Rare Books & Works on Paper

Six works about Cornwall. Richard Stephen Charnoch. 'Patronymica Cornu-Britannica; or, the Etymology of Cornish Surnames,' first edition, origina...

Netherton & Worth (publishers) Four works in the Cornish dialect. I. T. Tregellas. 'Cornish Tales, In Prose and Verse,' original pictorial thin c...

THOMAS, Herbert. (Editor of the Cornish Post and Mining News). 'Cornish Mining Interviews,' First edition, original binding with gilt lettering t...

GILCHRIST, Alexander. 'Life of William Blake. With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings,' Vol II only, new and enlarged edition, original...

POTTER, Beatrix. Six early reprints. 'The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin,' original brown boards with mounted colour illustration, plain title vignette,...

JOHNSTON, T. R. 'The Lau Islands (Fiji) And Their Fairy Tales and Folk-lore,' Inscribed by the author 'Lt. Col. F. S. Toogood "for auld lang eye"...

CARY, John (engraver). 'Cary's New Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland. on which are carefully laid down, All the Direct and Principa...

GILL, Eric. 'Clothing Without Cloth. An Essay on the Nude,' 28/500, light sun bleaching to vg cloth, ex libris label George M. Gray, gilt edge, v...

CLARKE, Harry (illustrations) and POE, Edgar Allen. 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination,' Reprint, original black cloth with pictorial paper illust...

The Plymouth Strawberry A Hand-written essay by Wilfred O. Reynolds of The Peacock Press Handrawn title page and illustration of the Plymouth Str...

Peacock Press - two privately-printed works Of Gardens By Francis Lord Bacon Woodcut frontispiece and text border to front page, one in black, th...

Two private Peacock Press works Old Mother Hubbard & Francis Drake The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog, Sarah Catherine Marti...

Peacock Press Interest Correspondence between W. O. Reynolds, creator of The Peacock Press Written to his mother whilst on active service during ...

A Victorian Scrap Album Contemporary half maroon leather with marbled boards, over a hundred pages profuse in engravings, cuttings, chromo scraps...

(Penmanship and poetry) Early 19th century note book. Full maroon leather with envelope clasp, 25 pages of writing, the front with drawings of 'T...

The Grabhorn Press. 'The First Part of Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare,' Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn, one of 180 copies, thin folio, ori...

MIL, John Stewart. 'On Liberty,' People's edition, original publishers cloth, sun bleached, pp.68, a general list of works to rear pp.32, a very ...

BAWDEN, Edward (illustrations) and HERRING, Robert. 'Adam and Evelyn at Kew, or, Revolt in the Gardens,' Limited edition of 1060 of which this is...

(Woodcuts and fine printing) Twelve good works. Douglas Percy Bliss (engraver). 'The Devil in Scotland Being Four Great Scottish Stories of Diabl...

ASHDOWN, Clifford (pseud. R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn) 'The Adventures of Romney Pringle,' First American edition, inscribed by the pu...

ASHDOWN, Clifford (pseud R. Austin Freeman and John James Pitcairn). 'The Queens Treasure' Typescript with text to recto, ink corrections through...

William DIXON Original draft dust jacket illustration for 'The Adventures of Romney Pringle'. Written by Clifford Ashdown, a pseudonym for R. Aus...

William DIXON Two original illustrations for the book 'The Queens Treasure'. Written by Clifford Ashdown, a pseudonym for R. Austin Freeman and ...

ASHDOWN, Clifford (pseud. R. Austin Freeman and John J. Pitcairn) [The Queens Treasure] A photocopied typescript, a later draft with text to rect...

A Cornish Mining Accounts Book 1864-1871 Formally The Property of W.H.Blight, Tin Streamer of Redruth, in a modern blue cloth. ...[more]

'The Pioneer Mail and Indian Weekly News,' Five issues. No.22, vol LIII, Friday, May 28, 1926; No.39, vol. XLVIII, Friday, Sept 30, 1921; No.40, ...

MALOREY, Sir Thomas. 'Le Morte Darthur,' Facsimile edition of J. M. Dent's 1909 edition, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, original cloth w...

The Vale Press. 'The Amber Witch. Mary Schweidler, the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known,' Edited by William Meinhold and Translat...

MADELEINE, Marie and NOHAIN, Franc. 'Histoires Parisiennes,' Cloth backed pictorial boards, thirty illustrations with fifteen in colour, pp.32, v...

POGANY, Willy (illustrator) and C. W. Rolleston 'Parsifal. Or the Legend of the Holy Grail retold from Ancient Sources,' Half maroon morocco, bum...

