LITERATURE

ADAMS, JOHN:  Elegant Anecdotes and Bons-Mots, of the Greates Princes, Politicians, Philosopher, Orators, and Wits of Modern Times ... calculated to Inspire the Minds of Youth with Noble, Virtuous, Generous, and Liberal Sentiments.  A New Edition Greatly Enlarged.
London:  G. Kearsley in 1790 (and second volume 1792).
Together with:  "A Second Volume of Curious Anecdotes, Bon Mots, and Characteristic Traits" published by Kearsley in 1792.
Two volumes.  Large 12mo, pp.xii:454:[2, advertisements] and pp.xii:417:[3, advertisements], contemporary full marbled calf with crimson lettering pieces;  spine of Volume 2 darkened and with lettering piece chipped, vertical crease to spine of Volume 1.  Crack to two joints but firm.  Signature, R. Eden and date, 1793 on front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 8019
Price:  £150.00

ALLEN, GRANT:  Falling in Love with other essays on More Exact Branches of Science.
London:  Smith, Elder, 1889.
First edition. 8vo, pp.356:(4, publisher's adverts.) original brown cloth;  light stain to spine above gilt title, small minor puncture to lower joint else a very good copy indeed.  Contemporary signature on half-title. 
Quote Item No. 3889 
Price:  £75.00

ANON: The Book of Curtesye.  Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477.
Cambridge:  at the University Press, 1907.
Facsimile of the original Caxton edition.  Limited edition of 250 copies. Tall 8vo, original quarter vellum, vellum lettering piece to upper cover, as issued.  Some light dust marking, generally good.  With the bookplate of J.L. Laidler on front pastedown. 
Quote Item No. 9110
Price:   £55.00

ANON:  Ellen Mansfield, or Truth Our Best Companion.
London:  John Green, 1839.
Title vignette.  Small 8vo, pp.92, contemporary half calf, spine decorated and lettered in gilt;  head and base of spine rubbed, else very good.  1855 inscription on front free endpaper. 

Quote Item No. 3102 
Price:  £45.00 

ARIOSTO, LUDOVICO (PANIZZI, ANTONIO; Editor): Orlando Furioso di Ariosto with Memoirs and Notes by Antonio Panizzi.  In Four Volumes.
London:  William Pickering, 1834.
Engraved portrait. Four volumes 8vo (8 x 5 inches), original cloth with paper labels. Labels now virtually rubbed away, spines darkened, split to half of one outer joint but firm. Endpapers foxed or browned. Internally very good and tight. 
Quote Item No. 11979
Price: £55.00

AUSTEN, JANE: Complete Works.  Seven Volumes.  Decorations by Joan Hassall.
London:  The Folio Society, 1989.
Seventh Impression.  Seven volumes:  Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Shorter Works.  Tall 8vo, original cloth-backed decorative boards, uniform;  a slight crack to the inner joint near the half-title of "Shorter Works", else generally a very good set. 
Quote Item No. 11111
Price:  £35.00

AYRE, WILLIAM   [CURLL, EDMUND ]:  Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq;   Faithfully Collected from Authentic Authors, Original Manuscripts, and the Testimonies of many Persons of Credit and Honour;  Adorned with the Heads of divers Illustrious Persons ........
London:  Printed by his Majesty's Authority, for the Author, 1745.
First Edition.  Two volumes.  Engraved portrait frontispiece of Pope to each volume and 12 further engraved portraits of Joseph Addison, Arabella Fermer, the Duke of Buckingham, Bishop Atterbury, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Martha Blount, the Earl of Burlington, the Duchess of Marlborough, John Gay, Dean Swift, and Lord Bolingbroke.  8vo, pp.xii:340:(12, index) and pp. (6):389:(7, index), contemporary calf, joints and extremities rubbed, headbands a little chipped, lacking lettering pieces.  Upper joint of Volume 1 cracked but firm.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755).  Rare.  Authorship is sometimes attributed to Edmund Curll. 
Quote Item No. 8044
Price:  £350.00

BACON, FRANCIS: The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban.
Cambridge:  at the University Press, 1906.
Facsimile of the edition of 1625.  Limited edition of 250 copies.  Small 4to, pp.281, original quarter vellum, vellum lettering piece to upper cover, as issued, uncut. A very nice copy indeed in the original plain d.w. and enclosed in the original cardboard box with printed label to the lid. One corner of the box split, box edge rubbed and label browned. Rare thus. 
Quote Item No. 9115
Price:   £70.00

BALDWIN, JAMES:  The Story of Roland.
London:  Sampson, Low, n.d. [1883].
Frontispiece and plates.  8vo, pp.xii:(2):415:32 (publisher's catalogue dated September, 1883) original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt on brown panel to upper cover, spine also pictorially blocked in gilt, a.e.g.;  headbands and corners bumped and rubbed; inner hinges tender, cracked at the gutter between pages 224-225 and also front pastedown but firm;   in all other respects very good;  generally, an attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 1388
Price:  £35.00

BALZAC, HONORE DE:  Ten Droll Tales. Being the Story of Fair Impera, The Venial Sin, The Merry Diversions of His Most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, Together with certain other Quaint and Piquant Histories making up the First Decade of the Droll Tales.
London:  John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1926.
Limited numbered edition.  Translated by J. Lewis May, with an Introduction by Andre Maurois, and Illustrations by Jean de Bosschere. Coloured plates. Tall 8vo, pp.218:(6), original orange cloth blocked in gilt; spine sunned else very good. 
Quote Item No. 8629
Price:  £25.00

BATAILLE, HENRY:  La Marche Nuptiale & Les Flambeaux.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by A. Cahard.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound-in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10819
Price: £22.00

BATAILLE, HENRY:  Le Scandale & Le Songe d'un Soir d'Amour.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by Serge Beaune.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10821
Price:   £22.00

BECKETT, SAMUEL:  Waiting for Godot.
London:  Faber & Faber, 1955.
First English edition.  8vo, pp.94, original yellow cloth in dustwrapper;  dustwrapper slightly chipped along edges with some creasing;  a strip of faint browning to free-endpapers;  internally excellent. 
Quote Item No. 8655
Price:  £230.00

BELOE, WILLIAM:  Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books.  Volumes 4, 5, and 6.
London:  Rivington 1810, 1811, & 1812.
Three volumes only (of 6).  8vo, contemporary full calf, spines ruled in gilt, lacking one lettering piece; generally very good.  Volume 6 includes an index to all six volumes. 
Quote Item No.  8311
Price:  £50.00

BENNETT, BRUCE  [Editor]:  The Literature of Western Australia.
Perth, W.A.:  University of Western Australia, 1979.
First edition.   Black & white illustrations.  4to, pp.xvi:304, original cloth in dustwrapper; top of spine of dustwrapper slightly bumped with some brown mottling, else a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 655
Price:   £10.00

BERANGER, P.J. DE:  Oeuvres Completes, nouveau edition revue pa l'Auteur. 
Paris:  Perrotin, 1858. 
Numerous engraved plates after Johannot and others.  Two volumes.  Royal 8vo, contemporary half crimson calf, spines decorated in gilt on bands and in blind in compartments, lettering pieces.  A trifle rubbed, some foxing, but still an attractive copy. 
With, uniformly bound:
"Derniers Chansons de P.J. de Beranger de 1834 a 1854 avec une lettre et une preface de l'Auteur. 
Paris:  Perrotin, 1857.  
Quote Item No. 1701 
Price:  £75.00

BERNSTEIN, HENRY:  Le Voleur & Joujou.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by Tronchet.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in;  spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10812
Price:   £22.00

BETHELL, LIEUT-COLONEL L.A. [Editor]: Blackwood Tales from the Outposts.  12 volumes: Frontiers of Empire; Small Wars of the Empire; Tales of the Border; Pioneering; Jobs of Work; Tales of the Sea; Soldier's Tales; Jungle Tales, Tales of Africa; Shikar; From Strange Places; In Lighter Vein.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1933.
The complete set of 12 volumes, published 1933-1935.  8vo (7 x 5 inches), original blue cloth with maroon gilt lettering pieces; some covers marked but generally an attractive set in good condition. 
Quote Item No. 11994
Price: £50.00

BLUNDEN, EDMUND and NISHIZAKI, ICHIRO: Adventures Among Books. First, Second, and Third Selection (All published).  Inscribed by Blunden.
Tokyo:  Hokuseido Press, (1950 - 1953).
Plates. Three volumes.  Small 8vo, pp.100; pp.116; and pp.114, contemporary binders cloth (Volumes 1 & 3 in green, Volume 2 in red), lettered in gilt; some browning to the text, bindings spotted.
Volume 1 inscribed by Blunden to a child on the occasion of her Christening;  "for some future day and as a souvenir of her christening ..... with blessings from Edmund Blunden," August 1958.
Volumes 2 and 3 also inscribed to her and signed with initials.  Very rare. 

Quote Item No. 7626
Price:  £240.00

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI:  The Decameron.  Translated by Richard Aldington. Illustrations by Jean de Bosschere.
London:  G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Limited numbered edition.  Plates in gold and colours.  Two volumes.  Large 8vo, pp.xxv:324 and pp.342, original brick red cloth blocked in gilt, top edges gilt others uncut.  Very good. 
Quote Item No. 8630
Price:  £50.00

BOOTHBY, GUY:  The Childerbridge Mystery.
London:  F. V. White, 1902.
First edition.  Frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt within decorative gilt rules.  An excellent copy. 
Quote Item No.3369  
Price:  £75.00

BOURDILLON, F. W.  [Editor & Translator]:  Aucassin & Nicolette, a Love Story:  Edited in Old French and Rendered in Modern English, (with Introduction, Glossary etc).
London:  Kegan Paul, 1887.
No. 18 of only 50 Large Paper copies, signed by the printer.  8vo, pp.lxxxii:245, contemporary full pigskin; upper cover detached, backstrip almost detached.  Internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 3140  
Price:  £30.00

BOURNE, MRS:  Two Loves in One Life [a novel]. 
London:  London Literary Society, 1891. 
Inscribed by the author.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.263 and 228, original  cloth;  bindings rubbed and spotted, some foxing.  
Quote Item No. 1625
Price:  £35.00

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE:  Villette. Thornton Edition.
London: Downey 1899.
Two volumes.  Frontispiece.  8vo, original green cloth blocked in gilt to the spines, top edge gilt, others uncut.  Frontispiece detached, crease to last three leaves of Volume I, light damp-marking to binding of Volume 2.  Part of the 12 volume Thornton edition but complete in itself. 
Quote Item No. 7101
Price:  £20.00

BUDDEN, MARIA ELIZABETH:  Claudine, or, Humility, the Basis of All the Virtues.  A Swiss tale.  Third Edition.
London:  J. Harris, 1824.
Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, plates. Small 8vo, pp.(2):200, 19th Century half burgundy calf with chipped black lettering piece. Inner joint cracked between frontispiece and title but firm on cords, frontispiece partly detached. With the printed book label of Miss Allnutt, Clapham Common, on front pastedown and a contemporary inscription to her on the back of the frontispiece "the Gift of her Affectionate Mother". 
Quote Item No. 10471
Price:   £25.00

BUTLER, SAMUEL:  Erewhon or, Over the Range.  With woodcuts by Robert Gibbings.
London:  Jonathan Cape, n.d.
Frontispiece, decorative title and head and tail pieces by Robert Gibbings.  8vo, pp.327, original burgundy cloth with printed paper label to spine, uncut.  Spine very faded, label browned. 
Quote Item No. 5471
Price:   £10.00

BUTLER, SAMUEL:  The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose .... Published from the Original Manuscripts.... with Notes by R. Thyer.  In Two Volumes.
London:  for J. and R. Tonson, 1759.
Two volumes.  8vo, contemporary full speckled calf.  Margins of title to Volume1 browned, joints cracked, one cover detached, volume two broken in two at p.130.  Rubbed.   
Quote Item No. 7964
Price:  £25.00

CAILLAVET, G.A. DE  and  FLERS, R. DE:  Papa & Le Sire de Vergy.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910. 
Illustrations throughout by  L. Metivet & J. Sirovy.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; corner torn from front free endpaper, spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10816
Price:  £22.00

CAMMAERTS, EMILE:  The Adoration of the Soldiers (L'Adoration des Soldats).  With Illustrations by Louis Raemaekers.
London:  Longman, n.d. ca.1916.
Six tipped-in plates.  4to, original cream cloth blocked in gilt.  Lacking silk ties otherwise an exceptionally nice copy. 
Quote Item No. 5982
Price:   £20.00

CAPUS, ALFRED:  La Chatelaine & Monsieur Piegois.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by  Lambrecht & Blanchot.  Large 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10815
Price:  £22.00

