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ALMON, JOHN:  Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham.  In Three Volumes.  The Fifth Edition.
London:  L.B. Seeley, 1796.
Three volumes.  8vo, contemporary full tan calf with lettering pieces;  bindings rubbed, one headband pulled, one upper joint cracked and held on cords. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844).  
Quote Item No. 7931
Price: £35.00

10437ANON: Garibaldi, the Italian Hero and Patriot: his life and adventures from his early days to his great achievement as the liberator of Italy.
London: Adam & Co. n.d. [ca. 1879].
Chromolitho portrait and extra pictorial title. Small 8vo, pp.128, original bevelled red cloth decoratively blocked in black & gilt, all edges gilt; a very nice copy indeed. Near contemporary inscription on front free endpaper. Rare. 
Quote Item No. 10437
Price:  £38.00

10653ANON: Great Warriors. Nelson, Wellington, Napoleon.
London: Chambers, n.d. ca. 1910.
Plates. 8vo, pp.136:144, contemporary full blue calf, decorative gilt border to sides and the gilt arms of the Collegiate School Greenock on upper cover, spine gilt in compartments with crimson lettering piece; headband bruised else very good. Prize label on front pastedown. A little light rubbing but generally good and attractive. 
Quote Item No. 10653
Price:   £20.00

ANON:  The Life of the late Victorious and Illustrious Prince, John Duke of Marlborough, and Pr. of Mindelheim:  Containing an Account of all His Battles, Sieges, and Publick Negotiations............  By an Impartial Hand.
London:  Printed for Theodore Sanders, 1723.
Title in red & black.  8vo, pp.(4):xvi:144:171-320:22, contemporary full speckled panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments with lettering piece.  Spine very rubbed, cracks to joints but very firm.  Some spotting and browning but generally good.  Corner of one leaf of text creased where at one time turned over.  With the contemporary signature of Tho. Eden on title.  Text continuous despite pagination.  Rare. 
Quote Item No. 8034
Price:   £150.00

BANCKS, JOHN:  The History of John Duke of Marlborough Prince of Mindelheim Captain General and Commander in Chief of the Armies of Her Britannick Majesty and the States of the United Provinces.
London:  for James Hodges, 1741.
First edition.  Engraved portrait and engraved folding map.  8vo, pp.371:(10, index and errata), contemporary full blindstamped calf, headband a little chipped, binding edge rubbed but very sound, lacking lettering piece.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). 
Quote Item No. 7901
Price:  £125.00

BEAUMELLE, LAURENT ANGLIVIEL DE LA:  The Life of Madam de Maintenon. Translated from the French.
London:  for J. Robinson, G. Woodfall, & Lockyer Davis, 1753.
First edition.  Part 1 only (Part 2  was published in 1760).  Small large 12mo, pp.xi:263, contemporary full tan calf; rubbed, base of spine chipped, joints cracked but boards held on cords, several old paint (?) splash marks to upper cover.  Two pages of advertisements precede the title. Contemporary engraved armorial bookplate.  Adapted from the 'Memoires' of Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle.  Also attributed to Louis Antoine de Caraccioli. 
Quote Item No. 7938
Price:   £45.00

BICKNELL, ALEXANDER: The History of Edward Prince of Wales, Commonly Termed the Black Prince, Eldest Son of King Edward the Third with a Short View of the Reigns of Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, and A Summary Account of the Institution of the Order of the Garter.
London:  for J. Bew, 1776.
Engraved portrait frontispiece.  8vo, pp.xvi:352, contemporary full calf with lettering piece.  Heavy foxing.  Upper cover detached having been attached at some stage with sellotape, this leaving the usual residue both to the binding and endpapers and to the inner margin of the recto of the portrait with some slight show through on blank inner margin of verso.  Very old auction lot number label on upper cover.  Anonymous. 
Quote Item No. 10184
Price:  £75.00

BONHAM-CARTER, VICTOR:  Authors by Profession. Two Volumes. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and with FOUR TYPED, SIGNED LETTERS.
London:  The Bodley Head and The Society of Authors, 1978 and 1984. 
Volume 1: From the Introduction of Printing to the Copyright Act 1911, 8vo, pp.252, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper spine very slightly browned, else good; internally, very good, with a presentation inscription from the author on the front free-endpaper.
Volume 2: From the Copyright Act 1911 until the end of 1981, 8vo, pp.336, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper spine very slightly faded, else good; internally, very good with presentation inscription from the author on the front free-endpaper.
With four interesting typed, signed letters loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 707
Price:  £25.00

BOSWELL, JAMES:  The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Oxford:  William Pickering, 1826.
Four volumes.  8vo, original cloth;  bindings poor, backstrips to three of the four volumes are partially detached along one side of the spine (largeish piece missing from the top of spine of Volume 4), several boards detached, generally rubbed and marked; internally, generally good.
With autograph letter, signed W. Wellesley and dated Oxford 1862 to "My dear Sir" - "With the greatest pleasure I forward to you this day, by Great Western Railway, Mrs Piozzi's own Bozzy.  May he afford you all the amusement you expect and deserve.  Make whatever use of him you please...."  
These four volumes contain numerous manuscript annotations in ink  and bears the pencilled note on front free endpaper, "The annotations are from Mrs. Piozzi's copy of Boswell - see annexed letter" 
Quote Item No. 3148
 
Price:  £200.00

BOSWELL, JAMES:  The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides.  New Edition with numerous additions and Notes, by John Wilson Croker.  To which are added, two suppplementary volumes of Johnsoniana, by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy.......
London: John Murray, 1839.
8 volumes only (of 10), lacking volumes 7 & 9.  Engraved portraits & plates.  Small 8vo, original cloth blocked in blind.  Spines uniformly faded.  Some foxing but generally very good.  Contemporary signature on endpapers. 
Quote Item No. 9795
Price:   £40.00

BOWEN, W.H:  Charles Dickens and His Family. A Sympathetic Study.
Cambridge:  Privately printed by W. Heffer, n.d ca. 1956.
First edition.  One of only 100 copies.  8vo, pp. xiii:182, original green cloth, no dustwrapper; binding spine faded, covers unevenly faded, a little spotted; internally, very good.
With (partially pasted to front free-endpaper) autograph letter signed, from the author in which he states that only 100 copies were printed and that Heffer's had agreed to do a second edition at their own expense.
Quote Item No. 5414
Price:  £15.00

