Amelia
by Fielding, Henry
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752. First impression with dropped pagination to page 22 of volume one, but with second impression correction to page 191 line four ("at the Folly") of volume three. With the often lacking Universal-Register-Office advertisement at end of volume two (M12r). Four twelvemo volumes ( 6 9/16 x 3 7/8 in; 167 x 99 mm).... Read More
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Fielding, Henry
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. First edition. Very Good +. First edition of one of the great novels of the eighteenth century, which “established the tradition of the comic novel in English” (ODNB). Six volumes in three, twelvemo. lxii, [2, errata], 214; [ii], 324; [ii], 370; [ii], 312; [ii], 294; [ii], 304 pp. Complete, but for final... Read More
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The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq (in 10 vols)
by Fielding, Henry
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1882. Limited to 1000 sets, this being set number 164. Ten large octavo volumes (8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 225 x 165 mm.). Contemporary full paneled speckled calf for Hopkins of Glasgow (stamped to verso of front free endpaper). Floral corner devices in gilt. Double ruled gilt borders. Five gilt ruled raised bands.... Read More
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Marius the Epicurean (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Pattinson, Alice]; Walter Pater
London: Macmillan, 1885. Second edition. Fine. Two octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 200 x 124 mm.). [1-11], 12-239, [1, blank]; [1-9], 10-218, pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson in 1904 stamp-signed in gilt "19 AP 04" on rear turn-ins. Crushed navy blue morocco, covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a symmetrical chevron-like design... Read More
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Fairies and Chimneys
by [Fine Binding - Pattinson, Alice]; Rose Fyleman
London: Methuen & Co, 1919. Fourth edition. Fine. A fine copy. Sixteenmo (6 9/16 x 4 inches; 166 x 102 mm.). 45, [1, imprint] pp. Bound by Alice Pattinson ca. 1919 in full crushed brown morocco (stamp-signed in gilt "AP" on rear turn-in). Covers with matching designs on front and rear, featuring a geometrical gilt pattern with four... Read More
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After Worcester Fight
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Fea, Allan
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 136 mm.). [i]-liv, 1-[268] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Fifty-one illustrations including many photogravure plates. Text leaves a little foxed. Bound by Bayntun (Rivière) Bath ca. 1948 (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full dark purple... Read More
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The Story of Marie-Antoinette
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Bicknell, Anna L.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 212 x 146 mm.). [i]-xiv, [2], 334, [2, blank] pp, twenty-seven photogravure plates. Bound ca 1960 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, front cover with a central gilt design surrounding a fine oval hand-painted portrait miniature of Marie-Antoinette... Read More
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Sketches by Boz
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Dickens, Charles; George Cruikshank (illustrator)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Fine. First book form edition of the first and second series complete in one volume with Chapman and Hall revised texts and re-engraved plates used in their Parts issue. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm.). [iii-vii]viii, [1-3]4-526. Forty inserted steel engravings. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of a duplicate... Read More
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Little Dorrit
by [Fine Binding] Dickens, Charles; Helen R. Haywood (artist)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with all twenty-one internal text flaws as noted by Smith. Octavo. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in; 216 x 138 mm). xii, 625, [1, blank] pp. Forty engraved plates by "Phiz" (H.K. Brown), including frontispiece and engraved vignette title page. With an inserted preliminary leaf printed "With... Read More
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The Essays of Elia [and] The Last Essays of Elia
by [Fine Binding - Cedric Chivers] Lamb, Charles; Charles E. Brock (illustrator)
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1904. Fifth edition. Near Fine. Two volumes bound in one, small octavo (180 x 105 mm.). xxii, 294, [1, imprint], [1, blank];, xii, 254, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations, including decorative head and tailpieces, all by Charles E. Brock. Bound ca.... Read More
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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (Extra Illustrated)
by [Fine Binding - Bayntun] Dickens, Charles
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. First issue, with no border around final plate and correct page listing in list of "Embellishments." Two octavo volumes (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 191 x 117 mm.). [i]-xix, [xx, blank], 288 pp; [i-ix, [x, blank], 263, [264, printers imprint]. Engraved frontispiece portrait in volume I, and twelve engraved plates by George... Read More
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Les Étoiles
by [Fine Binding - Meunier, Charles] Grandville, J.J., (illustrator); Joseph Mery
Paris & Leipzig: G. De Gonet & Chez Charles Twietmeyer, 1849. First edition. Two parts in one quarto volume (11 x 7 3/8 inches; 280 x 187 mm.). [4], xvi, 252; [4], 186, [2] pp. With added hand-colored wood-engraved vignette title in each part, hand-colored engraved portrait of Grandville by Ch. Geoffroy, and twelve hand-colored engraved plates (eleven in... Read More
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Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine [with:] Elia. Second Series
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Lamb, Charles
London: Taylor and Hessey [and] Edward Moxon, 1835. First edition [and] second edition. Fine. Lamb's Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia, finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark brown morocco with a dark green morocco pull-off case. Two volumes, octavo. [vi], 341; xiii, 295 pp., complete. Elaborate gilt spines in six compartments with raised... Read More
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The Essays of Elia [and] The Last Essays of Elia
by [Fine Binding - Cedric Chivers] Lamb, Charles; Charles E. Brock (illustrator)
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1900. Second edition. Fine. Two volumes bound in one, small octavo (6 15/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 177 x 103 mm.). xxii, 294, [1, imprint], [1, blank];, xii, 254, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations, including decorative head and tailpieces, all by... Read More
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India. A Birds-Eye View by the Earl of Ronaldshay
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Ronaldshay, Earl of
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1931. Later printing. Fine. (First published in 1924). Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 208 x 127 mm.). [ii], xiii, [xiv, blank], 322 pp. Twenty-four photographic plates and large folding map at end. Beautifully bound ca. 1931 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full brown crushed levant morocco, covers... Read More
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, 1928. Special edition. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x 137 mm.). [ii, blank], [iii-viii], 75, [1, imprint] pp. With twelve illustrations by Gilbert James hand-colored and heightened with gold, and printed with blue initials for each stanza. Caslon Old Face type on Studio hand-made paper, some light marginal foxing to plates, otherwise fine.... Read More
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The Golden Treasury (in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] Palgrave, Francis T.
