{"title":"New Acquisitions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDiscover our latest arrivals, a curated selection of newly acquired rare, collectible and distinctive books and sets.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-dardanelles-colour-sketches-from-gallipoli","title":"The Dardanelles: Colour Sketches from Gallipoli","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten and drawn by Norman Wilkinson, R.I., who served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve through the Gallipoli campaign and recorded what he witnessed in watercolour on the spot. All thirty Full-Page Plates in Colour, are present and are reproductions from Water-Colour Drawings made on the spot. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in the publisher's original navy-blue cloth, the front board carrying a striking gilt-and-blind illustration of a British warship firing on a Turkish minelayer off an Aegean island. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"2\"\u003ethe front pastedown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"36\"\u003ecarries a printed ownership label,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-newtext-seq=\"71\"\u003e\"Lieut. D. C. 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The text itself, sampled at \"Chapter VI: Submarines,\" discusses the loss of HMS\u003cem\u003eAboukir\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003eHogue\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003eCressy\u003c\/em\u003eand the early use of submarines in the campaign; pages are clean and bright with only light, even age-toning typical of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003ea solid, well-presented copy. The gilt to the boards remains bright and fully legible, with light surface scuffing and faint marking to the cloth, and some fraying and minor loss to the cloth at the head of the spine. Corners lightly bumped. The leaf bearing the ownership label shows consistent with age, with the rest of the text block unaffected. No other inscriptions, stamps, or repairs noted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA genuinely scarce title, sought after specifically for its subject, a firsthand artist's record of Gallipoli, and bolstered here by an authentic naval ownership provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947454414900,"sku":null,"price":220.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/9DC5A73D-A7B6-4476-A460-C7A3BEE0A320_1_201_a.jpg?v=1782481498"},{"product_id":"ian-fleming-dr-no-uk-1st-edition-2nd-impression","title":"Ian Fleming - Dr No - UK 1st Edition \/ 2nd Impression","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in black cloth boards with silver titling to the spine and the iconic red-brown silhouette of a dancing girl printed to the front board. The title page verso confirms the printing history precisely: \"First published March 1958 \/ Second Impression May 1958,\" True first-impression copies were issued in plain, undecorated black boards without the silhouette; the appearance of the dancing-girl design on the boards themselves is the reliable identifier of the second impression onward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoused in the original Jonathan Cape dust jacket, carrying the same silhouette artwork to the front panel against a textured brown ground, with \"Dr. No\" in bold hand-lettering and the author's name in cream to the upper edges. The rear panel carries Cape's promotional copy for the preceding title,\u003cem\u003eFrom Russia, with Love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA contemporary ownership signature appears to the front free endpaper, accompanied by a pencilled bookseller's notation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: the jacket shows genuine handling consistent with age with some chipping and fraying to the spine ends and corner tips, overall toning, and some foxing concentrated on the rear panel. The boards remain sound, with the silhouette design and spine titling still clear and legible, light rubbing at the extremities. Internally, scattered foxing is present throughout the text block and endpapers, consistent with age; the text itself is complete and the binding tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr No\u003c\/em\u003eis the sixth of Fleming's James Bond novels and, notably, the first to be adapted for the screen, launching the Bond film series in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47947455594548,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/FA717DDD-54AF-4EED-B41B-0592EC1117BF_1_201_a.jpg?v=1782481768"},{"product_id":"john-keill-an-introduction-to-the-true-astronomy-dublin-1802","title":"John Keill, An Introduction to the True Astronomy, Dublin (1802)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeventh edition of John Keill's \u003cem\u003eAn Introduction to the True Astronomy, or Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e, printed in Dublin by William Porter, 1802. Keill, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, was among the first to lecture on Newtonian natural philosophy there, and this work — first published in 1721 as an English rendering of his 1718 Latin lectures — became a standard astronomy textbook through the eighteenth century, running to numerous editions. Dedicated to James, Duke of Chandos; illustrated throughout with engraved diagrams, including the geometric\/spherical-astronomy figures at Plate XVIII shown here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in contemporary full calf, with a gilt-ruled spine in compartments and a red morocco label lettered \"Astronomical Lectures.