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London: J. Sewell, 1787. First edition. iv, (5)- 464, [x], [2] adverts. With 17 of the 18 cuts and facsimiles called for (including the frontis, engraved title, and a foldout), lacking only the View of Albion Mill. This volume contains the issues from January to June. Contents clean and in good order, with slight toning here and there. In the original binding of brown half calf with scuffed and discoloured marbled boards, spine ruled and titled in gilt, and recently refurbished with Japanese tissue. A good copy of rare Wordsworthiana. Very Good.

Price: £650.00

London: The New Age Press, November 1916 - April 1917. First editions. Stapled newspapers, 24pp per issue, each 13 x 8.75 ins. Some fraying at the spines, and some edges a little bent, but a complete and generally clean set, from a collection which has been wrapped up in parcels for 60 years. In addition to the regular and pseudonymous authors, the contributors here include G.K.Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Havelock Ellis, H.G.Wells, G.D.H.Cole, Herbert Read, Allen Upward, Upton Sinclair, Oliver St. John Gogarty, John Mavrogordato and Ruth Pitter, as well as Hilaire Belloc, whose essay on 'The Present Position and Power of the Press' spans 8 issues. [n.b. we have more issues of The New Age from 1913-1916] Very Good.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £140.00

Bombay: Printed by C. Murphy at Thacker's Press. [1946]. First edition in book form. [iv], 231pp, including maps. Front free endpaper inscribed by the editor: 'With kind regards from the Central India Horse / R.W.P.'. The Newsletters were originally produced while the Regiment was in active service overseas from 1940 to 1946. 'In this book appear humorous and tragic tales and stories of bravery and gallantry second to none' (from the Preface). Contents clean. In the original binding of green morocco, with gilt regimental arms on the upper board and title on the spine: small chip to head of spine, and surface damage near fore-edge of upper board, but all firm, and gilt bright. Very Good.

Price: £160.00