A Library of Important Books

RHODA BROUGHTON. "Alas! A Novel." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig floral cloth gt Richard Bentley & Son, 1890 vg copy. ...[more]

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. "The Body Snatcher." the first publication. Pall Mall Christmas "Extra". original wraps, prize tickets etc, 1884. ...[mor...

JESSIE FOTHERGILL. "The Wellfield." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig floral cloth gt, Richard Bentley & Son, 1880 vg copy. ...[more]

M. E. BRADDON. "Rough Justice." 1st edn, orig red cloth gt, Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1898 vg copy ...[more]

ANNIE THOMAS. "High Stakes, A Novel." 3 Vols complete, 1st edn, orig blue cloth gt, Tinsley Brothers, 1868 g. ...[more]

MRS OPIE. "Valentine's Eve." 3 Vols complete, 1st edn, 1/2 calf, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 g (light foxing). ...[more]

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. "The Armourer's Prentices." 2 Vols complete, 1st edn, orig green cloth gt, MacMillan, 1884 vg. ...[more]

ELIZABETH MISSING SEWELL. "Laneton Parsonage, A Tale for Children..." 3 Vols complete, edited by Rev. W. Sewell, 2nd edn of 1st part 1846. 1st edn...

MRS HIBBERT WARE. "His Dearest Wish. A Novel." 3 Vols complete, 1st edn, orig blue cloth, F. V. White, NI 1883. ...[more]

MRS MARGARET OLIPHANT. "The Perpetual Curate." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig brown cloth gilt, William Blackwood & Sons, 1864 vg copy (in Chronicles of Ca...

DICK DONOVAN. "From Clue to Capture, A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories." 1st edn, plt & illus comp, orig pictorial cloth gilt, Hutchinson & ...

L. T. MEADE & ROBERT EUSTACE." A Master of Mysteries." plts comp, orig cl gt, Ward, Lock & Co, (1898) exceptional copy. ...[more]

PHILIP MACDONALD. "The Noose." The Crime Club, fine dj, W. Collins Sons & Co. vg; plus PHILIP MACDONALD. "Death on my Left." The Crime Club, fine ...

W. E. NORRIS. "The Rogue." 3 Vols 1st edn, orig blue cloth gilt, Richard Bentley & Son, 1888 good (W. H. Smith library ticket pasted inside front ...

EMMA ROBINSON. "Dorothy Firebrace, or, The Armourer's Daughter of Birmingham." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig green cloth gilt, Richard Bentley, 1865 (yell...

MORTIMER COLLINS. "Blacksmith and Scholar and from Midnight to Midnight." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig cloth gilt, Hurst & Blackett, 1876 g. ...[more]

OUIDA. "Ariadne, The Story of a Dream." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig cloth gilt, Chapman and Hall, Chatto and Windus, 1877 good. ...[more]

MARIA EDGEWORTH. "Harry & Lucy Concluded, being The Last Part of Early Lessons." 4 Vols, 1st edn, cont 1/2 roan, R. Hunter, Baldwin, Cradock & Joy...

FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBINSON. "One and Twenty." 3 Vols, 1st edn, orig brown cloth gilt, Hurst and Blackett 1858 fine copy. ...[more]

MARSDEN RICHARDS. "A Brace for the Law." 1st edn, orig red cloth Digby, Long & Co (adverts March 1894). ...[more]

MRS FRANCES TROLLOPE. "Belgium and Western Germany in 1833." 2 Vols, 1st edn, cont 1/2 cf, Murray 1834 g. ...[more]

FAIRFAX L. CARTWRIGHT. "Olga Zanelli, A Tale of an Imperial City." 3 Vols, 1st edn, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, vg condiiton (Life in Berlin); LADY MA...

MICHAEL SADLEIR. "XIX Century Fiction, A Bibliographical Record based on his own collection." 2 Vols, Cooper Square Publishers, 1969 vg. ...[more]

MARGARET WOLFE HUNGERFORD. "Faith and Unfaith." 3 Vols complete, 1st edn, orig blue gt, Smith, Elder & Co, 1881g; JULIA KAVANAGH. "Forget-Me-Nots....

MORTIMER COLLINS. "Two Plunges for a Pearl." 3 Vols complete, orig cl, Tinsley Brothers 1872. ...[more]

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. "Football or Misery & Mud." Rare colour lithography music cover by H. G. Banks, complete with music by Wal Pink and W. G. Ea...

GOLF. "GOLF Waltzes, Far & Sure. Rare colour lithography music cover showing Musselburgh Links & other Scottish courses, complete with music by J....

KENNETH GRAHAME. "The Golden Age." plts & illus by Ernest H. Shepard comp, orig pict cloth, 1928 vg; plus a copy dated 1904 (prize binding vg) plu...