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: spine worn at the extremities with cracking to the leather at the joints, boards rubbed. Title page and preliminary leaves show old dampstaining, with further foxing and toning through the text; plates present and complete as called for. Binding holding but tender at the front joint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48033269481524,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/E486EA66-CA55-4C3B-BF72-B211EA6BCC6E_1_105_c.jpg?v=1784024840"},{"product_id":"charles-huttons-a-mathematical-and-philosophical-dictionary-1795-1796","title":"Charles Hutton's - A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (1795 \u0026 1796)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Charles Hutton's A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, London, printed for J. Johnson and G.G. \u0026amp;amp; J. Robinson (Volume I: 1796; Volume II: 1795). Hutton, professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, compiled this landmark two volume reference covering mathematics, astronomy, and both natural and experimental philosophy, together with biographical memoirs of the leading mathematicians and natural philosophers of the age. It was the first comprehensive scientific dictionary in English since John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 to 1710, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes it as revealing \"a deep and extensive knowledge of British and continental works\" that is \"still used by historians as a valuable source,\" with its engineering entries considered particularly strong. The work is also listed in Roberts and Trent's Bibliotheca Mechanica, the standard bibliography of mechanical and technological literature, and contains the first publication of Thomas Pellett's 1727 catalogue of Newton's papers, a document still consulted by Newton scholars today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with all 37 engraved plates present, ranging from mathematical instruments and mechanics to a compiled plate of early hot air balloon ascents, including the Montgolfier, Charles and Robert, Versailles, and Blanchard flights, gathered onto a single sheet within a decade of the first manned flights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels lettered \"Hutton's Mat. \u0026amp;amp; Phi. Dictionary\" and green volume labels. 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Text and plates present as issued, with foxing throughout, heaviest to the endpapers and margins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48033323024436,"sku":null,"price":1400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/1149319D-3CFA-4FB1-B9FF-375594A0A0AE_1_201_a.jpg?v=1784026001"},{"product_id":"coleridge-samuel-taylor-the-poetical-and-dramatic-works-of-s-t-coleridge","title":"COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor - The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon : William Pickering, 1847. Aldine Edition of the British Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary full calf, boards bordered in gilt double fillets with a floral fleuron tool to each corner, marbled edges to the text block and matching marbled endpapers, spines gilt in compartments with fleur-de-lis and floral tools, red morocco lettering-pieces with gilt-lettered \"COLERIDGE'S POETICAL WORKS\" and volume number; each volume with an engraved half-title and printed title page bearing the Aldine anchor-and-dolphin device.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA complete, matching three-volume set of Pickering's well-regarded \"Aldine Edition\" printing of Coleridge's collected poetry and drama, gathering \u003cem\u003eThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChristabel\u003c\/em\u003e, and the bulk of his lyric and dramatic verse in the elegant small-format collected edition for which the Pickering Aldine Poets series was noted. Handsomely bound to style throughout in full calf with marbled edges and endpapers, this set has the attractive, uniform presentation that makes the Aldine Poets a perennial favourite for display, while remaining a genuinely readable text of one of the essential Romantic poets. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoards square, gilt tooling to the borders and spines bright and crisp throughout, marbling attractive to edges and endpapers; occasional light foxing to the preliminary leaves, text otherwise clean. Volume III with a chip and loss to the leather at the head of the spine as illustrated, exposing the spine strip beneath; Volumes I and II with lesser wear and minor lifting at the head of the spine. A very good, complete set overall, the noted spine damage confined to volume II \u0026amp; III.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48132388159540,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/E74446C6-7DF4-4532-941B-D261F961CF21_1_201_a.jpg?v=1786449862"},{"product_id":"r-f-kuang-the-poppy-war-signed-uk-first-edition-2018","title":"R.F. Kuang - The Poppy War - Signed UK First Edition (2018)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR.F. Kuang \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Poppy War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poppy War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis R.F. 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With Kuang's subsequent novels, \u003cem\u003eBabel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYellowface,\u003c\/em\u003e reaching the top of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists, her debut has attracted growing collector interest and this first edition has become a sought-after title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAs shown in the photographs, the book is as new, still sealed in the publisher's original shrink wrap. The dust jacket is pristine, retaining full colour, gloss, and crispness with no fading or wear. The binding is tight and square. The book has not been read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe title page carries the author's signature in pen, signed directly to the page, not a bookplate or tip-in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis is the UK first edition, first printing (Harper Voyager, 2018), as confirmed by the copyright page, which states \"First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018\" with the numeral \"1\" in the number line. It is the true first appearance of the novel in any format and the primary edition for collectors of Kuang's work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48227943088180,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/F5EC8FF5-E3F0-4E3D-B535-9367E3678F0A_1_105_c.jpg?v=1787544269"},{"product_id":"christie-agatha-halloween-party-uk-first-edition-1969","title":"Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party - UK First Edition (1969)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHRISTIE, Agatha\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHallowe'en Party\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLondon : Collins, The Crime Club, 1969. First edition (preceding the Dodd, Mead U.S. edition of the same year).