BLUNT, WILFRID:  Married to a Single Life.  An Autobiography 1901-1938.  TOGETHER WITH:  Slow on the Feather.  Further Autobiography 1938-1959.
Wilton, Salisbury:  Michael Russell, 1983 and 1986.
First editions.  Illustrated in black & white.  Two volumes. Volume 1: 8vo, pp.xiii:306, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper spine faded, else good; internally, excellent, with an ink ownership inscription on the front free-endpaper. Volume 2: 8vo, pp.xviii:270, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding bumped at headbands, and slightly faded along top edge, else good; dustwrapper price-clipped, edges slightly bumped and some slight surface damage to front cover and slight creasing; internally, excellent and with an ink inscription on verso of title-page; despite all, very good copies.
Quote Item No. 7281
Price:    £20.00

BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH, COUNTESS OF [calling herself Duchess of Kingston]:  Authentic particulars of the life of the late Duchess of Kingston, during her connection with the Duke, her residence at Dresden, Vienna, St. Petersburgh, Paris, and several other courts of Europe;  also, a faithful copy of her singular Will.
London:  for J. Barker n.d. (ca. 1790). 
A New Edition, with considerable Additions.  12mo, pp.(4):252, contemporary full tan calf, decorative gilt rule to sides, spine gilt.  Lower joint cracked, upper cover detached, chip to base of spine, some foxing.  Publisher's new address, St. Clement's Archway, Strand, printed and pasted to lower title over the imprint.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844).  
Quote Item No. 7969
Price:  £140.00

BROWN, JOHN:  Rab and His Friends.
Edinburgh:  David Douglas, 1877.
Frontispiece, title vignette, plates.  8vo, pp.32, original cloth backed pictorial boards;  some foxing but generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 3001
Price:  £12.00

BUCKINGHAM, JOHN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF.  Edited by Alexander Pope:  The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normamby, and Duke of Buckingham. In Two Volumes.  The Second Edition Corrected.
London:  Aaron Ward ( & 5 others), 1729.
Engraved folding portrait, engraved folding plate (this torn without loss), engraved headpieces and intial letters.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.xvi:400 & iv:272:(xliv - the censored sections, the fly-title reading, "The Castrations" and comprising "Some Account of the Revolution" &  A Feast of the Gods).  Contemporary full panelled tan calf, spines with raised bands; spine of Volume 2 darkened, joints of volume one cracked, upper board almost detached. With the half-title/license leaf to Volume 1. 
Quote Item No. 7940
Price: £150.00

BUDGELL, E:  Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles;  particularly of the Late Eminently Learned Charles Earl of Orrery.
London:  Olive Payne, 1737.
Engraved portrait, title in red and black  8vo, pp.xl:258:34, contemporary full speckled calf, lower joint cracked, upper cover detached, rubbed, some browning and dustmarking.  Contemporary signature on title. 
Quote Item No. 7957
Price:   £50.00

CARLYLE, ALEXANDER:  Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk containing Memorials of the Men and Events of His Time.  Second edition.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1860.
Engraved portrait. Large 8vo, pp.x:576, contemporary half crimson morocco, spine gilt extra within raised bands, marbled boards;  corners and hinges rubbed but still a most attractive binding in very sound condition;   internally, browning to title-page mirroring the shape of the portrait opposite (and to reverse of portrait), page edges browned, generally, extremely good.
Quote Item No. 8283
Price:  £20.00

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S:  Marlborough, His Life and Times.  Four volumes, de-luxe bindings.
London:  Harrap, 1934-1938.
Volumes 1 and 2 reprints, Volumes 3 and 4 First Editions.  Four volumes.  Publisher's half blue morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt.  Marginal browning to half-titles, endpapers a little spotted.  Cloth sides a trifle marked.  Gift inscription on front free endpaper of Volume 1.  The spine of Volume 1 sunned to green thus not uniform.  Generally a handsome set. 
Quote Item No. 8164
Price:   £165.00

COOPER, COURTNEY RYLEY:  Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms, a biography. 
London:  Hurst & Blacket, n.d., [1920's?]. 
First English edition.  Introduction by Will Rogers.  Portrait and plates.  Royal 8vo, pp.255, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very bright with very slightly rubbed headbands; dustwrapper poor, spine and edges browned, with many tears (some loss) and some punctures and rubbing, repaired on the inside with white tape along the edges; page edges browned; internally, very good.  
Quote Item No. 1390 
Price:  £18.00

COWPER SOCIETY:  Cowper in London.  Papers Read Before the Cowper Society.
London:  Everett & Co., 1907.
First edition.  8vo, pp.42, original  glazed cloth lettered in gilt  no dustwrapper; small dark mark to back cover; endpapers and page edges browned; generally an attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 1724
Price:  £10.00

CURLI, DE:  The Life and Amours of Owen Tideric Prince of Wales:  otherwise Owen Tudor, Who married Catharine Princess of France, and Widow of our great King Henry V;  from which Marriage descended Henry VII. Henry VIII. Edward VI.  Queen Mary, .... and Queen Elizabeth, all of whom had from him the Surname of Tudor;  and from him likewise are descended, by the eldest Daughter of Henry VII. the present Royal Family of Great Britain, France, and Ireland.  First wrote in French, and published many years since at Paris, and now translated into English.
London:  for William Owen at Homer's Head, near Temple Bar, 1751.
Large 12mo, pp.xv:147:(2, publisher's advertisements), contemporary full calf; very rubbed, joints cracked but firm, short edge tear to two leaves without loss, some browning.  With the half-title.  Rare.  
Quote Item No. 8030
Price:  £150.00

EDWARDES, S.M:  Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, 1831 - 1909, a Memoir.
Printed at the Oxford University Press, 1923.
First edition.  Portrait.  8vo, pp.156, original green cloth, no dustwrapper; binding bowed or slightly warped, a few slight marks to cloth, else good; internally, endpapers browned, a little light foxing else very good. Very rare.
Quote Item No. 4296
Price:    £40.00

