London: John Tallis, Undated, c.1850. Unframed Map. 1 sheet This map, prepared for Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain, offers a compact yet lively topographically detailed image; cleanly lettered, crisply bordered, and dotted with towns, estates, boundaries and features. The outline colour lends the map a distinct visual character and mid-Victorian..... More
London: John Tallis, Undated, c.1850. Unframed Map. 1 sheet This map, prepared for Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain, offers a compact yet lively topographically detailed image; cleanly lettered, crisply bordered, and dotted with towns, estates, boundaries and features. The outline colour lends the map a distinct visual character and mid-Victorian..... More
London: Gresham Publishing, 1911. Hardcover. Each volume 272 pages, with colour and black & white plates. Some mild foxing here and there. In the attractive Gresham bindings of the period, and both volumes are very sound and bright. Size: 17 x 27 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; New Arrivals. This..... More
Manchester: J.E. Cornish, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Hartog's concise history of Owens College traces its growth from a modest mid nineteenth century foundation into a fully articulated institution with specialised departments, laboratories, and teaching programmes. He outlines the College's civic origins, its architectural expansion, and the academic ideals that shaped..... More
London: The Building News, 1889. Unframed Print. A single sheet print, image area approx. 18 x 28 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the..... More
London: The Building News, 1883. Unframed Print. A fold-out sheet print, image area approx. 28 x 38 cms. Slight loss of print to left margin. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces..... More
London: The Building News, 1899. Unframed Print. A double sheet print, image area approx. 28 x 38 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the..... More
London: The Building News, 1899. Unframed Print. A double sheet print, image area approx. 28 x 38 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the..... More
London: The Building News, 1889. Unframed Print. A single sheet print, image area approx. 18 x 28 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the..... More
London: Webb & Bower, 1982. Reprint edition of the 1939 original. Paperback. Original printed brown wrappers, fastened with red silk. Presented as the fourth murder mystery in a series, the story of the crime is laid out in dossier form, with cablegrams, handwritten documents, photographs, pieces of evidence (including hair)..... More
Oxford: Oxford University, 2009. Paperback Edition. Softcover. The book traces the creation of Gray’s Anatomy, revealing how Henry Gray and illustrator Henry Vandyke Carter produced what became the most influential medical textbook of the nineteenth century. Richardson reconstructs their working relationship, the scientific environment of Victorian London, and the practical..... More
London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. The book rewrites the traditional narrative of art history by foregrounding women artists who were overlooked, excluded, or written out of standard accounts. Hessel traces their contributions from the Renaissance to the present, showing how women shaped major movements, pioneered techniques, and expanded..... More
London: Batsford, 1947-8. First Edition. Hardcover. The Batsford books of the 1930s-1950s occupy a sweet spot between reference work and decorative object. Their appeal now lies as much in the vibrant dustwrappers - modernist in spirit, pastoral in subject - as in the texts themselves. Together the book and wrapper..... More
London: Batsford, 1954. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. The Batsford books of the 1930s-1950s occupy a sweet spot between reference work and decorative object. Their appeal now lies as much in the vibrant dustwrappers - modernist in spirit, pastoral in subject - as in the texts themselves. Together the book and wrapper..... More
London: Studio Vista, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quayle's wide ranging survey of books and book collecting offers a panoramic introduction to the physical, artistic, and historical forms that printed works have taken from the hand‑press era onward. With a collector's instinct for rarity, illustration, binding, and bibliographic detail, he examines..... More
London: Studio Vista, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quayle's survey of children's books charts the imaginative, moral, and artistic development of juvenile literature from its earliest didactic forms to the richly illustrated works of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With a collector's eye for rarity, illustration, and bibliographic nuance, he..... More
London: Studio Vista, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quayle's survey of detective fiction traces the genre's evolution from its formative nineteenth century experiments to the fully fledged traditions of the early twentieth century. With a collector's sensitivity to rarity, illustration, and publishing history, he examines seminal authors, landmark series, and the..... More
London: Studio Vista, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quayle's compendium of boys' adventure stories surveys the imaginative landscape that shaped generations of youthful readers, charting how tales of exploration, schoolroom rivalry, moral testing, and heroic endurance evolved across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With a collector's instinct for rarity, illustration..... More
London: Souvenir Press, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. Searle's gleefully irreverent tour of the book collecting world skewers its vanities, obsessions, and heroic follies with the sharpest of satirical pens. Through caricature, anecdote, and wickedly observed types, he exposes the foibles of dealers, auction-goers, bibliophiles, and the hopelessly afflicted "condition‑fanatic." Yet beneath..... More
London: Batsford, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Muir's study of Victorian illustrated books explores the extraordinary flowering of graphic imagination that accompanied the century's expanding readership. He examines the artists, engravers, publishers, and printing houses that shaped the era's visual language, tracing how technical innovation and commercial ambition produced books of..... More
London: The Library Association, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Jones’s bibliography assembles nearly four centuries of English‑language writing on dogs, cataloguing works that range from early treatises on breeding and husbandry to Victorian manuals, sporting literature, and modern scientific studies. Organised with meticulous attention to editions, authorship, and subject focus, it..... More
London: Batsford, 1985. 4th Impression. Hardcover. Muir's survey covers three centuries of evolving juvenile literature; from austere instructional works and chapbooks to the richly illustrated classics of the nineteenth century. With bibliographic acuity he examines authors, printers, formats, and the shifting moral and imaginative aims of the genre. The study..... More
Gloucestershire: History Press, 2024. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Haddelsey's study of the ill-fated Bickerton probes the darker corners of Georgian society through the life of a minor adventurer whose ambitions collided with poverty, exploitation, and the era's brittle social hierarchies. Drawing on archival fragments, court records, and contemporary reportage, he reconstructs..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Netz and Noel recount the extraordinary scholarly and technological effort to recover Archimedes' lost writings from a medieval palimpsest; its erased text revived through multispectral imaging, conservation, and patient decipherment. They trace the manuscript's journey from Byzantium to modern auction rooms, revealing..... More
London: Verso, 1997. Softcover. Febvre and Martin's landmark study examines how the advent of printing reshaped European thought, commerce, religion, and daily life between 1450 and 1800. Drawing on archival evidence and the tools of the Annales school, they trace the shift from manuscript culture to mass reproduction, showing how..... More
