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50x50 A defiant poster for the journalist-turned-actor Barnard Gregory playing the roles of Hamlet and Shylock which he played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1846. Gregory's first West-end run had ...
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50x50 A defiant poster for the journalist-turned-actor Barnard Gregory in the roles of Hamlet and Shylock which he played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1846. Gregory's first West-end run had been ...
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Narrative history of Russia in its original printed wrappers by a London barrister. The wrappers are brittle and chipped to edges but an uncommon survival even thus. Internally there is browning but t...
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All About Baby £75
(11x15cm) Promotional publication for recording a baby's early months, pre-illustrated with tipped-in photographs, each with an advertising slogan printed below for 'Steedman's Soothing Powders'. Smal...
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[mezzotint frontispiece of Joseph Harris playing Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII] [2] [iii]-vi, pp 1-28 [1] 31-67, [10] William Johnstone White's study of the extra illustrated copy of Boydell's Shakesp...
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[8] pp 5-67 [1] William Romaine's contribution to the controversy about Jewish incorporation in Britain as full citizens. A disbound pamphlet with '7' in ink on the title page. Slight toning to title ...
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![An Appendix unto the Precedent Almanack [fragment]](/img/products/anappendixuntot86906365-thumb.jpg) |
[4] A single opening of the Appendix to the 1661 Olympia Domata Almanac, known in four institutional copies only. Old stab sewing holes, toning to paper stock; title page followed by a chronology and ...
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An original full page engraving of Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford Upon Avon taken from the Boydell Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. The image is 17 cm x 21 cm and is a fine impression worthy of Boy...
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Sumptuously bound report of the Scottish Academy in padded red morocco gilt with repeated thistle motif; cream watered silk endpapers, the text bulked out with additional blanks. Miniscule rubbing to ...
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pp 16 Parodic Yorkshire dialect almanac from 1877, yellow printed wrappers with advertisements, first leaf detached; stab sewn: 'Put together be Mungo shoddy, Esq. B.M.A.' - surely a pseudonym?...
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vi, [3] pp 4-250 [2] The second edition of Browning's Dramatis Personae, published in the same year as the first edition. The book is in its original handsome publisher's blue cloth with black printed...
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[6] pp 1-200 An inscribed First Edition of this account of England's relationship with the British colonies. Inscribed at the top of the title page is: 'W Millar Esq With the Author's Respects'. The b...
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Two eighteenth century works of vulcanology bringing together the Earl of Winchelsea's eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Etna in 1669 and Sir William Hamilton's Observations on Mount Vesuvi...
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pp 94 [frontispiece] An account of the unveiling of the statue to the American Founding Father and fourth Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall. Publisher's dark green cloth with title in ...
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[2 Vols] Near fine first editions in very good plus 1905 dustjackets - most uncommon thus. Fine olive green cloth bindings with black lettering, offsetting from jackets to endpapers, label of 'Louis d...
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![Gertrude Winn [and 5 other Novels]](/img/products/gertrudewinnand428800911-thumb.jpg) |
A collection from two talented generations of the same family comprising six novels by Nelsie Brook, later Mrs Ellen Ross, five of them inscribed to her son the early twentieth century Kenyan colonial...
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![Grace Darling and the Farne Islands [4 pamphlets]](/img/products/gracedarlingand36606591-thumb.jpg) |
Four Newcastle imprints including an illustrated retelling of the story of Grace Darling's heroism in an open boat off the Northumbrian coast. Half calf, rebacked, over textured paper covered boards. ...
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Hamlet (1778) £200
[3] pp 171-423 [1] Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, extracted from the edition of his works by Dr Johnson and George Steevens which appeared in 1778. The play is bound in eighteenth century marbled boa...
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50cmx75cm. Linen-backed folding London street map from 1875, hand-coloured and 'with the most recent improvements' and tramways. Folding tape measure which allows exact distances on foot between locat...
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![Les Georgiques de Virgile [with] Les Jardins](/img/products/lesgeorgiquesde162203085-thumb.jpg) |
Two volumes in one, translated and written by Jacques Delille. A worn tree calf binding with contemporary bookseller's label on the first blank: 'Du fonds De Librarie de Vernarel, Place du Gresse, A B...
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Uncommon novel by the pioneering editor of the Leeds Mercury who won the right for provincial newspaper journalists to enter the House of Commons press gallery. Decorative red cloth, a little darkened...
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![Merchant of Venice [Poster]](/img/products/merchantofvenic224689136-thumb.jpg) |
740x250mm Large format poster for the 'Last Night of the Celebrated Tragedian Mr Charles Dillon...' on Saturday October 17th, 1868, at The Tyne Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne in the role of Shylock. L...
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(15x23cm) Broadside verse in three stanzas and a chorus, first line: 'At the fancy ball, the other night...' The lyrics are attributed to Dave Reed of Bryant's blackface minstrels. Below title printed...
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pp 40 pp 4[advert] Rare astrological 'nativity' for Queen Victoria (COPAC locates Oxford, Manchester, Wellcome for this second edition - BL/ Wellcome only for the first edition). Brown paper wrappers,...
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14x21cm A provincial handbill for the performance by His Majesty's Servants at the Theatre Royal in Hull of Othello. Clipped corners, old folds and soiling. Othello was played by Mr Calvert whose perf...
