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Poems

By: Gray, Thomas

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Privately printed for Eton College by The Medici Society 1937: 1937

Seller ID: 58208

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Near Fine

87 pp. Eton prize with prize leaf after first blank. Lord Craigmyle's copy. Full vellum with gilt device to front board & gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Bevelled edges. Vellum fresh. Internally clean. A nice copy.
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The Life of Thomas Chatterton

By: Gregory, G.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, G. Kearsley 1789: 1789

Seller ID: 23065

Binding: 1/4 Calf

Condition: Very Good

viii., 264 pp. Engraved frontispiece of text from 'Kew Gardens' bound in a recent 1/4 brown speckled calf with red morocco title label, marbled edges. Some spotting to prelims, and pencil notes in the margins.
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The Attic Theatre a Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians, and of the Dramatic Performances at Athens

By: Haigh, A E

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1898: 1898

Seller ID: 42849

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

xv, 420 pp., Illustrated with some b/w photographic plates. Bound in a handsome full calf prize binding with gilt emblem on upper board, gilt lines and decorative panels on spine by Merchant Taylor. Prize giving plate on pastedown. Minor marks to upper board.
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Food in England

By: Hartley, Dorothy

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald 1962: 1954

Seller ID: 56099

Binding: 1/4 Morocco

Condition: Very Good

xii, 13-676 pp. Recently bound in quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decorations & lettering. New endpapers. No ownership names. Numerous in-text illustrations.
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Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX 3 Volumes in 2

By: Herodoti [ Herodotus ]

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, W. Baxter 1820: 1820

Seller ID: 40347

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

GREEK-LATIN TEXT 3 vols in 2. 1300 pp, some marks to vellum and foxing to pages dated 1820-1822
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Lost Horizon

By: Hilton, James

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1933: 1933

Seller ID: 40490

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

281 pp, dustwrapper is bound in rear of book. A Sotherans binding in grey half leather with grey boards t.e.g. gilt lettered spine with green title labels. Bottom front leather corner is initialled R.K. with previous owners book plate on f.e.p. some rubbing to hinges and mark to spine label .
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Wedgwood Ware

By: Honey, W. B.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber 1948: 1950

Seller ID: 57168

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Specially bound edition. xv, 35, + 96 plates, pp. Full green morocco with vertical gilt lines to front & rear boards and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Binding by the Collectors Book Club. Some fading to spine. Two leaves loose. Boards bright. Internally clean. No ownership names. With four colour and 96 b&w plates.
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An Historical Essay on Architecture. In Two Volumes

By: HOPE, Thomas

Price: £475.00

Publisher: London, John Murray 1840: 1840

Seller ID: 5506

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes with Analytical Index [1836] at rear of Vol. 1. xx, 525, verso errata, (iv), 90; xii, [98 plates]. Contemporary red levant morocco. Spines gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and inner dentelles. Slight wear to extremities and boards slightly marked. Bookplate to front paste-downs. Scattered foxing, affecting most plates. 98 full-page engraved architectural plates.
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Standard Novels No XXVI Anasthius [Bentley Standard Novels]

By: HOPE, Thomas

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley 1833: 1833

Seller ID: 46985

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

414 pp., Mildly foxed engraved frontis and full title, folding map. Contemporary blue morocco half calf with blue boards and marbled edges by Riviere. Very strong copy, with strikingly clean text block. A touch of rubbing to edges, and a hint of fading to boards.
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Of Aucassin and Nicolette : A Translation in Prose and Verse From the Old French Together With Amabel and Amoris

By: Housman, Laurence

Price: £225.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus 1925: 1925

Seller ID: 55933

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

This is copy no. 117 of an edition limited to 160 copies signed by Paul Woodroffe and Laurence Housman. 106 pp. Full morocco with gilt decoration to boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. Marbled endpapers. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Illustrations by Paul Woodroffe. Head and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press. In Near Fine condition.
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Venetian Life. Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition Vol. 2132

By: Howells, William D.

