIN, Louis Vivien de. Histoire de la Géographie.Paris : 1873 & 1874
First edition of Saint-Martin's study of geography's history.
Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin (1802-1897) was a French geographer, historian and writer who also produced several works of history and a 25-volume translation of the works of Walter Scott. He "developed the taste for geographic knowledge, at a time when, in Paris, no one much cared... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 117631
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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. Ballads and Sonnets.London : 1881
First edition, large paper issue, one of 25 copies. This was the last of Rossetti's works to be published in his lifetime. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 124591
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DICKENS, Charles. A Child's History of England.London : 1906
A handsomely bound copy of A Child's History of England. Dickens's history of England for children, "intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical" (ODNB), originally appeared anonymously in Household Words between January 1851 and December 1853, with the volumes published in book-form in the December of those years, post-dated to the following... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 141647
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MOLIÈRE, pseud. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Oeuvres.Paris : 1835-36
First Johannot edition of the works of Molière, the master of French comedy, this edition for the first time thoroughly illustrated by Tony Johannot, and this copy lavishly bound by Hayday. Each volume bears the armorial bookplate of John Congreve of Mount Congreve estate (Waterford, Ireland), whose grandfather (also John Congreve) had assembled the... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 143509
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GRAHAM, Maria. Letters on India.London : 1814
First edition of this attractive supplement to Graham's Journal of a Residence in India (1812), similarly based around her own travels, and "extending her account of the culture" of India (Robinson). A pretty copy of a surprisingly uncommon work, less than a dozen locations on WorldCat.
"Written solely with the design of being useful to such... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 142796
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(LATIN POETRY.) WALKER, William Sidney (ed.) Corpus Poetarum Latinorum.London : 1828
Second edition of Walker's useful anthology of Latin poetry, in a splendid contemporary binding, unsigned but resembling the work of Charles Lewis (1786-1836). Walker (1795-1846), though best remembered as a Shakespeare scholar, won a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, almost entirely on the strength of his classical knowledge. His Corpus was... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 118084
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MORRIS, William. An AddressLondon : 1898
First editions, first impressions, of these Chiswick Press fine publications of William Morris's lectures printed in the Golden type he designed for the Kelmscott Press; in an attractive arts and crafts style binding by the amateur binder, bibliophile, and author, Fletcher W. Battershall (1866-1929), and with his bookplate on the front pastedown.
Fully... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142015
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PROUST, Marcel. Les plaisirs et les jours.Paris : 1896
First edition, first printing, of the first book published by Proust before his rise to stardom, in an attractive art déco binding by the French bookbinder Max Fonsèque (1891-1965), and superbly illustrated by the society-painter Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928).
Some of the poems and short stories in this work had appeared in print from 1892... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 144631
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DORÉ, Gustave (illus.); ARIOSTO, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso.Milan : 1881
First Italian edition of the last of the great Doré folios devised by Hachette, this copy presented in a most imposing binding, with a gift dedication on the front cover "Al Caro Carlo Tito"; it was preceded by the Paris edition of 1879, and unusually there was no edition in English.
Ariosto's "sprawling poetic epic relating the intricate... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 144199
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BARTLETT, William Henry. Footsteps of Our Lord and his Apostles,London : 1852
Second edition of this narrative of a pilgrimage to the sites of the New Testament, published swiftly after the first edition of 1851. The work's popularity led for a third edition to be published in the same year. Bartlett (1809-1854) was a British artist known for his detailed steel engravings and keen archaeological eye, both of which are well-showcased... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141233
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WILKINSON, Norman. Water-colour Sketching Out-of-Doors.London : [1953]
First edition, first impression, of this work on water-colour techniques, volume 21 in the second series of The New Art Library. Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 141870
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JAMESON, Anna. Shakspeare's Heroines.London : 1891
Large paper edition, one of 175 numbered copies of which this is number 127. Jameson's work was originally published in 1832 under the title Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 140646
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MARLOWE, Christopher, & George Chapman (trans.) Hero & Leander.London : 1909
First edition thus, in an elegant Bumpus binding, number 10 of 500 copies imprinted at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh, from type designed by Joseph M. Dent, and published by him.
