Tolstoy. A Russian Life.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in d/w.
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The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany. With interesting reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte. Edited by the Rt. Hon. Lady Llanover. First and Second Series.
London: Richard Bentley, 1861-2. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. First and Second Series each in 3 volumes. Uniform half green morocco with green cloth boards, gilt, by Hatchards. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Marbled endpapers. Folding pedigree of the Granville family, backed with linen, bound in at the front of.....
The Red Books of Humphry Repton. Antony House (Cornwall), Attingham Park (Shropshire), Sherringham Hall (Norfolk) & Explanatory Volume by Edward Malins.
London: The Basilisk Press, 1976. Folio & 4to. 4 volumes, set. (3 quarto volumes and 1 folio). Limited edition facsimiles. #91 of 515 sets (of which 500 were for sale). Quarter red morocco with marbled boards, gilt, housed in individual slipcases within a brown box. The paper has been specially.....
Jude the Obscure. (The Wessex Novels).
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1924. 12mo. Reprint. First published in the Wessex edition in 1912. Publisher's maroon limp calf leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. With a Map of Wessex. Boards slightly bowed. Spine ends just a little rubbed. Near fine. A nice copy.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. (The Wessex Novels).
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1925. 12mo. Reprint. First published in the Wessex edition in 1912. Publisher's maroon limp calf leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. With a Map of Wessex. Short split to the back hinge at the bottom of the spine. Near fine. A lovely copy.
The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge. A Story of a Man of Character. (The Wessex Novels).
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1924. 12mo. Reprint. First published in the Wessex edition in 1912. Publisher's maroon limp calf leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. With a Map of Wessex. Boards slightly bowed. Near fine. A lovely copy.
Macmillan Pocket Leather Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. (Actions and Reactions; Barrack Room Ballads; Captains Courageous; The Day's Work; Departmental Ditties; A Diversity of Creatures; The Five Nations; From Sea to Sea and other sketches, volume I; From Sea to Sea and other sketches, volume II; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories; A Kipling Anthology: Prose; Kim; Letters of Travel 1892 – 1913; Life's Handicap; The Light that Failed; Many Inventions; The Naulahka: A Story of West and East; Plain Tales From The Hills; Puck of Pook's Hill; Rewards and Fairies; The Seven Seas; Soldiers Three, and other stories; Songs from Books; Stalky and Co.; Traffics and Discoveries; Wee Willie Winkie; The Years Between).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919-23. 12mo. 28 volumes (of 37). Publisher's limp red calf leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Some volumes illustrated. Just a little rubbing to the spine ends on some volumes. Contents clean. No ownership marks. Near fine. The missing volumes are A Book of.....
The Stones of Venice. Introductory Chapters and Local Indices (Printed Separately) for the Use of Travellers While Staying in Venice and Verona.
Orpington & London: George Allen, 1897. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Eighth edition. Half blue green leather, with floral designs to the spines in gilt, over marbled paper boards. Matching marbled paper endpapers. Top edges gilt. Spines faded. Covers a bit rubbed and marked. Ink presentations, dated September 1901, on prelims.....
A Gardener's Testament. A Selection of Articles and Notes by Gertrude Jekyll. Edited by Francis Jekyll & G.C. Taylor.
London: Country Life, 1937. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated with photographs taken at Munstead Wood. Covers a little dulled and dusty. Slight foxing to the edges. Near fine.
Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden.
London: Country Life & George Newnes Ltd, 1919. 8vo. Fourth edition. First published in 1908 as 'Colour in the Flower Garden'. Original blue cloth, gilt. Numerous black and white photographic plates and some folding garden plans. Covers a bit rubbed and dulled. A little scattered foxing. Very good +.
Wood and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 8vo. Third edition. (First published earlier the same year and there were seven impressions by 1900.) Original navy buckram, gilt. With 71 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. Spine faded. Contents clean and fresh. Near fine.
Gulliver's Travels.
London: The Cresset Press, 1930. Large 4to. 2 volumes, set. Limited edition. #48 of 195 copies on hand-made paper. Original half viridian niger with vellum boards by Wood. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Twelve engraved plates, five maps, four head- and four tail-pieces by Rex Whistler. The twelve plates were.....
Formal Gardens in England and Scotland. Their Planning and Arrangement, Architectural and Ornamental Features.
High Holborn: B. T. Batsford, 1902. Folio. First edition. Rebound in half tan morocco with green cloth boards. Five raised bands on the spine and two compartments for the author and title, gilt. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the author and fifty-three reproduced.....
The Golden Treasury. Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and arranged with notes. With additional poems.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1907. New edition updated to 1941. Jacket illustration by B. S. Biro. Neat ink ownership on fly. D/w just a little dusty. Near fine in near fine d/w. #133 in The World's Classics. A nice copy.
The Compleat Angler. With an Introduction by John Buchan and an Appendix containing a modernized text of The Arte of Angling (1577).
London: Oxford University Press, 1960. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1935. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Endpapers slightly foxed. Neat ink ownership on fly. D/w price-clipped. Near fine in near fine d/w. #430 in The World's Classics. A nice copy.
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman.
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1903. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Edward Ardizzone. D/w just a little rubbed and tanned. Fine in fine d/w. #40 in The World's Classics. A nice copy.
The Egoist. A Comedy in Narrative. With an Introduction by Lord Dunsany.
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1947. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Edges lightly spotted. D/w slightly faded on the spine and a bit dusty and marked. Near fine in near fine d/w. #508 in The World's Classics.....
The Adventures of Roderick Random.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1930. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Edward Ardizzone. D/w slightly faded on the spine, a bit rubbed and tanned and with a nick to the top edge of the front panel.....
The Natural History of Selborne.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. 16mo. Reprint. Revised, reset and illustrated. First published in this series in 1902. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. With sixteen illustrations by Edmund H. New. Small stains to the fore edge. Price-clipped d/w is a little rubbed and faded on the spine. Near fine in.....
Sybil. Or The Two Nations. With an Introduction by Walter Sichel.
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1926. First published in 1845. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Edges lightly spotted. Neat ink ownership at the top of the front pastedown (mostly hidden by the d/w flap). D/w a......
Silas Marner. The Lifted Veil. Brother Jacob. With an Introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton.
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1906. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. D/w a little faded on the spine with very slight rubbing and a couple of tiny nicks to the top edge. Near fine in near fine.....
The Life of Charlotte Bronte. With an Introduction by Clement Shorter.
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1919. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration of Haworth Parsonage by Diana Bloomfield. D/w slightly faded on the spine and a little rubbed and tanned. Near fine in near fine d/w. #214 in The World's Classics.....
The Iliad.
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by William Stobbs. D/w faded on the spine and with just a hint of rubbing. Near fine in near fine d/w. #18 in The World's Classics.
The Plays.
London: Oxford University Press, 1956. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1906. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Ronald Searle. Price-clipped d/w a little rubbed, tanned and marked. Near fine in near fine d/w. #79 in The World's Classics.
The Prince. Translated into English by Luigi Ricci. Revised by E. R. P. Vincent.
London: Oxford University Press, 1960. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1903. Revised translation first published in 1935. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by William Stobbs. Neat ink ownership on fly. Pages browned. Price-clipped d/w a little faded on the spine and rubbed. Near fine.....