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Progress Publishers, Moscow., 1981 Translated by S. Syrovatkin from 1974 Russian first edition. Withdrawn from University Library with stamps on blank front paste-down end-paper, verso of title page, upper margin of page 3 and on blank space at end of text on page 269- text unaffected throughout. 272 pages. 135 x 210mm. Blue cloth with blind embossed design "Dfd=Dfn" on upper cover. Spine very slightly marked near bottom from removal of shelf label.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Alex.r Hogg at the King' Arms, No. 16 Paternoster Row., 1784 Etching. Hand-coloured. Illustration to Walpoole's 'New British Traveller: or a Complete Modern Universal Display of Great Britain and Ireland'. 1784. 28.5 x 19.5 cm (image/impression). Mounted. This view of London by Alexander Hogg in 1784 is taken from a site near Islington, then just a village in the country, and takes in most of London with the Tower to the left and Westminster to the right; fields in foreground, St Paul's central in view, hills beyond. When this map was published, in 1783 Britain had just formally recognised the independent United States of America. In France, the Montgolfier brothers had just made the first hot air balloon ascent, while in 1784 Vincent Lunardi made the first hot air balloon flight in London. Russia founded a colony in Alaska & the population of London had grown to around 820,000. British Museum number 1874,0110.296.. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good.

96 printed pages. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons. Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Complete with contemporary marbled paper covered slipcase. De luxe binding signed by Riviere & Son. A selected anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861; it was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. WorldCat lists four copies. Both WorldCat and Welsh only describe copies published by Siegle, Hill & Co. London. This Leopold B. Hill imprint is an unlisted variant. 60 x 90mm. Original crimson calf. Stylised honeysuckle cornerpieces and decorative triple fillet gilt borders on front and back covers. Spine with 6 gilt pointille bands within horizontal gilt borders, quatrefoil hand-tooled decorations and gilt titling. Minor foxing on endpapers. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. Welsh, 5445. OCLC, 562731171 for Siegle edition. WorldCat locates 4 copies worldwide of the Siegle edition but none… Read More

China Architecture and Building Press, 219 printed pages, 25.6 x 25.6cm. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. signed on half-title in neat ink hand "To Rachel, 23 Sept '03, Juhani".. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.

London ; Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers, Limited,, 1914 [56] pages. Undated (date from Bodleian Library, Oxford). Illustrated with a chromo-lithograph title Page, 14 vibrant, full page colour chromolithograph plates, various duotone vignettes, motifs and page decorations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Inner hinges split. Final leaves loose. 32 x 24 cm. Bound in pictorial decorated paper over boards. Upper cover with family of six foxes wearing billboards. Rear cover with rabbit waiter, dressed in blue suit, with dinner plates in raised left paw and handbell in right paw. Various usual chipping and wear to edge extremities. A charming story in verse concerning the Slim family of foxes and their scheme to establish a seaside Lodging House for the purpose of keeping themselves forever well fed. Beautifully executed and printed chromolithography. A single edition published in 1914 in English and held by just 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

H. Fry, Finsbury-Place, for C. Dilly, Poultry., 1796 xvi, 440, xxviii. Engraved folding table. Page 288 misnumbered 88 (as with the B.L. copy). Short contemporary inscription on front paste-down endpaper ("For Langholm Lodge"). Very minimal foxing on title-page. Lacks half titlepage. All edges light green. 14 x 21.5 cm. Contemorary full calf binding. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and contrasting red morocco gilt-letterred label (tiny and unobtrusive, old repair at the head of the spine). Gilt heraldic emblem for the Duke of Buccleuch in the centre of both upper and lower covers (very slightly rubbed). The best account of crime in London at the end of the eighteenth century. Provenance:- Langholm Lodge was built by the architect James Playfair in 1786 for the Duke of Buccleuch. Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and 5th Duke of Queensberry KG FRSE (1746-1812) was a Scottish nobleman and long-time friend of Sir Walter Scott. He was the paternal 3rd great-grandfather… Read More

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode., 1946 Titus Groan. [London]: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition in first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 438 pages. Publisher's dark red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine very slightly pushed, very minor edgewear, gilt on spine darkened. Cream endpapers; ink owner s signature to the front free endpaper recto, penciled bookseller's notations beneath. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; text block slightly toned along margins and edges. Dust jacket unclipped (15s), minor edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, spine and upper edges sunned, somewhat rubbed; tear along front hinge separating the two panels, and another closed tear midway down the spine. Very good book with very good dust jacket. [Together with]: Gormenghast. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. First edition in first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 453, [1] pages. Publisher's red cloth, spine… Read More

