Recent Arrivals from Bristow and Garland

Bradbury & Evans, London, 1860. Hand-colored frontispiece, title in red & blue, 3 hand-coloured plates, and vignette illustrations in the text. 8vo (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches), 166-pages. Nicely bound in recent full crimson crushed morocco, sides gilt ruled, spine gilt ruled at raised bands with double green lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Bound with the half-title.… Read more about this item

Printed for the Authors by Jackson and Walford, 18 St. Paul's Church Yard, London n.d. [The British Library suggests c. 1835]. 16 mo (4 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches), 46-pages plus 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Original printed pink wrappers, stitched as issued. Very slightly edge worn but overall very good indeed, & very rare.

The Garden Book Club, London, 1968. First thus. 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches), 250-pages. Original cloth excellent, and very clean within, in the very good dust jacket which has some light tanning to the backstrip but no wear. With various order forms and club leaflets loosely inserted.

John Murray, London, 1855. Two volumes. Large folding map in endpocket. 8vo ( 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: 995 & 32-page Murray's Handbook Advertiser at end of vol. 1. Original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt. Headbands worn, 1 inch splits to headband of vol.1. Inner joints cracked. Sellotape repairs to verso of folding maps with show through. Later… Read more about this item

Lloyd's Greater Britain Publ. Co., London, 1908. Map frontispiece to both sections, title partly gilt with the flag of Siam, 2nd title with the flag of Malaya in red, numerous illustrations from photographs. 4to (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches), pages: 302 [Siam] & 285 [Malaya]. Publisher's full bevelled morocco blocked in gilt with the flag of Siam. … Read more about this item

Standard Catalogu Company, London. A compilation of numerous trade catalogues for various companies manufacturing , among much else, Bricks, Terracotta & faience Chimney Pots, Slates & Tiles, Reconstructed stone & marble, Tiles, Mosaics, Stained Glass, Carvings & Sculptures, Paints, etc. etc. Illustrated throughout often in colour. 4to (12 x 91/4 x 4 inches), original cloth with tabulatged fore-edge. Headband… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1963. Fine India paper edition. Reprint. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches). 1164-pages. Publisher's full blue crushed morocco, spine gilt in compartments and gilt lettered direct. All edges gilt, bound-in silk bookmark. Sides gilt ruled enclosing a gilt blocked portrait of Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversay of his birth the following year. Excellent and free from inscriptions.

The Book Club, London, 1957. 8vo, original cloth in dust jacket. The jacket with loss at base of backstrip and with internal sellotape repairs. A couple of tiny marks on backstrip else the binding very good. Tanning to margins of first 140-pages.

Macmilan, London, 1902. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), pages: 234:(2, advertisements), original green pictorial cloth blocked in white & black. Tissue guard to frontispiece tanned. Some foxing to the edge of the text block. Sunday School prize inscription on front free endpaper. Surprizingly uncommon. The binding of this volume, apart from a little bruising at the headbands is… Read more about this item

"The Bazaar, Exchange & Mart" Office, London, 1923. "Profusely Illustrated". 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 204-pages. Original cloth. Binding badly damp marked, internally very good.

D. van Nostrand, Princeton, 1962. First edition. Plates, folding plans, illustrations. 8vo (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches), 133-pages. Original burgundy cloth. Ex County Library with their small stamp and shelf number on title and shelf number in white on spine, no other marking. Overall good.

George Bell, London, 1949. First edition. Photographic plates, folding plans (one badly folded and creased), diagrams. 8vo (10 x 6 1/4 inches), 105-pages. Original blue cloth. Binding faded & rubbed, headbands bruised. Generally good.

Brown, Son, and Ferguson, Glasgow, 1948. Reprint. 8vo (20 x 7 1/4 inches), 128-pages. Original black cloth; small mark to upper cover.

Conway Maritime Press, 1995. Published 1995 - 1996. First editions. Well illustrated from photographs and in line. 3 volumes 4to, (11 x 8 inches), pages: 154; 152; & 162. Original cloth, in dust jackets. The backstrips of the jackets sunned else a virtually fine set.

George Routledge, London, 1858. First thus. Published 1858-1860. 3 volumes large 8vo (101/4 x 7 inches), pages: 746; 771; & 816. Strongly bound contemporary half dark green morocco over marbled boards. Spines gilt ruled and gilt lettered direct, all edges gilt. Some scuffing to boards and edges but overall very good and attractive on the shelf.

Hodder & Stoughton for Boots, [1923]. 15 tipped-in coloured plates and illustrations in b&w. 4to (10 x 8 inches), 319-pages. Original burgundy cloth pictorially blocked in gilt. Very bright indeed in the edge worn dust jacket.

William Pickering, London, 1843. Engraved portrait. 8vo (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches), pages: xcvi:264; 307; & 386. Contemporary full hard grain dark blue morocco, spines with raised bands and gilt lettered direct, all edges gilt. The bindings by Hayday. Very good, well & strongly bound.Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Arthur Greg and a Christmas gift inscription on… Read more about this item

Henry G. Bohn, London, 1857. Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo (7 x 4 1.2 inches), 477-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, sides gilt ruled, spine gilt with black lettering piece, rubbed but good. Armorial bookplate. Short crack to upper joint.

Collins., 1937. First edition. 4to (12 3/4 x 10 inches), 135-pages. Orginal green cloth, foxing to prelims. upper cover dust marked on lower margin else very good in worn and slit dust jacket. Signed by the author on title.

London : printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride Lane, in Fleet-Street, 1710. [ title continued]: &c. III. Confects, Candies, Conserves, Preserves, Creams, Gellies, Pickles, &c. IV. Potable Liquors, as Ale, Beer, Mum, Mead, Cider, Perry, Rape, English Wines, Chocolet, Coffee, Tea, &c. V. Perfuming Sweet Balls, Pouders, Pomanders, Essences, Sweet Waters, Beautifying Washes, &c.… Read more about this item