The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams by Henry Fielding, Esq., The British Novelists, Vol. XVIII, Second Edition, 1820. Printed by C. Baldwin, London. 18mo, 395 gilt edged pages with watercolor double fore-edge paintings of a view of Fielding's home Sharpham Park, England, obverse, with a portrait of […]

Three (3) Split Fore-Edge Painted Books, including Henry Southgate, Duke of Beaufort. 1st-2nd items: Many Thoughts of Many Minds, one (1) First Series, Thirty-Sixth Edition, and one (1) Second Series, Tenth Edition, complied and analytically arranged by Henry Southgate, circa 1890. Published by Charles Griffin and Company, London. Octavos, approximately 681 gilt edges pages with […]

The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, Vol. I & II, by Daniel Defoe, The British Novelists, Vol. XVI-XVII, 1820. Printed by C. Baldwin, London. 18mo, 690 total gilt edged pages with four (4) watercolor split double fore-edge paintings, two (2) to each book, Vol. I: Portrait of Defoe, obverse, Crusoe […]

Five (5) Single Fore-Edge Painted Literary Books, Shakespeare, Rogers, Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Milton. 1st item: The Plays of William Shakespeare, Accurately Printed From the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Stevens, Esq. and Edmund Malone, Esq., with Glossary, 1826. Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Company, London, and Archibald Constable, and […]

Five (5) Holy Bible Volumes with Single Fore-Edge Paintings. 1st-4th items: The Holy Bible, Tran[s]lated from the Latin Vulgat, Vol. I-IV, 1763, 1764. Printed in Dublin. Octavos, 1,994 total gilt edged pages with four (4) watercolor single fore-edge painting, one (1) to each book, Vol. I: St. Kenelm's Chapel, near Harlesowen, Shropshire, Vol. II: Beauchief […]

The Booke [sic] of Common Prayer and The Old and New Testaments of Our Lord and Sa[v]iour [I]es[v]s Christ, imprinted by Bonham Norton and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, London, Printed for the Company of Stationers, London, 1622-1624. Quarto, engraved Old and New Testament title pages, Genealogies, double-page map of Canaan, […]

Signed and inscribed book by famed British anti-slavery advocate William Wilberforce. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in the Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity, Seventeenth Edition, by William Wilberforce, Esq., Member of the Parliament for the County of York, 1829. Printed by James and […]