A Critical History of English Literature in Four Volumes. [Complete set]
London, Secker and Warburg, 1971/ 1969 (Volume 4, revised edition), and 1968/ 1960. More
London, Secker and Warburg, 1971/ 1969 (Volume 4, revised edition), and 1968/ 1960. More
Adelaide, The Author, 1997 [first edition]. Number 222 of only 300 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Adelaide, The Author, 1991. Signed by the author and the artist in ink on the title page. From the author's foreword: 'This light-hearted nonsense was written in 1933 for the amusement of my fellow-students in Marie Tuck's life-drawing class. I was eighteen and in my first year at the South..... More
Oxford, The Daniel Press, 1903. 'A noteworthy experiment in versification by Robert Bridges [later poet laureate] in the form of an Epistle to L.M.... It will be seen that the poem is in (438) quantitative hexameters, modified in accordance with Stone's phonetic system, in which all syllables in English are..... More
Oxford, 'Printed by Daniel' [Daniel Press], [1893] to 1894. Each part is number 92 of 150 copies printed. 'This work in six pieces, when put together, forms the most considerable publication of the Daniel Press, and is well printed and almost an Ă©dition de luxe ... A prospectus issued in..... More
Oxford, 'Printed by H. Daniel' [The Daniel Press], 1890 (corrected reprint)/ 1889. Number 57 of only 100 copies. 'This is a corrected reprint (of a hundred copies), occasioned by the speedy sale of ... the first (enlarged) edition, the demand for the book, and a piracy in America. It is..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2009 (first thus). The superb miniatures by Giovanni di Paolo (circa 1403-1482) were commissioned for a manuscript edition of Dante's 'Divine Comedy' presented to Alfonso V, king of Aragon, Naples and Sicily around 1444 and now held by the British Library (Yates Thompson MS 36). This..... More
London, George Allen & Unwin Limited for 'The Society of Bookmen', 1922. More
London, Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Jr., 1931. English hunting literature; 'a penetrating criticism of the poetry and prose of the late war - and a contrast of it with previous English war literature'. More
London, The Folio Society, 1968 [first thus]. Translated, and with a four-page introduction, by J.M. Cohen. More
London, The Folio Society, 1968 (first thus). Translated, and with a four-page introduction, by J.M. Cohen. More
New York, Doubleday, 2008. More
Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1902. Plus 12 two-tone plates. More
London, Faber and Faber, 1943. More
London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Number 177 of only 285 copies of the first edition, of which 250 are numbered and signed in ink by the author. More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1951 (first English edition). More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1922. Number 40 of only 110 copies of the large-paper edition signed by both the poet and the artist (of which 100 were offered for sale). More
London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. More
London, Paul Elek, 1977. More
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1917. The lengthy and informative preface states that this story is presented 'not so much because of the incidents involved and the peculiar relation to a phase of Nipponese mentality, as from the fact that it contains all of the machinery of the Nipponese ghost story........ More
London, G.P. Putnam's Sons ('Printed in U.S.A.'), 1930. 'Twenty-five hundred copies have been printed on Worthy No. 2 Special Laid Rag Paper, of which five hundred are for England. This copy is Number 352' (colophon at the rear of the second volume). Loosely inserted is a publisher's large-format bookmark (for..... More
London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. Provenance: 'R.N. Finlayson | from W.J. Isbister | 7.12 35' is written in ink on the front free endaper. Ronald Nickels (Jack) Finlayson (1882-1945), was a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, a member..... More