Burgher (Gottfried Augustus) Leonora, first edition in English, translated by W. R. Spencer, engraved frontispiece and 4 plates by Francesco Bartolozzi after designs by Lady Diana Beauclerc, illustrations, text in German and English, light offsetting, light stain to a few upper corners, bookplate, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, single gilt fillet, a little rubbed and soiled, g.e., folio, Printed by T. Bensley; for J. Edwards and E. and S. Harding, 1796. *** The Gothic poem's original German was quoted in Dracula, with one of Jonathan Harker's companions whispering "Denn die Todten reiten Schnell? [For the dead travel fast?]" in the presence of the mysterious coach driver who had 'a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory' (Stoker).
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Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) My African Journey, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, 47 plates, 3 maps including 1 folding, 18pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, foxing, browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, light sunning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, an excellent copy, [Woods A12], 8vo, 1908.
Oxfordshire.- Skelton (Joseph) Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, large paper subscription copy, engraved frontispiece, vignette-title, map and 49 plates on india paper, vignettes, list of subscribers, damp-staining to margins of first few leaves, light occasional foxing affecting plates, contemporary burgundy half morocco, double gilt fillet, upper edges of covers faded, spine ends and corners bumped, Oxford, J. Skelton, 1823 § Lysons (Samuel) A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities, first edition, engraved title, 110 aquatint or etched plates, some hand-coloured, title lightly spotted, occasional marginal spotting to plates, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, morocco spine label, spine ends and corners bumped, rather rubbed, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 § Hastings (T.) Vestiges of Antiquity; A Series of Etchings... of the Ancient Monastery of St. Augustine... Canterbury, first edition, 12 etched plates, tissue-guards, list of subscribers, some light offsetting, original marbled boards with printed label on upper cover, Printed by the author, 1813; and c.15 others, British Topography, including Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, and 2 further subscription copies of Skelton's Engraved Illustrations, one of which large paper, v.s. (c.20)
Bees.- White (William) A Complete Guide to the Mystery and Management of Bees. Containing Instructions how to manage them with respect to their Breeding, Gathering, Swarming, Hiving, Feeding, &c., first edition, engraved frontispiece (inner margin repaired and mounted on stub), with final leaf containing an explanation of the frontispiece, light foxing and soiling, modern half calf, [British Bee Books 123], 8vo, Printed for the Author, [1771].
Essex.- Morant (Philip) The History and Antiquities of the most ancient Town and Borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex, 2 vol., second edition, 9 folding engraved maps, 23 engraved plates only (of 24), extra-illustrated with c.240 engraved maps and plates, a few leaves laid down, a few tears and repairs, occasional light foxing, bookplates, contemporary panelled calf, ruled in gilt and blind, rebacked and recornered, a few light abrasion marks, Chelmsford, Meggy and Chalk, 1815 § Buxton (Edward Norton) Epping Forest, first edition, 9 engraved maps, 5 partially hand-coloured, 4 etched plates, one folding engraved panorama, illustrations, light toning along edges, bookplates, one with ink ownership inscription, contemporary calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments, double morocco spine labels, one loose, t.e.g., slightly bowed, Edward Stanford, 1884 § [Muilman (Peter)] A New and Complete History of Essex, from a Late Survey..., 6 vol., engraved title, 2 folding engraved maps only (of 3), 51 engraved plates only (of 52), a few tears and repairs, light very occasional foxing, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, Chelmsford, Lionel Hassall, 1770-72; and c.60 others, Essex, v.s. (c.70) *** The second work is the rare first edition. Edward Buxton (1840-1924) was a conservationist and advocate for the provision of open, accessible land, particularly near cities. He and his brother Thomas, played a major part in saving Epping Forest and Hainault Forests for public use.
