DOCTOR (OLIVER) GOLDSMITH ; ROWLANDSON. THOMAS. ILLUSTRATES.

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. A Tale. Illustrated witjh twenty-four designs, by Thomas Rowlandson.

R. Ackermann. London. 1823. SECOND EDITION, a re-issue of the 1817 edition. 8vo (9.9 x 6.6 inches). Illustrated with 24 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. The plates are generally on smaller leaves but all are complete with image and printed lettering in the margins. Some minor spots of foxing to a few leaves but generally clean and bright in the scarce original publisher's red/brown cloth binding, with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Decorative blind stamped panels on boards. Original yellow coated endpapers. Previous owners bookplate to front paste down endpaper and ink name to front free endpaper. Some rubbing to top and tail of spines and fore-edges, and the inner hinges cracked but holding firm. Some loss to the very bottom of the spine but generally a very good example.

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Book number: 9937

DONLEAVY. J. P.

THE SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S.

Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1967. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. A fine copy in publishers dark grey, black cloth backed, boards with gilt lettering to spine. In the original fine colour printed dustwrapper.

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Book number: 8862

DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN.

THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.

John Murray. London. 1927. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound, by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey and Co, in recent full black morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt wavy lines. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled border. Board edges with single gilt ruled lines. Turn-ins with elaborate floral gilt decoration. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A highly attractive leather binding.

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Book number: 10391

DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN.

HIS LAST BOW. Some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.

John Murray. London. 1917. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). A very good, clean copy. Recent half tan calf binding. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments lettered and tooled in gilt. Green title label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Top edge gilt. A very good attractive copy.

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Book number: 10389

DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN.

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Another adventure of Sherlock Holmes. - Longmans Colonial Library edition.

Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are present. 4 pages of publishers adverts for the colonial library at the rear of the book. The text and illustrations are fine, clean and bright throughout and look unread. Publishers decorative green cloth which has dark blue illustration to the front board and spine. Gilt lettering to the spine. Decorative light blue and white floral endpapers with ship and swan designs. There are a couple of small closed tears to the spine and the cloth is a bit rubbed and bumped and has a few small marks but is generally in very good condition with the gilt on the spine still quite bright. Previous owner's small typed name label on the plain verso of the front free endpaper, reading H. B. Rattray. This is almost certainly Captain Haldane Burney Rattray (1870 to 1917) who, as a Lieutenant, led the 45th Sikhs regiment, known as the Rattray Sikhs after Haldane's father who raised the regiment in 1856, at Malakand in 1897, receiving the DSO for his leadership during the battle. Another previous owner has neatly written their name, and the date 1998, on the blank verso of the frontispiece. The London first edition was published by George Newnes on 25 March 1902. There was a total of 25,000 copies printed in the first print run. This first colonial edition was published a week later by Longmans, Green & Co. on 2 April 1902, with 13,000 copies printed for circulation only in India and the British Colonies.

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Book number: 10190

DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN.

SHERLOCK HOLMES. THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES. His Adventures. Memoirs. Return. His last Bow & The Case Book.

John Murray. London/Studley Press. Ewell, Surrey.,1952. RARE UNRECORDED EDITION. 8vo.(7.5 x 5.2 inches). The sheets of a reprint John Murray edition, apparently bought by the Studley Press and issued in their own delux leather binding of full dark brown morocco. Spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Three gilt bordered compartments with illustrations of a Pipe, Deerstalker hat & Violin in each. The Studley Press wreath and name is stamped in gilt to the bottom of the spine. Decorative grape and leaf border within double gilt ruled border on boards. Gilt stamped facsimile of the author's signature in the middle. Top edge gilt. Originally issued with endpapers that had the Studley Press wreath and wording "Made in England by Studley Press, Ewell: Surrey", this volume either has a variant or has had them replaced with marbled endpapers. A fine, bright copy. ------ This studley Press edition is not recorded in De Waal or Green and Gibson. A rare variant in a highly decorative binding and in fine condition.:

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Book number: 8137

DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN.

SHERLOCK HOLMES. THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES. His Adventures. Memoirs. Return. His last Bow & The Case Book.

John Murray. London/Studley Press. Ewell, Surrey. 1952. RARE UNRECORDED EDITION. 8vo.(7.5 x 5.2 inches). The sheets of a reprint John Murray edition, apparently bought by the Studley Press and issued in their own delux leather binding of full dark brown morocco. Spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Three gilt bordered compartments with illustrations of a Pipe, Deerstalker hat & Violin in each. The Studley Press wreath and name is stamped in gilt to the bottom of the spine. Decorative grape and leaf border within double gilt ruled border on boards. Gilt stamped facsimile of the author's signature in the middle. Top edge gilt. Printed endpapers with the Studley Press wreath and wording "Made in England by Studley Press, Ewell: Surrey". A fine, bright copy. This Studley Press edition is not recorded in De Waal or Green and Gibson. A rare variant in a highly decorative binding and in fine condition.

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Book number: 9808

DOYLE. RODDY.

THE SNAPPER.

Secker & Warburg.London.,1990. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Fine full colour dustwrapper with design by Chris Shamwana and illustration by Gretta Kool. A small mark to the rear board otherwise a near fine, bright copy in publishers orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Mild browning to the pages of the first gathering (not uncommon in this title), but still overall a near fine copy of this elusive title, the second in the Barrytown trilogy.:

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Book number: 6858

DOYLE, A. CONAN.

