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Photo of "Twenty Six Choice Poetical Extracts ..."
[POETICAL EXTRACTS]. Twenty Six Choice Poetical Extracts selected from Celebrated Authors, and Printed from copper plates Engraved Expressly for the Work, Each embellished with a Beautiful Vignette, Illustrative of the Subject. London. Published by Robert Miller [s.d., c.1820] First edition. 12mo. Engraved title page, 27 engraved leaves printed on rectos only, 12pp of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, some surface loss to boards, worm-hole to upper joint. Hinges exposed, contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, small worm-trail running through lower margins, horizontal tears to two leaves (touching text), foxed and dust-soiled. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21577
Photo of "Miscellanies"
ARMSTRONG, John. Miscellanies. London. Printed for T. Cadell, 1770. First edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. vii, [1], 216; iv, 279pp, [1]. Contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked to style, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Boards rubbed and marked. Inked ownership inscription to head of title page, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21711
Photo of "Legends and lyrics. A book ..."
PROCTER, Adelaide Anne. Legends and lyrics. A book of verses. London. George Bell and Sons, 1881. Thirty-fourth thousand. 12mo. In two volumes. xxxi, [1], 264; vi, 223pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to both FEPs. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23118
Photo of "The poetical works"
WHITE, Henry Kirke. The poetical works. London. William Pickering, 1853. 8vo. lviii, 252pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to FEP, light offsetting to title. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23126
Photo of "The Fruit of the Tree"
WHARTON, Edith. The Fruit of the Tree. London. Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. First U.K. edition. 8vo. [4], 606pp, [10]. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, a trifle cocked. Armorial bookplate of Roberti Marchionis de Crewe to FEP, endpapers browned. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23369
Photo of "The steam-boat"
[GALT, John]. The steam-boat. Edinburgh. William Blackwood, 1822. First edition. 12mo. [2], v, [1], 359pp, [1]. With a half-title and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Recent half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, some loss to corners of leaves K3-6, lightly foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23499
Photo of "Darkness at Noon"
KOESTLER, Arthur. Darkness at Noon. Pennsylvania. The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited ediiton. 8vo. 238pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped black calf, A.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Orange silk moiré endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Signed by the author to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23541
Photo of "Guide to Kulchur"
POUND, Ezra. Guide to Kulchur. [New York]. New Directions Books, [1952]. 8vo. 379pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed, chipping and some slight loss to dustwrapper, spine panel sunned. From the library of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995), with his inked ownership inscription to FFEP and occasional manuscript annotations to text. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23611
Photo of "Scenes and shadows of days ..."
BOWLES, W[illiam] Lisle. Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative... London. William Pickering, 1837. First edition. 8vo. [18], xlv, [1], 118pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, an initial publisher's advertisement a catalogue, and a final advertisement leaf. Original publisher's green buckram, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, lettering-piece chipped. Book-label of J. O. Edwards and pencilled ownership inscription of professor of American literature at the University of Leeds Douglas Grant (1921-1969) to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, frontispiece ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23690
Photo of "[Drop-head title:] The Rolling river"
[BROADSIDE BALLADS]. [Drop-head title:] The Rolling river. [Helston, Cornwall]. R. Woolcock, [s.d., c. 1850] Dimensions 180 x 250 mm. Single leaf broadside. Text within ornamental border. With a woodcut vignette. A trifle creased, some chipping/short tears to margins, later paper repair to lower right-hand corner. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24625
Photo of "Ralph the Heir"
TROLLOPE, Anthony. Ralph the Heir. London. Strahan & Co., 1871. First edition. 8vo. iv, 434pp. With 18 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities heavily rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24889
Photo of "Fables by John Gay, in ..."
GAY, John. MOORE, Edward. Fables by John Gay, in two parts; to which are added fables by Edward Moore. Paris. At the printing office and stereotype foundery of P. Didot the elder, and of F. Didot, 1813. 12mo. [3], 6-235pp, [1]. Without half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, joints split, chipping to head of spine. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription to head of title page, scattered foxing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24994
Photo of "Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and ..."
BRAYLEY, E[dward] W[edlake]. Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire; illustrative of the works of Robert Bloomfield; accompanied with descriptions: to which is annexed, a memoir of the poet's life. London. Published by Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe et al., [1806]. First edition. 8vo. 56pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and additional engraved title page, and a further 13 engraved plates. Bound by C. A. Campling of Yarmouth in contemporary half-vellum, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities discoloured and a trifle rubbed. Scattered foxing, minute worm-track to fore-edge. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 25132