Audubon (John James) Ornithological Biography, vol.1 only (of 5), first edition, half-title, very occasional light spotting, bookplate, original cloth, lower cover detached, upper cover becoming so, spine rather worn and faded, joints rubbed, corners bumped, uncut, Edinburgh &c, 1831; and 13 others, mixed antiquarian, v.s. (14)
Joyce (James) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Tauchnitz edition, light foxing, original printed wrappers, label to upper cover, creasing and browning, Leipzig, 1930 § Arlen (Michael) Man's Mortality, first edition, original cloth, shelf-lean, fraying to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners chipped, some creasing to head and foot, 1933 § Amis (Martin) London Fields, first edition, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, light creasing to head and foot, 1989; and c.140 others, literature, 8vo (c.140)
England.- Pyne (William Henry) The History of the Royal Residences, 3 vol, first edition, 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates by C. Wild, T. Sutherland, and others, some offsetting and light foxing, minor finger soiling to margins of plates, P3 detached in vol 1, lower hinge weak, contemporary dark blue morocco, gilt, gilt spines in compartments, slight scuffing, rubbing to edges and joints, g.e, [Abbey Scenery 396; Adams 132; Tooley 389], A. Dry, 4to, 1819.*** A handsome set of the Royal Residences.
Aesop. The Fables, first trade edition, 23 tipped-in colour plates by E.dward J. Detmold, captioned tissue guards, school prize label to front pastedown, original pictorial tan cloth, gilt, slight fading to spine, [1909] § Kipling (Rudyard) A Song of the English, first trade edition, tipped-in colour plates by W.Heath Robinson, light spotting at beginning and end, blue cloth with gilt-decorated cloth from original binding mounted on upper cover and spine, 1909 § Maeterlinck (Maurice) The Blue Bird, tipped-in colour plates by F.Cayley Robinson, ink inscription to half-title, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, [1911] § Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát, decorative borders and Illustrations printed in turquoise, tipped-in colour plates by Willy Pogány, original decorated limp brown morocco, gilt, g.e., n.d., 4to & 8vo (4)
Plath (Sylvia) "Witch Burning" in Texas Quarterly, pp. 84, vol. 4 no. 3, a special issue, original wrappers, bumping to spine with some loss to spine ends, tape repairs to spine, slight staining to covers, rubbed, Texas, Autumn 1961 § Hughes (Ted) Season Songs, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, a little bumped, dust-jacket, slight bumping to spine ends and flap joints, a few small nicks and tears to edges, 1976; and many others related to or by Ted Hughes, of which 4 are first editions, v.s. (17)*** The Texas Quarterly is one of the earliest appearances of Sylvia Plath's "Witch Burning", and it also includes two works by Ted Hughes, his short story, "Miss Mambrett and The Wet Cellar", and the poem "Two Poems for a Verse Play".
Einstein (Albert) The Meaning of Relativity, first English edition, endpapers browned, original cloth, blind-stamped, lightly discoloured and rubbed, 8vo, 1922. *** This work is the English translation of four lectures Einstein gave at Princeton in 1921. The English edition precedes the American edition.
