English Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries: Being a Selection of First and Early Editions of the Works of Esteemed Authors & Book Illustrators, Together with Books on Sports and Pastimes

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Maggs Bros, 1928 - 428 páginas

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Página 118 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Página 208 - THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN, which has been also called The Land of the Living Men, or The Acre of the Undying.
Página 195 - BRITISH BIRDS. With a Chapter on Structure and Classification by FRANK E. BEDDARD, FRS With 16 Plates (8 of which are Coloured), and over 100 Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8vo., gilt edges, 6s. net. B/RDS IN LONDON. With 17 Plates and 15 Illustrations in the Text, by BRYAN HOOK, AD MCCORMICK, and from Photographs from Nature, by RB LODGE.
Página 425 - GAMONIA : or, the Art of Preserving Game ; and an Improved Method of making Plantations and Covers, explained and illustrated by Lawrence Rawstorne, Esq. With 15 Coloured Plates by T.
Página 400 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Página 324 - Stevenson (RL). THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. Selected and Edited, with Notes and Introductions, by SIDNEY COLVIN. Sixth and Cheaper Edition. Crown Bvo. its. LIBRARY EDITION. Demy Svo. 2 vols. 251. net. A Colonial Edition is also published. VAILIMA LETTERS. With an Etched Portrait by WILLIAM STRANG.
Página 30 - Andre's Journal; an authentic Record of the Movements and Engagements of the British Army in America from June 1777 to November 1778, as recorded from day to day, by Major John Andre.
Página 162 - An Endeavour towards the Teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris. Being an account of the Work and Aims of the Guild of Handicraft. By CR ASHBEE. 250 copies. This will be the first book in the new Essex House type. The Psalms of David, according to the text of the Anglican PrayerBook. Erasmus
Página 280 - THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM of Nantucket. Comprising the Details of a Mutiny and atrocious Butchery on board the American Brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the Month of June, 1827.
Página 324 - Stevenson. THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. Selected and Edited, with Notes and Introductions, by SIDNEY COLVIN. Sixth and Cheaper Edition. Crown Bvo. izs. LIBRARY EDITION. Demyboo. zvols. 3st.net. ' Irresistible in their raciness, their variety, their animation ... of extraordinary fascination. A delightful inheritance, the truest record of a "richly compounded spirit...

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