UK Interest Books

Companion to Alfred Ronald's Fly Fisher's Entomology. The Extracts are printed from the Sixth Edition of the Work, by permission of Messrs. Longman...

A substantial study of the art of Jack B. Yeats, one of Ireland's leading twentieth-century painters. T.G. Rosenthal examines Yeats's distinctive a...

A particularly attractive early edition of one of Richard Jefferies' best-known works on English country life and natural history. Drawing extensiv...

An uncommon early history of British horse-racing, tracing the development of the sport and the establishment of its principal race meetings, toget...

An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of nineteenth-century sporting anecdotes by the Scottish journalist and author James Glass Bertram (182...

A handsome uniformly bound group of four novels by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), one of the prominent novelists, clergymen and social commentators ...

First edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Fortunes of Nigel, published anonymously in 1822 as the work of "The Author of Waverley". ...

A landmark study of William Caxton (c.1422-c.1491), the merchant, translator and printer who introduced the printing press to England and produced ...

An extensive contemporary account of the extraordinary political and military events of 1815, written and published immediately following Napoleon'...

Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the great works of historical scholarship and literature, tracing...

Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was one of the remarkable literary successes of the early nineteenth century. First published in 1800, the poe...

Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics was his first novel and the work which established his literary reputation, presenting the episodic journey of a...

Frederic Prokosch's The Seven Who Fled is an atmospheric novel of adventure and psychological tension, following seven Europeans whose journeys c...

Rupert T. Gould's The Case for the Sea-Serpent is a serious and remarkably detailed investigation into one of the most enduring mysteries of mari...

Rupert T. Gould's Enigmas: Another Book of Unexplained Facts follows his successful Oddities with a further collection of historical mysteries, u...

Rupert T. Gould's Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts is a fascinating collection of historical mysteries, strange phenomena and apparently ine...

William Enfield's Scientific Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics is an engaging early nineteenth-century introduction to science a...

John Ward's The Young Mathematician's Guide was a successful early eighteenth-century mathematical textbook, intended to provide students and pract...

An important and substantial resource for Scottish history, genealogy and antiquarian studies, Northern Notes & Queries was founded in 1886 und...

Henry Tuke's The Duties of Religion and Morality is a concise work of Christian instruction by the prominent English Quaker writer and minister Hen...

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, originally published serially between 1837 and 1839, was his second novel and one of the works that established his...

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, first published in twenty monthly numbers between October 1846 and April 1848, is one of the major novels of his ...

An attractively bound, full tan leather binding of Scott's poetry. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott; Including Introduction and Notes. The "A...

P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's Bring on the Girls! is a lively and frequently irreverent memoir of their years in American musical com...

This interesting set comprises a text volume and a matching box resembling a book, which contains 10 full colour First World War battle ...

Written by Winston S. Churchill (1940-2010), grandson and namesake of Sir Winston Churchill, First Journey recounts the young author's a...

A useful collection of publications relating to the history and development of Freemasonry in Hong Kong, China and the wider Far East, principally ...

An original Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) from Lord Randolph Churchill, dated 1890. Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895) was a prominent ...

An original British Post Office Telegram sent by Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) to A. L. Ball, manager of the Pall Mall branch of Llo...

A handsome and substantial uniformly bound eight-volume collection of the principal historical and critical writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay (...

This handsome tree-calf prize volume was awarded to Charles Thomson in 1886, while a pupil at Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School, Glasgow, several ye...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for English Literature in 1891 and personally signed on the presentation label by Andrew ...

This handsome two-volume Glasgow University prize set was awarded for Mathematics in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by Willi...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for Latin in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by George Gilbert Rams...

An attractive and complete set of Dickens' Works in nineteen volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarter leather. The Biographical Edition...

An interesting text containing an intriguing collection of scientific papers, this handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded in 1893 und...

An interesting text on the subject of Logic, this handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded in 1891 under the authority of John Veitch, ...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 137, 2024. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 136, 2023. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

“This edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson is reprinted from that prepared by Mr. Mowbray Morris for the Messrs. Macmillan’s ‘Globe’ series in 1893...

First published between 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings is Tolkien's epic high-fantasy masterpiece and one of the most influential works of mo...

A reset new format hardback of this work by Tolkien, published in 1976; Farmer Giles of Ham, by J.R.R. Tolkien. With illustrations by Pauline Bayne...

A second edition hardback of this work by Tolkien, published in 1975; Smith of Wootton Manor, by J.R.R. Tolkien. With illustrations by Pauline Bayn...

A charming 1977 box set from Unwin Paperbacks with 3 illustrated volumes in their original slipcase, comprising works by J.R.R. Tolkien;  SOLD The...

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published after the author's death by his son Christopher Tolkien, presents the mythic prehistory of...

A substantial history of Christianity by the influential German church historian Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1693-1755), whose Ecclesiastical Histor...

This attractive, compact, full calf leather volume contains Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, first publishe...

Short Studies on Great Subjects is one of James Anthony Froude's best-known collections of historical and literary essays, bringing together his re...