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Florence: Scala, 2011. First Edition. Large square format, 501pp., (3), grey boards, black and white photo-illustrated dust jacket, parallel text in English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French and Italian.Small abrasion at the head of the spine and fait wear mark to the base of the text block. More about The Story of Nude Photogrpahy
Manila: Bookmark, 1967. First Edition. Two volumes, octavo, xvi 662pp., vii (1) 682pp., b&w illustrations, grey boards, illustrated dust jackets with red lettering. Minor wear mark to the base of each text block, light creasing and wear to the corners of the dust jackets. Both volumes signed by the author... More about The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1855-1857. First Edition in original parts. (20 Parts published in 19). Housed in a custom made silk solander box with leather labels. All plates present including the dark plates and the Frontispiece and Vignette Title. Includes Rigaud for Blandois at Part 15 (ten times as per... More about Little Dorrit
Hoboken: Privately Published, 1929. Limited Edition. Full calf. Octavo, pp (10) comprising 2 blanks, half title, 2 blanks, illustrated frontispiece, title page, limitation page, "Letter the First", 1 blank, 211, (1) Blank, 11 unnumbered coloured illustrations after Aubrey Beardsley. Fine binding by Karen McGuire in polished green calf with gilt... More about The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Or The Life Of Fanny Hill
London: John Murray, 1813. Half leather. Octavo, (8) Comprising 2 blank, half title, 1 blank, title page, 1 blank, Dedication, 1 blank, Contents, lv, (1) Blank, 525pp, (1) Errata, (4) Blank. Rebound in half leather with cloth boards, original bookplates and ownership inscription re-mounted. The blanks and half title are... More about Collections from the Greek Anthology; and from the pastoral, elegaic and dramatic poets of Greece
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street. 1828. Third edition. Complete in two volumes, octavo, recased in half calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Volume one: (2) Blank, xvi, 346pp, (2) Advertisement, folding map frontispiece (expertly repaired). Slight foxing and occasional soil mark. Volume two: (2) blank, viii... More about Two Years in New South Wales; Comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that Colony;...
London: Aylott and Jones, 8, Paternoster-Row, 1848. Third Edition. [Presented to George Ranken by Samuel Robinson]. Octavo, pp. xviii, 862, (2) Advertisements, half title, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, Appendix. Half leather with five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine, all edges speckled, marbled endpapers. Presentation slip on lined paper... More about The Modern Orator; Volume II: The Speeches of the Right Honourable James Fox in the House of Commons
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First Edition in book form. Octavo, pp. xvi, 609, 43 illustrations by Seymour and "Phiz" plus frontis and vignette title in first states, with 32 further illustrations by Thomas Onwyn (75 illustrations in total). Lacks half-title and Buss plates, the Seymour plates are a mix... More about Pickwick Papers
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First Edition. Full calf. Octavo (20.8 x 13cm), pp. viii, 190, 14 illustrations including portrait frontispiece and vignette title-page, 2pp tipped in front wrapper of the original Part V of Edwin Drood, August 1870. Handsomely bound in full tan polished calf with five raised bands... More about The Mystery of Edwin Drood
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Full calf. Octavo (20.9 x 13cm), pp. xi, 624, 40 illustrations by Phiz including the vignette title page. Handsomely bound in full tan polished calf with five raised bands to the spine, tooled and gilt blocked panels, title panel in slightly darker tan and author... More about Bleak House
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First Edition in book form. Full calf. Octavo (21 x 13.5cm), pp. (2) blank, xiv, 625, (2) blank, 40 illustrations by H.K. Browne including the vignette title page and eight dark plates. All internal flaws present as called for by Smith. Handsomely bound in full... More about Little Dorrit
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1978. Limited Edition. Folio, 91pp + (1) blank, loosely inserted a signed print of the Blue ring Angel-fish. Half navy morocco over blue-rey felt covered boards, gilt ruled and lettered in gilt on the spine. Limited to 350 copies numbered and signed by the artist. No. 45/350... More about Pisces Tropicani; An artist's collection of portraits of twenty-six species of coral reef fishes,...
