Goncourt, Edmond & Jules.

Pages from The Goncourt Journal. Edited, translated and introduced by Robert Baldick. With contemporary photographs by Nadar and others.

London, The Folio Society, 1980. 15 x 23cm. 432 pages. Original litho-printed clothbound hardcover in protective slipcase. Orange stained top edges. Excellent condition. Slipcase shows slight signs of shelf wear.

Meadows Taylor, Philip.

Confessions of a Thug. Edited with an introduction by Brian Rawson. Drawings by Clarke Hutton.

London, The Folio Society, 1974. 14.5 x 23cm. 372 pages, with black and white illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover in protective slipcase. Green stained top edges. Endpapers illustrated with maps.

William Wordsworth.

The Poetical Works of Wordsworth. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes &c.

London & New York, Frederick Warne and Co., Not dated.[ca.1900] 14 x 19 cm, xliv, 628 pages. Original dark green cloth hardcover.Gilt title and decorations on spine. Very good condition. Solid binding. Pages and edges age darkened. Some browing and foxing mainly to end papers. Some pages unopened.

Fougeret De Monbron, Louis-Charles

La Henriade Travestie En Versburlesques. Honi Soit qui mal y pense.

A Berlin (Paris) Aux De’pense Du Public, 1751 (MDCCLI). 9 x 16 cm, 151 pages. Decorated title page. Full Calf and marbled end papers. Marbled edges. Good condition. Calf boards rubbed and worn. Corners and spine bumped and worn. Outer joints started to crack, but still holding. Spine worn with some loss. Spine paper label partially missing. Front hinge broken. Label ‘De La Bibliotheque – 1785’ glued to front pastedown. Marbled end papers and edges faded. Pages age darkened. Some browning and foxing to some pages. Foreword page (Avant-Propos) torn and repaired with a piece of paper stuck on. Despite the wear, this is still a nice little book to hold.

Milton, John.

The Poetical Works of John Milton. Reprinted from the Chandos Poets, with Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc.

London, Frederick Warne and Co., Not Dated [1886?] 14 x 19 cm, xxiv, 581 pages plus two pages of publisher’s catalog. Original dark blue cloth with small paper label on spine. Good condition. Front hinge starting to open. Name of previous owner neat on title page (dated March 1886). Edges and some pages darkened and mildly foxed. Small piece of paper (2 x 1 cm) missing from top of title page. Text block bright and clean.

Beverley Nichols (Ed.).

A Book of Old Ballads. Selected and with an Introduction by Beverley Nichols & Illustrated by H.M.Brock, R.I.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1934. 22 x 28 cm, xxxix, 277 pages. Colour frontispiece and 15 full page colour plates. Some B&W illustrations. Original pale brown cloth with gilt title and decorations on front board and spine. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Now in protective archival jacket. Very good condition. Edges darkened. Some minor shelf wear and signs of use. Some pages unopened. Text block clean and bright, some minor foxing, mainly to first few pages.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

The Courtship of Miles Standish. With Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy.

London, Grant Richards, 1908. 19 x 24 cm, 152 pages. With numerous Colour and B&W Illustrations. Original cloth boards with gilt title and decorations, blind stamping and a colour image on the front board. Very good condition. Inscription on front free end paper dated 1908. Some browning and foxing to pages and edges. Some rubbing and bumping to spine and corners.

Holland, J.G (Josiah Gilbert).

Kathrina Her Life and Mine in a Poem.

New York, Charles Scribner & Company, 1869. 17 x 23 cm, xii, 281 pages. B&W Illustrations by W.J.Hennessy and C.C. Linton, engraved by W.J. Linton. Original gree cloth with elaborate gilt decorations on boards and spine. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Spine darkened. Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Small tear near the hing of the title page. Textblock bright and clean.

Madam Belloc (Bessie Rayner Parkes).

The Flowing Tide.

First Edition. London, Sands & Co., 1900. 13 x 18 cm, xi, 298 pages. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. Spine faded and parts of boards are discoloured (see images). Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Edges age darkened. Text block bright and clean. Some tanning, mainly to endpapers.

Lucanus, M. Annaei / Oudendorpio, Francisco (Editor).

M. Annaei Lucani Cordubensis Pharsalia : sive belli civilis libri decem : cum scholiaste, hucusque inedito, et notis integris Henrici Glareani, Jacobi Micylli, Joachimi Camerarii, Hugonis Grotii & c.

Two Volumes. Lugduni Batavorum (Leyden), Samuelem Luchtmans, 1728. 21 x 25 cm, Vol. 1: (74), 505 pages. With a fold-out map facing page 1. Vol. 2 (Tomus Alter): Counting continues at page 506 to 966. 192 pages of Index. Contemporary calf with plain boards. Six raised bands. Gilt decorations on spine. Volume numbers on spine. Name plates missing from both spines. Very good condition. Significant shelf wear, rubbing and bumping to spine, boarders and corners. Outer joints starting to crack open, but binding still sound. Papers age darkened and slightly browned and foxed. Some faint water staining. Book plates and shelf numbering attached to front pastedowns (Earl of Roden).