Pascal (Blaise) Pensees. Sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont este trouvees apres sa mort parmy ses papiers, second edition, first issue, light browning, the odd spot, later red morocco, gilt, covers detached, g.e., Paris, Guillaume Desprez, 1670; and 4 others, French, in red morocco, 12mo (5)
Cruikshank (George).- The Bachelor's Own Book being The Progress of Mr.Lambkin (Gent.) in the Persuit of Pleasure and Amusememt..., first edition, first issue with miss-spellings in the title, signed presentation inscription from Cruikshank to front endpaper, etched throughout with pictorial title and 24 etchings on 12 plates, all detached at gutter and loose, original cloth-backed stiff card pictorial wrappers, D. Bogue, 1844; Dickens (Charles) & William Makepeace Thackeray. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, first edition first issue, with "wine" for "vine" in the fifth stanza, 10 etchings by Cruikshank, 4ff. advertisements at rear, a little soiling, original pictorial gilt cloth, very slightly rubbed at extremities, Charles Tilt, 1839; Monsieur Tonson, etchings by Cruikshank, 3pp. advertisements at rear, original pictorial wrappers, slightly toned and soiled, Marsh and Miller, 1830; and another similar, v.s. (4)
Jackson (Richard) Literatura Graeca, first edition, a few leaves detached, a few small paper flaws, chipping to spine ends, splitting to upper joint, some wear to corners, extremities rubbed, for F. Newbury, 1769 § [Hurd (Richard), translator.] Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae ad Pisones, et Augustum: with an English Commentary and Notes..., 2 vol., second edition, engraved headpieces at start of text, very occasional water-staining to margins, gilt spines, very light sunning to spines and vol. 1 lower cover, a few light stains and scuffs to covers, for W. Thurlbourne, 1753 § Burman (Peter), editor. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, ink ownership stamp to verso of title, spine with vertical split, but holding, upper joint splitting, extremities quite worn, [Gaskell 673], Glasgow, Foulis, 1784; occasional soiling or light spotting, some light browning, mostly to margins, contemporary calf; and others, Classics, seventeenth and eighteenth century, v.s. (12)
Architecture.- Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus) De Architettura libri decem, edited by Luigi Marini, 3 vol. only (of 4, lacking plate vol.), text only, bookplate of the Reynolds Library, contemporary half vellum, gilt-stamped roan labels "Presented by Hiram Sibley" to upper covers, rubbed and soiled, labels scuffed, [BAL 3506], Rome, Marini, 1836; another edition, edited by Johann Gottlob Schneider, 3 vol., slight water-staining to upper edge of vol.1, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red roan labels, rubbed, [BAL 3504], Leipzig, G.J.Göschen, 1837-38, folio & 4to (6)*** Two scholarly editions of Vitruvius. Luigi Marini (1768-1838) was the first to apply modern methods of textual criticism to establish what Vitruvius actually wrote. The volumes of his edition were given to the Reynolds Library, Rochester, New York, by the American industrialist Hiram Sibley (1807-88), president of the Western Union Telegraph Company.
White (Patrick) Voss. A Novel, first edition, pages slightly cockled from damp at foot, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light dust-soiling and rubbing to joints and folds, with original wrap-around band, sunned over spine, 1957 § Huxley (Aldous) Ape and Essence, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, variously slightly browned and spotted, ligth wear with tiny nicks to spine and fold ends, 1949 § Moore (George) Esther Waters. A Novel, first edition, 9ff. advertisements at rear, ownership blindstamp to several ff., a few minor instances of soiling, upper hinges cracked at head, original cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed and spine ends bumped, 1894; and 6 others 20th century literature, 8vo (9)
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, new impression, 2 folding maps, some foxing, original pictorial cloth, 1900; and 12 others, Churchill, including a first edition of Ian Hamilton's March, 1900, and 6 vol. set of The Chartwell Edition of the The Second World War, [1955], v.s., v.d. (13).
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, black and white illustrations, endpapers toned, contemporary gift inscription on front free endpapers, some marginal spotting, original cloth, spine faded, extremities bumped and rubbed, portion of loss to spine head, light spotting marks to upper board, 4to, 1894.
Lawrence (T.E.) The Letters..., edited by David Garnett, first edition, Herbert Wilson Bailey's copy with his ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper along with laid-down compliments slip from the Lawrence Trustees, maps and plates, slight toning to endpapers, original cloth, light rubbing to extremities, large 8vo, 1938.*** A good association copy, belonging to Herbert Wilson Bailey (fl.1914-52), a private in the Machine Gun Corps with the Hejaz Armoured Car Company, served under Lawrence at Azrak, the oasis near Aqaba from where he led the raids to disrupt the Hejaz railway in 1917-1918 during the Arab Revolt.
