DICKENS, Charles.

Great expectations ... In three volumes. Vol. I [-III]. Second edition.

London, (C. Whiting for) Chapman and Hall, 1861.

First edition, second impression, of one of the great Victorian novels, which was already in short supply in 1861. After Great Expectations had attracted a large readership in All the Year Round, Chapman and Hall were understandably cautious in their initial order for the novel as a traditional three-decker...

£5500

CAYLEY, John, XU BING and others (Katherine SPEARS, ed.).

Tianshu: Passages in the Making of a Book.

[London], Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2009.

This is the most comprehensive study on Tianshu to date, focusing on both the bibliographic and technical details of the work. The text contains new essays by Xu Bing (published both in Mandarin and in translation), John Cayley (Brown University), Professor Lydia Liu (Columbia University) and Professor...

£45

C[OLOMBO]. A[POTHECARIES]. CO. LTD.

Caryota Urens (Kitul), Botanical Study,

circa 1880–90s.

Charles Scowen arrived in Ceylon around 1873 and was initially an assistant to R. Edley, the Commission Agent in Kandy before opening a photographic studio around 1876. By 1885 his photography firm had studios in Colombo and Kandy. Scowen was a later arrival to Ceylon than Skeen and his work is less...

£250

LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.

Listen! The Wind ... With Foreword and Map Drawings by Charles A. Lindbergh.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938.

First edition of an award-winning book. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) met the celebrated American aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1927, when her father Dwight Morrow, the American ambassador to Mexico, invited Lindbergh to visit the country. They married in 1929, she soon learnt to fly under...

£400

CHAUCER, Geoffrey. FRINK, Elizabeth, illustrator.

Etchings illustrating Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. Introduction and Translation...

[London,] Waddington, 1972.

First edition of Frink’s monumental Canterbury Tales, one of 50 copies in the standard edition, numbered B 70 and signed by Frink, from an entire print run of 300 copies.

£4250

DALI, Salvador

Alpes. French Railways

France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

A gorgeous and colourful surrealist design of delicate butterflies fluttering against a rugged Alpine backdrop, one of six designs commissioned from Dali by SNCF, French national railways, to promote travel into the Alpine region.

£250

MIKE SEABORNE.

Redchurch Street/Bethnal Green Road, Tower Hamlets,

June 2004

£600

CARDONNEL, Adam de.

Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edwards … also by Edwards’s, in Halifax. 1788.

First edition, the very rare issue with the plates in sepia, printed directly onto thick wove paper.

£975

PRESENT FOR THE YOUNG (A).

London: Printed for The Religious Tract Society … and sold at their Depository … also by J. Nisbet...

[c. 1827]

First edition. A finely illustrated anthology of religious verse, contemplations, and prayers for children. Pieces include poems on the seasons and stories about a Welsh Shepherd, and ‘The Hill and the Valley’, all with heavily metaphorical content.

£175

[KEENE, Marian].

The History of a tame Robin. Supposed to be written by Himself.

London: Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton … 1817.

First and only edition. The tame Robin recalls a life of adventure enriched by human and avian friendships. A childhood spent in a school-room helped him attain ‘a sufficient knowledge of literature to relate my adventures’. His life, though happy, is not without its vicissitudes: he loses a close...

£325

SHENSTONE, William.

The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three Volumes … Fifth Edition …

London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.

Fifth edition of the Works (1764), the first edition of which was planned by Shenstone but published after his death, with Robert Dodsley’s description of Shenstone’s important garden at The Leasowes, one of the first natural landscape gardens in England and one of the most influential, and with...

£325

SCOTT, Sir Walter.

The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions and Notes, various Readings, and the Editor’s Notes.

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.

£750

HARRISON, William.

The lazy Lays, and Prose Imaginings …

A. D. 1877 (Popular Chronology;) A. M. 5877 (Torquemada;) A. M. 50,800,077 (Huxley.) … London.

First edition, a presentation copy, of this eccentric collection of verse and prose by the photographer, spiritualist and journalist William Henry Harrison.

£850

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward.

The Mint. A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with Later Notes, by 352087...

London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape, 1955.

First British edition, the trade issue. 'One of Lawrence’s avowed purposes in joining the RAF, though not the only one, was to write of the ranks from the inside. He began immediately making notes when he enlisted in 1922. With his dismissal in January 1923, because of unfavourable publicity, the project...

£120

KERSHMAN, Andrew.

Book Lovers’ London.

London, Metro Publications, 2015.

Fifth edition. Book Lovers’ London has established itself as an essential reference tool for those wanting to enjoy the literary delights of the capital. It contains reviews of over six hundred bookshops, including Quaritch.

£13

MONETA, José Manuel, and Robert Keith HEADLAND, ed..

Four Antarctic Years in the South Orkney Islands: an Annotated Translation...

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2017.

One man’s fascinating record of four winters in the Antarctic during the 1920s, the period of transition from the isolation of the Heroic Age to the beginnings of radio communication with the world outside.

£50

[POETRY.]

Anthology of manuscript floriographic poetry,

dated June 1853.

A collection of twenty-six apparently unpublished poems in manuscript, presented as an alphabetical acrostic. The poems express the perfection and the language of flowers – that is, the meaning embodied by each variety. Examples given here include ox-eye for patience, quince blossom for temptation,...

£250

MARINI, Giovanni Ambrogio.

The Desperadoes; an heroick History. Translated from the Italian of the celebrated Marini (the Original...

London: Printed by W. R. and sold by T. Asltey … J. Isted … and T. Worrall … 1733.

First and only edition in English of Le gare de’ disperati (1644), the second of three romances by Marini (1596-1668). Inevitably, ‘It was necessary to omit many Things that were contrary to our Morals; to Decency, and to the Purity of the English Tongue …’. But the general scheme of events...

£1000

‘CARROLL, Lewis’ [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON].

Sylvie and Bruno … London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. [With:] Sylvie and Bruno...

London, Macmillan and Co. 1880-1893.

First editions, presentation copies inscribed ‘Lizzie Wilcox from her affte Cousin the Author / Dec. 12. 1889’ and ‘Lizzie Wilcox, from her affectionate Cousin the Author / Dec. 27, 1893’ (two days before publication), a fine association:

£2750

THOMAS, Dylan, and Sir Peter Blake, illustrator.

Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices.

London: Apple Litho (Bristol) Ltd. for Enitharmon Editions and Queen Anne Press, 2013.

De Luxe edition, number 61 of 100 copies with a signed print by Blake. This finely-produced edition was published to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth and celebrates the culmination of over twenty-five years of work by Peter Blake, one of the founding fathers of British Pop Art. The...

£975