{"title":"Featured Books","description":"\u003ch6\u003eHere we highlight some of our favourite books - those with a fascinating story and the special features capable of enhancing any collection\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"17th-century-royal-french-binding-manuscript-scholarly-classics-compendium","title":"17TH CENTURY ROYAL FRENCH BINDING: Manuscript Scholarly Classics Compendium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScholarly compendium including numerous classical works, Aesop's fables and a lengthy account of European geography in Latin and Greek, manuscript on paper in Royal French binding [France (Paris), late seventeenth century].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover, full leather, 220 x 154 mm, 241 leaves (plus doublures), evidently complete, in single column of up to 40 lines in a single scrawling italic hand, titles and some opening words in larger version of same, numerous calligraphic pen swirls, stunning original binding of brown leather over thick pasteboards bound with 5 thongs at spine, gilt-tooled with arms of kings of France (in form of 1578-1790) below a crown and within the collars of the Orders of St. Michel and ‘du roi’ as central cabouchons, each board also with gilt floral border with large fleur-de-lys set at corner, spine gilt-tooled with fleur-de-lys and foliage in compartments, title “RHETO\/RICA”, finely marbled doublures, gilt edges decorated with green marbling. Condition: GOOD. Bumped at edges, slight scuffs, some splits at spine, but solid in binding, slight discolouration and a few small spots throughout.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This is a curious volume in that its humble contents do not on first impression sit easily with the grandeur of its royal binding. The main contents of this volume are those of a late seventeenth-century scholar (excerpts from Cicero, Coriolanus, with sections on the Roman wars with Carthage, the ancient kings of Prussia and Bithnia, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, Attila the Hun, Nero’s crushing of a revolt in Roman Britain, as well as the animal fables Cicada et Formica, Vulpes et Felis, Vespersilio et Mustella, Vulpes et Hircus, Felis et Simia, and Canis cum Lepore). There is also topical material on the Duc de Chaulnes and the public display of the corpse of St. Francis Borgia (1510-72, canonised 1670). Some material on St. Genevieve, including an account of the procession of her relics in 1694, points towards Paris, and verses on King Louis XIV’s attacks on heresy, perhaps point towards the royal court. The final part, which contains a lengthy Geographia ascribed to the Jesuit Joseph de Jouvancy (1643-1719), adds that the geographic text was written in 1694 in Paris in the royal college or lycée of Louis XIV. This book may have come from the royal library, alternatively it may once been part of the library of the royal lycée. The school was founded by the Jesuits in 1563 as the Collège de Clermont, but renamed in Louis XIV’s honour after he extended it his direct patronage in 1682.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scholar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37669382848683,"sku":"CLASCOM17TH","price":2950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_84b4efc4-9094-46de-9b46-96bfdafed4fe.jpg?v=1606712758"},{"product_id":"a-childs-garden-of-verses-by-robert-louis-stevenson-1885-true-first-edition","title":"A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1885 True First Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e[STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS]. \u003cstrong\u003eA Child's Garden of Verses.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First Edition (the true first issue with the rounded apostrophe in \"Child's\" and the smaller \"of\" in the title on the spine, and with no mention of \"Second Series\" on advertisement page). Full Cloth. Small octavo, (165 x 115 mm), pp. (2), [x], 101, (3 blk.). Bound in publisher's original blue silk-grained cloth with bevelled board edges. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Publisher's gilt stamped device on upper cover. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Authors adds facing half-title page. Imprint facing title-page and recto final textual leaf. Woodcut device on title-page. Initial and terminal blanks present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: NEAR FINE. Collated complete. Binding secure and square. Edges and points sharp. Covers largely clean with faintest signs of handling. Contents near immaculate with touch of browning to endpapers. Without inking or bookplates.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: A near fine copy in the preferred binding in which the apostrophe in the word \"Child's\" on the spine has a curved tail, quite scarce thus. Other copies of the first, and second, editions as well, have been noted on which this apostrophe resembles a small figure seven. A Child's Garden of Verses is a look at childhood, written by a master poet and storyteller. