'the pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again'. The first edition, first issue in book form of Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Ni...

Extra-illustrated. A handsomely bound extra-illustrated set of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. This revised edition by the Anglo-Irish MP and wri...

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; ...

One of the more significant early detective fiction titles, published in Germany the year before, with this the first edition in English published...

With autograph letter. An attractive early issue of this classic of Victorian detective fiction, further enhanced by a letter from the author to a ...

Inscribed from the author "To Miss C Crommelin with the kindest regards of The Author Fergus Hume 28. 6. 89." Miss C. Crommelin is presumably one ...

While still containing various Prefaces, Essays and Criticisms, in short all the requisite scholastic Gravitas that one would wish for in a seriou...

The second, and final, anthology of Rhymers' Club poetry, the first published two years before. The Club was founded by W.B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys...

The first complete edition of Chaucer printed in roman letter, also the first to provide descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works and th...

Co-founder of The Spectator. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist and poet. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long...

A charming illustrated edition of Laurence Sterne's works.7 vols, 12mo; 15 engraved plates, marbled paper at pages 323 & 324 vol i, contempora...

Thick 4to (245 x 165); portrait frontispiece of the poet after Romney, additional pictorial title and 4 further plates after J. Gilbert, offsettin...