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The Wanderer on a Thousand Hills [Penguin No. 272]

by WHERRY, Edith (1876-1961)

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books Limited, 1940. First Printing. Wrappers. Near Fine+. First Paperbound Edition. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 107mm): 224pp. Publisher's card covers printed in orange and black, rear cover with advertisement for Army Club cigarettes. Penguin paper bookmark printed with brief bio of the author laid in. Tightly bound and clean throughout, very faint edge-wear, lightly toned, but a beautifully preserved example. Originally published in hardcover, in 1917. Edith Wherry Muckleston spent her childhood with her missionary parents in Peking, where The Wanderer on a Thousand Hills is set. Founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and his brothers, Richard and John, as an imprint of the The Bodley Head, Penguin revolutionized publishing with its inexpensive paperbacks, originally sold for sixpence from the crypt of Holy Trinity Church Marylebone, bringing high-quality fiction and nonfiction to the mass market. Eschewing the illustrated gaudiness of other paperbacks, Penguin opted… Read More
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Waterland [Signed]
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Waterland [Signed]

by SWIFT, Graham (b. 1949)

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London: Heinemann, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing ("First published in 1983" on copyright page) of the author's fourth—and best—book. 8vo: viii,[2],310pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine stamped in gold, pictorial dust jacket priced £7.95. Boldly signed by Swift on the title page. A Fine copy, very lightly read, tight, bright, and unmarked; Fine jacket without fault. Nominated for the Booker Prize; winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. An "engrossing tale of murder, incest and suicide. . . . The novel's fifty-two sections . . . [provide] pieces of a puzzle which spans three centuries, recording, with obsessive detail and painful urgency, significant events in the lives and times of [protagonist] Tom Crick's ancestors since the seventeenth century. . . . The novel's most memorable digression, the ten-page section 'About the Eel,' illustrates Crick's theory of… Read More
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Ways of Seeing
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Ways of Seeing

by BERGER, John (1926-1917)

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Harmondsworth & London: British Broadcasting Corporation & Penguin Books, 1972. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Scarce true First Edition ("First published 1972) of this provocative art history text, based on the BBC television series. The first hardcover edition, published in New York, appeared only the following year. Crown 8vo (195 x 129mm): 170pp, with numerous illustrations. Publisher's off-white stiff card wrappers printed in black and priced 60p. Tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and clean throughout, a superior example of a fragile book. Ways of Seeing, Berger's influential art text, was initially conceived as a series of four television episodes "The series was ground-breaking in its use of the TV format to introduce aspects of a materialist analysis of art to a non-specialist audience. The book of the series was constructed in a similar spirit of popular pedagogy and subsequently became a key introductory text in art colleges in Britain and the USA. Among the topics discussed in the book are… Read More
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We Are the Living
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We Are the Living

by CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987)

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New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Trade Edition (following a limited edition of 250 copies) of Caldwell's second collection of stories. 8vo: viii,264pp. Publisher's ivory cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in brown and forest green, top edge stained brown; illustrated dust jacket, by Alfred Maurer, priced $2.50; original wraparound promotional band with several closed tears. An excellent copy, top stain slightly faded, mild sunning to upper board top edge, else Fine, square and tight, and probably unread; Near Fine or better jacket, lightly edge-worn, spine and flap folds moderately sunned, as is promotional band. Coan, p. 43. Flora and Bain, p. 94. In the wake of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, as Caldwell's popularity grew, he became more successful at selling short fiction to popular magazines of the day. Capitalizing on that popularity, Viking collected in this volume twenty short stories, ranging in setting from North to South and "mostly concerned… Read More
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We Moderns : Gotham Book Mart 1920-1940 [Catalogue No. 42]
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We Moderns : Gotham Book Mart 1920-1940 [Catalogue No. 42]

by STELOFF, Frances (1887-1989) and Kay Steele; Gertrude Stein, Samuel Putnam, Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, Whit Burnett

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[New York]: [Gotham Book Mart], 1940. Card Covers. Fine-. Twentieth anniversary catalogue issued by the famous midtown Manhattan bookstore and cultural landmark, one of 500 unnumbered copies in spiral binding, from a total edition of 5,500. Introductory notes by Frances Steloff and Kay Steele, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Putnam, Dudley Fitts, William Carlos Williams, and Whit Burnett. Crown 8vo (197 x 134mm): 3-88,[2]pp. Wire-bound pictorial card covers (as issued), featuring Carl Van Vechten's photograph of Ruth Bower's painting "The Life of the Party at Finnegans Wake," created to celebrate publication of Joyce's novel in 1939. This copy reputedly from the inventory of Gotham Book Mart and never circulated. Regardless, a superb survival (barely rubbed), tightly bound and clean throughout. Sales catalogue no. 42 for more than 1,200 items, featuring first editions, presentation copies, letters, and manuscripts, as well as little magazines and anthologies of American, English and Continental authors, with… Read More
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Wessex Poems and Other Verses
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Wessex Poems and Other Verses

by HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928)