CAPUS, ALFRED:  La Petite Fonctionnaire & Petites Folles.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by Blanchot.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10807
Price: £22.00

CAPUS, ALFRED:  La Veine Brignol et sa Fille.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by  G.S. de Fonseca.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; upper inner joint split else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10814
Price: £12.00

CAPUS, ALFRED: Les Deux Ecoles & Les Maris de Leontine.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
 Illustrations throughout by Blanchot.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10813
Price: £22.00

CARLYLE, THOMAS:  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays:  Collected and Republished.  In four volumes.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1857.
Four volumes, 8vo, pp.371; 370; 362; & 394, original brown grained blinstamped cloth;  headbands and corners bumped, one headband a little chipped, one with short nick. 
Quote Item No. 9613
Price:  £30.00

CENTLIVRE, SUSANNA:  The Busie Body.  A Comedy.
London:  for Bernard Lintot, 1732.
Fifth edition.  Engraved frontispiece.  12mo, pp.82:(2), disbound.  Frontispiece holed in several places, piece torn from head of title-page affecting "The" of title. 
Quote Item No. 5985
Price:  £10.00

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY:  The Canterbury Tales.  Translated into Modern English by Nevill Coghill.  Woodcuts by Edna Whyte.
London:  The Folio Society, 1956.
Illustrated in black & white.  Two volumes.  Tall  narrow 8vo, pp.288 and pp.304, original quarter calf in dustwrappers;  dustwrappers browned, edge-rubbed and with some slight nicks at headbands;  in all other respects, excellent. 
Quote Item No. 7279
Price:  £12.00

CIBBER, COLLEY:  Love's Last Shift;  The Careless Husband;  Loves makes a Man;  Ximena;   a  bound collection of 4 plays by Cibber.
London:  W. Feales, J. Tonson and others, 1735.
Each with engraved frontispiece and titles printed in red and black.  12mo, pp.96:106:(2):96:xxxvi:(2):58, contemporary full calf, rubbed, spine darkened;  upper joint cracked but firm.  Running titles partly cropped by binder  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755) and his signature on one of the titles.
Quote Item No. 7959
Price:  £35.00

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR:  Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: or System of Universal Knowledge: on a Methodical Plan projected by Samual Taylor Coleridge. Third Division. History and Biography : Roman Literature. Second edition, revised.
London: John Joseph Griffin, 1852.
Illustrations thoughout. 8vo, pp.lxxv:462:6:8 (adverts.).Original blue cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, binding damp-spotted else very good.  The Cabinet Edition. 
Quote Item No. 6599
Price:   £25.00

COLMAN, GEORGE and BONNELL THORNTON - Editors:  The Connoisseur, By Mr. Town, Critic and Censor-General.  The Fourth Edition.
London:  R. Baldwin, 1761.
Four volumes.  12mo, contemporary full speckled calf.  Very rubbed, lacking lettering pieces, joints cracked but firm.  Endpapers and margins of prelims. and end-leaves browned.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844). 
Quote Item No. 8017
Price:  £150.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  An Outcast of the Islands.   Volume 2 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 2 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned;  internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11484
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  The Nigger of the "Narcissus", a Tale of the Sea. Volume 3 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 3 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original cloth-backed boards,  uncut. Cloth a little cockled else a good copy.   
Quote Item No. 6717
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: The Nigger of the "Narcissus".  Volume 3 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 3 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned;  internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11476
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: Youth, a Narrative and two other stories.  Volume 5 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 5 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11481
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: Romance.   Volume 6 of the Works.
London:  William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 6 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11486
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: A Set of Six.  Volume 9 of the Works.
London:  William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 9 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11477
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  A Personal Record. The Mirror of the Sea.  Volume 11 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 11 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11478
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  'Twixt Land and Sea.  Volume 12 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 12 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11480
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  Chance.  Volume 13 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 13 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned;  internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11482
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: The Shadow Line. Within the Tides.   Volume 14 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 14 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11483
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  Victory, an Island Tale.   Volume 15 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 15 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11485
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  The Arrow of Gold, a Story between Two Notes. Volume 16 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being Volume 16 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  A good copy. 
Quote Item No. 6714
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: The Arrow of Gold.  Volume 16 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being volume 16 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11479
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows. Volume 17 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being volume 17 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  A good copy.  
Quote Item No. 6716
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: The Rescue.  A  Romance of the Shallows. Volume 17 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being volume 17 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut. Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11474
Price:  £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH:  Notes on Life and Letters. Volume 18 of the Works.
London:  William Heinemann, 1921.
Being volume 18 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  A good copy.
Quote Item No. 6715
Price:    £40.00

CONRAD, JOSEPH: Suspense, A Napoleonic Novel. Volume 20 of the Works.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Being volume 20 only of the 20 volume edition of his works issued in a limited edition of 780 (of which 750 for sale and 30 for presentation).  8vo, original tan cloth-backed boards,  uncut.  Some soiling to the binding, backstrip browned; internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 11475
Price:  £40.00

COOKSON, CATHERINE:  Fanny McBride.
London: Macdonald, 1959.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth.  One corner bumped, headbands bruised but generally very good in price clipped dustwrapper.  The d.w. slightly edge worn, with several short tears to lower panel, fore-edge of back inner flap dust-marked but generally good. 
Quote Item No. 10218
Price:  £50.00

COOKSON, CATHERINE:  Life and Mary Ann.
London:  Macdonald, 1962.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth, very good in dustwrapper.  The d.w. with some chipping at head and base of spine and on corners but generally good and now protected. 
Quote Item No. 10217
Price:   £15.00

COOKSON, CATHERINE:  Love and Mary Ann.
London:  Macdonald, 1961.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth, very good in dustwrapper.  The d.w. with some edge wear, slightly darkened at spine and with two one inch tears to joints at head of spine (repaired within with sellotape) but generally good. 
Quote Item No. 10220
Price:  £20.00

COOKSON, CATHERINE:  The Lord and Mary Ann.
London:  Macdonald, 1956.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth, good in dustwrapper.  The d.w. lacking  a quarter of an inch at base and head of spine, corners chipped, tape-repairs but actually really quite presentable. 
Quote Item No. 10219
Price:  £25.00

COOPER, J.F:  The Spy; a Tale of the Neutral Ground.
London:  T. Allman, 1840.
Engraved & printed titles.  8vo, pp.396, original blindstamped green ribbed cloth, spine gilt;  slight vertical crease to spine, some foxing, otherwise very good. 
Quote Item No. 2386
Price:   £20.00

COOPER, FENIMORE: The Last of the Mohicans. With Illustrations by H.M. Brock.
London:  Macmillan, 1935.
Reprint. Deluxe issue.  8vo, pp. xxvii:398, publisher's full burgundy calf, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt; top edge gilt; bound-in silk bookmark. A superlative copy. Free from inscriptions.  
Quote Item No. 9533
Price:  £30.00

COTTIN, MADAME [MARIE]: Elizabeth: or, The Exiles of Siberia.
London: Sherwood and Bowyer, 1845.
12mo, pp.158, contemporary ribbed green binder's cloth with maroon gilt lettering piece. Some foxing to prelims. A very pleasing little binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 10501
Price:  £10.00

COURTELINE, GEORGES: Boubouroche, L'article 330, Lidoire, Les balances, Gros chagrin, Les Boulingrin, &  La conversion d'Alceste.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by  Barrere.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; upper inner joint cracked but firm else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10818
Price:   £22.00

COWLEY, ABRAHAM:  Prose Works, including his Essays in Prose and Verse.
London: William Pickering, 1826.
8vo, pp.xli:238, original patterned green cloth with printed lable.  Label browned.  1-inch portion of backstrip at base of spine chipped and detached at lower joint.  Near contemporary signature on front free endpaper, a little scattered foxing.  
Quote Item No. 7135
Price:  £25.00

COX, GEORGE W:  Tales of the Gods and Heroes.  With 6 illustrations on Wood from Designs by the Author.
London:  Longman, 1862.
First edition.  Six plates.  8vo, pp.xviii:310:4, original purple blindstamped cloth; headband rubbed, binding unevenly faded but a good copy.  
Quote Item No. 5315
Price:  £60.00

COX, GEORGE W:  Tales of Thebes and Argos.
London:  Longmans, Green, 1864.
Small 8vo, pp.xvi:291, contemporary full burgundy calf, sides ruled in gilt, spine gilt extra with lettering piece.  The arms of Rugby School in gilt on upper cover.  Scuff mark across upper cover else a very pretty binding in very good order.  Contemporary prize inscription on fly-leaf. 
Quote Item No. 6696
Price:   £25.00

DEFOE, DANIEL:  The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner.  With numerous engravings from drawings by George Cruikshank.
London:  David Bogue, 1853.
Small 8vo, pp.viii:445:24 (Bogue's catalogue), original blue blindstamped grained cloth, the spine pictorially blocked in gilt. Several pages roughly opened.  Small piece torn from front free endpaper,  contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.  The binding very bright and fresh. 
Quote Item No. 9607
Price:  £50.00

DICK, KAY:  Sunday.
London:  Hutchinson, 1962.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper with two short tears (small amount of loss to one) and small amount of rubbing and creasing along edges; in all other respects, very good. Signed and inscribed by author on endpaper and signed again on title.
Quote Item No. 58
Price:   £18.00

DONNAY, MAURICE: Amants la Douloureuse.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by Maxime Dethomas.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10822
Price:  £22.00

DONNAY, MAURICE: Education de Prince & L'Affranchie.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by  G. Dutriac.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10817
Price:  £22.00

DOYLE, RICHARD:  Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe Drawn from Ye Quick by Richard Doyle.  To which is added some extracts from Mr. Pips hys Diary, contributed by Percival Leigh.
London:  Bradbury & Evans, 1849.
Plates in outline.  Oblong 4to, original blue boards gilt, all edges gilt.  Some foxing, half-inch at headband pulled otherwise binding very good.  
Quote Item No. 6133
Price:  £25.00

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE:  Une Visite de Noces, La Princesse George, La Femme de Claude.
Paris:  Calman-Levi, n.d. ca. 1900.
Small 8vo (7 x 4¾ inches).  Contemporary three-quarter dark blue morocco, marbled boards, all edges gilt; the binding by Bumpus; very good. Being Volume 5 of the Theatre Compleat. Not however numbered as such on the spine. 
Quote Item No.  10796
Price:  £20.00

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE - BELL, A. CRAIG  [Translator].: The Flight to Varennes.
London:  Alston Books, 1962.
First edition.  8vo (8 x 5¼  inches wide), pp.144, original cloth in dustwrapper;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 11506
Price:  £30.00

DUNCAN, JANE:  My Friend Muriel.
London:  Macmillan, 1959.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth;  gift inscription and name on front free endpaper else good in price clipped d.w.  
Quote Item No. 5361
Price:  £12.00

DUNSANY, LORD:  A Night at an Inn, a Play in One Act.
New York: The Sunrise Turn, 1916.
Square 8vo, pp.34, original wrappers;  wrappers detached and chipped, inscription on free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 1945.
Price:  £10.00

DURRELL, LAWRENCE:  Tunc, a novel.
London:  Faber, 1968.
First edition. 8vo, original cloth in d.w.  A little very light edge creasing to d.w. but generally very good.  With the original Book Society Choice band sttill in place. 
Quote Item No. 8566
Price:  £21.00

EARLE, JOHN: Micro-Cosmographie or, A Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters. Printed from the Sixth Augmented Edition of MDCXXXIII.
Cambridge:  at  the University Press, 1903.
Limited edition, one of 250 copies. Small 4to, pp.128, original quarter vellum, velum lettering piece to upper cover, as issued, uncut.  A very nice copy indeed in the original plain dustwrapper and enclosed in the original cardboard box with printed label to the lid. Tears to plain dustwrapper, box edge rubbed and with label browned.  Rare thus. 
Quote Item No. 9117
Price:   £60.00

EDGEWORTH [MARIA] MISS:  Moral Tales. Three volumes.
London: for R. Hunter and Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1816.
Seventh edition.  Three volumes.  8vo (7 x 4¼ inches).  Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spines gilt.  Upper joint of Volume 3 split, board held on cords, headbands a little worn but a pleasing copy nonetheless. 
Quote Item No. 10763
Price: £45.00

EDWARDS, LOVETT FIELDING:  A Garland of Jests being stories translated from the Italian 'novellieri' and edited by Lovett F. Edwards.
An apparently unpublished carbon typescript with Edwards address and date, 1950, on title.  4to, pp.116, contemporary cloth.
* Lovett Fielding Edwards was born in 1901 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He went to Yugoslavia in 1931 and travelled throughout the country resulting in various published books including "Profane Pilgrimage" Duckworth 1938;  "A Wayfarer in Yugoslavia"  Methuen 1939;   & "Danube Stream" Muller 1940.  He translated into English many works by Yugoslav authors and about twenty from French and Italian.  
Quote Item No. 8880
Price:  £30.00

