Books and Works on Paper

Annual Register (The), vol. 1-2, and 4-26, plus index vol. for 1758-1780, together 26 vol., reprints, occasional worming, uniformly bound in hands...

Anquetil (Louis Pierre) A Summary of Universal History, 9 vol., first English edition, very occasional spotting, vol. 3, 6 & 9 with cloth repair t...

NO RESERVE Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4 vol., extra illustrated by the insertion of over 120 portraits and views, occasional spot...

Braybrooke (Richard Lord, editor) Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portraits and folding map, some spotting and off-settin...

British Essayists (The), 40 vol., some engraved frontispieces, bookplates of Helena and Charles McCann, contemporary plum straight-grain morocco s...

Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne) [Novels], 12 vol., "Thornton Edition", edited by Temple Scott, plates, modern aubergine half morocco over marbled...

Browning (Robert) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Letters, 2 vol., later green half morocco, gilt, spines slightly faded, New York and London,...

Burke (Edmund) The Works..., 16 vol., 8vo, nineteenth century polished calf, spines gilt with contrasting morroco labels, vol. 15 & 16 non uniform...

Burnet (Gilbert) The History of the Reformation, 3 vol. in 6, engraved vignettes to title, bookplates, occasional foxing, contemporary tan morocco...

Carlyle (Thomas) [The Works], one of 315 deluxe edition copies, engraved frontispieces and some plates, ink ownership inscriptions to titles, book...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Marlborough, His Life and Times, 4 vol., first edition, half-titles, numerous plates and maps, plenty folding, som...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) Marlborough, His Life and Times, 4 vol., first edition, plates and maps, some folding and in colour, occasional fa...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) [War Speeches], 7 vol., first editions, half titles, frontispieces and plates, occasional foxing, modern grey moro...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., first edition, numerous maps and illustrations, some in colour, many folding, modern...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first edition, illustrations, modern red half morocco, spines g...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, 8 vol., first collected edition, handsomely bound in burgundy half morocco, spine...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) and Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Complete Correspondence, 3 vol., first edition, edited by Warren F. Kimball, illust...

[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". The Writings, 25 vol., "Hillcrest Edition", frontispieces and illustrations, vol. 2 slightly water-stai...

Darwin (Charles) The Descent of Man, 2 vol., first edition, a little spotting to preliminaries, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines...

De Quincey (Thomas) [Works], 16 vol., plates, handsomely bound in contemporary red calf by Tout, gilt, vol. 1 spine foot nicked, vol. 15 a couple ...

Defoe (Daniel) The Novels & Selected Writings, 14 vol., large paper edition, frontispieces, modern burgundy half morocco over marbled boards, spin...

Dickens (Charles) [The Works], 15 vol., wood engraved frontispieces and plates, final leaf and endpaper at end of Little Dorrit, contemporary tan ...

Dinet (Étienne) and Sliman Ben Ibrahim, The Life of Mohammad the Prophet of Allah, one of 875 copies, colour plates by E. Dinet, ornamental illust...

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) [The Works], 12 vol., "Author's Edition", one of 1000 copies signed by the author, photogravure plates by Arthur Twidle a...

Dumas (Alexandre) [Works], 32 vol., one of a 1000 copies, plates, contemporary red half morocco, spines gilt, some wear to spine ends, New York, n...

Edgeworth (Maria) [Tales and Novels], 18 vol., additional titles and frontispieces, small book label to pastedowns, contemporary blue half calf ov...

Fielding (Henry) The Works, 10 vol., plates, bookplates, contemporary burgundy half morocco, spines gilt, spines uniformly slightly faded, spine e...

Fielding (Henry) The Works, 10 vol., engraved frontispieces and a few plates, the odd spot, vol. 1 upper hinge starting, contemporary calf, reback...

Franklin (Benjamin) The Complete Works, 10 vol., one of 600 copies, this letter Q marked 'Presentation Copy', edited by John Bigelow, plates, mode...

Frazer (Sir James George) The Golden Bough: Study in Magic and Religion, 13 vol., frontispiece, occasional browning, modern tan half morocco, spin...

Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., mixed early editions, vol. 1 second edition, vol. 2 & 3 new editi...

Goldsmith (Oliver) The Works, 12 vol., Wakefield Edition, from an edition limited to 500, additional decorative titles, letterpress titles in red ...

Greville (Charles C.F.) The Greville Memoirs, 8 vol., contemporary olive green half morocco, spines uniformly discoloured to brown, 1874-87; and 5...

Hemingway (Ernest) The Sun Also Rises, first edition, second issue, modern black half morocco, spine gilt with tan morocco labels, New York, 1927;...

Hodgkin (Thomas) Italy and Her Invaders, 8 vol. in 9, vol. 1-2 second editions, vol. 3-8 first editions, maps and plates, most in colour, a few in...

Jackson (Catherine Charlotte, Lady) [French Historical Works], 14 vol., first edition, engraved portraits, contemporary blue calf, gilt, by Zaehns...

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol., sixth edition, half-title to vol. 1, engraved portrait frontispiece, modern calf wi...

Jonson (Ben) The Dramatic Works, 4 vol., 3 engraved portraits, bookplates, some off-setting and spotting, contemporary diced calf, gilt, rebacked,...

Knight (Charles) Half-Hours with the Best Authors, 4 vol., engraved portraits, slightly off-setting, contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt with red...

Lingard (John) A History of England, 14 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, bookplates, occasional foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, spines richl...

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) The Complete Works, 3 vol., signed by author on title of vol. 1, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary brown h...

Marryat (Frederick) [Novels], 7 vol., "King's Own Edition", frontispieces and plates, modern blue half calf, spines ornately gilt with green moroc...

NO RESERVE Marx (Karl) Capital, A Critique of Political Economy, 3 vol., edited Friedrich Engels, light marginal browning, modern red half morocco...

Metastasio (Pietro) Opere , 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes to titles, bookplates, attractively bound in contemporary v...

Milton (John) Thomas Moore, Francis Bacon and others. The Complete History of England: with the Lives of all the Kings and Queens Thereof, 3 vol.,...

Milton (John) The Poetical Works, 6 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, vol. 1 with 6ff. manuscript notes in contemporary hand bound at front, v...

Mitford (William) The History of Greece , 8 vol., engraved vignette titles, minor foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, a pretty set, 1835; and 97 othe...

Morris (Rev. F.O.) A Series of Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, 7 vol., additional vignette titles and p...

Paine (Thomas) Life and Writings, 10 vol., "Independence Edition", number 37 of 500 copies, frontispieces in colour and other plates, modern grey ...

Plutarch. [Lives], 5 vol., ink ownership inscription front endpaper, very faint marginal browning, twentieth century aubergine half morocco, spine...

Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes..., 8 vol., number 20 of 500 copies, half-titles, 16 photogravure plates, contemporary red h...

Ruskin (John) The Stone of Venice, 3 vol., signed by the author at end of preface plates, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spines with red and green ...

Scott (Sir Walter) [The Waverley Novels], 24 vol., "The Border Edition", etched frontispieces and plates, modern red half calf, spines gilt, most ...

Secret Court Memoirs..., 20 vol., one of 500 copies, plates, contemporary burgundy half morocco, gilt, a few spines slightly faded and heads nicke...

Shakespeare (William) The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare, 8 vol., edited by Charles Knight, numerous illustrations, some foxing, ma...

Shakespeare (William) The Works, 2 vol., "Imperial Edition", edited by Charles Knight, engraved plates, foxing to endpapers, original red morocco ...

Spenser (Edmund) The Faeries Queene... To which are now added a new Life of the Author, 3 vol., 32 double-page engraved plates by William Kent, al...

Stevenson (Robert Louis) [Novels], 10 vol., frontispieces, twentieth century red half morocco, gilt, 2 vol. with small nicks at spine head, otherw...

Strickland (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, 6 vol., engraved portrait frontispieces, contemporary purple half calf, spines gilt but faded, ...

Surtees (Robert Smith) [Sporting Novels], 8 vol., three first editions, hand-coloured plates and illustrations, occasional spotting, contemporary ...