Firenze [i.e. Florence].
Presso Niccolo Conti, 1818.
12mo.
323pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's buff wrappers, housed within recent custom black cloth slip-case. Extremities worn and sunned. Inked ownership inscription to verso of upper wrapper, else internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 19475
London.
Edward Moxon, 1844.
New edition.
8vo.
[2], xii, 276pp, [2]. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-morocco, marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref. 26031
[Edinburgh University Press].
[T. and A. Constable], [s.d., c.1882]
First edition.
8vo.
[3], 80-91pp, [1]. With five Woodburytype portraits. Original publisher's printed stiff card boards. Extremities lightly dust-soiled, splitting to upper joint, some creasing/short tears. Lightly spotted. More >
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref. 21624
London.
Printed for Richard Phillips, 1806.
First edition.
12mo.
[4], lv, [5], 233pp, [1]. With a terminal page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, without lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers, early armorial bookplate to verso of FFEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting. More >
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref. 32250
London.
Richard Bentley, 1834.
Second edition.
8vo.
In three volumes. [2], 299, [1]; [2], 292; [2], 286pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, marbled paper boards. Rubbed, spines dulled. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, scattered spotting. More >
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref. 22290
London.
Printed [by Cox and Baylis] for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824.
First edition.
12mo.
In three volumes. [4], 328; [4], 315, [1]; [4], 314pp. With half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, heraldic crests of Anglo-Irish army officer Charles William Vane, third Marquess of Londonderry to head of spines. A trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional light spotting, loss to lower margin of leaf F3, Vol. II More >
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref. 27385
London.
Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895.
First illustrated edition.
8vo.
447pp, [6]. With an illustrated frontispiece and 120 illustrations in the text by the author, and six final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Without dustwrapper. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of Mervyn Ll. Peel to verso of FFEP. More >
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref. 21476
London.
Printed for T. Gay, [1795].
8vo.
30pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece dated May 1795 and terminal index. Bound by Proudfoot of Euston in contemporary gilt-tooled green calf. Marbled endpapers, carmine edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight surface wear to joints, boards sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More >
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref. 24931
London.
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1936].
First edition, second impression.
8vo.
vii, [1], 47pp, [1]. Original publisher's grey paper boards, lettered in navy, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, edge-wear to dustwrapper. Browning to endpapers, near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Christopher, / On his influenza. / 26.1.37'. More >
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref. 19561
London.
Published by Robert Miller [s.d., c.1820]
First edition.
12mo.
Engraved title page, 27 engraved leaves printed on rectos only, 12pp of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, some surface loss to boards, worm-hole to upper joint. Hinges exposed, contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, small worm-trail running through lower margins, horizontal tears to two leaves (touching text), foxed and dust-soiled. More >
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref. 21577
North Shields.
Printed and Published by J. D. Potts, 1928.
First edition.
8vo.
160pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in black to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More >
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref. 32266
Italia.
[s.n.], 1807.
Terza edizione [i.e. third edition].
12mo.
152pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth-backed marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed, corners exposed. Leaves browned and spotted, short tears and some loss to leaf E1 with slight loss of text and sense. More >
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref. 15288
Toronto.
The Musson Book Company Limited, [1910].
First Canadian edition.
8vo.
189pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, numerous line illustrations in the text. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear to extremities, chipping and short tears to dustwrapper edges, some small clear tape repairs to verso. Internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref. 21736
Chicago.
George Matthew Adams, 1911.
First edition, second printing.
8vo.
189pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, numerous line illustrations in the text. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear to extremities, chipping and short tears to dustwrapper edges, upper panel detached. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher to recto of FFEP: 'To Charlie Horne / super friend / and lover of books / George ... More >
£ 300.00
Antiquates Ref. 21737
Weymouth.
Jeffery Brothers, Dramatic Printers, [1869].
Dimensions 200 x 500 mm.
Single leaf broadside. Lightly browned and scuffed, with chipping and marginal tears to edges and corners. More >
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref. 21200
Cambridge.
Printed at the University Press, 1905.
Quarto.
Limited edition of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper. [4], 164pp, [2]. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's vellum-backed powder blue paper boards, paper lettering-piece to upper board. Heavily rubbed, marked, and dulled, title in manuscript to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More >
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref. 32421
London.
Hutchinson & Co., 1918.
First edition.
8vo.
256pp, [16]. With 16 pages of publisher's advertising bound in at rear. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in black. Bottom edge untrimmed. Shelf-wear to boards, bumping to corners and spine ends, else a crisp copy. All edges foxed, with further minor foxing throughout. More >
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref. 30027
London.
Printed for the Translator; and sold by F. Newbery, 1772.
First English edition.
8vo.
In two volumes. viii, 256; [2], 256, 253-307pp, [1]. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to head to both titles. More >
£ 950.00
Antiquates Ref. 20743
London.
Victor Gollancz, 1968.
First edition.
8vo.
159pp. Original publisher's burgundy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped dustwrapper. Significant smoke damage to wrapper, with additional staining and tearing; the book has also held the odour of smoke. With the author's inscription 'For My good Lady Olwyn Love Paul' to half-title. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed. More >
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref. 29559
London.
Printed for J. Dodsley, 1776.
First edition, the printing with the press figures '9' on p.7 and '5' on p.15..
Quarto.
24pp. Disbound. Leaves lightly toned, inked manuscript numeral to head of title-page. More >
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref. 19190