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1950. First Thus. Octavo, uniformly bound by Karen McGuire in half leather over blue boards, blind tooled borders, gilt devices on the spines and lettering in gilt on red leather title and author panels, new cream endpapers. Pride and Prejudice, pp. v, (1), 337, 16... More about The Works of Jane Austen; Illustrated by Charles E. Brock
Sydney: Cassell and Co., 1948-1956. First Australian Edition. Half leather. [Fine binding] Octavo, uniformly bound by Karen McGuire in half leather over cloth covered boards. Complete in six volumes. Volume One (1948): The Gathering Storm. Original endpapers, pp xv, (1) blank, 640, all maps and diagrams as called for. Volume Two... More about The Second World War
Hinged wooden box with two latches and a tin handle containing a Collection of Papers pertaining to Frederick Waymouth Gibbs,C.B., Q.C. and tutor to the Prince of Wales for six years (1852-1858). The Papers include six leaves removed from Gibbs’s Diary for the years 1857 and 1858, recording mostly his activities..... More about Frederick Waymouth Gibbs (1821-1898) Collection of Papers ; A small archive
London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, St Martin’s Lane, 1870. Reprinted by the Southwold Press Lts, 1969. Blue stapled wraps, 20pp. Staples rusted and spine tanned. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force an entry into the State Paper Office and the permit wrung from..... More about The Royal Christian Martyr; St. Edmund, The Last King of East Anglia
London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, St Martin’s Lane, 1870. Pamphlet. Reprinted by the Southwold Press Lts, 1969. Blue stapled wraps, 20pp. Dark tan stains along foreedges of cover and internal leaves, light tanning along foot of front cover. Spine slightly faded. “Miss Strickland was the..... More about The Royal Christian Martyr; St. Edmund, The Last King of East Anglia
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. First Edition. Cloth. Red cloth and gilt. Octavo, xv, 392pp., 24pp. publisher’s catalogue.An externally bright copy, some foxing to first and last gatherings. Affectionately inscribed to Charlotte Foster with the editor’s love on the half title. Loosely inserted an advertisement from the Eastern Daily..... More about Life of Agnes Strickland
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. First Edition. Cloth. Red cloth and gilt. Octavo, xv, 392pp., 24pp. publisher’s catalogue. Spine faded, head and foot pushed and slightly abraded, some marks to the boards, very good interior if a little age toned to edges of leaves. A review from The Times..... More about Life of Agnes Strickland
London: George Bell and Sons, 1888. Cloth. Revised edition. Presentation copy from the editor to her dear friend Mrs Charles Foster. Octavo, xxviii, 496pp., 24pp. Catalogue of Bohn’s Libraries. Blindstamped red cloth, gilt title on spine, black eps. Spine faded, a couple of marks on top board, light foxing to..... More about Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses
London: Henry Colburn, 1850. First Edition. Cloth. Inscribed by the author at the half title. Green cloth and gilt. Octavo, xii, 400pp., 4pp. advertisements. Crest book plate of Christie of Cowden and Glenfarq on front pastedown. Spine a little faded, head and foot pushed, very slight lean, top edge dust... More about Historic Scenes and Poetic Fancies
London: Henry Colburn, 1850. First Edition. Three quarter leather. Copy presented to Alderman Miss G.F.J. Foster J.P. with the Town Clerk’s Compliments (on Southwold Town Hall slip of paper loosely inserted). Octavo, xii, 400pp., three quarter black leather over black boards, all edges marbled, matching marbled endpapers, the name Lindfield..... More about Historic Scenes and Poetic Fancies
London: Bell and Daldy, 1874. Cloth. Inscribed to Charlotte Foster from Jane Margaret Strickland. Octavo, xxviii, (2), 377pp. Purple boards with gilt title on spine. Spine faded, a little shaken, corners bumped. Bookplate of Georgina Gertrude Foster by T. Rough, minor foxing to half title, frontis portrait and illustrated title... More about Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart
London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1861. First Edition. Three quarter calf. Presentation Copy. Octavo, uniformly bound with The Lives of the Queens of England in tan three quarter calf over yellow marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, five raised ridges to spine, red panel with gilt title, black panel with author’s..... More about Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England