Books and Manuscripts

This work is a 19th Century French student textbook exploring science, biology and natural history - and is beautifully illustrated throughout. Cou...

A bound annual volume of The Parish Magazine, the pioneering Church of England periodical established in 1859 by the Rev. J. Erskine Clarke. Its in...

The Red and The Black, by Stendhal. Translated by Charles Tergie. With the Illustrations of Jean Paul Quint. Published by The Franklin Library, Pen...

Thailand ephemera; Unused Postcard set from Ayudhya 1980s. An unusual, fully intact, postcard set from Thailand featuring places of interest for to...

Peter Pan and Wendy, by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated in Colour and Black & White by Mabel Lucie Attwell.   Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limite...

A substantial eighteenth-century survey of the known world, William Guthrie's New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar was one of the p...

There and Back Again; J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit, by Mark Atherton. Published by I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, London and New York. ...

The Mythology of Middle-Earth; A Study of Tolkien's Mythology and its Relationship to the Myths of the Ancient World. By Ruth S. Noel. SOLD Publish...

A contemporary biography of one of the founding figures of the British Labour movement, J. Keir Hardie chronicles the life and career of the pionee...

A collection of key, shorter works by seven of Scotland's greatest writers, including Alasdair Gray's newly commissioned survey of Scottish writing...

A characteristically inventive work by Alasdair Gray, Five Letters From An Eastern Empire presents a series of fictional letters blending satire, p...

Volume I of the Sixth Series of Chambers's Journal, covering December 1897 to November 1898, marking the beginning of a new era for one of Britain'...

The Scots Magazine was Scotland's leading eighteenth-century periodical and remains one of the richest contemporary records of the political, socia...

A fascinating survival from the early twentieth-century classroom, Bacon's Excelsior Emulation Ladder was designed as a visual record of pupils' ac...

This set consists of two volumes in matching bindings of Thomas Arnold's History of Rome. Vols I and III only. Volume II is missing. Comprising: Vo...

The Constitution of England, or an Account of the English Government; in which it is compared with the Republican Form of Government, and occasiona...

The Plays of William Shakespeare. Edited and Annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Illustrated by H.C. Selous. In 3 Volumes, complete; The C...

Horace. Odes and Epodes; in the Original Latin and in English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Accompanie...

This substantial volume brings together many essays exploring the life, works and legacy of Robert Burns from literary, historical and internationa...

Sacred History in the Form of Letters was written as an engaging introduction to Biblical history for the pupils of the pioneering Edinburgh Sessio...

This publication features an outer card cover containing a tipped-in booklet and a large fold out-map. The Map of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Text by B...

This publication features an outer card cover containing a tipped-in booklet and a large fold out-map. There and Back Again; The Map of The Hobbit....

The Rubaiyat is one of the most celebrated works of Victorian literary translation. Although based upon the Persian quatrains traditionally attribu...

André Malraux; Man’s Fate. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Published by The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1981. This limited edition published...

Oscar Wilde; Stories & Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Zevi Blum.  Published by The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1983. This limited edition publ...

First published in 1781, A View of Society and Manners in Italy is one of the finest eighteenth-century travel accounts of Italy, combining detaile...

A first edition of the work which first introduced Peter Pan to the world. Originally published in 1902, The Little White Bird marks the first appe...

Published in 1848, John Boag's A Popular and Complete English Dictionary was among the earliest substantial dictionaries issued by William Collins ...

First published in Germany as one of the nineteenth century's most influential architectural pattern books, The Gothic Model-Book was intended as a...

First published in 2013, A Tale for the Time Being is Ruth Ozeki's acclaimed novel exploring memory, identity, fate and the unexpected connections ...

Between about 1877 and 1912, David Bryce & Son of Glasgow became one of the world's foremost publishers of miniature books, issuing more than f...

Between about 1877 and 1912, David Bryce & Son of Glasgow became one of the world's foremost publishers of miniature books, issuing more than f...

William Wallace's Kant provides an accessible introduction to the life, ideas and lasting influence of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Writte...

James Hutchison Stirling's The Text-Book to Kant is a substantial guide to some of the most challenging sections of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pur...

The September Massacres of 1792 were among the most shocking episodes of the French Revolution. As fear and unrest spread through Paris, revolution...

The Philosophical Dictionary; or, the Opinions of Modern Philosophers on Metaphysical, Moral, and Political Subjects. In Four Volumes (this set com...

A rather wonderful example of this work by Alasdair Gray. Alongside the immaculate book is a postcard sent by Alasdair Gray on the 3 Feb 2001 to S....

Ulysses, by James Joyce. Illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey. Published by The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania and The Oxford University Press, New...

Tolkien; Maker of Middle-Earth, by Catherine McIlwaine. Published by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2018. Reprint - first printed in the same year. ...

The Making of Middle-Earth; The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, by Christopher Snyder. Published by Union Square & Co., New York, ...

Lanark: A Life in Four Books is Alasdair Gray's masterpiece and one of the defining novels of modern Scottish literature. First published in 1981 a...

Lean Tales, by James Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray. A compilation of short stories by 3 fine Scottish authors, loosely linked along the th...

Saltire Self Portraits; Alasdair Gray.  A concise autobiographical work by Alasdair Gray, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in m...

First published in 1928, Point Counter Point is Aldous Huxley's fourth novel and one of his most ambitious works. Structured around the idea of mus...

The Fall of Kelvin Walker, Alasdair Gray's third novel, is a sharply observed satire of ambition, identity and the pursuit of success in 1960s Brit...

The Sermon on the Mount is a finest production by the Limited Editions Club, presenting the text from the Gospel of Matthew alongside an introducti...

The Little White Bird is one of J.M. Barrie's most enduring and imaginative works, first published in 1902 and notable for introducing the characte...

The Interpretation of Dreams is Sigmund Freud's pioneering work on the unconscious mind and is widely regarded as one of the most influential books...