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O'Dell, Sterg
A Chronological List of Prose Fiction in English Printed in England and Other Countries 1475-1640
Reprint limited to 100 copies. Hundred of items fully described. Large 4to, fine in publisher's buckram.
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Conybeare, John Josias and William Daniel Conybeare
Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
FIRST EDITION of this important publication, one of the pillars of early Anglo-Saxon studies. viii, xcvi, 288 pp. Includes numerous texts in Anglo-Saxon--most appearing here in first edition--accompanied by translations into Latin and English and substantial commentary. A LARGE-PAPER COPY, PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER WITH HUGE MARGINS. Engraved armorial bookplate of Frederic Markham Tindall. Large 4to. Elegantly bound in quarter vellum and marbled boards. A few spots of foxing, else UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. An outstanding copy of a rare and important book.
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Anderson, James, John Percival, and William Whiston
A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery; in Its Different Branches of Yvery, Luvel, Perceval, and Gournay.
Seven books in two volumes, complete. AN OUTSTANDING SET, IN FIRST STATE AND ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE, OF THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF ONE OF THE RAREST, MOST IMPORTANT, AND BEST-PRODUCED GENEALOGICAL WORKS OF THE 18th CENTURY. 1 leaf; xxxvii pp.; 1 leaf; 30, 457 pp.; 4 leaves; 533 pp. plus 16 genealogical tables on 10 inserted leaves; 8 double-page genealogical tables; one larger folding double-page genealogical table; 10 etched and engraved plates (mainly views of estates); and 19 fine portraits (COMPLETE, incuding 18 mezzotints engraved by John Faber, and an engraving by William Henry Toms after Van Dyck and Lempriere. The five Rawdon portraits, intended for a different work but sometimes inserted into this one, are not present). The introduction is in the first state, before the cancelation of p. xxxvii (later copies have xli pages in the introduction). Moreover, pp. [453-460] of volume II, printed in 1765 and rarely found, are present. This set is extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait (1807) of John Perceval in volume I and with an engraved view (1783) of Enmore Castle in volume II. Lowndes, who examined only second-state copies of this work, asserts that pp. 446-447 of volume II are missing. IN THE SET I OFFER THESE PAGES ARE PRESENT. (The reason for this discrepancy is that quire Lll of volume II was re-set to eliminate a lengthy--two page--screed on the privileges of the nobility. That screed is present in the copy I offer, but in few others.) Lowndes also mistakenly calls for a map of part of the estate of John Perceval, which was in fact printed long after this work and does not form part of it, although it is sometimes found bound in. The fact that almost all of the portraits are executed in mezzotint indicates how small the press run was: only 25 to 50 impressions of a mezzotint could be taken before the plate would have shown signs of wear (and the impressions in this set are uniformly rich and brilliant). A few of the known sets of this work, indeed, are missing the portraits (which is even more understandable since the mezzotint portraits were engraved after the book was printed, some of them as late as 1747). The dozens of in-text coats of arms (and the vignettes on the fly-titles of all of the individual books) are engraved on copper, not wood, demonstrating that no expense was spared in the production of this lavish publication. The attractive engraved Northwick armorial bookplate (motto: "Par ternis suppar") in each volume. Beautifully printed on fine handmade Dutch laid paper, with the title-pages printed in red and black. Royal 8vo. ELEGANTLY BOUND BY SAMUEL CHARLES SMITH (signed) c. 1810 in full forest green morocco, covers gilt, spines elaborately gilt in six compartments. All edges gilt. Only tiny traces of wear, else A BRIGHT AND FINE SET. Lowndes I, 40 (giving an extensive collation); Lewine, p. 28; Graesse I, 116; Brunet I, 262; Moule DXLII (giving an astronomical price of 15 to 30 guineas in 1822.) Very rare. An important source for Norman and English history, and an impressive example of 18th-century English book production at its finest.
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Wilson, Robert (?) (John S. Farmer, editor)
The Pedler's Prophecy. 1595
A beautifully-produced facsimile, interleaved throughout, of the only known copy of the only early edition of this anonymous play, generally attributed to Robert Wilson. An association copy, with the ownership signature of musicologist and music critic Harold Schonberg and ("Harold C. Schonberg / Nov. 9, 1943 / Cambridge, England") on a preliminary blank. Also with Schonberg blindstamp, and additionally signed by him on the half-title. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Cloth lightly worn and somewhat soiled. Paper spine label darkened and somewhat abraded. Internally clean. Very scarce.
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Cox, Edward Godfrey
Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. (Bibliography of travel books in English)
Three volumes, complete. The standard bibliography of travel writings in English up to 1800. Thousands of items thoroughly described. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Like new.
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Gotch, J. Alfred
Old English Houses
First edition of this well-illustrated study, ONE OF ONLY FIFTY COPIES PRINTED ON HAND-MADE PAPER AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xiii, 216 pp. 7 plans and 48 full-page photographic plates. 8vo. Publisher's quarter cloth and boards. Binding lightly worn, spine a bit rolled, internally FINE AND BRIGHT. This issue is rare.
