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50x50 A defiant poster for the journalist-turned-actor Barnard Gregory playing the roles of Hamlet and Shylock which he played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1846. Gregory's first West-end run had ...
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50x50 A defiant poster for the journalist-turned-actor Barnard Gregory in the roles of Hamlet and Shylock which he played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1846. Gregory's first West-end run had been ...
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A copy interleaved by a polyglot nineteenth century amateur scholar of cuneiform, Frederick Wood, who has included his own versions of Sanskrit and other alphabets. Large octavo, half calf over tex...
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![A Companion to the Guide [&] The Avalonian Guide](/img/products/acompaniontothe263033064-thumb.jpg) |
Two guides to Glastonbury and Oxford with strong Oxford provenance. Bound in polished calf, raised spine bands with a morocco label, rubbed to edges and extremities. Bookplate of 'James Elwin Millard ...
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[2] xii [6] pp 328; 2 plates. Fourth edition of the English translation of De tabe glandulari. Old pasteboards with a recent paper spine and new spine label. Untrimmed paper edges and the ownership in...
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Inscribed to the Deputy Dean of Westminster Abbey, the first and only edition of one of the most influential works on church restoration which is inscribed by the author to the Deputy Dean of Westmins...
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Narrative history of Russia in its original printed wrappers by a London barrister. The wrappers are brittle and chipped to edges but an uncommon survival even thus. Internally there is browning but t...
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All About Baby £37
(11x15cm) Promotional publication for recording a baby's early months, pre-illustrated with tipped-in photographs, each with an advertising slogan printed below for 'Steedman's Soothing Powders'. Smal...
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Jeweller and Metalworker's almanac bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover. Yellow coated endpapers and twenty pages of advertisements - a mixture of steel engravings and half-tone pho...
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[mezzotint frontispiece of Joseph Harris playing Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII] [2] [iii]-vi, pp 1-28 [1] 31-67, [10] William Johnstone White's study of the extra illustrated copy of Boydell's Shakesp...
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[8] pp 5-67 [1] William Romaine's contribution to the controversy about Jewish incorporation in Britain as full citizens. A disbound pamphlet with '7' in ink on the title page. Slight toning to title ...
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![An Appendix unto the Precedent Almanack [fragment]](/img/products/anappendixuntot86906365-thumb.jpg) |
[4] A single opening of the Appendix to the 1661 Olympia Domata Almanac, known in four institutional copies only. Old stab sewing holes, toning to paper stock; title page followed by a chronology and ...
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An original full page engraving of Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford Upon Avon taken from the Boydell Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. The image is 17 cm x 21 cm and is a fine impression worthy of Boy...
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Sumptuously bound report of the Scottish Academy in padded red morocco gilt with repeated thistle motif; cream watered silk endpapers, the text bulked out with additional blanks. Miniscule rubbing to ...
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![Ausgeführte Bauten [Little Wasmuth]](/img/products/ausgefhrtebaute282524712-thumb.jpg) |
'Little Wasmuth' - the first book edition of Wright's Wasmuth portfolio complete with C R Ashbee's introduction. An excellent copy in original wrappers and the publisher's binding of black cloth over ...
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THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE STRUCTURE OF DNA which revolutionised biochemistry and the life sciences. ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids’ and ‘Genetical Implic...
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE’S ‘SARAWAK LAW’, an important contribution to the species debate as well as a precursor and influence on Darwin's Origin of Species. This single issue of ...
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pp 16 Parodic Yorkshire dialect almanac from 1877, yellow printed wrappers with advertisements, first leaf detached; stab sewn: 'Put together be Mungo shoddy, Esq. B.M.A.' - surely a pseudonym?...
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![Cur Deus Homo? Libri Duo [Sotheran's Binding]](/img/products/curdeushomolibr490023186-thumb.jpg) |
pp 148 Books one and two of Saint Anselm of Canterbury’s Cur Deus Homo? in a fine leather binding by Sotheran & Co of black morocco with raised bands, gilt spine lettering and decoration, a...
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vi, [3] pp 4-250 [2] The second edition of Browning's Dramatis Personae, published in the same year as the first edition. The book is in its original handsome publisher's blue cloth with black printed...
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[6] pp 1-200 An inscribed First Edition of this account of England's relationship with the British colonies. Inscribed at the top of the title page is: 'W Millar Esq With the Author's Respects'. The b...
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pp 94 [frontispiece] An account of the unveiling of the statue to the American Founding Father and fourth Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall. Publisher's dark green cloth with title in ...
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[2 Vols] Near fine first editions in very good plus 1905 dustjackets - most uncommon thus. Fine olive green cloth bindings with black lettering, offsetting from jackets to endpapers, label of 'Louis d...
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![Gertrude Winn [and 5 other Novels]](/img/products/gertrudewinnand428800911-thumb.jpg) |
A collection from two talented generations of the same family comprising six novels by Nelsie Brook, later Mrs Ellen Ross, five of them inscribed to her son the early twentieth century Kenyan colonial...