10457EWART, HENRY C. [Editor].  WALKER, ROBERT; HEATH, RICHARD; SHIELDS, FREDERIC; SWAIN, JOSEPH; HARRISON, MARY; and ATKINSON, A. G.: Toilers in Art. With Ninety Illustrations.
London: Isbister, n.d. 1891.
First (and only ?) edition.  Frontispiece, plates, and illustrations within the text. 8vo, pp.378:(6, adverts.) original decorative light green cloth blocked in the art nouveau style in dark green, black, red, orange, & gilt; headbands a little bruised, signature cut from upper margin of half-title. Very good. Rare. Illustrated biographies of the following artists: John Tenniel, Leon Lhermitte, Oskar Pletsch, Jean Paul Laurens, Francois Louis Francais, Chintreuil and Lavielle, Frederic Shields (autobiography), Frederick Walker, Charles Henry Bennett, George John Pinwell, Frederick Eltze, Thomas Faed, Josef Israels, Alexis Harlamoff, Maxine Lalanne, George Tinworth, Thomas Bewick, & John Flaxman. 
Quote Item No. 10457
Price:   £155.00

EHRMAN, JOHN: The Younger Pitt. The Years of Acclaim. The Reluctant Transition. The Consuming Struggle. Three volumes, all First Editions in dustwrappers.  With interesting autograph letters from the author.
London:  Constable, 1969.
Three volumes. Volume 1:  The Years of Acclaim. 1st edition, 1969.  Plates.  Large 8vo, pp.xv:710, original cloth;  very good in edge worn dustwrapper.  Volume 2: The Reluctant Transition. 1st edition, 1983.  Plates.  Large 8vo, pp.xiv:689, original cloth; fine in dustwrapper.  Volume 3: The Consuming Struggle. First edition, 1996.  Large 8vo, pp.xv:911, original cloth;  slight smudge to edge of text block else fine in dustwrapper. This volume inscribed and signed by the author on title.
With three autograph letters from the author. The first, 2-sides 8vo, dated 20th October 1969, thanking the recipient for his comments on Volume 1 and commenting on the proposed Volume 2:  "You may well ask what I shall call vol. ii, I have no idea.  I hate subtitles, & we had in fact agreed not to have one ... until the publisher's salesmen, those curious men, insisted that we must ..... I'm looking forward to vol.ii - it is  really the book I wanted to tackle in the first place, before I decided to try my hand at a complete life .........." etc. 
The second letter 3-sides 8vo, dated 20th April 1984:  "... You are kind to write as you did about my Vol.ii, I am not entirely pleased with it myself; but iii, with any luck should be easier to write in many ways despite the mass of material for the final decade.  More, a good deal more, about Pitt's domestic life .... I didn't escape Plumb's attentions in point of fact, far from it, or those of a couple of his associates ....."  etc.  Together with a retained copy of the original letter from the recipient to Ehrman which prompted this response. 
The third letter 1
½ sides 8vo, is dated 16th Dec. 1996:  "...... Completing & seeing through Pitt into print was a tiring process & it is rather pleasant to relax ...... Pitt goes along surprisingly well - I fear that a good many of those who have bought vol.iii will find they have bitten off rather more than they may have expected ......."  etc. 
A good set of the first editions of this monumental biography, almost 30 years in the writing. With these three interesting autograph letters commenting on the writing of each. 
Quote Item No. 9062
Price:  £285.00

ELLIS, M.H:  Lachlan Macquarie, his life, adventures and times.
Sydney:  Dymock's, 1947.
First edition.  Portrait and plates.  4to, pp.xi:697, original cloth, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped; binding cloth to base of spine torn and frayed, otherwise very good; internally, extremely good.
Quote Item No. 663
Price:  £15.00

EUGENE, PRINCE, OF SAVOY:  Memoirs of Prince Eugene of Savoy; Written by Himself. Translated ...by Frederic Shoberl.
London:  Henry Colburn, 1811.
Engraved portrait.  8vo, pp.xiv:247, disbound.  Portrait foxed and browned, contemporary signature on upper margin of title. 
Quote Item No. 7904
Price:  £25.00

FANSHAWE, ANN, LADY:  Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart. Written by Herself. With Extracts from the Correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe.
London:  Henry Colburn, 1829.
First edition.  Engraved portrait.  8vo, pp.lxiii:395:(1, advertisements), contemporary full tan calf.  Rubbed, lacking lettering piece, upper compartment of backstrip lacking, joints cracking but firm.  Some offsetting of portrait to title.  Generally internally excellent. 
Quote Item No. 8000
Price:  £45.00

FIELDING, DAPHNE:  The Nearest Way  Home.
London:  Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  8vo, pp.x:275, original  cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper; binding with two small indents to front cover, else very good; dustwrapper slightly edge-rubbed, with identical indents to the binding; internally, page edges spotted, otherwise very good. A large presentation inscription by the author on the front free-endpaper and signed and dated by the author on the title-page.
Quote Item No. 6824
Price:  £9.00

FINER, S.E.:  The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick.
London:  Methuen & Co., 1952.
First edition.  Portrait frontispiece.  8vo, pp. xi:555, original green cloth in dustwrapper;  binding slightly faded and browned around edges;  dustwrapper extremely poor, with three large pieces missing (two at top and bottom of spine) creased, torn and rubbed;  internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 8695
Price:  £20.00

FORREST, D.W:  Francis Galton.  The Life and Work of a Victorian Genius.
London:  Paul Elek, 1974.
First edition.  Plates.  8vo, pp.x:340, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper bumped along top and bottom edges, else good; internally, pages slightly spotted, otherwise very good.
Quote Item No. 4012
Price:   £13.00

FORSTER, JOHN:  The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. Fourth edition with forty woodcuts, after designs by C.Stanfield, D.Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle....
London:  Chapman & Hall, 1863.
8vo, pp.xl:472, contemporary full prize calf gilt with lettering piece;  binding unevenly sunned but attractive nonetheless. 
Quote Item No. 2356
Price:  £25.00