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Gregory Bar Hebraeus (Abulpharagius, Mor Gregorios Bar Ebraya) (Richard Coeur de Lion, Lion-Heart, Lionhearted) (Paul Jacob Bruns, editor)
De rebus gestis Richardi Angliae Regis in Palaestina. Excerptum ex Gregorii Abulpharagii Chronico Syriaco (Chronicon Syriacum)
FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXCERPT OF THE CHRONICON SYRIACUM DEALING WITH RICHARD THE LION-HEART'S DEEDS IN THE HOLY LAND (often involving Saladin), WRITTEN BY GREGORY BAR HEBRAEUS, widely regarded as a highly reliable source. 20, XI pp. Syriac text and Latin translation. BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS WITH ELEGANT SYRIAC AND ROMAN TYPES ON EXTREMELY FINE, THICK LAID PAPER, WITH HUGE MARGINS. Bruns published this text, in part, as a specimen of his full edition of the Chronicon, published in 1789 (see Gentleman's Magazine, 1781, pp. 131-132. Also 1789, second part, pp. 1109-10.) 4to. Sewn into plain wraps, as issued. A bit of wear and tear to wraps, else A PRISTINE COPY, ENTIRELY UNCUT, BRIGHT, AND FINE. EXTREMELY RARE, IF NOT UNIQUE, IN THIS STATE.
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Zola, …mile (etchings by William Ablett)
Eaux-fortes pour Nana, par William Ablett
An extraordinary suite of 30 etchings by Ablett, in his purest boudoir style, printed on extremely fine laid Japanese paper. EACH ETCHING IS SIGNED IN THE PLATE, AND EACH ETCHING HAS A REMARQUE DRAWN IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST (as a rule, remarques are engraved, but in this case each one is an original drawing). Folio. Loose as issued. In perfect condition. EXTREMELY RARE.
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Halliwell, James Orchard
Morte Arthure. The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur. Now first printed from a Manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral
FIRST EDITION OF THE ALLITERATIVE MORTE ARTHURE, one of the great monuments of Arthurian literature and of Medieval English literature. This poem, like Gawain and the Green Knight, is part of the late Medieval literary movement now called the "alliterative revival". According to Larry Benson, the most recent editor of this poem, the Alliterative Morte Arthure "lacks the delicacy and balance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but the vigor of its narrative, the epic sweep of its action, and its coolly realistic presentation of fourteenth-century warfare lend the poem an interest of its own." EDITION LIMITED TO JUST 75 COPIES, each numbered and signed by the printer, of which THIS IS ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED ON THIN PAPER. Beautifully printed in large, attractive type on fine wove paper, with large margins. Frontispiece engraving by F. W. Fairholt after a manuscript miniature depicting the Round Table. Large 4to. Bound in original cloth, beautifully decorated in blind. Uncut. Professionally recased, with original endpapers preserved. Frontispiece discolored (as always, because of paper used) and a bit stained. Otherwise FINE AND BRIGHT. A legendary rarity, in its original binding. Extremely rare and important. sxxi
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Doyle, Ezra
Polly's Gaon; Or Merriment in Dress and the Folly of Pride / James and Polly; or the Very Funny Wedding / Buttery Dick; or the Beautiful Sweating / The Bottle of Galker; or Fun in Fermentation (chapbook in West Yorkshire dialect)
THREE COPIES of the first and only edition of this collection of light verse in the West Yorkshire dialect, EACH WITH PRINTED WRAPS OF A DIFFERENT COLOR (blue, yellow, and orange/red) AND ALL IN ABSOLUTELY PERFECT CONDITION. 50 pp. 16mo (12.1 x 7.5 cm). Bound in printed wraps. This set is surely of the greatest rarity.
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Henry Fielding
The history of Tom Jones a foundling
In-8°; 4 voll. piena pelle con fregi e titolo in oro al dorso.
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Circolare per la circolazione dell’esercito britannico
In-4°; pp. (4). circolare che regola il passaggio dell’esercito britannico nello stato pontificio, l’imbarco da civitavecchia e l’organizzazione del vitto e dell’alloggio per i militari.
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Jerome K. Jerome
Told after supper
In-8°; pp. (8), 169, 14; printed in blue on light blue paper, “with 96 or 97 illustrations by Kenneth Skeaping,”. First edition, full red cloth with lettering in black to front cover and spine. Water spains.
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Oscar Wilde
Salome.
In-4°; one plate and the frame of each page of text is by Boris Artzybasheff. Limited edition of 950 copiesOriginal cloth. Ex libris John Francis Bricca.
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Rabindranath Tagore
The crescent moon
In-4°, pp. XII, 82, and 8 coloured illusrations by Nandalall Bose. Transleted from bengali from the author. Fine original cloth with gilt title on spine and gold decorations on front cover. Spotting inside.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
The club of queer trades, with illustrations by the author.
