New Haven & London: Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2004. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Photography by William Curtis Rolfe. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. The first couple of pages are partially creased. Small chip...
London: William Heinemann, 1951-60. 8vo. 6 volumes. De luxe limited editions. Original quarter vellum with navy buckram boards, stamped with Boswell's coat of arms in gilt on the upper covers and leather labels on the spines. Top edges gilt. Deckle-edge antique laid paper. Silk marker ribbons. 'London Journal' (1951) #608...
London: Country Life and George Newnes, Ltd, 1919. Folio. First edition thus. Revised and expanded from the edition of 1905 by Miss Evelyn March Phillipps (which was a smaller format in two volumes and had fewer illustrations). Original two-tone burgundy cloth, gilt. With a Venetian winged lion, gilt, to the...
London: Country Life, Limited, 1927. Folio. First edition. Original maroon buckram, gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Numerous drawings and black and white photographs throughout. Spine faded. Light wear to corner tips and spine ends and two tiny tears to the cloth towards the top edge of the back board...
London: Country Life, Limited, 1927. Folio. First edition. Recent red half-leather with red cloth sides. Spine with five raised bands and a title label in black leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Numerous drawings and black and white photographs throughout. Slight yellowing to page edges, otherwise fine. Covering the...
London: Country Life, 1914. Folio. First edition. Recent navy half-leather with blue cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands and a title label in red leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. 233 illustrations, mostly photographs in black and white. Slight foxing to the text block edges. One inch tear...
London: Country Life, 1904. Folio. First edition. Original navy birdseye cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. Black and white photographs on almost every page. Corner tips and spine ends worn. Neat ink ownership on fly. A page of the Introduction and a couple of pages of the text appear to have...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1963. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Original light olive green cloth, gilt. Printed on India-paper specially made by Robert Fletcher and Son and with divisions marked by the insertion of Japon vellum leaves. In green slipcase with cut away sides. With reproductions of 105 of the sixteenth-century...
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1957. 8vo. First edition thus. A revised, single volume edition of the editor's three volume Nonesuch publication of 1925. Original quarter red buckram with marbled paper boards, gilt. All edges speckled. Printed on India-paper specially made by Robert Fletcher and Son. In acetate jacket as issued...
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House, [1938]. 8vo. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained dark blue. D/w rubbed and nicked along top and bottom edges. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House, Inc, 1939. 8vo. Second impression. First edition in 1934. Original brown buckram with bevelled boards, gilt. Top edge stained brown. Damp-stain to margin of last fifty pages and rear endpaper, not affecting text. D/w slightly rubbed and nicked. Near fine...
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House, [1939]. 8vo. First edition. Original yellow buckram with bevelled boards, gilt. Top edge stained yellow. Damp-staining to top and bottom of pages causing slight rumpling. Edges of d/w a bit rubbed and nicked. Very good in near fine dust-wrapper. An...
London: Country Life and George Newnes, Ltd, 1902. 8vo. First edition. Original tan buckram, gilt. Numerous black and white photographic plates. Covers patchily faded and stained. Pencil ownership, dated 1902, on front pastedown. Foxing to page edges throughout. Very good.
Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1999. Folio. Limited edition. #27 of 300 copies. Original half green buckram, gilt, with Fabriano Roma paper boards. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. With 40 full-page mounted sheets on black Ingres. In buckram and paper-covered slipcase as issued. Fine in slipcase.
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2006. 4to. Limited edition. One of 500 copies. Original red buckram with paper label to spine. DVD of the film, 'The King's Stamp', housed inside the rear board. Illustrated throughout with numerous reproductions in colour, some folding and tipped-in. Fine. A beautiful celebration of the...
London: Charles Skilton, 1968. 8vo. Limited edition. #397 of 525 signed and numbered copies. Original quarter black morocco and white canvas boards, gilt. Top edge gilt. 'Pegasus' endpapers. In maroon card slipcase as issued. Fine in slipcase.
Westerham: Dalrymple Press, 1982. Tall 8vo. Limited edition. #101 of 475 copies. (First published privately in 1926.) Original dark blue cloth, lettered in red. Top edge stained red. In acetate jacket as issued. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh. Illustrated throughout. Fine. 'For a young...
Liverpool: The Wood Lea Press, 1987. Folio. Limited edition. One of 750 standard copies (from a complete edition of 811). Bound by Smith Settle in quarter green cloth over floral-patterned paper boards. Matching cloth-covered slipcase. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Numerous illustrations throughout, some in colour and tipped-in. Spine faded to blue...
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1982. 4to. Limited edition. #207 of 350 copies hand-set in Caslon type, printed from the original wood-engravings on Zerkall mould-made paper by John and Rosalind Randle and Miriam Macgregor. Bound in quarter green buckram over Whittington marbled paper boards by Smith Settle & Co. Top edge...
London: Harvill Secker, 2012-2018. 6 volumes, set. First UK editions, first impressions. Original hardcovers. Volume 6 has a silk marker ribbon. Mint in dust-wrappers. Time to make your own mind up about this opinion-dividing sequence? Lots of time.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945. Large 8vo. Second edition. Original beige cloth lettered in green on the front board. Illustrated by the author. Small attractive bookplate on front paste down. Australian bookseller's label on fly. Contents clean. Fine. The author's first published book was issued by Country Life just as...
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original buff cloth. Illustrated by the author. Back cover slightly marked. First gathering in confused order (binding error), but perhaps that adds to the charm? Near fine. The colour illustrations must have seemed even more saturated in wartime than they do...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. 12mo. Reprint. Pocket edition. Original limp red leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. With four black and white illustrations. Spine very slightly rubbed and faded. Neat ink ownership on fly. Near fine.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1939. 12mo. Reprint. Pocket edition. Original limp maroon leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Spine very slightly faded. Corner tips pushed. Near fine. Includes 'The Man who would be King'.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922 & 1923. 12mo. 2 vols, set. Reprints. Pocket edition. Original limp red leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Volume I has small loss to the head of the spine. Volume II is slightly rubbed and faded on the spine. Near fine.