British Books

18 Volumes. M. Guizot. Works: Including: History Of The English Revolution, Memoirs of Our Own Times, Oliver Cromwell, etc. Bound in full tan polished calf, marbled edges, endpapers,...

2 Volumes. Dante Alighieri, The Vision Of Hell and The Vision Of Purgatory & Paradise. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. Translated by The Rev. Henry Francis Cary with Critical and Explan...

1 Volume. Johannes Secundus, The Kisses. Third Edition. Bound by Morell in full tree calf levant. Ornate gilt-tooling on the spines. All edged gilt. Frontispiece. A poetical translat...

2 Volumes, Alaric A. Watts, Lyrics of the Heart and Other Poems. Limited Edition. Bound in full blue morocco with the raised band spines displaying gilt-tooling. Top edges gilt. Brow...

An exceptional fifteen volume limited edition set of the complete works of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf. The complete thirteen volume 1883 larg...

2 Volumes. Hilda Gamlin, Emma: Lady Hamilton. Bound in 3/4 navy morocco and linen boards bordered in gilt-tooling. The raised band spines display gilt-tooled detailing and red morocc...

2 Volumes. Charles Macfarlane, Constantinople. Second Edition. Bound in 3/4 navy calf and marbled boards with the covers and spines displaying open and gilt-tooled detailing. All of ...

2 Volumes. Robert H. Hobart Cust, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 3/4 red morocco and decorative boards. The raised band spines display gilt-tooling....

Late 20th Century English solid silver novelty paper knife. A very stylish and unique piece terminating with a foxes head on the handle. Presented beautifully in an original box. Hal...

This is an antique copy of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns. A Scots English language hard bound poetry book, dating to the Georgian period, published 1813. Celebrated world-wide and considered Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) -affectionately known as Rabbie - was a prolific poet and lyricist in the 18th century. Credited as a main player in the Romantic movement of arts, his works in a light Scots dialect afford him an audience outside of Scotland's borders. A cultural icon, remembered with his own day each year on his birthday (25th January) and sculptures across the world, Robert Burns is a titan of the poetic form. His song Auld Lang Syne...

1 Volume. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full green calf with gilt-bordered covers. The raised band spine displays gilt-...

2 Volumes. Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi Memoirs. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with the covers displaying figures in multi-color inlay and gilt-tooled borde...

11 Volumes. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Bound by H. Sotheran & Co. in full green morocco with the covers displaying gilt-tooled borders. Raised bands and...

12 Volumes. The Sisters Brontë, The Novels. Thornton Edition. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco and linen boards with gilt-tooled detailing on the covers and raised band spines. Top edges gi...

8 Volumes. Alexandre Dumas, Celebrated Crimes. Bound in 3/4 blue morocco and linen boards bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines display raised bands, bordering, label lettering, and p...

6 Volumes. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Second Edition. Bound in full tan calf with the covers displaying open and gilt-tooled border with ...

This is an antique reference book, the New & Complete History and Survey of London. An English language, aged topographical guide to the city and its surroundings, dating to the late...

1 Volume. John Milton, Paradise Lost. Bound in full black morocco with the covers and raised band spines displaying gilt and open-tooled detailing. All edges are gilt with gilt-toole...

22 Volumes. William Makepeace Thackeray, The Works. Bound in 3/4 tn calf. Raised band spines with gilt-tooled details and wine and blue morocco labels. All edges marbled with marbled...

Framed pencil drawing of Queen Charlotte And George IV. From illustrations for the book ' History of The Life and Reign of George IV " by Thackeray. Original pencil drawing. Framed ....

30 Volumes. Charles Dickens. Complete Works. With Illustrations. Bound in 3/4 green morocco, linen boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, raised bands, and gilt panels. Published...

4 Volumes. Robert Cruikshank, Cruikshank at Home: A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment. Bound by Tout in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards bord...

1 Volume. Walton & Cotton, The Compleat Angler. Bound in full green calf with a gilt-tooled border on the covers. Raised band spine (faded to tan) with gilt-tooled detailing and red ...

1 Volume. Edmund Lodge, Portraits of Illustrious Personages. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. Raised band spine with gilt-tooled details and a ...

1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Bound by Riviere & Son in full orange calf with the cover displaying a multi-color inlay snake around a gilt-tooled challis and...