Blake (William).- Gilchrist (Alexander) Life of William Blake, 2 vol., first edition, plates, original decorated cloth, gilt, rubbed, spines a little faded, recased, preserved in modern cloth slip-case, 1863 § Keynes (Geoffrey) A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet, one of 525 copies signed by the author, colour plates, original morocco-backed marbled boards, slip-case, Trianon Press, 1964; The Complete Portraiture of William & Catherine Blake, one of 562 copies, plates, original morocco-backed cloth, slip-case, Trianon Press, 1977; Blake Studies, first edition, signed & inscribed by the author to Bent Juel-Jensen on front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1949; and 3 others on Blake, 8vo & 4to (8)
Blake (William) America: A Prophecy, 1963; Europe: A Prophecy, 1969, each one of 480 copies, from editions limited to 526, collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil, original dark blue or tan morocco-backed marbled boards, t.e.g., the first rubbed at foot of spine, marbled board slip-cases; There Is No Natural Religion, 2 vol., out-of-series deluxe copy with a set of progressive plates, from an edition limited to 616 (50 deluxe), collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil, with additional plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process and a guide-sheet & stencil bound at end, original tan morocco, together with prospectus in marbled board slip-case, 1971; All Religions are One, number 265 of 600 copies, from an edition limited to 662, collotype plates, original green morocco-backed marbled boards, slip-case, 1970, v.s., Trianon Press (4)
Hirst (Damien) I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, With Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now., first edition, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, light marking, White Cube, 1997 § Rothenstein (John) & Ronald Alley. Francis Bacon, first edition, plates, original boards, dust-jacket, extremities a little rubbed, 1964; and 10 others, art reference, v.s. (12)
Ogilby (John) Aesopicks: or, A second collection of fables, paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations, second edition, first half with blank portions ?possibly guide spaces for illustrations, but thereafter to second half with 32 engraved plates (only, ?of 69) after Hollar, Barlow and Stoop, ink ownership inscription to title, tiny worm-hole to fore-margin of most ff., otherwise generally quite clean, modern calf, [Wing A699], by the author, 1673.*** Described as the 'second edition', the 8vo possibly following the folio edition. ESTC lists 69 engraved plates, but comparable copies are scarce, and this copy indicates an interesting printing story with the combination of illustration blank spaces and the numerous engraved plates, scaled down from their folio counterparts.
Ravilious (Eric) For Shop Use Only: Curwen & Dent Stock Blocks & Devices, one of 75 copies of Edition A , from an edition of 87 special copies with portfolio and from a total edition limited to 425, original wood-engraving by Ravilious tipped in, 17 wood-engravings in thin mount cards only (of 20), illustrations printed in red and black, cloth backed boards, navy cloth slipcase, a few small stains to upper cover, Wiltshire, Devizes, 1993 § Gray (Thomas) Poems by Mr. Gray, first Dublin edition, signed by Christopher Anstey to G1, engraved frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, engraved in-text illustrations, bound with Elegia Inglese del signor Tommaso Gray, Sopra un Cimitero di Campagna, some light browning and occasional offsetting, spotting, ink inscription and remnants of bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary calf, spine cracked, becoming detached but holding, joints cracked, worn, Dublin, William Sleater, 1775 § Elton (Godfrey) The Cuckoo: A Study in Spring, one of 100 privately printed copies, presentation inscription from the author to front pastedown, foxing to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, slight browning, edges uncut, 1927; and several other works v.s (c. 20).
Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush) A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour..., 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, additional engraved vignette titles, 76 aquatint plates only (of 80, lacking plates 12, 13, 14 & 42), 70 finely hand-coloured, many heightened with gold, tissue-guards, fine hand-coloured initials to chapters heightened with gold or silver (silver tarnished), titles foxed, some other light spotting or soiling, mostly marginal, plate 35 becoming loose, vol.2 B1 with small tears to outer margin, contemporary half calf, double morocco spine labels, rubbed, some wear to boards, folio, Robert Jennings, 1824.
Hardy (Thomas) The Trumpet-Major, first edition, 5 plates and 27 in-text illustrations by John Collier, as issued, in Good Words for 1880, frontispiece, 23 plates, a few tears, occasionally into text, a few surface marks, very occasional light spotting, occasional foxing, original cloth, gilt spine and upper cover, small stains to upper cover, a little bumping and wear, later endpapers, g.e., [Purdy p.32-33], 4to, Ibister and Company, 1880. *** The first appearance of Thomas Hardy's novel before its book form. Included in this work is Sarah Berenger by Jean Ingelow.
