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London: for J. Fletcher and Co [second title: E. Johnson], 1764 [second title: 1778]. First editions. viii, (9-) 203pp. pp i-iv have a small inner corner stains, and title page has 'Edited by T. Warton' in an early hand. Contents otherwise very fresh and clean; and, what is more, the wit still sparkles. [SECOND TITLE: (ii), 90pp. Passages extracted from the works of Shakespeare and applied to contemporary figures: title and final page slightly soiled, pages otherwise clean]. Small 8vo, 6.5 x 4ins, in contemporary marbled boards with new quarter calf spine with red lettering-piece titled and ruled in gilt. Edges of boards slightly scuffed. ESTC T99833. Very Good.

Price: £350.00

Paris: chez Chasseriau, 1820. First edition. (iv), 504pp, plus the engraved frontis 'Les deux amants' by Godefroy after Chasselat. Two (different) unusual armorial bookplates, on front pastedown and endpaper. Ink mark to verso of front endpaper. Text complete but pagination error omits pp161-2 from numbering. Faint tide stain to lower margin through most of book, occasionally encroaching on text. Slightly cockled with occasional light foxing. Both foxing and tide stain obtrude on the frontis. Contents otherwise clean. Contemporary marbled endpapers with new cloth hinge. In new brown quarter leather with the original very rubbed boards and the original spine labels laid down. An attractive odd volume. VG.

Price: £95.00

London: Joseph Masters, 1846. First edition. viii, 98, [ii], 8 (adverts). With the original brown endpapers: some tanning to backside of endpapers and the page facing, and early ownership name on verso of front endpaper: contents otherwise clean. In the original binding of russet cloth, front decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Firm, front bright, spine ends crimped, lower board has some loss of colour and a small spot of green paint. Nice copy. Very Good.

Price: £42.00

Simla: printed at the Station Press, 1867. First edition. [vi], ii, 116. Light verse from the Raj, including narratives of expat life, from the era which gave us Lewis Carroll and W.S.Gilbert. Text within ruled borders throughout. Many pages have some foxing or soiling. One or two lines amended in ink, presumably by the author: although plainly a man, he is nowhere identified. With yellow endpapers (new at the front), and all edges gilt. 8.5 x 5.5 ins, in contemporary crimson morocco with five raised bands, with gilt border decoration and dentelles. Bright and firm, if rather mottled. Very Good.

Price: £120.00

London: George Routledge & Sons, printed in colours by Edmund Evans, n.d. [1884]. First or early edition. 64pp, illustrated in colour throughout. Upper corner of half-title neatly inscribed in ink: 'Judy Thurlow from Kate Greenaway 1884'. Early pencilled initials 'W.B.C.' on preceding page. Contents otherwise exceptionally clean and fresh, showing the delicacy of the pictures to their best advantage, with bright yellow endpapers and all edges green. In the original binding of half green cloth with glazed pictorial boards and untitled spine. Binding firm, corners good, spine ends puckered. Light soiling to boards, and trace of a child writing their name to the upper board - 'Alice(?) Thurlow'. A really lovely copy. Very Good+.

Price: £380.00

London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. First edition thus. liv, 251pp, with a portrait. Contents clean and unmarked, with the attractive contemporary bookplate of Mary Monica Heywood to the pastedown, initialled HS (Heywood Sumner). Some toning to endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In the original Muses' Library binding of slate-blue cloth decorated and titled in gilt to front and spine. Boards fairly bright, spine dulled, slightly rubbed and puckered at ends. Clean and firm. Very Good.

Price: £140.00

London: Siegle, Hill & Co., engraved and printed by André & Sleigh Ltd, n.d. [1910]. First edition thus. No.453 of a Limited Edition of 550 copies, signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. [blank], [6] prelims, 8 preface, [36] the quatrains, [18] about Omar Khayyam (numbered 1-16, starting verso), [22] notes. Reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Interspersing the 92 pages printed on handmade paper are 12 colour pages on coated paper, printed one side only, with illustrations by E. Geddes, ornate and romantic, some bearing more of the quatrains. Contents very bright, clean and firm (though with tiny marks to borders of two pages). Decorative endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 345 x 250mm, in the original full vellum gilt, with green morocco label to the spine, bright, sharp and clean. One of the most splendid productions of the era, and a beautiful copy. Near Fine.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £780.00

London: Methuen, 1926. First edition. In the Deluxe binding. 158pp. Contents clean and unmarked. All edges gilt. In the deluxe binding of green calf ornamented in gilt. Spine and some edges have slight sunning. Scuffing to a few mm at base of spine, and loss of two millimetres or less at head of spine. Very light scuffs to edges. Gilt bright: the front, which has ruled edges with flowers in the corners, showing Christopher Robin telling Pooh to 'Hush!', the spine decorated with a floral spray in which vignettes of Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, Pooh and Christopher Robin are interwoven. Firm and clean, a beautiful copy. Very Good+.

Price: £1,200.00

Privately Printed, May 1934. Limited Edition. Twenty-two poems engraved on copper by Charles Sigrist. The frontispiece designed and engraved by Stephen Gooden. Limited edition, #65 of 272 copies, numbered and signed by Siegfried Sassoon. Two pages have creasing and small closed tears to fore-edge: contents otherwise fine with the normal offsetting to endpaper edges from the turn-ins. 9 x 6.5 ins, top edge gilt, in the original binding of full tan Niger morocco, spine titled in gilt. Darker to spine, some faint marks: a firm clean copy. Very Good.

Price: £280.00

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. First edition, first printing. 62pp, with photo frontis. 1969 ownership name on front free endpaper, contents otherwise very fresh and clean. In the original black cloth, spine titled in silver, very bright, clean and sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, clean, with 5mm chip to head of spine, small nicks at base, and some scuffs to corners, joints and edges. Near Fine in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £35.00