Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1877 (first thus). An attractive Florentine binding featuring the Marzocco (heraldic lion of Florence) supporting an escutcheon charged with the Giglio of Florence. The binding is from the well-known workshop of Giulio Giannini (Piazza Pitti), who specialised in fine bindings such as this for the Edwardian tourist..... More

Paris, Chez l'auteur, F.A. David, 1787 to 1796. The 140 plates, illustrating scenes from French history to 1768, are engraved by François-Anne David after designs by Nicolas Lejeune. The 'Gazette nationale ou le Moniteur universel' for 5 November 1794 contains a lengthy advertisement for David's series of illustrated histories, indicating..... More

Paris, Georges Crès et Cie, 1924 (first thus). Number 1014 of a total edition of 1961 sets, this being one of 1850 on Rives paper (numbered 112-1961). The 140th title in the Maitres du Livre series. [2 items]. More

London, John C. Nimmo, 1890. Number 135 of only 520 sets printed for England (with a further 260 sets for America). 'I flatter myself that readers will be found to appreciate the brilliant, though prolix and desultry, portraiture of life in Venice during the last century which these "useless memoirs"..... More

Paris, Éditions de la Banderole, 1922 [first thus]. Number 165 of a total edition of 700 copies, this being one of 594 copies on vélin d'Arches' paper (numbered 107-700). More

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1905. Archibald Little was an English merchant and longtime resident of China. This account, one of the 'Regions of the World' series, covers the geography, geology, and history of the Chinese Empire and its dependancies, with additional chapters on former dependencies in Southeast Asia and..... More

[Paris], Éditions du Sablier, 1921. Number 372 of a total edition of 512 copies, this being one of 445 copies on 'hollande van Gelder' paper (numbered 1-445, the last 20 hors-de-commerce). This is the 17th volume in the Le Sablier series. More

London, Printed for Hurst, Chance, and Co.... and Effington Wilson, 1830. Fortunately, the first paragraph of the lengthy preface to this very lengthy poetical work (replete with numerous footnotes) provides the context: 'Intending to compose a few lines to prefix a work* ["Hampden in the Nineteenth Century, or Colloquies on..... More

Paris, Georges Crès et Cie, 1919 (first thus). Number 701 of a total edition of 1700 copies, this being one of 1650 copies on 'vélin de Rives' paper (numbered 51-1700). The fifth title in the Le Théâtre d'Art series. More

London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882. Loosely inserted is an albumen silver photograph (170 × 110 mm) mounted on card (300 × 230 mm, with the inkstamp credit of the photographers T. and R. Annan of Glasgow) of the memorial tablet in Glasgow Cathedral to Major Alexander Dunlop..... More

London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co., [undated later editions, circa 1890s]. Each volume bears the impressive armorial bookplate of English banker Frank Cyril Tiarks (1874-1952), sometime director of the Bank of England (1912-1945) and High Sheriff of Kent (1927). [6 items]. More

[1] A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland.... Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park (5 volumes; London, printed for John Scott, 1806). [2] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third.... Edited, with notes, by Sir Denis Le Marchant..... More