SINGED LIMITED EDITION This superbly illustrated volume is one of Dulac's finest works, produced at a time when book illustration had reached its peak. The book was immensely popular and the limited edition sold out before publication. It was "issued for the Christmas market and was a runaway success. Dulac's bibliographer.... identifies at leat 16 British and American commercial editions published before the end of the 1930s." (100 Great Books Famous in Children's Literature. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press/ Grolier Club, 2015; p. 212) In the monograph on Dulac by Colin White (London: Studio Vista, 1976) the author points to the special coloring of the plates "... a wide range of colors, from the well-known blues to the newer combinations of orange and yellow, and showed Dulac's superb invention at its most imaginative." (pp. 46-47). He won two gold medals at the 1911 Barcelona International Exhibition for a submission that included one of the original drawings for this book (pl. 31). The collection includes four classic French tales: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast, and is beautifully bound in London by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910 Folio, 13 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches (350 x 245 mm); half-title, frontispiece with tissue guard, title, preface, list of illustrations, 129 pp. and 29 color illustrations pasted into decorative frames with relevant quote from the text. 3/4 blue morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London (stamped on flyleaf), with marbled boards and matching endpapers; 5 raised bands, gilt title on spine, t.e.g. Very light scuffing at corners and bottom edges. Pages and illustrations clean and bright, all tissue guards present and in pristine condition. Limited Edition de Luxe copy no. 477 of 1000 printed, numbered and signed by the artist in ink on the limitation page. [Grolier 62] Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953) was a French-British naturalized magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. In 1905 he received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters...

Whimsical and unique, this wooden box shaped like a leather-bound book is sure to delight any bibliophile. A realistic and detailed appearance, hand carved in oak creates a discrete ...

1 Volume. (Anon) The Book of Common Prayer. Bound in full purple morocco with the covers displaying bordering and floral corner flourishes, both gilt-tooled. All of the edges are gil...

5 Volumes. Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England. Bound in full tan calf with the covers displaying a gilt-tooled border with floral stamps in the corners. The spines display...

24 Volumes. John Fiske, The Writings. Edition de Luxe. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines display raised bands, bordering, floral pane...

5 Volumes. B. Jowett, The Dialogues of Plato. Third Edition. Bound in 3/4 wine calf and linen boards. The spines display raised bands, bordering, and label lettering, both gilt-toole...

3 Volumes. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards, the spines display raised bands, floral panel details, bordering, and label lettering,...

This is a miniature vintage language library. An English, leather book stand with five dictionaries, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950. Adorable and compact, a treat for ...

1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Special Edition. Bound by Rivière & Sons in full red calf with the covers displaying bordering, ornate, and detailed floral...

First edition, published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, Manchester, 1995. When William Klein's images of New York first appeared in 1956 they ushered ...

8 Volumes. Robert Burns, Collected Poetry. Extra Illustrated Edition. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards bordered in gilt tooling. The spines display raised ba...

1 Volume. Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. First Edition. Bound in full green morocco with the cover displaying a gilt-tooled border and the original publisher's cloth cover affixe...

1 Volume. Francis Bacon, The Essays. Bound by Morrell in full brown morocco with the covers displaying floral and ruled gilt-tooled borders. The spines display raised bands, borderin...

1 Volume(Anon) The Book Of Common Prayer & Administration of the Sacraments & Other Rites and Ceremonies Of The Church, according to the use of t...

First edition, published by Mitchell Beazley, 2001. Text by Lesley Jackson. A beautifully designed and handsomely illustrated celebration of two of Britain’s most revered and accomplished designers in the post-war period. Robin and Lucienne Day...

Historie of the Holy Warre, by Thomas Fuller, second edition, circa 1640. Printed by R. Daniel, for Thomas Buck, and are to be sold by John Williams at the sign of the Greyhound in P...

Penguin Books founded in 1935 and known for their iconic design of two solid bands of colour sandwiching a band of white. The most common was orange for ...

Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period by Stanley C. Ramsey. London: Technical Journals, Limited, 1919. First edition hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 227 pp. An antique re...

First edition, published by Cornerhouse, 1990. This book, exquisitely designed by award winning art director Yolando Cuomo, and winner of the Infinity award for ‘Best Publication’...