London: Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings Excellent Majesty, 1686. Small 8vo. 271pp. Full leather (crackled and rubbed) over boards, recently rebacked, and with a recent red leather spine label. Signature of Griffith Boynton 3rd Baronet of Barmston (1664-1695) on front flyleaf. Bookplate... More about AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE ENGLISH MILITARY DISCIPLINE. Printed by Special Command, For the Use of His...

Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1720. Narrow 12mo. 204 unnumbered leaves. OCLC locates four copies of this edition (Claremont, Emory, Cambridge, National Library of Wales). Contemporary morocco (rubbed), gilt ornaments on spine faded), gilt-stamped ornamented leather pastedowns, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (mostly rubbed away). Solid copy of a handy edition. More about The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies...

London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. Stereotype edition. 14 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers paneled and decorated in gilt, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title, gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt, with a colored... More about THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

Oxford: Printed at Clarendon Press by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, J. Cooke, 1798. 22 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated with gilt tooling, flat spine panelled and richly gilt, with gilt title, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of Henley Bridge, on Thames... More about THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1807. 24 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, single gilt rules on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of “Durham Cathedral”... More about THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

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 about ISLE OF WIGHT PHOTO ALBUM, 23 BLACK & WHITE IMAGES, ca.1910

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 Bergami. More about LETTERS ON THE QUEEN'S TRIAL CONTAINING REMARKS ON LORD LIVERPOOL'S AND LORD GRENVILLE'S SPEECHES...

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 about OPINIONS: "THE JONES TORPEDO GUARD."

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 about THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND with THE COMIC HUMOR OF ROME.; Illustrated by John Leech

London: Virtue Brothers & Co., 26, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1866. Fifith edition. 18 cm. 130 pp., numerous illustrations. Publisher's green limp embossed cloth with gilt stamping front cover. Some wear to spine end. Charles Buce Allen was one of a number of architects who envisioned a Museum for Architecture... More about COTTAGE BUILDING; and Hints for Improved Dwellings for the Labouring Class

New York: Macmillan Company, 1938. 8vo. Frontis. portrait, vi, 387 pp. Extra-illustrated with portraits, letters, notes and autographs. Rebound in tan leather, black-lettered red cloth labels (clipped from the original binding) laid down on spine. Hinges cracked, pictorial endpapers (offsetting to rear endpaper); previous catalog description tipped in to front... More about FANNY KEMBLE: A PASSIONATE VICTORIAN

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First edition. 8vo. 352pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped spine. Previous owner's name on pastedown. Very good. More about PRIVATE JURISDICTION IN ENGLAND

London: Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street; New York, 70 Fifth Avenue, 1896. Second edition. Red cloth with gilt soldier stamped on cover, spine stamped in gilt. 8vo. 160pp., 8 illus., folding map, 32 pp. publishers catalog bound in rear. Contemporary ownership signature on half-title. Very good. More about WITH KELLY TO CHITRAL