Literature

n.p. . [1847].One of six manuscript copies transcribed by Charles Pollington. A presentation inscription on one of the preliminary leaves states: "This sixth Copy of Clare's Poems is presented to my dear Grand-daughter Margaret Pollington of London to perpetuate the remembrance of her Grandfather Charles Pollington. Boston. 1851." 185x112mm. Presentation inscription, frontispiece monochrome watercolour of Clare's Cottage, Helpstone, title page and 359pp. Pasted in on the presentation page are two news cuttings and loosely inserted at the back of the book are some newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to Clare.

London: Macmillan & Co, Limited. 1911-13.Presentation copy to Edward Clodd. Third edition. Eleven volumes, without the Bibliography and General Index, but with a copy of volume III of the 1924 The Belief in Immortality with an ALS from Frazer to Edward Clodd. Original publisher's green cloth (although volumes 5-8 are in blue cloth). Upper cover is decorated with a mistletoe design in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt. Volume 3 (Taboo and the Perils of the Soul) has been repaired at the head of the spine (with a very slight loss of the gilt lettering).

A Journey Undertaken in an insane moment through Central Europe on foot. London: Richard Bentley and Son. 1891.Presentation copy. Psycho-geographyPresentation copy. First edition. 8vo. 202x135mm. pp. [viii], 388. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt and blind to upper cover and spine and with some decoration in blind. Rubbing to edges, corners bumped and worn. Bumping and some slight nicks and chips to head and foot of spine which is a little sunned. Slightly foxed and toned with some creasing to the foot of the last ten leaves. Overall a very good copy.

London: Henry Colburn.. 1827.Science fiction, feminism and reanimation. The first appearance of the Mummy. First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. (185x113mm). pp. viii, 300; [ii], 348; [ii], 303 [1, publisher's adverts]. Bound without half-titles in volumes II and III (volume I was issued without a half-title). Tan half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Spine with green morocco label, lettered in gilt. Some repairs and strengthening to joints, head and foot of spines and corners. Slight scuffing to spines and rubbing to boards.

Aberdeen: J&J.P.Edmond & Spark. 1884.Limited edition. 44 of 101 copies. 4to. 185x140mm. pp. xvi, 18, [2]. Red quarter morocco, marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing and wear to the extremities and to spine. Internally near fine. Overall a very good copy. The preface offers a helpful history and explanation of this curious work. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in the early part of Henry VIII's reign, it is a satirical poem of 1414 lines "in which various classes of society, chiefly of the lower order, are passed under review in rapid succession".

London: Printed for J. Murray. 1814.First edition. 8vo. 165x110mm. pp. [8], 128, [4pp, publisher's adverts]. Bound by G.H.May in tan half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Spine with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt and the top compartment decorated in gilt with an extraordinary snake, skull and star design. Top edge gilt. Some light shelfwear but otherwise in very good condition throughout. Front pastedown has the bookplate of Gilbert Compton Elliot.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1926.Third edition. 8vo. 217x175mm. pp.xvi, 102, [2bl]. Original wrappers, some slight wear to extremities but otherwise in very good condition throughout and internally excellent. Protected by a transparent plastic cover. The first two editions of Flatland appeared in quick succession in 1884 but the book then fell out of print. Blackwell issued this third edition forty two years later. Textually it is has a few revisions from the second edition but its appearance is almost exactly the same as the earlier ones.

n.p. . [1925].Typescript novel with extensive manuscript corrections and alterations. ff. [2], 117, [2], 118-276. Text on recto only, tied with string through two punched holes in the left margin and tied into a cover fashioned from heavy card apparently salvaged from packing material for a French retailer of sheet music and musical instruments. Housed in a custom made cloth wrapper and slipcase.

Buenos Aries: Editorial Atlantida. 1975.Silver gelatin photograph. 180x240mm. Taken using a fish-eye lens, it shows Borges and Sabato sitting together talking over a cup of coffee in a café. On the verso is the photographer's stamp from the magazine Editorial Atlantida. It has also been inscribed by Sabato "Para Juan contodo mui afecto. E. Sabato. 15 de Mayo de 1998". Protected by a transparent plastic envelope and housed in a heavy card folder covered with marbled paper.

Paris: Louis-Henry May. 1899.First trade edition. 8vo. 203x155mm. pp. [28], 78, [5, 1bl]. Cloth backed, paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt with a flower motif in gilt to upper cover and spine. Corners rubbed worn and frayed and some staining to the boards. Some foxing and browning but otherwise very good internally. This is Whistler's account of the legal dispute with Sir William Eden over his portrait of Lady Eden.

[London]: Secker and Warburg. 1929.Number 43 of 125 copies printed on vellum. 268x170mm. Unpaginated. Illustrated dustjacket with some damage and a tear (with loss) to the top edge of the front cover and about 40mm missing from the foot of the spine and 10mm from the top but it is rare to find this book with a pristine jacket.

London: Printed by S.R., and are to be sold by Edward Gough. 1682.First edition. 8vo. 173x110mm. pp.[16], 78, [2]. With a separate title page for "A remembrance of the worthy show and shooting by he Duke of Shoreditch, and his associaties ... By W.M." (p. [33]-71). Contains the scarce Postscript which was missing from three of the six copies appearing in the auction records since 1975. Contemporary brick red morocco with double fillet border and gilt panel of double fillet and roll-tool decoration with inner and outer corner pieces to upper and lower covers.