EDWARDS, LOVETT FIELDING:  A Garland of Jests being stories translated from the Italian 'novellieri' and edited by Lovett F. Edwards.
An apparently unpublished carbon typescript with Edwards address  on title.  4to, pp.116, contemporary wrappers; binding worn.
* Lovett Fielding Edwards was born in 1901 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He went to Yugoslavia in 1931 and travelled throughout the country resulting in various published books including "Profane Pilgrimage" Duckworth 1938; "A Wayfarer in Yugoslavia" Methuen 1939;   & "Danube Stream" Muller 1940. He translated into English many works by Yugoslav authors and about twenty from French and Italian. 
Quote Item No. 8881
Price:  £20.00

EDWARDS, LOVETT FIELDING:  Carbon typescript reviews or reports to publishers.
A bound volume containing numerous reports to publishers on whether these works were worthy of publication in English translation.  Authors including Mihailo Laic, Laudomnia Bonanni, Felice Bellotti, Herbert Gottschalk, Giovanni Becatti, Charles Pichon & many others, 1960's.  4to, cloth. 
* Lovett Fielding Edwards was born in 1901 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He went to Yugoslavia in 1931 and travelled throughout the country resulting in various published books including "Profane Pilgrimage" Duckworth 1938; "A Wayfarer in Yugoslavia" Methuen 1939;   & "Danube Stream" Muller 1940. He translated into English many works by Yugoslav authors and about twenty from French and Italian.  With this volume are the unbound carbon typescript of his "Istria and Dalmatia, A Historical Sketch" (36-pages), his translation of "Bastra, Pepeo" by Danilo Kis (3 copies) and his report, to Doubleday & Co. on Kradijivci Vatre (The Fire-thieves) by Vuk Vuco. 
Quote Item No. 8879
Price:  £35.00

EVELYN, JOHN:  Memoires for my Grand-son.  Transcribed and furnished with a Preface and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes.
Printed at Oxford for the Nonesuch Press, 16 Great James Street, Bloomsbury, 1926.
Number 1043 of a limited edition of 1250 copies on French hand-made paper. 12mo, pp.xii:(1):104:(1), original blindstamped limp parchment; text foxed else very good in marbled slipcase; slipcase with short splits and a little rubbed.
Quote Item No. 8276
Price:   £30.00

FABRE, EMILE: Cesar Birotteau & L'Argent.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by Louis Bailly.  Large 8vo (9¾  x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10823
Price:  £22.00

FENELON, FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE:  Dialogues of the dead: together with some fables, composed for the education of a prince. / By the late M. de Fenelon, preceptor to the infants of France, and afterwards Archbishop-Duke of Cambray.  Newly translated from the French by Mr. Elphingston.
Glasgow:  Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1754.
Two volumes in one.  8vo, pp.256:100:(8,contents), contemporary full tan calf, spine with raised bands and lettering piece; spine darkened, headband a little chipped, crack to joints but very firm.  This does not include the Fables mentioned on the title-pages.  It was evidently intended that a separate edition of the Fables should be bound up with this book, originally, no doubt, that of 1751.   
Quote Item No. 7966
Price:  £125.00

FENELON, FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE:  Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts, avec des Contes & Fables, Composés pour l'Education d'un Prince.  Edition nouvelle, corrigée de plusieurs fautes & augmentée de diverses pieces.
Amsterdam:  Chez les Wetsteins, 1719.
Two volumes.  Additional engraved titles, printed titles in red and black.  12mo, pp.(16):248 and pp.(8):204(1), contemporary full speckled calf, lacking lettering pieces, rubbed, lower board of Volume 2 detached.  Internally very sound.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755). 
Quote Item No.  8006 
Price:  £55.00

FIFOOT, RICHARD:  A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.  Second edition, revised.
London:  Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
8vo, pp.432, original cloth in  price-clipped dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper with tear to side and partially across spine, ends of spine slightly chipped, spine browned; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 2955
Price:  £5.00

FITZGERALD, EDWARD [Translator]:  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.  The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse with Illustrations by Willy Pogany.  Limited Edition Signed & with Signed Etched Plate.
London:  George Harrap, 1930.
First edition thus.  Number 554 of 750 copies for England signed by the illustrator. With additional etched frontispiece this also signed by Pogany.  12 tipped-in coloured plates and other illustrations and decorations.  4to, pp.172, publishers full green crushed morocco with central decoration in red and gilt to upper cover, top edge gilt others uncut.  Some marginal foxing, corner of one tipped-in plate creased, spine faded; generally very good. 

Quote Item No. 5961
Price:   £350.00

FITZGERALD, SCOTT:  The Bodley Head Scot Fitzgerald with an Introduction by J. B. Priestley.
London:  The Bodley Head, 1958 & 1959.
Two volumes.  Proof copies.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.456 & 456, original green printed wrappers. Wrappers to Volume 1 faded and rubbed at  base of backstrip, short tears at lower joints. 
Quote Item No. 5385
Price:  £20.00

FITZGERALD, SCOTT:  The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald with an Introduction by J. B. Priestley.
London:  The Bodley Head, 1958 & 1959.
Two volumes.  Proof copies.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.456 & 456, original green printed wrappers.  Wrappers to Volume 1 faded and rubbed at head and base of backstrip.   
Quote Item No. 5384
Price:  £25.00

FITZOSBORNE, SIR THOMAS:  Letters on Several Subjects.  Published from Copies found among his Papers.
London:  for R. Dodsley, 1748.
First edition.  Title in red and black.  8vo, pp.(8):(3):(1, errata). With the half-title.  Contemporary full speckled tan calf, gilt rules to sides, spine gilt ruled with raised bands.  Joints rubbed and with a few short cracks but very firm.  Slight chipping at headband.  Some browning to title margins.  A pleasing copy.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755) and his signature and date, 1749, on upper margin of title.  
Quote Item No. 7936
Price:  £55.00

FLORIAN, JEAN-PIERRE CLARIS DE:  Fables de Florian, De l'academie francoise, de celle de Madrid, Florence, etc.  Nouvelle Edition ornee de cent estampes, et destinee a faire suite aux Fables d'Esope et a celles de Faerne, publiees par le meme Editeur.
Paris:  Remoissenet, 1806.
Two volumes in one.  Engraved portrait to Volume 1, engraved frontispiece to Volume 2 and 100 engraved plates.  4to, pp.80:84, old quarter calf.  Binding now lacking backstrip, broken, very rubbed, stitching slack.  Some light foxing, fore-edge of a few leaves now a little worn and dusty where proud, tear into image of one plate, one blank fore-corner of one leaf of text torn away, a few other short tears. 
Quote Item No. 10190
Price: £90.00

FLORIAN: Fables de Florian suivies des Poemes de Ruth et de Tobie et autres poesies de Galatee et d'Estelle.
Paris:  Firmin Didot, 1865. 
8vo (7 x 4½ inches) 552-pages.  Handsomely bound full tan prize calf, spine gilt extra with green lettering piece, upper cover ruled in gilt and enclosing gilt armorial of dragon with shield, all edges marbled.  The binding by Bickers.  Prize label on front pastedown.  A handsome binding, upper cover a little marked but generally in excellent condition.  Some foxing to prelims. 
Quote Item No.  11901
Price:  £28.00

FORBES, ETHEL M. VILLIERS:  Bertha's Revenge.
London:  Bevington & Co. 1886.
First edition.  8vo, pp.448, contemporary half crimson morocco, spine gilt in compartments, bound-in silk bookmarker.  Binding a trifle spotted but generally very good.
Quote Item No. 4422
Price:    £40.00

FOWLER, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT:  Cupid's Garden.
London:  Cassell, 1898.
First edition.  8vo, contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt within decorative gilt rules.  An excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 3372
Price:  £25.00

FREEMAN, R. AUSTIN:  John Thorndyke's Cases, Related by Christopher Jarvis, M. D. and Edited by R. Austin Freeman. With six illustrations by H.M. Brock, and nine from photographs, etc.
London:  Chatto & Windus, 1916.
8vo, pp.xi:288, original brown pictorial cloth;  binding dulled especially backstrip, a little edge rubbed, some creasing to spine. 
Quote Item No.3611  
Price:  £45.00

FRENCH LITERATURE - AUCTION CATALOGUE:  The Library of H. Bradley Martin.  Highly Important French Literature.
Monaco:  Sotheby's, 1989.
Auction catalogue of 1322 lots.  Profusely illustrated, partly in colour.  4to, unpaginated, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover with pictorial onlay;  corners bumped else good.  Estimate sheet loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 671
Price:  £9.00

GIRARDIN, SAINT-MARC: Essais de Litterature et de Morale. Nouvelle Edition.
Paris:  Charpentier, 1876.
Two volumes.  8vo, pp.420 and pp.444, contemporary quarter crimson calf, spines gilt with double lettering pieces; corners of boards creased, some browning to the text; generally good.
Quote Item No. 7574
Price: £20.00

GIBBON, MONK:  An Alphabet of Mortality.  
No publisher or date. 
Broadside, single folio sheet folded. No. 72 of only 80 copies printed.  Signed and inscribed by the poet on verso. 
Quote Item No. 197 
Price:  £65.00

GIBBON, MONK:  My Child's Friends.  
No publisher or date. 
Seemingly a collection of off-prints, variously paginated, bound together with specially printed title leaf.  8vo, quarter crimson calf by Bayntun, Bath. 
With Gibbon's autograph note, dated 1935, to Alister and Germaine [Mathews] inserted. 
Quote Item No. 201 
Price:  £75.00

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith Edited, with Notes, by Peter Cunningham.
London: John Murray, 1854.
First edition thus.  Engraved extra titles.  Four volumes, 8vo (9 x 5½  inches), original blue cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt;  headbands a trifle rubbed but generally a tight and attractive set in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 11976
Price:  £90.00

GRAY, THOMAS:  The Works of Thomas Gray, in Prose and Verse.  Edited by Edmund Gosse.  In Four Volumes.
London: Macmillan, 1884.
First collected edition. Three portraits and one facsimile of a sonnet.  Four volumes, 8vo (7¼ x 4¾ inches), original maroon cloth. Headbands and corners very slightly rubbed, spines uniformly very slightly sunned. An attractive set in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 11977
Price:  £60.00

GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE. Translated and with  Notes by: The Mabinogion.  From the Welsh of The Llyfr Coch O Hergest (The Red Book Of Hergest) In The Library of Jesus College, Oxford.
London:  Bernard Quaritch, 1877.
Second edition. Engraved title vignette, engraved vignette chapter headings throughout.  Title printed in red and black.  Large 8vo (10 x 6½ inches), publisher's attractive quarter crimson morocco, the spine gilt blocked with jousting knights etc. The binding by Wyman & Sons with their ticket.  Some slight edge rubbing, foxing to prelims.  Ownership inscription on verso of half-title.  Generally a handsome copy in the original most attractive binding and in very good condition. 
Quote Item No.  11856
Price:  £145.00

HALLAM, HENRY:  Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries.  Fourth Edition.
London:  John Murray, 1854.
Three volumes. Contemporary full tan calf, triple gilt rules to sides enclosing wide decorative gilt borders and central arms in gilt.  Spines gilt in compartments, crimson gilt numbering pieces, green lettering pieces, all edges gilt.  One lettering piece chipped, one hinge split and board nearly detached, otherwise a very handsome binding. 
Quote Item No.3488  
Price:  £45.00

HALLAM, HENRY: Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth. Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. Second Edition. In Three Volumes (complete).
London: John Murray, 1843.
Three volumes.  8vo (8¾ x 5½ inches), contemporary full tan diced calf, gilt rule to sides. spines gilt in compartments and with crimson and green lettering pieces.  Green lettering pieces chipped, light damp tide mark to boards, some rubbing, spines darkened. Some foxing. Later signature on front fly of Volume 1.  Strongly bound. 
Quote Item No. 11455
Price:  £30.00

HARDY, ELIZABETH:  Owen Glendower; or The Prince in Wales, an Historical Romance.
London: Richard Bentley, 1849.
First edition.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.v:304 & 301, original brown blindstamped cloth. Backstrip pulled at base of Volume 1, several short splits to hinges, corners bumped, contemporary initials and date on endpaper;  generally good.  Anonymous. 
Quote Item No. 8403
Price:  £120.00

