Books on Bindings

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Seventh Edition.

248p miniature book, spine height 9cm, full dark blue suede binding, spine bright gilt, name dated ...

L'Empereur Julien. Oeuvres Complètes. Tome 1 - 2e Partie: Lettres et Fragments. Text Revue et Traduit J Bidez.

xxiv 257p 257p Volume 1 ONLY, bound in full vellum with owl design to front board, original paper ...

The Disciples.

vii 288p full burgundy calf binding in very good condition, gilt lettering to spine and front, ...

Logic; Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Enquiry after Truth. With a Variety of Rules to Guard against Error.

xii 396p full calf binding secured / protected with transparent jacket, frontispiece portrait, ...

Gustave, ou Le Jeune Voyageur en Espagne.

284p paper covered boards with photographic view to center, red and blue ornaments, front board ...

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. With Illustrations.

ix 517p light white cloth with gilt décor to spine, "Ridd, Never be Ridden" arms to front ...

Our Language.

204p hardback (!) green cloth spine gilt, dustjacket present and well preserved, not price-clipped, ...

The Song of Hiawatha.

211p small brown book, imitation blindstamped leather, top edge gilt, a very fresh copy

Selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

105p small format purple suede binding with EBB monogram to front, ribbed endpaper, undated, front ...

The Royal Natural History. Six Volumes in Twelve Parts.

this is an excellent bright set in twelve cloth volumes, all corners sharp, cloth bright gilt, all ...

A la France - Sites et Monuments.

a set of six VERY heavy volumes bound in strong half calf, holding very well, light superficial ...

Altes Gold - Sprüche der Minnesänger des Mittelalters.

xiii 80p small format, full vellum binding with gilt and black décor, very attractive volume, top ...

Lettres du Prince du Metternich à la Comtesse de Lieven, 1818 - 1819. Publiées, avec une introduction, une conclusion et des notes par Jean Hanoteau. Préface de Arthur Chuquet.

a-j, lxxiii 420p original paperback rebound in a full vellum binding, original paper cover bound ...

Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography.

428p small hardback, half black calf over dark green cloth, three raised bands, gilt titles to ...

The Philopoena: Or Friendship's Offering. A Gift for All Seasons.

201p bound in full red calf with very elaborate gilt desings to front and back, precarious cosmetic ...

Amor und Psyche. Ein Märchen des Apulejus. Aus dem Lateinischen von Reinhold Jachmann.

47p original pink paper cover very well preserved, text paper yellowing# 486 in the series, ...

The Domestic Bible. The Holy Bible, containing The Old and New Testaments, according to The Authorized Version; with the Marginal References, and the Usual Various Readings.

Two large volumes, half calf binding in very good condition, binding tight and firm, paper clean, ...

The Journal to Stella (The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Vol. 2)

507p xxi private dark pink leather binding, five raised bands, blindstamped dentelles, all edges ...

Maurine.

222p bound in original mauve cloth with large and very striking and very fresh ornaments in gilt ...

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Volume 3 ONLY: Oarses - Zygia.

1406p a very thick and stout volume, bound half calf fresh and very attractive, marbled boards, all ...

Les Chants Modernes. Nouvelle Edition.

273p very decorative half morocco binding with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, a ...

Edward the Second.

(122)p 4to format, full vellum binding with heraldic arms to front, limited edition of 500 copies, ...

Matthaei Sutlivii De Vera Christi Ecclesia, adversus Rob. Bellarminum, aliosque Sectae Lebusiticae Sodales, eorumque Errores & Haereses: liber unus; De Conciliis Libi Duo; De Monarchis Disputatio.

743p (pagination error between 206 and 209), contemporary full vellum binding, clean and tight ...

Three volumes of Bohn's Library dates 1849, 1876 and 1885 where the customy cloth binding (blindstamped) has been covered with golden paper.

The Poetical Works of George Herbert.

256p full leather with simple tooled design, marbled endpapers, illustrated edition with engravings ...

The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer, With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

298p full leather with gilt ruled borders, black title label and elaborate gilt ornamentation to ...

Hundert Ausgewählte Gedichte.

200p original burgundy cloth bright gilt with striking décor to front and spine, yapp edges, ...

Select Essays.

96p elongated format, grey paper covered boards a little dusty, gilt lettering to front, printed on ...

Twenty-Five Poems.

Peacock green silk with Bloomfield's gilt swan motif to front board, very well preserved and ...

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

95p small brown suede volume with overlap and attractive Art Nouveau design to front cover, lovely ...

La Campagne Genevoise d'après nature.

113p large heavy pale blue hardback with attractive Art Nouveau titles to front board and spine, ...

Stanbrook Abbey Press. Price List, 1977 - 1978.

single sheet, folded, some corrections in ink, designed as order sheet.

Alfred Charles de Rothchild, 1842 - 1918 (Portrait of a Bibliophile)

22p offprint from The Book Collector, printed on rectos only, with plates, very good

An Exhibit of Productions from Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1876 - 1966.

8p tall pamphlet, blue card cover, excellent condition

Moods that Endure.

26p grey paper covered boards, limited edition of 340 copies, this is one of 140 copies printed on ...

The Great Case of Tithes Truly Stated, Clearly Open'd, and fully Resolv'd. With an Appendix thereto, to which is Added: A Defence of some other Principles held by the People call'd Quakers (…), by J M.

viii 292p plus 8 page publisher's catalogue in back, full calf binding with blindstamped ornaments ...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Volume 1 ONLY.

248p 11cm very small format, "cartonee souple", dustjacket present, a well preserved ...

Beeton's Great Book of Poetry from Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson. Also, A Separate Selection of American Poets.

Very large and heavy single volume edition, beautiful very fresh and well preserved royal blue ...

The Philosophy of History in a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna.

xii 498p full calf, school arms in gilt to front, gilt bands to spine, mottled page edges, pages ...

Nature's Idylls.

64p tiny volume, hardback, colour illustration to front, inscription dated 1926

A collection of 5 Plays by Gerhard Hauptmann in publisher's Art Nouveau bindings designed by Emil Orlik.

titles included are: Die Weber (brown), Florian Geyer (green), Der Rote Hahn (red), Vor ...

Poetical Works.

633p full morocco binding a little worn only, bevelled edges, front panel with ivoy (?) inlay ...

Sheridan's Plays. The Rivals. School for Scandal. The Critic.

228p lovely small full leather luxury edition with Panel-Books sunflower motif and elegant ...

Gli Scavi Recenti nel Foro Romano (con 121 incisioni).

240p large format, bound in half tree calf, binding very attractve and in very good condition, 5 ...

The Works of George Bull, D.D. Lord Bishop of St. David's, Collected and Revised: To Which is Prefixed The Life of Bishop Bull 7 Volumes bound in 8.

8 volumes bound in full calf, binding still quite well preserved, all hinges firm, but not all the ...

International Pocket Medical Formulary.

269p small tall pocket format, purple leather binding very well preserved, gilt title label to ...

Establishing Belief: The Process of Proving.

130p paperback with brown cover, very well preserved, fresh copy, paginated forward on rectos only, ...

The Broken Road.

461p full burgundy reverse calf, gilt lettering to front and spine, binding still well preserved, ...

Der Spiegel des grossen Kaisers. Mit Illustrationen von Ruth Knorr.

145p oblong format, edges just a hint rubbed, boxed in illustrated box lettered along two sides, ...

Life of William Lord Russell. Letters of Rachel Lady Russell (vol 2 ONLY).

Life: xxi 470p; Letters: viii 231p uniformly bound in full calf, gilt rule, dentelles, all edges ...