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DITCHFIELD, ed. P. H.
Memorials of Old Oxfordshire. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 22 plates and numerous line illustrations in the text, half-title and title spotted, some light marginal spotting throughout, neat signature on front free endpaper; original ivory buckram, sides with double frame border in gilt enclosing lettering in red and black and series medallion in gilt, backstrip lettered in red and black and ruled in gilt, bevelled edges, gilt top, uncut, patterned endpapers, backstrip lightly browned, tiny split in upper hinge else a very good, firm, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Published in Bemrose's invaluable 'Memorials of' series, collating twenty-one extended historical accounts. Cordeaux & Merry 203.
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BURNS Robert
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Edited by James Kinsley. [Complete Set]. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 3 portrait frontispieces; original series binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a near fine set in price-clipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. Oxford English Texts. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LAMBORN E.A. Greening
The Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese 1250-1850. NEAR FINE COPY WITH ARMORIAL BOOKPLATES
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 64 fine plates and several folding pedigrees; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. With the armorial bookplate of Arthur Henry Edwards on front paste-paste and front free endpaper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cordeaux & Merry 1323.
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ATKINS Jeremy
A Hundred Years of Sailing at Oxford University. The Centenary History of the Oxford University Boat Club 1884-1984 NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
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TROLLOPE Anthony
Phineas Finn. With a Preface by Sir Shane Leslie. Illustrations by T.L.B. Huskinson. [Oxford Crown Edition. With Notes and Who's Who by R.W. Chapman]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS WITH SLIP-CASE
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces toned in blue, titles in brown and white, 12 plates toned in sepia and 16 illustrations in the text; brown buckram, gilt backs, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges mildly spotted else a very good, bright, crisp set in dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's original slip-case. Edited by Sadleir and Page (art editor Lynton Lamb), the Crown Edition of the Oxford Trollope is the best and most scholarly collected edition. Each volume contains Notes, and a Who's Who compiled by Chapman. A nice set and very common in the slipcase. Tingay (1992), p.16.
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CANNAN Joanna
The County Books. Oxfordshire. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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SHACKLETON Ernest Henry
Arctic Journeys. The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-5. With a Preface by Lord Tweedsmuir. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 2 plates on one folder, 2 double-page plates, 38 full-page plates, 4 maps and plans (one full-page) in the text, 11 tail-pieces and a large folding map at rear; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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LAMBORN E.A. Greening
The Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese 1250-1850. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 64 fine plates and several folding pedigrees; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cordeaux & Merry 1323.
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TROLLOPE Anthony
Can You Forgive Her?. With a Preface by Edward Marsh. Illustrations by Lynton Lamb. [The Oxford Trollope. With Series Introduction by Michael Sadleir]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in sepia and black, several plates and illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpapers, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, gilt tops, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.
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TENNYSON Alfred, Lord
In Memoriam. TENNYSON IN SIGNED BUMPUS BINDING
8vo., neat signature on half-title; handsomely bound in green full calf BY BUMPUS OF OXFORD, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral motif, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, backstrip mildly rubbed else a very good, bright, crisp copy. The binding is signed on front paste-down.
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LUCAS St. John
The Oxford Book of French Verse. XIII Century - XIX Century. Chosen by St.John Lucas. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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FITZMAURICE-KELLY, ed. James
The Oxford Book of Spanish Verse. XIII Century - XX Century. Chosen by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, gilt back, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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ROBERTSON, ed. Bruce
Air Aces of the 1914-1918 War. Edited by Bruce Robertson. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; orange cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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FORD-JONES Martyn
Oxford's Own. Men and Machines of No. 15/XV Squadron Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS
Folio, First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; olive cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHORS WITH THEIR SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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DAVIDSON Norman J.
Things Seen in Oxford. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy With series catalogue on title verso.
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SEEBOHM Frederic
The Oxford Reformers. John Colet, Erasmus and Thomas More. Being a History of their Fellow-Work. Reprinted from the Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., maroon cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled armorial bookplate on front paste-down and small stamp in title verso. SCARCE.
