English Books

Phillips, Stephen Poems London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. Sixth Edition. 8vo, 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (187 x 118 mm), (8), 108 pp, printed on cream laid paper, evenly toned. F...

Christie's The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A. London 9/18/13 Sale #1186. 1st Ed. softcover auction catalog. 401 pages with 635 lots illustrated in color and al...

Chatsworth. The Attic Sale. Auction at Chatsworth, Derbyshire. 5-7 October 2010. Sotheby & Co. London, 2010. First edition softcover. Catalogue for The Attic Sale at Chatsworth held by Sotheby's Auctioneers in Derbyshire. Features fine paintings, furniture, architectural elements, lighting, ceramics and other items. Color and black and white illustrations. 1418 lots. The house and garden were first constructed by Sir William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick...

London: Eragny Press / Hacon and Ricketts, 1903. Lucien Pissarro. Limited Edition. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (215 x143 mm); 44 pp. Edition limited to 226 unnumbered copies on Arches han...

The Life and Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson in Twelve Volumes, Limited Edition. London: MacMillian and Co., Limited, 1898. Moroccan leather and paper boun...

Milne, A.A. (Alan Alexander: 1882–1956). NOW WE ARE SIX. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First Edition. Crown 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 in (191 x 125 mm), pp. xi + 103 + colophon. With its...

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. First Edition. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (184 x 120 mm); viii, 336. Handsomely bound in polished red calf by Bayntun (stamp on first endpaper), gilt fill...

Combe, William (uncredited). Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France Shortly Before the Revolution; Embellished with Seve...

The Royal Palaces of India by George Michell. Published by Thames & Hudson, 1994. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. As early as the 14th c, stories glorifying the exotic palaces of ...

The Natural History of Selbourne by Gilbert White. A large hardcover book with top-edge gilt in a brown card slipcase. Published in 2009 by The Folio Society of London. Illustrated, ...

Great Houses of Europe. London: Spring Books, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket. 319 pp. Book illustrates and describes 40 of Europes finest houses. Included are: Ducal Palace, Urbino...

Christie's: Catalogue Furniture, Silver & Porcelain from Longleat, June 2002. Softcover auction catalogue with results. 302 pp. Featuring the late George II mahogany furniture commissioned by the 1st Marquess of Bath; the pair of French lacquer cabinets...

Skelton, John The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, a Poem London: Printed for Isaac Dalton, and sold by W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-Noster-Row, 1718. Second Edition. Octavo, 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (194 x 117 mm). pp. [8], 31, [1]. From the title page: by Skelton Laureat. Original unbound, rebound in modern pink paper over boards, leather spine label with gilt title. Some toning to last few leaves.boards All text is legible, some spot tanning throughout. In near fine condition. Rare. [ESTC N46064 ] ESTC shows two U.S. copies only: Henry E. Huntington Library and Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; and two British Isles copies only: Oxford University Bodleian Library (both copies). This poem was printed multiple times in the 16th century, including by William Caxton's successor, Wynken de Worde. Rare as a separate volume. John Skelton (c.1463 - 1529) was a remarkable, unusual poet and priest, who had been the tutor of the Tudors, Prince Arthur...

Handsome Riviere Sangorsky & Stucliffe binding of the plays by the author of the beloved Peter Pan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (215 x140 mm); pp. xii, 1272. Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamped in gold at the bottom of front turn-in) in blue crushed morocco with gilt fillets on covers and turn-ins, title in gilt, five raised bands with gilt outlined compartments, striped head and tail bands, a.e.g. —Cutler 93 A lush volume containing most of J. M. Barrie's (1860-1937) plays, 26 out of the 38 he wrote, of which 12 are one-act plays. This work was reprinted several times from its first issue in 1928, attesting to the popularity of his works for the theater, many of which discuss social concerns. The Twelve Pound Look (1910) concerns a wife leaving her 'typical' husband once she can gain an independent income. Other plays, such as Mary Rose (1920) and Dear Brutus (1917), revisit the idea of the ageless child and parallel worlds. However, Barrie's most lasting fame comes from creating PETER PAN, which is included in this volume, and had its first performance at the Duke of York Theatre in 1904. In 1911 Barrie would develop the play into a novel "Peter and Wendy...

The Most Popular Book of Maritime Adventure of the Eighteenth Century Anson, Lord George and Richard Walter A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXI, I, II, III, IV, By George ...

Sotheby's The Thanet Dinner Service Paul de Lamerie, 1742-1746 London 11/22/84. First edtion hardcover with results. Lot 60 of this silver auction broug...

Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840 by Henry Sandon. Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1992. Hardcover and dust jacket with glassine ...

