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

A Collection of Jessie M. King Ephemera; Posters, leaflets, cuttings, articles, cards etc., 1980s-2000s. A substantial and varied collection of mod...

Tales from Inverbothrie, by Frances Ryhnd Brightman. Described as "Written as a historical novel, Tales from Inverbothrie charts the fortunes of a ...

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....

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

A charming illustrated edition of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton’s classic The Compleat Angler, edited by Richard Le Gallienne and adorned with il...

This is a very unusual and rather charming volume - on the face of it it has the appearance of a typical Victorian binding - black leather spine an...

A charming pocket‑sized 1828 edition of Paul and Virginia, the enduring pastoral romance by Jacques‑Henri Bernardin de Saint‑Pierre, here translate...

A handsome late‑Victorian edition of The Works of Alfred Tennyson, attractively bound in green leather with raised bands and gilt titling, compleme...

A smart 1829 volume of The Gem; A Literary Annual, edited by the poet and humorist Thomas Hood, featuring contributions from some of the era’s most...

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...

A significant early Victorian volume on scientific understanding, The Cabinet of Natural Philosophy (1833) forms part of the influential Cabinet Cy...

A charming early 19th-century edition of William Hayley’s once-popular didactic poem, finely illustrated and attractively bound. The Triumphs of Te...

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

Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Chronologically Arranged with Notes, Glossaries, and Index. In Three Volumes, complete, in half slipcase. Published...

Robert Burns's Commonplace Book 1783-1785; Reproduced in Facsimile from the Poet's Manuscript with Transcript and the Original Introduction and Not...

Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy is a cornerstone of Victorian social criticism, first published in 1869. In this influential series of essays,...

A finely preserved early Victorian edition of Memorials of the Reformation of Europe, issued by Thomas Nelson around 1850. This volume presents bio...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. Barnaby Rudge; A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, by Charles Dickens. Wit...

This is a deluxe 1867 edition of The Imitation of Christ, the enduring Christian devotional attributed to Thomas à Kempis, one of the most widely r...

This is an elegantly bound early 19th-century volume featuring a curated collection of popular English poetry by James Beattie, Thomas Gray, and Ol...

This attractively restored 1808 edition of Poems by William Cowper (1731-1800), is presented as a two-volume set housed in a finely crafted custom ...

A smartly restored 1730 edition of one of the most celebrated and enduring poetic works of the 18th century. The Seasons by James Thomson, a Scotti...

A handsomely preserved and professionally restored first edition of The History of the Union of Great Britain (1709), attributed to Daniel Defoe. C...

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Edinburgh, 1803) is the influential early work of Sir Walter Scott, issued here in its second edition, expanded ...

Complete set of 6 volumes of Anthony Trollope's 'The Barsetshire Novels'. Classic English literature of the 19th Century, originally published betw...

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

A complete five-volume facsimile edition reproducing all of the engraved plates from Diderot and d’Alembert’s groundbreaking Encyclopédie, original...

This is the fifth and final volume of A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry, a comprehensive 18th-century agricultural manual compiled b...

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 smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. The Personal History of David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. Illustr...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by F. Barnard. Publish...

History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain; Comprising a Minute Account of the Various Military and Naval Operations. By H...

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

This attractively bound four-volume set of The Plays of William Shakespeare, edited by Thomas Keightley and published by J.S. Virtue & Co. in t...

This two-volume historical work by Thomas Arnold offers a detailed account of the political and military development of Rome during its transition ...

William Davison’s press in the Northumberland market town of Alnwick specialised in well-produced but affordable editions. Issuing Burns so early –...

The Gardener’s Assistant is a substantial 19th-century manual on horticulture and garden management, written by Robert Thompson, a respected figure...

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare - The First Folio. Copies of that surviving book are ...

A Short History of the English People by J.R. Green, Illustrated Edition (1892–1894), is a four-volume set that traces the development of English s...

This rare edition presents Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquorum with all text in English in this variant. Compiled by Baron d’Hancarville, ...

A most handsome full leather prize binding combining Glimpses of the Dark Ages; or Sketches of the Social Condition of Europe, from the Fifth to th...

This is a well-preserved 1772 printing of Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton (originally published 1738) – Voltaire’s accessible interpretation o...

This is a well-preserved 1726 third edition of Volume I of Gravesande’s influential introduction to Newtonian physics. Though titled “Vol. I,” this...

This elegant two-volume set presents Ruskin’s celebrated architectural travel guide, tailored for the practical use of visitors exploring Venice an...

A beautiful Folio Society edition of this standalone crime mystery - a fine, as new copy, still sealed, with slipcase. The Franchise Affair by Jose...