This work presents Christopher Marlowe's 1598 rendering of the Greek romantic mythological legend of Hero and Leander with the contemporary continuation by poet and... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 144863
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DICKENS, Charles (preface); OVERS, John. Evenings of A Working Man,London : 1844
First edition, of this collection of writings by the consumptive John Overs, which Dickens encouraged him to publish, and for which he contributed a preface; here handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 143247
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KIPPIS, A. Cook's Voyages.London : 1893
An attractively bound copy of Kippis's account of Cook's voyages, first published in 1788. The standard contemporary life of Cook by "the leading biographer of his day", the work was "intended to give a well-balanced account of his life from birth to death, including his family and early years, and the capacities in which he was engaged prior to the... Learn More£185.00Stock Code: 136767
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DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth. Problems of Greater Britain.London : 1890
First edition, an interesting association copy, with the engraved bookplate of Pandeli Ralli (1845-1928), Liberal member of parliament (for Bridport, 1875-80, then Wallingford until 1885), member of the famous Greek merchant family, and longtime confidant of Lord Kitchener, to the front pastedowns. Dilke's essay on imperial defence predicted the threat... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 115748
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MAXIMUS OF TYRE. Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes,London : 1740
First edition edited by the "outstanding classical scholar" Jeremiah Markland, described by the printer and publisher John Nichols as "one of the most learned and penetrating critics of the eighteenth century" (cited in ODNB). This handsome quarto was printed by the learned and highly accomplished William Bowyer. Maximus of Tyre was a second century... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 141409
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WILKINSON, Sir J. Gardner. Dalmatia and Montenegro:London : 1848
First edition, a beautifully bound set of this handsomely illustrated work. Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875) is better known as "the father of British Egyptology". His trip through south-eastern Europe in 1844 has been described by his biographer, Jason Thompson, as "a good travelogue, equal to some of the best of that popular nineteenth-century genre.... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 120050
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TASSO, Torquato. Godfrey of Bulloigne, or Jerusalem Delivered.London : 1817
First edition thus, one of 50 large paper copies. A highly appealing edition printed by the excellent Thomas Bensley and with delightful wood-engravings, perhaps by Bewick's pupil Henry White, after designs by John Thurston. Fairfax's translation was originally published in 1600; the first English translation of Tasso's poetical account of the first... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 121168
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HORACE. Opera.London : 1733-37 [i.e. 1757]
First edition of Pine's Horace, second printing of 1757 from the same plates. A tour-de-force of bookmaking, Pine's Horace is entirely engraved, both text and illustration, and liberally supplied with initials, head- and tailpieces and vignettes. "Pine's complete command of his craft makes this the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142441
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill.London and New York : 1906
First edition, first impression. Churchill had it in mind to write a biography of his father soon after Lord Randolph's death in January 1895, and was appointed by the late statesman's literary executors to do so in autumn 1902. Churchill worked on the biography, his most substantial literary project so far, for the next two and a half years.
The... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 125587
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WALTON, Isaak. Walton's Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson.London : 1858
Second issue of this New Edition, first published the previous year, the text largely based on John Major's 1825 edition, with the addition of Dowling's memoir of Walton. William Mansell was successor to the famed James Hayday. Large armorial bookplate of Charles Preston Crewe to the front pastedown. Born in London, Crewe travelled to South Africa in... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 95258
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill.London and New York : 1906
First edition, first impression. Churchill had it in mind to write a biography of his father soon after Lord Randolph's death in January 1895, and was appointed by the late statesman's literary executors to do so in autumn 1902. Churchill worked on the biography, his most substantial literary project so far, for the next two and a half years.
The... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 125588
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MARGARET OF ANJOU - PRÉVOST, Abbé. Histoire de Marguerite d'Anjou, reine d'Angleterre.Amsterdam : 1740
First edition of Prévost's biography of Margaret of Anjou, published the same year as his biography of William the Conqueror, which "gives us some insight into the workings of Prévost's complex creative mind and tells us something of the taste of his reading public. Above all it exemplifies the crisis through which historiography was passing" (Francis,... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 137421
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ROSCOE, Thomas. Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales:London : [1837?]
A fine pair of bindings by London's leading binder of the 1840s and 1850s, with appropriately Welsh heraldic devices, perhaps done in celebration of the birth of Edward, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, in 1841. As Prince of Wales from 8 December 1841 to 22 January 1901, the future Edward VII held the record for longest-serving heir apparent until... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 114542
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ROGERS, Samuel. Poems. New edition.London : 1854
Very smart pairing of these handsome editions, among the most lavishly produced of the century. Italy was originally published in two parts (1822 and 1828) but was so badly received that "Rogers destroyed the unsold copies, revised it carefully, engaged Turner and Stothard to illustrate it, and republished it in a handsome edition in 1830. The success... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 115101