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1920. seventh impression. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (191 x 127 mm); pp. clix (memoir) + 160 (poems); frontispiece portraits of the author at the beginn...

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1938. First Edition. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (182 x 121mm); pp. 356 + iii. Grey cloth binding with black lettering, dampstain to the tail of the ...

Sotheby's: A Magnificent Roman Baroque cabinet by Giacomo Herman. December 4th 2007. Softcover auction catalogue. 230pp. with 281 lots and results. NPT Books, a division of N.P. Tr...

Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution by Michael Whiteway. Published by V & A Publishing, 2004. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published in conjunction with C...

Hammersmith, The Doves Press, 1915. LIMITED EDITION. Small 4to, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (235 x 166 mm); xii, 76, colophon, errata, xiv pp.; printed in black a...

Sotheby's: Fine Furniture and Carpets Including Property from Newton Surmaville London 3/5/08. First Edition softcover with 367 lots all pictured in color and fully described. Newton...

The Dance of Life, a Poem; by the author of "Doctor Syntax" William Combe & Thomas Rowlandson illustrations. London: R. Ackermann, 1817. FIRST EDITION. ...

Egerton, M. & George Hunt Here and There over the Water: Being Cullings in a Trip to the Netherlands. (The Field of Battle and Monuments - Waterloo, &c.) by Omnium Gatherum. London: George Hunt, 1825. 4to; 10 x 8 3/8 in. (253 x 212 mm); (2), 34 pp, 28 plates by George Hunt after M. Egerton, including 24 hand-colored engraved and aquatint plates and four plates (21-24) of Waterloo memorials uncolored. Modern half morocco binding, title gilt, spine sunned. Occasional offsetting from plates, otherwise a fine copy. [Abbey Travel 188; Tooley 207]. An uncommon aquatint work, illustrating a regency excursion to the Low Countries. Egerton was a humorous designer and social satirist active in London between 1820 and 1829, who supplied drawings to members of the print trade (including the Hunts and Pyall) for engraving. For this project he begins his tour at Ostend, where he was stuck for a day as it was a Sunday. He took time to describe the people's custom-house hotel and the 'Purgatory Gate' attached to the church (destroyed in a fire later in the nineteenth century) before traveling the next day by 'Great Coach' and barge to Ghent, observing the 'Belgic Military' various 'Diligences' and peasant costumes before continuing onto Brussels. Here he examined the Market Pavilion of the Prince of Orange before traveling on the next leg of the journey, which takes the artist once more to Ghent, where he describes and illustrates the Exchange. Egerton then returns to Brussels to view the Palace of Schoonenberg and then on to the main reason for his excursion: a trip to Waterloo, taking in all the main sites of the battle, including graves and monuments. Michael Egerton flourished between 1821 and 1828 and produced a number of caricatures, mainly of social comedy, sporting scenes, and jokes on the weather; almost all his work was engraved by George Hunt. OCLC records six copies in North America at Harvard Yale New York Public Library, Brown Claremont College, and the Art Institute of Chicago. "A tourist (Egerton) soars high above birds and the Channel, a vignetted strip of water which a steam-packet and sailing vessel are traversing. He is propelled by steam from a big Patent kettle strapped to his back; from a large spout in the form of a bird's head black smoke drifts behind him. He holds out in his right hand a pair of lazy-tongs, in his left he holds up a plaid travelling-bag marked O.G. He wears a round flat peaked cap, with fashionable white cuffs and collar to his shirt, and white strapped trousers. His legs drift behind him." [The British Museum, number A tourist (Egerton) soars high above birds and the Channel, a vignetted strip of water which a steam-packet and sailing vessel are traversing. He is propelled by steam from a big Patent kettle strapped to his back; from a large spout in the form of a bird's head black smoke drifts behind him. He holds out in his right hand a pair of lazy-tongs, in his left he holds up a plaid travelling-bag marked O.G. He wears a round flat peaked cap, with fashionable white cuffs and collar to his shirt, and white strapped trousers. His legs drift behind him.] Plates in order: 1. Frontis. Patent. [Flying over the Channel]. 2. Quay, Custom House & Hotel - Ostend. 3. The Purgatory Gate, Ostend. 4. Post Office - Ostend. 5. [Dandy chimney sweeper...

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Limited Edition. Slim 8vo; 8 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (224 x 112 mm); (vi),16 pp., (vi); printed on Arnold paper, in black ink using Eri...

A SPLENDID DEPICTION of REGENCY LONDON Papworth, John Buonarotti Select Views of London: With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of Its Public Build...

