(Morris, William, trans.:) Homer: The Odyssey of Homer Done Into English Verse. London; New York Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. 4to., pp. v, [i], 293, [i]. Printed in the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press, in red and black. Some bottom edges deckled. Occasional very light patches of foxing. Designer binding, illustrated paper boards backed in blue morocco with gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, very good indeed. Blue cloth chemise and slipcase, the former with original paper label to spine, the latter with large and elaborately handwritten label. Though both chemise and slipcase show some significant dampstaining, the book itself is, barring a slightly musty smell, untouched. Bookplate of Eric Sweet to front pastedown. Colophon reads: First printed in 1887, and now reprinted at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, and finished on the thirtieth day of December, 1901. Published by Longmans, Green and Co. of London, New York and Bombay. Ref: 54956show full image..
Morris, William: (Kelvin, Norman, ed.:) The Collected Letters. Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1996. 4 vols bound as 5. 3rd printing, large 8vo., pp. lxiv, 626; liii, [i], 365, [i]; [ix], 366-921, [i]; lxv, [i], 537, [i]; lvii, [i], 465, [i]. Internally clean and bright. Beige buckram, burgundy titles to spines. A few small smudges to edges, very good indeed. Dust-jacket spines a little sunned, very good indeed. Dates covered as follows: Vol I, 1848-1880; Vol II pt.i,1881-1884; Vol. II pt.ii, 1885-1888; Vol. III, 1889-1892; Vol. IV, 1893-1896. Ref: 54955show full image..
[Morris, William] Peterson, William S.: The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Folio, pp. xiv, 371, [i]. Richly illustrated. Clean and bright within. Very dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight wear to endcaps, near fine. Dust-jacket spine a little sunned, very slight shelf wear, very good indeed. Loosely inserted, an interesting correspondence between the noted book collector Eric Sweet and the Oxford University Press prompted, by Mr Sweet's complaints about the quality of the book's boards and the publisher's proof reading. Chapters: 1. The World of Victorian Printing; 2. William Morris and the Book Arts; 3. Founding the Press; 4. Morris as Book-designer; 5. The Decorated Book; 6. The Business of the Press; 7. The Story of Three Books; Ref: 54957show full image..
Mortensen, Otto: Jens Olsen's Clock: A Technical Description. Copenhagen: Technological Institute, 1957. First English edition. Folio, pp. 157. Numerous illustrations. Hardback: white cloth-backed blue patterned cloth boards, blue-lettered to spine, two corners slightly bumped, other than a hint of dust to edges book and contents unblemished, very good. White dust-jacket, now somewhat grubby with closed tear to one corner, a little fraying to the others and creasing to edges, still good overall. Translated from and published simultaneously in Danish. A detailed description of a complex astronomical clock, now situated in Copenhagen Town Hall, completed posthumously between 1944 and 1955 (Jens Olsen died in 1945). Ref: 53961show full image..
