. With an Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. In three volumes, complete, totalling over 1,400 pages, facsimile illustrated title page Volume I, notes, glossary, decorated endpapers; f'cap. 8vo; blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, upper boards decorated in blind; top edges brown; dust wrappers, lightly browned and worn; a little light..... More
Essays in a pluralistic art world. Pp. xxx+450, index; qr. black paper, spine lettered in silver, grey papered boards; a couple of tiny bruises to edges of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000. First edition. More
Revised edition. Pp. 218, appendix; post 8vo; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1980. *First published in 1964. More
The life and thought of William Godwin. Pp. xii+398, 12 plates, chronology, references, index; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed; Routledge & KeganPaul, London, 1980. First edition. *Biography of the philosopher and novelist: husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley, and friend of Coleridge, Lamb and Hazlitt. More
Looking Backwards to the Future. Pp. [vi]+234(last blank), index; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper; text block browned; Hutchinson, London, 2001. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (dated 25.10.01) on the title page. 'Explores the future of everything - from education, work and marriage..... More
With a new preface by the author. Pp. 752(last blank), appendices, references, bibliography, index; black cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, lightly bruised at foot of spine; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; several leaves browned, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson..... More
in four volumes. The seventh edition. Pp. lvi+774+[14]+[ii]+714+[10]+[ii]+610+[8]+[vi]+670+[10], engraved frontispiece portrait, indices; med. 4to; later half calf, spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with earlier gilt lettered red & brown title & volume labels (a few slightly chipped) laid on, marbled papered boards, lower board of first volume..... More
Pp. xvi+274, 8 plates, 2 full page maps, index; dust wrapper; scattered pencilled marginalia, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1997. First edition. *Autobiography of the internationally renowned philosopher and historian of ideas. More
The Man and his Mind. Pp. viii+346, frontispiece portrait, plus 23 plates, appendices, index; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, corners of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled, with mottled fading, edges and backstrip rubbed and split, with a few small chips, backstrip slightly browned; bookseller's sticker..... More
To which is added, A Discourse, under the Title of An After-Thought. By Sir Roger L'Estrange. Pp. [xxx]+524+[12](table of contents), engraved frontispiece; early calf, spine ruled in gilt around five raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title label, the boards with double gilt rule border, edges and split lightly..... More
Pp. xvii+330(last blank), notes, selected bibliography, index; med. 8vo; qr. blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, black papered boards; dust wrapper; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Oxford University Press, New York, 1996. Fifth impression. More