Sotheby's Chateau de Cornillon, Loire, France: Important Gothic and Renaissance Furniture, Works of Art & Textiles. London: Sotheby's, 2006. Softcover. 126 pp. Château de Cornillon i...

Christie's: Wentworth: The property of the Trustees of The Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam Chattels Settlement and of other members of the family, Wednesday, 8 July 1998. London: Christi...

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction, part of ‘20th/21st Century at Christie’s’, March 6, 2018. 1st Ed softcover catalog. The season will be le...

Mallet at Bourdon House, London March 9, 2007, Sotheby's. 1095 lots photographed in color and described. The sale follows Mallett’s review of the company’s future in the light of the...

Italian Master Drawings: From the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525--1835, Personal Property of Herbert Kasper. Published by Paul Holberton Publis...

Set of six volumes, full Moroccan leather bindings. Annals of The Artists of Spain by Wm Stirling-Maxwell. London: John Nimmo, 1891. In four volumes. First Edition, thus. Numbered #1...

Adrian Alan Catalog. First edition hardcover. Adrian Alan was established in 1964, Adrian Alan is an international family run business and one of the world...

Sotheby's: Important English Furniture including the Horlick Collection, London 5th June 2007. First edition softcover with 256 on 303 pp. ...

Beautiful illustrated Edition of this humorous short story in verse with Cruikshank's illustrations including frontispiece. This second edition was issued the same year as the first, with the imprint Alfred Miller...

VERY RARE, complete run (2 issues) of the illustrated George Cruikshank's Magazine, with all four folding plates by Cruikshank. In a handsome custom case. London: D. Bogue, 1854. 8...

Sotheby's Summer Travel The New Grand Tour, Aspen, Basel and More The Dukes Of Northumberland 500 Years Of Collecting, June-July 2014 London and New York. Published by Sotheby's, 2014. 1st Ed softcover. Beautifully illustrated catalog with great information on museums, books on travel, summertime attractions in NYC, Aspen Art...

Mallett Millennium, Fine Antique Furniture and Works of Art, first edition by Lanto Synge. Mallett Milliennium, 2006, Antique Collectors' Club. ...

The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Four Volumes, 1882. London: Reeves and Turner, 1882. Revised edition with important, exceptionally bound gilt decorated Moroccan hardcov...

The New Pewter Marks and Old Pewter Ware by Major C.A. Markham. Published by Reeves and Turner, London, 1928. 2nd Ed hardcover with protective mylar cover. Profusely illustrated with...

Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840 by Henry Sandon. Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1992. Hardcover and dust jacket with glassine ...

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS Suckling, Sir John A Ballad Upon a Wedding; With Engravings by Eric Ravilious Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Pr...

Chinese ceramics: The Koger Collection by John Ayers. Sotheby's Publications, New York London, 1985. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In 1973 Mr and...

Christie's, important European Furniture, sculpture and tapestries, including, reflected glory, a Private collection of magnificent mirrors, Thursda...

A picture history of English pottery by Griselda Lewis. London: Hulton Press, 1956. First edition hardcover with no dust jacket. A history of pottery in England with 418 illustrated examples. It includes pieces with a simple crudity and rustic simplicity to pieces of extreme sophistication. The book covers periods from the first Bronze Age to post WWII with an emphasis on the humorous quality of many. There are medieval jugs...

Sotheby's: The West Wycombe Park Sale June 1998.First Edition softcover with 1442 lots photographed in color and fully described, with results. This house was the site of some filming of Downtown Abbey...

Harunobu, by Lubor Hajek, and translated by Hedda Vessela Stranska. 1st Edition: Spring Books, London, 1958. Softcover with Silk tied binding, pictorial softcover laid in to green cl...

Keating William H Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St Peter's River Lake Winnipeek Lake of the Woods &C Performed in the Year 1823 by Order of the Hon J C Calhoun Secretary of War Under the Command of Stephen H Long U S T E London, Geo B Whittaker, 1825. First English Edition Two volumes 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 220 x 140 mm. Vol. 1 pp. xvi, 458; Vol. 2 pp. vi, 248, 156, Appendix. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards; five raised bands, gilt rules, decorative motifs, and title on black morocco label spine; hinges and edges rubbed; front hinge of Volume 1 cracked internally; t .e. g., rest uncut. Pages are bright and bindings tight, light foxing on a few pages and typical offset opposite plates. Vol. 1 includes 3 copper engravings etched by R Fenner, a large folded map 12 3/8 x 21 in / 313 x 534 mm, engraved by R Penny. Two-inch tear to one fold, otherwise solid and some offset; and a page of sheet music with "Dog Dance of the Sioux" and "Chippewa Scalp Dance" Map of the Country Embracing the Oute of the Expedition of 1823, Commanded by Major S H Long. Vol. 2 includes four engravings by R Fenner, 2 of waterfalls and 2 of shells, plus three fold-out calendars and a 9-page "Vocabulary of Indian Languages" in the Appendix. Bookplate of William B Claflin Jr in both volumes with ink inscription "Legacy Grace E Reed Dec 20 1921" (Sabin 37137; Howes 5570; Field 949) The book is dedicated to James Monroe, 4th President of the United States, and its outstanding plates depict Native Americans their environment and customs. "The work is almost a cyclopædia of material relating to the Indians of the explored Territory Nothing escaped the attention or record of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition and their statement regarding the customs character and numbers of the Sioux and Chippeway tribes are among the most valuable we have of those people Six of the plates are representations of their practices habitations or features includes comparative vocabulary of the Sawk Sioux Chippeway and Cree languages. – Thomas W Field...

