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London: G.H. Davidson, 1846. [8], 63pp, [1], plates. Original publishers cloth, gilt floral decoration to spine, upper cover with gilt frame with volute and flower corner pieces with inner floral wreath surrounding the title, lower cover replicates the pattern but is in blind, a.e.g., primrose endpapers. Spine faded, some minor discolouring to covers, especially towards fore-edges, a few small ink spots. Internally some minor cracking to inner hinges, the frontispiece is lightly foxed to margins with a semi-circular water stain to margin, some light browning and minor foxing, but generally bright and clean. Binding by Burn, with their ticket to rear pastedown. With a lithographic frontispiece, hand-coloured engraved map and twenty tissue-guarded hand-coloured aquatint views as called for. Probably a second issue, with the first Ryde plate being titled Ryde I, see Abbey Scenery 352 (though here in green cloth and not red). First Edition. Hardback. Good+. Illus. by Roberts, Percy After Calvert, F.. 4to.
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The Isle of Wight Illustrated in a Series of Coloured Views
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Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, and His Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton [Etc.]
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London: John Fairburn, 1822. xxiv, 489pp, [3], plates. Original boards, original paper label to spine, untrimmed. Rebacked (almost invisibly), with old label laid down. Label slightly chipped, boards rubbed, corners and edges bumped, front inner joint with paper repair, internally quite bright and clean, complete with the half-title and the 'To the Binders' leaf at the rear. With a hand-coloured frontispiece and twenty hand-coloured engravings by George Cruikshank. First edition, first issue, large-paper copy, the Albert M. Cohn copy with his bookplate and an initialled typed note to front pastedown, now housed in a cloth chemise and a full morocco pull off top box by Riviere, with raised bands and gilt to spine and sides, which is slightly rubbed and darkened to extremities. According to Cohn's note, "This copy is one of the very few that were first bound up in this manner by the publishers from the parts. It contains the very rare unnumbered leaf 'To the Binder' at the end.…
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Works - Thirty-Four Volumes
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London: Chapman and Hall Thirty-four volumes complete, n.d. c. 1888 - Volumes One to Ten - 'History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great', viii, 458pp; viii, 490pp; vii, [1], 424pp; viii, 407pp, [1]; viii, 441pp, [1]; viii, 453pp, [1]; vii, [1], 409pp, [1]; vii, [1], 393pp, [1]; vii, [1], 445pp, [1]; viii, 392pp; Volumes Eleven to Fifteen - 'Cromwell's Letters', xvi, 339pp, [1]; xi, [1], 344pp; xi, [1], 325pp, [1]; xi, [1], 311pp, [1]; viii, 320pp; Volumes Sixteen to Eighteen - 'Translations From the German', xvi, 351pp, [1]; [8], 344pp; [8], 419pp, [1]; Volumes Nineteen to Twenty-Four - 'Essays', [6], 412pp; [6], 416pp; [6], 405pp, [1]; [6], 460pp; [6], 444pp; [6], 423pp, [1]; Volumes Twenty-Five to Twenty-Seven - 'French Revolution', ix, [1], 359pp, [1]; [8], 378pp; vii, 440pp; Volume Twenty-Eight - 'Past and Present', vii, [1], 387pp, [1]; Volume Twenty-Nine - 'Sartor Resartus', vi, 308pp; Volume Thirty - 'Latter-Day…
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The Nursery Alice
by Carroll, Lewis; [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. [12], 56pp, [8], original quarter cloth and decorated boards, the upper cover with a pictorial design in colour of Alice asleep and dreaming beneath a tree, signed 'E.G. Thomson', the lower cover with a picture of the March Hare in the centre, and the initials 'E.G.T.'. Cloth to spine repaired, with small splits to head of upper joint, corners bumped with small amounts of loss, slightly rubbed with very light soiling. Internally very lightly browned, lacking tissue guard to frontispiece, but generally clean and fairly bright. Now housed in a black buckram chemise and slipcase, with title and author in gilt to spine. Inscribed by Carroll, in his usual purple ink to half title, being one of one hundred presentation copies (see Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, page 162), 'For Nina from the author, Mar. 25 1890'. Nina was apparently Nina 'Ninty' Eschwege, who later married Herbert Haviland Field. This "second (first published) edition…
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The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen Discovered By the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter
by Carter, Howard and Mace, A.C
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London: Cassell and Company, 1923. Three volumes complete, 1923-1933 - Volume One, xxiii, [1], 231pp, [1]; Volume Two - xxxiv, 277pp, [1]; and Volume Three - xvi, 247pp, [1]. Original decorative cloth in DJ's, decorative endpapers to volumes two and three. Title, author, volume number, and publisher in gilt to spine, with title, author, and central gilt scarab to upper cover. DJ's slightly worn and very lightly soiled, minor chipping to edges with tiny amounts of loss, a few small tape repairs to reverse, but generally complete. Light stain to upper cover of volume one. Internally a previous owner's name to half-titles, some very minor browning, some light foxing and dust staining to top and fore edges, otherwise quite bright and clean. Laid in loosely are a couple of newspaper cuttings, and some handwritten notes on a lecture given by Carter at University College in 1931. Volume one with a frontispiece and seventy-nine photographic plates and one plan, volume two with a frontispiece and eighty-eight…
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Sermons, Designed to Correct Some of the Principal Doctrinal Errors of the Present Times and to Promote Christian Unity and Church-Membership
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London: C. And J. Rivington, 1827. viii, 392pp, full calf, semi-raised wide bands, spine divided into five panels, title in gilt to second panel, blind stamped bishops mitre to first panel, blind stamped cross to third and fourth, and crown and initial device to fifth, covers with central crown and initial device in gilt framed by triple fillet and volute corner pieces in blind, surrounded by flower and leaf roll in blind, with gilt single fillet border, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g. Very slightly rubbed to extremities, small white spot to fourth panel of spine, internally some very occasional light spotting and browning, but generally clean. From the library of Earl Eldon, with his name and bookplate to reverse of front endpaper. First Edition. Full Calf. Good+. 8vo.