FRIEDERICHS, HULDA: The Life of Sir George Newnes.
London:  Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
First edition. Portrait & plates. 8vo, pp.xi:304, original red cloth; inner hinges pulled, spine a little faded and spotted. Name & address label on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 10540
Price:  £30.00

10697FULCHER, GEORGE WILLIAMS: Life of Thomas Gainsborough. Second edition.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1856.
Engraved frontispiece and addtional engraved title with tissue guard. Small 8vo, pp.viii:248, original green ribbed cloth blocked in blind; very light water-splash mark to binding, generally a very good copy indeed. 
Quote Item No. 10697
Price:  £35.00

FULLERTON, W.Y.:   J.W.C. Fegan, a Tribute.
London:  Marshall, Morgan & Scott, n.d. ca. 1920's.
Black & white portrait and plates.  8vo, pp.128, original  cloth in dustwrapper; binding headbands bumped and slightly rubbed, else very good; dustwrapper very poor, foxed and with large pieces missing (especially at ends of spine and top edge) with a number of tears along the edges; internally, the page edges foxed, some foxing throughout. The founder of "Mr Fegan's Homes" for orphaned boys.
Quote Item No. 6169
Price:  £20.00

9605GEORGE, ANITA:  Memoirs of the Queens of Spain. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Miss Julia Pardoe.
London:  Richard Bentley, 1850.
Two volumes.  Frontispiece to Volume 1.  8vo, pp.xxxvi:381 and pp.vi:318, original blindstamped grained blue cloth.  Nick in headband of Volume 1, headband of Volume 2 chipped.  Light crease to frontispiece, prelims. of Vol. 1 foxed.  Circulating library stamps of J. Brassington, Kensington, on endpapers. 
Quote Item No. 9605
Price:  £40.00

HARRIS, FRANCES: A Passion for Government.  The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.
Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1991.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Large 8vo, pp.x:421, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding very good;  dustwrapper bumped at ends of spine, very slight creasing along some edges; internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 9179
Price:  £22.00

HATTON, RAGNHILD: Karl XII av Sverige. (Original title Charles XII of Sweden).
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969.
Swedish text. Plates. Large 8vo, pp. 704, original cloth; very good in edge rubbed dustwrapper. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author. With a letter dated 1995 announcing her death. 
Quote Item No. 9268
Price:  £40.00

HAYLEY, WILLIAM:  The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper Esqr.  A New and Enlarged Edition.
Chichester:  Printed by J. Seagrave for J. Johnson, 1806.
Engraved portrait.   4 volumes.  8vo, contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt with lettering and numbering pieces (lacking part of numbering piece on Volume1).  Edges and corners rubbed, joints rubbed, a few short cracks but hinges firm.  Puncture to blank margin of title to Volume 4, some foxing.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Robert Johnson Eden (1774-1844). 
Quote Item No. 8021
Price:  £60.00

HERRIOT, EDOUARD:  Madame Recamier.  From the French of Edouard Herriot by Alys Hallard.  Two Volumes.
London:  Willliam Heinemann, 1906.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Two volumes.  Large  8vo, pp.xviii:326 and pp.ix:447, original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, top edge gilt;  headbands and corners bumped and rubbed; some foxing.
Quote Item No. 7476
Price:    £20.00

HOARE, PHILIP:  Serious Pleasures.  The Life of Stephen Tennant.
London:  Hamish Hamilton, 1990.
First edition.  Black & white photographic plates.  Large 8vo, pp.xv:463, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding generally very good with a few white marks to the cloth;  dustwrapper with slight shelf-wear but good;  internally, a small patch of dark marking to outer lower edge of text block not obvious when volume open, an ink inscription to half-title, otherwise extremely good. 
Quote Item No. 10661
Price:  £25.00

HUNT, GILES  [Editor]: Mehitabel Canning.  A Redoubtable Woman.  Family Letters.
Royston:  Rooster Books, 2001.
First edition.  Portrait frontispiece.  8vo, pp.viii:347, original green cloth lettered in gilt, no dustwrapper;  generally excellent.  Signed by the editor on the title-page. 
Quote Item No. 9088
Price:  £25.00

JONES, T.E.:   A Descriptive Account of the Literary Works of John Britton (from 1800 to 1849) Being a Second Part of His Auto-Biography.  With Appendix.
London:  for the Subscribers to the Testimonial, 1849 - Appendix 1850.
Portrait, one plate, illustrations to second  part;  two plates, one plan, and numerous illustrations to the appendix.  Large 8vo, pp.xxii:[1]:216:206:[2], contemporary quarter roan;  binding very poor, worn and detached from the text block at the front joints, extremely rubbed along edges of spine, with scuffing and a piece missing to spine, boards spotted; internally, several plates loose, one leaf of text detached and a little worn on margins.
The separately published appendix is titled "Appendix to Britton's Auto-Biography: containing Biographical, Archaeological, and Critical Essays, on Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon: Barrows, Avebury, Stonehenge:  On a Naval Museum and Library:  A Cenotaph to Chesterton;  and a British Cenotaph Gallery:  On the Preservation of Our Ancient Buildings:  Description of Burton Street, and the Author's House, with Lists., and Biographical Anecdotes: and other Miscellaneous Subjects."  
Quote Item No. 3316   
Price:  £25.00

5226 KimberKIMBER, ISAAC: The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Impartially collected from the best historians, and several original manuscripts.
London : printed for J. Brotherton, and T. Cox, 1725.
The second edition, with additions. Engraved portrait. 8vo, pp.[8]:xvi:415:[1], contemporary full tan panelled calf, spine with raised bands and crimson gilt lettering piece; hinges cracked but very firm, an attractive binding.  A very nice crisp copy.
Anonymous. By Isaac Kimber but sometimes also attributed to Edmund Gibson, and Sir Thomas Pengelly.
Quote Item No.  5226 
Price:  £135.00

LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON: the History of Napoleon Buonaparte. Reprinted from the Family Library and Illustrated by George Cruikshank. With an Appendix.
London:  William Tegg, 1866.
Frontispiece, engraved extra title with vignette portrait of Napoleon, plates.  8vo, pp.xxii:655, contemporary full crimson prize calf, sides ruled in gilt, spine gilt extra with lettering piece; in excellent condition.
With the prize label of "The Limes" Bromley, Principal Mr. Septimus Ellis, on front pastedown, awarding this volume to Edward M. Blyth for Diligence & Conduct, Xmas 1861. 
Quote Item No. 8680
Price:  £60.00

2262 MacaulayMACAULAY, LORD - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Two biographies by Macaulay, of Francis Bacon & Warren Hastings, bound with Franklin's autobiography.
London:  Cassell's National Library, 1886, 1887, and 1886.
Three works bound in one volume.  Small 8vo, pp.192:191:192, contemporary pretty half blue calf, spine gilt in compartments, crimson lettering piece.
Quote Item No. 2262
Price:   £21.00

MACGIBBON, JEAN: There's the Lighthouse.  A Biography of Adrian Stephen.
London:  James & James, 1997.
First edition.  Coloured portrait frontispiece, black & white photographic plates.  Tall 8vo, pp.xi:187, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding extremely good;  dustwrappr spine slightly faded and with a tiny area of cockling, edges of dustwrapper bumped;  internally excellent. 
Quote Item No. 10655
Price:  £70.00

MAYLUNAS, ANDREI and MIRONENKO, SERGEI:  A Lifelong Passion.  Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story.
London:  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996.
First edition in English.  Coloured plates. Large thick 8vo, pp.667, original cloth in dustwrapper; generally n excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 6143
Price:   £9.00

MEREDITH, GEORGE and  MEYNELL, ALICE:  The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell with annotations thereto 1896 - 1907.
London:  Nonesuch Press, 1923.
No. 462 of a limited edition of 850 copies on Ingres paper.  Tall 8vo, pp.104, original cloth-backed boards, spine browned and boards marked, corners bumped and rubbed; internally, pages edges slightly browned, else very good.
Quote Item No. 5223
Price:  £12.00

10679MILNE, CHRISTOPHER: The Enchanted Places.  Signed copy.
London:  Eyre Methuen, 1980.
Reprint.  Plates.  8vo, pp.169, original cloth gilt; excellent in unevenly faded  price-clipped dustwrapper which has a little wear along top edge. Signed by the author on title and dated Dartmouth 1984. 
Quote Item No. 10679
Price:  £50.00

MIRECOURT, EUGENE DE:  Plessy-Arnould.
Paris:  Chez l'Auteur, 1858.
In the series "Les Contemporains".  First edition.  Portrait, one facsimile autograph. 12mo, pp.91:4, original yellow wrappers; stitching broken, damp-marking and foxing. Collector's stamps on half-title.  A biography of the French singer Jeanne-Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy.
Quote Item No.  6074
Price:   £10.00

MISSY, JEAN ROUSSET DE:  The History of Cardinal Alberoni:  Chief Favorite of Their Catholic Majesties and Universal Minister of the Spanish Monarchy from his Birth to the Year 1719.  To which is added Considerations upon the Present State of the Spanish Monarchy.
London:  for Sam. Illidge (& others), 1719.
First edition in English.  Engraved portrait.  8vo, pp.264, contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked at an early date, gilt ruled within raised bands, lettering piece. Upper joint cracked but firm, some chipping along upper joint, corners rubbed.  Contemporary signature, Edward Hopkins, on title.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844). 
Quote Item No. 8003
Price:  £90.00

NICOLSON, HAROLD:  Autobiography, Complete in Five Volumes.
London:  Hogarth Press, 1974 to 1967.
Volume 1 Fifth Impression, Volume 3 Third Impression, remaining Volumes First Editions.  Five volumes.  8vo, original blue cloth;  Volume 3 ex-library with usual stamps and marking;  lacking dustwrappers apart from Volume 3, this worn. 
Quote Item No. 6422
Price:  £35.00

NICOLSON, HAROLD: The Development of English Biography.
London:  Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1933.
Second impression.  8vo, pp. 158, original cloth; very good in dusty and slightly torn d.w.  Bookplate. 
Quote Item No. 3243
Price:   £10.00

NOBLE, MARK:  Memoirs of the Illustrious House of Medici from Giovanni the Founder of Their Greatness Who Died in the Year 1428 to the Death of Giovanni-Gaston the Last Grand-Duke of Tuscany in 1737.
London:  T. Cadell, 1797.
First edition.  Six genealogical charts, 5 folding.  8vo, pp.viii:456, contemporary full tan polished calf, spine ruled on raised bands, lettering piece faded and slightly chipped.  Upper joint cracked but held on cords.  Some light foxing.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844). 
Quote Item No. 7947
Price:  £90.00

9524PEPYS, SAMUEL: Everybody's Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660 - 1669. Edited by O. F. Morshead.  With 60 Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: G. Bell, 1935.
Reprint. Deluxe issue. 8vo, pp.xxiv:570. Publisher's full pebble-grained blue leather, upper cover blocked in blind, spine blocked in gilt, top edge gilt; short nick in headband else a very nice copy indeed and free from inscriptions. 
Quote Item No. 9524
Price:   £30.00

PEPYS, SAMUEL: The Diary of Samuel Pepys.  A New and Complete Transcription Edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews.  Eleven Volumes Including Companion and Index, complete.
London:  G. Bell & Sons, 1970.
First editions, eleven volumes published over a period from 1970 to 1985.  Black & white frontispieces, plates and maps.  8vo, uniformly bound in cloth in dustwrappers;    the dustwrappers to five volumes with tears to edges especially at spines (with some loss);  however, in other respects an excellent set.  With an autograph letter signed from the editor, Robert Latham, loosely inserted. 
Quote Item No. 9263

Price:   £250.00

PEPYS, SAMUEL (Edited Henry B. Wheatley): The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty. With Lord Braybrooke's Notes. Ten volumes, complete.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1928.
Nine volumes plus the 10th supplementary volume "Pepysiana". 8vo, original blue cloth, spines gilt.  Volumes 1 & 2 have what appears to be varnish marks on the upper covers; otherwise a very good clean set in very good condition and attractive on the shelf. 
Quote Item No. 9485
Price: £75.00

