London.
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1838.
First edition.
12mo.
xii, 167pp, [1]. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of J. W. Edwards to FEP, foxed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to title page: 'By John Timbs / With the Author's Compts. / to J. W. Edwards Esqr.' More >
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref. 25678
London.
Frederick Warne and Co., [1880].
First edition.
8vo.
ix, [1], 147pp, [3]. With a half-title and a final leaf pf publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black. Minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref. 27088
New York.
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894.
First edition.
8vo.
[8], 131pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's decorated blue cloth. Lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, book-label of Peter Stewart Young to FEP. More >
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref. 27340
London.
Printed for Bernard Lintott, [1712].
Second edition.
8vo.
[4], 112pp, [4]. Parallel Latin and English texts. With an engraved frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Recent red half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Leaves toned, later inked ownership inscription to head of title page, occasional spotting. More >
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref. 25098
York.
Printed by Wilson and Son...for John Murray, 1810.
New edition.
12mo.
310, 22pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary tree-calf, later rebacked, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Boards rubbed. Scattered spotting. More >
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref. 24374
London.
John Murray, 1853.
Second edition.
vi, 137pp, [1].
[Bound with:] [RIGBY, Elizabeth]. Music, and the art of dress. Two essays reprinted from the 'Quarterly Review.' London. John Murray, 1854, New edition. iv, 112pp.
[And:] [JAMES, Thomas]. The honey bee. Reprinted from the 'Quarterly Review.' London. John Murray, 1852. [4], 99pp, [1].
[And:] [JAMES, Thomas]. The flower garden. With an essay on the poetry of gardening. Reprinted from the 'Quarterly Review.' ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 12147
[Bound with:] [RIGBY, Elizabeth]. Music, and the art of dress. Two essays reprinted from the 'Quarterly Review.' London. John Murray, 1854, New edition. iv, 112pp.
[And:] [JAMES, Thomas]. The honey bee. Reprinted from the 'Quarterly Review.' London. John Murray, 1852. [4], 99pp, [1].
[And:] [JAMES, Thomas]. The flower garden. With an essay on the poetry of gardening. Reprinted from the 'Quarterly Review.' ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 12147
London.
Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1947.
First edition.
Quarto.
[8], 108pp. Numerous photographic illustrations in the text. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper designed by design by Diana Wilbraham. Rubbed and marked, dustwrapper chipped and lightly soiled. Internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref. 29008
Edinburgh.
Oliver & Boyd, 1856.
Tenth edition.
12mo.
688pp. Original publisher's green cloth, tamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Hinges exposed, leaves browned, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of half-title, manuscript lines from the Cowper's poems to RFEP. More >
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref. 29731
London.
Houlston and Sons, [s.d., c. 1860]
Sixth thousand.
8vo.
[5], 10-248pp, [8]. Complete despite erratic pagination. With four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Upper hinge exposed, later bookplate of John Fuller to FEP, early inked ownership inscriptions to recto of FFEP, some loss to gutter of title page, leaves browned and spotted. More >
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref. 27087
London.
Published by W. J. Bush & Co., [s.d. c. 1890]
8vo.
[22], 187pp, [11]. With initial and terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed. Upper hinges exposed, board working loose. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 30387
London.
Printed for Charles Dilly, 1787.
Third edition.
8vo.
xxxix, [1], 51pp, [1]. With a hand-coloured engraved plate. Uncut, stitched, as issued, in original publisher's blue paper wrappers. Without spine panel, lightly marked, a trifle spotted. More >
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref. 18972
London.
Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1869].
New edition. One hundred and eighty-seventh thousand.
8vo.
xl, [2], 1139pp, [1]. With 11 of 12 engraved coloured plates (without plate 10), numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary brown half-morocco, recently rebaked preserving the majority of contemporary backstrip. Rubbed and marked. Occasional chipping to margins, loss to upper corner of one plate. More >
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref. 30399
[London].
[s.n., Joseph Causton & Sons], [s.d., c.1890s]
Quarto.
40pp. With reproductions of 12 line drawings and a single photographic illustration. Finely bound in publisher's full calf, gilt, with elaborate titling design from the original work featuring on the upper board, above the lettering 'The Maltings, Great Grimsby'. A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, else a crisp copy. More >
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref. 14139
London.
Maclaren & Sons Limited, 1949.
First edition in English.
Quarto.
x, [2], 288pp, xi-xlii, [4]. With colour plates and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper marked and chipped, short tears to upper panel. With a loosely inserted 2pp publisher's prospectus, and a typed letter on publisher's stationery stating this to be a complimentary copy provided at the request ... More >
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref. 22604
London.
Printed for John Murray, 1816.
New edition.
12mo.
[22], xxx, 348pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further nine engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Heavily rubbed. Recent shelf-label of Peter A. Crofts to recto of FFEP, slight ink-staining to p.121, scattered spotting. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 30645