London: Macmillan, 1902. Later printings. Fine. A beautiful set with the rather uncommon Second Series which was first published in 1897. Two small octavo volumes (6 x 3 7/8 inches; 152 x 98 mm.). [xii], 381, [1, imprint]; xii, 275, [1. blank] pp. title-page to first series with engraved vignette, title-page to second series with tinted engraved vignette.... Read More
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Le Creation
by [Fine Binding - Gonin] Schmied, Francois-Louis (illustrator); Joseph Charles Mardrus (translator)
Paris: F.K. Schmied, 1928. Number 8 of 175 copies signed by the artist, from a total edition of 195. This unique copy with two original watercolor drawings and an original color wood-engraved pochoir variant of plate XI "Le Glaive Flamboyant" which was not used. Folio (13 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 340 x 245 mm.). Printed on Velor Paper.... Read More
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The Day of the Jackal (Inscribed first edition)
by [Fine Binding] Forsyth, Frederick
London: Hutchinson, 1971. First edition. Fine. A Fine presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half-title "To/Sir Dudley/with warmest regards/Freddie Forsyth/15.11.71." Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 213 x 132 mm.). [vi], 358 pp. Pictorially bound likely by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (unsigned), ca. 1980 in full red, blue, black and white oasis morocco,... Read More
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Lady Arabella: or The Adventures of a Doll
by [Fine Binding - Bayntun of Bath] Cruikshank, George (illustrator); Miss [Julia] Pardoe
London: Kerby and Son, 1856. First edition. Fine. Small octavo (6 5/8 x 5 inches; 168 x 126 mm.). Half-title, Title Page, 88 pp. With four hand colored etchings by George Cruikshank. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full forest green crushed levant morocco. Covers ruled and decoratively bordered in gilt,... Read More
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The Life of George Cruikshank
by [Fine Binding - Kelliegram] [Cruikshank, George]; Blanchard Jerrold
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. New edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in; 180 x 116 mm). xvi, 392 pp. Nineteen black and white plates with tissue guards, sixty-five black and white text illustrations. Bound by Kelly & Sons ca. 1900 in an unusual Kelliegram (thus signed) binding of full crimson crushed morocco with gilt-decorated frame to covers,... Read More
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
by [Fine Binding - Kelliegram] White, Gilbert
London: Chiswick Press, 1837. New edition. Fine. A Fine copy. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 216 x 134 mm.). xxiv, 640 pp. Forty-five engraved vignette illustrations, with numerous engravings of flora, fauna, and landscapes in the text. Verso of front free endpaper with rectangular bookplate of Thos. D. Murphy. Bound ca. 1910 in a stunning Art... Read More
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The Wits and Beaux of Society (Extra-illustrated in 2 vols.)
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Wharton, Grace and Philip [Katherine Thomson]
London: J.W. Jarvis & Son, 1890. New Edition. Fine. A very fine pair of Cosway-Style bindings, two large octavo volumes (9 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches; 243 x 182 mm.). xxxii, 262, (2, blank); vi, 246 pp, with two frontispieces and 14 plates by H.K. Browne and James Godwin. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of sixty-eight fine engraved portraits... Read More
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Queen Margot Wife of Henry of Navarre (Extra-illustrated)
by [Fine Binding - Cosway style] Williams, H. Noel
London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Fine. Quarto (9 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 238 x 188 mm.), xviii, 409, [1, blank] pp. Colored frontispiece and nineteen photogravure plates with tissues printed in red & brown, extra-illustrated by the insertion of twenty-five engraved plates of which six are hand-colored. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun, stamp-signed in... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield
by [Fine Binding - Riviere] Oliver Goldsmith, Hugh Thomson (illustrator)
London: Macmillan & Co, 1922. Fine. A rather unusual Riviere binding from the Art-Deco period, with their gilt stamp on the front lower dentelle. Bound in contemporary full dark brown calf. Front cover with the title and a pastoral scene inlaid in colored leather. Spine with a single raised band, lettered in gilt and with an inlaid candle... Read More
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