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Mid-eighteenth century bound collection of 'Graveyard' poems including elegies and meditations such as the earliest publication by John Scott of Amwell (the first notable Quaker poet) and works by Tho...
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Privately printed collection of poems published after the death of its American writer Maria Gross Horwitz by her ex-patriate daughter Florence Horwitz; one institutional copy only located at Yale. No...
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[8] pp 79 [1] Collated and complete Restoration play from the collection of the financier Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. Nineteenth century half calf over reddish marbled boards, rubbed to corners, with fad...
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viii pp[1] pp4-354 First edition, a presentation copy from 1798, with the foldout map and frontispiece of Elgin Cathedral present. Contemporary tree calf with a red morocco spine label and some slight...
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xxiv, pp 354, [16] Life of the Flemish Saint Godelieve, who was strangled by servants in 1070 in a dispute over whether she should become a nun or be married. Modern half dark calf over marbled boards...
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[8] pp 500 [6] adverts. Fifth edition of Behn's works, including Oronooko. The book is bound in contemporary panelled calf with red speckled edges, rebacked most attractively with raised bands and a t...
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pp 80. No 184 of 200 copies with the prospectus laid in. Brown buckram, boards sunned in irregular patterns; book label of Rainforth Armitage Walker (an expert on Aubrey Beardsley) to the front pasted...
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[frontis] pp 108 Almost certainly spurious account of the 'shipwreck and sufferings' of Mrs Eliza Bradley, supposedly autobiographical, but borrowed in large part from Captain James Riley's 1816 accou...
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![Basil [with] Eugene Grandet [with] Balthazar](/img/products/basilwitheugene7142720-thumb.jpg) |
The first one-volume edition of Wilkie Collins's 'sensational' second novel bound with two very scarce first English translations of Balzac's novels. Half red morocco over marbled boards, all edges ma...
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[47 Double-page Maps] (Directions) pp 17 [1] Cary's 1787 English Atlas in a desirable contemporary wallet-style binding intended for use by Stage Coach Drivers. The binding is soft sheep over thick c...
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Eleven Parts of this Catalogue of the Holdings of the Yorkshire Herbarium - missing Part VII. The Catalogue is undated but appears to date from the turn of the twentieth century. The eleven sections a...
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44x35cm Original platinum print picturing a stretch of the River Thames in central London, Cleopatra's Needle appearing right field, Blackfriars Bridge in the middle distance and the smokestacks of th...
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![Day by Day [Embroidered Binding]](/img/products/daybydayembroid281997330-thumb.jpg) |
Rather lovely twentieth century embroidered binding which fits snuggly over the publisher's boards. The embroidery was likely executed by one or other of 'From Amy to: Norah with Love. March 2nd. 1941...
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Scarce seventeenth century Oxford student edition of Boethius's influential study of free will written while in prison awaiting execution. Tiny 16mo format (9.5x7cm) bound in recent full sheep binding...
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A special 80 page supplement celebrating the opening of the Design Centre. Advert clipped from page 3/4. Two staples in front cover. An interesting period feel to the publication which comes from the ...
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![Electra: A Tragedy [Programme for English premier]](/img/products/electraatragedy74810066-thumb.jpg) |
pp [4] Programme for the British premiere of Arthur Symons' translation of Electra, starring Mrs Patrick Campbell who is pictured alongside 'Miss Stella Patrick Campbell' in half tone photographs tipp...
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[4] 33 engraved plates. The Atlas volume of Pouillet's account of physics and meteorology complete with the important fold-out Plate 33 backed onto linen: 'Configuration de L'Equateur Magnetique' from...
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[8] [1] pp 2-126 (14 Full Page Photographic Plates) A lithographic reprint of the account first published in 1900 of the excavations at Enkomi, Curium and Amathus. The book is handsomely bound in red ...
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Diary issued to professional footballers complete with The Laws of the Game, fixture lists, league positions for the 1959-60 season and football field diagrams on the endpapers. Bound in brown rexine ...
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THE RANGE AND VIBRANT QUALITY OF THE RESTORED DRAMA OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY is fully shown by this extensive collection from the unsentimental comedy of Etherege, via Vanbrugh and his Provok'd Wife...
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![Four New Plays, viz The Surprisal, Committee [etc]](/img/products/fournewplaysviz151778290-thumb.jpg) |
[pp] 12, 242 [2] Howard's first plays including his collaboration with his brother in law John Dryden in The Indian Queen and his inflammatory preface on dramatic verse. The book is bound in half brow...
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[2] iv, [1] errata, pp 7-132 An entirely unrecorded Coventry imprint from 1818. Bound in contemporary sheep the anonymous author whose introduction concludes with a cryptic allusion to his location: '...
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![Franklin's Way to Wealth [with 3 other titles]](/img/products/franklinswaytow351276252-thumb.jpg) |
[4 imprints] Small volume of children's books including an 1805 Darton edition of Franklin and an apparently unrecorded Darlington edition of William Law's Call to a Devout Life. Bound in half black r...
