History And Literature from Bryars and Bryars

Paris, Chaumerot jeune, , 1819. First French edition. 8vo. pp. 508, light spotting, contemporary red half calf, rebacked retaining original spine, headcap renewed. Formerly in the library of Holland House, the Jacobean mansion in Kensington which was owned by the Fox family, the Barons Holland; the house was largely destroyed in the Blitz although most of the books were salvaged… Read more about this item

London, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount,, 1623. The full text of A Midsummer Night's Dream from the First Folio, 9 leaves of text, numbered pp. 145-162, supplied with a handwritten title leaf. Marginal manuscript ink note or symbol to recto of N3 (p. 149); mispagination of recto of N5 (number 151 repeated) corrected to page 153 in an early hand;… Read more about this item

Vienna, , 1926. 45 folio leaves, each approx. 47 x 20 cm, printed on one side only, versos blank. Printed on acidic paper, with some age-toning, and now enclosed in custom-made mylar sleeves and housed in a cloth drop-box. Freud's pencilled annotations and corrections are more numerous in the first part of the work.Freud's 'Question of lay analysis' is the… Read more about this item

Chichester: Printed by I.T. Lewis, 1838. Lithographed title page and 15 b/w lithographed plates by E. Fudge after I. Stockman, with tissue guards + pp. [vi] letterpress descriptive text; plate 8 misbound after plate 10; light foxing, mostly marginal; contemporary half calf over green pebbled-cloth, with title lettered in gilt to morocco label on front cover. One of the… Read more about this item

London, printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne and Son etc, 1786. 12mo. pp. vi, 306 + engraved plate (illustrating ‘fortification billiards’). Some spotting and browning, particularly to the title and final page (offsetting from turn-ins of an older binding). Modern sheep, with gilt-ruled spine. John Dew’s section on billiards was also issued separately. Hoyle’s treatises on… Read more about this item

London: printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor, 1719. 12mo. pp. [xxiv], 315, [iii]. Some light spotting and browning. The account of Donne’s life is abridged from the life by Izaak Walton. Some copies may have a portrait frontispiece which is not present here, but an uncontrolled note on ESTC suggests that this was reported by one… Read more about this item

Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761. 4 vols, 4to. pp. xxv, [ii], 537, [iii], 415-525 [=537, misnumbered, but 674 in total], [iv]; [viii], 538, [xii]; 579, [xi]; 555, [xi] + portrait frontispiece of Addison, engraved by John Miller after Godfrey Kneller, and three other plates engraved by Charles Grignion after Francis Hayman; woodcuts… Read more about this item

London, 1803 [but c. 1813].. A popular early nineteenth-century table-game; the board is an engraved snail-shell racetrack, 56 x 54 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 12 panels and laid on linen, worn and thumbed, with slight fraying to lower edge, folding into slip-case with printed paper label, rubbed and worn; complete with the 48pp "Rules and Directions for… Read more about this item

Berlin, Geneva, Zurich, 1919-20. Sammelband comprising five pamphlets bound together, of which four are inscribed to Rudolph Kommer: 1. Lammasch, Henrich: La Maintien de la Paix, Geneva, édition Atar, n.d. (inscribed); 2. Ehrlich, Eugen: Bismarck und der Weltkrieg, Zurich, Orell Füssli, 1920 (inscribed); 3. Ehrlich, Eugen: Quelques aspects de question nationale Autrichienne, édition Atar, n.d. (inscribed); 4. Herron, Prof… Read more about this item

Paris: F. Buisson, Mai , 1791. Octavo, untrimmed in near-contemporary paper wrappers (they incorporate printer's waste from what seems to be a critical edition of Voltaire, c. 1820-30); pp. xii, 227. The first French edition, second state, of the first part of Paine’s Rights of Man, with a preface specially written by Paine for this translation. This edition appeared… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann & The Bodley Head , 1970-1982. 8vo. 23 volumes: the 22 volume set of first printings of the Collected Edition, each supplied with a new introduction by the author, together with a first printing of the Collected Essays (1969) in a slightly taller but matching format. Green publisher’s cloth, dust wrappers designed by Michael Harvey,… Read more about this item

London, John Murray, , 1819. 8vo. pp. 100, including half title. Contemporary gilt-ruled biscuit calf, headcap renewed. Armorial bookplate of 3rd Viscount Sidmouth (1811-1876; he married a member of the Pelew family, whose arms appear on the right). Near contemporary signature of a member of the Addington family to flyleaf. Rogers' poem was printed in both quarto and… Read more about this item

London: printed by R. Nutt for the Company of Stationers [first work; remainder, 1737. Three works bound as one, 12mo. pp. [xliv] (ie, A-B12); 72, 70, [ii]; 72. Signature A in Rider’s ‘British Merlin’ printed in red and black and interleaved with blanks for notes. ESTC calls for 48 pages rather than 44, possibly advertisments which were omitted when… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. 8vo. bound without half title, but with the following first issue points: In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is on his left arm; p. xv (list of plates), no page given for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p. 14, ten lines up, "aint"… Read more about this item

London: printed for John Donaldson, corner of Arundel-Street, No. 195. in the Strand. Sold by T. Wilson, at York, 1776. Seventh edition. 8 vols. 12mo. pp. ix, [iii], 345, [i]; [ii], 315, [i]; 299, [i]; 308, [ii]; 322; 320; 324, [ii]; 346, [ii] + portrait frontispiece of Richardson. One or two trivial spots and stains; L1 (pp. 121-22) in… Read more about this item

London: printed for the author [probably by William Bowyer], 1747. Folio. pp. 12, plus portrait frontispiece of Gibbs engraved by Bernard Baron after Hogarth and 21 architectural plates engraved by Paul Fourdrinier; lacking the portrait of Radcliffe engraved by Fourdrinier after Kneller. Very light marginal waterstaining to one or two of plates, which include interior and exterior views and… Read more about this item

London: printed by T.Bensley and Son, for Robert Bowyer, 1816. Folio. pp. [ii] (letterpress title), 32, [xx] + 10 aquatint plates with original hand colour, of which two (Moscow, and the entry of the ‘Allied Sovereigns’ into Leipzig) are folding + engraved b/w plate of facsimile signatures and documents; occasional trivial spotting, but generally clean. Publisher’s boards with printed… Read more about this item

London: John Murray,, 1960. First edition, signed. 8vo. pp. [viii], 111. Signed ‘John Betjeman made me’ on the bell on the title-page. Green publisher’s cloth, price-clipped d/w, light toning to front endpapers, bookplate. Book

London: printed for W. Allason; B. Whitrow and Co [et al.], 1819. 12 vols bound as six. 8vo. pp. vi, 16, xxi-xxxii (but nothing appears to be lacking), 456, xii, 486; viii, 409, viii, 438; vi, 427, viii, 411; viii, viii, 423, viii, 375; x, 503, x, 382; x, 450, [iv], xii, 508. Portrait frontispiece engraved by Freeman after… Read more about this item

[Geneva]: excudebat Henricus Stephanus,, 1577.. 8vo. pp. [iv], 276, 120. Text in Greek and Latin. Woodcut Estienne device to title, red-ruled throughout, lightly and uniformly toned. Seventeenth-century calf with oval wreath to covers, gilt. Some wear to joints and extremities. All edges gilt. An anthology of letters, verses, dialogues and other small works by diverse classical authors, mostly… Read more about this item