Cambridge: At the University Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Three volumes. xx,672;xvii,(1),783;xxvi,928pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt spine titles. Contents: I: Ancient Literatures of Europe; II: Russian, Yugoslav, Indian and Hebrew Literature; III: Oral Literature of the Tatars, Polynesia, North Borneo, Africa and a General Survey. Each volume has a index. A...... More
Barcelona: Sadagcolor, 1973. Limited edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. 105pp. Printed self-wraps. One of 200 numbered copies of which this is copy No. 50. Finely printed facsimile of Wynkyn de Worde's 1502 printing of the Descrypcyon of Englonde (includes Wales, Scotlonde and Irlonde), which is the latter part of his..... More
London: Sam. Buckley, 1713. Early Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 128pp. Bound to style in quarter leather; maroon lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. Woodcut vignette on the title and another above the colophon, Woodcut chapter heading and initial at the beginning of the Life. St Winifred, or St. Gwenfrewy, Abbess of..... More
London: Sam. Buckley, 1713. Early Edition. Wraps. 8vo. 128pp. Bound in later marbled paper wrappers. Woodcut vignette on the title and another above the colophon, Woodcut chapter heading and initial at the beginning of the Life. St Winifred, or St. Gwenfrewy, Abbess of Trefynnon and of Gwythenn,(d. 600 AD), was..... More
Londini: Typis Gulielmi Bulmer et Socii, 1806. Hardcover. 4to. xxxii,237,(6)pp. Engraved frontispiece, three full page engraved plates, and a large hand-colored folding map. Contemporary full calf binding; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, gilt title, gilt rules on the boards and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. With the..... More
London: Printed for William Miller, 1806. First edition in English. Hardcover. Large 4to. 2 vols. (12),cxcii,220,(4);(6),440,(4)pp. Indices. Complete with 59 engraved plates (including a hand-colored folding map) and a second large, hand-colored folding map at rear of Vol. II. Old calf over marbled boards (rubbed), tips worn. Spines in 6..... More
London: J & J Bennett, Ltd., 1915. Illustrated by Dorothy B. Griffiths. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 189pp. Green cloth printed in black on the upper board and guilt on the spine. Illustrated with black and white plates and with a full color frontispiece of royal Welsh coats of arms. The..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877. Hardcover. 4to. Red leather spine, gilt; marbled paper boards; chocolate colored endpapers, top edge gilt. xx,504pp. Engraved vignettes. Light rubbing to the leather, edges of the boards are worn, but still this is a very good copy. The second edition of Lady Charlotte Guest's translation from..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Early Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. iv,248,(ii),100,pp. Two works bound in one Contemporary full calf binding; spine in six compartments with raised bands, tooled in blind with gilt lines; the upper board blocked in gilt with a prize notice with leaf borders: "Praemium Ingenii Artibus Liberalibus Feliciter..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Early Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. iv,248,(ii),100,(ii),202pp. 32pp. publisher catalogue. Three works bound in one, the last titled at its beginning, England and Wales". Original greenish-brown T-grain cloth blocked in blind on the boards and with gilt spine titles. coated endpapers. Hinges neatly and nearly invisibly mended..... More
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1811. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. (xii), 122pp. Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards. Gilt spine title. Hinges cracked, significant wear to the leather and boards, textblock foxed in second half; only a good copy of this early Scott work. With the bookplates of..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Unopened. Four folding maps. Original red cloth, a little darkened, else a near fine copy. More