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London: Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street, 1898. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy. Publisher's original forest green bold-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt medallion enclosing TH monogram to upper cover, top edge gilt, others uncut. Ex libris of Harald Pedersen (1888-1945), Norwegian metallurgist, politician, and Nazi collaborator. End sheets lightly foxed, else a superlative example, virtually pristine, on heavy paper, very tightly bound. Purdy, pp. 96-106. Hayward 310. Wolff 2998. Webb, pp. 97-98. Hardy considered himself primarily a poet, claiming that his extraordinary novel-writing career was the result of financial expediency. Hardy had been working on this collection of 51 poems since the 1860s. "But it was only on the cusp of the twentieth century, feeling… Read More
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[Western Americana] The Spurs; [offered with] The Espuela Land and Cattle Company : a study of a...
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[Western Americana] The Spurs; [offered with] The Espuela Land and Cattle Company : a study of a foreign-owned ranch in Texas

by ELLIOT, W. J.; William Curry Holden

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Spur, Texas / Austin: The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Only printing of this western Americana, "now quite difficult to come by." (Adams) Crown 8vo (176 x 125mm): [16],274pp, with portrait frontispiece from photograph on coated turquoise stock, three further plates, map, and vignettes in text. Publisher's lime-green cloth, beige end papers, title page printed in green and black; issued without dust jacket. A virtually pristine, apparently unread copy. The second work, originally published in 1934, is offered in the revised and augmented edition of 1970, with five new chapters on the geography and history of the Spur country prior to founding of the ranch, as well as revisions and additions to the original work, which is devoted to aspects of life on the ranch from its founding in the early 1880's. Demy 8vo (228 x 143mm): xv,[7],268pp, with 12 inserted plates from photographs and full-page map. Publisher's sand linen printed in… Read More
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[Whaling] De Walvischvangst, met Veele Byzonderheden Daartoe Betrekkelyk. Met plaaten
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[Whaling] De Walvischvangst, met Veele Byzonderheden Daartoe Betrekkelyk. Met plaaten

by [JONG, Dirk de (active 1779-1805)]

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Amsterdam / Harlingen: Peter Conrad / Volkert van der Plaats [through 1786], 1784. First Edition. Quarter-Calf. Fine. Rare complete copy of this early classic in the literature of whaling, illustrated with finely engraved maps of the polar regions, including one of the earliest maps showing the whole of the Arctic and perhaps the first map of Nova Zembla. Four volumes bound in one, each with title page and separate pagination. 4to (250 x 202mm): vii,[1],96, with four plates (three folding) and two folding maps; iii,[1],116, with one plate and three folding maps; [4],116, with nine plates (one folding), and folding map; [4],116pp, with one folding plate, the magnificent lifting of the nets, depicting the fleet of ships and sloops used in the fishery. Contemporary quarter calf over speckled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments divided by double gilt rules, tan leather lettering piece gilt, all edges speckled brown. A Fine, wide-margined example, tightly bound in contemporary (probably… Read More
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What Is Darwinism
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What Is Darwinism

by MORGAN, Thomas Hunt (1866-1945)

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New York: W. W. Norton, 1929. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First appearance, in book form, of the Nobel prize-winning biologist's effort to validate Darwin's theory at a time when it was still heavily contested, even among scientists. Foolscap 8vo (165 x 106mm): xii,13-78,[2]pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red with Norton colophon on upper cover and lettered on spine; red dust jacket printed in black on heavy stock and priced $1.00. A superb copy, tightly bound and clean throughout (probably unread); about Fine jacket (spine panel lightened a degree or two, but lettering unaffected). Expanded from an essay originally published in The Yale Review, in 1928, and here issued as the the seventeenth title of The New Science Series, edited by C. K. Ogden. Soon after it was founded, in 1925, W. W. Norton launched the New Science Series in cooperation with British and German publishers (some titles previously were published in Europe). The series, comprising twenty-one uniform hardcovers… Read More
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When the Going Was Good
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When the Going Was Good

by WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966)

