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A Book of Modern Ballads.
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1892. First edition. Brown cloth binding with gold and silver blocked design and titles to front. Fully illustrated with charming chromolithographs, some full-page. All edges gilt. Boards a little bumped and scuffed, pages age toned and with some foxing, but overall in good shape. Features poems by (among others) Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, Shelley, Weatherly, and Gilbert.40 pp. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2497More details Price: £20.00 -
A bound collection of The Literary Miscellany.
Book ID: 3516More details Price: £360.00
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A Brief Outline of the History of Old Hall.
A Paper Written on the Occasion of the Centenary Celebration at St. Edmund's College, in 1869
Edition: First Edition
Standon: Edmundian Association, 1891. First edition. Original cloth gilt now a bit dulled, all edges gilt, some foxing at the front, else a very good copy. Owner's name to the front (Syon Abbey). vi, 80 pp. Frontispiece and seven Illustrations.
COPAC gives copies at Oxford and Cambridge only.
St Edmund's Hall was established in 1795 for the education of the children of Roman Catholic nobility.Book ID: 1077More details Price: £25.00 -
A Catalogue raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters. with a copious description of their principal pictures. a reference to the galleries and private collections. to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars
& imitators of the great masters of the above schools.
Book ID: 3427More details Price: £150.00
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A Century of American Sculpture.
Treasures from Brookgreen Gardens.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind stamped figure on upper board. Beautiful full colour photos of garden sculptures from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Boards has some sun fading, but the photographic dust jacket is in a very good condition. Neat gift inscription to the inside front. Brookgreen Gardens is in South Carolina, on the site of an old rice plantation. 127 pp.
340 x 290 mm (13½ x 11½ inches).Book ID: 2189More details Price: £35.00 -
A Chair for the Prophet.
London: Faber & Faber, 1959. First edition of this novel, the title of which derives from an old Jewish legend. Set in the newly established state of Israel, it follows the story of a young couple, who have gone to search for oil. Original dust wrapper. A little nicking and bumping to the top edge. Slight darkening to the edges. Green boards - these have an old damp stain to the spine and boards - also visible to the inside boards, but doesn't affect the wrapper or the rest of the book. Rest of book is clean and tidy, with just a touch of darkening / foxing to the closed page edges. This is Claude's third novel. 223 pages. 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).
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A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
With Illustrations by John Leech.
Book ID: 4047More details Price: £2,500.00
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A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Yule-Tide
Book ID: 4139More details Price: £900.00
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A collection of 13 almanacks in French - a run from 1883-1895
Une collection de 13 almanachs en français - une série de 1883-1895
Book ID: 3795More details Price: £1,200.00
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A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies
Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
Edition: Reprint
London: Longman and Co: 1870. Blue paper covers. Decorative border and titles in black. Adverts to rear cover. 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The pale blue covers are sound but have some foxing spots to them. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and are held on to each other with tape (non-archival). Inside, there is some foxing to the inside covers. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1338More details Price: £10.00 -
A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies
Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
London: Longman and Co: 1869. Disbound. (Originally Blue paper covers - the front cover has now gone). Adverts to the rear blue cover 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The rear pale blue cover has some foxing spots to it. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and only the rear has survived. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1339More details Price: £5.00 -
A collection of four deeds and legal documents connected with the Paddington Estate, London.
Book ID: 3011More details Price: £60.00
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A commentary on the book of Job with a translation.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1880. Scarce First edition. Original black buckram with gilt titles to spine. Clean condition, but a little rubbed. Black end papers, front and rear hinges have been reinforced by archival tape. Internally clean and tidy throughout. A few foxing spots only, mainly confined to the first few pages. Xi, 552 pp. Plus advertisements for C. Kegan Paul & Co. at rear. Samuel Cox was a baptist minister and British theological writer born in 1826. He was editor of the monthly publication 'Expositor'. 230 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2764More details Price: £100.00 -
A Compendium of the East. Being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies Made By the Sieur Jean De Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland.
Now Published for the First Time [from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681] in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark. Edited, with an Introduction by Ashley Gibson.
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. First Thus. Limited: # 86 of 300 copies. Black cloth spine, batik covered boards. Printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Contemporary Engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schouten's Oost-Indische Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Maps used as end papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Double page plates, double page facsimile from original manuscript. 209, [1] pp. Bookplate of Herbert Eberhard Hering, a noted German-Brazilian bibliophile and book collector, appears on the inside front paste down. The black spine has a little nicking to the top and tail of the spine. Overall in good, clean condition though. Internally clean with a few foxing spots only. Text in English. 320 x 200 mm (12½ x 7¾ inches).
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A Complete Collection Of All The Protests Made In The House Of Lords, From Their Original In The Year 1641 To The Present Year 1745
London: Information of the People, 1745. A nice copy of this first edition. Bound in (probably) 1960's half brown leather with gilt titles and with light brown buckram boards. A touch of rubbing only, otherwise in excellent condition. Internally clean and tidy with a touch of darkening only. To the inside board is the bookplate of the Writers Library in London. Despite its name, this library belonged to the Jesuit Mission in London and the bookplate bears their insignia. No other library marks. [xiv], 466 pages. 180 by 105mm (7 by 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3510More details Price: £150.00 -
A Complete, Scientific, and Popular Treatise upon Perspective, with the Theories of Reflection and Shadows. Illustrated with Twenty-Four Plates
Book ID: 3822More details Price: £500.00
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A Correspondence respecting the Spiritual Condition of Catholics in the Hants County Prison, between the Visiting Justices and the Rev. I Collingridge.
London: Keating & Co: 1861. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. Contents clean and bright. Recent buff papers wrappers. A scarce pamphlet. Copac locates only 2 copies (Southampton & Durham). [3], 4-61, [1]. pp
Book ID: 1943More details Price: £75.00 -
A Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job.
Together with : The Preface to a Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1750More details Price: £400.00 -
A Dark Lantern.
A Story with a Prologue.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. First edition. This novel was turned in to a (now lost) silent film in 1920. Bound in green cloth, with black and silver decoration to the front. Silver title to spine. 368 pages. 200 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
Elizabeth Robins was an American actor, playwright, novelist, and important suffragette. For a time Robins wrote under the name C. E. Raimond in an attempt to keep her acting and writing careers separate. Covers lightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded. Prelims are moderately foxed, page edges also. Otherwise a good copy.Book ID: 2711More details Price: £40.00 -
A Day in a Child's Life
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. First Edition. Hardback. Green cloth spine with light green paper covered bevelled boards. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour vignettes, words and music to nine charming songs. Boards are rubbed and book has been dropped at some point so top right corner has some creasing, otherwise good and clean. 29 pages. 250 x 215 mm (9¾ x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 2863More details Price: £100.00