London: Bernard Lintott, (1708). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (8), 160 pp. Half-title present. Contemporary paneled calf boards, nicely rebacked in polished calf with a red morocco lettering piece, gilt. Some browning to the text block, wear to the edges and corners and leather boards rubbed else this is a very..... More

Hakodate, Japan: The Hakodate Kyodo Bunkakai, 1953. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 2 volumes, 8vo. 174;102pp. Purple stiff paper wraps bound Japanese style with string ties. Double fold pages, printed paper titles, Japanese on volume 1 and English on volume 2, Volume 1 is a facsimile manuscript of Kojima's original..... More

Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1976. Line drawings by A. R. H. Canlis. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 455pp. Illustrated throughout. Embossed paper over boards blocked in silver on the spine and upper board. Decorated endpapers based on a kimono fabric design. Introduction by Neil K. Davey. Contents: Part I: All of the..... More

Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1931. First edition. Wraps. 4to. One of only 800 copies. Publisher's printed wraps. 558pp. Illustrated and with an engraved forntispiece portrait. Light wear else a near fine copy and largely unopened. More

Amstelodami: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (16),384,(12),(8),397,(17) pp. Nine engraved plates. Contemporary vellum binding, leather lettering label, gilt. Title page printed in red and black, and with engraved vignette. Six of the engravings are full page plates, and three are double page (though two of the singles are..... More

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. Original red T-grain cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 8 full page plates and numerous text cuts. Cloth moderately spotted; spine tips neatly and nearly invisibly replaced; pencil underlining and marginalia throughout;..... More

London: T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 1773. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. 4to. The third edition, revised and greatly enlarged. (xii),404,(viii)pp. Intriguing study of the manners, religion, languages, government, kings law and other aspects of the Britons, Scots, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. Short sections on the Druids, and..... More

London: Longman, Hurst, 1817. Hardcover. Two large 8vo volumes. (4),lxiii,(3),xxxix,(1)383,(1);(4)495,(1)pp. Printed from Caxton's edition of 1485. With an Introduction and Notes by Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate of England. First edition with Southey's notes. Each volume with a large woodcut on the title page showing a knight and a dragon..... More

Chelsea: At the Ashendene Press, (1913). Limited edition. Near fine. One of 145 copies on paper. (There were 8 copies on vellum, according to the colophon.) Folio (15 3/4 x 11 inches; 400 x 280 mm.). xxii, 500 pp. Finely printed on a new make of Batchelor paper in red..... More

London: J. M. Dent, 1893-94. Aubrey Beardelsy. First edition. Wraps. Twelve original parts in green wrappers. Regular issue: one of 1500 copies. Full page and double page illustrations, rubricated initials, borders and in-text decorations by Aubrey Beardsley in his first major commission.  The wrappers are generally lightly soiled and..... More

London: John Russell Smith, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 12mo. Contemporary half calf. Spines in six compartments, gilt; leather lettering pieces, gilt; marbled paper boards and endpapers; marbled edges. Bookplates of Pierpont Van Deveer Davis. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it..... More

London: Walker and Edwards, 1816. Hardcover. Two volumes. Engraved frontispieces and dual title pages, one engraved in each volume and one typeset. The engraved titles and frontispieces have offset to each other and are lightly stained else the text blocks are clean.  Recent artist binding by Þ (signed on..... More

London: R. Wilks, 1816. Hardcover. 12mo. 3 volumes. xxiv [25]-326; xvi [17]-381; xvi [17]377pp. Engraved title pages in each volume. Engraved frontispiece of the Death of Sir Launcelot present in Volume 1, of the Parting of Tristan and Isolde in Volume 2, and of Prince Arthur Obtaining the Sword in..... More