Recommended Books
Health and Success In Business… 1892.
£50.00WILLIAMSON, John. Health and Success In Business: How Lost: How Recovered. A Personal Experience. Addressed To Business Men. By A Business Man. Monochrome photographic frontispiece, (presumably of the author?). (Title page detached, first few pages loose, occasional marks, browning and spotting). Publisher’s dark red cloth, lettered in silver (some wear, staining). Includes the 8pp. (With two plates) supplement bound in at the rear: “Dyspepsia: Its Cure, and How it is Applied. Being a Supplement to “Health and Success in Business. How Lost: How Recovered”. [With] pink printed slip bound in. 8vo. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., 1892. Rare Victorian Self Help Book.
Flowers That Never Fade. [c. 1820/30s]
£250.00REDE, Lucy Leman. Flowers That Never Fade. 15 hand-coloured engravings (including hand-coloured frontispiece). (Foxing/staining to the bottom right hand corners throughout). Publisher’s salmon pictorial wrappers (soiled, especially to corners, a few contemporary pen doodles to lower wrapper). 31, [1] pp. Small 8vo. London: Dean & Munday, Threadneedle Street [no date c. 1820’s/30s].
The Raven and The Dove. 1822.
£70.00[LYTTLETON- CAMERON, Lucy]. The Raven and The Dove. By the Author of ‘’The Two Lambs”, “Margaret Whyte, “ &c. Engraved frontispiece, other engravings within the text (Sporadic soiling, pages age toned, occasional spotting). Publisher’s olive/grey wrappers (chipping with loss, soiling to covers, covers detaching). 36pp. 8vo. Wellington, Salop, F. Houlston and Son., 1822.
St. Ronan’s Well… 1845.
£30.00SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832). St. Ronan’s Well. With all his Illustrations [1]* and Notes. Text in two columns. As part of a larger set in this edition. Interior: sporadic light spotting/foxing throughout, pages age toned. Exterior: Quarter red morocco with green cloth boards (binding heavily worn spine cover lacking, upper board hanging by a thread, remanence of erased old label to upper board.) [2], 177-332, [2], pp. 8vo./4to (size): Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1845.
The Reform of the National Schools. 1876.
£40.00MORTON, James. The Reform of the National Schools. 148pp. Interior: browning to first and last pages, sporadic occasional light spotting. Binding: Publisher’s purple/dark red cloth (fading to spine and covers, some staining and wear, corners bumped). 8vo. Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son, 1876.
Martial-Lore. 1918.
£28.00King’s Lynn Interest – [ANON]. Martial-Lore. [1]-15, [1] pp. Interior: pages age toned. Exterior: Tan/yellow wrappers, detached, tearing and chipping, some marks. Relating to military matters in 17th/18th century. Reprinted from ‘The Lynn Advertiser’, Lynn, 1918.
The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. [c. 1835]
£40.00[ANON]. The Infidel Class; or, the Second Part of the Story of Archibald Thompson. 107pp. Interior: Browning to endpapers, light foxing in places throughout. Binding: Contemporary quarter straight grain Morocco, with marbled boards (some wear, corners bumped). 12 mo. (Size). Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union [No date c.1835].
The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles… 1870.
£600.00Sir Anthony Coningham Stirling’s (Crimea Campaign) copy- SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Sir William Stirling Maxwell. MAXWELL, William Stirling (1818-78). The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles The Fifth Designed By Martin Heemskerck In M.D. L. V. Xxxvi, 91, [1]. Beautifully illustrated throughout, decorative endpapers. Interior: some occasional light soiling. Binding: Publisher’s yellow and black pictorial cloth (some wear). Folio. London and Edinburgh: Privately Printed For The Editor, 1870.
Poems. 1926.
£25.00QUENNELL, Peter. Poems. Interior: Browning to a few pages, sporadic foxing/spotting. Binding: Publisher’s blue quarter cloth with marbled boards (light wear, wear to corners). LIMITED EDITION OF 60 COPIES SIGNED BY PETER QUENNELL OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 11. Peter Quennell (1905-93) was the son of authors C.H.B. and Marjorie Quennell. He was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. 4to. (Size) London: Chatto & Windus, 1926.
