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CLEGG, James [editor]. The Directory of Second-hand Booksellers and List of Public Libraries, British and Foreign. Rochdale. Printed and published by James Clegg, 1888. Second edition. Quarto. [3], viii, 112, 51pp. With a terminal catalogue of advertisements. Original publisher's red roan-backed green cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine worn, with loss at head and foot. Very occasional light marginal spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19474

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CLAY, Philip S. RICHARDS, J. H.. Official record of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of her Majesty Queen Victoria, June 20, 22, 23, 24, 1897. Nottingham. James Bell & Son, 1898. First edition. 8vo. [8], 135pp, [1]. Text within printed red line border. With half-title, a photographic portrait frontispiece, and seven further photographic plates depicting key people and places essential to Nottingham's procession. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. Very lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, occasional marginal loss. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34051

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CLAUDIO. An antidote to poison: or, a full reply to Mr. Jefferys' Attack upon the Character and Conduct of his royal highness the prince of wales: containing several important particulars Derived from authentic Sources of Information. To which is added a Postscript, with further observations respecting the loan for Mrs. fitzherbert, and the marriage jewels, &c. for the duke of york. Also particulars of Mr. jefferys' recantation. London. Printed by W. Clowes...for Mathews and Leigh, 1806. Third edition. 8vo. [6], 98pp. With half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Uncut in recent brown buckram, lettered in gilt. Very slight wear to extremities. Lightly foxed, occasional slight marginal dust-soiling. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 15191

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CLAUDIANUS, Claudius. The Rape of Proserpine, From Claudian. In Three Books. With the story of Sextus and Erichtho, From Lucan's Pharsalia, Book 6. Translated by Mr. Jabez Hughes. London. Printed by J. D. and sold by Ferd. Burleigh, 1714. First edition. 8vo. xii, 116pp. Recent brown half-morocco, tan cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers, initial gathering foxed and toned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 15132

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CLARKSON, Thomas. A portraiture of quakerism, as taken from a view of the moral education, discipline, peculiar customs, religious principles, political and civil œconomy, and character, of the Society of Friends. New York. Samuel Stansbury , 1806. First American edition. 8vo. In three volumes. 365pp; viii, [2], 382pp; vii, [1], 372pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Half-title to volume II only. Recent gilt-tooled half calf, contrasting red calf lettering-pieces, marbled boards. Browning and spotting to text. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29101

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CLARK, Rev. John. Memoirs of the late Reverend John Clark, written by himself; and at his request, published, with remarks by William Jay. Bath. Printed and Sold for the Author by M. Gye et al., 1810. First edition. 8vo. viii, 179pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one plate. Finely bound by Chivers, although not identified as such, in contemporary navy half morocco, blue cloth boards, gilt, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to title, sporadic foxing throughout, plate detached. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 12992

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CLARK, Hugh. WORMULL, Thomas. A short and easy introduction to heraldry... London. Printed for G. Kearsley, 1779. Fourth edition. 8vo. [4], 106pp. With 24 engraved plates. Without the final leaf of advertisements. Later brown cloth, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked. Occasional spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26387

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CLARK, G[eorge]. An alphabetical epitome of the common law of england; so far as it relates to the security of the persons, property and privileges of individuals. London. Printed for Fielding and Walker et al., 1778. First edition. 8vo. iv, 130 [i.e. 230]pp, [2]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed, heavily marked. Paste-downs sprung, occasional spotting. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 16403

CLARKE, Thomas Grey. A memoir of anna maria clarke, wife of the rev. thomas clarke. London. Harry Woolridge, 1853. First edition. 8vo. xii, [2], 482pp. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and several engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned, dust-soiling to fore-edge. Upper hinge exposed, contemporary ink ownership inscription to FEP, armorial bookplate of Henry Birkbeck to FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16251

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CLARKE, T. H. The domestic architecture of the reigns of queen elizabeth and james the first illustrated by a series of views of English Mansions, with brief historical and descriptive accounts of each subject. London. Priestley and Weale, 1833. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 24, [2], 2pp. With 20 lithographed plates, two wood-cut illustrations in the text, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth boards, modern calf spine, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Boards rubbed and marked. Recent bookplate of Josceline Grove to FEP, modern typed bookseller's description tipped-in to FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 30999

