![Blake, William] The Botanic Garden. William. Darwin Blake, Erasmus](/pictures/thumb/1086.jpg?v=1557340683)
London: J. Johnson, 1791, 1791. First and Third Editions. Large quarto. Two parts. London: J. Johnson, 1791. Two volumes. Part 1, The Economy of Vegetation is the First Edition; Part 2, The Loves of the Plants, is the Third Edition. Bound together in contemporary calf, morocco label on spine. Complete..... (Item #1086)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American Edition. 12mo. Original brown blind-stamped cloth. Presented by someone, signed "Bronte" with her characteristic long 'T," but none of the Bronte sisters were alive in 1857, so this may have been a relative, or even a coincidence. wear and some chipping to..... (Item #155)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1863. First edition. Original green pebbled cloth, gilt spine. Very good or better copy. (Item #461)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. 8vo. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. Covers with wear, rear hinge cracked. Scarce. (Item #311)
London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. First edition. 12mo. Green gilt cloth. Half-title present. Covers sl. worn, internally clean and bright. Variant binding not in Colbeck. (Item #230)
![Bewick, Thomas] The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. With his life. Engravings on wood by Bewick....](/pictures/thumb/1218.jpg?v=1557340731)
Alnwick: Catnach and Davison, 1808. First edition. Two volumes. Original gray paper covered boards with white paper spines. 14 full-page wood engravings and 45 tailpiece engravings by Thomas Bewick. With printers two-line colophon at very end, 1808 as called for. Expertly rebacked to match original style. A very scarce Thomas..... (Item #1218)
London: John Murray, 1819. First thus. Three volumes. Very attractive bound in contemporary black pebble grain morocco with swirling gilt foliage and ruling on both covers, spine elaborately gilt; both covers with ornate blindstamped central medallion and border design. Glazed endpapers with gilt leaf pattern, inner dentelles with gilt impressed..... (Item #1064)
Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First Edition, Later Printing. Finely bound in full dark brown crushed morocco with gilt ruled borders, three-dot motif in corners, five wrap-around embossed strapwork devices connecting five raised bands which have gilt ruled borders. A fine copy of the rare first edition with later..... (Item #937)
London: 1823, John Murray. First edition. 8vo. 188pp, with 7p prospectus at end. Original drab brown wrappers. Appears to be first edition, 2nd issue with the words, "The End" appearing on p. 188. House in folders with attached slipcase/box. Very good bright copy. (Item #435)
New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., n.d. [1911]. First American edition. Red fine wove cloth, white lettering cover and spine. Eight full-page plates by Cyrus Cuneo and others. White on lettering partially lost (owing to poor quality of ink), otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce. (Item #869)
New York: Turner and Hayden, 1844. First printing. 12mo. Original brown cloth with elaborate gilt designs both covers and spine. A.E.G. Bright copy of an early decorative cloth binding. (Item #142)
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1838. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes. Original beige cloth. Rubbing and soling to covers, foxing throughout as commonly found (paper for this book was poor quality). Still a nice presentable first edition of a scarce Cooper title. (Item #201)
London: R. Hunter, 1817. First edition. 12mo. Contemporary paper covered boards, half green calf. Covers sl. worn, internally very clean and tight. Scarce title. (Item #312)
London: Printed for John Watts, 1728. Modern half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Early edition without printed music. 58pp. Some repair to title page, else very good copy of a scarce edition of this classic. (Item #1125)
London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1789. First edition of Abridged Editiion. Two Volumes. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, matching red morocco labels and gilt ruling to spines. An exemplary set, near fine internally, hinges expertly repaired. A nice example of Gibbon's enduring classic. In custom slipcase. (Item #1120)
Paris & Leipzig: H. Delloye, Chez Brockhaus, 1838. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers with ad on back for Les Rayons et Les Ombres. 250pp. Collated complete. Wrappers chipped, esp. on outer margin affecting cover and two prelim pages, but no loss of text, soiling, foxing and not wholly detracting..... (Item #434)
London: Gale and Fenner, 1816. New Edition. 12mo. Three-quarter green morocco, blue cloth, sl. rubbed. Somewhat scarce, early Leith Hunt title. (Item #60)
London: C. Bathurst, etc. 1781. Four Volumes. First Authorized and Separate Edition. Contemporary mottled calf, expertly recased. A near fine copy of this classic work by Johnson with occasional foxing, but overall a very clean, tight and attractive set. Portrait frontispiece of Johnson in Volume One is in the state..... (Item #1121)
London: Jonathon Cape, 1935. First edition. First Trade edition. Thick quarto with original cream printed dust wrapper with bold lettering in black on cover and spine (no other notation. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. A fine copy of the book, wrapper near fine with a...... (Item #1126)
![Mew, Egan-Presentation] A London Comedy and Other Vanities. Egan Mew](/pictures/thumb/455.jpg?v=1557340557)
London: George Redway, 1897. First edition. Beige cloth with gilt stylized clown on cover. Presentation copy to a friend, W.K. ("Willie") along with ALS signed (2pp). Presentation: "To W.K. you are, dear Willie, an amateur of the Nineties and so will, perhaps, forgive this untidy souvenir of the end of..... (Item #455)
![Moulton, Louise Chandler] My Third Book. A Collection of Tales. Louise Chandler Moulton](/pictures/thumb/182.jpg?v=1557340457)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. First edition. 8vo. Original pebbled cloth. Presentation Copy to a famed violinist: "Will dear Mrs. Bull forgive the immaturity of these youthful pages for the sake of the author's love? Louise Chandler Moulton, March 16, 1881." Spine sl. chipped at extr., covers sl. faded..... (Item #182)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. Original fine ribbed white cloth with gilt decorative design of palette and xylophone, gilt ruled borders on front cover, gilt spine. Beveled boards, violet endpapers. In the Pre-Raphaelite circle, Paton only produced two volumes of verse and this one is..... (Item #940)
London: Methuen, 1893. First edition. Light green cloth with attractive leaf and vine motif stamped in dark green. Parodies on artists and poets of the day including Algernon Swinburne (A.C.S.), Tennyson (Lort T__n), and perhaps the PRB painter William Waterhouse (W.W). Very good. (Item #941)
London: A. C. Fifield, 1911. First edition. Original beige buckram with lettering on cover and spine in black. Photograveure frontispiece of Brieux, preface by Shaw. TEG. A very nice, tight copy with occasional shelf wear and soling. Near fine internally. Scarce. (Item #780)
London: Samuel Richards, 1823. First Thus. 12mo. Six volumes. Original drab boards, green cloth spines, printed paper labels on spine. Labels worn, else a very nice set in representative contemporary bindings. (Item #198)
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