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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID; AND THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF RELIGION. WITH NOTES SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY THE RIGHT REVEREND RICHARD MANT D.D. 1776-1848. RICHARD MANT. Published by C.J.G. Rivington and Parker Oxford: London & Oxford, 1830. With a large, highly detailed fore-edge painting. Fourth Edition. Full brown hard grain Morocco leather. Elaborate blind decoration to spine and boards. Spine gilt lettered. Boards also have elaborately blind tooled panels. All edges gilt. Gilt ruled dentelles. Original yellow end-papers. Internally crisp and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only; binding complete with no loss. Tight and bright copy. 966 pages. Extensive 42-page index to Mant's Notes. Being a large volume the print is good and clear; Common Prayer text is in large print. With Psalter - as they are to be sung or said in Churches, and… Read More

8vo Bound in full red hard-grain Morocco early inscription to front fly leaf dated 1877, Gilt lines on the boards gilt dentells and lines lettering centre tool of a thistle to the spine. Some mild foxing a nice tight copy with a very nice Fore-Edge Painting.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800 - 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician and one of the two Members of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. The Edinburgh Review, founded in 1802, was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It ceased publication in 1929.
Fore-Edge Painting
Holkham Hall Norfork
Holkham Hall is one of England's finest examples of the Palladian revival style of architecture, and the severity of its design is closer to Palladio's ideals than many of the other numerous Palladian style houses of the period. The Holkham Estate was built up by Sir Edward Coke, the founder of his family's fortune.… Read More

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AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED
A new edition. Edited by the Rev. C. Bradley ... With a biographical sketch of the author, and a list of his works
John PEARSON (Bishop of Chester.)
Printed and Sold by J. F. Dove, 1832
An Exposition of the Creed 616 pages, was a work by John Pearson which was first published in 1659. It was based on sermons he delivered at St Clement's, Eastcheap. It was one of the most influential works on the Apostles' Creed in the Anglican Church. Bound in full maroon straight grain Morocco, extra gilt on the covers, and spine with a Portcullis emblem on the spine and rear board, book plate of Edward Thomas King on the rear pastedown (upside down). A wonderful copy with clean text. Excellent Condition
The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith". The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old… Read More

2 vols., 48vo, ff. [287; 343]. Contemporary dark green paste grain morocco, boards bordered with a double-blind rule, spines divided by blind rules and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, housed in the original black morocco vertical slipcase with tabbed lid. A plain but attractively bound pair of miniature devotional volumes.
Fore-Edge Painting
Vol I. Basingwerk Monastery.
Ranulf de Gernon was earl of Chester from 1129-1153. He offered Basingwerk to monks of the Norman abbey of Savigny, which enjoyed a briefly fashionable status in Norman Britain. The first monks from Savigny probably lived within the protective confines of a nearby Norman fortress known as Hen Blas.
The Savigniac order merged with the Cistercian order in 1147 and then a decade later the abbey was granted to Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire. In that same year, Henry II effectively re-founded the abbey, around the time the monks moved from Hen Blas to Basingwerk, at what is now called Greenfield.
Vol II. Conway Castle.
The site was occupied… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press, 1951. first Facimilie. full Morocco. THE FORSYTE SAGAJohn GalsworthyFORE-EDGE PAINTINGPublished by William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press 1951This is the 1951 reprint from 1922 including folding family tree chart as frontice.1042pp not illustrated as per the original 1922 edition. Bound in full red straight grain Morocco for Henry Sotherans, Ltd. With tipped in signature of John Galsworthy dated March 11 1916.Fore-Edge painting is the view of Richmond Bridge, London. Beautifully painted showing the bridge and its quaint surroundings.The Forsyte Saga was first published in its entirety in 1922; the illustrated single volume edition with Anthony Gross's highly acclaimed drawings was first published in 1950. The Forsyte Saga earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, and his tales of the vicissitudes of a large upper-middle-class English family have been adapted under various guises for film and television, including the 1949 Hollywood film… Read More

L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane pis a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, by Tobias Smollett in 1748.
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stable hand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he is forced to help robbers along the route and is faced with jail. He becomes a valet and, over the course of several years, is able to observe many different classes of society, both lay and clerical. Because of his occupation, he meets many disreputable people and is able to adjust to many situations, thanks to his adaptability and quick wit. He finally finds himself at the royal court as a favorite of the king and secretary to the prime minister. Working his way up through hard work and… Read More