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Hamlet (1778) £200
[3] pp 171-423 [1] Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, extracted from the edition of his works by Dr Johnson and George Steevens which appeared in 1778. The play is bound in eighteenth century marbled boa...
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Wonderfully colourful cartonnage-style French publisher’s binding from the late 1850s. Embossed coloured paper with a central vignette to the upper board of Fenelon in full flow, declaiming ...
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50cmx75cm. Linen-backed folding London street map from 1875, hand-coloured and 'with the most recent improvements' and tramways. Folding tape measure which allows exact distances on foot between locat...
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![Les Georgiques de Virgile [with] Les Jardins](/img/products/lesgeorgiquesde162203085-thumb.jpg) |
Two volumes in one, translated and written by Jacques Delille. A worn tree calf binding with contemporary bookseller's label on the first blank: 'Du fonds De Librarie de Vernarel, Place du Gresse, A B...
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[6] pp 66 Wycherley's first play which brought him into disfavour with the King's mistress the Duchess of Cleveland. Bound in half vellum over marbled boards with black morocco spine and gilt letterin...
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Uncommon novel by the pioneering editor of the Leeds Mercury who won the right for provincial newspaper journalists to enter the House of Commons press gallery. Decorative red cloth, a little darkened...
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One of the earliest prophetic collections to be published in France in an undated edition from the 1520s which draws upon Savonarola and other writers. Quarter marbled paper covered boards over cal...
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Mint copy of Andrew Wiles's final proof of Fermat's last theorem across two papers: ‘Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem’ and ‘Ring-theoretic properties of certain Hec...
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(15x23cm) Broadside verse in three stanzas and a chorus, first line: 'At the fancy ball, the other night...' The lyrics are attributed to Dave Reed of Bryant's blackface minstrels. Below title printed...
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pp 40 pp 4[advert] Rare astrological 'nativity' for Queen Victoria (COPAC locates Oxford, Manchester, Wellcome for this second edition - BL/ Wellcome only for the first edition). Brown paper wrappers,...
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[18], pp 104, 32 plates. Highly individual illustrated collection of poems and plates, some hand-colored some with unprinted guard sheets, described in the introductory testimonial as a 'book of Poems...
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14x21cm A provincial handbill for the performance by His Majesty's Servants at the Theatre Royal in Hull of Othello. Clipped corners, old folds and soiling. Othello was played by Mr Calvert whose perf...
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Poems £125
[2] adverts xii, pp 284, [4] adverts. Fine example of Victorian binding on this 'Third Edition' published in 1870, the same year as the first. Bound in dark green linen with a trellis covered in flowe...
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![Posthumous Works of Mr John Ward [moveable cuts]](/img/products/posthumousworks2351544-thumb.jpg) |
viii, pp 493 [3]. 'Mathematician's Guide' with a fine fold-out plate of 13 'moveable cuts' or volvelles. Recently deaccessioned from the library of Ampleforth Abbey and bound in speckled calf, crackin...
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[12, 72 [lacking pp 67-70]A first edition of the libretto of one of the earliest English operas, first performed at Dorset Garden Theatre in London in February 1675 by the Duke's Company with music by...
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Thirteen volumes in a high quality binding of blue buckram with gilt facsimile signature and titles, in typographic dust jackets: the documentary record of Roosevelt's Presidency from 1928-1945. Volum...
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'Nouvelle edition' bound in very pretty English, or perhaps Scottish, polished calf with circular black morocco volume numbers and red morocco lettering pieces to the spine. Bookplate of 'Kinnaird' to...
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[16] pp 700 Daniel Stahl's compendium of Aristotelian philosophy attractively bound in contemporary calf with double blind fillet to the boards and horizontal double blind lines to the spine. Bound in...
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[1] pp 4 [1] Late seventeenth century 'Relacion de Servicios' of the colonial official Sancho Fernández de Angulo y Sandoval, governor of the province of Nueva Andalucia in present-day Venezuela, a...
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pp 152; 15 lithographed plates. Presentation volume of Madras engineering papers, published in India and inscribed by their editor and majority author, John Thomas Smith, in the year of publication to...
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![Riders (1723.) British Merlin [Tables & Stylus]](/img/products/riders1723briti123597275-thumb.jpg) |
An exceptional eighteenth century almanac complete with writing tables, the original silver stylus and Anglo-Irish annotation. Bound in panelled red goatskin, fading to gilt panelling. Four raised ...
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A collection of ten religious pamphlets with a strongly East Anglian flavour, beginning with the 1880 and 1879 editions of the Report of the Norwich Diocesan Conference bound in blue wrappers and both...
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![St Patrick's Day [printed on green paper]](/img/products/stpatricksdaypr32071780-thumb.jpg) |
St Patrick's day, printed in Dublin on green tinted paper, with four other Sheridan plays bound in modern half red calf over marbled boards. School for Scandal and St Patrick's Day are uncommon Dublin...
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pp 300. Capacious and informative illustrated guide to British hotels, working outwards from London to the province and including 'Boarding Establishments, Hydropathic Establishments, Restaurants and ...