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (21 x 14cm) original red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the Crime Club \"man with pistol\" device gilt-stamped at the foot; in the original pictorial dust jacket; pp. 255; dedicated by Christie \"To P. 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Dust jacket unclipped, with a small later bookseller's label to the front flap; some bends and creases to the covers as illustrated, a 1.5-inch closed tear (held, not detached), and foxing to the interior of the jacket, only mildly visible from the exterior. Priced accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA good, honest copy of a scarcer later Poirot title in its correct first-edition jacket. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48228996808756,"sku":null,"price":190.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/20F63D05-F49C-4651-8813-3A5ED0D3D41A_1_105_c.jpg?v=1787544689"},{"product_id":"ivan-cankar-the-bailiff-yerney-scarce-true-uk-first-edition-1930","title":"Ivan Cankar - The Bailiff Yerney - SCARCE TRUE UK first edition (1930)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCANKAR, Ivan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Bailiff Yerney and His Rights\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLondon : John Rodker, 1930.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in English.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOctavo, original cream cloth boards lettered in red to the spine and front board; in the original pictorial dust jacket, printed in black and red with a design incorporating the tag \"A Slovene Tolstoi\" to head and foot; translated from the Slovene by Sidonie Yeras and H. 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This Rodker edition, issued with Janko Lavrin's introductory essay on Cankar's life and place in Slavic letters, appears to be the first appearance of the novella in English and was published by John Rodker, the avant-garde poet-publisher better known for his editions of Joyce, Pound, and Eliot under the Ovid Press imprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSurviving copies of this small-press first  with original jackets are scarce. The jacket cover evidently drawn and lettered specifically for the book rather than pulled from a house style, was never likely to have been printed in great quantity or to have survived the decades since in any number. It is the single most distinctive and fragile element of the book, and the reason a complete jacketed copy commands real interest beyond the text alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoards with some discolouration, apparently from a combination of fading and light foxing; text block otherwise clean and tight, with foxing confined to the inside endpapers and the top edge. First penicilled name of previous owner on free front endpaper. Dust jacket discoloured and toned at the edges of the pictorial panel, with two small holes to the spine panel as illustrated. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA good, complete copy of a scarce small-press first English edition of an important work of Central European modernism, honestly described and priced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48228997267508,"sku":null,"price":165.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/E1598064-899F-48D8-BA68-338D10EFE146_1_105_c.jpg?v=1787544840"},{"product_id":"fitzgerald-edward-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam-illustrated-first-edition-1930","title":"FITZGERALD, Edward - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - Illustrated First Edition (1930)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFITZGERALD, Edward (translator); POGÁNY, Willy (illustrator)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, with Illustrations by Willy Pogány.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLondon: George G. 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Internally the book is close to fine: no foxing, staining, or discolouration to the text block, and all 12 colour plates and the gilt and black decorative work throughout remain bright. Some light marking to the top edge of the text block, again consistent with dust from storage. 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Sixth edition. With illustrations drawn by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOctavo, bound in vellum, gilt borders to front and rear boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Fourteen plates present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRuskin's influential study of Gothic architecture, first published in 1849 and setting out the seven guiding principles, or \"lamps,\" he held architecture should be built on: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience. 