PLATT, W.J.:  Three Women: Mildred Cable, Francesca French, Evangeline French. The authorised biography.
London:  Hodder & Stoughton, 1964.
First edition.  Frontispiece.  8vo, pp.219, original cloth.  Signature on front fly else very good in edge chipped and rubbed dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No. 10551
Price:  £28.00

POLIAKOFF, NICOLAI: Coco the Clown by Himself. 
London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940.
First edition.  Black & white photographic plates.  8vo, pp.vii:243, original red cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper;  binding very good;  dustwrapper poor, edge-rubbed, creased and torn along edges with a piece missing from top of spine and repaired in places with cellotape;  internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8706
Price:  £70.00

NAPOLEON, PRINCE:  The Memoirs of Queen Hortense.  Two Volumes.
London:  Thornton Butterworth, 1928.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Two volumes.  Tall 8vo, pp.283 and pp.285, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spines and upper covers, no dustwrappers; binding headbands bumped, else good; internally, page edges foxed, some inner joints cracked, but stitching and hinges firm, some foxing; bookplate adhered to Volume 2 front pastedown; despite all, very good.
Quote Item No. 7496
Price:   £20.00

REYNOLDS, FREDERICK: The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds written by himself.  In two volumes.
London: Henry Colburn, 1826.
First edition.  Engraved portrait. Two volumes, 8vo, pp.xxiv:373 pp.422, contemporary half calf with lettering pieces. Portrait detached, some  foxing.  Binding very rubbed, one headband pulled. 
Quote Item No. 9451
Price: £70.00

RIDDING, LADY LAURA and BAX, DIANA:  Diana Bax.  Part One: A Character Sketch by Lady Laura Ridding.  Part Two:  Life Studies by Diana Bax.
Winchester:  for private circulation only, by Warren & Son, [1913].
Mounted photographic portrait as frontispiece and mounted photographic plates.  8vo, pp.126, original cloth, no dustwrapper.  Binding severely stained, front fly-leaf soiled, some foxing and marking throughout. With manuscript note by Diana Bax pasted to front fly.  Inscribed on front free endpaper, "Margaret  E. Hornfray from her brother A.N. Bax, November 1913". 
Quote Item No. 5242
Price:   £25.00

ROBERTS, MICHAEL:  Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of Sweden.
London:  The English Universities Press, 1973.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  8vo, pp.207, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding very good; dustwrapper headbands slightly bumped, very slight shelf-wear; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 8141
Price:  £30.00

ROBERTS, S.C.:  Adventures with Authors.
Cambridge:  At the University Press, 1966.
First edition.  8vo, pp.vii:275, original grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in dustwrapper;   a couple of small chips to surface of dustwrapper;  bookplate pasted to front pastedown;  in all other respects, excellent.  With the author's signature pasted to front free-endpaper, loose on a small piece of paper and with a signed autograph letter loosely inserted. 
Quote Item No. 8982
Price:  £20.00

RUSSELL, LADY RACHEL:  Letters from Lady Rachel Russell;  from the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey.  To which is prefixed, an introduction, Vindicating the Character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple. 
London:  for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.
The second edition, corrected.  4to, pp.lxxii:216, contemporary full grained black morocco, a.e.g.  The binding rubbed and backstrip chipped. 
Quote Item No. 405 
Price:  £45.00

RUSSELL, W. CLARK:  William Dampier.
London:  Macmillan, 1889.
First edition.  Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, pp.vi:192:(2), original red cloth, no dustwrapper; binding spine darkened, back cover unevenly faded, headbands bumped; internally, page edges and endpapers browned, else good. With bookplate adhered to front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 2897
Price:  £9.00

SADE, JACQUES FRANCOIS PAUL ALDONCE DE - DOBSON, SUSANNA (Translator):  The Life of Petrarch.  Collected from Memoires pour la Vie de Petrarch.
London:  James Buckland, 1775.
First edition thus.  Engraved frontispiece.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.xxxii:544 & 560, contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt with crimson and green lettering pieces;  backstrips rubbed, chipped dry and brittle, joints cracked.  Prelims and end leaves browned, spotted and marked.  Front free endpaper of Volume 1 partly detached.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). 
Quote Item No.  7911
Price:   £100.00

SCOTT, GEORGE:  The Memoirs of Sir James Melvil Of Halhill: Containing An impartial Account of the most remarkable Affairs of State during the Sixteenth Century, not mentioned by other Historians:  More particularly relating to the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and King James.  In most of which Transactions the Author was Personally and Publickly concerned.  The Third Edition, Corrected. 
London:  for D. Wilson, 1752.
8vo, pp.xx:408:(20, index):(2, An Alphabetical Interpretation of all the Scottish Words and Phrases):(2, blanks):(8, Instructions to the Earl of Bedford).  Contemporary full tan calf, spine with raised bands and crimson lettering piece.  Headband a little chipped, joints cracked but very firm.  Extremities rubbed.  Generally a very good copy.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755). 
Quote Item No. 7956
Price:  £140.00

SHACKLETON, ROBERT: Montesquieu.  A Critical Biography.
Oxford University Press, 1963.
Black & white portrait frontispiece.  8vo, pp.xv:432, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding good despite small pale patch of mottling;  dustwrapper browned with  a number of tears (with some slight loss) along edges;  internally excellent. 
Quote Item No. 9200
Price:  £30.00

SKIDELSKY, ROBERT: John Maynard Keynes.  The Economist as Saviour 1920 - 1937.
London:  Papermac, 1994. Black & white photographic plates.  Large 8vo, pp.xxxv:731, softcover;  binding with tiny crease to top of spine, else good;  internally, two leaves of text with a very slight cockle to lower corner;  generally a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 10657
Price:  £22.00

SPENDER, HAROLD:  General Botha.  The Career and the Man.
London:  Constable, 1916.
First edition.  Portrait frontispiece.  8vo, pp.348, original burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on spine, no dustwrapper; binding headbands and corners bumped, else very good; internally, page edges slightly browned, browning to endpapers, ink inscription on front free-endpaper, else very good.
Quote Item No.  4146
Price:  £25.00

