THE BRONTË SISTERS. The Complete Novels. Introduction by ... CRW Publishing Limited 2006.
Collector’s Library Eds. 4to. 892pp. Numerous b/w. ills. Marbled e.ps., upper leading corner of lower board bumped, otherwise good in d/w. very lightly faded to spine, a.e.g.
Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Jane Eyre. The Professor. Shirley. Villette. Wuthering Heights.
£25.00 [ref: 289160]
CHAUCER’S KNIGHT. The Portrait of a medieval mercenary. Methuen 1985.
New Ed. xii + 321pp. Many ills. Original wrapps.
Inscribed ‘To Gordon Chaucerian regards Terry Jones’.
£25.00 [ref: 293778]
COWPER, Illustrated by a Series of Views, In, or Near, The Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks. Vernor and Hood ...James Storer and John Greig ... 1803.
1st Ed. Large paper copy. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Additional engraved title page, 12 plates engraved by Grieg and Storer after their illustrations. Light age toning, rebound in C20th gilt fillet edged red half calf with brown cloth, gilt lettering and gilt motifs to lightly faded spine.
With the affixed bookplates of: William Cowper (1690-1740) was the Clerk of the Parliaments, responsible for the operation of the House of Commons and House of Lords. He also advised the Speaker and Members on parliamentary procedure; J. Cowper MDCCC; Henry Cowper Esq.(1758-1840), Lawyer.
Loosely inserted are two Panshanger bookplates (one of the Cowper seats), Wrest Park bookpate and one other.
EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with Mrs Cowper Mother of the Poet Pinx D. Heinz, W. Blake sculpt 1802; Stipple engraved portrait of William Cowper Esq. after T. Lawrence engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi; stipple engraved portrait of William Cowper engraved by Maddochs; engraved portrait; Stipple engraving of William Cowper by William Blake, after Sir Thomas Lawrence 1802 (1793); Portrait of William Cowper engraved by William Blake, after George Romney (1734-1802), and printed on Blakes own Press by his Wife Catherine, captioned 'From a Portrait in Crayons Drawn from the Life by Romney in 1792. Engraved by W. Blake 1802. William Cowper Carmine Nobilem. Publish'd Novembr: 5, 1802, by J. Johnson, St. Pauls Church Yard'; from the first state of William Hayley's, Life of Cowper, 1803; William Cowper engraved by Greatbach after George Romney; ‘Motto on a Clock’ engraved by Blake published No. 5 1802 by J. Johnson St Pauls Church Yard.
The Blake plates extracted from Hayley’s ‘The Life, and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq.’
£1,000.00 [ref: 291695]
THE LETTERS OF DANIEL DEFOE. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955.
1st Ed. [xxii] + 506pp. + [ii]. Port. frontis. E.ps. spotted, original gilt lettered burgundy cloth, some minor damp spotting towards fore-edge of upper board and lower leading corner of lower board
£25.00 [ref: 285145]
DICKENS AND THE TOY THEATRE. A Short Anthology of Quotations compiled by ... together with Full Facsimile Re-Prints of Toy-Theatre Plays. Pollock’s Toy Museum 1993.
[xii] + [106] + 8pp. Colour frontis., 4pp. musical examples, numerous plates. From the library of Author, Rebound in gilt lettered modern navy cloth.
£60.00 [ref: 286188]
DICKENS AND THE CITY. Ashgate Publishing 2012.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. [xxviii] + 556pp. Good in original gilt lettered green cloth, very lightly browned to spine.
A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens.
£75.00 [ref: 286534]
LETTERS FROM EDWARD FITZGERALD TO BERNARD QUARITCH 1853 to 1883. Bernard Quaritch Ltd. 1926.
1st Ed. Slim 8vo. [x] + 135pp. + [i]. Colour port. frontis., 5 b/w. plates. [Without errata slip sometimes present]. E.ps. lightly browned and spotted, gilt lettered dark blue cloth, faded to spine, t.e.g. rest uncut.
£35.00 [ref: 288844]
THOMAS HARDY: FAMILY HISTORY. With a New Introduction by Norman Page. Routledge/Thoemmes Press 1998.
1st Ed. 5 vols. Ills. Original gilt lettered buckram.
£125.00 [ref: 260624]
RURITANIA. The Cultural History, from The Prisoner of Zenda to the Princess Diaries. OUP 2020.
1st Ed., 1st Imp. [xii] + 251pp. + [ix] blank. 8 plates, 23 ills. Very good in d/w.
£25.00 [ref: 292579]
PIERRE LOTI. The Romance of a Great Writer. T.Werner Laurie Ltd. 1926.
[x] + 253pp. + [i] + [iv] publ. adverts. Port. frontis., 14 ills. Very light marginal browning, fore and lower edge uncut, lightly rubbed maroon cloth with paper title label to upper board and spine, corners sl. bumped, spine faded with label browned.
£25.00 [ref: 289076]