Biography Books

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is an expansive and highly personal work of literary and cultural criticism, first published in 2007. Structured th...

Minority Report; H. L. Mencken's Notebooks by H. L. Mencken is a posthumous collection of the author's private notebooks, first published in 1956. ...

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

First published in 1823, the Memoirs of General Count Rapp provide a vivid first-hand account of the Napoleonic era from one of the Emperor’s most ...

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...

Beatrice Webb is a clear, engaging biography of one of the most important figures in British social reform, written by Margaret Cole. Cole traces W...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

A compact and elegantly produced India Paper edition of one of the most important and entertaining historical diaries in the English language. The ...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

A smart copy of this detailed biography of Lord Macaulay — the eminent 19th-century historian, essayist, and politician best known for his History ...

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

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

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

This two-volume English edition of Memoirs of the Baron de Tott on the Turks and the Tartars, published in London in 1786, offers a fascinating win...

Winston Churchill; The Second World War, 6 Volume set, complete, 1948-1954.  SOLD Published by Cassell & Co. Limited, London, Toronto, Melbourn...

 A 2 volume set of the memoirs of former British prime Minister during the years 1916-1922, David Lloyd George (1863-1945). War Memoirs of David Ll...

Biography of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801-1885. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852-1855. He was a Br...

A very smart full leather volume which has been professionally rebacked, and contains fine condition text.  Joseph Locke (1805–1860) was a prominen...

Memoirs of The Pretenders and Their Adherents, by John Heneage Jesse. In Two Volumes, complete. Published by Richard Bentley, London. 1845 first ed...

The Scots Magazine was found in 1739, and claims to be the world's oldest magazine still in publication today (although with gaps in its publicatio...

A volume of reminiscenses of.Lord Frederic Hamilton (1856-1928), Conservative Party Politician and Member of Parliament. He also served in the Dipl...

A volume of reminiscenses of.Lord Frederic Hamilton (1856-1928), Conservative Party Politician and Member of Parliament. He also served in the Dipl...

The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice; A Record. Edited by Stephen Gwynn.  Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1859-1918), was a British Diplomat...