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Sammelband of 15 Tubingen medical dissertations and one from Stuttgart, all published in 1832 and collected by 'Dr John C Faber', probably an English visitor to the German university, whose ownership ...
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pp 28 Serle's play about marriage inscribed by the author on the title page to his wife 'Cecilia Serle from her affectionate husband T.J.S.' Bound in half red morocco over marble-paper covered boards;...
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A Yorkshire bookbinder's personal copy of the whole of this important journal devoted to the craft and history of binding, published in the 1880s and 1890s. Edited by Joseph Zaehnsdorf for the first t...
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Scarce English recusant title printed in Paris in 1640 after the death of its Douay-educated Catholic controversialist author. Bound in limp vellum with paper spine label and external straps; trace...
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A companion volume to the first 'Edinburgh musical miscellany' with engraved music throughout and a mostly manuscript title page where the original was somehow lost. Bound in nineteenth century textur...
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[2] pp4, xii, pp638. Mary Ann Whitby's copy of one of Arthur Young's most popular works. Half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and lines to spine. Mary Ann Whitby's book plate to the first bla...
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![The Handy-Volume Shakespeare [13 vols]](/img/products/thehandyvolumes157185480-thumb.jpg) |
[13 Vols; 8x12cm) Bradbury and Agnew's 1870s pocket edition of Shakespeare in soft red morocco leather, all edges gilt, a little faded to spines but a very good set. The introduction to Volume I makes...
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An original wooden newspaper hoarding with the Heckmondwike Herald poster from Friday May 24th 1940 still present. The hoarding which was handed down by the family which owned the newspaper over sever...
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An undated reprint from the early 1890s of Mary Anne Sadleir's popular novel, The Hermit of the Rock, bound in publisher's textured green cloth with a Celtic harp in gilt to the upper cover and gilt l...
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![The History of all Religions [John Evelyn's Copy]](/img/products/thehistoryofall136591618-thumb.jpg) |
[16] pp684. John Evelyn's copy with his posthumous book label on the first pastedown. Bound in contemporary panelled calf with gilt gilt decoration to the spine compartments and a red morocco labe...
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[2] pp 64 [2] Extensively illustrated catalogue of women's clothes printed on the eve of the outbreak of war. Colour wrappers separated along fold, loss to tail of front cover; every aspect of women's...
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![The Life of Henry V. [Fourth Folio]](/img/products/thelifeofhenryv114901430-thumb.jpg) |
'O, For a Muse of Fire': a single play extracted from the last of the great folio printings of Shakespeare's plays, the Fourth Folio of 1685. Henry V has been bound during the twentieth century in...
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The third edition of Robert Blachford Mansfield's The Log of the Water Lily, 'Revised and Enlarged'. It's an account of 'the first English rowing-boat that was taken on an excursion to the Continent',...
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The first posthumous edition of the work of the ‘Craven Poet’ with an excellent Yorkshire provenance, being a copy owned by the Stanbury schoolmaster, Jonas Bradley. Near fine publish...
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First Edition of this reissue of the first appearance of the New Testament in English, released on the tercentenary of the martyring of its translator, William Tyndale. Bound in later blue-grey blu...
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Twelve volume Shakespeare edition owned for 250 years by the Little family of Newbold Pacey Hall just a few miles from Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford upon Avon. Ten volumes of plays w...
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A very smart example of this four volume edition of Shakespeare's plays from around 1890 in its original green cloth with gilt blocking to the boards and all edges gilt. The bevel-edged boards are alm...
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Six volume set of English and American poetry contained in 'a Morocco [book]case with glass front' as described in The Gentlemen's Advertiser which originally offered the set at a guinea a piece in 18...
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Good in tanned card wrappers, small chip to head of spine. Internally the pages are fresh, central leaf detached, with 16 black and white fashion plates showing liveries for footmen, chaufferes, munic...
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viii, pp 134. Scarce New Orleans reprint of Thomas' rare 1869 first edition of this study of what it describes as 'Creole "Patois" or "gombo French"' misleadingly dated 1869 on the...
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[2] pp 16 [3 foldout plates] Scarce technical guide to the automatic vacuum brake which became almost universal on British rolling stock for a century from the 1870s onwards. Blue textured cloth over ...
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21 programmes for the 3 Choirs Festivals of 1869-1871 including the one for the first festival performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion. Blue library buckram with twentieth century endpapers and r...
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The Duke of Portland's copy of David Jones's illustrated edition of Gulliver's Travels with hand colouring. Two volumes bound in half buckram and black paper: discolouration to the cream buckram an...
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[8] pp 459 [13] Sombre-bound Greek New Testament with attractive and most unusual late seventeenth century cut-work decoration to the goatskin covered boards, all edges black. Octavo format with tripl...
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Revised edition of Ross's 1638 history in Virgilian verse of Christ and the prophecies surrounding him. William Marshall frontispiece of an angel blowing a trumpet with 'Jesus Christus Salvator Mundi'...
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