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Petite Bibliotheque de la Jeunesse. Marcilly. Paris. 1835. 6 volumes in French in original oriental/ Chioiserie style sensational rosewood bookcase (possibly missing a glazed door and drawer at the back). Original metal ring and bronzed retailer's plaque on the back for Alph[onse] Giroux et C[ompagn]ie, Rue du Coq St. Honore, Paris that indicates that this particular bookcase was manufactured in… Read more about this item

Six miniature books presented in one giant walnut shell-shaped 'bookcase', that was almost certainly a specially commissioned retail display unit, since the books were sold individually or in sets (but not with an oversize carved walnut shell' bookcase'). The compartment in the nut case may have been sympathetically refurbished. Each volume has an index. "These little books contain only prose,… Read more about this item

24 printed pages. 11 colour photgraphic illustrations. Index and Bibliography. 'Introduction', 'The History of Small Antique Bookcases', 'Caring for Your Mini Bookcases', 'Notable Examples', 'Investment Value' and 'Conclusion'. 15 x 21 cm. Perfect bound with colour pictorial card wrappers. Newly published in June 2024. This approaches collectable miniature books through the perspective of their original bookcases and draws from a… Read more about this item

[8], 302 printed pages, plus correction page at end. Printed by Simms and McIntyre, Belfast. Simms and McIntyre Pocket edition, priced sixpence. Individually issued volume (two years later, Simms & McIntyre published, The Select Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ; Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, and Rokeby). Page edges a little dusty. Otherwise, in… Read more about this item

128 printed pages. Printed by S. Chandler, Basingstoke. Original pale yellow endpapers. All edges gilt 55 x 68 mm. Publisher's wallet style binding in light tan roan. Title blocked in gilt above flap. Tiny tear on upper hinge near head of spine. Some fading and gentle rubbing. An apparently unrecorded Victorian selection of New Testament passages seemingly intended to provide… Read more about this item

Ruby 32mo. 480 + 120 unnumbered pages. All text printed within panelled borders (title page a little soiled at the bottom). All edges gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Contemporary dedication on the front pastedown dated 1888. Provenance: W.J. Gratton. 70 x 100mm. Original blue velvet, ornately cut-out brass plaque on front with decorations and "Common Prayer" engraved. Original decorative brass… Read more about this item

15, 876 printed pages. Additional title, "Four National Anthems [God Save the King, La Marseillaise, La Brabanconne, and Russian National Anthem]. Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling. Evening Prayer of a People, by Neil Munro". 28 full-page line-illustrations, reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93). A reduced facsimile of the Oxford Nonpareil 16mo edition. All edges red. Original cream endpapers.… Read more about this item

142, [1] printed pages. All edges gilt. Original cream endpapers. 60 x 96 mm. Original dark blue paper covered boards. Faded gilt stamped decoration, central fleur de lys motifs within scrolling ornate and dog's tooth borders. Small specks of damage and a larger 5 mm. missing oval patch on the spine. No reference to Great Britain in any of the… Read more about this item

383, [1] printed pages. Frontispiece and 16 full-page illustrations. Annotated throughout. Lacks front free endpaper and half title. Beautifully printed, mainly in 6-point but also in very clear diamond type, 4.5-point, on very thin India paper, by the University Press, Glasgow. Complete works of Thomas Gray excepting posthumous pieces Agrippina and Poemata. Extensive biographical sketch, pages 9-66. All edges gilt.… Read more about this item

Part I Northern Wonderland; Part 2 Wellington, HawkesBay, and Taranaki; Part 3 Canterbury, Nelson, and Marlborough. Printed and published by H.J. Weeks Ltd., Christchurch, 1905. Each part with map and 32 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 14 x 22 cm. original colour printed card covers, stab sewn (a few sligns of edge wear and some creasing). The first photograph in… Read more about this item

203 printed pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Jones's Diamond Classics series. Contemporary ink inscription on blank preliminary leaf. Provenance: Anna Maria Benson. Preliminaries very slightly foxed. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Contemporary inscription on blank prliminary leaf. 52 x 93 mm. Contemporary chocolate brown half calf over marbled paper covered boards. Spine with gilt hand-tooled scrolling palmette motifs and lettering… Read more about this item

18 printed pages in red and black. "Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum" - the motto and circular engraved coats of arms of the Stationers' Company has the stamp duty marked paid at one pence. With the feasts, calendar, holidays, a table of the reign of British Kings and Queens, details of the current Royal Family,transfer days at the bank, eclipses… Read more about this item

128 printed pages. Attributed to Thomas Sherman in Halkett & Laing. Preface signed: Christopher Perin. Two hymns. Charles Sutton (1765-1829) and his son Richard (1789-1856), both printers and proprietors of the liberal Nottingham Review. Charles Sutton was imprisoned for a year in Northampton County Gaol for political libel in criticising in the Review the conduct of British troops during the… Read more about this item

32 printed pages. Printed by Townsend, Exeter. Small, attractive booklet listing in calendar form events both domestic and international (eg. terific gale in England on 24th November 1877, abolition of paper duty in 1860, Siege of Paris in Franco-Prussian war in 1860, and the Russo-Turkish War in 1877), and advertising various medicines and goods available at publisher William Gregory's chemist's… Read more about this item

136 printed pages. Folding engraved map (lacks rear wrapper. Historic, basic cloth tape repair to spine and transparent repair to front inner hinge and in several other places). Printed by George Brookman, Glasgow. 80 x 52 mm. Original yellow printed front wrapper (slightly rubbed and a little worn at the corners). Includes lists of coach fares to principal theatres, Watermen's… Read more about this item

Circa 1905. 365 printed pages (some leaves very slightly creased at upper corners). Frontispiece. Printed at the Glasgow University Press. Thin paper. Original marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bound in black morocco with gilt title to cover and spine with single fillet gilt border. This copy has the original dust jacket in plain paper with "In Memoriam-Tennyson Miniature Edition" printed… Read more about this item

495 printed pages. Publisher's series advert, [1] printed page at end.(Lilliput bibliothek). In German. "Druck von Oscar Brandstetter in Leipzig" in Fraktur type on verso of title-page. 5-10,000. Rounded corners. Decorated endpapers. Thin paper. 36 x 50mm. Original tan morocco, gilt lettering and borders. Gauffered edges. Bondy cites this title as "1907 and later." Bondy, 125. Welsh, 6171. OCLC, 58543406.… Read more about this item

328 printed pages. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. 50 x 80mm. Contemporary ruby wallet-style binding. Lacks front free endpaper. Extremities slightly rubbed. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. See Welsh, 658 for an 1819 edition. No OCLC number. WorldCat locates no copies worldwide of this edition.

32mo. 208 printed pages. All edges gilt, with short ribbon marker & marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. Printed contemporary bookseller's label on front free endpaper for GOUJON, LIBRAIRE. DE LL. AÁ. ÀR. MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE BERRY. ET MADAME LA DUCHESSE D'ORLÉANS, RUE DU BAC, Nº 33, Paris. Contains a calendar of feast days; morning prayers, evening prayers, prayers before… Read more about this item

231 printed pages. Lacks haf title (publisher imprint partly illegible due to misprint or historic stain; some page edges very slightly kinked). Pale yellow endpapers (lacks front free endpaper). Inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt (somewhat worn). One of the Bibliotheque Portative du Voyageur series, renowned for being the earliest travelling library, a set of which was supposed to have… Read more about this item