London, MacMillan and Co., 1913

8vo. (21x14cm), xxvi + 500 pages. Frontispiece from a photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Generally a good clean copy, with very slight browning to the pages, the endpapers a little more browned. The edges of the pages untrimmed, and somewhat rough and browned when the book is closed. A few leaves short in the blank margin. Read more about New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James

Remainder Centre Ltd. London, 1943

The date is not stated on the catalogue. A book advertised on the back cover is ’Published pre-war’ and inside the front cover this catalogue is numbered 1/43.

This is a fascinating insight into the history of the distribution of remaindered books. The catalogue, which I have never seen before, states specifically that it is for retail customers, and a loose order form is enclosed at the front. Read more about Unrecorded Catalogue of Remainders from 1943

Oxford, University Press, 1977

1^st edition. ( 23.5 x 15 cm), xxxviii + 806 pages, illustrations reproduced from photographs. A good copy with slight signs of use: a small crease at the edge of the front endpaper, a few other pages with slight creasing. When the book is close the top edge slightly dusty and the bottom edge has a mark from contact with the shelf. Read more about History of the University of Oxford in the Nineteenth Century

London, Edward Moxon, 1836

The heraldic bookplate of Charles Lilburn in each volume; a number of volumes from his library are now in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Volume 2 contains the Lamb’s famous Essays of Elia. Read more about Charles Lamb, Prose Works, 1836, including the Essays of Elia