The Night-Comers
London, Heinemann, 1956. More
British Isles
The Egyptologists
London, Jonathan Cape, 1965 (first edition). More
The Defence of the Realm. The Authorized History of MI5
London, Allen Lane/ Penguin Books, 2009 (thirteenth impression)/ 2009. More
The Anzac Illusion. Anglo-Australian Relations During World War 1
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993 (first paperback edition)/ 1993. More
Images of Tudor Kingship
London, B.A. Seaby, 1992. More
Hand-book of the English Tongue for the use of Students and Others
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1862. Contemporary ink ownership details of one James Smith of Wombat, NSW. More
The Happy Garden
London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1912. 'Mary Ansell (1868-1950) published three books in her lifetime: "The Happy Garden" and "Happy Houses", both in 1912; and "Dogs and Men" in 1924. The former two were written three years after she had left her writer-husband, J.M. Barrie, for Gilbert Cannan, an up-and-coming..... More
The Happy Garden
London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1912. 'Mary Ansell (1868-1950) published three books in her lifetime: "The Happy Garden" and "Happy Houses", both in 1912; and "Dogs and Men" in 1924. The former two were written three years after she had left her writer-husband, J.M. Barrie, for Gilbert Cannan, an up-and-coming..... More
Happy Houses
London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1912. 'Mary Ansell (1868-1950) published three books in her lifetime: "The Happy Garden" and "Happy Houses", both in 1912; and "Dogs and Men" in 1924. The former two were written three years after she had left her writer-husband, J.M. Barrie, for Gilbert Cannan, an up-and-coming..... More
Souvenir of the Programme of the Australians and New Zealanders at St Paul's Service March to Cenotaph. Sunday 25th April 1937 [cover title]
[London, no imprint details], 1937. The entire programme looks to be the product of a well-meaning amateur. The text is obviously hand-set and hand-printed, and it is written in an engaging chatty style, commencing thus: 'Six war-blinded Australian ex-Servicemen will be in the contingent of Australians and New Zealanders who..... More
The Fighting Ship in the Royal Navy, 897-1860
Poole, Blandford Press, 1972 [first revised edition]/ 1968. More
The Wooden Fighting Ship in the Royal Navy, AD 897-1860
London, Blandford Press, 1972 [revised edition]/ 1968. Illustrated by Ray Woodward. More
The Local. Lithographs by Edward Ardizzone. Text by Maurice Gorham
London, Cassell and Company, 1939. More
The Lisle Letters. An Abridgement
London, The Folio Press, 1983 (first thus). Selected and arranged by Bridget Boland; foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper. More
A vintage photograph showing a very large artillery piece being manoeuvered into position with an intricate block-and-tackle system
No pertinent details - when, where and why the photograph was taken, and by whom - are known, and the later pencilling on the verso (a price and what seems to be a name) adds nothing. From first principles, we suggest the 1860s, 'somewhere in England', a training exercise, and..... More
The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiasticus
Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1932 (first thus). A superb example of private press printing. This is one of 328 copies on Batchelor handmade paper, with a further 25 copies printed on vellum. The colophon reads in full: 'Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, with..... More
The Lives of those Eminent Antiquaries Elias Ashmole, Esquire, and Mr William Lilly, written by themselves; containing, first, William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, with Notes, by Mr Ashmole: secondly, Lilly's Life and Death of Charles the First: and lastly, the Life of Elias Ashmole, Esquire. By way of Diary, with Several Occasional Letters, by ...
London, Printed for T. Davies, 1774. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) 'was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy.... Throughout his life he was an avid collector of curiosities and other artefacts. Many of these he acquired from the traveller, botanist, and collector John Tradescant the Younger..... More
Appeasement and All Souls: A Portrait with Documents, 1937-1939
London, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2004. Camden Fifth Series, Volume 24. '... the least understood and explored aspect of [the appeasement] debates has been the subject of public opinion. This volume addresses the vital phenomenon of elite and intellectual opinion.'. More
Smith's New General Atlas, containing Distinct Maps of all the Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, carefully delineated from the best Authorities extant
London, Printed for C. Smith, Mapseller Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1809. An attractive Georgian atlas 'on a Scale sufficiently large for the Purposes of general Reading, and yet not too inconvenient for the Study, or the Table' (advertisement at the foot of the contents page)..... More
Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, exhibiting the Present Condition of Geographical Discovery and Research in the Several Countries, Empires, and States of the World
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1873 ('A New Edition')/ 1868. 'In the present edition very considerable rectifications consequent upon recent political changes have been made in many of the maps of the Atlas, and the whole has been thoroughly revised. In Europe, the formation of the New German Empire has..... More
Moorcroft. A Guide to Moorcroft Pottery, 1897-1993
Somerset, Richard Dennis & Hugh Edwards, 1996/ 1993 (revised and expanded edition)/ 1990. More
The Ascent of F6. A Tragedy in Two Acts
London, Faber and Faber Limited, January 1939 (fourth impression)/ March 1937 (second edition)/ 1936. Loosely inserted is a review of the book clipped from 'The New Statesman'. More
Pride and Prejudice
London, The Folio Society, 2013 [first thus]. Introduction by Sebastian Faulks. More
David Austin's English Roses. New Edition. Photographs by Clay Perry
London, Conran Octopus, 1996 (new edition)/ 1993. More
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1984 (facsimile edition)/ 1832. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More