In-4° pp. (8), 263, (5) e le illustrazioni; copertina originale in tela rossa con titolo e illustrazione impressa al piatto superiore e titolo in oro al dorso. Piccolo marginale foro tarlo passante alle prime carte.
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STANFIELD, Clarkson
Stanfield's Coast Scenery. A series of Picturesque Views in the British Channel, and on the Coast of France, from original drawings taken expressly for the work. 2nd ed.
In -8°, pp. VIII, 128, 40 incisioni ft protette da velina. Tela coeva con decorazioni in oro. I ricordi di navigazione sulla Manica di Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867), uno dei maggiori pittori inglesi del XIX secolo a raffigurare scenari marittimi. Navigation memories on the Big Channel of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, one of most important english artist from XIX Century between those who painted sea subjects.
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Chute, Marchette
Shakespeare of London
397 p Hardcover Very good conditon
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Smollett, Tobias
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
648p. illus. by Alexander King Hardcover Good condition
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Manners-Sutton, D. (Doris)
Black God: A Story of the Congo
299 p. Hardcover Very good conditon, spine faded
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Sassoon, Siegfried
The Heart's Journey
45p. Hardcover Good condition
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Fry, Christopher
The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy
103 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Vasta, Edward, ed.
Middle English Survey: Critical Essays
336p. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. good
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Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair
543p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, one corner bumped Illus. by Robert Ball
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Williamson, James A
The English Channel: A History
381p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Armstrong, Margaret
Trelawny : a Man's Life
369p. Hardcover Very good condition Biography of Edward J. Trelawny, adventurer & friend of Percy B. Shelley & Lord Byron
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Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
The Novels, Tales and Sketches of . . .
11 vols. CONTENTS: v. 1. Auld licht idylls. Better dead.--v. 2. When a man’s single.--v. 3. A window in Thrums. An Edinburgh eleven.--v. 4-5. The little minister.--v. 6-7. Sentimental Tommy.--v. 8. My lady Nicotine. Margaret Ogilvy.--v. 9-10. Tommy and Grizel --v. 11. The little white bird: or, Adventures in Kensington gardens. Hardcover Very good condition, spines faded The 1911 edition of this set contained 12 vols.
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Eliot, George
The Complete Works of George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] in 12 vols.
12 vols. Hardcover Very good condition in green cloth #260 of limited edition of 1000 copies. Each vol. with hand tinted frontispiece
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Russel, Myra Teicher
James Joyce's Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings. Edited and with an Introduction by Myra Teicher Russel [composed by Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer]
116p.,frontis. SOFTCOVER & spiral bound. Settings for voice & piano of 32 of Joyce's 36 poems that comprise the latter's Chamber music. Paperback Very good condition
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Green, Jonathon
Chasing the Sun; Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made
510p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. good
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Drinkwater, John
Collected Poems of John Drinkwater, vol. 1 1908-1917; vol. 2 1917-1922
2 vols. Hardcover Good condition in red cloth. spine faded, corners bumped Signed by the author for Mary Beeton, 1933.
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Collins, Wilkie
The Dead Alive
157p., illus. 2 p. of ads at end Hardcover Very good condition; green cloth w/ gilt spine & red cover title Parrish. Bibliog. of Collins, p. 93
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Winchester, Simon
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
242p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Perry, Frances M
A Punctuation Primer, with Notes on the Preparation of Manuscript
103p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Browne, William Hand & Haldeman, S. S.
The Clarendon Dictionary: A Concise Handbook of the English Language, in Orthography, Pronunciation and Definition
365p. Hardcover Good condition
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Kerl, Simon
The Common-School Grammar of the English Language
354p. Hardcover Good condition
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Southworth, Gordon A. & Goddard, F. B.
Elements of Composition and Grammar
300p. Hardcover Good condition
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Vizetelly, Frank H
A Desk-Book of Errors in English
232p. Hardcover Good condition
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Guppy, Shusha
Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters
308p. Interviews with 10 women of British letters, incl. Rosamond Lehmann, Julliette Huxley, Diana Cooper & Molly Keane Hardcover Very good condition good
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Pisano, Beverly
Old English Sheepdogs
155p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
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Wain, John
Samuel Johnson
388p., illus. Hardbound Very good condition good
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Tawney, Cyril
Grey Funnel Lines
177p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Maddox, Brenda
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage
620p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)
718p. Hardcover Very good cover spotted
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Ciardi, John
A Second Browser's Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language
329 p. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
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Lipton, James
An Exaltation of Home and Family
15 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Eliot, George
The Spanish Gypsy. A Poem
287p. Hardcover Good condition, spine ends & corners worn, hinges cracked
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Cushwa, Frank W.
An Introduction to Conrad
436p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Havens, Herbert
Clevely Sahib, a Tale of the Khyber Pass
413p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
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Mitchell, Donald Grant
About Old Story-Tellers: Of How and When They Lived, and What Stories They Told
237p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition Essays on printing, Arabian Nights, Goldsmith, Swift, Maria Edgeworth, Defoe and others
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