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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: SHAKESPEARE'S COMPLETE WORKS, ALSO DR JOHNSON'S PREFACE, A GLOSSARY, SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE AND AN ACCOUNT OF EACH PLAY,...

JOHN RUSKIN: 2 titles: THE ART OF ENGLAND, LECTURES GIVEN IN OXFORD, Orpington, Kent, George Allen, 1884, 4to, contemporary half calf worn; THE ST...

ADRIAN HAMILTON: THE INFAMOUS ESSAY ON WOMAN, OR JOHN WILKES SEATED BETWEEN VICE AND VIRTUE, London, Andre Deutsch, 1972, (2000) out of series, 2 ...

ANDRE MAUROIS: LES SILENCES DU COLONEL BRAMBLE, ill R Moritz, Paris, Editions Kra, 1929 (1000) on velin de rives coloured ills, contemporary three...

THE CAMPBELL DIVORCE CASE COPIOUS REPORT OF THE TRIAL, ill Harold Furniss, London, Palmer & Co, 1886, 1st edition, 2 wood engraving ports, contemp...

[PIERRE-JOSEPH BOUDIER DE BILLEMERT]: PENSEES PHILOSOPHIQUES SUR LA NATURE L'HOMME ET LA RELIGION, Paris, Chez Royez, 1784-86, 1st edition, 4 vols...

ANNE THERESE DE MARGUENAT DE COURCELLES MARQUISE DE LAMBERT: OEUVRES, Paris, Chez Ganeau Bauche Fils [et] Durand, 1761, Nouvelle Editions, 2 vols,...

MARIE LOUISE ROSE LEVESQUE AFTERWARDS PETIGNY DE SAINT-ROMAIN: IDYLLES DE CONTES CHAMPETRES, Paris, Chez Bailly, Hardouin & Gattey Didot 1786, 1st...

PIETRO METASTACIO: OPERE, Milano, Giovanni Silvestri, 1822, 4 vols, contemporary vellum, spines decorative gilt, morocco gilt spine labels (4)

FRANCOIS RABELAIS: LES CINQUE LIVRES DE F RABELAIS..., ill E Boilvin, Paris Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1876, 5 vols, 11 plates, contemporary quar...

VICTOR HUGO: L'HOMME QUI RIT, Paris, J Hetzel, circa 1895, 3 vols, contemporary quarter crimson morocco marbled boards (3)

[THOMAS HUGHES]: TOM BROWN SCENES DE LA VIE DE COLLEGE EN ANGLETERRE OUVRAGE IMITE DE L'ANGLAIS AVEC L'AUTORISATION DE L'AUTEUR PAR J LEVOISIN [IE...

JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN: FABLES DE FLORIAN, ill J J Grandville, Paris, Garnier Freres [1858], new edition, added engraved title, 81 plates, ...

SAMUEL JOHNSON: THE BEAUTIES OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LLD CONSISTING OF MAXIMS AND OBSERVATIONS..., London for G Kearsley et al, 1797, 9th edition, engra...

JOHN MILTON: JOANNIS MILTON ANGLI PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO CONTRA CLAUDII ANONYMI ALIAS SALMASII DEFENSIONEM REGIAM, [Pro Populo Anglicano De...

SIR WALTER SCOTT: LETTERS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT ADDRESSED TO THE REV R POLWHELE, D GILBERT ESQ, FRANCIS DOUCE ESQ ETC, London, J P Nichols & Son, 18...

SIR WALTER SCOTT: THE POETICAL WORKS, London, Frederick Warne, circa 1880, fine polished tree calf gilt, spine elaborate gilt in compartments + AU...

NORMAN DOUGLAS: PANEROS, SOME WORDS ON APHRODISIACS AND THE LIKE, Florence, G Orioli, 1930 (250) numbered (244) and signed, issued to subscribers ...

RAPINDRANATH TAGORE: GITANJALI (SONG OFFERINGS), intro W B Yeats, London, The Chiswick Press for The India Society 1912, (750) (250), engraved por...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD III WITH THE LANDING OF THE EARL OF RICHMOND AND THE BATTLE AT BOSWORTH-FIELD, London, printed fo...

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA: THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE...TO WHICH IS PREFIXED SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE BY T...

THE VICTORIA ANNUAL FOR 1844, ill Justin Loeven, London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans [1844], 1st edition, 18 chromolitho leaves complete with...

GEORGE HERBERT RODWELL: THE MEMOIRS OF AN UMBRELLA, ILLUSTRED WITH SIXTY-EIGHT ENGRAVINGS BY LANDELLS FROM DESIGNS BY BHIZ, London, E MacKenzie [1...

OSBERT LANCASTER: SCENE CHANGES, London, John Murray, 1978, 1st edition, signed, original cloth gilt, d/w

GUY DE MAUPASSANT: BOULE DE SUIF, intro Arthur Symons, ill F Thevenot, London, William Heinemann, 1899, (500) on Japanese vellum, original paper c...

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: EVANGELINE, A TALE OF ACADIE, ill Jane E Benham, Birket Foster and John Gilbert, London, Bell & Daldy, 1866, original ...

EMILY AND ANNE BRONTE: WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY ELLIS BELL AND AGNES GREY BY ACTON BELL, biographical notice by Charlotte Bronte, London, W Nicholson ...

JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER: 2 titles: PRECAUTION, A NOVEL, London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1860, new edition, revised by the author, engraved fr...

SAMUEL PEPYS: THE DIARY, ed Henry B Wheatley, London, G Bell & Sons, 1923, 8 vols, contemporary half mottled calf marbled boards, spines gilt in c...

