1650. Rothomagi [Rouen]: Sumptibus Ioannis Berthelin Bibliopolae, 1650. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, (12), 403, (41); (12), 154 pp. First book with numerous woodcut illustrations; second book with engraved initials throughout. Full calf, backstrip richly gilt with red label, marbled endpapers, textblock stained red, green ribbon. Boards rubbed, headcap chipped..... More

1894. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894. 8vo, (vi), 301 pp. Original decorative cloth, a trifle rubbed, faint stain on upper board, a little shaken, a few leaves slightly spotted. § First edition, published the year after Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and the year before Jude the Obscure, in..... More

1807. London: John Joseph Stockdale, 1807. 8vo, xvi,81, (3, ads)pp. Original printed boards, rebacked. The upper cover printed with the title of the above work together with an advert for another Stockdale publication (Elijah’s Mantle), and further titles listed on the lower cover. § Fourth edition, printed in the same..... More

1975. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. 8vo, 190pp. Original cloth, dust jacket. Very good. § First edition, signed by Williams on the half-title in a shaky later hand. More

1879. New York: James Miller / London: B. Quaritch, 1879. 8vo, (vi), v, 319, xvii ("addenda") pp. Allegorical woodcut frontis. and a few illustrations in-text. Original brown bevelled cloth, backstrip gilt-lettered, image of an arm holding a whip gilt-stamped on upper board and blind-stamped on lower, brown coated endpapers. A...... More

1894. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1894. Small 4to, [xiv], 154, [1] pp. Original salmon buckram, covers with gilt-stamped decorations, gilt top, backstrip lettered and stamped in gilt, some browning throughout as usual, binding a bit soiled but good. § First edition (though there were 15 copies printed..... More

1882. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. 2 vols., 8vo, xvi, 284; viii, 280 pp. Extra-illustrated with about 100 plates (many colored), some two to a page inlaid to size, plus the eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates of the standard edition. Dark green straight-grain morocco extra, covers ruled in gilt..... More

1853. London: Bradbury and Evans, October 1853 - August 1855. 8vo, 24 parts in 23, with etched titles, frontispieces, 44 etched plates, 43 wood-engraved vignettes, and 76 wood-engraved initials, all by Doyle; original yellow printed wrappers, three with early ownership names on uppers, all more or less worn at edges..... More

1865. (circa 1865-81). Wood engraving, on single half-sheet of handmade Arches paper 19”, engraved area 4 x 2 1/4”, fine archival frame; a fine impression. § Edition unknown; a lovely original wood engraving, designed by Edward Burne-Jones and engraved probably by William Morris. Burne-Jones prepared some seventy drawings largely intended..... More

1894. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1894 [c.1898]. Sm. 8vo, vi (ads, including pastedown), x, [9]-346, (ix)-xxvii (ads, including pastedown) pp. With 75 black and white illustrations by Rackham plus illustrations by other artists. Original blue cloth, lettered in red and black, upper board with the image of sunrise behind an..... More

1903. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. 12mo, 77, (1, colophon) pp. Title page in red and black. Paper wrappers printed in red and black over stiff card, in the original slipcase with floral paper sides. A fine copy with a hint of toning to the upper cover, slipcase worn..... More

1903. Oak Knoll: printed by the Author, 1930. Pamphlet (142 x 190 mm), 24pp. Three photographic illustrations and two other in-text illustrations. Original string-bound blue wrappers. With the original mailing envelope revealing this copy was sent from Oak Knoll to the Union League Club of San Francisco in December 1930..... More

1826. 1826. Folio, single sheet 16 1/4 x 11, image (inc. platemark) 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 ins. Fine. § First edition, from the printing of 65 sets with the word “Proof” on French wove paper. The plate depicts Job lamenting his unfortunate existence, while his friends bear witness to..... More