Recent Additions

From Louis Conard's Standard Collection of British and American Authors series

Louis Conard, Paris, 1915

An early edition of H V Esmond's play

Samuel French Limited, London, 1900

1913, a pocket hardback edition of Christina Rossetti's verse

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1913

1926, the first UK edition of Sidney Howard's play

Chatto & Windus, London, 1926

Charles Plater's Principles of International Morality

P S King & Son, London, 1915

The museum's illustrated book for its important Andy Warhol collection

Zoya Museum, Modra, Slovak Republic, 2010

Seven short stories by St John Lucas

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1913

A nice quarter leather binding of François Coppée's poetry, c1880

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1880

An illustrated history of the regiment and its service

Third Millennium, London, 2007

Christopher Anstey's satire of the Blunderhead family navigating Bath society

John Browne, Bath, 1807

c1920, a good selection of Victor Hugo's poetry

Bibliotheque Larousse, Paris, 1920

1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.

Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969

c1920, Chateaubriand travels in America and the Ruins of Ohio etc, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College

Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920

c1920, Chateaubriand travels from Paris to Jerusalem, with the bookplate of K T Butler of Girton College

Garnier Freres, Paris, 1920

With the bookplate of Herbert G Squires, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London

The Century Co, London, 1907

With the bookplate of Herbert G Squires, and rebound in half-leather by Henry Sotheran of London

The Century Co, New York, 1903

1953, the Scientific Book Club's edition of Len Howard's classic title

The Science Fiction Book Club, London, 1953

Malcolm Finnis' history of Air Ferry Limited at Manston Airport

M J Finnis, Eastbourne, 1997

Simon Marsden's photographs and visits to haunted houses and supernatural sites

Webb & Bower, London, 1986

1741, De Montereul's harmonization of the Gospels

Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1741

1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome

Chez Barois, Paris, 1727

Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani

Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912

1875, second edition, Henry Havard's travels to the Dead Cities of the Zuiderzee

E Plon & Cie, Paris, 1875

Winifred Holtby's tale from the Radio Times, illustrated by Batt

Lovat Dickson, London, 1933

1944, edited with notes by folklorist Séamus Ó Duilearga

Folklore of Ireland Society / Talbot Press, Dublin and Cork, 1944