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. [Grolier Childrens Hundred #49. Prideaux 14. Beinecke 192. Hayward 297. 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Publisher's original dark red cloth, gilt titles and banding to spine, blind-panelled covers, half-title with advertisements verso, 2 folding maps, 5 folding plates.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding secure, light spotting towards front of volume, leaf 2R² fore-edge chipped, 4 cm closed tear to second folding map affecting frame only, plates mildly spotted and with a few partial splits to folds, plate 1 with 6.5 x 5 cm section excised but present (laid in), contemporary bookseller's ticket (John Dale \u0026amp; Co., Bradford) to front pastedown, a little wear to spine-ends and tips, else very good. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences: Freeman F276.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Darwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700208427179,"sku":"DARWGEOB1876","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_e8378001-e3e0-4035-914f-bda913e542a1.jpg?v=1606973244"},{"product_id":"the-comedies-of-aristophanes-1586-blind-stamped-pigskin-renaissance-binding","title":"THE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES 1586 Blind Stamped Pigskin, Renaissance Binding","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ARISTOPHANES (450-380 BC)].\u003cstrong\u003e Nicodemi Frischlini Aristophanes, veteris comoediae princeps: poeta longe facetissimus \u0026amp; eloquentissimus: repurgatus à mendis, et imitatione Plauti atque Terentii interpretatus, ita ut ferè carmen carmini, numerus numero, pes pedi, modus modo, Latinismus Graecismo respondeat.\u003c\/strong\u003e Francoforti ad moenum, excudebat Ioannes Spies. M. D. LXXXVI. [1586].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First Frischlin edition. Octavo (170 x 120mm), ff. [8], 368 (numbered leaves with terminal blanks intact). Signatures: ›‹8 A-Z8 Aa-Zz8. Greek - Latin parallel text. Exquisite contemporary renaissance binding, probably produced by Caspar Horneffer, in blind-stamped pigskin over stiff wooden boards, front and rear cover with a large central panel depicting in great detail the crucifixion and the Resurrection of Christ respectively. Woodcut printer's device to title-page and verso final textual leaf. Decorative woodcut floriated capital initials and tail-pieces. Sections: [1] Vita Aristophanis, a Nicodemo Frischlino conscripta, [2] Compendium eius comparationis, qua Plutarchus Aristophanem cum Menandro confert, [3] Defensio Aristophanis contra Plutarchi criminationes, [4] De veteri comoedia, eiieusq́ue partibus, [5] Plutus, [6] Equites, [7] Nubes, [8] Ranæ, [9] Acharnenses. Condition: collated complete, binding tight and secure, covers with some grimy marks and light rubbing, old inking to title-page, mild browning and some insignificant spots to contents, final few leaves with light marginal staining. Provenance: nice armorial bookplate of Rupert Abb Weltenburg.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The first of two print variants, a Greek-Latin parallel text edition containing the five surviving comedies: Wealth (Πλοῦτος Ploutos; Latin Plutus) 408 BC, The Knights (Ἱππεῖς Hippeis; Attic Ἱππῆς; Latin: Equites) 424 BC, The Clouds (Νεφέλαι Nephelai; Latin: Nubes) 423 BC, The Frogs (Βάτραχοι Batrakhoi; Latin: Ranae) 405 BC, and, The Acharnians (Ἀχαρνεῖς Akharneis; Attic Ἀχαρνῆς; Acharnenses) 425 BC. The text is edited by the humanist and philologist Philip Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590) and includes his Life of Aristophanes. 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Frischlin's translation is highly regarded for contributing to the late humanistic rediscovery of Aristophanes in Northern Europe. - VD 16, A-3269; Wilhelmi \/ Seck 82; Adams A-1718; Hoffmann I, 253 f.; Graecogermania, Greek Studies of German Humanists (Exhibition Catalog 1989) No. 92.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aristophanes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37700290969771,"sku":"COMARISTO1586","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_12cd9b15-137a-46bc-a463-f300501fbbb7.jpg?v=1606974675"},{"product_id":"our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens-1865-first-edition-fine-bayntun-riviere","title":"OUR MUTUAL FRIEND BY CHARLES DICKENS 1865 FIRST EDITION, FINE BAYNTUN RIVIERE","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eOur Mutual Friend.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Chapman \u0026amp; Hall, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition in book form. Two volumes bound in one. Leather-bound. Octavo (215 x 135mm), pp. [xii], 320; [viii], 309. Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Engraved frontispieces. 40 illustrations by Marcus Stone. Bound without publisher's advertisements. Condition: FINE. A superb copy; internally pristine, crisp pages, and without previous ownership markings; binding tight, the hinges perfectly preserved, gilt fresh and bright, couple of tiny marks to covers. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This was the second to last book that Dickens would write, and the last one that he would actually finish. The years shortly before the publication of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND were fraught with domestic sorrow that would lead to his eventual decline. He separated from his wife Catherine in 1858 after his admiration for the young actress Ellen Ternan strained his already deteriorating marriage. He further had to defend himself against scandal and protest his innocence when wagging tongues of gossip linked his name to his sister-in-law Georgina s who had served as his housekeeper for many years. He threw his restless energy into increased productivity and public readings of his work, both of which were physically and emotionally exhausting. He suffered from recurrent illnesses during the creation of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, but nonetheless managed to maintain the level of genius in his prose that had pervaded his previous works. He died unexpectedly only five years later, while he was writing THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. He had, with this novel, \".for the first time given serious consideraiton to the theme of unrequited love. In earlier books it may have been secret or ill-timed, but there was always and equilibrium in which both parties seem to accept that they loved or can be loved; and that, when eventually they declare their love, it is not rejected.\" But \"there is torture in love, and despair, and madness. There is some necessary connection between courtship and death.so tht.it is possible to trace the strange curve of Dickens temperment exploring extremity in art if not necessarily life.\" (Ackroyd, 955) Like most of Dickens work, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND was published in monthly serial parts, the first in May of 1864 and the last in November of 1865. 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Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and extra title-page, illustrated throughout by phiz. First state of text with \"100£\" on the engraved title-page.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: FINE. A superb copy; internally near pristine, with crisp pages, without previous ownership markings; binding tight, the hinges perfectly preserved, gilt fresh and bright, covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: First edition. Dickens's biographer places Martin Chuzzlewit as marking \"a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics. For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures defined by a single characteristic or animated by the wilful principle of a 'humour', but ones who are seen to change with the changing world, to live and grow\" (Ackroyd, Dickens, p. 392). Dickens wrote to a contemporary that \"I think Chuzzlewit is a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories\" (cited in Berard, Dickens and Landscape Discourse, p. 3). 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Upper cover with a wonderful rectangle morocco inlay and gilt ruled centrepiece incorporating a mistletoe design. All page edges gilt, with marbled endpapers and pastedowns, the blank endpapers and half-title present, illustrated frontispiece, rear index in double columns. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: FINE. An immaculate copy and without previous ownership markings. 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Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Decorative title-page printed in red and black with holly and berry motif. Preface, Character List, and List of Illustrations. 12 full-page colour plates with captioned tissue guards, including frontispiece. 18 black and white illustrations in the text, some as head- and tale-pieces and silhouetted. Printed by The Windmill Press Limited. Condition: FINE. 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Without a title-page and text. 2 coloured maps and 132 engraved plates (some folding and coloured) of the various important views and buildings of Westmoreland including its abbeys, castles, churches, halls, rural and rugged landscapes. Handsomely bound in half leather, spine with five raised bands and gilt lettering in the second compartment, t.e.g., hand marbled pastedowns and endpapers, plates neatly mounted on rectos of heavier stock. Condition: NEAR FINE. 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Board edges gilt ruled. Gilt tooled turn-ins. All page edges gilt. Hand marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks present. Half-title. Printed in Great Britain by The Windmill Press Ltd. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding secure. Covers nice and clean. Contents immaculate, else for a generous inked inscription to front blank. 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Exquisite polished tree calf binding (unsigned but probably by Bayntun-Riviere), five raised bands, compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt, boards with gilt ruled borders and corner pieces, board edges with gilt ruled lines, inner gilt dentelles, all page edges gilt, psychedelic dyed pastedowns and endpapers, illustrated throughout with thirty-eight plates by Phiz plus frontispiece and engraved title-page. Condition: FINE. Binding secure, covers and contents clean, neat inscription to fep. Exquisite. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A beautifully bound edition of this Dickens classic; 'Martin Chuzzlewit' is considered the last of his picaresque novels, and was written and serialized in 1843-1844; initial sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to the authors' previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This allowed him to portray America, which he had recently visited, as a near wilderness, whose pockets of civilization were filled with deceptive and self-promoting hucksters. The main theme of the novel is selfishness, which is portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. 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Octavo (8 ̊)(215 x 130 mm.), vol. I: xx, 456 pages, [10] leaves of plates (1 folded, 1 color): frontispiece, portrait; vol. II: xvi, 282 pages, [12] leaves of plates (mostly color): frontispiece; vol. III: [8], 373, [1] pages: frontispiece. Signatures: vol. I: pi² A-2F⁸ 2G⁴; vol. II: A-S⁸ T⁴ U²; vol. III: [A]⁴ B-2A⁸ 2B⁴ ( -2B4). Contemporary calf, smooth spines gilt. Speckled page edges. Initial and terminal blanks present. With plates engraved after Fuseli, William Blake and others, a number of which are hand-coloured; 5 plates in vol. I were engraved by Blake and were originally published in the 4th ed. of The botanic garden, 1799 (Keynes 118). Each volume has an engraved frontispiece, with vol. I having an additional frontispiece portrait of the author. Frontispiece to vol. III, which contains no other plates, is included in register. Instructions to the binder regarding the positioning of the plates at foot of final page of vols. I and II. Imprint noted in each volume: T. Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. The additional notes at the end of vol. I include a description of the Portland Vase. \"The botanic garden. Vol. I. Containing the economy of vegetation, a poem. With philosophical notes\" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf A6r of vol. I. \"The botanic garden. Vol. II. Containing the loves of the plants\" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf A7r of vol. II. \"The temple of nature\" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf [A]4r of vol. III. \"Origin of society. Canto I. Production of life\", \"Origin of society. Canto II. Reproduction of life\", \"Origin of society. Canto III. Progress of the mind\" and \"Origin of society. Canto IV. Of good and evil\" each have divisional half-t.p. on leaves B1r, D7r, G5r and K6r respectively of vol. III. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Collated complete. The bindings somewhat worn with some hinges starting but I'll holding very well. Covers with some rubbing to extremities, there are also some marks and abrasions to the boards, spine title plates eroded. The textblock is largely well preserved, however there are various amounts of toning and browning in places, the plates are complete and in good order. Each volume has the armorial bookplate of Michael Pepper to the front pastedown. Volumes I\u0026amp; II title-pages have some inking from the first owner. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of this posthumous collection placing Darwin's exuberant and eccentric inquiry into the Linnaean system in rhyming couplets alongside his poetic speculations on evolution, the whole much enlivened by numerous plates including a number by Blake and Fuseli. A handsome Regency binding from the library of Michael Pepper of Bigods Manor, Essex. Darwin's reputation declined rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth century, attacked as a crank, certainly an atheist, and perhaps a spy, and has never really recovered. In her argument for a revival, Jenny Uglow, historian of the Lunar society, one of the three learned societies of which Darwin was a founder member, speaks vividly in favour of the work of this \"polymathic genius\"; \"Arching between two eras, it was a final exuberant flowering of Enlightenment experiment and optimism but also a glittering treasure trove of images and ideas for the coming Romantic generation, plundered by Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth. Four thousand lines of rhyming couplets humming above thickets of footnotes, with engravings by Blake, Fuseli and others. With wit and sly humour it mixed poetry, science and startling radical notions: a sheaf of \"Additional Notes\" explored everything from meteors to Wedgwood's Portland vase, from clouds and coal to shell-fish and steam-engines. Most disturbing of all to contemporaries was the hint of a new theory of biological evolution - 50 years before his grandson Charles published Origin of Species\" (\"Sexing the Plants\", the Guardian, 21\/09\/2002). 