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![Hotel Cecil & the Thames Embankment [photograph]](/img/products/hotelceciltheth66153224-thumb.jpg) |
44x35cm Original platinum print picturing the Hotel Cecil between the Strand and the embankment of the River Thames in central London with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. A little oxidation around the edg...
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![Instructio pro superioribus ad augendum [...]](/img/products/instructioprosu73443132-thumb.jpg) |
A8-D4 Spiritual guidance from the man regarded as the second founder of the Jesuits. Paper wrappers, probably nineteenth century, slight browning to text and scattered staining, a little dog-earring t...
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Early Italian editions of Gustave Doré's classic illustrated version of the Divine Comedy. The Inferno is found in its original folio format in a reprint from 1868 which is bound in the publisher's s...
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![La Ricreatione del Savio [Sir Henry Blount's Copy]](/img/products/laricreationede393813172-thumb.jpg) |
Owned and annotated by the seventeenth century English writer Sir Henry Blount, a work of seventeenth century Jesuitica. Limp vellum with handwritten titles on the spine; vellum hinges are stiff; ...
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![Les Cris de Paris [Painted Binding]](/img/products/lescrisdeparisp18126048-thumb.jpg) |
Lightly extra-illustrated edition with bespoke binding, half pigskin over marbled boards with penned decoration by or on behalf of the French owner of the bookplate on the front pastedown, Maurice Nal...
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61 separate imprints regarding lichen bound together, presumably by their author and preceded by a manuscript list of contents and a further 'List of other Lichenological Contributions. (no copies rec...
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An aristocratic Irish contributor's copy of this scarce journal seeking to identify the British with the lost tribes of Israel. The four volumes, II-V, contain 60 issues of the journal which were b...
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Scrumptious two volume first edition in very nearly fine condition. Publisher's textured paper covered boards, almost without fading, just a few pushes to corners. Brown paper covered endpapers with p...
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[pp] 16. Order of service for the Royal Wedding of 1947 (a union shortly to be 70 years old on November 20th) which would have been issued to someone who attended the event at Westminster Abbey. Print...
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Second edition from 1907 of this finely produced collection of collotype and chromozylograph images of Japanese art. An excellent copy in decorative cloth covered boards with string ties. The book is ...
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(2.5x4cm) [pp] 48. Miniature almanac bound in midnight blue printed wrappers, illustrated throughout with minute engravings of Canton, Boston etc; all edges gilt. Very good condition. A charming and s...
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A Miniature Chained Bible and wooden Lectern: the miniature bible (4.5x3cm) is attached by chain to the wooden lectern and runs to 876 pages, printed on the 'finest India paper', all edges red. Half t...
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[4 volumes] An attractive set of Stephen's commentaries which has been recently rebound in tan coloured cloth with paper spine labels. The text is clean and complete, with untrimmed edges to the text ...
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Second edition in pictorial cloth with gilt decoration and brown coated end papers. An A - Z of Victorian nursery rhymes elaborately illustrated with line drawings reminiscent of Tenniel, and humorous...
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Golden Cockerel Press: number 521/ 550 copies of this highly successful combination of William Russell Flint's illustrative skills with Robert Herrick's lush seventeenth century eroticism. Published b...
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![Orbis Sensualium Pictus [Richard Sheridan's Copy]](/img/products/orbissensualium244488475-thumb.jpg) |
Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's copy, likely inherited from his father the Irish educationalist and dictionary-writer, Thomas Sheridan. Bound in recent speckled calf over the original paste...
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Our Old Home £150
viii, pp 312 The 1864 Smith Elder edition of Our Old Home with a fine albumen photographic frontispiece of the author and his facsimile signature below, with tissue guard. The book is bound in very go...
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'Whitty Jests, Merry Tales, Pleasant Joques', all 583 of them, in this very uncommon eighteenth century jest book. Bound in twentieth century sheepskin with most of the nineteenth century spine of...
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pp [24] 306 [40] First Streater edition of Nicholas Culpeper’s translation and reworking of the Royal College of Physicians' Pharmacopoia Londinensis. Soundly, if unbeautifully, bound in half ninete...
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[6] pp 414 [2] Lacking 2 leaves: A1 (blank) and U8. Vellum bound seventeenth century edition of Donne's poems with attractive provenance to the ruralist writer H J Massingham and before him the founde...
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![Rain-Charm for the Duchy by Ted Hughes [Ltd ed]](/img/products/raincharmforthe491322297-thumb.jpg) |
[4] One of a 'handful' of copies commissioned by the 'Westcountry Rivers Trust to mark the grand opening of Rain-Charm House by His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester'. 'Hand-set and printed' by ...
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[4] pp 31 [1] Stab-sewn uncommon architectural pamphlet in near fine condition in original blue paper wrappers. The pages are untrimmed with a few foxing spots. The pamphlet presents the findings of '...
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(51x38cm) Large broadside to mark the opening of London Bridge, giving details of the royal procession, banquet and the spectacular entertainments of 1st August, 1831. The woodcut is mounted on Japan ...
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pp 226 [6] adverts. Fine copy owned by the author's brother with the ownership inscription of 'Frederic R Eaton' (Vicar of Swardeston, Norfolk) on the first yellow endpaper. Immaculate brown embossed ...