A Royal Crown Derby Limited Edition Paradise Cobalt egg with certificate in a presentation box , together with 2 Royal Crown Derby Fluted rim plates in the Pinxton Rose pattern 119.5cm & 25.5cm in diameter , first quality in good condition , together with a Royal Crown derby Vine Cobalt plate (seconds) and a Vine Cobalt plate with a floral patterned centre, diameter 25.5cm , all with no chips, cracks or restoration (5)
Cookery:- May, Robert. 1665 The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery. Wherein the whole Art is revealed in a more easie and perfect Method, then hath been publisht in any Language. The second edition, approved by the fifty five years Experience and Industray of Robert May. Printed by R. Wood for Nath. Brooke. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, folding plate of Tarts Royal opp. p.242 and pies opp. p.256, two extra leaves of illustrations bound in opp. pages 246 & 247, as well as vignette woodcut engravings throughout. 20pp of publisher's advertisements bound to verso. Later full calf binding, blind stamped boards & spine, gilt titles to spine, renewed endpapers, the first orig. leaf being frontispiece engraving & final leaf the end of publisher's advertisements & Finis. Ownership bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston to verso of title page. Contents including baked meats, pyes, tarts, custards, cheesecakes and florentines, as well as directions for carving & sewing meats and fish. An excellent and scarce copy of this early cookbook, one of the first works to make use of turkey & potatoes recently brought from the Americas, as well as one of the first recipe books to logically group recipes. Scarcely seen complete with both folding plates. Small 8vo.
Humour & wit. 1825 The Laughing Philosopher, being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus, Democritus, the Merry Philosopher of Greece, and their Illustrious Disciples Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay etc. Translated into our English Vernacular tongue by John Bull Esq. Publ. Sherwood, Jones and Co. et al. Publisher's orig. full straight grain morocco binding with gilt tooled spine & titles & gilt emblem and title to front board, engraved frontispiece. Light edgewear to extremities, occ. staining to boards, odd spot internally. An uncommon first edition of this satirical work, anonymously compiled by Charles Lamp & Thomas Hood. Square 16mo.
Bindings:- Sterne, Laurence. 1773 A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick, a new edition in two volumes printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt; and 1775 Letters from Yorick to Eliza, a New edition printed for G. Kearsly and T. Evans, bound with 1762 Poems on Several Occasional by Elizabeth Carter, first edition. Each bound in full calf, two vol Sentimental Journey with recovered boards, each with gilt red morocco spine labels, some light rubbing, slight loss to the tail of the spine of vol II, pencil inscription to ffep of Letters & Poems, etched ownership bookplate of Thomas Sherman to front pastedown of two volumes. 12mo.
Bindings. 1811 The Arabian Nights Entertainments, carefully revised and occasionally corrected from the Arabic. By Jonathan Scott LL.D. With engravings from paintings by Smirke. Six volumes, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Engraved frontispiece to each volume (a touch spotted). Full red calf, gilt tooled spine, raised bands, titles & borders, blind stamped borders, marbled edges & endpapers. Ownership bookplate of John Borthwick to verso of title page of each volume. Spines faded & a touch rubbed, odd mark & scuff to boards. The first Scott translated edition of this work. 8vo.
Bindings. 1828 A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving in four volumes. First edition, publ. John Murray. Full calf with morocco spine labels, gilt tooled spines and borders, marbled edges & endpapers. Folding chart of the tracks across the North Atlantic Ocean to first volume, and folding chart of the West Indies with the adjacent coast of South America to rear of volume II. Loosely inserted, a c1775 letter note in Latin with dates 1538 - 1756, initialled signature JBS dated 1770 - 1775. Odd light scratch to boards, otherwise a beautiful first edition of this fictional biography of Columbus' exploration of the globe. 8vo.