HARDY, THOMAS:  Macmillan's Pocket Hardy. 18 volumes including: Pair of Blue Eyes;  Hand of Ethelberta;  Tess of the D'Urbervilles;  Under the Greenwood Tree;  Far from the Madding Crowd;  Life's Little Ironies;  Wessex Tales;  Desperate Remedies;  A Group of Noble Dames; The Trumpet Major; Jude the Obscure; A Laodicean; The Woodlanders; The Return of the Native; Two on a Tower; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Well-beloved;  & Wessex Tales and Past & Present Poems.
London:  Macmillan, 1906.
Volumes 1-18 (of the 27 eventually published) of the pocket edition; these published between 1906 and 1913. Two on a Tower;  Laodicean;  Group of Noble Dames;  Desperate Remedies; & Life's Little Ironies are first editions in this format, the remainder very early reprints.
18 volumes, 8vo (7 x 4¼ inches), publisher's full soft maroon calf blocked in gilt, top edges gilt, bound-in silk bookmarks.  Spines faded, headbands generally chipped, 1-inch split to one joint, one inner hinge cracked but generally sound. 
Quote Item No. 11993
Price:  £90.00

HARTE, BRET: The Complete Works in Prose and Poetry. Now First Collected.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1872.
First collected edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.xxvi:575, contemporary half vellum with crimson leather lettering piece, all edges red. Prelims. foxed, one plate edge dusty and a little chipped on fore-margin. Binding a little dusty. Armorial bookplate. 
Quote Item No. 8930
Price:  £45.00

HARTE, BRET:  The Man on the Beach.  [With The Hoodlum Band & Who was my Quiet Friend].
London:  Routledge, n.d.
"Yellowback" edition.  8vo, pp.125 plus advertisements, original yellow boards decorated in colours. Corners rubbed, generally good. 
Quote Item No. 2989
Price:   £10.00

HAWKESWORTH, JOHN - JONATHAN SWIFT - DEAN SWIFT - 6 VOLUMES - FIRST EDITIONS:  Letters, written by the late Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin;  and Several of His Friends.  From the Year 1703 to 1740.  Notes Explanatory and Historical by John Hawkesworth.(1st Series) & Collected and Revised by Dean Swift (2nd Series).
(First series:  Volumes 1-3):  London: for R. Davis (and others) 1766.
(Second Series:  Volumes 4-6):  London:  for C. Bathurst (and others) 1768.
First edition of the first and second series.  Six volumes.  8vo, pp.xvi:520, viii:415; vii:371; viii:400; viii:416; & viii:448, contemporary full polished tan calf, spines gilt in compartments, lacking all but three of the  lettering and numbering pieces, three volumes chipped at head of spines, two chipped at base, four joints cracked but very firm;  still an attractive unrestored contemporary binding in sound condition.  Volume two misnumbered three and vice versa by the binder on the spines.  Some quite heavy foxing or browning to the prelims., some dust marking.  Each volume with the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). 
Quote Item No. 7909
Price:  £400.00

HEAD, SIR EDMUND: Viga Glum's Saga. The Story of Viga-Glum, translated from the Icelandic.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1866.
First edition. Small 8vo (6¾ x 4½ inches), 124-pages, original brown blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown; a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 11495
Price:  £20.00

HERVIEU, PAUL: Le  Dedale & Modestie.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by Arnould-Moreaux.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition.  
Quote Item No.  10806
Price: £22.00

HERVIEU, PAUL:  Les Tenailles; Point de Lendemain; & Les Paroles Resrent.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by Maurice Lalau.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10808
Price:  £22.00

HODGSON, ROSE MARIE [Editor],  EDMUND BLUNDEN Etc: Lysistrata. Volume 1, No. 1.
Oxford:  Blackwell, February 1924
8vo, pp.68, original printed wrappers;  backstrip chipped, upper wrapper detached and chipped at edges. With prospectus loosely inserted.
"Intended to supply an outlet for the literary work of the Women's Societies, although occasional contributions by men will be accepted".  This, the first issue, contains contributions by Edmund Blunden, Laurence Whistler & Marghanita Laski amongst others. 
Quote Item No. 3320
Price:  £10.00

HOLLAND, VYVYAN [Editor];  GALLI DE BIBIENA;  CREBILLON; BOUFFLERS;  LAMORLIERE;  DIDEROT;  FROMAGET;  DU TERRAIL;  VOISENON; CAYLUS;  BESENVAL;  CAZOTTE;  DORAT:  XVIII  CENTURY FRENCH ROMANCES:  Fairy Doll;  Opportunities of a Night;  Queen of Golconda;  Angola; Rameau's Nephew;  Prophet's Cousin;  Masked Lady;  All the Better for Her;  Coachman's Story;  Spleen;  Thousand and One Follies;  Never Again!
London:  Chapman & Hall, 1925.
A complete set of twelve volumes of the series, "XVIII Century French Romances" published by Chapman & Hall 1925-1928, as under.  Each limited to 1,000 copies.  Uniformly bound, 8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards, top edges gilt, others uncut.  Some spotting to the spines but generally very good. 
The volumes are: 
V.l.  Galli de Bibiena, J.  The Fairy Doll. --  V.2.  Cre´billon, C.P.J. de.  The Opportunities of a Night. --  V.3.  Boufflers, S.J. de, Marquis. The Queen of Golconda and other tales.  --  V.4.  Lamorlie`re, J.R. de. Angola:  an Eastern Tale. --  V.5.  Diderot, D. Rameau's Nephew and other works.  --  V.6.  Fromaget, N.  The Prophet's Cousin.  --  V.7. Du Terrail, J.D. de S., Marquis.  The Masked Lady.  --  V.8.  Voisenon, C.H. de F. de.  All the Better for Her! and other stories.  --  V.9.  Caylus, A.C.P., Comte de.  The Coachman's Story, and other tales.  --  V.10.  Besenval, P.V.   Baron de. Spleen, and other stories.  --  V.11.  Cazotte, J.  A Thousand and One Follies.  --  V.12.  Dorat, C.J.  Never Again! and other stories.  
Quote Item No. 8518
Price:   £150.00

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL:  Over the Teacups. Inscribed by the author.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1891.
First edition, 2nd printing.  8vo (7½ x 5¼ inches), 319-pages. Original olive cloth decorated and lettered in gilt; a few small rub marks to spine; generally a very good bright copy. Inscribed on front free endpaper, "Lily Harcourt With the affectionate regards of her old friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Nov. 28th 1890". 
Quote Item No. 10910
Price:  £125.00

HUME, FERGUS:  Claude Duval of Ninety-Five.  A Romance of the Road.
London:  Digby, Long, & Co. n.d.
8vo, late 19th/early 20th Century half morocco, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt within decorative rules.  A very good copy. 
Quote Item No.3367  
Price:  £40.00

INCHBALD, MRS [ELIZABETH]: Nature and Art.
[London: Sherwood, n.d. ca. 1845].
Pictorial title only (no printed title). 12mo, pp.186, contemporary ribbed green binder's cloth with maroon gilt lettering piece. With the half-title. A very pleasing little binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 10506
Price:  £10.00

INGOLDSBY, THOMAS (pseud. of Richard H.  Barham): The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels.
London:  Richard Bentley, 1869.
New Edition.  Pictorial engraved title, plates.  8vo, pp.xi:468, contemporary full crimson morocco, covers decoratively blocked in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. Foxing to prelims, spine a little dulled, generally very sound and attractive. 
Quote Item No. 9588
Price: £25.00

JAMES, G.P.R:  Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms.  
London:  Henry Colburn 1831. 
First edition.  Three volumes.  8vo, contemporary half calf, the spines attractively blocked in blind, ruled in gilt, with lettering pieces.
Quote Item No. 136 
Price:  £80.00  

JEFFARES, A. NORMAN  [Editor]: Restoration Comedy.
London:  The Folio Society, 1974.
Illustrated in black & white.  Four volumes.  Large 8vo, uniformly bound in green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and all contained in one slip-case;  spines faded (not obvious when in slip-case);  top corner of slip-case cracked and chipped;  in all other respects, excellent. 
Quote Item No. 7319
Price:   £60.00

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

JOHNSON, BEN:   Under-Woods.  Consisting of Divers Poems.
Cambridge:  at the University Press, 1905.
Facsimile of the original edition 1640. Limited edition of 250 copies. Small 4to, pp.165, original quarter vellum, vellum lettering piece to upper cover, as issued, uncut.  A very good copy in the original plain dustwrapper and contained in the original cardboard box with printed label to the lid; box rubbed  and label browned. Rare thus. 
Quote Item No. 9113
Price:  £45.00

JOHNSON, SAMUEL:  Rasselas, a Tale.
[London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper ca. 1845].
Pictorial title only (no printed title). 12mo, pp.viii:182:(2, publisher's advertisements), contemporary ribbed green binder's cloth with maroon gilt lettering piece. Some light foxing to prelims. A very pleasing little binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 10503
Price:  £10.00

KINGSLEY, CHARLES:  Miscellanies. The Second Edition.
London: John W. Parker, 1860.
Two volumes. 8vo ( 7¾ x 5 inches), pages: 407 & 389. Contemporary half brown morocco, marbled sides, spine gilt in compartments. Generally very good. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Faint contemporary signature on upper margin of volume 1 title. 
Quote Item No. 11380
Price:  £35.00

KIPLING, RUDYARD:  Plain Tales from the Hills.  Second edition.
Calcutta:  Thacker, Spink, 1889.
8vo, pp.325:24(Thacker's list dated April 1889, original green cloth.  Title-page and dedication leaf detached a little browned and very slightly edge-chipped; binding rubbed on joints and head and tail of spine.  A very early issue of the second edition with the advertisements dated April 1889. 
Quote Item No. 5069
Price:   £35.00

KLOPSTOCK, F.G:  Der Messias. 
Karlsruhe:  Schmieder, 1775-1782. 
Four volumes.  8vo, old boards. 
Quote Item No. 238 
Price:  £60.00 

LAMB, CHARLES: Everybody's Lamb. Being a Selection from The Essays of Elia, The Letters and the Miscellaneous Prose of Charles Lamb. Edited by A. C. Ward.  Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: G. Bell, 1933.
Deluxe issue.  8vo, pp.xxvii:554, publishers full blue pebble-grain leather, the upper cover blocked in blind, the spine in gilt, top edge gilt.  An excellent unmarked copy and free from inscriptions. 
Quote Item No. 9531
Price:  £50.00

LAMB, CHARLES and MARY:  Tales from Shakespeare.
London:  Bickers, 1883.
Woodburytype frontispiece. 8vo (7½ x 5 inches), 386-pages.  Handsomely bound full tan prize morocco spine gilt with  lettering piece, upper cover ruled in gilt and enclosing gilt armorial of dragon with shield, all edges marbled. The binding by Bickers. Prize label on front pastedown. Upper inner joint cracked but firm otherwise a handsome binding in excellent condition. Foxing to prelims. Corner crease to frontispiece and first few leaves. 
Quote Item No.  11905
Price:  £40.00

LAVEDAN, HENRI: Le Vieux Marcheur & Catherine.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by  L. Malteste & P. Vidal.  Large 8vo (9¾  x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10820
Price:  £22.0

LAWRENCE, D.H:  Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Paris:  The Obelisk Press, 1936.
8th impression.  8vo, pp.360, original wrappers;  portions of backstrip lifting and curling, else sound. 
Quote Item No. 3004
Price:   £25.00

LAWSON, HENRY:  On the Track.  Together with:  Over the Sliprails.
Sydney:  Angus & Robertson, 1900.
Two volumes in one.  8vo, pp.viii:157 and [10]:167:15 [advertisements], original green glazed cloth;  edges slightly bumped, endpapers browned, slight tear to one leaf. 
Quote Item No. 1746
Price:   £15.00

LEE, LAURIE:  A Moment of War. Inscribed copy.
London: Viking, 1991. 8vo, pp.178, original cloth; excellent in like dustwrapper which has however fading to the spine. Inscribed, "To Jean & David all best wishes to you both Laurie Lee" on title. 
Quote Item No. 10675
Price: £55.00

LEE, SIDNEY. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:  Shakespears Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.  A Census of Extant Copies with some account of their History and Condition. Being a supplement to the Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition (1623) from the Chatsworth Copy .....
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1902.
Folio, pp.45:(1, postscript), stitched, unbound. With the half-title.  Some light foxing or spotting to first and last leaves else very good.  The facsimile edition of the First Folio, to which this Census was a supplement, was issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies. 
Quote Item No. 9006
Price:  £50.00

LE ROS, CHRISTIAN:  Christmas Day; and How it was Spent by Four Persons in the House of Fograss, Fograss, Mowton, and Snorton, Bankers.  Illustrated by Phiz.
London:  Routledge, 1854.
First edition.  Frontispiece and three plates.  Small 8vo, pp.ix:(1):148, 19th Century half dark green polished calf; bookplate.  Oval ink stamp of the Elkington Mason & Co. Workingmen's Library, Birmingham on upper left of frontispiece and two other leaves with some surface loss where stamped - otherwise a clean copy simply but attractively bound. 
Quote Item No. 2271
Price:  £30.00