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London: Duckworth, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Very Good+. First Impression of this omnibus edition, collecting Waugh's best travel dispatches. Demy 8vo (216 x 135mm): 318pp, with color portrait frontispiece of Waugh aged 26 by Henry Lamb and folding map of British Guiana tipped in facing p. 196. Publisher's canary yellow cloth lettered in dark blue, illustrated dust priced 15/-. Near Fine or better (spine ends crimped, dust-soiled edges); Very Good or better jacket (tape remnants along reverse edges). Davis XX. During the 1930s, Waugh traveled widely in Europe, Africa, and South America. In 1930, he attended the coronation of the Haile Selassie in Abyssinia, returning there five years later as a correspondent for the Daily Mail to cover the Italian invasion from a pro-Mussolini standpoint. Between these visits, his sojourns in South America included an arduous trek from British Guiana into Brazil. Throughout this time he had no permanent base in England, staying in hotels and at friends'… Read More
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Will Bradley: His Work, An Exhibition

by BRADLEY, Will (1868-1962) Carey S. Bliss; Grant Edward Dahlstrom; Bruce Rogers

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San Marino: Huntington Library, 1951. Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition of this exhibition handlist, one of unnumbered 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Introduced by Robert O. Schad. Demy 8vo (229 x 152mm): [2],27,[3]pp, with frontispiece portrait, five further illustrations from lithographs, and headings and initials designed by Bradley. Original salmon pink paper wrappers printed in black, text printed in red and black. An exemplary example (trivial fading to edges), securely bound and clean throughout. Includes Bradley's essay "The Gay Nineties." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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A Wonder-Book For Boys and Girls
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A Wonder-Book For Boys and Girls

by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864)

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Boston: Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, 1852. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Printing, one of 3,067 copies, with "lifed" for "lifted," line 3, p. 21; first issue (one of only 3067 copies printed and published November,1851), without the inserted publisher's catalogue at rear. Small 8vo: vi,[7]-256pp, with frontispiece and 6 woodcut plates, protected by tissue guards, "gracefully executed" by Hammat Billings, "add[ing] materially to the charm of the little volume." (Grolier) Publisher's original T cloth (faded to an even brown tone), spine lettered and stamped with floral decorations in gilt, covers elaborately paneled in blind, pale yellow endpapers. An exemplary copy, the binding tight and secure, spine relaid professionally and almost imperceptibly, with all lettering intact; light, scattered foxing and the odd, occasional stain. BAL 7606. Grolier Hawthorne 25. Peter Parley to Penrod, p.6. Clark A18.1.a. Stories for girls and boys based on classical myths (Pandora's box, Hercules,… Read More
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[Working-Class Fiction] The Good Lion

[Working-Class Fiction] The Good Lion

by DOHERTY, Len (1930-1983)

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London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Printing of this unusually scarce working-class novel by one of the "most important practitioners of the socialist novel in Britain." (Bounds, Orwell and Marxism) Crown 8vo (195 x 127mm): 352pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in black; evocative dust jacket design by Gerard Dillon, priced 18s. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout, about Fine. The Spectator (3 October 1958) described this, Doherty's third and final novel, as a "straight, self-projecting account of a Bevin boy's first couple of years as a miner: the new digs, the progression through various jobs to work at the coal-face, evenings breaking up dance halls with the gang, boxing in a local contest, arguing with Communists, looking for a girl" and praised its "hard and honest" writing and the way in which Doherty "describes action with unusual skill." Len Doherty was a British miner, journalist and writer. His first two novels were… Read More
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[World War] Death of a Hero

[World War] Death of a Hero

by ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962); Paul Nash (Illustrates)

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London: Chatto and Windus, 1929. First Impression. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. First English Edition (appearing a few weeks after the American edition) of this canonical modernist novel. Thick crown 8vo (207 x 124mm): xii,440pp. With the author's note, commenting on the publishers' censorship and explaining the use of asterisks, and considering it "better for the book to appear mutilated than for me to say what I don't believe." Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gold, sepia dust wrapper illustrated by Paul Nash and priced 8s / 6d. A presentable example, better than very good, tightly bound and clean throughout; jacket spine panel toned, front panel still vibrant. Kershaw 53. Falls, pp. 261-62. Aldington's scathing take on early twentieth-century British society, openly discussing sex, death, mental health, class and a host of other 'indelicate' issues, which so mortified his publishers that they extensively censored the manuscript (an unexpurgated edition was published in Paris the… Read More
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[World War] The Way of the Lancer [together with] Lances Down. Between the Fires in Moscow