THE VALLEY OF FEAR.

Smith, Elder and Co., London. 1915. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with a mono frontispiece of Sherlock Holmes, by Frank Wiles. Some foxing, mainly to the first dozen or so pages, otherwise mostly bright throughout. Finely bound in recent half tan calf. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments tooled and lettered in gilt. Green title label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Top edge gilt. A very good attractive copy of this scarce war time Sherlock Holmes title.

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Book number: 10390

DU MAURIER. DAPHNE.

REBECCA.

Victor Gollancz Limited. London. 1938. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.4 inches). Some very minor browning to the page edges, as is common with the cheap paper used in this book, and a couple of pages with a crease to the outer corner of the page, otherwise a very good copy finely bound in recent full black morocco, spine with five raised bands, the compartments lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt.

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Book number: 10561

KING. DR. WILLIAM. Late Lord Archbishop of Dublin.

AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. Translated from the Latin, with large notes. To which are added two sermons by the same Author, the former concerning Divine Prescience, the latter on the fall of Man. The Third edition corrected. By Edmund Law. M. A. Fellow of Christ College.

Printed for William Thurlbourn. Cambridge. 1739. THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.2 inches). A clean and fresh copy in an attractive contemporary full panelled calf binding. Spine with five raised bands. Title label ruled and lettered in gilt. Blind tooling around the lighter tan panels on both boards. A little rubbing to the edges and splitting to the very top and bottom of the hinges only, with both boards still firmly attached. A very good copy in a lovely mid 18th century binding. ----- Collation: lvi (including publishers advert leaf), (i errata leaf, i blank), 517pp, (1 blank), 82pp ( The two sermons have separate title pages and a separate sequence of pagination; the register is continuous. 'Divine predestination' is of the sixth edition and 'A sermon on the fall of man' is of the second edition, (24pp Index).

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Book number: 10925

DULAC. EDMUND. ILLUSTRATES.

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald

Hodder & Stoughton. London. No Date. 1918. EARLY DULAC EDITION. Published October 1918. Large 8vo. (8 x 6 inches). viii,189p. Finely illustrated with 12 fine coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, tipped on to thick buff paper with a triple ruled brown border. Each plate with a printed tissue guard. A fine and clean copy, finely bound in early half dark blue morocco by W. H. Smith & Son. Ltd. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Top and bottom of the spine with single gilt ruled lines. Dark blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine copy. (Ann Conolly Hughey. Bibliography of Edmund Dulac. No. 21l. ).

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Book number: 8773

DULAC. EDMUND. Illustrates. ; Fitzgerald, Edward. Renders into English Verse.

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1909. FIRST DULAC EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.6 inches). 20 mounted colour plates on thick art paper, framed with decorative border design. Each plate covered with printed tissue paper guard. Finely bound in early full white vellum binding. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling and red morocco label, lettered and decorated in gilt. Front board lettered in dark brown in English and Arabic and with decorative outer corners in brown, within gilt ruled lines. Marbled endpapers printed in gold and brown on white paper. Etched illustrated bookplate, dated 1931, to the front pastedown. Some toning to the vellum but overall a very good and attractive copy of this beautiful book. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a skilled binder. ----- Hughey. Edmund Dulac. His book illustrations. A Bibliography; 21a.

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Book number: 10760

DULAC. EDMUND. ILLUSTRATES.

STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Retold by Laurence Housman.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, for Boots pure drug company. circa 1923.. Early reprint edition. 4to.(10 x 7.9 inches). Twenty full colour tipped in plates by Dulac. Finely bound recent half dark brown morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and gilt, plus gilt lettering and centre decorations. Marbled paper on boards. A clean and attractively bound copy.

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Book number: 10518

DUTCH PROVINCIAL FASHION. ; ARTIST UNKNOWN.

KLEEDERDRAGTEN EN TYPEN DER BEWONERS VAN NEDERLAND.

P. G. Van Lom. Amsterdam. circa 1850. CONCERTINA BOOK. (4.1 x 2.7 inches). Sixteen fine colour litho plates, each finished by hand with water colour and gum Arabic. The plates fold out to full length of 39.7 inches.Publishers blue paper covered boards with white lettering and decoration to front panel. Some light wear to the hinges but overall a very good bright copy of this scarce work. --- Katalog der Freiherrlich von Lipperheide'schen Kostumbibliothek. 2 vols. Berlin 1896-1905. gives the date as 1850 although the book is undated. The costumes are titled;Eiland Merken. Prov. Noord-Holland. -- Provincie Friesland. -- Provincie Zeeland. -- Hindelopen Prov. Freisland.-- Zaandam Prov. Noord - Holland.-- Beijerland Prov. Zuid Holland. -- Amsterdam Weeskinderen. -- Provincie Noord-Brabant. -- Vlaardingen Prov. Zuid-Holland. -- Zaandam Prov. Noord Holland. -- Provincie Noord - Holland. -- Omstreken Van Leijden Prov. Zuid-Holland. - -Provincie Groningen.-- Provincie Friesland.-- Scheveningen Prov. Zuid-Holland. -- Provincie Groningen.

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Book number: 5866