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London: Blackie & Sons. 152pp - Undated, but The British Library says 1926. One volume in the publisher's "The Self-Study English Texts" series. Kingsley retells the Greek myths of Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus in a manner school children could enjoy and Innes set the series of related questions at the rear of the book. Also at the rear of the book is a four-page list of names of characters in the stories with pronunciation guide. Covers (blue cloth with the publisher's logo fo... more information

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London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1895. x, 533pp - This is from the publisher's "Pocket Edition" series. Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His first novel <B><I> Alton Locke </B></I> was published in 1850. It was an expose of social injustice suffered by agricultural labourers and workers in the clothing trade. His most famous book, <B><I> The Water Babies </B></I> was... more information

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London: S. W. Partridge & Co. 558pp inc frontis and three b&w illustrations plus 32pp publishers catalogue - Undated, but apparently c1900. Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His first novel <B><I> Alton Locke </B></I> was published in 1850. It was an expose of social injustice suffered by agricultural labourers and workers in the clothing trade. His most famous book, <B><I> The Water... more information

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London: Collins Clear-Type Press. 448pp - Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His first novel <B><I> Alton Locke </B></I> was published in 1850. It was an expose of social injustice suffered by agricultural labourers and workers in the clothing trade. His most famous book, <B><I> The Water Babies </B></I> was published in 1863. "Hypatia" was his first venture into hist... more information

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London: Heron Books. 572pp inc b+w frontis and an Introduction by L A G Strong - The book was printed and bound by the Aylesbury publishers/printers, Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd. Undated, but other books in the series were 1968-9. Originally subtitled, "the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth",<P> Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, ... more information

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Liverpool: The Liverpool Empire, 1940. Unpaginated, but 2pp with front cover illustrated by Tom Purvis, with an art deco cornucopia filled with flowers - Souvenir programme for The Liverpool Empire's production of Strauss's classic opera. In the cast were: John Myrddin, Joan Collier, Ruth Packer, Ivor John, Gwilym Jones, George Hancock, Kingsley Lark, Frances Martin, Nanette Quin, Ernest Sutherland, and Howell Glynne. Charles Chorus Master, Albert Cayzer as Orchestra Leader, Lark as Stage Director, ... more information

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London: Odhams Press Ltd. Undated, but apparently ca 1920s. - Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His first novel <B><I> Alton Locke </B></I> was published in 1850. It was an expose of social injustice suffered by agricultural labourers and workers in the clothing trade. <P>His most famous book, <B><I> The Water Babies </B></I> was published in 1863. Cover is brown faux-lea... more information

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London: Collins Clear-Type Press. 252pp inc index to first lines, list of authors and frontis and five other sepia toned plates by Caird - Undated, but The British Library estimates 1920. A classic anthology of chidren's poetry. Features work by: William Blake, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Campion, Alexander Pope, Robert Browning, John Milton, William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Bl... more information

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Edinburgh: The New University Society. 541 pp inc index to first lines, list of authors, frontis and five other plates by Caird - Undated. A classic anthology of poetry. Features work by: William Blake, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Campion, Alexander Pope, Robert Browning, John Milton, William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Blake, Ben Jonson, Lord Byron, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, Lord M... more information

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London: Macmillan & Co, Ltd, 1893. 469pp plus 47pp publisher's classified and indexed catalogue and 6pp publisher's ads - The somewhat melodramatic story of poor sanitary conditions and public apathy causing an outbreak of cholera. Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His first novel <B><I> Alton Locke </B></I> was published in 1850. It was an expose of social injustice suffered by agricultural... more information

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London: Macmillan & Co, Ltd, 1892. 341pp plus 2pp publisher's catalogue - Anthology of Kingley's poetry. Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His first novel <B><I> Alton Locke </B></I> was published in 1850. It was an expose of social injustice suffered by agricultural labourers and workers in the clothing trade. His most famous book, <B><I> The Water Babies </B></I> ... more information

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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1941. 192pp - Lockitt, headmaster of Bungay Grammar School at the time, put together this collection of 17 "imaginary eye-witness" accounts to historic events and people from Alexander the Great to The Normal Conquest and from The Hundred Years War through to The Arrival of Bonaparte. The stories are all historic fictions concerning real events and/or persons, by leading authors, including : Phyllis Bentley, Charles Kingsley, Sir Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer Lytton... more information

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Birmingham, England: Combridge. Three novels in one volume. Undated, but Sunday School prize certificate and title page of first novel are dated 1909. Each novel is individually paginated. "The Sign of the Cross" is 158pp and is "the copyright edition". According to the title page it's a reprint of the edition published by Eveleigh Nash of London in 1909. And it includes a Preface by John Truron, Bishop of Truro, and a Table of Contents. <P> The second novel, "Pickwick Pap... more information

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Surrey, England: Carwal Publications Ltd. 16pp - This piece of ephemera contains the prayer's of famous men including: King Alfred, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Polycarp, Sir Francis Drake, Charles Kingsley, St Francis, Ignatius Loyola, Oliver Cromwell, Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare, Sir Jacob Astley, and John Wesley. Undated, but The British Library says 1944. Covers are stapled card with lightly rusted staples and some pencilled marks to textblock. . First Edition (apparently). Card. Very Good/No Jacket. 3 x ... more information

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London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. 388, [4]pp inc frontis - Undated, but The British Library says 1922. Harry G. Theaker was a book illustrator who appears to have worked primarily on children's books. He is listed as illustrator of some 16 such books including "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Bible stories from the New Testament" and "Bible stories from the Old Testament" as well as "Children's stories from the Arabian Nights", "Grimms'... more information

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London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1892. 559pp inc frontis many other b&w illustrations - This volume was one of Warne's Lansdowne Poets series. Poets included are: Longfellow, James Beattie, William Cowper, James Hurdis, Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, William Crowe, Thomas Percy, George Crabbe, Ann Radcliffe, Anna Letitia Barbauld, W. Lisle Bowles, Samuel Rogers, William R. Spencer, Amelia Opie, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, C... more information

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London: Macmillan & Co, Ltd, 1886. 388, [4]pp inc frontis - This is Vol IX of Macmillan's "The Works of Charles Kingsley" series. It includes two b&w illustrations each by Paton and Skelton. <Br>Kingsley (1842-1875), son of a vicar, was educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. His first novel <B><I> Alton Locke </B></I> was published in 1850. This, his most famous book, was originally published in 1863. <P> </b>... more information

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London: Humphrey Milford - Oxford University Press, 1922. 287pp inc colour frontis plus notes - Originally subtitled, "the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth", this, like all Strang Library editions was "carefully edited for school and home reading". And as with other Strang Library editions, especially in this good condition, it's very collectable <P> Kingsley (1842... more information

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