SPIELMANN, M.H.  and  JERROLD, WALTER:  Hugh Thomson.  His Art, His Letters, His Humour and His Charm.
London:  A. & C. Black, 1931.
First edition.  Coloured plates, black & white plates and illustrations in the text.  4to, pp.xx:269, original cloth in dustwrapper;   binding headbands bumped, else very good;  dustwrapper poor, spine browned and with multiple tears (with loss) and creasing to top and bottom edges;  foxing to page edges, prelimns, title page and some leaves of text;  internally, joints cracked but stitching still firm, ink inscription to front paste-down and a picture (perhaps the front of a card?) pasted to second page. 
Quote Item No. 9208
Price:  £20.00

STEPHEN, LESLIE:  Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book.
Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1977.
First edition.  Black & white portrait frontispiece and plates.  Tall 8vo, pp.xxxiii:118, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding excellent;  dustwrapper slightly bumped along top edge, minimal shelf-wear, else very good;  internally, some brown spotting to page edges, in all other respects, very good. 
Quote Item No. 10672
Price:  £30.00

STEWART, DOUGLAS:  Norman Lindsay, A Personal Memoir.
Sydney:  Nelson, 1975.
First edition.  Illustrated with black & white photographic plates.  8vo, pp.220, original cloth in dustwrapper; generally, an extremely good copy.
Quote Item No. 6444
Price:    £20.00

STRAUBENZEE FAMILY:  A Typescript compiled by A.W. van Straubenzee in 1942 under various headings, e.g. "Philpus Willem Casimir (1723-1765) the First English Straubenzee"; "The Third and Fourth Generations in Holland (1718-1838)" etc. Together with several appendices, e.g. "The Families of van Straubenzee, Schoncken and Vermaesen compiled by Colonel Storm de Grave". 
4to, pp.87, ring-bound old wrappers rather worn and chipped, marked "duplicate".  Illustrated by the insertion of photographs of family portraits. 
Together with another, roneo'd, memoir of another member of the Straubenzee family,  4to, pp.67, wrappers. 
Quote Item No. 364
Price:  £60.00

10209STRICKLAND, AGNES:  Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Complete in Six Volumes.
London: George Bell, 1892.
Engraved portraits. Six volumes, complete. 8vo, contemporary half crimson calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments within raised bands with green lettering pieces; some rubbing to joints and extremities, puncture to one compartment of Volume 5. Apart from the puncture to Volume 5 this is a very pretty well bound set in good strong condition. 
Quote Item No. 10209
Price:  £115.00

SUETONIUS:  Lives of the Twelve Caesars.  Newly Translated with an Introduction by H.M. Bird.  Illustrated by Frank C. Pape.
U.S.A.:   Argus Books, 1930. 
First edition thus.  Decorative title, plates with tissue guards.  Large 8vo, pp.viii:391, original black cloth blocked in gilt.  A very good copy in the original, edge-worn, slipcase. 
Quote Item No. 8637
Price: £40.00

SULLY, MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE, DUKE OF:  The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great.  Translated from the French of Charlotte Lennox.  A New Edition, Revised and Corrected.
London:  Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1810.
Portraits.  Five volumes.  8vo, contemporary full marbled calf, decorative gilt rules to sides, spines blocked in gilt with military trophies, black lettering and numbering pieces.  Some foxing, a number of joints cracked, headbands chipped. 
An image is available upon request. 
Quote Item No.3487  
Price:  £120.00

10598THAYER, WILLIAM M.: From Log-Cabin to White House: The Story of President Garfield's Life. Thirty-third edition.
London:  Hodder & Stoughton, 1890.
Portrait.  8vo, pp.xvi:348, contemporary full crimson calf, spine floral gilt in compartments with lettering piece. Some foxing to prelims.  School prize presentation inscription on front flyleaf.  An attractive binding in very good condition. 
Quote Item No. 10598
Price:  £25.00

THOROGOOD, JULIA:  Margery Allingham.  A Biography.
London:  Heinemann, 1991.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  8vo, pp.xxii:423, original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper;  binding excellent; slight creasing to top edge of dustwrapper, very slight shelf-wear, else good; internally, very good. 
Quote Item No. 6424
Price:  £12.00

TIDY, THE REV. GORDON:  A Little about Leech.
London:  Constable, 1931.
First edition. 14 mounted plates by John Leech.  4to. pp.92, original cloth, no dustwrapper; binding edge-browned and some marking, spine faded; internally, some browning to the text, else good.
Quote Item No. 1035
Price:   £10.00

TORCY, JEAN-BAPTISTE COLBERT, MARQUIS DE:  Memoirs of the Marquis of Torcy, Secretary of State to Lewis XIV.  Containing the History of the Negotiations from the Treaty of Ryswic to the Peace of Utrecht.  Translated from the French.
London:  P. Vaillant, 1757.
First English edition.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.xii:407 and pp.377, contemporary full tan speckled calf, spines with raised bands and burgundy lettering pieces; spines darkened, a little rubbed, one joint cracked but very firm, titles foxed or browned.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812).  
Quote Item No. 7958
Price:  £75.00

10590TREVELYAN, GEORGE OTTO: The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Second edition with Additions and Corrections.
London:  Longmans, Green, 1877.
Two volumes. 8vo, pp.viii:484 & xv:479, contemporary full 'tree' calf, spines gilt within raised bands, with double lettering pieces, inner gilt dentelles, all edges marbled,  with gilt arms of Eton College on upper covers. Joints a little rubbed but firm, head & base of spine of volume 1 a trifle chipped. Prize label on verso of front free endpaper and Eton presentation inscription on flyleaf. Portrait a little foxed and slightly stained on blank fore-margin. Lower fore-corner of upper cover of Volume 1 chipped. 
Quote Item No. 10590
Price:  £50.00

TOYNBEE, PAGET and WHIBLEY, LEONARD [Editors]: Correspondence of Thomas Gray.  Three volumes.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1935.
Black & white portraits, plates, folding facsimile, maps. Three volumes,  8vo, original maroon cloth, no dustwrappers;  bindings unattractively damp-marked and spotted with loss of colour to the cloth, some edge-rubbing; internally, page edges browned, upper inner joint cracked in Volume 1, one leaf of text tape-marked, some foxing. A sound reference/reading copy only.
Quote Item No. 7602
Price:  £35.00