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Celebration of the Birthday of Robert Eadon Leader B.A. On His Attaining His Majority, Jan. 2, 1860
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No Place: No Publisher, 1860. Single-sided silk printing, approximately 220mm x 315mm in size. Very slightly soiled and creased minor fraying to top edge, generally in good order. Celebrating the twenty-first birthday of Robert Eadon Leader with a dinner at the Black Swan Hotel. With an attractive vignette of a printing press to head of the decorative frame, which exemplifies his and his family's trade as he was the son of Robert Leader, who was the proprietor of the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, and he himself was a journalist who published many books on the history of Sheffield. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Folio. Silk Printing.
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The History of Don Quixote
by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Clark, J.W. (Ed); Shore, T.Teignmouth (Biography)
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London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin [2], 737pp, [1], n.d. c.1871. Rebound in half morocco and comb and curl marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel. Externally very good. Text lightly browned throughout though clean. Title in red and black, with many full page and in text illustrations engraved by Pisan after Dore. Ashbee 247; Seris has a Cassell, Petter and Galpin 8vo edition of 1871, see Seris 131. Reprint. Hardback. Good+. Illus. by Dore, Gustave. Folio.
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The Canterbury Tales
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London: Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, 1913. Three volumes complete - Volume One - x, 235pp, [5]; Volume Two - x, 217pp, [5] and Volume Three - x, 183pp, [5]. Original full vellum in DJ's, gilt title to spines and upper covers, t.e.g. DJ spines faded, with ink number (as issued?) to spines. Hint of foxing to fore-edge of text block, otherwise bright and clean. With thirty-six colour, full-page, tissue-guarded, tipped in illustrations by W. Russell Flint (twelve in each volume) as called for. Limited edition of five hundred copies, this being copy one hundred and eighty eight (as per the number on the spines of the DJ's). An attractive set. First Thus. Full Vellum. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Flint, W. Russell. 4to. Limited Edition.
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The River War - An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
by Churchill, Winston S.; (Rhodes, Col. F. (Ed.))
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [7], viii-xxii, [3], 2-462pp and Volume Two - [5], vi-x, [5], 2-499pp, [1]. Original gilt decorated cloth. Hint of foxing to edges of text blocks, otherwise externally bright and clean, without any of the usual rubbing to the gilt associated with this book. Internally a hint of foxing, usually to margins, volume one has a small ink mark to the margin of page xxiii and a small mark to the margin of page 69; volume two has a small amount of loss (though still attached to opposite page) to the margin of page 457 where it was opened a little carelessly, and page 475 with a similar problem with small amount of loss to top corner, neither affecting text. With the armorial bookplate of Sir James Reid (personal physician to Queen Victoria, and later monarchs) to the front pastedowns. Volume one with four photogravure portraits, one other full page illustration, eleven folding maps and six full page maps; Volume two with three…
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The River War - An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [7], viii-xxii, [3], 2-462pp and Volume Two - [5], vi-x, [5], 2-499pp, [1]. Original gilt decorated cloth. Usual rubbing to gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, volume one has been recased, with a repair towards the foot of the spine, with resultant small amount of loss to publisher's name, both volumes with light foxing to text block edges, and occasional light foxing to margins and text, but generally fairly clean. Volume one with four photogravure portraits, one other full page illustration, eleven folding maps, and six full page maps; Volume two with three photogravure portraits, two other full page illustrations, nine folding maps, and five full page maps (as called for). Now housed in a cloth slipcase. Woods A2 (a). First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by McNeill, Angus. 8vo.