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Poems £125
[2] adverts xii, pp 284, [4] adverts. Fine example of Victorian binding on this 'Third Edition' published in 1870, the same year as the first. Bound in dark green linen with a trellis covered in flowe...
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Fine 1820s vellum binding influenced by the style of Edwards of Halifax. Small octavo in full vellum, flat spine richly gilt with gilt lettering: 'Rogers's Poems. Westall's Illust.' Gilt spine decorat...
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![Posthumous Works of Mr John Ward [moveable cuts]](/img/products/posthumousworks2351544-thumb.jpg) |
viii, pp 493 [3]. 'Mathematician's Guide' with a fine fold-out plate of 13 'moveable cuts' or volvelles. Recently deaccessioned from the library of Ampleforth Abbey and bound in speckled calf, crackin...
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[12, 72 [lacking pp 67-70]A first edition of the libretto of one of the earliest English operas, first performed at Dorset Garden Theatre in London in February 1675 by the Duke's Company with music by...
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[16] pp 700 Daniel Stahl's compendium of Aristotelian philosophy attractively bound in contemporary calf with double blind fillet to the boards and horizontal double blind lines to the spine. Bound in...
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[1] pp 4 [1] Late seventeenth century 'Relacion de Servicios' of the colonial official Sancho Fernández de Angulo y Sandoval, governor of the province of Nueva Andalucia in present-day Venezuela, and...
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pp 152; 15 lithographed plates. Presentation volume of Madras engineering papers, published in India and inscribed by their editor and majority author, John Thomas Smith, in the year of publication to...
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A collection of ten religious pamphlets with a strongly East Anglian flavour, beginning with the 1880 and 1879 editions of the Report of the Norwich Diocesan Conference bound in blue wrappers and both...
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![St Patrick's Day [printed on green paper]](/img/products/stpatricksdaypr32071780-thumb.jpg) |
St Patrick's day, printed in Dublin on green tinted paper, with four other Sheridan plays bound in modern half red calf over marbled boards. School for Scandal and St Patrick's Day are uncommon Dublin...
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pp 28 Serle's play about marriage inscribed by the author on the title page to his wife 'Cecilia Serle from her affectionate husband T.J.S.' Bound in half red morocco over marble-paper covered boards;...
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xii, pp 180. Illustrated Regency period guide to Brighton from the town's first flourishing under the patronage of the future George IV. Original blue paper covered boards, worn and chipped with tan-c...
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[2] pp4, xii, pp638. Mary Ann Whitby's copy of one of Arthur Young's most popular works. Half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and lines to spine. Mary Ann Whitby's book plate to the first bla...
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![The Handy-Volume Shakespeare [13 vols]](/img/products/thehandyvolumes157185480-thumb.jpg) |
[13 Vols; 8x12cm) Bradbury and Agnew's 1870s pocket edition of Shakespeare in soft red morocco leather, all edges gilt, a little faded to spines but a very good set. The introduction to Volume I makes...
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An original wooden newspaper hoarding with the Heckmondwike Herald poster from Friday May 24th 1940 still present. The hoarding which was handed down by the family which owned the newspaper over sever...
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An undated reprint from the early 1890s of Mary Anne Sadleir's popular novel, The Hermit of the Rock, bound in publisher's textured green cloth with a Celtic harp in gilt to the upper cover and gilt l...
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[2] pp 64 [2] Extensively illustrated catalogue of women's clothes printed on the eve of the outbreak of war. Colour wrappers separated along fold, loss to tail of front cover; every aspect of women's...
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The third edition of Robert Blachford Mansfield's The Log of the Water Lily, 'Revised and Enlarged'. It's an account of 'the first English rowing-boat that was taken on an excursion to the Continent',...
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A very smart example of this four volume edition of Shakespeare's plays from around 1890 in its original green cloth with gilt blocking to the boards and all edges gilt. The bevel-edged boards are alm...
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Good in tanned card wrappers, small chip to head of spine. Internally the pages are fresh, central leaf detached, with 16 black and white fashion plates showing liveries for footmen, chaufferes, munic...
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viii, pp 134. Scarce New Orleans reprint of Thomas' rare 1869 first edition of this study of what it describes as 'Creole "Patois" or "gombo French"' misleadingly dated 1869 on the...
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[frontispiece] pp72. Jacob Tonson's 1734 edition of the Scottish play with two terminal leaves of music 'set by Mr Leveridge' containing the words only. This standalone edition is bound here with the ...
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[2] pp 16 [3 foldout plates] Scarce technical guide to the automatic vacuum brake which became almost universal on British rolling stock for a century from the 1870s onwards. Blue textured cloth over ...
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Five beautifully bound volumes in contemporary tree calf with faded gilt decoration to the spine compartments, the first four volumes with spine labels, one lacking, yellow edges to text block, portra...
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Presentation copy inscribed on the first pastedown 'F Branthall [?] from the author' with the bookplate of the lawyer Geoffrey G Briggs below and a bookseller's ticket for 'Wildy and Sons Ltd, Lincoln...
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[8] pp 459 [13] Sombre-bound Greek New Testament with attractive and most unusual late seventeenth century cut-work decoration to the goatskin covered boards, all edges black. Octavo format with tripl...
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'Not for publication', a presentation volume marking the visit to Portsmouth, simulated naval attack and inspection of HMS Dreadnought and other vessels. Dark blue lambskin binding with elaborate gilt...
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