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DE SELINCOURT, E.. English poets and the national ideal. London. Oxford university press, 1915. First edition. 8vo. [1], 119pp, [1]. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in guilt to spine. Some fading to spine, discolouration to endpapers. With inked inscription to FFEP: 'To Stopford A. Brooke, with Grateful memories of Four Winds. from the writer. Sept 1915.' More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32047
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DESMARAIS, Regnier. Poësies françoises de m l'abbe. A La Haye [i.e. The Hague]. Henri du Säuzet, 1716. Nouvelle ed., augmentée de plusieurs piéces qui ne se trouvent pas dans celle de Paris. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], xlv, [3], 292pp; [293]-613pp, [7]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, with slight wear to joints, lower board scuffed. Endpapers stained, occasional spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33435
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DESTOUCHES, Nericault [Philippe]. La fausse agnes, ou le poete campagnard. Comedie En prose en trois Actes. Paris. Chez Prault Pere, 1736. [4], 137pp, [3].

[Bound with:] DESTOUCHES, Nericault [Philippe]. Le tambour nocturne, ou le mari devin, comedie angloise. Paris. Chez Prault Pere, 1736. [10], 116pp, [4].

[And:] DESTOUCHES, Nericault [Philippe]. Le dissipateur ou l'honneste-friponne, comedie. Paris. Chez Prault Pere, 1736. [2], xii, 127pp, [3].

8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Extremities worn, joints split. Typed booksellers description pasted to FEP. Armorial bookplate of ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21594
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DIBDIN, T[homas]. Five miles off: or, the finger post; a comedy... London. Printed and Published by Barker and Son, 1806. First edition. 8vo. 56pp, [4]. With a terminal leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, title page browned, scattered spotting, loss to gutter of final leaf - very nearly detached. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29281
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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1932]. 8vo. 752pp. With an illustrated colour frontispiece and a further 15 illustrated plates by C. E. Brock. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in later gilt-tooled navy morocco, A.E.G. Spine sunned, else clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23475
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London. Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition, early issue. 8vo. xiv, [2], 609pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 41 engraved plates by R. Seymour and Phiz (i.e. H. K. Browne). Contemporary dark green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece. Later recased. Extremities rubbed and dulled, corners bumped. Bookseller's ticket of T. Evans of Birmingham to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription to ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28995
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and son. London. Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 624pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Without half-title or errata leaf. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Oswald Augustus Smith to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting, offsetting. First Edition, early issue, with none of the usual ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30133
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the pickwick club. London. Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form. 8vo. xiv, [2], 609pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 41 engraved plates by R. Seymour and Phiz (i.e. H. K. Browne). Contemporary green calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, slight loss to lower corner of leaf Ee5, short marginal tear to terminal leaf, ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 30546
Photo of "The story of little dombey"
DICKENS, Charles. The story of little dombey. London. Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition, first issue. 16mo. [2], 121pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary dark green half-morocco, tooled in gilt and black, marbled paper boards, T.E.G. Original publisher's green pictorial wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30819
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and son. London. Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. 8vo. [vi-xi], xii-xvi. 624pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Without half-title or errata leaf. Contemporary half-morocco, marbled paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to FEP, near contemporary inked ownership inscription of Sir James Clark Brook to verso of FFEP, scattered ... More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 30820
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DICKENS, Charles. American notes for general circulation. London. Chapman and Hall, 1850. First cheap edition. 8vo. xiii, [1], 175pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-ruled half-calf on marbled boards, richly tooled in gilt to spine, with contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned, with bumping to corners. With a terminal leaf of pencilled notes, transcribing an English translation of Heinrich Heinr's Für die Mouche (1856). Spotting to initial and terminal leaves. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35027
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the pickwick club. London. Champan & Hall, Ld., 1899. Gadshill Edition. 8vo. In two volumes. With half-titles, an additional engraved title page to Vol.I, engraved frontispieces to each volume, and 40 further engraved plates. Modern gilt-tooled burgundy half-morocco, red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked, with a touch of surface wear to upper board of Vol.I. Browning to edges of endpapers, very occasional light spotting throughout. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35054
Photo of "La religieuse"
DIDEROT, [Denis]. La religieuse. Paris. P. Arnould, [1886]. 16mo. [2], 412pp. With an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate by P. Kauffmann. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards, T.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, later bookplate of E. L. Allhusen to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP, leaves toned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27833
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DISRAELI, B[enjamin]. Sybil; or, the two nations. London. Henry Colburn, 1845. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. viii, 315pp; [4], 324pp; [2], 326pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting dark green morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed, with surface loss to joints and edges, spines sunned. Light scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 34019
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D'ISRAELI, I[saac]. Amenities of literature, consisting of sketches and characters of english literature. London. Edward Moxon, 1841. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xii, 372; vi, 429, [1]; vi, 420pp. With half-titles. Handsoomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, T.E.G. Extremities lightly rubbed and discoloured. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. Inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I: 'Edith Coleridge / 1887 / from the books of her dear / Uncle Derwent Coleridge', with her calling card tipped-in beneath. Obituary ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 20317
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[D'ISRAELI, Isaac]. Quarrels of authors; or, some memoirs for our literary history, including Specimens of Controversy to the reign of elizabeth. London. Printed for John Murray, 1814. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xiii, [3], 308; 316; [4], 320pp. Contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Boards heavily rubbed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of Vol. I title page: 'Presented to the Library of the Royal Institution by the author'. With the ink-stamp of the institution beneath (and to verso of both other titles). More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 23579
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DIXON, W[illiam] Macneile. The edinburgh book of scottish verse 1300-1900. London. Meiklejohn and Holden, 1910. First edition. 8vo. xx, 938pp, [2]. With a half-title. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-ruled red morocco, red and green morocco thistle onlays to upper board and within spine compartments. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate (signed W.P.B. 1909) to FEP. Internally clean & crisp; overall a fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34514