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[BANNATYNE CLUB]. [TYTLER, Patrick Fraser]. Ane New Bannatyne Garland. [Edinburgh]. [s.n.], 1829. First edition. 8vo. 7pp, [1]. Contemporary green paper wrappers. Lightly rubbed. Internally immaculate. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28587

[BANNATYNE CLUB]. [TYTLER, Patrick Fraser]. A Bannatyne Garland. Edinburgh. [s.n.], 1824. First edition. 8vo. [2], iii pp, [1]. Contemporary green paper wrappers. Rubbed and sunned. Internally immaculate. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28588

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OVID. Ovid's epistles: with his amours. Translated into English Verse, By the Most Eminent Hands. London. Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1736. 12mo. [24], 348pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 10 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. Rubbed, marked, and bumped, upper joint starting, loss to head and foot of spine. Later inked ownership inscription to FEP, loss to FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28638

DRINKWATER, John. Abraham Lincoln. London. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918. First edition. 8vo. 74pp. Original publisher's red card wraps, lettered in black, with title label to the rubbed and marked spine. Internally bright and clean with the author's ink inscription on the half title 'To Alfred Hayes, from John Drinkwater, October, 1918'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28730

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[HUDDESFORD, George]. Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. First edition. Quarto. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut in modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28910

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[GRESWELL, William Parr]. The Monastery of Saint Werburgh: a poem, with illustrative notes. [Manchester]. [Printed by Henry Smith], 1823. First edition. 8vo in 4s. 48pp. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper board. Extremities worn and marked, loss to spine panel and printed paper lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, marginal damp-staining to head of text-block. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29024

SHEPPERLEY, William. Chatterton. London. Published by the Bowyer Press...and sold by the author on his city stand in Lothbury, [1914]. First edition. Quarto. 32pp. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Extremities rubbed, creased, and marked. Foxed. Presentation copy, inked ownership inscription to verso of title page: 'Very Sincerely, / William Shepperley / Jan. V. MCMXIV.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29029

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate. London. Macmillan and Co., 1902. 8vo. viii, 900pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound by Truelove & Hanson of London in contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, green cloth boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of T. Trevor Spencer to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of FFEP: 'Laticia Spencer / from her affectionate Father / T. Trevor Spencer / December 1st 1904.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29059

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HAZLITT, William. Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of elizabeth... London. Stodart and Steuart, 1820. First edition. 8vo. viii, 356pp, [4]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Very occasional marginal manuscript annotations, recent typed booksellers descriptions pasted to rear blank endpapers. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29244

BARTON, Bernard. Napoleon, and other poems. London. Printed for Thomas Boys, 1822. First edition. 8vo. xv, [3], 256pp. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, joints starting, loss to spine, lettering-piece chipped, corners bumped. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29256

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[SOUTHEY, Robert]. Bishop hatto: a legend of the mouse-tower on the rhine. London. Hamilton & Adams, [1861]. First edition. Quarto. [10] leaves. Illustrated throughout. Original publisher's limp blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29257

GRAY, David. The luggie and other poems. Cambridge. Macmillan and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xlviii, 151pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary green morocco, tooled in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Endpapers browned, bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29277

RUTHERFORD, W. TELFORD, J. A selection of Poems and Songs. Gateshead-on-Tyne. Howe Brothers, 1878. First edition. 8vo. 103pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Rubbed, marked, spine dulled. Recent bookplate of R. W. Martin to FEP, upper board and initial gathering held by cords only. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29296

ARKWRIGHT, John S.. The supreme sacrifice. London. Skeffington and Son, Ltd., 1919. First edition. 8vo. 78pp, [2]. With a terminal colophon leaf. Original publisher's black rexine, lettered and tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt, ribbon frayed. Corners bumped with small losses to spine. Internally bright save light toning. Loosely inserted are two hymn sheets, one bifold with music for The Supreme Sacrifice, and a single lyric leaf of 'hymn for the new year'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29345

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[ROYAL AQUARIUM THEATRE]. Royal aquarium theatre, westminster...Monday, may 22nd, to saturday, may 27th...A New Drama, in Three Acts, by Mr. j. p. burnett, entitled, "jo.". [London]. [Charles Dickens and Evans, printers to the Royal Aquarium], [1876]. Single bifolium. [4]pp. A trifle creased, small hole to head of gutter, pencil note to head of title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29613

BOWDLER, Mrs. [Jane]. Poems and essays... Bath. Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1787. Fourth edition. 8vo. In two volumes. vii, [3], 233, [1]; [6], 216pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, later rebacked and recornered, preserving contemporary back-strips. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscriptions of R. J. Wilkinson to front blank fly-leaves, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29665

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CARTER, Mary Ann. The deluge, the general resurrection, and other poems, historical, descriptive, &c. London. Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1838. First edition. 8vo. vi, [6], 136pp. With a list of subscriber's tipped-in errata slip. Modern brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Light spotting, ink-stamp of Nottingham Public Libraries and manuscript note of sale to verso of title page. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29717

KHAYYÁM, Omar. Quatrains of omar khayyám. London. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Quarto. [60pp]. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Bookplate of A. A. Piggot to FEP, with inked ownership inscription of the same dated 1910 to first blank fly-leaf. Spotting to endpapers and initial leaves. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29895

BLUNDEN, Edmund. Masks of time. London. Beaumont Press, 1925. First edition. 8vo. [16], 58pp. Original publisher's quarter vellum, lettered gilt, with green and orange paper pattern boards. Fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Minor bumping to corners, spine a little sunned, internally bright save a little toning to edges. One of eighty printed on Japanese vellum, of which this is no 33. With the signatures of the author, illustrator Randolph Schwabe, and publisher Cyril William Beaumont. A further ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29903

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BENSON, E. F.. The vintage. a romance of the greek war of independence. London. Methuen & Co., 1898. First edition. 8vo. 397pp, [40]. With twelve black and white illustrated plates. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Worn to extremities, spine darkened and chipped with loss at head and foot. A little foxing to paste downs and endpapers, otherwise internally bright. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 30037