Cervantes - The Adventures of DON QUIXOTE - London, 1820 - 4 vols. illustrated

The ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS 1954 Vol 2 and 1956 Vol 1 Vol 2 Set of 3 Books. Each book stamped: "Malcolm Forbes Esqu." see picture attached. Probably from the estate of the Library of...

Collodi, Carlo. The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Marionette. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1927. Illustrated by Frederick Richardson. First edition thus. Octa...

This is an original 1911 edition of the Illustrated London News Coronation Record celebrating the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary. This Royal Memorabilia magazine publica...

London Stereotype Edition. Complete 16 vol. edition 1824. Black and gilt embossed leatherbound with marbled end papers and edges. The set comprised of 10 volumes with Humes on spine...

AUTHOR: BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. TITLE: The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Bronte. PUBLISHER: London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1922. DESCRIPT...

"The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan", 12mo., complete in 3 purple full polished calf bound volumes, with gilt page ends and blue marbled endpapers, 1st edition. Written by James...

This is a set of 4 antique botany books, the Flowers of Modern Voyages by William Adams. An English language botany record with maps, dating to th...

A rare leatherbound three volume book set titled “Microcosm of London or London in Miniature” published by Rudolph Ackerman (1764 - 1834), illustrated with 104 aquatint plates after ...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Julie Lane. Hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Equity Publishing 1979. Nicholas the orphan becomes Nicholas the woodcarver, whose job ...

Antique print titled 'Interior of the late Theatre Royal Drury Lane (..)'. Old print of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as it was between 1794 and 1809 showing the tiers of boxes stage left and the chandelier-lit auditorium with a small party of visitors standing in one of the boxes, as if being shown around. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". For most of that time, it was one of a handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" drama in London (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the English Restoration. Initially known as "Theatre Royal in Bridges Street", the theatre's proprietors hired prominent actors who performed at the theatre on a regular basis, including Nell Gwyn...