9594TREVELYAN, SIR GEORGE OTTO:  The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. New Edition.
London:  Longmans, Green, 1888.
8vo, pp.xiv:695, contemporary full tan prize calf, gilt arms of Marlborough College on upper cover, spine gilt in compartments with lettering piece, all edges marbled.  Prize insciption on front fly.  Some foxing.  Generally very good and attractive. 
Quote Item No. 9594
Price:   £45.00

VICTORIA, QUEEN:  Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861.  To which are prefixed  .... an Account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions.  Edited by Arthur Helps.
London:  Smith, Elder, 1868.
First edition.  Engraved frontispiece and one plate.  8vo, pp.xv:(2):315, original green cloth gilt; some foxing to prelims and edge of text block but an extremely bright copy.
Quote Item No. 8476
Price:    £30.00

9598VICTORIA, QUEEN. ( Edited by Arthur Helps ):  Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 (2nd edition) &  More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands from 1862 to 1882 (3rd edition).
London:  Smith, Elder, 1868.
The second volume published 1884.  Engraved frontispiece to the first volume, engraved portrait and plates to the second volume.  8vo, pp.xv:(2):315 and pp.x:(4):407, original bevelled green cloth blocked in gilt; upper inner hinge of second volume cracked but quite firm. The bindings in exceptional bright condition.  Contemporary inscriptions. 
Quote Item No. 9598
Price:  £35.00

VOLTAIRE [FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE ]:  The History of Charles XII, King of Sweden.  Translated from the French.  The Second Edition, Corrected.
London: for Alexander Lyon, 1732.
Engraved portrait, engraved folding map.  8vo, pp.xi:371:(1), contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt, rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped, hinges cracked but firm.  Corner torn from corner of front free endpaper.  Internally a crisp copy.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). 
Quote Item No. 7900
Price:  £150.00

WAINWRIGHT, A:  Memoirs of a Fellwalker. 
London:  Michael Joseph, 1993.
Third impression before publication.  Illustrations.  Large 8vo, pp.210, original cloth;  an excellent copy in like unclipped d.w.  Small private "Ex Libris" label on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 6140
Price:   £10.00

WALKER, ANNABEL: Aurel Stein Pioneer of the Silk Road.
London: John Murray, 1995.
First edition. Plates & maps. 8vo, pp.xv:393, original cloth; very good in like dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No. 10524
Price:  £35.00

WALLER, R.D.:  The Rossetti Family 1824-1854.
Manchester University Press, 1932.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Large 8vo, pp.xii:324, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper, pages untrimmed;  spine and lettering faded;  headbands and corners bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear;  page edges slightly browned;  ink inscription on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 8665
Price:  £65.00

10688WALPOLE, HORACE: The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford.  Edited by Peter Cunningham. 9 volumes (complete).
Edinburgh:  John Grant, 1906.
Portraits.  Nine volumes, 8vo, original dark blue cloth, upper covers armorially blocked in gilt, top edges gilt; headbands a little bruised, occasional light rubbing, scuff/puncture to one joint but generally a very good set indeed. 
Quote Item No. 10688
Price:  £110.00

WILKINSON, MAJOR-GENERAL OSBORN  and WILKINSON, MAJOR-GENERAL JOHNSON: The Memoirs of the Gemini Generals. Personal Anecdotes, Sporting Adventures, and Sketches of Distinguished Officers.
London:  A.D. Innes & Co., 1896.
Second edition.  Large 8vo, pp.xii:441, original burgundy cloth no dustwrapper; spine a little faded and edge-rubbed; internally, page edges and end-papers foxed, ink name on half-title, generally sound.
Quote Item No. 4359
Price:  £20.00

WILLIAMS, H. NOEL:  The Women Bonapartes.  The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I.  Two Volumes.
London:  Methuen & Co., 1908.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Two volumes.  Large 8vo, pp.xviii:376 and pp.xix:406:40 [publisher's catalogue], original green cloth lettered and decoratively blocked in gilt on spine and upper covers, no dustwrappers; headbands a little bumped, gilt to spines slightly dulled; internally, page edges spotted, some foxing, ink inscription on front free-endpaper; generally very good.
Quote Item No. 7475
Price:   £20.00

10698WOOLF, VIRGINIA.  Edited by Nigel Nicolson: The Flight of the Mind. The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888 - 1912. 
London: Hogarth Press, 1975.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.xxi:531, original cloth; a very nice copy indeed in like dustwrapper  the only fault in which is a tiny abrasion on the upper wrapper. 
Quote Item No. 10698
Price:  £25.00

WOOLF, VIRGINA.  Edited by Anne Oliver Bell:  The Diary of Virginia Woolf.  Volume III: 1925-1930.
London:  Hogarth Press, 1979.
Proof Copy.  Map endpapers.  8vo, pp.353, original cream printed wrappers with typescript label to spine. With index leaves for this volume, corner stapled, loosely inserted.  
Quote Item No. 5955
Price:  £35.00

WOOLF, VIRGINIA.  Edited by Nigel Nicolson:  Leave the Letters Till We're Dead.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf.  Volume VI: 1936-1941.
London:  Hogarth Press, 1980.
Proof Copy.  8vo, pp.532, original pale blue printed wrappers with typescript label to spine.  Wrappers faded, short MS note on rear endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 5954
Price:  £35.00

WOOLF, VIRGINIA.  Edited by Nigel Nicolson:  The Sickle Side of the Moon.  The Letters of Virginia Woolf.  Volume V:  1932-1935.
London:  Hogarth Press, 1979.
Proof Copy.  8vo, pp.456, original printed red wrappers with typescript label to spine.  
Quote Item No. 5957
Price:  £35.00

YOUNG, RUTH:  Mrs. Chapman's Portrait.  A Beauty of Bath of the 18th Century.
Bath:  George Gregory, 1926.
Portraits.  8vo, pp.xii:158, original linen-backed boards, with labels;  binding browned.  Inscription on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 3317
Price:  £10.00

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