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Finely rebound in half calf, marbled boards, red speckled page edges, coloured endpapers, frontispiece with tissue-guard, diagrams, plates and index to rear. Printed by A. Spottiswoode. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the hinges perfect, some light rubbing to extremities. Contents near immaculate with faintest touch of browning to endpapers. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Second edition of one of the most popular and influential works of science of the 19th century, and now considered a scarce work to obtain. On The Connexion Of The Physical Sciences was originally published in 1834 by Scottish polymath, and science writer Mary Somerville (1780-1872). Alongside her contemporary Caroline Herschel, she was jointly nominated as Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1835. \"Perhaps no woman of science until Marie Curie was as widely recognized in her own time. Not only did [Somerville's works] bring scientific knowledge in a broad range of fields to a wide audience, but thanks to her exceptional talents for analysis, organization, and presentation, they provided definition and shape for an impressive spread of scientific work\" (ODNB). In 1835, she became one of the first two female members of the Royal Astronomical Society - On the Connexion of the Sciences preceded that accolade by a year. In it, Somerville urges an interdisciplinary approach to science, arguing that new discoveries can be made when research \"unites detached branches by general principles.\" To truly advance human understandings of the world, a researcher must consider how astronomy, physics, meteorology and geology tackle overlapping problems to create a fully three-dimensional picture of the universe. \"In all there exists such a bond and a union that proficiency cannot be attained in any one without a knowledge of the others.\" Incorporating the most up to date research of the time, in consultation with leading scientists such as Faraday, Lyell, and Ampere, it was \"soon established as a scientific classic and bestseller, functioning for a time as an annual progress report for physical sciences\" as updated editions were released in 1835, 1836, and 1837 (ODNB). While Somerville's work was addressed to the professional scientific community as opposed to focusing on the education of women or children in the sciences; and in this sense she broke through a glass ceiling to be taken seriously by mathematicians including Laplace. And the philosopher John Stuart Mill so highly valued her work that he requested hers to be the first signature on his Parliamentary petition advocating for women's suffrage. The Morning Post upon her death proclaimed her the undisputed \"Queen of Science\". Ogilvie 245. 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Octavo (200 x 140 mm.), pp. [lix], (3), 348; (2), 349-733 + hand-coloured frontispiece, and 98 hand-coloured plates outside the pagination. Beautifully binding of contemporary half calf, bound by J. \u0026amp; A. Lupton, their ticket bottom verso terminal leaves. Smooth spines with gilt banding and titles. Contents: Introduction, \"On Making a Hortus Siccus, or Herbarium\", Directions for the Collection and Preservation of Herbs, Glossary of Technical Terms, Index to Diseases (mis-bound), New Cyclopaedia class I-XXIV, Appendix, Index of English Names, Index of Latin Names, Index of Remedies. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure the covers remarkably well preserved. Contents showing intermittent browning, toning and spotting throughout, however the majority remaining good. Without previous ownership markings. A rare survivor. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: An wonderful product from the Huddersfield printer, Richard Brook, providing a systematic herbal for family use, copiously illustrated with hand-coloured plates. The frontispiece of a Victorian version of Flora is particularly charming. It does appear to contain some original material based on fieldwork. Frustratingly, Brook didn't date his works, but this edition is probably from 1854, the original Cyclopaedia of Botany having appeared around 1825. Another London publisher produced versions of this book in 1854 and about 1860. 