Under £500

First edition, first impression, one of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author; 8vo; publisher's full black morocco, eclipse motif to boards and titles to spine in red, matching cloth slipcase, fine.

First edition; 3 vols, 4to (284 x 234 mm); half titles, chromolithographed frontispieces and additional title-page vignettes in each vol., 41 (14 + 13 + 14) further plates, some damp-staining to prelims of vol. 3, otherwise very good internally; uniformly bound in original decorated red cloth gilt, gilt edges, brown endpapers, some dampstaining to binding of vol.3, spine ends of each vol. bumped.

Limited edition, number 7 of 250 copies; 4to; half-title, mounted colour frontispiece, additional plates throughout (some colour and mounted, some photogravure), captioned tissue guards, maps, text clean and bright; later half red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, upper cover slightly sunned, spine slightly faded, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers.

Fifth edition, revised and enlarged; small 8vo (155 x 120 mm); decorative headpiece vignettes, the odd, minor spot and pencil marginalia, else very good; publisher's grey cloth with black titles repeating title-page, extremities a little worn and stained, otherwise a very good copy; ink manuscript 'Chapatty recipe' loosely inserted.