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Tokyo: Editions Kultura, 2001.. First edition. Oblong 4to. 289, (3) pp. Publisher's faux red leather boards, silver lettered to the spine and upper cover, dust jacket. Illustrations throughout, many in colour. Very good.

London: William Heinemann, (1930).. First edition, 8vo, (x), 240 pp. 12 plates, signed by the author on the frontispiece, bookplate of J.W. Goldman. Original orange cloth, some mild soiling, a very good copy.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.. 8vo. (viii), 923, (1) pp. Contemporary prize binding for Christ's Hospital school, full tree calf, the school crest in gilt on the upper board and a contemporary prize bookplate to the front pastedown, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, gilt decoration to panels, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece portrait and 4 plates. A little light rubbing to the extremities, a handsome copy.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884.. 8vo, xiv, 695, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary inscription to fly leaf verso, a few spots to the front blank and half title, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine and edges.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865.. 8vo, xii, 395, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with a black label, very good.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879.. Two volumes, 8vo. Marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary full calf, t.e.g., gilt arms of Lancaster Royal Grammar School, gilt spine and ruled borders, green and red morocco labels, joints darkened otherwise a very good set.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853.. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. Hand coloured frontispieces, folding map and 4 plates, new endpapers. Original gilt decorated green cloth, rebacked in a slightly darker cloth.

London: Great Western Railway Company, 1927-31.. First edition, two volumes in three (volume I in two parts), 8vo. Frontispieces and numerous illustrations plus several maps, contemporary signature to two fly leaves. Cloth, d.w.'s with sunned spines and some loss, that to volume I, part I in two pieces.

London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1899.. First edition, one of 700 "Subscriber's" copies. 4to. 131, (1) pp. Publisher's cream cloth backed blue boards, red and black printed text to upper cover and with gilt crests to both sides Frontispiece and 24 colour plates. Some edge wear and soiling to the covers, two scratches to the lower cover, otherwise a decent copy.

(Cambridge): Lutterworth Press, (2005).. First edition. 8vo. 240 pp. Original printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. An excellent copy.

London & Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, [1905].. First edition, 8vo, 45, (1) pp. Pictorial title and 10 plates, foxing to endpapers and the first and last few leaves. Original cloth backed boards, t.e.g., d.w., spine sunned with slight loss to top, a very good copy. Elfick & Harris 219.

Andoversford: The Whittington Press, (1991).. Limited edition, no. 24 of 300 copies (from a total of 350) signed by the author, small 4to, (44) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 34 wood engravings plus a full page aerial view of the village. Linen backed boards, pictorial d.w. with a panoramic view of the village, card case, light sunning to the case otherwise a fine copy.

Newport: R.H. Johns Limited, "Printers, Binders and Publishers, The Directory Press", 1937.. Limited edition, no. 30 of 50 copies, signed by Collins, Machen, Davies plus the illustrator Powell and the "master printer" Robert Stanley Johns, from a total edition of 220 copies. Small 4to. (viii), 44 pp. Uncut in publisher's green full morocco, upper cover with a decorative border and circular lettered vignette in gilt, the remnants of the original glassine wrapper including the plain green card flaps loosely inserted. Text within decorative borders throughout, 3 full page illustrations Slight rubbing to the spine ends, else very good. Goldstone & Sweetser, 120a. The remaining 170 copies in the edition were signed only by Collins and bound in cloth and boards.

London: John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680.. Second edition thus. Folio. Erratically paginated as usual but this copy also lacking two leaves: (32), 163, 164-179 (variously misnumbered), (1), (8), (4), 199-262 , 265 (misnumbered as 256)-267, (5), 267-314 but pp. 275/76 (Oo) and 281/82 (Oo4) apparently never bound in, 317-431, (5), 433-528, pp. Fairly recent full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered black label, renewed endpapers but with one of the original flyleaves retained to the front featuring the ownership inscription of a Charles Walmesley dated 1802, the same name in a similar or possibly earlier hand appears on the title page, a few marginal annotations to the contents leaves, an additional leaf bound in towards the front of the volume in "Machiavel's Letter" being a near contemporary handwritten lengthy excerpt from Henry Neville's pamphlet "Machiavel's vindication of himself and his writings against the imputation of impiety, atheism, and… Read More

[n.p., n.d.].. Limited edition, no. 11 of 100 copies signed by the Author, single sheet, 11 x 6 inches, printed on one side only. Fine.

London: Cassell and Company, (1927). First edition, 8vo, (x), 269, (1) pp. Cloth with slight loss to the top of the spine, d.w., spine with mild browning and a small hole.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840, 1841.. Two works bound in one. 8vo. 1. Third edition. (iii)-xxxiv, 923, (1), bound without the half title; 2. Sole edition. 30 pp. Contemporary brown half calf over marbled boards, spine rebacked to style in a close matching leather with raised bands and a gilt lettered label. Frontispiece, another plate and illustrations in the text to the first work, just one illustration to the second. Some wear to the boards and the edges of the endpapers, else very good.

Elgin: J.D. Yeadon, 1926.. First edition. Large 8vo. 79, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, the latter also featuring a diagonal red band, top edge gilt, dust jacket, inscribed "To A.W. Sky[?] Esq with H.B. Mackintosh's Compliments" to the half title. Frontispiece plus 4 black and white plates. Sizeable loss to the foot of jacket spine and upper panel, smaller losses elsewhere, the book very good.

(Old Woking): Gresham Books, (1981).. First edition, 4to, 136 pp. Numerous illustrations. Original gilt titled cloth, d.w. very slightly sunned to spine, otherwise an excellent copy.

London: E.R. Duke & Co., 1918.. Sole edition, 8vo, xxii, 91, (1) pp. Ink stamp of the New Commonwealth Library to the paste down but without any other institutional markings. Original cloth, some light marks and browning. Scarce.