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The Imitation of Christ

By: A'Kempis, Thomas

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Asprey & Co. , Ltd. N.d. [c. 1920's]: 1920

Seller ID: 60658

Condition: Near Fine

328 pp. Contemporary gilt-decorated maroon full morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels & lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Asprey publication. Slight spotting to prelims. Offsetting to endpapers. Gilt bright. Internally clean. An attractive copy. Although not signed, Asprey had their books bound by Zaehnsdorf during this period.
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The Education of Henry Adams Illustrated with Portraits of the Author's Family, of His Friends, and of Leading Figures of the Day

By: Adams, Henry

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Franklin Centre, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library 1981: 1981

Seller ID: 42311

Condition: Near Fine

xix, 535 pp., Full gilt decorated maroon leather binding. AEG. Several b/w illustrations
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Jack Sheppard

By: Ainsworth, W. Harrison

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, [Bentley's Miscellany] 1839: 1839

Seller ID: 51630

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Original issues from Bentley's Miscellany. Bound in dark maroon full calf. Five raised bands to spine with gilt title lettering. Top edge gilt. Leather turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Spine slightly faded to brown. A few minor marks to boards. Full page engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank. Some plates slightly darkened at edges. Bound from the original parts published during 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany. A very fresh and attractive Near Fine copy.
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co, Ltd 1901: 1901

Seller ID: 46174

Condition: Very Good

xxxii, 286 pp. Dark green full morocco. Spine gilt with five raised bands. Attractive gilt floral design to front board. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. All edges gilt. Spine slightly faded but gilt bright. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

By: ANDERSEN, Hans

Price: £2,500.00

Publisher: London, Constable & Co. Ltd 1913: 1913

Seller ID: 30657

Condition: Near Fine

290 pp. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 12. Signed by W. Heath Robinson. Recently handsomely rebound in a richly gilt-illustrated red morocco at the Chelsea Bindery, with ornamental gilt stamping on front, raised gilt bands on spine, gilt line along edges and dentelling on the endpapers. Wonderful illustrations: 94 in black and white, and 16 in full colour. Gorgeous.
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A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands. Golden Treasury Series

By: Anon [Yonge, Charlotte M.]

Price: £195.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co. 1892: 1892

Seller ID: 55046

Condition: Fine

xi, 454 pp. Gilt-decorated maroon full morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and lettering. All edges gilt. Prize binding with gilt school device of the Godolphin School, Hammersmith, to front board and prize bookplate to front pastedown. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Bound by Bickers. Title-page vignette. Minor spotting to prelims. A bright and Fine copy.
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Ring Round the Moon a Charade with Music

By: Anouilh, Jean

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd 1950: 1950

Seller ID: 39824

Condition: Near Fine

104 pp., Very nice Red half morocco binding with red boards and gilt ornamented panels on spine by Hatchards. Bookplate on front pastedown, Prev owner's initials monogrammed on corner of front board. Minor wear to edges of boards. Small gouge to leather on rear board
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Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold. Golden Treasury Series

By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1902: 1902

Seller ID: 58632

Condition: Very Good

vii, 235 pp. Gilt-decorated full green morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Bound by Morley Bros. Minor rubbing to boards. Gilt owner's initials to front board and heraldic 'Pelican in her Piety' device. Slight foxing to prelims. Title-page vignette.
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The Poems of Matthew Arnold 1840-1867

By: Arnold, Matthew with an introduction by A. T. Quiller-Couch

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, Humphrey Milford 1913: 1913

Seller ID: 49517

Condition: Near Fine

xxvii, 460 pp. Half morocco over blue cloth. Five raised bands to spine with gilt panels and title. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Early ink name to first blank. Frontis portrait engraving by Emery Walker. Solid copy. VG
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Shorter Works

By: Austen, Jane

Price: £110.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society 1964: 1964

Seller ID: 58890

Condition: Fine

x, 303 pp. Recently bound in maroon half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and green leather title label. New endpapers. Bound by J. S. Fellowes. Very clean copy. No ownership marks. Illustrated with wood-engraved decorations by Joan Hassall.
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Pride and Prejudice

By: Austen, Jane

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London & Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press N.d. [c. 1920's]: 1920

Seller ID: 59371

Condition: Near Fine

410 pp. Bound in a recent quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decorations and black leather title & author labels. New endpapers. Illustrated title-page. Illustrations by Lex De Renault.
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Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems

By: Aytoun, William Edmondstoune

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons 1881: 1881

Seller ID: 50273

Condition: Near Fine

359 pp. All edges gilt, Suttaby binding. Some wear to edges. Brown morocco with gilt decoration of Scottish arms, marbled endpages.
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The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon

By: Baker, Sir Samuel W.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co 1892: 1892

Seller ID: 40506

Condition: Very Good

353 pp, illustrated in b/w (with a colour plate of a 'hunting leopard' stuck on inside front board. A Relfe Brothers prize binding in half vellum with blue marbled boards a prize binding gilt decorated newport grammer school stamp to front cover
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English Landscape an Anthology

By: BARING, Maurice

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press 1916: 1916

Seller ID: 46258

Condition: Very Good

122 pp, a de coverley binding in brown leather with gilt lettering and page edges, some marks to spine and name in ink on front page, compiled for the relief of russian prisoners.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton N.d. [1920's]: 1925

Seller ID: 56473

Condition: Very Good

vii, 126, (1) pp. Recently bound in half green morocco over marbled boards. Original map endpapers at front. New endpapers at rear. Early ink inscription to recto of frontis. With sixteen tipped-in & tissue-guarded colour plates by Arthur Rackham.
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.

By: Bartlett, John

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co. 1902: 1902

Seller ID: 59736

Condition: Very Good

Ninth edition. xv, 1158 pp. Contemporary full morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Some fading to spine. Boards clean. Internally clean. Binding firm.
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Gvlielmi Shakespeare Carmina Qvae Sonnets Nvncvpantvr : Latine Reddita ab Alvredo Thoma Barton edenda Cvravit Joannes Harrower

By: Barton, Thomas Alfred

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Medici Society 1913: 1913

Seller ID: 60664

Condition: Very Good

This is copy no. 72 of an edition limited to 150 copies. x, 155 pp. Full vellum with gilt border & lettering to front board. Top edge gilt. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (not signed). Minor marks to vellum. Neat ink name to front endpaper. Internally clean. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Advert for the portrait of Barton present (not acquired).
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The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature

By: Bates, Ernest Sutherland (edited)

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann 1958: 1958

Seller ID: 25083

Condition: Very Good

1243 pp., [1958]. Mottling to the boards, which are a lovely brick niger morocco. All edges burnished a deep red. A lovely copy in a solid, if rubbed, slipcase.
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

By: Belloc, H (trans)

Price: £475.00

Publisher: London, George Allen 1903: 1903

Seller ID: 46371

Condition: Near Fine

[5] 137, [4] pp., Illustrated with beautiful full colour plates by Robert Engels. Numbered edition of 300 copies (no.229). Lovely bottle green half morocco over green cloth boards by Riviere. AEG. Minor fading to leather, subtle fading to cloth. Wonderful itrem.
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Wisden : Cricketers' Almanack 2008 : 145th Edition

By: Berry, Scyld, editor and Wisden

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Alton, John Wisden & Co. Ltd. 2008: 2008

Seller ID: 60666

ISBN: 1905625197

Condition: Fine

This is copy no. 50 of an edition limited to 150 copies and signed by the editor Scyld Berry. Full morocco with gilt lettering to front board & spine. All edges gilt. In original slipcase. Clean and fresh copy. No ownership marks. Colour and b&w illustrations. 9781905625192
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