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Poems
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Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1862. xxvii, [1], 259pp, [1], 16pp ads. Rebound in later half-morocco and cloth, raised double bands, spine in five panels, title in gilt to second panel, remaining panels with small flower head corner pieces and alternating centre pieces, unusual square corner pieces (rather than triangle), with double fillet frame and flower head corner pieces, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, original cloth covers bound in to rear. Minor rubbing to extremities, spine slightly faded, some light foxing to first few pages, lightly browned, but generally clean. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. Binding is by Birdsall of Northampton. First Edition. Half Morocco and Cloth. Good+. 12mo.
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The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: A Poem, By the Author of the Three Tours
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London: R. Ackermann, 1822. [2], 267pp, [1]. Later full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, morocco title label to second panel, contrasting morocco author / illustrator label to third, remaining panels with leaf corner pieces and central flower head tool in gilt, covers with triple fillet border and flower head corner pieces, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very minor rubbing to extremities, minor scuff to upper cover, internally some light soiling to text, plate margins lightly damp stained, but generally in good order. With twenty-four colour plates with later tissue guards, lacks 'warning' slip as usual. Tooley 413, Grolier Rowlandson Catalogue 48, Abbey Life 268 (in parts). First Edition. Full Calf. Good+. Illus. by Rowlandson, Thomas. 8vo.
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The Task
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London: John Sharpe, 1825. [8], 220pp. Full stamped calf, raised flat bands, spine in four panels, with title to second panel, author to third, other two panels gilt, covers with stamped panel, with volute and fern headcorner and side pieces, all edges marbled with marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, small split to foot of front outer joint but holding well. Some light browning internally, occasional spotting, engravings browned to edges, previous owner's name to ffep, Bourn booksellers ticker to front pastedown. Reprint. Full Calf. Good. 24mo.
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The Village
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London: J. Dodsley, 1783. [4], 38pp, [2]. Stitched as issued, now housed in a card chemise and a cloth drop back box, with title in gilt to spine. Bottom stitch broken, associated tear to half-title and title, half-title lightly foxed, rear blank lightly foxed and browned, corners chipped and rubbed, otherwise internally clean. Previous owners' book label to inner portion of box. The poem was revised by Samuel Johnson. Bareham and Gatrell A5; Fleeman 83.5CV/1. First Edition. Paper Wrapper. Good. 4to.
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A Short Commentary with Strictures, on Certain Parts of the Moral Writings of Dr. Paley and Mr. Gisbourne - To Which are Added as a Supplement, Observations on the Duties of Trustees and Conductors of Grammar Schools Etc...
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Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1797. lii, 274pp, [2]. Slightly later full russian calf, smooth back, divided into six panels by gilt rules, title in gilt to second panel, remaining panels with gilt central device made up of small flower heads, covers with single fillet gilt border. Spine slightly faded, slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally there are one or two spots of foxing, but generally clean and quite bright. From the library of Earl Eldon, with his name and bookplate to front pastedown. Six locations in the UK and seven in the US on ESTC. First Edition. Full Calf. Good+. 8vo.
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Sermons, Including a Series of Discourses on the Minor Prophets, Preached Before the University of Oxford
by Croft, Rev. George
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Birmingham: Cadell and Davies, Rivingtons and R. Baldwin, 1811. Two volumes - Volume One - xxxix, [1], 247pp, [1] and Volume Two - xii, [2], 282pp. Full straight grain morocco, smooth backs, divided into six panels by gilt rules and gilt bands, covers with inner blind roll bordered by thick elaborate gilt frame, with medallions to corners, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., small shell marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, small amount of loss to gilt to upper cover of volume two, internally quite bright and clean. From the library of Earl Eldon, the Lord Chancellor, with his name and bookplate to endpapers. A handsome binding, probably bound as a presentation copy to Eldon as he heads the subscribers list and is the subject of the printed dedication by the late authors wife (pp xxiii-xxiv). Five locations on COPAC (not at Lambeth). First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. 8vo.
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Designs for Farm Cottages and Steadings with Descriptions, Specifications and Estimates; General Remarks on Farm Offices; and an Appendix of Practical Information
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1842. 26pp, 44pp, folding plans. Original cloth, with original paper label to upper cover, primrose endpapers. Slightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, paper label browned, minor chipping to spine ends and corners. Internally lightly foxed throughout, a couple of pages with marginal soiling, but nothing too obtrusive. Previous owners blind stamp to title and first page. Complete with seven folding plans. First Edition. Hardback. Good+. 8vo.
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