HENRIK IBSEN: THE WORKS, trans William & Charles Archer, Boston and New York, Jefferson Press, [1913?], 12 vols in 6, half blue morocco marbled bo...

JANE AUSTEN: LOVE AND FREINDSHIP AND OTHER EARLY WORKS NOW PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS, preface G K Chesterton, London, Chatto & Windus, 1922, 3r...

SIR ARTHUR CONAN-DOYLE: THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD, ill W B Wollen, London, George Newnes, 1896, 1st edition, 8p catalogue of adverts at end...

ETIENNE BONNOT DE CONDILLAC: OEUVRES COMPLETES, Paris, Lecointe et Durey, 1822, 16 vols, contemporary half calf worn, green morocco gilt, spine la...

UMAR IBN MUHAMMED AL-NEFZAWI: THE PERFUMED GARDEN, A MANUAL OF ARABIAN EROTOLOGY, Paris, Librarie "Astra" [1934], original wraps, very soiled

W W JACOBS: 18 titles: THE SKIPPERS WOOING AND THE BROWN MAN'S SERVANT, London, C Arthur Pearson, 1897, 1st edition, 3rd issue, 8pp adverts at end...

[JOSEPH ADDISON & RICHARD STEELE]: DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY, ill Hugh Thomson, London, MacMillan, 1892, 3rd edition, some news cuttings pas...

SIR WALTER SCOTT: THE POETICAL WORKS, ed J G Lockhart, Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1882, added engraved vignette title, 24 plates and folding...

JAMES ELROY FLECKER: HASSAN..., London, William Heinemann, 1923, (380) (350) numbered (116), original cloth, d/w

JANE AUSTEN: 2 titles PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ill Charles E Brock, London, J M Dent, 1922, original cloth; SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, ill Charles E Brock...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE DRAMATICK WORKS, Edinburgh, 1792, 7 vols, engraved vignette titles, old calf worn (7)

JOSEPH CUNDALL (ED): THE GREAT WORKS OF RAPHAEL SANZIO OF URBINO, London, Bell & Daldy, 1866, 2nd edition, 30 photographic plates, 4to, original d...

SIR WALTER SCOTT: WAVERLEY NOVELS, London, Adam & Charles Black, 1897, 25 vols, contemporary half red morocco gilt, spines gilt in compartments, t...

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY: THE WORKS, London, Smith Elder, 1907-08, 14 vols, biographical edition, original cloth gilt (14)

BENVENUTO CELLINI: THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, ed John Addington Symonds, intro Thomas Craven, ill Fritz Kredel, Verona for ...

PARIS-LONDRES KEEPSAKE FRANCAIS 1842..., Paris, H L Delloye, 1842, added engraved vignette title and 25 plates as called for, vignette title loose...

JOHN MILTON: PARADISE LOST, preface Peter Ackroyd, intro John Wain, ill William Blake, London, Folio Society, 2004, 3rd printing, large 4to, origi...

ALLAN RAMSAY: THE GENTLE SHEPHERD, A PASTORAL COMEDY, ill David Allan, Edinburgh and London, W & A K Johnston, 1880, portfrontis and 12 plates as ...

GEORGE BORROW: THE WORKS, ed Clement Shorter, London, Constable & Co, New York, Gabriel Wells, 1923-24, (1775), 16 vols "Norwich" edition, numbere...

THE STRAND MAGAZINE, 1891-95, 1897-98, vols 1-7, 9-10, 13-16, all with Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle contributions including "Adventures of Sherlock Holm...

THE STRAND MAGAZINE, 1895-98 vols 9-16, all with Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's contributions including "Rodney Stone" and "The Tragedy of the Koresko",...

GEORGES MONTEORGUEIL: 3 titles: all illustrated by Count Jacques Marie Gaston de Breville "Job": FRANCE SANS HISTOIRE, Paris Librarie d'Education ...

JAMES LORD BOWES: JAPANESE ENAMELS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE ENAMELS IN THE BOWES COLLECTION, Liverpool, 1884, 1st edition, printed for private ...

CLIFFORD & YVONNE BIRD (EDS): NORFOLK AND NORWICH CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS, Chichester, Phillimore, 1996, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w + RICHARD...

W G JOHN: NANTGARW PORCELAIN, Newport, R H Johns, 1948, 1st edition, 64 plates including 23 coloured as called for, lacks supplement, 4to, origina...

GERALD COKE: IN SEARCH OF JAMES GILES (1718-1780), Wingham Kent, 1983, (250) numbered (237), 4to, original leather gilt, slip-case

GEOFFREY A GODDEN: CHAMBERLAIN-WORCESTER PORCELAIN 1788-1852, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1982, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth, d/w + HENRY SANDON...

H RISSIK MARSHALL: COLOURED WORCESTER PORCELAIN OF THE FIRST PERIOD (1751-1783), Newport Ceramic Book Co 1954, 1st edition, 4to, original cloth gi...

FRANZ SALES MEYER: A HANDBOOK OF ORNAMENT, ed Tony Birks, London, Duckworth, 1974, revised edition, oblong, 4to, original cloth, d/w

J W CALDICOTT: VALUES OF OLD ENGLISH SILVER AND SHEFFIELD PLATE, ed J Starkie Gardner, London, Bemrose, 1906, 4to, original bevelled black cloth s...

EUGENE JACQUET & ALFRED CHAPUIS: TECHNIQUE AND HISTORY OF THE SWISS WATCH, London, Spring Books, 1970, large 4to, original cloth d/w ...[more]