[World War] The Way of the Lancer [together with] Lances Down. Between the Fires in Moscow

by BOLESLAVSKI (Boleslavsky), Richard (1889-1937); Helen Woodward

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London: Cassell / Grayson & Grayson, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A stunning set, two First Impressions, of this "grim story of the collapse of the Russian army, revolution, and atrocities in the Russian Civil War," written with Helen Woodward. (Lengel) Demy 8vo (214 x 137mm). Way of the Lancer: viii,9-318pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained red; pale yellow illustrated dust jacket printed in black and red and priced (on spine panel) 8/6. Spine gilt a bit dulled, but tightly bound (apparently unread) and pristine throughout. Lances Down: Publisher's second-issue scarlet remainder binding, spine and front cover lettered in black; off-white illustrated dust jacket printed in black, grey, and shades of red and priced (on front flap) 10/6, with bookseller's ink stamp to front flap updating price to 5/-. Immaculate. Lengel 950. During the First World War, Boleslavski, a young Uhlan lancer, fought as a cavalry lieutenant on the tsarist Russian side. He left… Read More
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[World War] The Angels of Mons : the bowmen and other legends of the war [Ross Clan Crest]
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[World War] The Angels of Mons : the bowmen and other legends of the war [Ross Clan Crest]

by MACHEN, Arthur (1863-1947)

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London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, 1915. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine+. First Impression of this supernatural fantasy, first published in The Evening News after the Battle of Mons, in 1914. Foolscap 8vo (169 x 104mm): 86pp. Heavy slate-blue pictorial boards printed in dark blue, blue end papers. Fanciful armorial book plate of James Madison Ross ("Spem Successus alit") to front paste-down. A handsome copy, spine and pages light toned, title page a bit spotted, but tightly bound and generally clean throughout. Goldstone & Sweetser 14a. Danielson, p. 43. Locke I, p. 147. Bleirer (Supernatural Fiction) 1074. A second edition, with portrait frontispiece, appeared the same year. According to Locke, "A celebrated short ghost story of the first world war which was at the time widely believed to be factual," telling how British troops were miraculously rescued from the Germans by a ghostly St. George and his bowmen of Agincourt. Also includes "The soldiers' rest," "The… Read More
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The Wye Tour, or Gilpin on The Wye, with picturesque additions, from Wheatley, Price, &c. and...
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The Wye Tour, or Gilpin on The Wye, with picturesque additions, from Wheatley, Price, &c. and archaeological illustrations

by FOSBROKE, T. D. (Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842); [William Gilpin, 1724-1804]

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London: Printed by and for W. Farror, sold by Messrs. Nichols, 25 Parliament Street and Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1826. Half-Calf. Fine. Beautifully bound Third Edition (first published 1818) of this popularization of Gilpin's first picturesque tour, introducing the picturesque to a whole new readership. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 99mm): vi,199,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece (view of Symond's Yat, on the Wye). Contemporary green half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges and end papers. Later book label of P. R. Glazebrook, presumably the author of Blackstone's Statutes On Criminal Law and other books. Dedicated to the engraver John Britton, who has "exhibited our richest remains of Antiquity in a superb style." An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. In June of 1770, William Gilpin embarked on his first picturesque tour, creating an entirely new class of travel. "Sailing… Read More
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The works of Edmund Waller Esqr. in verse and prose published by Mr. Fenton
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The works of Edmund Waller Esqr. in verse and prose published by Mr. Fenton

by WALLER, Edmund (1606-1687)

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London: printed for I. Tonson in Ye Strand, 1729. First Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine+. Large 4to: [18],450,xci,[1]pp, with engraved title page, four full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait of Waller engraved by Vertu after Kneller), and numerous superb head- and tailpieces and historiated initials. Contemporary cambridge-style calf, sides decorated in blind and framed with rat's tooth roll, ribbed spine richly gilt in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece gilt (chipped), plain period end papers. Near Fine or better, with light offsetting, sporadic foxing and the odd smudge, else clean and crisp throughout; joints very skillfully repaired, spine ends renewed. Provenance: signature of the bibliophile Douglas Grant in pencil to front fly-leaf. Wither to Prior 941. Grolier English 100, 27. First Collected Edition, the "most sumptuous ever published. It contains all the poems which had hitherto appeared, to which the editor has added four new . . . Waller's letter are… Read More
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The works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. Now carefully revised, and compared throughout with the late...
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London: printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, for J. Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the King's-Arms in New-Bond-Street; and C. Corbett, at Addison's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street, 1737. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. A gorgeous set of the first complete, scholarly edition in English, with explanatory notes, in five volumes, of this burlesque romance. 12mo: iii-xxii,iii-viii,cxxxiv,135-384; iii-x,11-251,[1]; xx,367[2 misnumbered 22],[5]; iii-xc,281,[13, including two final advertisement leaves]; lxiv,267,[5]pp, with 15 copper-engraved plates (11 of which are folding, one of which is a map), most bearing the signatures of Henry Roberts and Nathaniel Parr; numerous head- and tail-pieces and a woodcut in the text. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in period-style butterscotch cat's-paw calf, spines in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering pieces gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, title pages… Read More
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Did you know that since 2004, Biblio has used its profits to build 16 public libraries in rural villages of South America?