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Captain Gronow’s lively recollections of Regency and early Victorian society remain one of the most engaging first-hand accounts of life in the cam...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William H. Prescott is a landmark work of nineteenth-century historical writ...

A complete 1858 first edition set of The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray, with all plates present. A sequel of sorts to Henry Esm...

A complete 1849 first edition set of The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray, with all plates present. First published in s...

The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman is the second volume in his companion trilogy to His Dark Materials, continuing...

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman is the first volume in a companion trilogy to his acclaimed His Dark Materials sequenc...

Haig by Duff Cooper is a major two-volume biography of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, first published in 1935. Drawing on extensive research a...

Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope is a social novel set in Ireland during the Great Famine, first published in 1860. Drawing on his own e...

The Grey Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse by Michael Fairless is a reflective and quietly evocative work blending prose and ...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

In the Footprints of Charles Lamb, by Benjamin Ellis Martin, is a richly illustrated literary topography tracing the life and world of Char...

Charles Lamb; A Memoir, by Barry Cornwall (the pen name of Bryan Waller Procter), offers an early and affectionate account of one of the mo...

Her Infinite Variety, edited by E. V. Lucas and first published in 1908, is a charming Edwardian anthology celebrating literary portraits o...

A finely produced limited edition from the Nonesuch Press, A Stitch in Time; or Pride Prevents a Fall by James Laver reflects the Press’s c...

A scarce first edition of Histoire secrète de la cour de Berlin (1789) by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, one of the most influ...

A scarce early edition of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by John Clare, one of the most distinctive voices of early nineteenth...

A smart set of 2 volumes on the history of the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university, and the third oldest university in t...

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is one of the great novels of nineteenth century English literature, offering a brilliant satire ...

A complete set of the 12 Swallows and Amazons adventures by Arthur Ransome. Offered here are 6 of these in "The Swallows and Amazons Adventu...

First published in 1925, The Medieval Village by G. G. Coulton is a classic and accessible study of everyday rural life in medieval England...

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's landmark dystopian novel first published in 1932, remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century l...

Non-Stop is Brian Aldiss's striking debut novel, first published in 1958, and now regarded as one of the defining works of post-war British scienc...

A smart first edition copy of Nicolas Cheetham's Mediaeval Greece, published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1981 first edition. Pr...

The Duchess of Cleveland – Invitation to “Mr Henry James” 17 St James’s Square – Saturday Evening, May 7th[Likely 7 May 1876 or 7 May 1881] A finel...