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CHURCH Alfred .J.
Isis and Thamesis. Hours on the River from Oxford to Henley. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 12 fine etched plates and numerous delightful illustrations in the text, some occasional and generally inoffensive spotting; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, primrose endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cordeaux & Merry 473.
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WOODFORDE Rev. James
The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford. BRIGHT, CLEAN XL SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and large folding map, tops lightly dust-doiled; black cloth, gilt backs, dustwrapper of first volume laminated to boards else a very good, bright, clean working set in unclipped dustwrapper. SOLD FROM AN INSTITUTION WITH ITS STAMP AND LABEL ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. This is the first complete re-issue. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
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DONNE John
The Poems of John Donne. Edited by Sir Herbert Grierson. [Oxford Standard Authors]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in OSA in 1933.
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STONE Percy Goddard
An Exact Account of the Church and Priory at Goring in the County of Oxford. Second Edition. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates, and illustrations and full-page plan in the text, free endpapers lightly browned, blind stamp on front free endpaper; pale blue tweed cloth, blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published in the same year as the first edition. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Cordeaux & Merry 2650.
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ARNOLD Matthew
Poetical Works. Edited by C. B. Tinker and H. F. Lowry. [Oxford Standard Authors]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in this form in OSA in 1950. The dustwrapper illustration is by Reynolds Stone.
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AUSTEN Jane
The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from contemporary Sources. Third Edition. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
6 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. An elegant set. The set comprises Vol. I: Sense and Sensibility; Vol. II: Pride and Prejudice; Vol. III: Mansfield Park; Vol. IV: Emma; Vol. V: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Vol. VI: Minor Works. Chapman's third edition of the novels (five volumes) was first published in 1933; the sixrh volume was added in 1954. Chapman 18 (recording the first edition); Keynes 40, 41 (recording the first and second editions); Gilson E150, F15.
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McCLATCHEY Diana
Oxfordshire Clergy 1777-1869. A Study of the Established Church and of the of the Role of its Clergy in Local Society. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with tables in the text and large folding map; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DRYDEN John
The Poems and Fables of John Dryden. Edited by James Kinsley. [Oxford Standard Authors]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in OSA in 1962.
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QUILLER-COUCH, ed. [Sir] Arthur
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. Chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
8vo., navy cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in gilt and blind, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon' is written in a neat, scholarly hand on rear free endpaper.
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HAMMOND Nigel
The Book of Abingdon. With Chapters on Early Abingdon by David Miles. ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. This copy (No. 379) bears the subscriber's number of H.T. Randolph. With list of subscibers at rear.
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BISHOP David
The Complete Inspector Morse. From the original Novels to the TV Series. [Revised and updated edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with 11 coloured and monochrome plates on 8; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. The revised and updated edition of this definitive guide. The present edition includes all 33 episodes of the TV series together with the 2006 sequel 'Lewis'.
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OXFORD.
Mowbray's Guide to Oxford with Plan and Illustrations. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with full-page photographs and double-page street plan in the text; wrappers printed in blue and black, sewed as issued, covers lightly browned else a near fine copy. With trade advertisements (a number illustrated) at front and rear. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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TROTTER Wilfred
The Collected Papers of Wilfred Trotter. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; original series binding of blue cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. Oxford Medical Publications. Collects twelve essays by the eminent pioneer in neurosurgery.
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WOODFORDE Rev. James
The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and a large folding map; navy cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. Much-needed reissue of the first reprint of 1968. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
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SPENSER Edmund
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited with Critical Notes by J.C. Smith and E. de Selincourt. With an Introduction by E. de Selincourt and a Glossary. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., on India Paper, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in OSA in 1912. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DEAR, ed. I. C. B.
The Oxford Companion to the Second World War. General Editor: I.C.B. Dear. Consultant Editor: M.R.D. Foot. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KEBLE Rev. John
National Apostasy considered in a Sermon preached in St. Mary's Church, Oxford before His Majesty's Judges of Assize on Sunday 14 July 1833. With an Introduction by Rev. Dr. Alan Stephenson. [Illustrations by John R. Smith.] 700 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; pictorial grey boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, red endpapers, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 700 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY No. 524). Published in association with the 1983 Oxford Movement Celebrations Committee.