LEVER, CHARLES: The Daltons, or Three Roads in Life.  Nicely bound.
London:  George Routledge, n.d. ca. 1880's.
Plates. Two volumes. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter hard grain blue calf, spines gilt in compartments and on bands, top edges gilt, with bound-in silk markers; some foxing, spine of Volume 2 a trifle faded.  An attractive binding in very good condition.
Quote Item No. 7564
Price:  £30.00

LEVER, CHARLES: The O'Donoghue, A Tale of Ireland FIfty Years Ago.  Nicely bound.
London: George Routledge, n.d. ca. 1880's.
Frontispiece and plates. 8vo, pp. 485, nicely bound contemporary three-quarter hard grain burgundy calf, spine gilt in compartments and on bands, top edge gilt., with bound-in silk marker. Spine a trifle faded, some foxing, but generally an attractive binding in excellent condition.
Quote Item No. 7561
Price:  £20.00

LEWIS, C.S.:  Rehabilitations and Other Essays.
Oxford University Press, 1939.
First edition.  8vo, pages: viii:(1):197, original black cloth lettered in gilt. Splits to lower half of both external joints with some loss of cloth on joints exposing webbing.  Apart from this obvious fault the binding is otherwise fresh, the gilt lettering to the backstrip bright and internally excellent and free from inscriptions. The inner joints very very firm. 
Quote Item No.12226
Price:  £145.00

LEWIS, D.B.  Wyndham: At the Blue Moon Again.
London:  Methuen, 1925.
First edition.  8vo, pp.viii:239:viii(publisher's list), original blue cloth.  A very good copy in the delightful d.w. by Fougasse.  The d.w. spooted at backstrip and with edge splits and tears and splitting at head and tail of spine. 
Quote Item No. 5306
Price:   £30.00

LINNELL, FELIX:  The Two V.C.'s and Other Stories.
London:  Saint Catherine Press, n.d. ca. 1920.
Small 8vo, pp.84, original thin boards;  binding very foxed and browned.  
Quote Item No. 6170
Price:  £10.00

LOCKE, JOHN:  Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke, and Several of his Friends.  The Third Edition.
London:  for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737.
Engraved portrait by Vertue after Kneller.  8vo, pp.424, contemporary full calf; rubbed, lacking lettering piece, lower joint cracked, upper board detached.  Contemporary manuscript index on rear endpaper and signature on upper fore-margin of title.  A little light foxing but internally very good.  First published, without a portrait, in 1708. 
Quote Item No. 8007
Price:   £200.00

LYDGATE, JOHN: A lytell treatyse of the horse, the sheep and the ghoos.  Printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde about 1499.
Cambridge:  at the University Press, 1906.
Facsimile of the original Wynkyn de Worde edition.  Limited edition of 250 copies. Tall 8vo, unpaginated, original quarter vellum with vellum lettering piece to upper cover, as issued.  With the label of the Cambridge University Press on front pastedown and their inkstamp on front free endpaper.  Generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 9109
Price:   £60.00

LYDGATE, JOHN: The Temple of Glass. Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1905.
Facsimile of the original Caxton edition. Limited edition of 250 copies. Tall 8vo, unpaginated, original quarter vellum with vellum lettering piece on upper cover, as issued; generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 9108
Price:   £85.00

LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE BULWER, LORD:  Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. 
London:  Saunder & Otley. 1835. 
First edition.  Three volumes.  8vo, contemporary half brown calf with lettering and numbering pieces.  One leaf detached otherwise a very good copy.  Bound without half-titles. 
Armorial bookplates. 
Quote Item No. 217 
Price:  £75.00

LYTTON, LORD:  Pelham or Adventures of a Gentleman.  Nicely bound.
London:  George Routledge, n.d. ca. 1880's.
Frontispiece.  8vo, pp.447, contemporary three-quarter hard grain burgundy calf, spine gilt in compartments and on bands, top edge gilt, with bound-in silk marker; some foxing.  Spine a little faded but generally an attractive binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 7566
Price:  £20.00

LYTTON, LORD:  Lucretia or The Children of Night.
London:  Routledge, 1874.
8vo, pp.430, finely bound contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco, spine elaborately gilt in compartments within gilt raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled boards, bound-in silk bookmarker.  A fine binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 4431
Price:  £35.00

LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE BULWER, LORD:  Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. 
London:  Saunder & Otley. 1835. 
First edition.  Three volumes.  8vo, contemporary half brown calf with lettering and numbering pieces.  One leaf detached otherwise a very good copy.  Bound without half-titles. 
Armorial bookplates. 
Quote Item No. 217 
Price:  £75.00

MACKENZIE, HENRY: The Man of Feeling.
[London: Sherwood, n.d. ca. 1845].
Pictorial title only (no printed title). 12mo, pp.171, contemporary ribbed green binder's cloth with maroon gilt lettering piece. With the half-title. A very pleasing little binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 10507
Price:  £10.00

MALORY, SIR THOMAS:  Le Morte Darthur. With Illustrations and Ornaments by Aubrey Beardsley.
London:  Studio Editions, 1992.
4to, pp.liv:624, original black cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, top edge gilt,  in black and gilt d.w. and slipcase.  Some very light creasing to d.w. but generally excellent in like slipcase. 
Quote Item No. 8175
Price:   £40.00

MANSFIELD, KATHERINE: The Garden Party and other Stories.  With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin.
London: The Verona Press, 1939.
Number 994 of a limited edition of 1200 copies. Tall 8vo (10¼ x 7¼ inches, 316-pages. Original green patterned boards with red gilt lettering piece. Publisher's note tipped-in as issued. Very very light foxing to endpapers else an exceptional copy. In the original dustwrapper which has two small marks to upper cover and a 1½ inch tear at upper joint; this without loss and closeable. In the original numbered slipcase which has edge splits head and tail, some edge rubbing and a little dusty. Overall an excellent copy. 

Quote Item No. 11239
Price:  £500.00

MARTYR, GRAHAM:  Dai Nihon.  Illustrated from Drawings by the Author.
London:  Martin Hopkinson 1925.
First edition.  Illustrated from drawings by the author. 8vo pp.228, original quarter cloth boards with printed labels (spare labels tipped-in at end), top edge gilt, others untrimmed; binding generally browned with brown marks to the boards and some soiling, lower corners bumped and slightly rubbed; internally, page edges foxed and browned, some foxing throughout, stitching firm, generally good. Japanese tales.
Quote Item No. 85 
Price:  £14.00

MASEFIELD, JOHN:  Sard Harker.
London:  William Heinemann, 1924.
No. 174 of a signed, limited edition of 380, of which 350 were for sale.   8vo (9 x 6 inches wide), pp.332, original vellum backed boards lettered in gilt on the spine, t.e.g., edges untrimmed;  vellum spine slightly tanned, headbands bumped and with a small amount of soiling to the head and sides of the top of the spine;  internally, page edges browned, foxing to endpapers and prelimns, otherwise very good. 
Quote Item No.12099
Price:  £20.00

MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT:  Conversation at Midnight.  1 of 36 copies.
New York & London:  Harper, 1937.
First edition.  One of only 36 copies printed on Japanese vellum of which only 31 for sale.  Tall 8vo, pp.xx:177, original half vellum.  Erasure from blank upper margin of limitation leaf.  Boards a little marked, vellum spine a little spotted, but generally very good. Out of series copy, unsigned. 
Quote Item No. 4460
Price:   £50.00

MINIATURE BOOKS - CHRISTIES AUCTION CATALOGUE:  The Collection of Miniature Books formed by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.
London:  Christie's, 1979.
Coloured frontispiece, 19 black & white plates.  4to, pp.95, softcover; generally very good.  Price list inserted, 351 lots. 
Quote Item No. 2846
Price:   £12.00

MIRBEAU, OCTAVE and NATANSON, THADEE: Le Foyer & L'Epidemie.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by J.P. Carre.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10811
Price:   £22.00

MONTAGU, MRS. ELIZABETH:  The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, with some of the letters of her correspondents.  Part the First, containing her letters from an early age to the age of twenty-three.  Published by Matthew Montagu, Her Nephew and Executor.  Second Edition.
London:  T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809.
Two volumes bound in one.  Engraved portrait.  8vo, pp.304:318, with the half-titles. Contemporary half calf,  spine gilt ruled with lettering piece, marbled boards. Some light foxing, some rubbing to binding but generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8388
Price:   £45.00

MONTAIGNE:  The Essays of Montaigne.  Done into English by John Florio.  With an Introduction by George Saintsbury.  In Three Volumes.
London:  David Nutt, 1892 and 1893.
Three volumes.  8vo, pp.xxix:379, pp.538 and pp.410, later red buckram lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrappers;  ex-reference library copies with labels to front pastedowns and usual stamps;  each spine with a blue paint mark;  page edges slightly browned;  generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8714
Price:  £30.00

MOORE, JOHN:  Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken From Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic.
London:  A. Strahan, 1789.
First edition.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.482:(1, errata) and pp.529:(1,errata), contemporary full tan calf, spines ornately gilt with crimson lettering pieces and green numbering pieces.  With the half-titles.  Some scattered foxing especially to prelims.  Some rubbing, light cracks to spine of Volume 1.  Backstrip of Volume 1 chipped at head and tail, of Volume 2 pulled and chipped at head. 
Quote Item No.7981
Price:  £120.00

MOORE, JOHN:  Edward.  Various Views of Human Nature, taken from Life and Manners, Chiefly in England.  By the Author of Zeluco.  In two volumes.
London:  for A. Strahan and T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1796.
First edition.  Two volumes, 8vo, pp.519 and pp.596:(1, errata):3, publisher's advertisements).  With the half-titles.  Contemporary full marbled calf, narrow gilt rules to sides, spines with red and green lettering and numbering pieces.  Gilt to spines dulled.  Headbands a  little chipped;  bindings rubbed and with small chip from surface on lower joint of Volume 1.  Joints cracked  but relatively firm, endpapers browned.  Nonetheless an attractive copy.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). 
Quote Item No. 7999
Price:   £100.00

MOORE, T. STURGE:  Aphrodite Against Artemis, a Tragedy.
London:  at the Sign of the Unicorn, 1901.
First edition.  Square 8vo, pp.xxxvii:(1):(2, adverts.) original cloth;  binding cockled & marked. 
Signed by the author on front free endpaper and with manuscript note "Inscribed by T.S.M. at Mr C.N. Knight's house, 7 Marlboro'  Bdgs. Bath, July 1, 1941." 
Quote Item No. 1392
Price:   £65.00

MORE, SIR THOMAS:  Utopia. With a Foreword by William Morris.
Hammersmith: at the Kelmscott Press, 1893
One of 300 copies on paper out of a total edition of 308.  Printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types, decorative borders and initials.  8vo (5 ¾ x 8¼ inches), pp.(4, blank):xiv:282:(1, colophon):(2, blank), original limp vellum, uncut.  Lacking all but one of the four green ties and this worn.  Binding soiled, spine very darkened, a few very tiny punctures to upper cover, edges of text block dusty.  Internally there is a worm trail to the inner margins of four leaves (pages vii-xiv only), very slightly affecting one letter of text, two leaves with light corner creases, some light marginal browning at end.  Endpapers soiled else internally generally clean and crisp.
Originally Imprinted at London in Paules Churche Yarde at the Sygne of the Lambe, by Abraham Weale. M. D. LVI.  "Now revised by F. S. Ellis & printed again by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex, finished the 4th day of August, 1893" [Colophon].

