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Good. Tanned pages. Slight wear to cover and minor loss upper left cover.

A very good edition with some marks, bumps and shelf wear to cover. Pages lightly tanned. 295 pp with black and white illustrations.Provenance: With the bookplate for Roderick Eustace Enthoven. British architect and illustrator Roderick Eustace Enthoven was born in Seal, Kent, England on May 30, 1900. He studied at Clifton College and then at the Architectural Association School, London from 1919-1924. He became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1925 and later Fellow in 1932. In 1926, he began teaching at the Architectural Association School. That year, he also became a partner in Pakington, Enthoven and Gray. He remained in partnership with Humphrey Pakington until war broke out in 1939.In 1940, Enthoven began serving as a Civil Camouflage Officer at the Air Ministry and in August 1944 was commissioned to serve as a British MFAA officer in Italy. He first worked in Florence serving as Monuments Officer for the Tuscany region, but was later transferred to the Piemonte and… Read More

182pp. 42 b/w illustrations including 4 etchings of the Duke of Albermarle, King George & Queen Mary, Augusta Princess of Wales and Frederick Prince of Wales. Good binding with some sunning and spotting. We handled darkened spine.

Very good. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Owner's name to pasteboard. Original dustcover with sunned spine, edgewear and losses.

Good with sunned spine. Inscribed "Mary Rowcliffe rom mother July 2nd 1906". Minor foxing to end papers.

Slightly bumped and scuffed cover with minor shelf wear. 118 pp. With b/w drawings throughout.

Very good with silvered title and rifle to spine. Original dustcover with minor foldwear.

A very scarce first edition poetry collection by Charles Darling. A volume of thirty-three poems published anonymously, many of which had been previously published in the 'St. James's Gazette'. Inscribed in pencil to pasteboard with bookseller notes on the author. Including that he presided over the Crippin and casement appeal 1910 & 1916. Including 'In Praise of Idleness', 'A Poem of a Painted Plate', 'Hell and Tommy: A Tract', 'The Frenchman to the Hova', 'A New Regimen of Health', 'Ulysses on a Steamboat', 'Confessions of a Parliamentary Candidate', 'l'Esprit des Lois', and more.Charles Darling, the 1st Baron Darling, was a High Court Judge and politician, who also contributed literary pieces to the 'Pall Mall Gazette' and the 'Saturday Review'. Darling was known for his brilliant but sometimes inappropriate wit, both on and off the bench, and for always being impeccably dressed. A few spots and marks to the boards and spine. Very light bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages… Read More

Good with watermarks on cover and spine with tear and loss to spine. Foxing to EPs.

Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863–1929) was an English watercolour artist. Good copy with minor bumps to cover, slight shelf wear. Black lettering to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Shelf wear to upper and lower spine. Foxed page edges.

Bell's Cathedral Series with plan and illustrations. Good with 40 illustrations. Foxed endpapers slight edge and spine wear.

29pp. Pale blue card bound volume. Good condition with minor fold and wear.

Good. Tight binding and clean edition. Cream cloth with black and red lettered cover. Incribed "J. L. Bibby" to front pasteboard. Cover marked and with watermarks, edgewear and corner bumps.

Mark to top front and back cover. Dustcover intact with edge wear and 1cm tear lower spine.

254pp. Illustrated with many bw photographs and line drawings and woodcut illustrations. Dedications to FEP. Good tight binding, some shelfwear to cover and lower spine.

Very good. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine lightly rubbed and cover with minor shelfwear and faint ring mark. Clean, unmarked copy with tight binding.

Lacking dust cover, 155 pp and following this 320 b/w illustrations of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A.E. Popham was the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, London. Good copy with minor scuffs and shelf wear to cover. End papers and page edges with some foxing.Previous owner's name in Fountain Pen to front endpaper "... St Catherine's 1997"

Good condition with protective Mylar cover. Cover secured with tape. Marks to tape applications. Foxed endpapers and initial pages. Good binding. Tanned pages. 141 pp.

Green cloth with gilt details and pasted plate. Gilt top edge. Bookplate for previous owner and inscribed. Front hinge cracked but binding sound. Corners lightly bumped and minor shelfwear.

A good unmarked copy with minor scuffs to cover