WILLIAM MORRIS. "Arts & Craft Essays by Members of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society." orig cl - backed blue bds, (covers sl stained); plus 5 o...

"Lebor Bretnach." The Irish Version of the Historia Britonum ascribed to Nennius. edited A. G. Van Hamel, cl, Dublin 1932 fine; plus 3 other Irish...

ERNEST NISTER MOVEABLE. "The Land of Long Ago. A Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty." by L. L. Weedon. 6 pop-up tableaux complete, orig cl-back...

JOSEPH HARRISON. "The Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine." 6 Vols bound in 2, 78 hand coloured engr plates complete, cont calf gilt 1833...

CONRAD LODDIGES & SONS. "The Botanical Cabinet Consisting of Coloured Delineations of Plants from all Countries." 400 fine hand coloured engr plat...

FLOWERS PAINTINGS. 35 fine watercolours by Frances Elizabeth Marston painted c 1870-80 in Vol "Christian Year." vg. ...[more]

FREDERICK BOYLE. "The Woodlands Orchids Described and Illustrated." 16 colour plates complete, orig cl gt, 1901 good. ...[more]

G. H. JOHNSTONE. "Asiatic Magnolias in Cultivation." 14 colour plates complete, orig cl, 1955 g. ...[more]

ANNE PRATT. "Wild Flowers." 192 colour illustrations on 96 plates comp, (last 2 plts def & repaired) cont cloth, S.P.C.K. c 1860. ...[more]

MRS R. LEE. "Trees, Plants , amd Flowers, Their Beauties, Uses. and Influences." 8 fine plates drawn and coloured by James Andrews complete, each ...

SIR JAMES EDWARD SMITH. "English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants." 7 Vols complete, 2nd edition, plates by James Sowerby complete t...

JOHN T. BOSWELL SYME. "English Botany, or, Coloured Figures of British Plants." Eleven Vols complete, 1824 hand coloured plates complete by John S...

JOHN E. SOWERBY & C. PIERPOINT JOHNSON. "British Wild Flowers." 90 hand coloured plates incl frontis complete,2 extra plts, orig green cloth gilt,...

CHARLES JOHNSON & PIERPOINT JOHNSON. "British Poisonous Plants." 32 hand coloured plates complete by John E. Sowerby, orig cl gt , Van Voorst, 186...

WILLIAM TURTON. "A Conchological Dictionary of The British Islands." 1st edition, 28 plates comp, orig bds, John Booth 1819 g. ...[more]

GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY. "Popular History of the Aquarium." 20 hand coloured litho plts comp, orig cl gt, 1857 good. ...[more]

REV. D. LANDSBOROUGH. "A Popular History of British Sea-Weeds...". 20 hand coloured plates comp, orig cloth gilt 1851 vg. ...[more]

ROBERT TYAS. "Favourite Field Flowers...". 12 hand coloured plts comp, orig cloth gt, aeg, 1848 vg. ...[more]

VERY RARE SHANGHAI PUBLICATION. "A Japanese and English Dictionary, with an English and Japanese Index." by J. C. Hepburn, A. M. M. D. first editi...

JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTED WOODBLOCK. Volume containing 52 pages colour prints of Kimonos, orig stitched binding, 19C good condition; plus "Die Schon...

JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTED WOODBLOCK. interesting volume showing agricultural crafts & manufacturing in concertina & panorama form, complete in orig ...

HIROSHIGE. Woodblock printed volume being number 6 in a series showing the building of a house, orig stitched binding 19C good; plus wood block pa...

"The Sikh Sepoy." A lecture given by Captain G.H.W.Dobbyn, R. G. A. attached 2 Company Hong-Kong Singapore Battalion Royal Garrison Artillery. 8 M...

"Gujarat and the Gujaratis Pictures of Men and Manners taken from Lite." by Behramji M. Malabari, author's compliments, finely bound floral gilt, ...

MERVYN PEAKE "Gormenghast." first edition, orig cl, unclipped dj, 1950 g. ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE "Titus Groan." second impression, orig cl, unclipped dj, 1946 vg. ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE "Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor." first edition, orig cl, unclipped dj, 1945 exceptional copy. ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE "Shapes and Sounds." first edition, orig cl, unclipped dj, 1941 exceptional copy. ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE "The Hunting of The Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits." by Lewis Carroll, first thus, orig bds, 1941 vg ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE "Thou shalt not suffer a witch - and other stories." by Dorothy K. Haynes, first edition, orig cl, unclipped dj, 1949 vg. ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE "Household Tales by the brothers Grimm." first edition thus, orig cl, 1946 g. ...[more]

MERVYN PEAKE "Letters from a Lost Uncle." first edition, orig cl, 1948 good (few spots on back cover). ...[more]