London: Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1743. 8vo. [152pp.] with THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English Metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..... London: Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1740. [52pp.]. Closed tear in..... More

London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1812. 25 cm. Full contemporary black straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated in gilt and blind, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of a mother..... More

London: Printed by John Jarvis, 1792. 23 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt rules, gilt decorations and blind tooling on boards, flat spine with gilt rules, ornaments, and title, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers (split to front endpaper). All edges gilt, with a colored painting of the “Priory, Christchurch..... More

(London): Printed by order of the trustees (by Woodfall & Kinder, London), 1870. First edition. 12mo. 48 pp. More than 200 items described. Frank W. Hackett's copy, with his ownership signature, dated 14 October 1872, at the head of the front wrapper, his annotations filling the verso of the front..... More

Small blue-green cloth album, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., some old staining and fading to edges of front cover, "Kodak" stamped in black on front board. Stiff card album pages, with cut out frames, one 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. photo per page (one frame empty). The images..... More

London: for the Booksellers, 1821. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 122pp., errata slip. The leaf containing text pages 7 & 8 has been bound in in reverse. Letters regarding the trial of Queen Caroline, wife of George IV, who had been accused of an adulterous affair with an Italian man named Bartolomeo..... More

London: For Private Circulation Only, nd [1893]. 8vo.; 12pp. Original printed light blue wrappers (somewhat foxed). Very good copy. Offered with DR. G.H. JONES' IMPROVED TORPEDO GUARD FOR SHIPS OF WAR [caption title]. (London: np, 1894). Folio (3) pp. Self-wrappers; folded as for filing. Very good copy. Two publications endorsing..... More

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1900-1902]. First edition. 4to. Three volumes: xix, 124; iv, 297; xiv, 161, viii, 92, 11 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings and designs, plates, some engraved, some in color, facsimiles, etc., patterned endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown of volume one, else very good..... More

Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street, [1850's]. 2 volumes. 22cm. xviii, 304 pp. two hundred woodcuts in text, 20 colored etchings; xii, 308pp. with numerous woodcuts within the text and ten colored engravings. Three quarter brown leather with marbled boards, all edges gilt. Spine with raised bands, gilt stamped..... More

Excusam Londini: Pro Francisco Coldocko, 1577. First edition. Small 8vo (14 cm.). (12), 296 pp. Title framed within a wide ornamental border. Colophon: "Londini, Ex typographia Henrici Middletoni, 1577." Written in 1547 but unpublished during Ascham's life, this anti-clerical work, an attack of the mass and the priesthood, appeared a...... More

[Moseley, Worcestershire]: 1886-1887. Manuscript of local travels. 4to. (114) pp. Sectional title pages for the several excursions. Illustrated with 17 pen-and-ink sketches and vignettes, 3 nicely finished in watercolor, 5 pen-and-ink maps, with walking routes highlighted in red, 13 mounted photographs, with captions, mounted clippings, and a few pieces of..... More

Londini: Excudebat Melch. Bradwoodus, 1606. Third edition, following those of 1600 and 1603 (another 1606 printing includes the date "1600" in the title instead of 1606, as here). Small 4to (18 cm.) (6), 82 pp. Title within wide ornamental border. Cf Lowndes: "In this collection of epitaphs [from Westminster Abbey]..... More