Literature - 19th Century

George Elliot Romola Original photographic illustrations

William Blackwood, no date (circa 1890)
8vo. 504 pages. With 18 tipped-in photographic illustrations, many of them views of Florence and Florentine architecture. With the ticket of G. Cecchi, Florence, presumably a bookseller, inside, and in an elaborate Florentine binding, with red leather patches (some defective) on-laid and decoration in gold and red. Read more about George Elliot Romola Original photographic illustrations

Price: £29.99
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Thomas Grey, Pickering edition original boards.

Grey, Works, Printed Pickering

Grey, Thomas

The Works of Thomas Grey (5 volumes)

London, William Pickering. 1835-43
  5 volumes, in the original cloth with the original paper labels.
  Small 8vo. (17x10.5cm).
  All volumes with the half title page present.  The pages generally very clean and crisp, a few pages with very light browning and the occasional brown spot or light creasing.  A few pages a few millimetres short at one margin and a few pages somewhat rough on an edge where they have been separated.  The top edges of the books dusty, which occasionally creeps onto the top of the page slightly.  Most endpapers with some browning.
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Price: £75.00
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Henty G. A. Facing Death; or, the Hero of the Vaughan Pit ...

  New York: A.L. Burt, no date. 8vo. (19 x 12.5 cm), vi + 292 pages + publisher's catalogue; frontispiece + 7 other illustrations. A very clean copy, one page lightly marked in the corner, three other pages with small marks in the margin. The publisher's blue cloth, elaborately decorated and illustrated, very good condition, some wear to head and tail of spine and a small light mark (aprox. 1cm x 0.5 cm) on the front cover. A nice copy. Read more about Henty G. A. Facing Death; or, the Hero of the Vaughan Pit ...

Price: £45.00
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Howells, W. D The Rise of Silas Lapham.

 Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First Edition. 8vo. (19 x 12 cm), iv + 515 pages + blank leaf. The first state of the first edition, with the earlier version of the advertisements facing the title page and the broken type at the bottom of page 176. A very good copy bound in the publishers brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt very clean with some wear to the head and tail of the spine and the corners. Read more about Howells, W. D The Rise of Silas Lapham.

Price: £50.00
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The Home Tidings of the Young Men’s Christian Institute Volume 1 extremely scarce

The Home Tidings of the Young Men’s Christian Institute Volume 1, 1880, for sale

The Home Tidings of the Young Men’s Christian Institute Volume 1

London, Young Men’s Christian Institute, 1880

27x18cm, iv+351 pages.

Some light browning, never affecting legibility, heavier on the title page and the last leaf, noticeable on the edges of the pages when the book is closed. One corner of the title page creased. Read more about The Home Tidings of the Young Men’s Christian Institute Volume 1 extremely scarce

Price: £135.00
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Huysmans J.-K. Trois Primitifs

Paris, A. Messein, 1905.
24x15.5 cm. 108 pages. The pages rather browned. A small piece missing from the blank before the title page and a small mark in the margin of one illustration.
Bound in red half-leather with matching marbled paper on the boards, the title etc. in gold on the spine. The leather somewhat rubbed, particularly at the head of the spine, with some loss of the red surface. The front end paper cracked at the hinge, so that the cover is coming loose. The original wrapped bound-in. Read more about Huysmans J.-K. Trois Primitifs

Price: £30.00
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James, Henry The Other House 1st. Edition

London, William Heinemann, 1896
First Edition. Two Volumes 8vo. Volume 1: iv+206 pages+ 32 page publishers catalogue, undated. Volume 2: iv+202 pages +32 page publisher’s catalogue dated August 1896. Agrees with the description (A47a) in Soho Bibliography of Henry James, volume 1 having the undated catalogue beginning with Hall Caine’s The Manxman. Read more about James, Henry The Other House 1st. Edition

Price: £60.00
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Kronheim Lithographs. The Leisure Hour 1868


London: 1868.
With 12 plates, five of them CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC colour plates; three by Kronheim, including a very fine view of the Albert Hall, (one with a crease in the corner not touching the image), one by Edmund Evans (rather foxed) and one unsigned. 4to. (27 x 18 cm), 828 pages. Bound with brown leather spine and corners, the boards covered in marbled paper, the paper rubbed away on the lower part of the back board. Read more about Kronheim Lithographs. The Leisure Hour 1868

Price: £65.00
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Charles Lamb, Prose Works, 1836, including the Essays of Elia

The Works of Lamb, 1836 in 3 volumes

Lamb, Charles

The Prose Works of Charles Lamb. In Three Volumes

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

Price: £75.00
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Fine Victorian Binding. Printed by the Chiswick Press

Fine Victorian Binding. Printed by the Chiswick Press

Marmontal

Belisarius

Belisarius by Marmontal, translated into English.

Chiswick, printed by C. & C. Whittingham, 1833.

12mo. (13x8cm), half title page, title page + 187 pages. Previous owner’s inscription dated 1833. The half title and title page a little foxed, otherwise very clean and crisp, with the usual high standard of printing of this printer. Read more about Fine Victorian Binding. Printed by the Chiswick Press

Price: £75.00
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