Quote Item No. 11843
Price:  £1,500.00

MORTIMER, CHAPMAN:  A Stranger on the Stair.
London:  Rupert Hart-Davis, 1950.
Third impression.  8vo, original cloth;  good in browned d.w. 
Quote Item No. 5389
Price:   £10.00

MUNCHAUSEN, BARON:  The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Reprinted from the Earliest Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations.  Edited by F.J. Harvey Darton.
London:  Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1930.
Limited edition.  Portrait frontispiece and black & white plates. Tall 8vo, pp.xxxI:258, original burgundy cloth blocked in gilt, top edge gilt others uncut, no dustwrapper; binding with a tiny amount of rubbing to some corners, else very good; internally, page edges slightly browned, some very light foxing to half-title and title-page, else excellent.
Quote Item No. 8624
Price:   £12.00

OTWAY, THOMAS:  The Works, in Three Volumes. Consisting of his Plays, Poems, and Letters.
London:  for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1757.
Three volumes.  12mo, contemporary full speckled calf, spines gilt within raised bands.  Lacking lettering pieces.  Spines darkened, some chipping head and tail of backstrips, some cracking to the joints but firm.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812).  Bound without the portrait. 
Quote Item No. 8013
Price:  £60.00

PETERS, ELLIS:  Monk's-Hood.  The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London:  Macmillan, 1980.
First edition.  8vo, pp.224, original yellow cloth in glazed dustwrapper;  brown damp marks to the lower half of both covers;  dustwrapper slightly bumped along upper edge;  in all other respects an excellent copy.  
Quote Item No. 5885
Price:  £50.00

PETERS, ELLIS:  The Leper of Saint Giles.  The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London:  Macmillan, 1981.
First edition.  8vo, pp.223, original purple cloth in glazed dustwrapper;  tiny tear and slight creases to headband of dustwrapper, else a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 5887
Price: £75.00

PETERS, ELLIS:  The Virgin in the Ice.  The Sixth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London:  Macmillan, 1982.
First edition.  8vo, pp.220, original brown cloth in glazed dustwrapper;  neat ownership name on f.f.e., else a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 5888
Price:   £70.00

PETERS, ELLIS:  The Devil's Novice.  The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London:  Macmillan, 1983.
First edition.  8vo, pp.192, original brown cloth in glazed dustwrapper;  the slight remains of a book-plate removed from front free-endpaper;  small ownership sticker pasted to back endpaper, else a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 5890
Price: £25.00

PETERS, ELLIS:  An Excellent Mystery.  The Eleventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London:  Macmillan, 1985.
First edition.  8vo, pp.190, original red cloth in glazed dustwrapper;  dustwrapper marked along lower edges, else a very good copy.  
Quote Item No. 5893
Price:  £30.00

PETERS, ELLIS: The Raven in the Foregate.  The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London:  Macmillan, 1986.
First edition.  8vo, pp.201, original dark blue cloth in glazed dustwrapper;  some white spotting to cloth binding;  some slight damp-marking to edges of dustwrapper and some leaves of text;  remains of a small sticker removed from f.f.e.,  else a good copy. 
Quote Item No. 5894
Price:   £10.00

PETERS, ELLIS:  The Hermit of Eyton Forest.  The Fourteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
London:   Headline, 1987.
8vo, pp.224, original blue cloth in glazed dustwrapper;  remains of small sticker removed from half-title, else a good copy. 
Quote Item No. 5895
Price:   £10.00

PORTO-ROCHE, GEORGES DE:  Amoureuse L'Infidele.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by  Paul Thiriat.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; upper inner joint cracked but firm else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 10840
Price:  £22.00

PREVOST, L'ABBE: Manon Lescaut. With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. With decorations by John Austen.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928.
Limited Edition, No. 11 of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. Coloured plates. 4to, pp. 142, original velum backed blue cloth boards, top edge gilt, others uncut. Prelims. foxed else an exceptional copy both binding and internally. 
Quote Item No. 9555
Price:  £135.00

RASTELL, JOHN: The Four Elements.  As Performed at the University Printing House, Cambridge in the Summer of This Year Now Printed for Friends at Christmas 1971.
Cambridge:  At the University Press, 1971.
Special edition of 500 copies.  Illustrated with drawings printed in red.  Folio, pp.vi:73, original cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt on the spine;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 8996
Price:  £40.00

RAYMOND, WALTER: The Works of. "Memorial Edition" comprising Somerset and Her Folk Movement; Gentleman Upcott's Daughter, In the Smoke of War, Young Sam and Sabina, Tryphena in Love, Two Men O' Mendip, Book of Simple Delights, Crafts and Character,  etc. etc.
London: Dent,  1934.
First edition of the collected works which includes a biography by Evelyn V. Clark. 10 volumes, 8vo (7¼ x 4¾ inches), original blue cloth, spines gilt.  A very good bright set. 
Quote Item No. 11086
Price: £60.00

READE, CHARLES:  "It is Never Too Late to Mend".   A Matter of Fact Romance.  Illustrated edition.
London:  Richard Bentley, 1857.
8vo, pp.467:(4,adverts.) original cloth;  binding faded, inner hinge cracked, somewhat shaken. 
Quote Item No. 2352
Price:  £20.00

REBAUD, LOUIS:  Jerome Paturot, a la Recherche d'une Position Sociale.  Edition illustree par J. J. Grandville. 
Paris:  Dubochet, 1846. 
Frontispiece, title vignette and numerous plates and illustrations.  Imperial 8vo, original blue cloth blocked in gold and colours, a.e.g.  Spine dulled, damp marking to lower margin of prelims. and some other leaves, some foxing.  
Quote Item No. 1854 
Price:  £45.00

REID, FORREST:  Retrospective Adventures.
London:  Faber & Faber, 1941.
First edition.  8vo, pp.286, original brown cloth;  binding bumped at headbands else good; internally, endpapers slightly browned, small ownership signature and date on front free-endpaper, else excellent.
Quote Item No. 5008
Price:  £10.00

RICHARDSON, SAMUEL:  The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters published from the originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa.  In six volumes.  To the Last of which is added, An Historical and Chracteristical Index............
London:  printed for S. Richardson;  and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-Noster Row;  by J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard;  by Andrew Millar, in the Strand;  by R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall;  and by J. Leake, at Bath. 1754.
Second edition (as stated on the title-page of "Vol.VI. and Last").  Complete in 6 volumes.  8vo, contemporary full calf, narrow guilt rules to sides, spines gilt in compartments with crimson lettering pieces.  Several headbands a little chipped.  Two joints cracked but very firm.  Some foxing and browning especially to prelims.  Some rubbing but generally a pleasing contemporary binding and attractive on the shelf. 
The title of Volume 6 is expanded to read:  "To which is added, An Historical and Characteristical Index.  As also, A Brief History, authenticated by Original Letters, of the Treatment which the Editor has met with from certain Booksellers and Printers in Dublin. Including Observations on Mr. Faulkner's Defence of Himself, published in his Irish News-Paper of Nov. 3. 1753." 
In Volume 6 also, "R. Main, in Dublin" is added to the imprint.  Actually published 1753-1754 ( see Sale, W. M., Samuel Richardson.  A bibliographical record of his literary career with historical notes. New Haven, 1936). 
With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Robert Eden Bart  (1717 - 1755) with his signature and date 1753 corrected to 1754  in two  volumes. 
Quote Item No. 7915
Price:  £500.00

RIVERS, GARTH:  Miss Gwynne of Woodford. [A Novel].
London:  Smith, Elder, 1861.
First edition.  Two volumes.  8vo, contemporary half tan calf, spines gilt ruled with crimson lettering pieces and green numbering pieces.  Contemporary signature and date on small slip of paper pasted to fly-leaf of Volume 1.  Endpapers foxed.  Generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8389
Price:  £85.00

ROUSSEAU, JEAN BAPTISTE:  Oeuvres Diverses Du Sieur R.**.
Soleure: Ursus Heuberger, 1712.
First edition. 12mo, pp.318:(6), contemporary full speckled tan calf, spine gilt extra within raised bands.  Title slightly holed on blank inner margin, headband chipped, front free endpaper & flyleaf removed.  Generally very good and in an attractive binding. 
Quote Item No. 4991
Price:  £100.00 

ROWE,  ELIZABETH:  The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.  The Greater Part now first published, by her Order, from her Original Manuscripts, by Mr. Theophilus Rowe.  To which are added Poems on Several Occasions By Mr. Thomas Rowe.
London:  for R. Hett and R. Dodsley, 1739.
First edition.  Engraved portrait.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.(8):cxxviii( Life of Mrs Rowe):264 and pp.(4):322:(2, advertisements), contemporary full calf.  Joints cracked, upper cover of Volume 2 held on cords, spines darkened, lacking lettering pieces, corners rubbed  Some browning to prelims.  The Poems by Thomas Rowe has a separate title-page but with continuous pagination. 
Quote Item No. 8009
Price:  £125.00

RUSKIN, JOHN: Sesame and Lilies, Three Lectures. Complete Edition (Fortieth Thousand).
Orpington: George Allen, 1899.
8vo, pp.xxxvi:(2):228, contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, top edge gilt;  binding  a little dulled and marked but generally pleasing.  Some foxing.  Contemporary signature and date on front fly-leaf. 
Quote Item No. 9454
Price: £12.00

SACKVILLE-WEST, V:  The Death of Noble Godavary, and Gottfried Kunstler.
London:  Ernest Benn, 1932.
In the series "New Ninepenny Novels - Leaders of Modern Fiction".  Small 8vo, pp.159, original printed wrappers;  a little rubbed or dusty but generally good. 
Quote Item No. 3228
Price:  £10.00

SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH VON:  Schiller's samtliche Werke herausgegeben von Robert Boxberger - neue illustrierte Ausgabe.
Berlin:  1882.
Eight volumes bound as four.  Plates and illustrations.  Thick 8vo, contemporary full polished calf, gilt device "Postera Crescam Laude" on upper covers, the spines gilt in compartments, with lettering and numbering pieces. 
The bindings by Bullen of Melbourne.  Gilt to spines dulled but still an attractive binding in good strong condition.  
Quote Item No. 3492  
Price:  £75.00

SCOTT, MICHAEL: Tom Cringles Log. Illustrations by Frank Brangwyn.
London: Gibbings, 1894.
1 of 1500. Two volumes.  Small 8vo, original cloth blocked in gilt and blue, top edges gilt, others uncut.  A very nice copy indeed.
Quote Item No. 4402 
Price:  £40.00

SCOTT, SIR WALTER: Waverley Novels. Complete in 48 volumes.
Edinburgh & London: Cadell, 1829.
Published 1829-1833. Engraved frontispieces and titles. 48 volumes. Small 8vo (6½ x 4¼ inches), bound contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spines ornamentally blocked in gilt within compartments with crimson and burgundy lettering pieces. A few sides scuffed, joints and headbands a trifle rubbed. Generally a very pretty set in good sound condition. 
Quote Item No. 11183
Price:  £380.00

SCOTT, SIR WALTER:  Waverley Novels.
London:  Routledge, 1879.
25 volumes (complete).  8vo, contemporary half tan calf, spines with gilt thistles with corner ornaments within raised bands with red and black lettering pieces; a very pretty set in excellent condition.  With the armorial bookplate of J. Monro Walker on front pastedowns. 
Quote Item No. 4253
Price:   £495.00

SCOTT, SIR WALTER: The Waverley Novels. Copyright Edition Entire. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1868.
The complete Waverley novels in four volumes. Thick 8vo, pp.1078; pp.1050; pp.1108(4); & pp.1015, contemporary half brown calf, spines gilt on bands with crimson lettering pieces and green numbering pieces;  a trifle rubbed, a little wear to one headband but generally very sound and attractive.  Light occasional foxing.  Printed in double column. 
Quote Item No. 8562
Price:  £120.00

SCOTT, SIR WALTER: The Waverley Novels. Centenary Edition. 25 volumes bound as 12 complete.
Edinburgh:  Adam & Charles Black, 1883.
Plates.  8vo (7½ x 5 inches).  25 volumes bound in 12.  Finely and very attractively bound in contemporary half green calf, spines gilt extra with double maroon lettering pieces, marbled sides.  A finely bound set in exquisite condition. 
Quote Item No.  11909
Price:  £360.00

SCOTT, SIR WALTER: The Pirate. With introductory essay and notes by Andrew Lang. With Ten Illustrations.
London: Macmillan, 1925.
8vo, pp.xxix:678:(1), contemporary full burgundy prize morocco, spine gilt with lettering piece; with the gilt arms of Cheltenham College on upper cover and prize label on front pastedown; spine a little dulled but generally a very good copy in a strong and attractive binding. 
Quote Item No. 10465
Price:  £20.00

SEBALD, W.G.: Vertigo.  Translated from the German by Michael Hulse.
London:  Harvill Press, 1999.
First English edition.  Black & white illustrations.  Tall 8vo, pp.263, original cloth in dustwrapper;  generally an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9209
Price:  £90.00

SECUNDUS, JOANNES:  Kisses:  or the Basia of Joannes Secundus.  With the Life of the Author. Fragments and Select Pieces, by Bonefonius, etc.   A New Edition.
London:  for George Herbert, 1816.
Engraved frontispiece entitled "Kisses" showing plump young man embracing demure girl.  12mo, pp.xii:120, contemporary full grained morocco, gilt rule to sides, spine gilt and with crimson lettering piece, contemporary engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown; a very pretty binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 3101  
Price:  £25.00 

SEDGWICK, MISS [CATHERINE MARIA]:  Home.
[London: Sherwood n.d. ca. 1845].
Pictorial title only (no printed title). 12mo, pp.156, contemporary ribbed green binder's cloth with maroon gilt lettering piece. Some foxing to prelims. A very pleasing little binding in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 10505
Price:  £20.00

