The Strand Magazine, (London: George Newnes, 1891). Issue in the original wrappers for March 1891.
Chips to covers and spine cover, some light staining.
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery: First Series and Second Series (London: Cassell, 1890 & 1891). Two volumes of Victorian artistic, royal and political celebrities in woodburytype and carbon photographs by W. & D. Downey. Subjects include Oscar Wilde The Duke and Duchess of Fife, Sarah Bernhardt, Prince George of Wales, Lord William George Armstrong, James Payn, The Prince of Wales, Mrs. Lillie Langtry, Professor Thomas Huxley, Mrs. Millicent Fawcett, Eliza Lynn Linton, Sir Frederick Leighton, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Princess Alexandra, Briton Riviere, Wilson Barrett, Bret Harte, Marchioness of Londonderry, George Du Maurier, Anton Rubinstein, Madge Kendal, Sir Christopher Teesdale, Squire Bancroft, Queen Victoria, & many more. 3 extra photos bound in are from the third series. Bound in half leather, a bloom to the Princess Alexandra photo, and corner crease to card surrounding Oscar Wilde. Good condition. Scarce as usually this title is broken up for the photographic plates.
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Ford Madox Hueffer, Rossetti: A Critical Essay on His Art (London: Duckworth, 1920). Pocket edition reprint of the 1902 edition. Numerous black & white illustrations, some less familiar than others. Some rubbing to covers, good condition.
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Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown's Visit to the Paris Exhibition (London: George Routledge, circa 1867). Yellowback. Some rubbing, spine panel missing, otherwise good condition for a yellowback.
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Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown Up the Nile (London: Routledge, circa 1869). Yellowback. Rubbing to covers and spine. Good condition for a yellowback.
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Ref. no. 246

Charles G. Leland, Hans Breitman's Barty and Other Ballads (London: Ward, Lock & Co., circa 1880). Yellowback edition. Edges & spine chipped, good condition.
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D. Frances Wood, Watercolour painting by 1930s illustrator Daisy Frances Wood (1883-1969), who illustrated magazines, books and annuals aimed at girls. The picture shows two schoolgirls visiting a sick man who may have been a jockey. It is titled 'Trust Fatima', Daisy Frances Wood was born in Tottenham in 1883 and was the daughter of artist James Francis Richard Wood and Letitia Lester. She grew up in Camberwell. In a modern frame. Very good condition.
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Ref. no. 248

G. J. Whyte-Melville, Songs and Verses (London: Chapman & Hall, circa 1880). Yellowback. Some chipping & rubbing to covers, but very good condition for a yellowback.
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Ref. no. 249

Henry Harland, The Cardinal's Snuff-box (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1903). Rebound in contemporary cloth, contemporary bookplate. Cloth a little rubbed, good condition.
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Ref. no. 250

Pierre Loti, An Iceland Fisherman: A Story of Love on Land and Sea (London: John and Robert Maxwell, circa 1885). Translated from the French by Clara Cadiot. Rebound in contemporary cloth - probably a rebound yellowback. Foxing to endpapers, contemporary bookplate & signature of Claud Worth. Very good condition.
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Ref. no. 251

The Ladies Diary: Or, The Woman's Almanack for 1748 (London: A. Wilde, 1748). Paperback, 48 pages. At some point removed from a hardback of other almanacks, and may (?) lack a back cover, spine recently reglued. Good condition. Click on image for more pictures of this title.
Ref. no. 252

