Clubs from Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books, ABAC/ILAB

London: Printed for the Proprietor by John Johnson: and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, et al, 1817. Originally published in 1711. (24.6 cm x 15.5 cm.) Pp. [xii], 95. Frontispiece portrait engraved by T. Bragg after an original by Vertue with tissue guard, comical engraved vignette with text framed and bordered with vines to the 1817 title-page,… Read more

Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1971. One of 1,500 copies. Light aquamarine cloth boards backed in dark blue buckram, silver "jumping" salmon illustration to cover, silver spine lettering, map endpapers, richly illustrated throughout primarily with monotone photo reproductions, with a few illustrations in colour including a two-page spread of "The Evolution of the Moisie Flies", maps. Very light soiling to the… Read more

[Montreal]: s.n. [Self-published?], 15th November, 1961. Full navy-blue leather, gilt emblem to front cover, gilt spine lettering, all edges bright gilt and gauffered, marbled endpapers, bound by Vianney Belanger, Montreal. Pp. [x], 3, 1-137. Signed by Robert Patterson Jellett on the title-page, with his armorial bookplate to front blank. Covers slightly scuffed, rubbed at the corners and spine ends, otherwise… Read more

London: Clement Ingleby, 1925 Small 8vo., pp. xv, 101, small tear to fore-edge of p.31, text unaffected, marbled boards, cloth spine. Very good..

New York, 1895. Eleventh Year. Small 8vo. (17 x 10.5 cm.), pp. 288, lxi, [66] (Diary, &c), illustrated adverts., bright-blue bevelled cloth, gilt stamped, a.e.g. Allan Suddon's label front on front pastedown. Covers scuffed with minor stains, rear hinge a little weak, else very n ice, bright sound copy..

Oxford: Printed for the Club at the University Press, 1914. Edition limited to 200 copies. Bookplate of the great bibliophile and founder of the First Editions Club, A.J.A. Symons. Large bold ink signature, "Curzon 1914" (Earl Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy to India and Chancellor of Oxford University). Quarto, pp. 112, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 2 pages with tissue… Read more