An interesting manuscript collection of French proverbs and maxims written in a legible, neat hand.8vo. Over 220 leaves of manuscript. Period she...

Complete sets of these racy French novelettes are very scarce. Titles include Une Mission delicate, La Jarretiere, Le Ballon Rouge, Le Fruit Defen...

This comprises 188 letters written by the artist to his publisher. First edition; 4to; 'printed at the Chiswick Press...in Monotrype Bodoni on Arn...

A very good example of this uncommon large paper edition, part of the Moray Library series. Gleeson White (1851-98) was a prolific player on the e...

This book was initially withdrawn due to a threatened libel action to be brought against Smithers by Marie Corelli, one of the subjects of the boo...

A poetic satire originally published in 1768, by a notorious friend of Laurence Sterne and author of Crazy Tales (1762), written in the form of ei...

A collection of anecdotes, witticisms and facetiae of famous men, first published just a year before; it contains sayings, some serious and others...

The eponymous Margery of Quether is discovered by a bell-ringer, George Rosedhu on Christmas Eve. She explains she was once a living woman, now a...

From the library of Eric Quayle. The first issue Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens is identifiable via the appearance of the plate at p...

The first edition of the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Charles Dickens (under the pseudonym 'Boz') with introductory and concluding chapte...

Reflections on the civil war. The first edition of John Whitehall's (fl.1679-1685) Miscellaneous Poems, a collection of seven lyrical verses publis...

The first US edition of these thrilling mini adventures starring one of the first female detectives. After working on the Gazetteer of India in th...

The scarce first edition of this 'Christmas Sketch' by Wilkie Collins, inspired indubitably by the success of Dickens' Christmas Books and utilisi...

Fine copy of new edition, revised and corrected, with a foreword by George Sand. Echoing much of the sentiment of Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitar...

First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. xii, [11], 171; [vi], 164 pp., complete with half-titles, vignettes to title-pages and 10 hand coloured plates...

Strawberry Hill Press. A famous [re]issue of the first work ever printed by the Strawberry Hill press, which has been the source of considerable bi...

'Premiere edition de luxe que l'on ait donnee de ce grand poete. Elle se recommande et par sa belle execution typogr. et par d'assez bonnes estamp...

The first edition illustrated by Boucher. With illustrations by the celebrated Rococo painter François Boucher. 'The book's format is noble, Moliè...

Poems by occasional Uranian Theodore Wratislaw, a contributor to Beardsley's The Yellow Book and The Savoy. Upon the poet's death in 1933, The Tim...

An attractive first edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, one of his most enduring novels: 'Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception (th...

A very good copy of Mary Mitford's classic study of rural customs, characters and scenery, originally published during the 1820s & '30s. The C...