Essay on Irish Bulls. 1802.
£95.00EDGEWORTH, Maria; Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Essay on Irish Bulls. FIRST EDITION. [4], 316 pp. Interior: No half title, sporadic staining in places, worn hole puncture mark to bottom blank margin, piercing same place on pages throughout, worming to lower blank margins on last ten pages, pages age toned, occasional spotting/foxing. Otherwise good. Exterior: full contemporary calf (worn, rubbed corners bumped), spine re-backed (a while ago). 8vo. London: J. Johnson, 1802.
Gothic Ornaments in the Cathedral Church of York. 1831.
£140.00York Cathedral [York Minster]. Beautiful book of plates. HALFPENNY, Joseph. Gothic Ornaments in the Cathedral Church of York. [12], [50]. 105 engraved plates. [monochrome plates, 2 of which are in colour]. Interior: staining to lower margins throughout, pages age toned. Exterior: later quarter green morocco with marbled boards (worn). Folio. York: John and George Todd, 1831.
Commonplace Book – [c.1924-1939].
£50.00SOLD AS SEEN – COMMONPLACE BOOK- [c.1924-1939]. An oblong 8vo. Including quotes, jottings and sketches.
Christmas In Many Lands. [c. 1891]
£25.00SCANNELL, Florence; Edith. Scannell. Christmas In Many Lands. Four stories: “The Highwaymen Christmas In England”, “Jean Noel Christmas In France”, “Golden Wings Christmas In Germany”, “The Pifferari Christmas In Italy”. Illustrated throughout. 32, 32, 32, 32 pp. Interior: Light soiling and some marks, front endpaper detached and chipped. Exterior: Binding- a little loose, text block split in places. Yellow, cloth with worn pictorial illustration- cloth worn. 8vo. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. [no date c. 1891].
The Tour of Doctor Syntax. [c. 1821]
£200.00COMBE, William (1742-1823). [The Tour of Doctor Syntax] In Search of the Picturesque/Consolation/A Wife. 3 volumes each individually named. Consolation: 24 plates, …Wife: 24 plates + hand coloured engraved title page, Picturesque (spine labelled as ‘lakes’), 31 plates. General Interior: some pages detached, occasional closed tearing and a few historic repairs to blank margins, a number of the plates have been trimmed to fit the binding- including loss to titles under plates, pages age toned, sporadic spotting, foxing, light browning and some old paper repairs to pages in places. Exterior: Contemporary green half calf with marbled boards (worn). 8vo. …Mixed editions: Picturesque: Fourth Edition, London: Ackerman 1813, …Consolation: London- Ackerman, 1820, …Wife: R. Ackerman, [1821- engraved title page trimmed with loss to date].
The Fleet Its River, Prison, and Marriages. 1888.
£55.00ASHTON, John (1834-1911). The Fleet Its River, Prison, and Marriages. Folding frontispiece, engraved title page, illustrations within the text, folding map at the rear (last panel of map is detached but present, chipping and staining to corners of map). Xvi, 385pp. Interior: Sporadic spotting and foxing. Exterior: Publisher’s pink/red pictorial cloth (Wear- tearing and fraying). 8vo. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1888.
Treatise on Spikenard of the Ancients [1836].
£60.00HATCHETT, Charles (1765-1847). The Spikenard of the Ancients. [4], 21, [1] pp. Folding plate depicting “Nardis Indica”. Interior: Pages age toned, pages heavily creased in places with soiling. Title page issued as half title-imprint/colophon of ‘William Nicol’ on the verso. Exterior: Publisher’s purple cloth (faded, upper board detached, spine cover/backstrip lacking). PRESENTATION COPY: “To Viscount Sidmouth – from the Author”. 4to.[London : Printed by W. Nicol 1836].