Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 1997. hardback with DW. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A lovely clean and fresh copy in wrapper. View More...
Second edition but first edition in one volume. Unusually still in its original publisher's decorated red cloth gilt. With gilt crest to upper board and decorations and text in gilt to spine. Boards triple-ruled in black. xviii, 580pp. Frontis. + 14 plates - all present. Extemities worn and rubbed, cloth sl. soiled. Occasional foxing to pages, 19th century ownership signature, some gatherings sl. proud. Advertising flyer for another book - Henry Southgate's "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" attached to front paste-down. As this was first published in 1862 it verifies the date of this volume. Conte... View More...
Kyrle Books. London. 2005. FIRST EDITION. Large hardback with DW. Ex-library but very clean with borrowing bookplate and barcode to front free endpaperand security strip to inside flap of dust wrapper, biro number to prelim page plus library stamp to each page edge. 784 pages. Illustrated with black and white and coloured photographs and tables. Apart from library markings a remarkably fresh, clean and sound copy in wrapper which has library stickers to tail of spine. View More...
Rupert Hart-Davis Limited, London. 1967. First edition. Hardback with DW. Black and White frontis. Wrapper slightly grubby and bumped but overall a nice clean copy. View More...
S.Barker, Leicester. 1878. Slim pamphlet. Grey card cover with gilt type to upper panel. Gilt edges. 31pp. Frontis portrait, with further small photo stuck in (of Grimsley as a younger man). Hinge broken at p.3 Cover worn in places. View More...
George G. Harrap, London. 1937. First reprint. Hardback, no DW. Light green boards, gilt type to spine. 328pp. b&w plates. Last page of index significantly browned, and slight discolouration to endpapers, o/w a clean and bright copy. View More...
Stickleback Books. Shrewsbury. 2005. First edition. Slim paperback. Slight signs of use otherwise a clean and sound copy of a scarce book. View More...
First Spanner Publishing. Brecon. 2013. First edition. Large format paperback. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Slight wear to tail of spine and corners slightly curled otherwise a clean and fresh copy. SCARCE. View More...
First paperback edition. National Portrait Gallery, London. 1988. Quarto paperback. 248 pages. Colour and b/w ills. throughout. Very clean and sound. View More...
Daldy, Isbister & Co. First edition. 1874. Two volumes bound in one. 336; 346 pages. Wonderful stories of man and animals. Handsomely bound in half tan calf gilt. Brown cloth boards, sl. mottled. Beautifully marbled edges and endpapers. Spine sl. marked. Contents clean and fresh. A lovely volume. View More...
The Hogarth Press, London. 1970-1974. Reprints. 5 VOLUMES. Hardbacks with DW's. The wrappers to volumes 2 and 3 differ to the wrappers of volumes 1, 4 and 5. The wrappers of volumes 2, 3 and 4 are price-clipped. Ownership signature to each volume o/w a good clean set in slightly worn and nicked wrappers. View More...
Hesperus Press Limited, London. 2007. First edition. Hardback with DW. Wrapper slightly shelf worn and there is a very slight lean to the spine. A lovely clean and fresh copy. View More...
Tate Publishing, London. 2005. Only 1000 copies printed of this edition. Paperback. Small slim 8vo with blank white spine. Covers very slightly browned and some foxing to fore edges. A lovely clean and fresh copy. View More...
First edition. DW. 381pp. Small sticker mark to front paste-down (inside front cover), head and tail of spine very sl. crumpled o/w near fine in sl. used wrapper that shows signs of wear along edges. View More...
The Hogarth Press, London. 1965. Third impression of first edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated with black amd white frontis and 10 further plates. Wrapper browned, creased, torn and foxed. Foxing also to page edges. View More...
Leonard and Virginia Woolfe at The Hogarth Press, London. 1933. New edition. Hardback NO DW. Illustrated with black and white frontis and 2 further plates. Original green cloth boards with gilt to spine. Spine browned and edges bumped. Boards faded to edges. Pages browned with some slight foxing. View More...
Second edition. DW. xxvi + 546 pages. Frontis. + 2 further b/w plates. Index. DW sl. dulled and faded esp. spine a little browned + one or two small chips and tears to extremities. Inscription to front free end-paper. VG+/VG View More...
Macmillan and Co. London. 1874. In Two Volumes. Third edition, somewhat abridged. With both portrait frontis', ma and facsimile autograph. Original blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and worn, spines are sunned and also frayed to head and tail. Occasional browning and foxing to pages. Generally a clean and sound set. View More...
The Folio Society, London. 1996. First edition thus. Large 8vo in grey slipcase which is bumped and sunned in places. Illustrated boards with purple gilt backstrip. Spine is sunned. Overall a lovely clean and fresh copy. View More...
3 volumes. Half-bound in bottle-green calf with gilt lettering to contrasting red calf labels and raised bands and gilt decorations to compartments to spine; patterned dark maroon cloth boards. All page edges marbled. Marbled end-papers. High quality portrait plates and ills. to text also. Extremities sl. bumped and rubbed, cloth sl. sunned with mild marks here and there. Antique bookplate to front paste-down of each vol. + small more recent owner's name to fly-leaf Vol. I. Some foxing internally, mainly to margins of plates. A handsome set. VG View More...
First edition. William Heinemann, London. 1936. Hardback NO DW. Green cloth, gilt type and small art nouveau emblem to spine and similar in black to upper board. 229 pages. B/w photograph plates. Extremities sl. rubbed. View More...
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 1979. First edition. Paperback. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Spine sunned, covers browned and page edges slightly foxed. A nice clean copy. View More...