Bindings:- poetry. 1767 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: consigning of Old Heroic Ballands, Songs, and other Pieces of our Earlier Poets. The second edition in three volumes, printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. Contemp. full tan calf bindings, spines a touch discoloured & dried, odd stain, occ. rubbing to boards. First vol complete with errata & 2pp of publisher's advertisements bound to rear, illustrated vignette title page, each vol finished with vignette woodcut engraving. First two volumes with ownership bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston to front pastedown. 12mo.
Bindings. 1771 A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries upon several heads in our English Antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's preface and appendix to the former edition. In two volumes. Printed by and for W. and J. Richardson. Full speckled calf binding, morocco spine labels, gilt tooling to spines. Occ. light loss to the calf at extremities and raised bands. Folding engraved plate to first volume depicting King Edward the Confessor's chapel. An uncommon late 18th century work on English antiquities, edited by Thomas Hearne. 8vo.
Bindings. 1837-8 A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, by the late John Kay, miniature painter, Edinburgh. With biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes. Publ. Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder. Two volumes in smart tan half calf with green cloth boards, morocco gilt spine labels & gilded raised bands, light bumping to the head & tails of the spines and extremities, speckled edges. Lavishly illlustrated with etched plates; vol I collated & complete with 170 and frontispiece portrait, vol II with 159 incl. a folding plate, as well as 28 etchings bound to rear, and frontispiece. An excellent first edition of Kay's collection of caricatures depicting popular Scottish figures of the time. 4to.
Austen, Jane. c1897 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, author of Price and Prejudice, Mansfield Park etc. etc. Printed Boots Ltd., Cash Chemists, Pelham Street Nottingham. Publisher's original green cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine & front board, paint stains to upper corner of front board and to top of rear board, bindings strained & exposed at front hinge, loss to pastedown & ffep, prior ownership stamps to front pastedown and first page, age-toned leaves & spine a little cocked. A scarce & early edition from the Boots Booklover's Library. 8vo.
Bindings. 1814 Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian. by Nathan Drake M.D. Second edition, published by Suttaby, Evance and Fox. Full navy straight grain morocco, decorative gilt spines, raised bands, borders, dentelles & edges, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author to first volume & engraved topographical plate frontispiece to second two volumes, odd scuff to boards, extremities lightly bumped, otherwise a fine set. 16mo.
Roman history. 1764 The Private Life of the Romans translated from the French of M. D'Arnay, the second edition printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid; and 1769 The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire. By Dr. Goldsmith. in two volumes, printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh. Contemp. full calf bindings, some rubbing to the boards, extremities bumped, ownership inscriptions to front pastedown of the Goldsmith volumes, first vol with spine label loose but present, spines dried & rubbed with loss to heads and tails. 8vo.
Pope, Alexander. 1744 The Dunciad in Four Books. Printed according to the complete Copy found in the Year 1742. with the Prolegomena of Scriblerues, and Notes Variorum. London Printed, and Dublin Re-printed for G. and A. Ewing at the Angel and Bible in Dame Street. Contemp. full calf binding, orig. gilt morocco spine label, front board loose but present, some occ. rubbing, loss to the tail of the spine, extremities bumped, lacking ffep, contemp. ownership inscription of Graves Aickins to title page. An early edition of Pope's epic, printed the year following the first complete edition. 12mo.
Bindings:- Shakespeare, William. 1813 The Plays of William Shakspeare in Twenty-One Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To Which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Revised and Augments by Isaac Reed. The sixth edition. Printed for J. Nichols and Son. Full tan calf binding, gilt detail & tooling to spine and borders, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece of the author to first vol. Ownership bookplate of John Borthwick of Crookston to verso of title page of each volume, no further inscriptions. Light shelfwear & rubbing to extremities, occ. light chipping to tails of spines, internally bindings are tight & pages clean. An exceptional early 19th century collection of the works of Shakespeare. 8vo.
Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland with 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, published Macmillan & Co 1867, first edition (8th thousand), frontispiece with tissue guard, bound in publisher's gilt decorated red cloth (spine wear and front cover detached but pages paginate complete). Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (c.1900) by Gresham Publishing, in colour decorated cloth (2)
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