MILTON'S PARADISE REGAINEDwith Select Notes Subjoined: to which is added a Complete Collection of his Miscellaneous Poems, both English and Latin
Milton, John
Published by Printed by Bensley for Printed by T. Bensley; for T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G. and J. Robinson, W. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, J. Scatcherd, Ogilvy and Speare, W. Lowndes, G. and T. Wilkie, G. Kearsley, Vernor and Hood, T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, and S. Hayes. London, 1796
Bound in 18c full red straight grain Morocco simple gilt lines on the board and spine stormont pattern marble endpapers. Slight wear to the head and board edges, commensurate with its age.Engraved frontice and three engraved plates throughout, some foxing of the plates and prelims. 428pp. bookplate on front paste down. R.Foyle booksellers ticket to the inside of the front fly leaf.
Paradise Regained, this collection includes Samson Agonistes, poems upon several occasions, sonnets, psalms, a Latin ode to… Read More

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THE MISCELLANEOUS PROSE WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART
Scott, Walter
Published by Cadell, 1848, Houlston & Stoneman, London
Complete in one Volume, containing a summary and parts of larger more comprehensive works, including The Life of John Dryden, Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Novelists, Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk, Essay on Chivalry, Essay on Boarder Antiquities, Provincial Antiquities of Scotland, Letters of Malachi Malagrowther on the Currency, on Planting Waste Lands, on Landscape Gardening, Davy's Salmonia, Life of J. P. Kemble, Life and Works of John Home, & Reliques of Robert Burns.
Engravings by Cadell.
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A beautiful and detailed early fore-edge of Aberdeen's North Pier and docks from the South Pier, Circa 1700-1800s [Footdee]
Years ago, there was much Ferrying 'to and fro' between Futty, as it was then called in the language that was never spelt or written down consistently, and the South Bank Torry on the opposite… Read More

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE.
With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by George Gilfillan. The Gilfillan Poets, series
POPE, Alexander
Published by Edinburgh, London, Dublin. James Nichol & James Nisbet and Co. 1856.
Bound in full forest green hard grain Morocco, gilt paneling on the front and rear boards, full gilt spine, marble endpapers and gilt dentles. A beautiful tight binding and very crisp clean text. Near perfect condition.
2 Vols in one. Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet, literary dictator of his age and regarded as the English epitome of neo-Classicism. His poetry is characterized by satire, epigram, didacticism, smoothness and technical finish, invective, biting and malicious wit, and skillful use of the closed or heroic couplet. Pope, a Catholic and the son of a linen-draper in London, was unable to attend a public school or a university because of governmental restrictions against Catholic after the Revolution of 1688. A… Read More

THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT Rev A. B. Grosart LLD Published London George Bell and Sons 1892 (FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Herbert, George. The Poetical Works. Frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary full red morocco gilt-stamped Sherborn School prize binding by Bickers & Son, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, spine tips and raised bands rubbed, abraded school prize bookplate to front pastedown. Revised edition. Fore-edge painting with view of Ludlow Castle, Shropshire. London, 1892. The architecture of Ludlow reflects its long history, retaining a blend of several styles of building. The castle is approximately 500 by 435 feet (152 by 133 m) in size, covering almost 5 acres (2.0 ha). The outer bailey includes the Castle House building, now used by the Powis Estate as offices and accommodation, while the inner bailey, separated by a trench cut out of the stone, houses the Great Tower, Solar block, Great Hall and Great Chamber block, along with later 16th century additions, as well as a… Read More

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THIRTY YEARS' CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JOHN JEBB AND ALEXANDER KNOX
Edited by Charles Forster.
Published London: J. Duncan and J. Cochran, 1834.
2 Vols each with a fore-edge painting. Bound in full Maroon straight grain Morocco, bound by J. Hatchard's and son Piccadilly. A beautiful combination of blind and gilt tooling in excellent condition.
FORE-EDGE PAINTING'SScenes of Dorset – Lyme Regis – Ockford - Cattistock
This incredibly detailed Fore-edge painting on Vol I is a church and street view of Okeford fitzpaine. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Okeford Fitzpaine was recorded as Adford; it had 40 households, 16 ploughlands, 21 acres (8.5 hectares) of meadow and one mill. It was in Sturminster Newton Hundred and the tenant-in-chief was Glastonbury Abbey. Since then, it has been known as "Aukford Alured" and "Ockford Phippin", the latter echoing the modern colloquial "Fippenny Ockford" and its shorthand, "Ockford".
Vol. II is even more detailed and split into 3 individual scenes.… Read More