Translated from the Spanish by William C. Atkinson. Vinyl-cuts by John Lawrence. Pp. 154+[2](colophon, blank), pictorial title page, text illustrations, endpaper maps; qr. burgundy leather, lettered & ruled in gilt, pictorial beige cloth, the boards a trifle sprung; top edges burgundy; within card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 1977. First..... More
Or, an Oxford Love Story. With 80 illustrations by the author and an introduction by N. John Hall. Pp. [xxviii]+352, 18 coloured plates and numerous text illustrations, sepia pictorial endpapers; burgundy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the Folio Society monogram at foot of spine; top edges grey (faded);..... More
With illustrations by the author. Pp. 228, coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, coloured pictorial endpapers; yellow cloth, spine blocked in brown and lettered in gilt, the upper board decorated in brown, small damp stain to lower board, the spine slightly faded; top edges brown; within grey card slipcase, lightly worn;..... More
A Masquerade. Introduction by Joanna Richardson. Pp. 308(last blank), 12 coloured plates (including frontispiece portrait), from contemporary sources, appendices; med. 8vo; qr. light green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards; top edges light green; within grey card slipcase, a trifle marked; ownership name and date on upper free..... More
An autobiography in fact and fiction. Translated and edited by Dan Hostadter. Drawings by Emma Chichester Clark. Pp. viii+140, coloured frontispiece plus 5 plates; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in silver; top edges navy; within cream card slipcase;The Folio Society, London, 1986. Folio 581. More
Translated by J. M. Cohen. Lithographs by M. Lin-Desportes. Pp. 118, black & white frontispiece, plus 6 plates printed in two colours; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black, the boards faintly soiled; top edges yellow; lacking the slipcase; armorial bookplate (Richard George De Burgh Griffith) on..... More
Essays selected and Introduced by Rosalind Vallance. Engravings by George Cruikshank. Pp. 240(last blank), frontispiece plus 14 plates; tall demy 8vo; pictorial beige buckram, lettered and decorated in dark brown, the spine ruled in gilt, tiny faint spot to upper board; top edges dark brown; within brown card slipcase; bookplate..... More
Being the Memoirs of Master Johann Dietz, Surgeon in the Army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court. Translated by Bernard Miall. Edited and Introduced by Mervyn Horder. Pp. viii+222(last blank), frontispiece plus 5 plates, 2 text illustrations; pictorial purple cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered..... More
Wood-engravings by Derrick Harris. Pp. xviii+320, frontispiece, text illustrations (a couple full page), decorative title page border and headpieces; brown and white patterned cloth, with gilt lettered skiver label on spine, the spine cloth faintly discoloured; top edges yellow; within brown card slipcase; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper..... More
Engravings by Derrick Harris. Pp. xx+698(last colophon), pictorial double title page, text illustrations & decorations; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in gilt & green, skiver label on spine slightly grazed, the spine cloth faintly faded; top edges green; within marbled green card slipcase, edges a trifle worn; inked ownership inscription at..... More
With wood engravings by Frank Martin. Pp. 188(last blank), pictorial title page, text illustrations; brown patterned cloth, gilt lettered label on spine; top edges dark green; within card slipcase, corners slightly split; The Folio Society, London, 1966. Folio 219. More
Pp. 16 (including wrappers), illustrated in orange & black: printed paper wrappers, staples slightly rusted; The Folio Society, London, 1959. *Includes articles on Fielding's Tom Jones,and A Courtly Entertainment: Love's Labour's Lost and its audiences,by Richard Moore. More
Pp. 16 (including wrappers), illustrated, printed in blue & black; printed paper wrappers; The Folio Society, London, 1968. *Includes a selection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters referring to TheGreat Gatsby,to coincide with the Folio Society edition of that book in January 1968. More
Pp. 16 (including wrappers), illustrated, printed in blue & black; printed paper wrappers; staples rusted; The Folio Society, London, 1960. *Includes The American Short Story, by Christopher Adams. More
Pp. 49-72, illustrated; pictorial paper wrappers; The Folio Society, London, 1969. *Includes an article on Zola and realism, by Leonard Tancock. More
Introduction by Craig Brown. Illustrations by Peter Bailey. Pp. xxii+278, frontispiece, text illustrations, index; narrow med. 8vo; qr. dark green cloth, patterned papered boards; within dark green card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 2000. *Originally published by Chatto & Windus in 1931. More
Selected from The Worthies of England. Edited and introduced by Richard Barber. Pp. xxii+442(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 14 plates, pictorial tailpieces; roy. 8vo; navy cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt; top edges pale grey; The Folio Society, London, 1987. Folio 585. *Lacking the slipcase. Selections from The History of..... More
Lithographs by Margaret Wetherbee. Frontispiece plus 7 plates printed in two colours, decorative endpapers; dark green pattered cloth, spine lettered in gilt; outer leaves and edges a trifle foxed; The Folio Society, London, 1952. Folio 43. More
Translated by Walter Wallich. Lift-ground drawings by Fritz Wegner. Pp. 152(last blank), frontispiece, pictorial headpieces; natural canvas, featuring pictorial frieze in blue by Fritz Wegner; top edges red; within card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 1965. Folio 210. *Grimmelshausen (c. 1622-1672) was the father of the modern German novel. More
Edited and Introduced by Nicolas Bentley. Pp. 272(last colophon), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, endpaper map, biographical index; med. 8vo; black cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt, spine blocked in red, the cloth faintly marked; top edges red; within maroon card slipcase, slightly marked, edges lightly worn and split; The..... More
Strange, lively, and commonplace. Wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Robert Gittings. Pp. xiv+200, frontispiece, text illustrations, endpaper map; navy cloth, spine blocked in light blue (a trifle marked) and lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in light blue; top edges navy; within navy card slipcase; The Folio Society..... More
Six plants that transformed mankind. Pp. xxiv+572, 24 coloured or part-coloured plates, text and endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, spine blocked in green and lettered in gilt; within green card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 2007. First edition thus. *Quinine, sugar, tea, cotton, potato, coca..... More
From the Civil War memoirs of Mrs Lucy Hutchinson; Mrs Alice Thornton; Ann, Lady Fanshawe; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; Anne, Lady Halkett, & the letters of Brilliana, Lady Harley. Edited & introduced by Roger Hudson. Pp. xliv+256, 16 plates, 2 full page maps, biographical notes, family trees, chronological table, further..... More
Edited with an Introduction by Brian Rawson. Pp. 252(last blank), frontispiece plus 7 plates, text maps (some full page), pastedown map, index; demy 8vo; dark blue buckram, lettered & decorated in gilt, the spine blocked in red; top edges light blue/grey; within grey card slipcase with navy cloth edges, a...... More
Edited, with an Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Pp. 290+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, plus text illustrations (some full page), 4 text maps (3 double page), coloured endpaper map; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in light brown & gilt; top edges brown; within yellow card slipcase, bottom edge of one side..... More