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James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson remains one of the most celebrated biographies in the English language. First published in 1791, this ex...

The Life of William Hazlitt, by P.P. Howe, with an Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (193...

An attractive prize presentation set from Glasgow School of Art. The Literary Works of Joshua Reynolds, First President of The Royal Academy. To Wh...

An attractive prize presentation copy from Glasgow School of Art. The Lives and Works of Michael Angelo and Raphael. By R. Duppa and Quatremere De ...

A late‑18th‑century Edinburgh periodical, The Lounger (1785–1787) was a literary and moral weekly published by the authors of The Mirror, a promine...

The Man Who Presumed; A Biography of Henry M. Stanley, by Byron Farwell. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a famous Welsh-American explorer, sol...

The Masque of Ancient Learning and its Many Meanings; A Pageant of Education from Primitive to Celtic Times Devised and Interpreted by Patrick Gedd...

A revised and expanded second edition of Roderick Beaton’s influential study of late Byzantine literature, The Medieval Greek Romance examines the ...

The Megalithic European; The 21st century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe, by Julian Cope. A very personal journey across Europe by Julian Cope, fo...

This work by Arthur Conan Doyle was a collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories from Strand magazine, originally intended to be Holmes' final out...

The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency. Translated from the French by Bayle St. John. In Three Volumes, ...

The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

The Merchistonian was the long-running magazine of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, published for the school community, alumni, and supporters....

The Merry Muse, by Eric Linklater. Published by Jonathan Cape, London. First edition, 1959. A very good hardback, with black paper over boards with...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith; Now First Uniformly Collected. Collecta Revirescunt. Vol. I. Containing the author's life and his essa...

First edition of this collection of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories published in 1940, with its original unclipped dustjacket. The Mixture As B...

The Modern Antiquarian; A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 prehistoric Sites, by Julian Cope. S...

A very smart copy of this novella by Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), Anglo-Irish novelist of adults and children's literature. The book has been profe...

The Modern Grocer and Provision Dealer, New and Revised Edition. 4 Volume Set complete. General Editor: C.L.T. Beeching, F.G.I. Assisted by Special...

A unique copy of this work. A previous owner has restored it to completion, by creating a number of hand drawn pages including the title page, adve...

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 good blue cloth edition in 2 Volumes, of Gilbert White's 'Natural History of Selborne'. White (1720-1793) was a pioneering English naturalist and...

A very smart decorated green cloth edition of Gilbert White's 'Natural History of Selborne'. White (1720-1793) was a pioneering English naturalist ...

A good decorated green cloth edition of Gilbert White's 'Natural History of Selborne'. White (1720-1793) was a pioneering English naturalist and ma...