Poems by occasional Uranian Theodore Wratislaw, a contributor to Beardsley's The Yellow Book and The Savoy. Upon the poet's death in 1933, The Tim...

A ground-breaking symbolist work. A splendid example of this important illustrated work, claimed by numerous artistic movements over the years, inc...

Inscribed presentation copy. A major literary presentation copy of the author's first literary publication. Inscribed by Wells on the half title pa...

Inscribed by Betjeman to Mary Wilson. Betjeman loaned several items to this exhibition and provided an introduction to this catalogue. Inscribed by...

A remarkably scarce example of eighteen-nineties detective fiction, not in the British Library, and with only one copy we could trace in other ins...

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is best known for a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents ...

He'd be best with a little mint-sauce for a relish. An unusually good example of the rarest of William Nicholson's illustrated works; his illustrat...

A rare example of an early vampire story. The eponymous Margery of Quether is discovered by a bell-ringer, George Rosedhu on Christmas Eve. She ex...

An uncommon first edition three-decker mystery novel by Hume, author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), in very good condition.First edition; ...

The first US edition of these thrilling mini adventures starring one of the first female detectives. After working on the Gazetteer of India in th...

The most sought-after of the various novels by prolific writer Grant Allen: 'More successful were the detective stories, written later in his life...

Three retrospectives on the life and works of Charles Ricketts, famous as an artist, publisher and typographer, and founder of the Vale Press.Firs...

An attractive first trade edition of this collection of Venice-inspired poetry by Gordon Bottomley, whose romantic verse dramas are ranked among t...

This comprises 188 letters written by the artist to his publisher.First edition; 4to; 'printed at the Chiswick Press...in Monotrype Bodoni on Arno...

John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (1835-95), English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates (notably reflected ...

A handsomely produced gift book of the 1890s, today collected chiefly as a fine example of the pictorial cloth binding made famous by the Cranford...

First edition, first issue, with 'The long day lengthens' in the dedicatory poem and with Beau appearing to be overweight in the illustration faci...

Manuscript copy of Louÿs' work, first published in 1899. Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) was born in Ghent in 1870 into a Champagne family, who had taken...