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London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. FIRST EDITION, NO. 727 OF 1,250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [viii], 286. Largely unopened in original tan buckram, spine lettered in gilt, thick japon vellum dustwrapper printed in red. Dustjacket chipped at head of spine panel. Printed on japon vellum, with an engraving by Stephen Gooden.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1961. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [vi], 311, [1]. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dustjacket. Dustjacket spine panel somewhat sunned, the merest touch of rubbing to edges, rear panel lightly soiled.

London: Chatto And Windus, 1887. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xv, [iii], 137, [3]. Original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed to extremities, boards a touch marked. A collection of Stevenson’s poetry in two sections: poems in English and poems in Scots. This copy is bound without the ads to rear called for by Prideaux, although it is clearly as issued, in publisher’s binding. Prideaux 23.

[London]: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1807. 8vo, pp. 55, [1] + engraved title-page and 9 plates, 1 of which folding. Modern grey paper boards backed in pale green paper, printed paper label to spine. Engraved title-page and 2 plates foxed, else just a little spotting. Mavor’s guide to the shorthand system of his own devising first saw print in 1779; this eighth edition added a ninth plate for the first time.

London: Printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, 1832. 2 vols., 4to, pp. [iv], 790; 885, [1], 56 + frontispiece in each vol., extra engraved title-page in vol. 1, and 104 engraved plates (of a maximum of 106), one of them hand-coloured. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines divided by gilt rolls, other compartments decorated with central floral tools in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Some foxing and spotting, vol. 1 dampmarked at foot towards rear. Bindings slightly worn and marked, vol. 1 rear joint just cracking at foot (this sometime tidily filled with glue). A later issue of the second edition of Thomas Green’s Universal Herbal, initially published in 1816, the second following from 1824. The plates have their own imprints and dates across a range of years: in this copy they stretch from 1816 through 1832, with the majority of the plates dating to 1823 and 1828. Copies also vary in their complement of plates, with this example bound without three of the plates called for in… Read More

London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859. SECOND EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 283, [1] + frontispiece and 3 plates. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Original red textured cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards blocked in blind, front board blocked centrally in gilt, edges gilt. Extremities a little rubbed, spine ends bumped, spine a touch darkened. Bookplate of James Telfer to front pastedown, ‘[Emily Lowe]’ pencilled to title-page. A handsome copy of the second edition of Emmeline Marjorie Lowe’s (c.1835-1897) first travel book, initially published in 1857. The book charts her travel with her mother, Helen Emily Lowe (d.1882), through Scandinavia, with her most famous quote appearing in the first chapter: ‘The only use of a gentleman in travelling is to look after the luggage, and we take care to have no luggage’. There is some ambiguity as to whether both women contributed to the accounts of their wanderings, with… Read More

[Selkirk], 1830. Manuscript folded sheet, 39cm x 95cm, formed of 3 sheets glued together. Sometime folded in 12 sections, folds chipped, torn and worn with slight loss, a little soiled, a few ink spatters to reverse. Slightly later manuscript note to rear. A petition to change the route of the proposed turnpike road into Selkirk from one running via Back Brae to a route running along Shaw Park. It has 198 signatures and per a manuscript note to rear, was ‘read by A. Lang to the several{?] meeting of Road Trustees and prayer granted on 30 Dec. 1830’.