Biography Books

Helen of Troy; Goddess, Princess, Whore, by Bettany Hughes. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histor...

Histoire Des Conciles Oecumeniques 10; Latran V et Trente, by O. De La Brosse, J. Lecler, H. Holstein & CH. Lefebvre. Published under the direc...

Trelawny by R. Glynn Gryll. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. His si...

Milton & Wordsworth, Poets and Prophets; A Study of Their Reactions to Political Events by Sir Herbert J. C. Grierson. This copy carries the 's...

Rhetoric and English Composition, by Sir Herbert J. C. Grierson. This copy carries the 'signature' of 'Flora Grierson' (his daughter, 1899-1966, au...

William Blake, 1757-1827; A Man Without a Mask, by J. Bronowski. This copy has a presentation inscription on the first free endpaper dated to July ...

Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek; with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne, D.D. and Willi...

Memoirs of the Count de Grammont by Count Anthony Hamilton. Translated by Horace Walpole. Wood engravings by Wilfred Jones. Published by John Lane ...

Sir Richard Church, C.B., G.C.H., Commander in Chief of the Greeks in the War of Independence, by Stanley Lane-Poole. Provenance; from the library ...

The Greek Adventure; Lord Byron and Other Eccentrics in the War of Independence, by David Howarth. Provenance; from the library of the late William...

Let There Be Sculpture; An Autobiography, by Jacob Epstein. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histor...

A Shelley Library; A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft...

The Life and Times of Selina Countess of Huntingdon, Vol. I. by 'A Member of the Houses of Shirley and Hastings' (attributed to Aaron Crossley Hobb...

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume III, containing the Dunciad, in Four Books. SOLD Published in London 1764. Presumed first edition thus. Pr...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, with Notes, and a Biographical Sketch, by the Rev. W.A. Hill, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford. Illustrate...

In the South Seas; Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises, on...

The Inner Life of Empires; An Eighteenth-Century History, by Emma Rothschild. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 ...

Falling Upwards; How We Took to the Air, by Richard Holmes. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histor...

Piracy, The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, by Adrian Johns. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - ...

Winston S. Churchill; The Second World War, 4 Volumes, 1948-1951.  SOLD Published by Cassell & Co. Limited, London, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney,...

Et Virtutem... Essays on Mill Hill by George F. Timpson. SOLD Published privately to mark the 150th Anniversary of Mill Hill School and the visit o...

Young Romantics; The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2...

William Blake, by Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery Exhibition Guide, 1978. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), Brit...

The Courtesan's Revenge; Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King, by Frances Wilson. Provenance; from the library of the late William ...