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Photo of "The mystery of edwin drood"
DICKENS, Charles. The mystery of edwin drood. London. Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 190pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and 12 engraved plates. Bound by Frank Murray of Derby (ticket to FEP) in contemporary olive-green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers and advertisements bound in. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, some loss to wrappers/advertisements. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30821
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[CHATTERTON, Thomas]. Poems supposed to have been written at bristol. Cambridge. Printed by B. Flower, for the editor, 1794. Fifth edition. 8vo. xxix, [3], 329pp, [1]. With an additional engraved title page and one engraved plate. Finely bound in later vellum-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Light browning to title page. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29122
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FAIRHOLT, Frederick William. Rambles of an artist: being Papers on Art, in relation to antiques, paintings, art-decorations and art-manufacture.. London. Virtue and Co. [s.d., c.1871] First edition. Quarto. viii, 259pp. Title page in red and black. With a wood- engraved frontispiece and 259 further in-text wood-engraved illustrations. Finely bound by Fazakerley of Liverpool (stamp- signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, with the supralibros of Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe to upper board. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Prize plate of Stonyhurst College, dated 1885 and ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25555
Photo of "Sanctuary"
WHARTON, Edith. Sanctuary. London. MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1903. First UK edition. 8vo. [4], 210pp, [10]. With terminal publisher's catalogue. Original publisher's red cloth boards lettered and decorated black and gilt. With the bookplate of Roberti Marchionis de Crewe to front pastedown. Boards worn and marked, corners and spine ends bumped. Toned endpapers and light marking throughout. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33324
Photo of "Sketches by boz: illustrative of ..."
DICKENS, Charles. Sketches by boz: illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people. . London. John Macrone, 1837. The third edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], iv, [2], 301pp, [1]; [4], 302pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a further 14 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Finely bound for H. Sotheran and Co. (stamp-signed to verso of FFEPs) in contemporary gilt-ruled dark green half-morocco, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Light surface wear to joints. Spotting to initial leaves. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28747
Photo of "Round the World Eastwards In ..."
[TRAVEL]. Round the World Eastwards In 140 Days. [Sevenoaks]. [W. Wicking, Steam Printer], [1898]. First edition. Oblong. 63pp, [1]. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board, denticulated fore- and bottom-edge. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally immaculate. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Miss L. K. Dixon / With the Author's love / November 1898'. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 31136
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CICERO. M.t. ciceronis de officiis, libri tres. Item Cato maior, seu de senectute, Laelius, sue de amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum sex ad Marc. Brutum. Quibus additum est praeter superiore aeditionem, Somnius Scipionis: Ex castigatione Joannis boulierii. Fragmenta poematum, in quibus continentus Aratea. Aliorum poematum nomina, sequens pagina indicabit. Postremo accessit Qu. Fratris, De petitione consulatus lib. Ex dionys. lambini monstroliensis emendatione. Accesserunt eiusdem annotationes, sue animadversiones. Londini, [i.e. London]. Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius Typographus. Cum privilegio Regiae Majestatis, 1578. 8vo. 331pp, [5]. [A-X8; X7-8 are blank]. Contemporary limp vellum; text-block detached from binding, which is marked and creased, with a small (contemporarily patched) hole. Tears and creasing to margins of first four leaves; and tear to head of L2, all without loss of text. Contemporary Latin ink inscription ('Ex sapienta est pieta...'???) to head of A2, contemporary manuscript notes in an English hand to verso ... More > £ 8,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33242
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MILMAN, R[obert]. The love of the atonement. A Devotional Exposition of the fifty-third chapter of isaiah.. London. Joseph Masters, 1853. First edition. 8vo. viii, 239pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-stamped brown calf, contrasting gilt-tooled orange morocco lettering-piece to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.R. Rubbed and marked, with surface wear to edges and spine, scoring and dust-soiling to boards. Contemporary inked gift inscription to first blank fly-leaf. Browning and spotting to initial and terminal leaves. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 35946
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ANDREWS, William. Famous frosts and frost fairs in great britain. Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time. . London. George Redway, 1887. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is copy 37. viii, 91pp, [1]. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's? gilt-ruled navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, light staining to lower board, and chipping to head and foot of spine. Bookplate of Peter Dennis Anthes to FEP. ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35475
Photo of "The works of the right ..."
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The works of the right honourable richard brinsley sheridan, with a memoir by james p. browne, m.d.. London. London, 1873. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], li, [1], 292pp; [4], 316pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author to Vol.I. Contemporary gilt-tooled half calf, tan cloth boards, with contrasting burgundy and brown morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, with light scoring to boards. Faded inked ownership inscription to head of second blank fly-leaf, Vol.I. Light browning and spotting to initial leaves of both Vols. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35124
Photo of "Mr pickwick's pilgrimages"
DEXTER, Walter. Mr pickwick's pilgrimages. London. Chapman and Hall Ld., 1926. First edition. 8vo. [2], xvi, 224pp. With half-title, a photographic frontispiece, and 49 further plates, largely photographic. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, and decorated in blind to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. A presentation copy, with the author's inked gift inscription addressed to 'My good friend in many Pilgrimages. A. E. Brookes Cross. Walter Dexter. 15 October 1926' to FFEP. Book-label of D. ... More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 35282
Photo of "Solitude considered, in regard to ..."
ZIMMERMANN, M. [Johann Georg].. Solitude considered, in regard to its influence upon the mind and the heart.. London. Printed for C. Dilly, 1797. Seventh edition. [6], x, 420pp, viii. With an additional engraved title page and engraved frontispiece.

[Together with:] ZIMMERMANN, M. [Johann Georg]. Solitude considered. Part II. London. Printed by H. Baldwin & Son; for C. Dilly, [1800]. First edition. vi, 378pp, vii-xvii, [1]. With an engraved title page and engraved portrait frontispiece.

8vo. Uniformly bound in later calf-backed green paper boards, ruled in gilt and blind, and lettered ... More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 35385