KITTO, John. 'The Gallery of Scripture Engravings, Historical and Landscape....,' Vol I only, half vellum with attractive green and black marbled...

SVEN BERLIN Seven works, with three signed by the author/artist The Coat of Many Colours, unclipped, signed, tip-ins; Pride of the Peacock, clipp...

(Cornwall interest) Seventeen diverse works. M. Graham Brown. 'Training in Truro 1813-1938,' signed by author to front free endpaper, first editi...

Andrew Lanyon (1947) 'Dying For Eternity' First edition, limited to 200 copies this being number 164, signed by the author, card slip, fine, Lett...

MOSS, Fletcher. 'Pilgrimages to Old Homes,' Seven volumes, original red cloth with pictorial gilt tooling to front boards, rubbed and bumped with...

MOSS, Fletcher. 'Folk-Lore. Old Custom and Tales of my Neighbours,' First edition, original red cloth with pictorial gilt tooling to front board ...

BOREMAN, Thomas. 'A Description of Three Hundred Animals, viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents and Insects...,' Seventh edition, half leather wit...

LING, C. F. 'Dawn in Toda Land: A Narrative of Missionary Effort on the Nilgiri Hills, South India,' Second and Indian edition, forward by Amy Wi...

WEISKE, Beniamin. 'Pleonasmi Graeci Sive Commentarius de Vocibus Quae in Sermone Graeco Abundare Dicuntur,' Contemporary full calf, rubbed to ext...

MEW, Charlotte. 'The Rambling Sailor,' First edition, some sun bleaching to original boards, b+w frontis portrait of the author, small amount of ...

(Signed) SKELTON, Robin. John Ruskin: The final Years. A Survey of the Ruskin Correspondence in the John Rylands Library,' Flat signed and inscri...

(Cornwall interest) Journals, Reports and Booklets. Nigel Tangye. 'The Story of Glendorgal. A Personal View,' revised edition, card wraps, D. Bra...

The Visitations Of Cornwall Comprising The Heralds' Visitation of 1530, 1573 & 1620 Additions by Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Vivian; Exeter: ex-libr...

LINTON, Kwesi Johnson. 'Dread Beat & Blood,' Fourth printing, photographic thin card wraps, pp.71, some light spotting to edge of textblock, vg, ...

Lieutenant-Colonel E.F. Norton The Fight For Everest 1924 A scarce first-edition presentation copy; with maps and illustrations; a full descripti...

ALFRED TENNYSON The Poetical Works of Thirteen book cased set; uniform blue cloth boards with red ink edges to the pages; C. Megan Paul & Co; 18...

B.H.Williams Ancient Westcountry families and their armorial bearings A story of the old nobility and gentry of Devon and Cornwall; with notes o...

Cornwall Interest A Glossary of Cornish Names Modern, Local, Family, Personal, Etc., 20,000 Celtic and Other Names, Now or Formerly in Use in Cor...

CULLEN, Countee. 'The Black Christ and Other Poems,' Advance copy label pasted-in, so pre-first edition, original black quarter cloth, decorated ...

EDWARD THOMAS Twelve work written by or related to the author In Pursuit of Spring, April 1914, blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt lettered at th...

Two Early 20th Century Sketchbooks COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY By George Balsillie (1914) University of Edinburgh. Together with COURSE OF ...

D. M. Thomas Two works LOGAN STONE (1971) and TWO VOICES. (1968) By DM Thomas Cape Golliard Press. Both First editions and Paper boards (2) ...[...

M Creighton Memoir of Sir George Grey, Bart G.C.B Newcastle: The Collingwood Press. Privately Printed. Limited edition of 150 copies this numbere...

CHARLES DICKENS (ED) All The Year Round, Vols I - X Half blue boards with marbled boards, compartmentalized spine with red morocco below gilt ti...

EDMUND LODGE (1756-1839) Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain 8 vols; Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden; original cloth b...

William COMBE & Thomas ROWLANDSON The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation London: published by R Ackermann at the Repository o...

The Travels Of Cyrus To Which Is Annex’d A Discourse Upon The Theology And Mythology Of The Ancients Chevalier Ramsay (1727) London: T Woodward. ...

MILMAN, Henry Hart. 'The History of the Jews from the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times,' Third edition, three volumes, quarter polished calf ...

Ammunition and Projectile Interest Devlopment Of The Guided Missile By Kenneth W Gatland (1954) London: Iliffe & Sons. Second Edition. Together W...

American Interest PRE-HISTORIC RACES OF THE UNITED STATES By JW Foster (1873) Chicago: SC Griggs and Company. Second edition. Orig green cloth wi...