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First published in 1775, John Howie's The Scots Worthies became one of the best-known collections of biographies from Scotland's Presbyt...

A charming 1977 box set from Unwin Paperbacks with 3 illustrated volumes in their original slipcase, comprising works by J.R.R. Tolkien;  The Hobbi...

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published after the author's death by his son Christopher Tolkien, presents the mythic prehistory of...

This attractive, compact, full calf leather volume contains Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, first publishe...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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 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...

The Future of An Illusion, by Sigmund Freud, M.D., LL.D.. Translated by W.D. Robson-Scott. The International Psycho-Analytical Library, edited by E...

War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Published by Time Warner Libraries, New York (no definitive printi...

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Publi...

Anna Karenina; A Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. With the Paintings of James Tissot. Published by The Franklin Library...

First published between 1723 and 1725, A Collection of Old Ballads was one of the earliest major printed anthologies devoted to English popular bal...

A scarce pair of original Meiji-period Japanese woodblock-illustrated books from the popular serial novel 夜嵐阿衣花廼仇夢 (Yoarashi Okinu Hana no Adayume)...

A beautifully illustrated Meiji-period Japanese woodblock printed painting manual by the celebrated artist Kobayashi Eitaku (1843-1890), one of the...