The Book of the Princes of Wales, Heirs to the Crown of England by Doran, Dr. ( John) - 1860

Francestown: Typographeum, 1997. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Bound by Francis Brown in quarter brown morocco with brown buckram sides. Marbled end-papers. T.e.g. One of 10 lettered copies hand-set and printed letterpress and signed by the author. Preserved in a slip-case. No dust-jacket as issued. Includes an essay about what it may have been like to be a printer in the 15th Century, and two more about important printers from that period: Nicolaus Jenson and Aldus Manutius. There is also a chapter of autobiography, about the author's first years in Francestown. Finally there is a reminiscence of a much loved bookseller, David Low.

Einsiedeln Zürich Köln: Benziger, 1949. 383 S.; mit SW-Porträtfrontispiz; herausgegeben u. eingeleitet von Andre Blanchet; aus dem Französischen von Edwin Maria Landau; neuer unikater Handeinband in Ganzleder mit Rückentitel u. Verzierungen in Gold, sowie Lesebändchen aus der Buchbinderwerkstatt Michael Rönsberg, Velbert-Langenberg/Wuppertal. Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. Leder. Tadellos. 23,7 cm. Handeinband.

London: British Government. Good+. 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue paper covered boards over brown leather spine with raised bands, title and number labels. This is the original Journal #60 issued in 1828. Contains: Appendix #1 "Game Laws" (43pp) ; Appendix #2: "Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums" (36pp) ; Appendix &3: "Wool Trade" (92pp). Index at rear has 30 pp. Light shelf edge wear. Rubbed front corners. Age toned deckle page edges. Text tight's interior is tight, clean & intact. Rare Section ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 969 pages .

London: Printed for T. Caldwell and W. Davies, In the Strand, 1809. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. [xxxi], 333, 60 pages. With large folding map of Ireland. Hardcover bound in contemporary or early 3/4 leather with marbled paper-covered boards. The binding shows heavy wear. The front board is detached; the rear board is holding by the cords. The leather on the front and rear boards is chipped away at the hinges and the binding generally appears worn and heavily rubbed. The leather on the spine is a bit darkened, suggesting it having been damped, and also has a couple of chips missing. Dual black leather labels on the spine. Likely an ex-library copy; a bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown. The paper of the text shows some waviness, also suggesting having been damped, although there are no tide-marks in the paper. Text is untrimmed. Text is toned and occasionally foxed, especially on the pages around the map.… Read More

Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall by Arthur H. Norway, with illustrations by Josh Pennell and Hugh Thomson/Hardback, 1907, fifth reprint (originally published 1897) numerous illustrations and foldout map to rear, published by Macmillan & Co., Limited, London, 391 pages + viii.Octavo/8vo. Measures around 8" by 5 3/4" by 1 1/4". Green soft leather binding, gilt edging and detail to boards, gilt college crest to front board, red leather label and gilt lettering and extensive detail to spine. Some scuffing, a little marking, small signs of shelf-wear but overall colouring of leather and gilt detail very vivid apart from rubbing to small part of crest on front board. Binding firm. Corners slightly bumped. Book fans out a little towards outer edges, slight curvature to boards. Page edges and endpapers have attractive marbling. College prizegiving bookplate to front pastedown. Page surfaces clean, slight marking and occasional minor foxing but otherwise fine and no underlining, marginalia, etc. See… Read More

London: Spink, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 4to. Quarter niger with Cockerell marbled boards. T.e.g. Pp. xviii, 214. Illustrated:frontispiece, xxviii plates. Index. Foreword by Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms and Genealogist of the Order of the Bath. Number 127 of 150 de-luxe copies. Laid in: two photocopies of letters dated in 1972: (1) from Conrad Swan of the College of Arms, and (2) from a secretary to The Queen at Balmoral Castle thanking the author for his gift of the book.

Complete in 4 volumes. Half dark brown calf leather over brown marbled paper (Spanish Pattern, moire type); spines with 5 raised bands, gilt stamped on bands with fine guilloche motif and in panels with titles and floral and tendril designs; top edges gilt; end papers of matching marbled pattern. Bright, clean covers and spines; leather remains supple; slight rubbing wear at some fore corners; tightly bound; each volume with owner bookplate on front pastedown 'Ellen Mudge Butler'; bright, clean interiors; all vols with many leaves unopened at fore edges - never been read. 12mo, 1820 total pp; paged 443, 480, 476, 421. Index in vol 4. Cf, OCLC #9592699. Owner Butler was mother-in-law of Ellsworth Bunker. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker (U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal, South Vietnam, Organization of American States, and twice recipient of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom).

London: British Government. Very Good. 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the original journal number 75, issued in 1843. Index pp 653 - 709. Appendix #1: "Auchterarder Cases", 25pp. Appendix #2: "New Houses of Parliament" (progress of the building) 6pp. Appendix 3: Law of Defamation and Libel, 77pp. Appendix #4: "The Queen v. Millis" (Writ & Error) Appendix #5: "Lunatic Poor in Ireland" includes 31 drawings mostly in color of proposed asylums 111 pp. Appendix #6: Evidence on Divorce Bills", 27pp. Brown leather, raised bands with title and volume number labels on spine. Blue paper covered boards. Leather protected front corners and spine ends are lightly rubbed and scuffed. Slight shelf edge wear. Texts interior is tight, clean & intact. Please inquire if interested in other 19th Century Journals. Rare Section, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ; Floor Plans; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 977 pages .

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863. Book. Illus. by Foster, Birket and Gilbert, John. Near Fine. Hard Cover ( Mauchline ). Reprint. Fine but for some light scratches and scuffs to the Mauchline Ware covers, and traces of wear to extremities of leather spine, which is gilt stamped leather with raised bands. The covers are the McDonald tartan. The fore edges are embossed, gilt. Internally fine, with over 60 illustrations.A unique binding..

Faber and Faber Limited.�London. 1955. REPRINT OF 1946 EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with two portraits of Brooke by Jacques and Gwen Raverat. A lovely bright and clean copy, finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London, in half red morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A pleasing copy.