London: G. Bell and Sons, 1927. Everybody's Pepys A Fine Inlaid Binding by Rivière & Son Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard RIVIÈRE & SON, binder. PEPYS, Samuel. SHEPARD, Ernest H., illustrator. Everybody's Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669. Abridged from the Complete Copyright Text and Edited by O.F. Morshead. With 60..... More
London: Printed for T. Turner, 1813. The Works of Thomas Otway In a Fine and Handsome Contemporary Binding OTWAY, Thomas. The Works. In three volumes. With notes, critical and explanatory, and a life of the author, by Thomas Thornton, Esq. London: Printed for T. Turner, 1813. Three octavo volumes (7 1/2 x 4..... More
London: Printed for John Watts, 1732. First Collected Edition In English and French MOLIERE, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de. Select Comedies of Mr. De Moliere. French and English. In eight volumes with a frontispiece to each Comedy. London: Printed for John Watts, 1732. First collected edition in English and French, published eighteen..... More
Amstelodami: Johannis Janssonii à Waesberge & Elizei Weyerstraet, 1667. Kircher's Last Work on Magnetism in Nature KIRCHER, Athanasius. Magneticum Naturae Regnum sive Disceptacio Physiologica de Triplici in Natura rerum Magnete, juxta triplicem ejusdem Naturae gradem digesto Inamimato Animato Sensitivo… Amstelodami: Johannis Janssonii à Waesberge & Elizei Weyerstraet, 1667. First twelvemo edition..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1931. "I Envy No Body But Him, And Him Only, That Catches More Fish Than I Do" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. A Handsome Root & Son Binding Celebrating the Beauty of Elizabethan Poetry [ROOT & SON, binders]. LAMB, Charles. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare. With Notes. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x...... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Signed and Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers... With Instructions, How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, by Charles..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1899. An Exhibition Binding By Zaehnsdorf [ZAEHNSDORF, binders]. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Sonnets of William Shakespeare. London: George Bell and Sons, 1899. Octavo (6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in; 159 x 122 mm). [154] pp. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Borders and initials by Christopher Dean. Contemporary..... More
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Lugd. Batav. Leiden: apud Elzevirios, 1638. First Elzevier Edition [SHAKESPEARE SOURCE]. FLORUS, [Lucius] Publius Annaeus. L. Annaeus Florus [Works], CL. Salmasius, addidit Lucium Ampelium. & cod. M.S. nunquam antehac editum. Lugd. Batav. [Leiden]: apud Elzevirios, 1638. First Elzevier edition, second issue, with pp. 200 and 336 misnumbered as 220 and 536..... More
![The Cambridge Shakespeare]. The Works of Shakespeare. William SHAKESPEARE, William Aldis WRIGHT](/pictures/thumb/01720.jpg?v=1478034283)
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891. A Finely Bound Set of Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE, William. WRIGHT, William Aldis (editor). [The Cambridge Shakespeare]. The Works of Shakespeare. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891. Third edition (revised) of the Cambridge Shakespeare. Nine octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches;..... More
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. An Elegantly Printed Edition of One of the Most Significant Works of Religious English Literature BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. [The Royal Library Chef D'Oeuvre Series]. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. Octavo. (9 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 233 x 166 mm). [4], 327, [1 blank] pp. Title-page..... More
London: Printed by J. Bennet, for WIlliam Abington, 1684. Rumbustious and Vitriolic, Satiric and Savage L’ESTRANGE, Roger. The Observator, in Dialogue. The First Volume…[Nos. 1 (Wednesday April 13, 1681)-470 (Wednesday, January 9, 1683)]. London: Printed by J. Bennet, for William Abington, 1684. First collected edition of The Observator, Nos. 1-470. Folio (13..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, W. J. and J. Richardson, Otridge and Son, 1803. A Fine Rasher of Bacon in Calf BACON, Francis. The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. In Ten Volumes. London: Printed for J. Johnson…by H. Bryer, 1803. Ten octavo..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1931. "I Envy No Body But Him, And Him Only, That Catches More Fish Than I Do" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most..... More
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