HEBRON, Stephen. John Keats: A Poet and His Manuscripts London, The British Library, 2009. £60 Folio. 165 pp., illustrated, mostly in colour, with frontispiece plate. Coated cloth and gilt title to spine, original dust jacket. A fine […]
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MCLEAN, Ruari
Joseph Cundall, A Victorian Publisher
BARKER, Nicolas
BARKER, Nicolas. Stanley Morison London, Macmillan, 1972. £50 8vo, pp. 566, with 8 plates. Publisher’s cloth and original dust jacket. Internally excellent. A fine copy.
CROSS, Wilbur L.
CROSS, Wilbur L.. The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne New Haven, Yale University Press, 1925. £40 8vo, 2 vols. xxii, 287 pp., with 8 illustrations, including frontispiece plate; xii, 333, with 8 illustrations, including frontispiece plate. Tissue-paper […]
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COULSTON CILLISPIE, Charles. Dictionary of Scientific Biography New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970. £250 Folio, 6 vols (first 6 volumes, from A until H), double-column text. Publisher’s coated cloth, gilt lettering to spine and original dust […]
LEGER, Charles
LEGER, Charles. Redouté et son temps Editions de la Galerie Charpentier, 1945. £250 LIMITED EDITION of 980 (this is copy 972). Folio, pp. 170, 12 final hand-coloured plates, with numerous coloured facsimile plates and illustrations throughout, both […]
GJERTSEN, Derek
GJERTSEN, Derek. The Newton Handbook London, Routledge & kegan Paul, 1986. £ 50 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 14, 665. Publisher’s blue buckram and silver title stamped to spine. Original dust jacket. A fine copy. 2 COPIES AVAILABLE.
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THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMAINES
STANLEY, Thomas
SECOND EDITION OF STANLEYS LIFE OF PHILOSOPHERS
MENUHIN, Yehudi
MENUHIN, Yehudi. Unfinished Journey London, MacDonald and Jane’s, 1977. £ 400 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 393. Black buckram, gilt title to spine. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper with dedication to John Symonds: “For the residents […]