UK Interest Books

Humphrey Prideaux’s The Old and New Testament Connected is a major 17th–18th century work of biblical historiography, first published in 1715–17. A...

Published at the close of the Second Boer War, Heroes and Gentlemen (1902) records the front-line impressions of the Rev. Robert M’Clelland, Presby...

Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy is a cornerstone of Victorian social criticism, first published in 1869. In this influential series of essays,...

A finely preserved early Victorian edition of Memorials of the Reformation of Europe, issued by Thomas Nelson around 1850. This volume presents bio...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. Barnaby Rudge; A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, by Charles Dickens. Wit...

This is a deluxe 1867 edition of The Imitation of Christ, the enduring Christian devotional attributed to Thomas à Kempis, one of the most widely r...

This is an elegantly bound early 19th-century volume featuring a curated collection of popular English poetry by James Beattie, Thomas Gray, and Ol...

This attractively restored 1808 edition of Poems by William Cowper (1731-1800), is presented as a two-volume set housed in a finely crafted custom ...

A smartly restored 1730 edition of one of the most celebrated and enduring poetic works of the 18th century. The Seasons by James Thomson, a Scotti...

A handsomely preserved and professionally restored first edition of The History of the Union of Great Britain (1709), attributed to Daniel Defoe. C...

This late Victorian edition of The Complete Works of William Hogarth presents the artist’s celebrated oeuvre in 150 finely detailed steel engraving...

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Edinburgh, 1803) is the influential early work of Sir Walter Scott, issued here in its second edition, expanded ...

Complete set of 6 volumes of Anthony Trollope's 'The Barsetshire Novels'. Classic English literature of the 19th Century, originally published betw...

Emma Roberts’ Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster (1827) offers a detailed narrative of late medieval English history, tracing the dy...

First published in 1795, English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners by Lindley Murray became one of the most widely used grammar ...

A complete five-volume facsimile edition reproducing all of the engraved plates from Diderot and d’Alembert’s groundbreaking Encyclopédie, original...

This is the fifth and final volume of A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry, a comprehensive 18th-century agricultural manual compiled b...

This substantial historical work by Scottish historian William Russell (1741–1793) presents a broad, Enlightenment-era view of ancient global histo...

This early and more comprehensive collected edition of Jonathan Swift’s writings represents a significant moment in the dissemination of his satiri...

A very smart first edition of The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens’s final and famously unfinished novel. First published in 1870, it was b...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. The Personal History of David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. Illustr...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by F. Barnard. Publish...

History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain; Comprising a Minute Account of the Various Military and Naval Operations. By H...

Hudibras was originally published between 1663 and 1678, and is Butler's classic satirical poem, which has remained admired and influential for ove...

Étienne Bézout — Cours de Mathématiques, à l'Usage des Gardes du Pavillon et de la Marine. Paris: Various publishers (Delatour, Musier fils, Ph. D....

This attractively bound four-volume set of The Plays of William Shakespeare, edited by Thomas Keightley and published by J.S. Virtue & Co. in t...

This two-volume historical work by Thomas Arnold offers a detailed account of the political and military development of Rome during its transition ...

William Davison’s press in the Northumberland market town of Alnwick specialised in well-produced but affordable editions. Issuing Burns so early –...

The Gardener’s Assistant is a substantial 19th-century manual on horticulture and garden management, written by Robert Thompson, a respected figure...

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare - The First Folio. Copies of that surviving book are ...

This two-volume 1791 edition of A New Method of Learning with Facility the Latin Tongue is an English translation of a well-known Latin grammar ori...

A Short History of the English People by J.R. Green, Illustrated Edition (1892–1894), is a four-volume set that traces the development of English s...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

This rare edition presents Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquorum with all text in English in this variant. Compiled by Baron d’Hancarville, ...

This 1832 first edition of Origines Liturgicae presents the first volume of Rev. William Palmer’s scholarly exploration of the origins and developm...

James Hervey’s Meditations and Contemplations is a popular 18th-century devotional work reflecting on nature, mortality, and divine creation. First...