London, Grant Richards, 1897. The following is printed on the verso of the half-title, facing the title page: 'Of this book there is a very limited edition printed on Japanese vellum numbered and signed by the Author'. This copy is not numbered or signed, nor is it printed on Japanese..... More
London, David Mallet, 1754 (first collected octavo edition). Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of A.R. Downer, Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat. He was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. Henry St John..... More
![Lloyd's Natural History. [Sixteen volumes, the complete set]. R. BOWDLER SHARPE](/pictures/thumb/64893_01.jpg?v=1593736483)
London, Edward Lloyd, 1896 and 1897. The set comprises BOWDLER SHARPE, R.: British Birds (four volumes with 124 colour plates); OGILVIE-GRANT, W.R.: Handbook to the Game Birds (two volumes with 42 colour plates); KIRBY, W.F.: Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera (five volumes with 159 colour plates); FORBES, H.O.: Handbook to..... More
London, Chapman & Hall Ld, [circa 1880s]. Three parts in one volume: The Bastille, The Constitution, and The Guillotine. More
![American Notes, and Reprinted Pieces. [Together with]: Barnaby Rudge; Great Expectations; A Tale...](/pictures/thumb/123480_01.jpg?v=1625199423)
London, Chapman and Hall, 1867 (1 volume); 1868 (7 volumes) and [N.D.] (12 volumes). More
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882 (sixteenth edition). More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879 (new edition). Prize binding of Merchant Taylor's School. Pigeon and Pugh Mercantile Prize, 1881. 'Merchant Taylors School, one of the major public (privately endowed) schools in England ... The school was founded (1561) by the Merchant Taylors Company of London, an incorporated group of..... More
London, John Murray, 1876 (new edition). The Student's Gibbon. More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874 (second edition). The complete first series in an attractive Victorian binding. A further five volumes in two series were published, covering the reign of Queen Victoria. Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of the South Australian pastoralist and book collector Henry Hampden Dutton (1879-1932);..... More
London, John Murray, respectively 1854 (seventh edition), 1856 (eleventh edition), and 1854 (fourth edition). A handsome set of the principal works of Henry Hallam in nine volumes, with the armorial bookplates of Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer KBE (1910-1981) and Sergius Henry d'Avigdor in each volume. More
London, Ward, Lock and Co., 1889. One of the Minerva Library of Famous Books. More
London, printed for G. and W. Nichol [and numerous others], 1816 (first thus). [9 items]. More
London, Hurst, Chance, 1831. With the gilt-armorial bookplate of one William Twopeny. More
![The Reproof of Brutus [a Poem]. John Minter MORGAN](/pictures/thumb/118553_01.jpg?v=1589954858)
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
Sydney, Aldine Publishing Company, 1890. This half morocco binding (with the binder's ticket of The Sydney Printing and Stationery Co., Limited, Redfern, in both volumes) is essentially a deluxe edition, far more robust than the standard version. [2 items]. More
London, John Murray, 1868 (second edition) (first two volumes) and 1867 (first edition) (last two volumes). More
London, John Murray, 1875/ 1874. Provenance: James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty, with his ownership signature in ink in each volume (and his neat underlining and marginal marks in pencil on virtually EVERY page). More
London, Bell, 1923/ 1904 (a reissue in eight volumes of the publisher's much-reprinted ten-volume edition first published in 1893-99). More
London, Macmillan and Co., 1901/ 1887. More
Melbourne, George Robertson & Company, 1896. The verso of the initial binder's blank is inscribed 'To The Hon G.H. Reid Esqre with kind regards. October 29th 1896'. Trove records the first newspaper reviews for this novel of station life in October 1896. We have not identified the handwriting, but it..... More
London, Nimmo, 1890. A 'brilliant, though prolix and desultry, portraiture of life in Venice' during the eighteenth century. Number 135 of only 520 sets printed for England (with a further 260 sets for America). This set has an Adrian Feint-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor in each volume. [2 items]..... More
London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1880 (4 volumes) and 1881 (8 volumes). Frontispiece to each volume. Vanity Fair; The History of Pendennis; The Newcomes; The History of Henry Esmond, also The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon; The Virginians; The Adventures of Philip; The Paris Sketch Book, The Irish Sketch Book ...;..... More
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth Earl of Orford, English author, letter-writer, politician, collector, architectural innovator ... but 'above all, a wit, a virtuoso, and a man of quality' ('Dictionary of National Biography'). More
![The Masterpieces of Emile Zola. [Comprising] L'Assommoir; La Curée; Germinal; Nana; Pot-Bouille;...](/pictures/thumb/114646_01.jpg?v=1559288548)
[Philadelphia], 'Printed for subscribers only from the plates made by the Lutetian Society' [by George Barrie & Son, circa 1924]. Number 160 of 1000 sets of the 'Library Edition, with the etchings on Japan paper', comprising unexpurgated translations of six novels from Zola's sweeping Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. The stated aim..... More