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Kay opposite Somerset-Place, Strand; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. New edition. Coeval leather-bound. Duodecimo, 12⁰, (175 x 100 mm.), pp. 264. Signatures: A⁶ B-L¹² M⁶. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt rules to smooth spine, red morocco lettering-piece. Bookplate of George Webster to front pastedown. Condition: GOOD. Binding is secure with rubbing to joints and other extremities. Some pen inscription to front pastedown and title-page. Lacking initial and terminal blanks but otherwise the contents are complete and in generally good condition with just minor marks. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Mrs Susanna Maciver and her colleague Mrs Frazer ran one of the few schools of cookery for ladies in Edinburgh. After Mrs Maciver's death (c.1790), the school was continued by Mrs Frazer alone. She writes with authority on the food of upper class Edinburgh during one of the city's most interesting periods. The detailed recipes represent regional Scottish cooking for the upper-middle classes (with all its international influences). Recipes for very early modern trifle, orange marmalade, Scots Haggis and Rum Shrub (an early Rum cocktail mix) are a sample of what a well- heeled Scottish lady was expected to know how to prepare in the late 18th century. The haggis recipe is of particular interest, and is one of the earliest to appear, and Mrs MacIver's 'Haggie' is often referred to as the archetype of all modern Scottish haggis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susanna MacIver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38059457151147,"sku":"MACIVER1789","price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_7812.jpg?v=1612242899"},{"product_id":"men-like-gods-by-h-g-wells-1923-signed-inscribed-first-edition-hardback","title":"MEN LIKE GODS BY H. G. WELLS 1923 SIGNED\/ INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION HARDBACK","description":"\u003cp\u003e[WELLS, H. G.]. \u003cstrong\u003eMen Like Gods.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition, first printing (printer's code F.200.123 on p 304; first state binding - Currey A: Cassell at base of spine stamped in gilt). Inscribed by author on half-title page. Cloth-bound. Octavo (195 x 130 mm.), pp. [viii], 304. Bound in publisher's original green blind embossed fabric covers. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Points slightly bumped. Covers somewhat faded along spine and top portion of upper cover. Slight soiling to spine. Light spotting and browning to endpapers and fore edge, the remaining textblock largely very tidy. Two inkings to half-title page, one of these by the author. Lacking dust jacket. Scarce thus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The second of Wells's two major utopian fantasies, regarded as one of the best, and referred to by Wells as a \"scientific fantasy\" - featuring a utopia located in a parallel universe. \"Three carloads of Earthlings, accidentally transported into an anarchistic 'Utopia' based on science and rationalistic social planning, react with the violence and bigotry which the author regards as characteristic of capitalism.\" - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III. Wells 80, 85; Bleiler p. 205. Currey p.521.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"H. G. 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With an introduction by her husband H.G. Wells. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Some light soiling to covers, especially along the spine. Some light browning, mostly to endleaves. Minor spotting to fore edge. Inking to half-title by H. G. Wells. Without dust jacket. Scarce thus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: First edition of H.G. Wells' \"deeply moving\" tribute to his wife, inscribed by him on the half-title page. 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Willis, 1854.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew and revised [2nd] edition, with supplement. Hardcover. Leather-bound. Royal octavo, In-8°, (250 x 160 mm.), pp. [vii], [ii], [21], 298. With 59 splendid hand-colored plates, including the frontispiece. Bound in contemporary half leather, spine gilt, t.e.g., marbled boards and endpapers. With at least 2,000 beautifully executed hand-colored figures on 59 copper engraved plates bound in the text (101 figs. of butterflies, 37 of \"Sphinges,\" and 1,862 of all other moths, including Microlepidoptera and Pyralidae. A Catalogue of the British Lepidoptera figured in this book, arranged according to Mr. Stephens' lists of the British Museum collection, with species added in this edition inserted in their proper places, is followed by a complete list of species with Latin and English names, synonyms, and known places and dates of occurrence in Great Britain. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. 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