Price: £950.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz 1883: 1883

Seller ID: 57951

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Near Fine

Fore-Edge Painting. 391 pp. Contemporary elaborately painted full vellum with gilt decoration and inital letter in gilt frame to front board. Painted calligraphy title to spine. All edges gilt. With recent fore-edge painting of scene of Venice by modern artist Martin Frost. Label signed by Martin Frost tipped-into verso of front endpaper. Boards clean. Internally clean. Painted decoration to front panel bright and fresh. A very attractive copy.
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Hawk in the Rain

By: Hughes, Ted

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber 1957: 1957

Seller ID: 59375

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Fine

59 pp. Recently bound in half black morocco over dark blue cloth. Raised bands to spine with maroon leather title & author labels. New endpapers. Hughes' first collection of poems.
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Oeuvres de Victor Hugo. In twenty-one volumes

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: £600.00

Publisher: Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur N.d. [c. 1875]: 1875

Seller ID: 59271

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

In 21 volumes. Contemporary dark brown half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt panels & lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Kauffmann-Petit. All bindings fresh. Gilt spines bright. All internally clean. No foxing. Head and tail-pieces. Text in French. Nicely bound selection of Hugo's works in Near Fine to Fine condition.
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Histoire D'Angleterre, Depuis L'Invasion de Jules-Cesar Jusqu'a la Revolution de 1688. Forty volumes bound as twenty

By: Hume, David, et continuee par Goldsmith et W. Jones

Price: £450.00

Publisher: Paris, A. Hocquart Jeune, Editeur / P.-H. Krabbe, Editeur 1830 / 1834: 1830

Seller ID: 50560

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

40 volumes bound as 20. 9cm x 14cm. Contemporary brown full leather. Decorative gilt to spines with maroon leather title labels. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Ribbon markers. Bound by Relieur Bazas. Occasional minor marks to boards. Scattered light foxing. Frontis portrait engraving. Additional engravings, some folding. Text in French. Gilt spines bright. A fresh and handsome VG to Near Fine set.
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4 Plays By William Inge - Come Back, Little Sheba ; Picnic ; Bus Stop ; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

By: Inge, William

Price: £150.00

Publisher: New York, Random House 1958: 1958

Seller ID: 39978

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

x, 304 pp., Pretty light brown half calf with brown cloth boards, by Sotheran's. TEG, gilt bordered panels on spine. Significant cuffing to the lower extremity of rear board with a portion of discolouration and loss. Corner monogrammed with prev owner's initials.
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The Ingoldsby Legends

By: INGOLDSBY, Thomas

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley 1882: 1882

Seller ID: 23256

Binding: Full Calf - Prize Binding

Condition: Very Good

417 pp. full dark green prize binding with a red morocco title label, marbled endboards. With the stamp of Kendrick Schools, Reading on the front board.
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Picturesque Views, with An Historical Account of the Inns of Court, in London and Westminster

By: Ireland, Samuel

Price: £750.00

Publisher: London, Printed by C. Clarke and Published By R. Faulder and J. Egerton 1800: 1800

Seller ID: 35667

Binding: Gilt-decorated Calf

Condition: Near Fine

xvi., 254, errata leaf. 21 sepia aquatints of the Inns of Court. Bound in a very pleasant full tan calf executed by Baytun Riviere. Black and red title labels, and compartments filled with a leaf and berry design. Gilt lines to the boards, with a leaf and berry design towards the corners between lines. Blind stamped vine-leaf border panel in the middle of each board. Gilt inner-dentelles, and all edges gilt, 236 mm tall. A beautiful volume. Samuel Ireland was the father of the Shakespeare forger W. H. Ireland.
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Standard Novels No XLIX. Tales of the Alhambra, the Last of the Abencerages, the Involuntary Prophet [Bentley Standard Novels]

By: IRVING, Washington; Chateuabriand; Horace Smith

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley 1835: 1835

Seller ID: 46982

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

viii, 395 pp., engraved frontis and full title. Contemporary blue morocco half calf with blue boards and marbled edges by Riviere. Very strong copy, with strikingly clean text block. A touch of rubbing to edges, and a hint of fading to boards.
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

By: Johnson, Samuel

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for J. Ogle 1811: 1811

Seller ID: 58633

Binding: Full Tree Calf

Condition: Very Good

186 pp. Contemporary full tree calf with leather title label to spine. Corners bumped. Early ink name to title-page. Boards clean. Internally clean. Binding firm.
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Junius - stat nominis umbra A New Edition (2 Volumes)

By: Junius

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, T. Bensley 1805: 1805

Seller ID: 33778

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

252 and 284 pp, illustrated with 21 portrait engravings red and black labelled half calf bindings with gilt lettering, some wear to edges.
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