London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, [1886]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 170 pages plus 8 ad's (uncut pages). Black & white illustrations throughout. Blue decorative card covers printed in gilt & black. Measures approximately 24.5 x 19 cm. Re-spined in plain blue paper; Some foxing to endpapers; large bookplate to paste-down front endpaper; cover lightly soiled with slight wear to extremities; rear cover a little marked; else a very good copy.

London.The Company of Stationers. 1722. [xxii], 1-70 + [2]pp index. Title in Latin and English. Original full sheep with manuscript paper label to spine. 12mo. Binding very worn, with corners bumped and worn; spine split along lower board; small loss to both head and heel of spine; paper label rubbed with roughly half worn away; fore-edges browned; some old ink marks to endpapers; ownership inscription to 2nd front free endpaper; else a good plus copy.

17 Penny pamphlets relating to Rochester bound together as one, without wrappers, in 19th century cloth, the spine titled: 'Guide to Rochester.' Titles: Reminiscences of Old Rochester; The History of Rochester Castle; History of Rochester Cathedral; Bishops of Rochester; A Trip Down the River Medway; A Trip up the River Medway; Historic Houses of Old Rochester; The Life of Bishop Gundulph; The Priory of Rochester; Civic Rochester; Old Churches of Rochester; Local Legends; Quaint Kentish Epitaphs and Signs; Kentish Customs; The Guildhall, Rochester; Bygone Inns of Rochester; Guide to Rochester Castle. Binding a little faded, particularly at spine; name on endpaper; else very good.

London.PL Editions Poetry. 1945. 36pp. Original grey/blue cloth gilt. Original unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Few light spots on the first few leaves; slight wear to the head of the spine of the wrapper; else a very good copy indeed.

London.Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1881. Unpaged, but 32 leaves, all but the last printed on one side only. Title and fourteen full-page plates all printed in colour. The final leaf is printed on both sides, the recto being ad's. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 4to. First edition. Head of spine with just a tiny amount of loss, heel of spine split on lower edge and sometime repaired; some rubbing to edges of boards; else a very good copy of a scarce title, attractively illustrated.

Zwikau.Johannes Hermann. No date. (1920's.). Oblong: 18x25cm. Illustrated with 30 full-page silhouettes. Boards a little worn at extremities; paper browning at edges; else a very nice copy.

London: Hutchinson, No date. 450 pages. Illustrated. Original pictorial red cloth, gilt. Al ledges gilt. Lacks two leaves of ad's at rear; spine rubbed and somewhat dulled; else very good.

London: Hutchinson and Co, No date [1910]. 400 pages. 8 full-page black & white plates. Original brown pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. First edition. A fine copy.

Auckland.Oxford University Press. 1987. Illustrated in colour throughout. Hardback. Original pictorial glazed boards. No dust-wrapper, as issued. 18.5 x 15cm. First edition. A very good copy.

London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1887]. Unpaged. 22 leaves printed on one side only. Illustrated throughout in colour by Kate Greenaway. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Fore-edges stained red. Oblong: 21.2 x 26.4 cm. First edition. Contemporary inscription on half-title; some occasional spotting; else a very handsome copy. Schuster & Engen 1[c].

Stockholm: Fr. Huldberg, No date [circa 1840?]. A Swedish picture sheet for a child's nursery, illustrating the letters of the alphabet, etc. A lithograph of twenty four images all hand-coloured as issued. Splitting at centrefold; else near fine. Mounted in acid-free board. Exposed image size: 31.3 x 39.7 cm. Mount size: 45 x 53 cm.

London: John Harris, No date [circa 1827-8]. 34 pages. Ad's to rear pastedown. Illustrated with 24 hand-coloured engravings. Original printed wrappers. The occasional small mark; spine expertly restored; else a very good copy of a quite a scarce title. Mrs Moon locating only three copies of the first edition of 1825, no copies of the second edition, and only one of the third. Moon 1(3). 'The book contains 24 stories, one for each letter of the alphabet, IJ and UV being put together, but there seems to be no connection between the letters and the stories.'

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd, 1905. 128 pages.. Illustrated throughout in line. Sometime rebound in quarter morocco over paper-covered boards. 7.5 x 5.7 cm. A very handsome copy of a scarce miniature alphabet.

New York: Street & Smith Corporation, No date [circa 1929]. Softcover. Text block browned; spine worn & head & heel with small loss of paper; else a very good copy.

Manchester: The Simon Archery Foundation, 1974. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges; please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com

London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. Hardback in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like slightly dust-soiled dust-wrapper with one very short tear.

London.The Bibliographical Society. 1952. [i-ii] 3-288pp. 16 illustrations within the text. Original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. 16 black & white illustrations. Octavo. First Edition. Book plate; some browning to endpapers; slight soiling to spine cloth; else an excellent copy.

Oxford.John Johnson at The University Press. 1932. [i-iii], 4-171pp. plus original wrappers bound in to rear. Frontispiece plus 22 illustrations. Brown buckram, gilt. Quarto. First edition thus. Front and rear boards faded and a trifle stained. A very good copy.Reprinted from the Oxford Bibliographical Society Proceedings and Papers. Volume III Part I, pp. 1-172.

London.Dawsons of Pall Mall. 1966. 80pp. Original cloth-backed boards. No wrapper. Octavo. Black and white illustration on frontispiece. A fine copy. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

London: The Bookman's Journal, 1924. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Number 538 of a limited edition of 700 copies. A fine copy.