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Walter, 1787-8. First edition in English, translated from the second edition of the German original by Captain C. Craufurd, Queen's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, and Captain R. Craufurd, 104th Regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA scarce first English edition of an eyewitness Prussian account of the Seven Years' War, complete save for a single plate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo volumes. Pp. lvi + 288 + xvi + 414 + [2] (translators' advertisement, verso blank). Thirteen of fourteen folding plates present, including maps and plans, four with hand coloured highlights, lacking plate IV in volume II. Lists of subscribers present. Tall demy octavo. Early calf, sympathetically rebacked with later spines ruled in gilt around raised bands, gilt lettered maroon and green title and volume labels to spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe first English translation of Tielke's account of the Seven Years' War, drawn from his own service in the Prussian army, including the shelling of Küstrin in 1758, where he was present, and the Battle of Torgau in 1760, where he was wounded. Beyond the narrative of campaigns between the Prussian, Austrian, and Russian forces, the work includes a treatise on several branches of contemporary military art, illustrated throughout with the original folding maps and plans. Tielke's writings on fortification and tactics were influential enough to warrant this English translation within a few years of the German original, undertaken by two serving British officers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoards with edges slightly rubbed and fore-corners lightly worn. Spines sympathetically rebacked at some point after publication, ruled in gilt around raised bands with gilt lettered maroon and green title and volume labels, the rebacking consistent throughout both volumes. Endpapers replaced. Front pastedowns carry the bookplate of David Levine, and an early inked ownership inscription appears at the head of both title pages. Volume II shows a small damp stain to the top edge of a few leaves, a smaller ink stain to the fore edge of a few leaves, and a five centimetre closed marginal tear to the bottom fore edge of pages 237 and 238, not affecting text. Light foxing throughout, generally minor. Lacking plate IV in volume II, all other plates present and complete, thirteen of the original fourteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA sound, complete set save for one plate, in an attractive contemporary calf binding with sympathetic later rebacking, carrying a traceable Sydney provenance through the David Levine bookplate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48264894185524,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/BEAF0ECF-596B-4D7E-B3F5-2F116A7AB9F7_1_201_a.jpg?v=1788161640"},{"product_id":"dickens-charles-the-battle-of-life-a-love-story-first-edition-1846","title":"DICKENS, Charles - The Battle of Life: A Love Story - First Edition (1846)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Bradbury \u0026amp; Evans, 1846. First edition, fourth issue (Eckel, p. 122; Smith II, 8). [12], 175, [6] pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and vignette title after Daniel Maclise, and wood-engravings by Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, and John Leech. Small 8vo, 16.5 × 11 cm. Later full green morocco by Morrell, boards ruled and decorated in gilt, raised bands with richly gilt spine compartments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Henry Lloyd Gibbs to front pastedown; ownership inscription “H. L. Gibbs” to preliminary blank. The vignette title is in the fourth issue, with “A Love Story” incorporated into a scroll supported by a cupid and without the publisher’s imprint beneath. Binding firm and attractive; contents generally clean, with a small patch of foxing to the verso of the vignette title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Battle of Life is the fourth of Dickens's five celebrated Christmas Books, following A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), and The Cricket on the Hearth (1845). 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Gibbs (1861–1928) was a British banker and collector, the son of Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and a member of the prominent Gibbs merchant family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ink \u0026 Signature Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50521582207028,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3648\/4916\/files\/E4E21CB4-73C3-437E-B507-E78C46460883_1_105_c.jpg?v=1790076830"},{"product_id":"obrien-william-smith-principles-of-government-first-edition-1856","title":"O'BRIEN, William Smith - Principles of Government - First Edition (1856)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDublin: James Duffy, 7 Wellington Quay, 1856. First edition. Two volumes. Vol. I: preliminaries, viii, 388 pp., with terminal blanks; Vol. II: preliminary leaves, 380 pp., with terminal blanks. 8vo, 22 × 14.5 cm. Contemporary green half calf over marbled paper boards, spines ruled and decorated in gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces, volume numbers gilt, plain edges. Armorial bookplate of James Behan Murtagh to the front pastedown of each volume, bearing an Irish-language motto. Both volumes subsequently from a Capuchin Franciscan library, with circular O.F.M. Cap. stamps to the pastedowns, title pages and terminal leaves, and an additional stamp to the upper board of volume II. Bindings rubbed and scuffed, with wear at the spine ends and corners; hinges weakened but boards holding. Foxing is most noticeable to the preliminary and terminal leaves, extending approximately 20–30 leaves into each end, with the central text generally substantially cleaner. Complete in two volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinciples of Government; or, Meditations in Exile is William Smith O’Brien’s principal work of political thought. O’Brien, a leading figure of the Young Ireland movement and leader of the failed 1848 rising, was convicted of high treason and transported to Van Diemen’s Land. The greater part of the work was written during his Tasmanian exile between 1850 and 1854 and completed after his conditional pardon, before publication in 1856.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the two volumes O’Brien considers the structure and limits of government, legislative and executive power, education, religious instruction, finance, justice, military and naval administration, foreign affairs, trade and colonial government. 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