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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK); and (Vol VI) Frederick Warne & Co.: n.d. [1855-1866, 1873]. First edition. [1855-1866, and (Vol VI) 1873.] 8vo (23 x 14.5cms). viii, 288, (4); viii, 355, (4); ix, 410; viii, 328, (4); viii, 368; x, 319. Hundreds of species illustrated in over 300 (numbered to 313, but the numbering is erratic) chromolithographs, almost all of which are tissue-guarded. In one or two cases the prelims or the final leaves have some foxing, and there is occasional very light spotting or browning elsewhere: otherwise the contents are very clean and the plates very fresh. Although the final volume has a different title and publisher, the title page is printed 'VI' - and this is the 6th volume which completes the work. This is reflected in the set being bound uniformly: in contemporary green pebble cloth ruled in black (blind on the lower board) and lettered decoratively in gilt on front and spine. All volumes have recently been rebacked with the original spines relaid, and retaining the original brown endpapers with new cloth hinges. The bindings are now firm (often not the case with Anne Pratt's works), with slight blunting of corners, and, apart from a mark on the front of Vol II, they are bright on the front with slightly dulled (but clearly legible) spines. A very nice set. [The putative dates are those of the first editions, which the period bindings suggest that these are.]
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Price: £520.00

London: Groombridge & Sons, 1864. First edition. viii, 144, with 60 coloured illustrations (tissue-guarded plates). The tissue guards are foxed, and many of the plates have some spotting, mostly light. Occasional foxing or offsetting to text. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Firm, in a contemporary binding of bottle-green pebble-grain morocco over bevelled boards, ruled and decorated in gilt with inner dentelles, spine with five raised bands, titled direct and compartments decorated. A well-bound copy with some foxing. VG+.

Price: £120.00

London: Frederick Warne and Co., The 'Imperial' Poets series, n.d. [1890s]. First edition thus. xvi, 1136, illustrated with six mounted tissue-guarded photographs from Poulton's Series, each titled and set in a red ruled border: Shakspeare from the Chandos picture (frontis); Anne Hathaway's Cottage; Shakspeare's Birthplace; View of the Forum at Rome; The Tower of London; and View of Venice in the Present Day (showing the Doge's Palace). All are sepia and rather darkened, but otherwise in very good condition. The prelims include a Preface, a Memoir of Shakspeare, and Shakspeare's Will: the 24-page Glossary is at the back. Printed double-column, and all in very good clean condition. Marbled endpapers, the front pastedown bearing an 1899 prize label of Royal College, Mauritius, attached only at its centre. In the Prize Binding of navy calf, with the Royal College's arms in gilt to the front, and with a decorative border and dentelles, spine full gilt with five raised bands and a crimson label, binding recently restored with Japanese tissue. A very nice firm copy of a scarce edition. Very Good+.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £220.00

Calcutta: Johnston & Hoffmann, n.d. [c.1910?] Presumed first and only edition. As issued, with no title page, publication details or text pages. 22 photographs, clear and unfaded, each mounted recto on heavy card page with printed caption. Includes street, factory and harbour scenes. Plain paper endpapers. Very faint browning to page edges, otherwise contents very clean. Landscape quarto, in the original binding of three-quarter navy buckram with green cloth boards titled in gilt. Boards firm, bright and clean, with 3 small indentations on front, and spine ends slightly puckered. Johnston & Hoffmann (elsewhere spelt Hoffman) were notable photographers, with a studio in Calcutta. [Volume I, Cultivation and Preparation, also available]. Near Fine.
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Price: £180.00

London: Quartet, 1976. First UK edition, first impression. [xiv], [110]. Small ink drawing to front free endpaper, some foxing to white pages at front and back, very little within the book. Quarto, in the original blue-grey cloth, lower corners slightly bumped, titles to front cover in silver. With the protected bright dust jacket, slightly knocked at top edge, and foxed to verso. Newton's first book, of 'erotic pictures and everyday portraits'. Near Fine in fine dust-jacket.

Price: £60.00

London: Christie's Books, 1999. First edition. 288pp, generously illustrated, mostly in colour. Contents fresh and unmarked, appears unread. Large quarto, 310 x 220mm, in the original binding of black cloth with sparkling copper titling. Very bright and fresh, foot of spine slightly blunted and a slight dent to one edge. In the pictorial jacket, bright and clean, with a small indentation to the back, a small bump to the base of the spine, and very light knocks to the other extremities: faint rub marks sometimes catch the light. Lovely copy. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.
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Price: £250.00

Hove: Psychology Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2006. First edition. xvi, 310pp. Very fresh unread copy in blue laminated pictorial boards. As New.

Price: £19.00

London: Bonhams 1793 Ltd, 2010. 184, [10]. Lavishly illustrated. Contents as new. Quarto, in decorated pale cream paper-covered boards, spine gilt: brilliant and as new, with small knock to foot of spine and slight blunting to head. Jacket similarly, but also has faint scuffs visible to gilt areas. Beautiful book. Near Fine.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £150.00