Hackney, the Stourton Press, 1985 157 pp. + publisher's limitation (this is one of just 150 copies printed). James McBey (illustrator). Signed by author with inscription "Dear new and forever friends." on the front free endpaper. Red, cloth-covered boards with leather spine, gilt illustration on the front cover. Tipped-in illustration on the verso of the half-title. Pearsall [née Gross], Phyllis Isobel (19061996), map publisher, was the younger of the two surviving children of Alexander Gross (formerly Grosz; 18801958), a Hungarian immigrant from Csurog, near Budapest, at that time selling oil lamps door to door, and his wife, Isabelle (18861937), a playwright and suffragette, and daughter of Arthur Crowley, a lapsed Irish Catholic priest and dealer in second-hand pianos, of Peckham Rye, London, and his Italian wife. The artist (Imre) Anthony Sandor Gross was Phyllis's brother. Alexander had established Geographiaan initially successful map-publishing businessin 1907, but went… Read More

London: For Edward Jeffery by B. McMillan., 1814 Second quarto edition, preceded by another quarto edition- an exceptionally rare one in folio- and one in octavo. Limited issue, 1 of 175 copies (also published in folio in an edition of 25). vi, 381 printed pages (page v/vi bound back to front. Many leaves mainly marginally lightly stained). Profusely illustrated with 34 copper and wood engravings and lithographed plates, including John Dunstall's etchings "Lambeth House", "St Marie Ouers in Southwark", "Entrance of Westminster Hall", "St Paul's, Covent Garden" -John Seller-, "Monument", "St Paul's Cathedral", Customs House c.1690 and a contemporary view of the Cathedral Church of St Paul as it was before ye fire of LONDON [from 'A Book of the Prospects of the Remarkable Places in and about the City of London', c.1700 (engraving) by Robert Morden (fl.1682-1703) - 31 unnumbered plates with no text.No copy in BL. Only 3… Read More

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869 Two volumes; (vol. 1) xx, 332 pp.; (vol. 2) xiv, [ii], 272 printed pages. with the 30-page publisher's catalogue at the end of vol. 2, 2 folding maps [identical, as is correct]; 11 plates, illustrations in text (Vol. 1: 37 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, 5 plates, and 31 illustrations in text; one lithographic folding map by James Wyld. Vol. 2: 12 engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, 4 plates, and 7 illustrations in text; one lithographic folding map by James Wyld). Contemporary owner's signature and inscriptions on front paste-down endpapers, verso of front free endpaper and on half-title of vol. 2. (Charles Payton, 3 Crompton Road, Vechells, Birmingham. January 1882). Light foxing on preliminary and final leaves and occasionally throughout. 22 x 15 cm. Original publisher's pictorial purple cloth gilt, dark green endpapers. Spines slightly faded and rubbed with a little light historic staining; wear to head and tail of spines; corners… Read More

10 parchment pages. Manuscript title page in neat contemporary ink hand, followed by nine leaves of contemporary miniature portrait photographs (8 portraits) mounted on hand painted garlands of flowers, each differerent, with hand-penned descriptions below each image, on verso only. Circa 1890. All edges gilt. 54 x 70 mm. Original brown floral blind-stamped cloth with double blind fillet borders (very slightly rubbed); "Bijou Album" in gilt across front cover. Constitutes images of the church itself and portays Pope Leo xiii, the rectors past & current, the Provincials past and current, a Passionist author, the vicar and the Brother in charge of the building works. Paul of the Cross had talked about seeing the cross of Christ on the forehead of the poor . His Rule arrived in England only in 1841. After the potato famine started in Ireland in 1847, there was a massive flow of Irish Catholics into the poorest parts of cities like Liverpool, Birmingham and London. St. Joseph's Retreat, Highgate Hill was… Read More

Francis Boutle Publishers, 2001 Reprint of the 1881 second edition. xx, 800 printed pages. Map endpapers. Profusely illustrated. In original red cloth and with original dustwrapper.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987 xv, 279 pages. 165 x 250mm. Text block very slightly marked-text entirely unaffected. "In Contradiction" advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The book has been at the center of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since its first publication in 1987.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.