Terms and Conditions

Julian Wilson Rare Books Limited (“We”/”Our”/”Us”), is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 16191126. Our registered office is at 1st Floor, 8 Bridle Close, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2JW.

Our trading address is Flat 4 Lakeview Court, 418 Wimbledon Park Road, London SW19 6PP. We operate the website www.wilsonrarebooks.com

Purchase of Books

These terms and conditions (“Terms”) set out all the terms of agreement other than price between you as buyer and us as seller, in relation to the sale and purchase of goods (“Item” or “Items”) identified in the invoice. We confirm that we either own the Items or are authorised to sell it on behalf of the owner.

These Terms cover sales through our website by telephone orders or in person.

These Terms will apply to any Contract between us for the sale of Items to you (“Contract”). Please read these Terms carefully and make sure that you understand them, before purchasing any Items from us. Please note that by purchasing any of our Items, you agree to be bound by these Terms and the other documents expressly referred to in them.

We amend these Terms from time to time Every time you wish to purchase Items, please check these Terms as available on our site, to ensure you understand the Terms which will apply at that time as these Terms will apply to the Contract between you and us. The current Terms in force will be available on our site.

Authenticity, Descriptions and Availability

You agree to purchase all Items on the basis of their description on our website or catalogues or as otherwise provided to you.

All bound books and manuscripts are collated, and we note any defects in our published descriptions.

Certain words used in the catalogue description have special meanings. The definitions of these words are as set out in John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors (Ninth edition. Oak Knoll Press, 2016), and Philip Gaskell’s New Introduction to Bibliography (Oak Knoll, 2007).

Dimensions of bound material are given height by width of the textblock; in the case of flat material such as letters, documents, drawings, photographs, broadsides and other ephemera, dimensions are given height by width of the sheet; dimensions for prints and maps are given by height by width of the platemark or, if this is not possible, of the printed image. Where indicated, original or contemporary colouring (i.e. colouring applied to the print or map at or about the time of publication) will be so described. All other colouring will be colouring that, in our opinion, has been added at a later date.

The images of the Items on our website, in our printed catalogues, or sent via electronic communication are for illustrative purposes only. Although we have made every effort to display the colours accurately, we cannot guarantee that either the printed catalogue nor your computer’s (or other electronic device such as tablet or mobile phone) display of the colours accurately reflect the colour of the Items. Your Items may vary slightly from those images.

All statements by us as to the authenticity, attribution, description, date, age, provenance, title or condition of the goods constitute our judgement and opinion only (save that this shall not operate so as to exclude any liability on our part for misrepresentation) and are not warranted by us. We do not accept any liability as a result of any changes in expert opinion which may take place subsequent to the sale.

While we will on request explain the condition of the goods at the time of the sale and provide any information in our possession about condition for which you may reasonably ask, we will not be responsible for any subsequent deterioration of the goods, however occasioned, after the sale.

All shipped items are expertly packed and fully insured.

As our stock is always changing, price and availability of Items is subject to change without notice and all Items are offered subject to prior sale. In order to obtain the most up to date information as to the price and availability of Items, please contact us by phone on: +44 (0)7500 105884.

Formation of a Contract Between You and Us

These Terms apply to the Contract to the exclusion of any other terms that you seek to impose or incorporate, or which are implied by trade, custom, practice or course of dealing.

After you place an order which may be in person, by telephone, email or via the online ordering process on our website, we will check our stock and endeavour to confirm acceptance of your order by email or other means (“Order Acceptance”). If we fail to confirm acceptance, but proceed with dispatching your order, Order Acceptance will be deemed to take place when your items are dispatched. The Contract between us will only be formed when we communicate the Order Acceptance or, if sooner, when we dispatch the Item(s) included in your order.

If we are unable to supply you with an Item, for example because that Item is not in stock or no longer available or for any other reason, we will inform you of this by e-mail, telephone or in person and we will not process your order. If you have already paid for the Items, we will refund you the full amount as soon as possible.

Return and Refund

If you are a Consumer (as defined by the Consumers Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations, 2013), you have a legal right to cancel a Contract under the Consumers Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations, 2013.

For Consumers, any item can be returned for a full refund for any reason if we are notified within 14 days. This means that during the relevant period if you change your mind or for any other reason you decide you do not want to keep an Item, you can notify us of your decision to cancel the Contract and receive a refund. Advice about your legal right to cancel the Contract under these regulations is available from your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.

Your legal right to cancel a Contract starts from the date of the Order Acceptance, which is when the Contract between us is formed. If the Items have already been delivered to you, you have a period of 7 (seven) working days in which you may cancel, starting from the day after the day you receive the Items. Working days means that Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays are not included in this period.

The following Terms apply to both Business Customers and Consumers.

You may return Items to us because they are faulty or mis-described.

If you return Items to us, refunds are limited to the original purchase price, including initial delivery costs, but do not cover the cost of returning the Item(s) to us. We will process the refund due to you as soon as the Items are received by us, and, in any case, within 30 calendar days of the day on which you gave us notice of cancellation.

Delivery

Postage or shipping will be at your expense and we will notify you of the exact amount. Deliveries to mainland UK will normally be sent by “Next Day Delivery” service. Overseas shipments will be sent by courier with full tracking details. Unless otherwise instructed, all shipments will be insured in transit at our expense.

Delivery will be completed when we deliver the Items to the address you gave us.

If no one is available at your address to take delivery, we will notify you that the Items have been returned to our premises, in which case, please contact us to rearrange delivery.

For manuscript and high-value individual Items current UK export licensing regulations apply.

If you order Items from our website for international delivery, your order may be subject to import duties and taxes which are applied when the delivery reaches that destination. Please note that we have no control over these charges and we cannot predict their amount.

You will be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order.

You must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the Items are destined. We will not be liable or responsible if you break any such law.

Title and Risk

The risk in the Items shall pass to you on completion of delivery.

Title to the Items shall not pass to you until us receiving payment in full (in cash or cleared funds) for the Items, in which case title to the Items shall pass at the time of payment of all such sums.

Until title to the Items has passed to you, you shall:

• store the Items separately from all other Items held by you so that they remain readily identifiable as our property;

• not remove, deface or obscure any identifying mark or packaging on or relating to the Items;

• maintain the Items in satisfactory condition and keep them insured against all risks for their full price from the date of delivery;

• notify us immediately if you become subject to actual or threatened administration, insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings or are otherwise unable to pay your debts as they fall due; and

• give us such information relating to the Items as we may require from time to time.

Price of Items

The prices of the Items will be as quoted on our website or catalogues from time to time or as otherwise communicated to you. We take all reasonable care to ensure that published prices of Items are correct at the time when the relevant information was entered onto the system.

However, it is always possible that, despite our reasonable efforts, some of the Items on our website or catalogue may be incorrectly priced. If we discover an error in the price of the Items you have ordered we will inform you of this error and we will give you the option of continuing to purchase the Item at the correct price or cancelling your order. We will not process your order until we have your instructions. If we are unable to contact you using the contact details you provided during the order process, we will treat the order as cancelled and notify you in writing. Please note that if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mispricing, we do not have to provide the Items to you at the incorrect (lower) price.

Prices for our Items may change from time to time, but changes will not affect any orders which we have confirmed with an Order Acceptance.