London: The Camberwell Press, 1996. Folio. First edition. An edition of 300 copies. This is 34/225 copies signed by Professor Eileen Hogan of Camberwell College of Arts. (The other 75 were produced in a folder with a set of ten prints.) Dark green leather spine. Boards, reproducing a marbled paper.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1963. Crown 8vo. 4 volumes in cloth-covered slipcase. First impressions thus. Original various coloured cloths with a rectangular panel on each front cover blocked in gold with Joan Hassall's Nonesuch Cygnet device. Top edges stained in different colours. In clear acetate jackets. Illustrated respectively by John.....
London & New York: Constable & Co. Ltd and Gabriel Wells, 1924-34. 8vo. 10 volumes, set. Limited edition of 675 sets. Original plum cloth with black leather labels on the spies, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait frontispieces. Spines a little faded. A few of the spine labels are.....
London: J. Wallis and Richard Phillips and Hurst, Robinson, and Co, 1803-24. 8vo. 26 volumes (bound as 25), set. Contemporary full polished tree calf with gilt tooling to the spines and red and black leather labels. Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood from Original Designs. Numerous illustrations throughout. Folding.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. 8vo. 10 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1030 copies (of which 1000 were for sale). Original brick red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. The first and last volumes of Tom Jones have been knocked towards the top of the spines. Covers.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. 8vo. 7 volumes, set. Limited edition of 530 copies (of which 500 were for sale). Original red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. Spines uniformly faded. A few corners gently pushed. Light foxing to the fore edges. Contents clean. Near fine. Tristram.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd & Smith, Elder and Company, 1903-4. 8vo. 15 volumes, set. Limited edition of 775 copies. Contemporary full straight grain red morocco by Birdsall of Northampton, with five raised bands, gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece in volume 1. Just a little scuffing.....
Shaftesbury and London: The Author and Charles Knight and Co., e.t.c., 1823. Large 4to. First and only edition. Large-paper copy. Recent sprinkled calf leather spine and corners, black leather title label, over marbled paper boards. New endpapers. Thirteen engraved plates (including one not listed in the Description of Embellishments) of.....
Paternoster-Row, London: H. D. Symonds, 1797-8. 8vo. 15 volumes, set. Uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt, with black leather spine labels, 'Barr's Buffon'. The first ten volumes are 'Quadrupeds' and the last five volumes are 'Birds'. Top edges stained brown, others yellow with red speckles. Numerous engraved illustrations throughout.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Folding map and black and white photographic plate section at the back. Fine in fine d/w.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003. Small 4to. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. One section each of colour and black and white plates. Fine in fine d/w.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 4to. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white and with two colour plate sections. Mint in d/w.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965-78. 4to. 3 volumes, set. Volumes 1 & 2 published in 1965, volume 3 in 1978. First editions. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges stained green. Black and white photographic plate section at the end of volume 2. Volumes 1 & 2 have the book label.....
Boston: Special Publications, 1959. 4to. First edition. Limited edition of 2000 copies. Original maroon buckram, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Spine slightly faded. Bottom corners a bit pushed. Worn slipcase, previously repaired with tape has come apart again. Very good +. Uncommon.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original brown buckram, gilt. Top edges stained brown. Colour frontispiece in each volume. Black and white photographic plate section in volume 2 and numerous drawings by the author. Nick to the top edge of the front panel of the.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section and four maps. D/w spine a little faded and edges very slightly rubbed and dust-soiled. Fine in near fine d/w. The last volume of Hill's quartet, following Medieval Lincoln (1948), Tudor.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Two maps including one folding at the end showing Lincolnshire. Black and white plate section at the back. Top edge lightly spotted. D/w a little rubbed and slightly foxed in places. Near fine in very good.....
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1968. Folio. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained pink. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Book label of Gwyneth Anne Kenney on the front pastedown under the front flap. D/w a little rubbed, dust-soiled and nicked with a very small.....
New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1971. 4to. Reprint. First edition thus. First published in 1807. Original laminated paper covers. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Spine faded. Laminate lifting from the bottom corner of the front cover. Near fine.
London: John Tiranti Limited, 1946. Folio. Second impression of this edition (first impression in 1937). First published in 1807. Original quarter grey cloth with blue paper-covered boards. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Short tear to the cloth at the bottom of the spine. Boards a bit tanned and dust-soiled.....
London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, 1904-8. Folio. 4 volumes, set. Rebound in uniform navy buckram, gilt. With Plates in Colour after Shirley Slocombe, and numerous Illustrations selected and arranged by the Author. Bindings a bit faded. Contents clean. A fine set. The last volume was originally to be called, 'The.....
Washington, D.C. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1994. Landscape 4to. First edition. Original beige buckram, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine d/w. The third volume in the series of Dumbarton Oaks Reprints and Facsimiles in Landscape Architecture. This volume reproduces the text and.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1946. 8vo. Third impression, October 1946. First published in August 1945 and reprinted the same month. Original blue cloth, lettered in white on the spine. Spine cocked and faded. A little light foxing to the top edge and endpapers. Neat ink ownership of Edward John Kenney.....
London: Chapman & Hall, [1948]. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle. Slightly cocked. Label on front pastedown for the Percy Pemberton Prize, Trinity College Cambridge. Neat ink ownership on verso of fly. Near fine. 'Mr Joyboy was waiting for.....