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[CLARKE, Henry]. The school candidates, a prosaic burlesque: occasioned by the late election of a schoolmaster, at the village of boudinnoir. Utopia [i.e. Manchester]. [s.n.], 1788. First edition. 12mo. [2], 103pp, [3]. Without half-title. With an engraved folding plate: 'Bragmardo & Epistomen's aerial Voyage to Boudinnoir', and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, splitting to joints, spine cracked. Hinges exposed, loss and tearing to laid-down frontispiece, manuscript extract from a verse by Butler to verso of rear blank fly-leaf, occasional spotting. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 19150

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CLARK, Cumberland. Charles dickens and the yorkshire schools; with his letter to mrs hall. London. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1918. First edition. 8vo. 33pp, [1]. With half-title and a tipped-in facsimile letter. Uncut in original publisher's green cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed, with a touch of wear to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34841

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CLARK, Cumberland. Dickens' london. A lantern lecture. London. Wass, Pritchard & Co., Ltd., 1923. First edition. 8vo. 103pp, [1]. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's printed brown wrappers, yapp edges. Rubbed and marked, with chipping to edges, and small losses to head and foot of spine. A presentation copy, with the author's inscription 'Presentation Copy, with the author's compliments Cumberland Clark 1923' to FFEP. Leaves lightly browned, occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34843

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[CLAN GREGOR]. An Artist's Ramble in Scotland During the Summer of 1870. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [c. 1870] Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 68pp. Illustrated with engravings extracted from contemporary published works, photographs, and original pen and ink, pencil, and watercolour sketches. Modern brown cloth, preserving contemporary morocco upper board, A.E.G. Rubbed. Scattered spotting. Later pencilled inscription 'Mary Gregory from her husband No. 19/71' and inked inscription 'James R. Gregory from his mother. Nov. 19th / 22' to FFEP. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32236

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[CINDERELLA]. History of cinderella, or the little glass slipper. Glasgow. Printed for the Booksellers, 1852. 12mo. 23pp, [1]. Woodcut vignette to title and a further 10 woodcut vignettes in the text. Six loose bifolia, edges uncut. A trifle creased, overall clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31329

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CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Marci tullii ciceronis epistolarum ad familiares libri XVI... Cantabrigiae [i.e. Cambridge]. Impensis Gul. Thurlbourn, [1749]. 8vo. In two volumes. [10], 582, [2]; [4], 570pp, [12]. Later vellum, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting brown and green calf lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24057

CIBBER, Colley. An apology for the life of mr. colley cibber. London. John C. Nimmo, 1889. New edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 510 copies, of which this is number 455. In two volumes. [2], lxxi, [1], 337pp, [1]; [2], vi, [2], 416pp, [1]. With half-titles and terminal index. An engraved mezzotint portrait frontispiece of the author and 25 further mezzotint portraits by R. B. Parkes and eighteen etchings by Adolphe Lalauze. Uncut in contemporary vellum-backed red cloth boards, faded gilt supralibros with motto 'Prosequi ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33834

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CIBBER, C[olley]. The careless husband: a comedy. London [i.e. The Hague]. Printed for T. Johnson, 1721. 8vo. 100pp. Uncut. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's powder blue wrappers, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities rubbed, marked, and creased, loss to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31826

[CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY]. Home record for the young. London. Seeleys et al., 1853. 12mo. 62pp. With an engraved frontispiece, two engraved full- page illustrations in the text, and three pages of musical notation. Original publisher's patterned paper wrappers, black paper lettering-piece to upper wrapper. Loss to backstrip, upper wrapper, FFEP, and frontispiece very nearly detached. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34224

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[CHURCH OF SCOTLAND]. WILSON, William. A defence of the Reformation-Principles of the Church of Scotland... Edinburgh. Printed by T. Lumisden and J. Robertson, for J. Jaffray Book-seller in Stirling, 1739. First edition. xviii, 19-331pp, [3]. ESTC T79910.

[Bound with:] Acts and Proceedings of the Associate Presbytery, Met at Edinburgh, May 1739... Edinburgh. Printed for J. Jaffray, 1739. First edition. vi, 7-60pp. ESTC T79917.

[And:] ERSKINE, Ebenezer. The sovereignty of Zion's King; in some discourses upon psalm ii. 6. Edinburgh. Printed by Alexander Alison, for David Duncan, 1739. First edition. 84pp. ESTC T75161. Copies recorded at four locations ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19694