SELIMOVIC, MESA  (trans. Peter Leek):  Death and the Dervish. "Specimen Translation" by Peter Leek.
An apparently unpublished translation. Typescript with numerous manuscript corrections and alterations, about 105-pages, together with a carbon copy.  Unbound in a wrapper bearing the label of George Allen & Unwin marked, "Please return to Peter Leek". 
Quote Item No. 8882
Price:   £25.00

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM: The Plays of William Shakespeare Accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Stevens, Esq. In Ten Volumes.
London: for F.C. and J. Rivington ( & others), 1805.
Large Paper Edition. Ten volumes large 8vo, contemporary half vellum with leather lettering and numbering pieces;  vellum discoloured as usual, boards very rubbed or scuffed.  A solidly bound set and attractive on the shelf.  Bound without the 37 plates by Henry Fuseli mentioned on the title-page; these were not removed subsequent to binding, they were omitted by the binder at time of binding. 
Quote Item No. 10686
Price:  £300.00

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM [FINELY BOUND]:  Works.  The "Whitehall" Edition in 12 volumes.
Westminster:  Archibald Constable & Co, 1893.
Edited from the Original Texts by H. Arthur Doubleday. Twelve volumes.  8vo, contemporary half crimson morocco, spines gilt ruled on raised band, gilt ornaments in compartments. A handsome set in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 4298
Price:   £360.00

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM  [Edited by Sir Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall]: The Works of William Shakespeare. The Henry Irving Shakespeare in 14 volumes, complete.
London: Gresham, [1906].
Coloured frontispieces, illustrations. 14 volumes, 8vo (9⅛ x 6½ inches), original green cloth; the upper covers with art nouvea gilt floral panels, the spines with the same all over gilt design.  Headbands bruised but not worn; a very good and bright set in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No. 11087
Price: £140.00

SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP:  The Defence of Poesie.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1904.
Limited edition, one of 250 copies. Small 4to, pp.88, original quarter vellum, vellum lettering piece to upper cover, as issued, uncut. A very nice copy indeed in the original plain d.w. and contained in the original cardboard box with printed lasbel to lid. The d.w. with tear, the box edge rubbed and with label browned. Rare thus. 
Quote Item No. 9116
Price:  £45.00

SITWELL, SACHEVERELL:  Agamemnon's Tomb. 
Edinburgh:  Tragara Press, 1972. 
One of 85 copies on hand-made paper signed by the author.  Imperial 8vo, pp.(16), original marbled wrappers with printed paper label;  fine. 
Quote Item No. 219 
Price:  £20.00

SPENCE, JOSEPH:  An Essay on Pope's Odyssey: in which Some particular Beauties and Blemishes of that Work are considered.  In Two Parts.
Printed for S. Wilmot, Bookseller in Oxford;  and Sold by J. and J. Knapton (and others), London:  1727.
Two parts each with individual title-pages.  12mo, pp.(12):156: 216:(10, index), contemporary full speckled tan calf, narrow gilt rules to sides, spine gilt ruled within raised bands. Lacking lettering piece, a little chipped at head and base of spine, some rubbing. Lacking front free endpaper and fly-leaf.  Contemporay signature on upper margin of title.  Internally an exceedingly crisp and clean copy. 
Quote Item No. 7906
Price:  £200.00

ST. EVREMONT, CHARLES DE:  The Works.  Translated from the French.  Together with:  The Posthumous Works, containing a Variety of Elegant Essays, Letters, Poems and other Miscellaneous Pieces on several Curious Subjects.
London:  for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1700.
Volume 3  Printed by J.B. for Jeffery Wale, 1705.
Three volumes.  8vo, pp.(16): 528; 501(5); and pp.(13):273:(3, advertisements).  Portrait to Volume 1.  8vo, contemporary full speckled panelled calf, spines gilt with lettering pieces.  Several cracks to joints but very firm, two volumes chipped at head and tail of spines.  Browning to prelims. of Volume 1.  Volume 3 with the half-title.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir Robert Eden Bart (1717-1755).  Rare. 
Quote Item No. 8032
Price:   £250.00

STEINBECK, JOHN:  A l'Est d'Eden.
Paris:  Duca, 1954.
First French edition.  8vo, pp.748, original stiff printed wrappers;  headbands a little bumped, some browning. 
Quote Item No. 1826
Price:  £10.00 

STEVENSON, D.E:  Miss Bunn, the Baker's Daughter.
London:  Collins, 1939.
8vo, pp.284, original cloth;  binding a little faded but in the original d.w.  The d.w. with a few short edge tears and a little dusty and faded at spine. 
With the original "Daily Mail Christmas Choice" band;  this a little torn. 
Signature, "Elizabeth", on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 2770 
Price:  £38.00 

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS: Works & Letters. 30 volumes complete. The Skerryvore Edition.
London: Heinemann, 1924. Published 1924 - 1926.
Thirty volumes.  8vo (8¼ x 5 inches), original red grained cloth, top edges gilt.  Spines uniformly faded and occasionally a little marked. Not unattractive on the shelf, well and solidly bound. Volumes 27-30 comprise Stevenson's Letters edited by Sidney Colvin.  An uncommon set. 
Quote Item No. 11692
Price:  £250.00

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Third edition.
London: Longmans, Green, 1886.
Third edition (same year as 1st).  8vo (7 x 4¾ inches), 141-pages with the half-title.  Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with double lettering pieces. Binding lightly marked along upper joint, signature on front pastedown, prelims. foxed.  Generally attractive and well bound. 
Quote Item No. 11382
Price:  £220.00

STOCKTON, FRANK R:  The Lady or the Tiger & A Borrowed Month and Other Stories.  "Author's" editions.
Edinburgh:  David Douglas 1884 & 1887.
Two works bound in one volume. 12mo, pp.302:276, contemporary half calf;  binding very rubbed, inner joints cracked but very firm, some foxing. 
Quote Item No. 5514
Price:   £25.00

SURTEES, R.S:  Jorrocks's Jaunts & Jollities. The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating, Eccentric and Extragant Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks.  With an Introduction by Joseph Grego. With numerous illustrations.
London:  Kegan Paul, n.d. ca. 1900.
Hand-coloured additional title and hand-coloured plates after Alken, Phiz & Heath.  Tall 8vo, pp.272, original green ribbed cloth blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy indeed. 
Quote Item No. 8540
Price:   £70.00

SURTEES, R.S:  Handley Cross; or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. Printed for Subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition.
London: Bradbury Agnew, n.d. but ca. 1882.
Subscription Edition. Hand-coloured title vignette and plates by John Leech.  8vo, pp.578, original red cloth pictorially blocked in black & gilt, spine a little sunned. Upper inner joint cracked but firm.  Endpapers foxed. 
Quote Item No. 8534
Price:   £20.00

SURTEES, R.S:  Plain or Ringlets. Printed for Subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition.
London: Bradbury Agnew, n.d. but ca. 1882.
Subscription Edition. Hand-coloured title vignette and plates by John Leech.  8vo, pp.398, original red cloth pictorially blocked in black & gilt, spine a little sunned.  
Quote Item  No. 8538
Price:   £25.00

SURTEES, R.S: "Ask Mamma" or The Richest Commoner in England. Printed for Subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition.
 London: Bradbury Agnew, n.d. but ca. 1882.
Subscription Edition. Hand-coloured title vignette and plates by John Leech.  8vo, pp.423, original red cloth pictorially blocked in black & gilt, spine a little sunned. 
Quote Item No. 8535
Price:  £25.00

SUTCLIFF, ROSEMARY:  Dawn Wind.  Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
London:  Oxford University Press, 1961.
First edition.  Black & white illustrations.  8vo, pp.241, original purple cloth in dustwrapper;  endpapers and edges foxed, else a very good copy.  
Quote Item No. 5876
Price:  £25.00

SWIFT, JONATHAN: The Tale of a Tub: Battle of the Books: A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit.
London: C. Daly, 1837.
Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, extra engraved title.  12mo (4¼ x 2¾ inches),  200-pages. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt, all edges gilt; binding a little dulled, crack at gutter between pages viii & ix but very firm. 
Quote Item No. 11200
Price:  £25.00

SWIFT, JONATHAN: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: J. M. Dent, 1909.
First edition thus.  12 coloured plates by Rackham, together with decorated endpapers and line drawings also by Rackham.   8vo ( 9¼ x 6½ inches), 291-pages.  Original crimson cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine sunned, upper inner joint pulled; the upper cover very bright and attractive.  The "this Book belongs to" panels on the pastedowns not filled-in. 
Quote Item No. 11996
Price:  £55.00

TASSO, TORQUATO: Gerusalemme Liberata.
London:  Romualdo Zotti, 1820.
Two volumes. 8vo, pp.viii:362 & 318:(2, list of works in Italian published by Zotti), contemporary full green calf, borders in blind and gilt to sides, spines gilt in compartments with crimson lettering a numbering pieces, extremities and corner rubbed but generally sound and pretty bindings. 19th Century gift inscription on half-titles, and deleted initials on upper margins of titles. 
Quote Item No. 10652
Price: £32.00

TAYLOR, JOHN:  The Pocket Lacon;  Comprising nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors.
London:  John Thomas Cox, 1837.
Small 8vo, pp.ii:463, original diamond grained cloth with printed label.  Label browned and chipped, front free endpaper removed else very good.
Quote Item No. 2973
Price:   £10.00

TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM: The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart.  Complete in four volumes Octavo.  To which is prefixed, The Life and Character of the Author.  A New edition.
London: Printed for J. Clarke (& others), 1757.
Engraved portrait.  Four volumes, 8vo (8 x 5 inches), pp.xxviii:524;  pp.568;  pp.544; & pp.466 plus substantial unpaginated index. Contemporary full speckled tan calf, wide ornamental gilt border to sides, spines with lettering pieces. Spines very rubbed; hinges cracked but firm, vertical crack central to spine of one volume causing loss to lettering piece, lacking numbering pieces. 
Quote Item No. 11967
Price:  £65.00

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: The Works in Twenty-two volumes (complete, as issued).
London:  Smith Elder, 1874.
The set published 1874-1876.  Plates. Twenty-two volumes 8vo (8 x 5½ inches). Contemporary half polished brown calf; spines with double gilt rules head and base, decorative gilt ornaments to raised bands, with double green lettering pieces. A handsome set in very good condition. 
Quote Item No. 11053
Price:   £700.00

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE:  The Works. Complete in 22  volumes.
London:  Smith Elder, 1869.
Plates and illustrations.  22 volumes (complete).  8vo, original green cloth blocked in blind and gilt.  Apart from a 2-inch split to the lower outer joint of 'Roundabout Papers' and rubbing to the headbands and joints of the 2 volumes of 'The Newcomes' (these two volumes also with inner joints cracked) this is a very bright and attractive set. However within the foxing is quite severe in places. Attractive on the shelf. 
Quote Item No. 9794
Price:  £100.00

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: Burlesques. Novels by Eminent Hands, Feame's Diary, The History of the Next French Revolution, A Legend of the Rhine, Adventures of Major Gahagan. With illustrations by the author, George Cruikshank, and H. Furniss.
London: Smith, Elder, 1893.
8vo, pp.ix:340, Contemporary full burgundy calf, double gilt rules and corner ornaments to sides, spine  gilt in compartments within raised bands and with double lettering pieces. Eton College prize inscription on front flyleaf. An attractive binding in good condition. This volume is volume 15 of the complete works although of course complete in itself.  No volume number appears on the spine. 
Quote Item No. 10606
Price:  £25.00

THACKERAY, W.M.:  Miscellanies: Prose and Verse.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855. Two volumes. 8vo (7½ x 5 inches), contemporary half crimson morocco, marbled boards, extremities rubbed, not unattractive however. Some foxing. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flys. 
Quote Item No. 11228
Price:  £20.00

THOMAS, DYLAN:  Under Milk Wood.  A Play for Voices. Preface and Musical Settings by Daniel Jones.
London:  J.M. Dent, 1954.
First edition - Advance Proof.  8vo, pp.101, original green printed wrappers. The slightest of edge rubbing, rubbed at head and tail of backstrip, some slight browning to the portrait of Thomas on rear wrapper. Upper wrapper stamped "Advance Proofs Only".  Apparently only 68 proof copies were issued. 
A very good example of this very rare issue. 
Quote Item No. 5447
Price:  £500.00

THOMSON, JAMES:  The Works.
London:  for A. Millar, 1757.
Portrait.  4 volumes.  12mo, contemporary full tan speckled calf, spines gilt in compartments and on bands, headband a little worn, some joints cracked but very firm, some browning, lacking three lettering pieces but generally a pleasing and attractive set.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir John Eden Bart (1740-1812). 
Quote Item No. 7918
Price:  £125.00