Frederick Warde, Fifty Years of Make-Believe (Los Angeles, California: Times-Mirror Press, 1923). Illustrated. Autograph presentation copy from Frederick Warde to Mary Mause (? surname not quite clear): 'To Mary Mause: With appreciation of years of gentle kindness unfailing good humour and thoughtful consideration for the comfort of others, Frederick Warde, May 1923.' Also a 1920 Christmas card inscribed 'Mrs. Warde and myself join in wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Bright and Happy New Year with
the fullest appreciation of courtesies and kindness you have shown us for several years, Frederick Warde, 1920.' Autobiography of the British Victorian actor. Covers marked, front inner hinge very weak.
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Alaric A. Watts (editor), The Literary Souvenir 1831 (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Greene, 1831). Hardback literary annual with steel engraved plates in original pink silk covered boards, all edges gilt. Contributors include Mary Howitt, Geraldine Jewsbury, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, G.P.R. James, Sir Aubrey De Vere, William Howitt, Edward Moxon, J.A. St. John, T.K. Hervey, J.F. Hollings, J.G. Whittier, Z.M. Watts, W. Leeds, W.C. Bryant etc. 1 of the 12 full page steel engraved illustrations are missing. Chips to edges & spine. Good reading copy.
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Ref. no. 254

W.B. Maxwell, In Cotton Wool (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1912). Two volumes rebound in later cloth. William Babington Maxwell was the novelist son of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 255

John Wood (Editor), The Daguerreotype: A Sesquicentennial Celebration (London: Gerald Duckworth & University of Iowa Press, 1989). Hardback, illustrated in colour and black and white. Essays on Richard Beard and Antoine Claudet, Southworth and Hawes etc. Contemporary gift inscription. Very good condition. Click on image for more pictures of this title. Ref. no. 256

Bret Harte, By Shore and Sedge (London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1885). Rebound in contemporary binding. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 257

Rev. Richard H. Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends (London: Mudie's Select Library Limited, circa 1890). Illustrated frontis, all edges marbled. Spine a little rubbed. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 258

John Habberton, Other People's Children; Or, More About Helen's Babies (London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, circa 1878). Paperback, loss to bottom corner of front page, splits to spine. Sound reading copy and still attractive. Click on image for more pictures of this title.
Ref. no. 259

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Man and His Work (London: The Bookman, 1913). Large format paperback with numerous illustrations & contributions from other writers. Some foxing. Good condition.
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Ref. no. 260

The Druggist: A Monthly Trade Circular (London: 1869). Issue of the magazine for 10 April 1869 with interesting contents and adverts. Good condition.
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Votes for Women, edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence
Issue of the suffragette newspaper for 7 January 1910. Interesting adverts and content. Too large a format to scan picture.
Good condition.
Ref. no. 263

Wilkie Collins, The Woman In White (London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1860). Three volumes. Sixth edition. The leather binding is in poor condition: volume 1 has the boards secured to the spine with tape on the outside, volume 3 has loss to spine. Later ownership signatures on front free endpaper. An ideal candidate for rebinding.
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Stanley J. Weyman, A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston De Bonne Sieur De Marsac (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1894). 2 volumes in an Art Nouveau design Tauchnitz binding. Crease to cover of volume 1, couple of small splits to spine. Good condition.
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Lawrence L. Lynch (pseudonym of Emma Murdoch Van Deventer), No Proof: A Detective Story (London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895). Inner hinge cracked, loss to letters of 3 words on page 281 from when pages have been stuck together. Reading copy.
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Algernon Blackwood, The Willows and Other Queer Tales (London: Collins Clear-Type Press, circa 1932). Strikingly illustrated by Sidney Stanley. Pocket sized edition. A few marks to covers. Good condition.
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Gilbert Frankau, One of Us: A Novel in Verse (London: Chatto & Windus, 1918). 6th edition.
Signed autograph presentation copy reading 'To Miss Renee Kelly, from her "tailor & cutter" Gilbert Frankau'.
Paper browned with age, covers grubby.
Ref. no. 268

George Moore, The Lake (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1906). Frontis reads, 'revised for the Tauchnitz edition.' Said to be Moore's best novel about Ireland. Paperback in original covers, dated May 1906. A couple of splits to spine, good condition.
Ref. no. 269

George Moore, Celibate Lives (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1927). An original Tauchnitz hardback binding design. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 270

Madeleine Bingham, The Great Lover: The Life and Art of Herbert Beerbohm Tree (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978). Biography of the actor manager. Illustrated. Ex library with previous owner's bookplate. Good condition.
Ref. no. 271