Moss?, Claude: (Stewart, Jean, trans.:) Athens in Decline 404-86 B.C. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. First English edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 181. + 4 plates. Hardback: blue cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little dust-marked to edges but still a very good copy. Bookseller's ticket of Henry Sotheran Ltd to front pastedown. Translated from French. Ref: 53911
Mykhaylovskiy, Vitaliy: European Expansion and the Contested Borderlands of Late Medieval Podillya, Ukraine. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019. 8vo., pp. x, 182. Hardback: laminated boards. Unused: as new. In the series: Beyond Medieval Europe. Ref: 54465
[Napoleon] Pommereul, F.R.J.; Berthier, L.A.; Denon, V.; Miot, J.; Petit, J., et al: Original Journals of the Eighteen Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte; Comprising all those in which he personally commanded in chief: Translated from the French. To which are added all the Bulletins relating to each campaign, now first published complete. [?] London: J. Davis, 1816-17. 2 vols., [iv], [vi], [iv], 5-550; [ii], 209, [i], 441, [i]. Eccentric signatures, but pagination and text are correct. Sporadic light foxing. Vol. I with bookseller's notes to ffep, M4 with loss to fore-edge margin not affecting text, a few leaves short at fore-edge. Vol. II with quite a few pages unopened at head edge. Contemporary dark green quarter cloth, drab paper-covered boards, spines gilt ruled with red labels. Worn, some splashes and marks to spines, loss to edge of vol. II label, end caps and corners frayed, edges worn, externally a little shabby but unsophisticated and sound. Each volume with bookplate of William Bartlett to front pastedown and illegible ownership inscription to head of title-page. Very scarce in the UK and Ireland. WorldCat finds physical copies at the National Library of Ireland and Hull Central Library; LibraryHub adds a copy at Senate House Library, though catalogued with a date of 1920, so perhaps a reprint. Contents as follows: [Pommereul, F. R. J. de] Campaign of General Bonaparte in Italy, 1796-7; Berthier, L. A. Original journal of the second campaign of Bonaparte, being the campaign in Egypt and Syria, in the year 1798 and the operations of General Desaix in Upper Egypt; Journal in Upper and Lower Egypt... during the campaigns of General Bonaparte in that country; Miot, J. M. Narrative of the French expedition to Egypt and Syria; Petit, C. Journal of the campaign in Marengo, in Italy, 1799. Journal during the siege of Genoa. Official narratives of the campaigns of Buonaparte, since the peace of Amiens. Being a complete collection of the whole of the bulletins pub. by Buonaparte to his abdication: Campaign in Germany, 1805; in Prussia, 1806-7; in Germany, 1809; in Russia, 1812; in Germany, 1813; in France, 1814; Campaign and battle of Waterloo, 1815; Marshal Ney's account of the battle of Waterloo. Ref: 54775show full image..
[Napoleon] [Doris, Charles:] Secret memoirs of Napoleon Buonaparte: preceded by an historical survey of the character of this extraordinary personage, founded on his own words and actions by one who never quitted him for fifteen years; to which is added an account of the Regency at Blois, and the Itinerary of Buonapa London: Henry Colburn, Conduit Street, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1815. Second ed.. 8vo., pp. [ii], 46, xviii, [49]-352, [ii], 353-420. Foxed, some patches of light toning then a few pages towards the rear very toned. Contemporary half brown calf, spine gilt, marbled boards, edges sprinkled blue. Endcaps worn, upper joint starting at head and tail, rubbed, endpapers foxed, still very good. To title-page: 'Teignmouth' and author's name added in pencil. According to Barbier, an apocryphal work. Translation of M?moires Secrets sur Napol?on Buonaparte. Contents as follows: Historical survey of the character of Buonaparte (pp. 1-45); Preface to the secret memoirs of Napoleon Buonaparte (pp. i-xviii); Secret memoirs of Napoleon Buonaparte (pp. [49]-287); An account of the regency at Blois or The last moments of the Imperial government (pp. [289]-336); Buonaparte at Fontainebleau (pp. [337]-354). Itinerary of Buonaparte from the period of his last residence at Fontainebleau to his establishment in the island of Elba (pp. [355]-406); Buonaparte at Elba (pp. [407]-420). Ref: 54776show full image..
Naughton, Bill: Alfie. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. First edition. 8vo., pp.208. Bright and clean within. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, near fine. Some faint creases to dust jacket, slightly chipped at tail of spine, very good indeed. Alfie began life as a radio play called Alfie Elkins and His Little Life, first broadcast by the BBC in 1962. It was adapted for the stage in 1963, and debuted at the Mermaid Theatre before transferring the West End and, briefly, to Broadway. 1966 saw the appearance of both this novel and the celebrated film version starring Michael Caine in the title role. Ref: 54971show full image..
Nederman, Cary J.: The Bonds of Humanity: Cicero's Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100 - ca. 1550. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. 8vo., pp. 240. Hardback: cloth. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 54618