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NEWMAN John Henry
Tract One. Thoughts on the Ministerial Commission, respectfully addressed to the Clergy. With an Introduction by Rev. Dr. Alan Stephenson. [Illustrations by John R. Smith.] 515 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with tipped-in portrait frontispiece; pictorial grey boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, red endpapers, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 515 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY No. 116). The frontispiece reproduces the Maria Giberne lithograph of Newman, circa 1842. An additional ten copies were issued in full leather with slip-case.
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SPENSER Edmund
Spenser. Poetical Works. Edited with Critical Notes by J.C. Smith and E. de Selincourt. With an Introduction by E. de Selincourt and a Glossary. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., on India Paper, small stamp on title; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board bloicked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in OSA in 1912.
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VAUGHAN Henry
Poetry and Selected Prose of Henry Vaughan. Edited with an Introduction by L.C. Martin. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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COWPER William
Poetical Works. Edited by H.S. Milford. Fourth Edition, with Corrections and Additions by Norma Russell. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., original series binding of black buckram, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Diana Bloomfield. First published in OSA in 1905. Russell's greatly enlarged edition was first issued in 1934.
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Oxford and District. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY; WITH WWII MAPS DISCLAIMER
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with plates, and maps and plans (a number folding), small annotations on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, covers sunned else a bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. Tipped-in is the publisher's printed disclaimer slip 'owing to the Control of Maps Order we have removed from this Guide all maps and plans likely to be useful to the enemy'. The COM Order 1940 banned commercial publication of maps and plans on a scale greater than one inch to one mile and therefore of likely use to the enemy. In this edition the omissions include the plan of Oxford City normally placed as frontispiece.
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LENNOX Charlotte
The Female Quixote. Or, The Adventures of Arabella. Edited with an Introduction by Margaret Dalziel. Chronology and Appendix by Duncan Isles. FIRST APPEARANCE IN OEN
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations in the text; original series binding of terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Includes select bibliography.
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RADCLIFFE Ann
The Italian. Or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romance. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick Garber. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with full-page illustration in the text; original series binding of red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in OEN in 1968. Includes select bibliography.
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INCHBALD Elizabeth
A Simple Story. Edited with an Introduction by J. M. S. Tompkins. FIRST APPEARANCE IN OEN
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Includes select bibliography.
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HOGG James
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Written by Himself. With a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and other Evidence by the Editor. Edited with an Introduction by John Carey. FIRST APPEARANCE IN OEN
8vo., First Edition thus, with facsimile as frontispiece; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes select bibliography.
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Gibson, Strickland
Early Oxford Bindings
This is a very good softcover copy in the original publisher's printed brown wrappers with just light wear. Right edge a little chipped. Very clean inside, pages uncut. This is Number X in the Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society. 40 plates printed in sepia or black & white. Spine creased, small paper label at bottom of spine. 11" high X 8 1/2" wide, 69 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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The Brown Book December 1977
8vo, 60 pages, illustrated. eng
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University of Oxford
Gallery Plans and Brief History of the Ashmolean Museum
12mo, pages not numbered, map. eng
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The romance of Oxford
4to, pages not numbered, colour illustrations, plus a map. eng
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Oxford : visiting the colleges
1st edition. One pop-out map in card covers. Fine condition. ISBN 1841390070. 19241. eng
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Gallop, Derek
The romance of Oxford : guide and souvenir
1st edition. Fine pamphlet. Photographs by Chris Andrews.8257. eng
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Headlam, Cecil
Oxford & neighbouring churches
VG paperback. Bookplate on the front endpaper. Inscription on the title page. (Cathedrals, abbeys and famous churches). 6620. eng
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Lady Margaret Hall
The brown book, December 1970
VG pbk. 16230. eng
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