Browse by Date—1850–1899
Violin Songs and Other Poems
1874, an early edition of George MacDonald's poetry
George MacDonald
Daldy, Isbister & Co, London, 1874
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Poems and Prose by The Penge Poet
1899, the poetry of Joseph Gwyer, one of the world's worst poets
Joseph Gwyer, the Penge Poet
F Perraton, London, 1899
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Ballades, Les Rayons et les Ombres
1890, a pocket edition of Victor Hugo's poems in a fine leather binding
Victor Hugo
G Charpentier, Paris, 1890
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Histoire des Plantes
1865, first French edition of Louis Figuier's illustrated study of botany
Louis Figuier
Librairie de L Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1865
£20.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Mysteries of the Ocean
1868, illustrated with 130 engravings, and in a full leather binding
Arthur Mangin, translated from the French by W H D Adams, illustrated by W Freeman and J Noel.
Thomas Nelson, London, 1868
£30.00
Natural History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Poems of William Wordsworth
1854, in a full leather binding with marbled page edges
William Wordsworth
Edward Moxon, London, 1854
£45.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Unconscious Influence; or, Horace and May
1855, from the library of Vinters country house in Maidstone
Catherine Douglas Bell
William P Kennedy, Edinburgh, 1855
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover
Hints to Young Architects
1895, a guide for all budding builders
George Wightwick, revised and enlarged by G Huskisson Guillaume
Crosby Lockwood & Co, London, 1895
£20.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Illustrated
Lectures on Painting delivered at the Royal Academy
1866, four lectures by Henry Nelson O'Neil
Henry O'Neil
Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, 1866
£40.00
Art | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Last Fight of the Revenge at sea
by Walter Raleigh et al, bound with poet Barnabe Googe's Sonnets etc, and Row & Barlowe's Dialogue
William Roy, and Jerome Barlowe; Sir Walter Raleigh, Gervase Markham, and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten; and Barnabe Googe; edited by Edward Arber
Printed for the Author(s), London, 1871
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Fragmentia Regalia (1630)
by Sir Robert Naunton, his observations on Elizabeth I, bound with Thomas Watson's poems
Sir Robert Naunton, and Thomas Watson, edited by Edward Arber
Printed for the Author(s), London, 1870
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
Atalanta in Calydon
1865, the second edition of A C Swinburne's tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Edward Moxon, London, 1865
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Hawkshead, Its History, Archaeology, Industries, Folklore, Dialect, etc
1899, a first edition of H S Cowper's history of the Lake District parish
Henry Swainson Cowper
Bemrose & Sons, London, 1899
£120.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Helbeck of Bannisdale
1898, a first edition of Mrs Humphrey Ward's Lake District romance
Mrs Humphrey Ward
Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1898
£20.00
Fiction | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Household Dictionary of Medicine, Preventative and Curative
1895, second edition, an alphabetical dictionary of the body, ailments and treatments etc
Frederick Rufenacht Walters
Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1895
£30.00
Health & Medicine | Hard Cover | Illustrated
The Nursery-Book
1891, a first edition of L H Bailey's Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of Plants
Liberty Hyde Bailey
The Rural Publishing Company, New York, 1891
£20.00
Gardening | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Birthday Gift for Boys and Girls
1861, Victorian stories in a gilt decorative binding
William Martin, though published anonymously
Darton & Co, London, 1861
£35.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Historical Scrap Book
Cassell's 1886 collection of engravings from history
Not stated
Cassell, London, 1886
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Webster's Complete Dictionary of the English Language
1884, quarter leather binding, illustrated throughout
Chauncey A Goodrich, and Noah Porter (editors), assisted Dr C A F Mahn
George Bell & Sons, London, 1884
£50.00
Reference & Bibliography | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Records of the Churches, Rectory and Vicarage of Upton-Cum-Chalvey
1886, a Buckinghamshire parish history, with 14 albumen prints
The Rev Pownoll W Phipps
Charles Luff, Slough, 1886
£80.00
Topography & Local Interest | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
The Quarrelsome Dog, Translated Freely from the German
c1858, a cautionary tale from Clara de Chatelain, with 12 hand-coloured illustrations
Leopold Wray, pseud. Clara de Chatelain
William Engelmann, Leipzig, 1858
£80.00
Childrens | Hard Cover | Illustrated
The Impossibilities of Anarchism
A second printing of G Bernard Shaw's treatise, published as Fabian Tract No 45
George Bernard Shaw
The Fabian Society, London, 1895
£10.00
Politics, Law & Economics | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Marxist art historian F D Klingender's copy, with his bookplate
John Ruskin
George Allen, Orpington, 1898
£40.00
Architecture & Design | Hard Cover | Association Copy | Bookplate
The Mapleson Memoirs 1848–1888
The reminsicences of the opera impresario, James Henry Mapleson, complete in two volumes
James Henry Mapleson
Remington & Co Ltd, London, 1888
£30.00
Music | Hard Cover
The Lady of the Lake
1853, Walter Scott's poem in an attractive gilt binding
Walter Scott, illustrated by Birket Foster and John Gilbert
A & C Black, Edinburgh, 1853
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Illustrated