TOYNBEE, PAGET: Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante.
Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1914. 8vo, pp.viii:568, original blue glazed cloth, no dustwrapper, lettered in gilt on the spine;  corners very slightly rubbed;  some shelf wear;  pages edges slightly browned;  neat ink name on front free-endpaper;  in all other respects very good. 
Quote Item No. 8688
Price:   £45.00

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY: Barchester Towers. New Edition.
London: Longman, Brown, 1858.
8vo, pp.viii:439, original pink cloth; binding now faded and soiled. A rare edition. 
Quote Item No. 10538
Price:  £35.00

TROLLOPE,  ANTHONY:  He Knew He Was Right.  With Sixty-four Illustrations by Marcus Stone.
London:  Strahan, 1869.
First edition.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.ix:(1):384 & ix:(1):384 contemporary half green calf, spines gilt extra in compartments and on raised bands, crimson lettering and numbering pieces. Short crack to lower upper outer joint of volume one, numbering piece of volume one a little edge chipped.  Generally an attractive binding in very sound condition.  Foxing throughout.   Bound without the half-titles.
Quote Item No. 7863
Price:    £150.00

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY:  Ralph the Heir.
London:  Hurst and Blackett, 1871.
First edition.  Three volumes.  8vo, original brown cloth.  A tired ex-circulating library copy with evidence of labels removed from upper covers, binding rubbed and worn, several short splits to outer joints, stitching slack, inner joints cracked.  With the half-titles and 16-page publisher's catalogue at end of Volume 3.  Internally good;  an ideal candidate for rebinding. 
Quote Item No. 7867
Price:  £225.00

TWAIN, MARK;  LE ROW, CAROLINE B:  English as She is Taught.  Being Genuine Answers to Examination Questions in our Public Schools collected by Caroline B. Le Row.  With a Commentary by Mark Twain.
London:  T. Fisher Unwin, 1887.
First edition. Small square 8vo, pp. xli:109, original grained cloth, top edge gilt others uncut; binding sound but dusty.  A contemporary newspaper review of this work tipped-in on rear endpaper. Front free endpaper damaged and partly stuck down on front pastedown. 
Quote Item No. 5052
Price:  £65.00

UTTLEY, ALISON: Country Things.  With Drawings by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
London:  Faber & Faber, 1946.
First edition.  Illustrated in black & white.  8vo, pp.148, original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper;  binding headbands bumped and a slight dent to top back edge, else good;  dustwrapper browned especially spine and with a 1.5 cm tear creased back on itself to back top edge;  internally very good and with an ink inscription on front free-endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 9380
Price:  £10.00

VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN:  Plays in Two Volumes [The Relapse;  Or, Virtue in Danger,  The Provok'd Wife;  with a new scene, Aesop, in Two Parts,  The False Friend,  The Confederacy,  The Mistake,  The Country House,  A Journey to London,  and The Provok'd Husband].
London:  C. Hitch and L. Hawes (& others), 1759.
Engraved portrait frontispiece.  Two volumes. 12 mo, pp.369:(1) & 340:(4), contemporary full mottled tan calf, spines with raised bands, lacking lettering pieces, headbands a little chipped.  Two joints cracked but very firm.  Some light browning, occasional light foxing to the text but generally a pleasing copy.  With the engraved armorial bookplates of Sir John Eden Bart (1840-1812).  
Quote Item No. 7978
Price:  £125.00

VEBER, PIERRE: Que Suzanne n'en Sache Rien;  Monsieur Mesian; Gonzague; Son Pied Quelque Part;  & Julien n'est pas un Ingrat.
Paris:  Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1913.
Illustrations throughout by Felix Jobbe-Duval.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10810
Price:   £22.00

VOLTAIRE, [Francois Marie Arouet de]:  Zadig and other Romances by Voltaire. Translated by H.I. Woolf and Wilfrid S. Jackson, with an Introduction and Notes by H.I. Woolf.  Illustrated by Henry Keen.
London:  John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1926.
First edition thus. Frontispiece, plates, & illustrations in the text.  8vo, pp.xxvi:£16:(4), original yellow cloth blocked in blue; spine a trifle dulled but generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8634
Price:   £28.00

W., A.G.:  Machpelah:  or Lost Lives, a novel in two volumes by A.G.W.
London:  Remington, 1879.
First edition (remainder issue?).  Two volumes in one.  8vo, pp.296:288, original cloth - priced at 21/- in gilt on spine.  A very poor copy of this rare novel.  Binding faded and rubbed and split, text block detached from binding, several leaves detached, some foxing and marking, tape marks on endpapers. With an advertisement leaf preceding the Volume 1 title-page. 
Quote Item No. 8845
Price:   £25.00

WALKER, JOHN:  A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine. In Four Volumes. Third Edition.
London:  Longman, Hurst, 1814.
Four volumes.  8vo, pp.xv:486; xii:539; xv:543; &  xii:633:(14, index & corrigenda), contemporary full polished tan calf, spines gilt on bands with lettering and numbering pieces, these chipped.  Joints cracked, three boards detached, some foxing.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844).  
Quote Item No. 7920
Price:   £50.00

WARD,  MRS. CATHERINE G:  Founded on Facts.  The Orphan Boy, or Test of Innocence.
London:  Printed and Published by T. Couchman, (n.d., Plates dated 1821).
Frontispiece, engraved pictorial title and three engraved plates. 8vo, pp.324, old unlettered marbled boards.  One leaf detached and creased, foxed, engraved title and frontispiece marked, generally rather dusty and spotted;  a very uncommon title however. 
Quote Item No. 5043
Price:  £120.00

WARD, ROBERT PLUMMER:  Illustrations of Human Life.  Volumes 1 and 2 only (of 3) being "Atticus St. Lawrence" and "Fielding, or Society".
London: Henry Colburn, 1837.
Two volumes.  8vo, contemporary half calf,; damp-marking to endpapers, text block detached from binding in Volume 2.  Anonymous. 
Quote Item No. 8399
Price:   £20.00

WATKINS-PITCHFORD, D.J.  - [B.B.]:  The Little Grey Men.  A Story for the Young in Heart by "B.B."  Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford.
London:  Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942.
First edition.  8vo, pp.201:(2), original cloth; very good in horribly varnished and slightly chipped d.w. 
Quote Item No. 5997
Price:   £45.00

WEBSTER, JOHN.  Edited by F.L. Lucas: The Complete Works of John Webster. Four volumes.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.
Four volumes complete.  8vo (9¼ x 5½ inches), pages: 288; 372; 339; & 274, original red cloth; some corners bumped, spines sunned, those of Volumes 1 & 2 a little more so. Generally good. Neat signature on front free endpapers. 
Quote Item No.12229
Price:  £50.00

WEST, ANTHONY:  The Trend is up.
London:  Hamish Hamilton, 1961.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth;  very good in like d.w. 
Quote Item No. 5394
Price:   £18.00

WEST, ANTHONY:  On a Dark Night.
London:  Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth;  some foxing to prelims, pale faded patches to lower cover.  In the very good original d.w. designed by John Piper,  still with the Book Society band.  The d.w. faded at spine apart from under band.  
Quote Item No. 5393
Price:  £20.00

WESTRUP, WILLIAM:  The Land of To-morrow.
London:  Alston Rivers, 1912.
First edition.  8vo, pp.375, original green cloth;  prelims. and edges foxed.  Title stamped "Complimentary Copy".  Endpaper signed in pencil by H.A. Wilson [author of "A British Borderland"] and inscribed "Reviewed for the Pall Mall Gazette 1912".  A novel set in Basutoland.  
Quote Item No. 6122
Price:  £25.00

WHITE, PATRICK:  The Eye of the Storm.
London:  Cape, 1973.
First edition.  8vo, original cloth in dustwrapper;  very good. 
Quote Item No. 73
Price:  £15.00

WHYTE-MELVILLE, G.J:  Twenty-two Novels: Good for Nothing; Riding Recollections; Roy's Wife; Market Harborough; General Bounce Satanella; Katerfelto;  Brookes of Bridlemere;  Uncle John;  Kate Coventry; Rosine and Sister Louise;  White Rose; Bones and I;  and nine others - see under.
London: Ward, Lock, n.d. ca. 1900.
Also: The Queen's Maries;  M. or N;  Black but Comely;  Songs & Verses;  The Interpreter; Cerise;  Sarchedon;  Digby Grand; & Contraband. In all 22 volumes. Illustrations by Kemp-Welch, Jacomb Hood, etc. Contemporary half black calf, marbled boards, the spines blocked in gilt within compartments with hunting motifs, a whip, fox etc. Top edges gilt.  Some light rubbing but generally very sound and attractive on the shelf. 
Quote Item No. 7586
Price:  £330.00

WIELAND, CHRISTOPH MARTIN:  Oberon.  
Ein Gedicht in vierz Gesangen. Karlsruhe:  1793. 
Title vignette.  8vo, pp.328, old quarter calf with lettering piece, vellum corners.  Old signature in ink on title. 
Quote Item No. 235
Price:  £35.00

WILLANS, GEOFFREY and SEARLE, RONALD:  The Compleet Molesworth.
London:  Max Parrish, 1958.
First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo, pp. 377, original black cloth lettered in gilt in incomplete d.w. Gilt lettering to spine partly very slightly dulled where portion of d.w. missing else very good. Some foxing to prelims. The d.w. edge-rubbed and chipped with several tears, portion missing at head of spine, ring mark to back. Scan available on request. 
Quote Item No. 7528
Price:   £150.00

WILSON, JOHN MACKAY: Wilson's Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders and of Scotland. Illustrated with Tinted Engravings.
Glasgow and Sydney: John McGready, n.d. ca. 1880.
Three volumes. Plates throughout; text printed in double column.  4to (11 x 9 inches), pp.821;  pp.818;  and pp.769 pages.  Bound contemporary half morocco, spines gilt. Some rubbing but generally sound. Remains of Victorian lot number on spine of Volume 3.  A substantial and weighty work (6½  kg). Ownership inscription dated 1886 on reverse of frontispiece to Volume 1. 
Quote Item No.  10795
Price: £60.00

WOLFF, PIERRE:  Le Lys;  Fidele!;  &  Le Petit Homme.
Paris: Modern Theatre, Artheme Fayard et Cie, ca. 1910.
Illustrations throughout by E. Bouard.  Large 8vo (9¾ x 7 inches), publisher's three quarter tan grained cloth, marbled boards;  with the original coloured pictorial wrappers bound in; spine lettering faded else in excellent condition. 
Quote Item No.  10809
Price:  £22.00

WOOLF, VIRGINIA:  The Voyage Out, a Novel.  The "Uniform Edition".
London: Hogarth Press, 1949.
6th impression.  8vo, pp.458, original cloth.  Bands of fading at head and base of spine otherwise good in dusty and marked dustwrapper which is chipped at headbands. 
Quote Item No. 9491
Price: £20.00

WOOLF, VIRGINIA: To the Lighthouse.
London: Hogarth Press, 1927.
First edition, first impression. 8vo, pp.320, original blue cloth. Binding with overall soiling, joints rubbed, headbands bumped and rubbed, Evidence of a label having been removed from upper cover, endpapers discoloured, red ink stain to rear endpapers, lower inner joint cracked, short corner crease to lower fore-corner of prelims. Small indent to edge of text block, some foxing to edge of text block; generally internally sound. 
Quote Item No. 10388
Price: £250.00

WREN, P.C:  Fort in the Jungle.
London:  John Murray, 1952.
Reprint.  8vo, pp.320, original yellow cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper;  a number of short tears and chips to edges of dustwrapper, especially at spine, very very slight loss;  in all other respects, very good. 
Quote Item No.  8451
Price:  £13.00

YONGE, CHARLOTTE M:  The Three Brides.
London:  Macmillan, 1889.
First edition. Illustrations by Adrian Stokes. 8vo, pp.336:(4, advertisements), contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco, spine gilt extra in compartments and on raised bands, top edge gilt, bound-in  silk bookmarker.  A superb binding in fine condition. With the half-title. 
Quote Item No. 4418
Price:   £60.00

ZSCHOKKE, JOHAN HEINRICH DANIEL - LEWIS, M.G:  The Bravo of Venice, A Romance.  Translated from the German, by M. G. Lewis. The Seventh Edition.
London:  W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818.
8vo, pp.viii:282, contemporary full tan calf, decorative gilt rule to sides, spine gilt ruled with lettering piece; the spine however badly rubbed.  Bound without the half-title. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844). 
Quote Item No.  7963
Price:  £90.00

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