Sotheby's Art at Auction: The Year in Review 1995-96. Published by Conrad Octopus Ltd., 1996. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference w...

Rowlandson,Thomas & Combe, William The English Dance of Death; in Twenty-Four Monthly Numbers, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson accompanied by metrical illustrations by the author of "Doctor Syntax...

A lovely Whittington Press edition of POEMS by Seamus Heaney, Melvyn Bragg, D. J. Enright, U A. Fanthorpe, Michael Foot, Duncan Forbes, John Fuller, Seamus Heanery, Michael Horovitz, Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell, Jenny Joseph, P J Kavanagh, Laurei Lee, Ptere Levi, Brian Patten, Lawrence Sail, Jon Silkin, Jon Stallworthy, Charles Tomlinson. POEMS FOR ALAN HANCOX Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1993. First, Limited Edition. Royal 8vo, 11 x 7 7/8 in. (280 x 200mm); pp. 41; Two wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Number XXXVIII of 50 specially-bound, signed opposite the title-page by each of the 19 contributors, with signed proofs of the two engravings on Zerkall cream wove paper (265 x 190 mm) in a pocket at the back. Set in Goudy Modern and printed in black, the wood-engravings in brown, on Zerkall cream smooth laid paper on the Heidelberg press. Quarter-bound at the fine Bindery in brown Oasis and Whittington printed paper-covered boards, gilt spine titling, headbands, top edge gilt, mauve Hahnenühle endpapers; matching paper-covered slipcase, reinforced in brown buckram at the head and foot. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. [Butcher 118] Condition: fine. An elegant tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker...

European and Chinese Porcelain, Objects of Art, English and French Furniture: The Property of H.J. Joel, Esq. Removed From 15 Grosvenor Square, W.1, Which was Sold at Christie's on T...

Christie's 12/2010 The Barratt Collection from Crowe Hall, Bath. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. Christie’s offered the contents of one of the finest Regency villas in Bath, Crowe Hall, at the King Street salerooms on Thursday, 16 December 2010. Crowe Hall was the home of Sir Sydney Barratt (1898-1975), a chemist whose advice to Sir Winston Churchill and the War Cabinet from 1942 to 1944 helped to secure the development of the ‘bouncing bomb’. The sale was expected to raise in excess of £1.8 million and included Old Master and British pictures...

Christie's: Parham Park. Pulborough, West Sussex. May 1996. Auction catalogue. 184 pp. 1052 lots. Color photos. With results. Property from Parkham Park Tr...

The Old World House: Its Furniture and Decoration, In two volumes, by Herbert Cescinsky. Published by The Macmillan Company, London, 1924. A pair of 1st ed hardcovers with gilded top edge. Herbert Cescinsky was an architect and writer active in the early 20th c. He was particularly interested in the development of English furniture and wrote profusely on the subject. This work is an interesting look at the furniture and decorations found in the interior designs in older houses in England. The author discusses oak chairs and tables, marqueterie furniture...

A beautiful Zaehnsdorf-bound collection of the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) whose works often handled Victorian taboos, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and ...

James Rosenquist by Carter Ratcliff, Scott Rothkopf and Sarah Bancroft. Publisher Haunch of Venison, 2006. 1st Ed hardcover (1/2500) exhibition catalog. For an Exhibition at Haunch o...

A copy of the auction catalogs for Christie's on-site sale at Wateringbury Place, Maidstone, Kent. This is both of the catalogs of the sale, the Principle Rooms, which was held on Ma...

Christie's London: The Nigel Bartlett Collection Chimneypieces and Architectural Elements 9/14/05. Softcover 1st Ed auction catalog with results. This catalog consists of 225 pages w...