London: Edm. Bollifant. 1598. First edition in English. 269x190mm. pp. [8], 496. Collates: a⁴A-2R⁶ 2S⁸. Full calf, double fillet borders to upper and lower covers. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in blind and gilt and lettered in gilt. Tear to title page at gutter and there is some browning and foxing and two small holes in Cc6, Ee6, with loss of two letters in each case. But otherwise a very good copy of the first appearance in English of this influential work which combines the pastoral obsessions of the Renaissance with an early form of novelistic prose.

London: Ward and Downey. . 1889.From the Libraries of Barry Humphries and Montague Summers. First single volume edition. 8vo. 191x125mm. pp. vii [ibl], 351 [1]. Six engraved plates by Brinsley Sheridan Le Fanu. Publisher's decorated cloth. Slight bumping and rubbing to corners and to head and foot of spine which is a little rubbed and darkened. Hinges weak and some minor marking but otherwise a very good copy of the first single volume edition of the novel initially issued in three volumes in 1869.

London: Printed for and sold by the Author.. n.d. [1791].First edition. 8vo. 220x140mm. pp.Xxxii, 343. Uncut in the original marbled paper covered boards. Protected by a brown buckram wrapper with a red morocco label lettered in gilt and housed in a brown slipcase. A lovely copy – as authentic a relic of the eighteenth-century book trade as one could wish to find - of the epistolary memoirs of the first recognisably modern bookseller.

London: David Bogue. 1885.Presentation copy. First edition. 8vo. 175x110mm. pp. viii, 120. Publisher's green cloth, title and author in gilt to upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Pages uncut. Corners bumped and rubbing to extremities and boards slightly soiled. Internally very good with a little browning and soiling in places. Worldcat notes that this was issued in both green and red publisher's bindings and notes that in one copy of the red, the dedication leaf has been cancelled "which may be characteristic of the entire issue".

Sorbonne: 1430 [1930].Subscriber's copy. Number 29. Tome 1 and 2 bound together in a single volume. 190x140mm. pp. 258, [6], [4], 259-577, [10]. Thirty seven coloured erotic illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. Smartly bound in green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt.

London: W.J.Cleaver. 1846.Inscribed by the author. Second edition. 8vo. 214x135mm. pp. xiv, [2], 463, [1bl]. Handsomely bound in contemporary brown morocco, boards and spine heavily tooled in blind and with title in gilt to spine. Brass cornerpieces and clasp. Beautifully gauffred edges, marbled endpapers, maroon silk ribbon. A blank preliminary leaf has the inscription "The joint gift of Mary Vickery and William J.E. Bennett to Elisa Vickery on her Birth Day 16th of June 1854. Pro salute anima preces sunt perpetua in Christo". In immaculate condition throughout and the binding is a splendid Victorian period piece.

Paris: François-Ambroise Didot. 1785.Two volumes. Large 4to. 310x230mm. pp. ix, [1], 596; [4], 548. Handsomely bound in red morocco. Gilt borders, spine lettered in gilt, turn ins decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pale blue silk ribbon in each volume. Slight bumping to bottom edges and rubbing to corners and to head and foot of spines but otherwise a lovely set in very good condition and internally excellent save for a little foxing in places and some minor staining in volume two.

San Francisco: RE/SEARCH. 1982.Inscribed by Burroughs. 277x215mm. pp. 96. Illustrated wrappers. Some very slight rubbing and a small crease to the top left corner of back cover but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Extensively illustrated. The title page has been inscribed "To Jonathan, William S. Burroughs". Burroughs is very much the main event in this special, double edition of the important counterculture magazine RE/SEARCH.

or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards call'd the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany. Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II.London: printed for T. Warner; W. Meadows; W. Pepper; S. Harding; and T. Edlin . 1724.First edition. 8vo, (viii), pp.407, engraved frontispiece of "The famous Roxana". Early nineteenth-century calf, covers with a blind-tooled border, spine decorated in gilt and blind, chestnut brown endpapers, edges lightly rubbed, short hairline crack at top of one joint.

New York: The Publishers' Printing Company. 1901.First edition. 175x120mm. pp. xviii, 138. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover. Some marking and soiling to boards, rubbing to edges and slight fraying to head and foot of spine. Internally very good and overall a nice copy of a book which is rare in commerce, no copies appearing in the auction records. Eleanor Kirk (1831-1908) was an extraordinary woman who wrote curious books.

n.p. [Trevecca?] . 1780.  First edition. 8vo in 4s. 188x117mm. pp. viii, 134, [2]. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled paper covered boards, slightly bumped and rubbed. Internally a little browned but overall a very good copy of a rare book. We have traced only two at auction, eight copies on JISC Library Hub, and a further five in Worldcat. Tipped in are two manuscript documents (seven pages in total) by Jones himself.

Penrith: Printed and published by J. Brown.. 1809-10.First edition. 8vo. 255x160mm. pp. 448. Contemporary blue-grey boards, grey paper backstrip, pages uncut. Protected by a loose buckram cover and housed in a slipcase. Repair to spine, joints and to hinges at the gutter. Surface crack to spine, corners slightly worn. Internally very good but with some marking and foxing and a little crinkling to the edges of some leaves. Each issue has the revenue duty stamp. Front pastedown has book label of Mary Elizabeth Hudson and the very discreet label W.A.S. which is William A.