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![Statutes of the Garter [with] Garter Box](/img/products/statutesofthega178705996-thumb.jpg) |
Order of the Garter Statutes and blue velvet-covered presentation box surmounted by the arms of the Order, a cross of St. George surrounded by a garter with the motto 'Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense'. Thes...
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xvi, pp304 Cambridge calendar updated with university business until March 1812, the date of the advertisement. Modern buckram binding with green morocco spine label; large fold out plate of universit...
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[2] 4;iv; pp 78;78 pages [1] colophon. Independent Burma's first democratic constitution printed in Rangoon in 1947, bound in blue printed wrappers with a parallel transliterated text in Burmese and E...
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Andrew Carnegie's copy, 1 of 30 printed, with the bookplate on the front pastedown of the industrialist bearing his motto 'Let there be light'. Half brown morocco over marbled boards with light rubbin...
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A two volume documentary account of the court and times of James I compiled by Robert Folkestone Williams from sources discovered by Thomas Birch nearly a century earlier. The books are bound in attra...
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pp 264 Number 364 of of this fine, limited edition in tree calf; a crisp copy in the card slipcase which has been repaired; signed by Printer, Illustrator and Editor. Bookplate of Vilas Victor Johnson...
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WORLD’S FIRST COMPUTER DESIGNED TO PLAY A GAME, revealed to the British public at the Festival of Britain in 1951. Pale blue printed wrappers slight fading to edges, a near fine copy. The Ferran...
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[lithographic frontispiece] [2] pp 3-69 [lacking pp 5-8] A presentation copy of this humorous, illustrated volume tentatively ascribed to 1853 from evidence in the text. Ackermann's unknown editor has...
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3 volumes of engraved music bound in contemporary half black morocco with gilt lines and decorative spines. Internally fresh in sound bindings; the volume numbers and price (8/6) have been added to th...
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![The Heads of the Poets [an Archive]](/img/products/theheadsofthepo81584482-thumb.jpg) |
Manuscript and typescript William Blake collection compiled by the scholar and university librarian (Queen's University, Belfast and Liverpool University) Kenneth Povey, and his Cambridge friend Basil...
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pp 18 [manuscript] pp 39-1562, lacking preliminaries, title page, pp1-38, pp355-6, pp1563-1630 and index. Incomplete 1636 third edition of Gerard's Herball which contains the vast bulk of Thomas Johns...
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Bohn's 1851 piracy in the scarce publisher's decorative, printed paper covered boards. Priced at a shilling the binding is faded and bumped to corners, the spine has been relaid with just the orig...
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[Frontispiece Portrait] [4] pp pp 158 [2]The second edition of a collection of Thomas Dibdin's poetry with a verse squib in his hand tipped in. The half sheet of paper has been tipped onto the first ...
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![The Schole Master [with] Practical Geometry](/img/products/thescholemaster271170520-thumb.jpg) |
Third edition of the most important Tudor teaching guide, written by Elizabeth I's tutor, and bound with Practical Geometry by Charles I's 'Chief engineer of all castles, forts, and fortifications wit...
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Beautifully unsophisticated early edition of a masterpiece of English verse, with critical eighteenth century annotation by the Norfolk antiquary, Anthony Norris. Bound in contemporary sheepskin, f...
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'Special' vellum-bound copy inscribed on the half title 'William Stanford with the Editors best wishes'. Handsomely 'Bound by Morley Oxford' in full vellum over bevel-edged boards with two red morocco...
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pp 12 Early eighteenth century study of the vacuum published with the approval of Ezechiel Gallatin at the University of Geneva. Original marbled wrappers, stained affecting most leaves to some extent...
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![Thomas's Burlesque Drama [6 titles]](/img/products/thomassburlesqu17277060-thumb.jpg) |
(The Beggar's Opera, Tom Thumb, The Tailors, Midas, Bombastes Furioso, The Mayor of Garratt) Six plays issued together as Thomas's Burlesque Drama by the London publisher Joseph Thomas in 1837. Bound ...
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pp1-15; pp1-38; pp1-12. The far-reaching Treaty of Vienna of 1725 by which the Austrian empire relinquished all claims to the Spanish throne - three texts printed in Latin and English in parallel. Sta...
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![Two Letters [bound in original wrappers]](/img/products/twolettersbound276608880-thumb.jpg) |
[4] pp 188 In original blue-green wrapper and stab-sewn as issued, complete with half-title. The wrappers are bright and without fading, nicked and chipped to edges; the text is partly unopened and th...
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Under-Currents £35
pp 377 [3] Uncommon novel by the Irish romantic novelist, Margaret Hungerford. Rubbed and worn boards, blind W H Smith stamp to first blank. ...
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![[The Athelhampton Copy of] A Survey of Dorsetshire](/img/products/theathelhampton714975920-thumb.jpg) |
Extra-illustrated and coloured by the owner of Athelhampton House in Dorset (probably Alfred De la Fontaine), one of the most beautiful manor houses in England. Bound in old panelled calf, rebacked in...
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