London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, for the Early English Text Society, 1903. First thus. Hardcover. xxx, 148; with the original printed purple wraps bound in. Front wrap and title page bear the stamp of Bedford College. With an Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Index of Names, as well as..... More
London and Boston: The Medici Society, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Title pages and verse prologue, followed by a dozen openings, each with an illustration facing a verse satirising the progress of women's fashion from Ancient Egypt to the 1920s. Contents bright and clean. [The bookseller Peter Ellis says that..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1908. Hardcover. xv, 158pp, with rubricated title page, plus the 32 guarded and captioned plates of Indian scenery. Pages, plates, and endpapers clean, bright, fresh and unmarked. A deluxe edition of the poem for which Arnold was chiefly famous, produced for the..... More
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London: Dorrell and Son, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 262pp, including 51 pages of notes, and a number of pertinent illustrations in the text. Original dark brown endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked except for the title, and its facing page, which bears a previous owner's address, both of which have..... More
London: Blackie & Son, 1888. First edition thus. Hardcover. c.250pp per volume, with many guarded plates. Contents bright and fresh, with a little toning to the margins of the plates; the original dark endpapers are intact, the boards firm. All edges gilt, bright. c.22.5x15.5cms, in the original bindings of red..... More
UK: Corbel Stone Press, 2012. Fourth edition. Paperback. 292pp. With bibliography and index. Anlaf'serg is a rendering of the Old Norse name for Anglezarke, a settlement in the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, depopulated when reservoirs were built in the 1850s. A very structured meditation on place, and the people..... More
London: Marcus Ward & Co. Ltd., n.d. [1880/1890?]. Presumed first thus. Card binding. [12]pp, printed on card. Printed mostly in gilt, with elaborate floral and gilt decorations facing. Some foxing to the central opening, and slight browning to other pages. 14.5x12cms, in a decorative cover of ivory card, sewn with..... More
London: Printed by Luke Hansard for T. Cadell and W. Davies, and T. Payne, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. lxxvii, [4], 507, with the sixteen engravings called for, including that of Johnson's ghost appearing to Boswell. The contents are in very good clean condition, with some foxing, and offsetting from the..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 78, [i]. Poems. Contents clean, with foxing to the prelims and the final page, and an ownership name and the small stamp of a Bombay bookseller to the front pastedown. Some toning to endpapers, and the uncut closed edges of the text block..... More
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London: William Pickering, 1825. First edition thus. Hardcover. c.300pp per volume: each 3.5 x 2.1 ins / 9 x 5 cms. Previous owner's small green name label on pastedown of each vol. Contents very clean. In the original bindings of maroon cloth, spines sunned to russet, beautifully restored and with..... More
Kuching, Sarawak: The Museum, December 1995. First edition. Paperback. xiv, 387; ix, (389-) 637. Author's 1997 gift inscription to title page of Part I. Parallel text Kejaman-English. Contents clean and fresh. Paperbacks, 24.5x17cms, in pictorial blue glossy covers. Fresh, clean and square, with a small knock to the upper front..... More
London: E. Johnson, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. (ii), 90pp. Passages extracted from the works of Shakespeare and applied satirically to contemporary figures, identified minimally, by initials, etc. Title and final page slightly soiled, pages otherwise clean. Small 8vo, 6.5 x 4ins, in contemporary marbled boards with new quarter calf spine..... More
![The Adorable Plot. Paintings and writings about garden allotments. [Signed copy]. Tessa Newcomb,...](/pictures/thumb/20129010.jpg?v=1549307775)
Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 96pp, richly illustrated in colour. The title sounds as though this could be an anthology, but the paintings and, after the introduction, the writings, are all by Newcomb. Quarto glossy paperback, 27x21cms, in fresh, unread condition. Brings together her art, her sly..... More
London: Duckworth, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 59pp. Pages clean, though slightly encroached upon by heavy fore-edge foxing. Slight spotting to first and last few pages, and tanning to front free endpaper, which bears an early gift inscription. In the original binding of blue cloth, spine titled in gilt: firm and..... More
Toronto: The Musson Book Company (London Chatto & Windus), n.d. [c.1905]. Presumed first edition thus. Hardcover. x, 205pp: nicely printed, with rubricated title page. Undated early Canadian ownership name to front free endpaper. 17x11cms, with top edge gilt, silk bookmark fraying but present, and pastel marbled endpapers, in a light..... More
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 306pp. Text bright with occasional faint soiling or foxing. 1936 ownership name to front free endpaper, and faint crayon mark to corner of title page. In three-quarter blue morocco with patterned paper boards, browned spine with two raised bands..... More
Simla: printed at the Station Press, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. [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..... More
London: William Yapp, 1855. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 104pp. Poems with celestial aspirations. Publishers' hand-coloured vignette to title page, with another hand-coloured emblem heading the first poem, at p.11. Ruled borders to text. Preface 'to the reader' by 'C.S.'. Contents clean with minimal signs of handling. A very few minor..... More
London: Thomas Tegg & Son; Griffin - Glasgow; Tegg, Wise - Dublin, 1835. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. [vi], 325; x, 341; x, 341; vi, 346; plus a frontis to each vol. Ownership name to front pastedown of each, that in Vol 1 partially crossed out. Contents clean with..... More
London: J. Sewell, 1787. First edition. Hardcover. 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. As has been said of it: 'This was [Wordsworth's] first appearance in..... More
London: for J. Fletcher and Co., 1764. First edition. Hardcover. viii, (9-) 203pp. Contents very fresh and clean; and, what is more, the wit still sparkles. Title page marked 'Edited by T. Warton' in an early hand, and pp i-iv have a small inner corner stains. Small 8vo, 6.5 x...... More
