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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...