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DE SERVIEZ, Jacques Roergas. The roman empresses; or, the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve cæsars. London. The Walpole Press, 1899. Fine Library edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, 499pp, [1]; viii, 573pp, [1]. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in modern gilt-tooled blue half-morocco. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Very lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to FEP of both volumes. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30904
DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and son. London. Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 624pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Without half-title or errata leaf. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Oswald Augustus Smith to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting, offsetting. First Edition, early issue, with none of the usual ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30133
CONFUCIUS. The wisdom of confucius. London. Gay and Hancock, 1909. 12mo. vii. [1], 160pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal page of publisher's advertisements. Handsomely bound by J. & E. Bumpus of Oxford in contemporary gilt-tooled green calf, A.E.G., gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed and a little marked. Internally clean and crisp. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To Bluey from Clarissa / Nov: 9th 1946'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29838
LAMB, Charles. The essays of elia. London. J. M. Dent & Co., 1904. Fifth edition. 8vo. xxii, 294, [2]. With half-title, an engraved title page, an engraved portrait frontispiece, and 15 further engraved plates.

[Uniformly bound with:] LAMB, Charles. The Last essays of Elia. London. J. M. Dent & Co., 1902. Fourth edition. xi, [1], 254pp, [2]. With half-title, an engraved title page, an engraved portrait frontispiece, and 15 further engraved plates.

Finely bound for H. Sotheran & Co. (stamp-signed to ... More >
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28514
SCOTT, Walter. Marmion; a tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh. Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, 1808. First edition. Quarto. [8], 377, [1], cxxvi pp. With additional engraved title page (dated 1809) and a further six plates after designs by Richard Westall. Contemporary brown straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, gauffered edges. Rubbed, spine dulled. Yellow silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, scattered spotting, pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to verso of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27638
GELL, Mrs. Lyttelton. The Cloud of Witness: a daily sequence of Great Thoughts from Many Minds following the christian seasons. London. Henry Frowde, [s.d., c. 1900] 16mo. xix, [1], 552pp, [16]. With a half-title and frontispiece. Handsomely bound by Bumpus (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, lettered in gilt to upper board 'V. E. H. March 27 1906', A.E.G. Housed in custom red cloth slipcase. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf. An immaculate copy. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27312
A JOURNEYMAN MASON [i.e. MILLER, Hugh]. Poems, written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason. Inverness. Printed by R. Carruthers, 1829. First edition. 12mo. [4], 268pp. With a half-title. Finely bound in later gilt-tooled black half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate H. D. Colvill-Scott to FEP, later photographic illustration depicting the author pasted to verso of half-title. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26457
VIGÉE-LE BRUN, Madame. Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun. London. Richard Bentley and Son, 1879. First edition in English. 8vo. In two volumes. viii, 320; vii, [1], 308pp. Bound by Riviere & Son in contemporary brown half-morocco, tan cloth boards, ruled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscription of Conservative politician Sir Mervyn Lloyd Peel (1856-1929) to versos of both FFEPs, scattered foxing. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26273
GRESWELL, William Parr. The Monastery of Saint Werburgh: a poem, with illustrative notes. [Manchester]. [Printed by Henry Smith], 1823. First edition. 8vo. [2], 48, 22pp, [2]. With 'Rodrigo, a Spanish Legend', and shorter pieces occasionally added to copies. Without half-title. Extra-illustrated with 12 engraved plates. Bound by J. Winstanley of Manchester in near contemporary green straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26221
ERCKMANN, [Émile]. CHATRIAN, [Alexandre]. Contes de la montagne. Paris. Michel Levy Frères, 1860. 8vo. [4], 346pp, [2]. Finely bound by Birdsall & Son of Northampton in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers bound in. Wrappers worn and marked. George Meredith's inked ownership inscription to upper wrapper. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25397
CHAFFERS, W[illiam]. Catalogue of the works of antiquity and art collected by the late william henry forman, esq., Pippbrook House, Dorking, Surrey, and removed in 1890 to callaly castle, northumberland, by major a. h. browne. [London]. Printed [by A. Bradley] for Private Circulation, 1892. First edition. Quarto. [4], 209pp, [35]. With seven engraved plates. Handsomely bound in richly gilt-tooled polished calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 23084
[MARRYAT, Frederick]. Olla podrida. London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1840. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. vi, 310; [4], 362;[4], 332pp. Bound by Bowyer & Co. of Harrow Road, London, in near contemporary gilt-tooled red half- calf, marbled boards, contrasting black and brown morocco lettering-pieces, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, foxed. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 22278
[LEATHAM, William Henry]. A traveller's thoughts; or, lines suggested by a tour on the continent. London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837. Third edition. 124pp, [2]. With a half-title.

[Bound with:] [LEATHAM, William Henry]. The victim. A tale of the "Lake of the Four Cantons." London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838. 68pp, [2]. With a half-title and a tipped-in errata slip.

[And:] [LEATHAM, William Henry]. Sandal in the olden time. An historical poem. London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839. 106pp, [2]. With a half-title. With ... More >
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 21038
[BRITISH ARMY]. A list of all the officers of the army and royal marines on full and half-pay: with an index: and a succession of colonels. [London]. [Printed by C. Roworth], [1806]. Fifty-fourth edition. 8vo. [4], 337, *337-*338, 338-846pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20613
[MELANCHOLY]. A cure for melancholy: being a select collection of elegant anecdotes, bon mots, &c. of celebrated characters: including many originals. Edinburgh. Printed for Alexander Mackay and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1809. First edition. 12mo. xii, 382pp. Handsomely bound in later green half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, T.E.G. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford and later typed bookseller's description to FEP, later bookplate of William Crampton to recto of FFEP, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, lightly spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 19716
[LYTTELTON, George Lyttelton, Baron]. Dialogues of the dead. London. Printed for W. Sandby, 1760. Second edition. 8vo. xii, 320pp. Without errata leaf. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight- grain morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Inked prize inscription of Nelson House school, dated 1811, to recto of blank fly-leaf, some light damp-staining to initial gathering, very occasional chipping to margins. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 19447
[LITURGY - French]. La liturgie, ou formulaire des prieres publiques, Selon 'usage de l'eglise anglicane. A Londres [i.e. London]. Chez J. Nourse & P. Elmsly, 1780. Nouvelle edition [i.e. new edition]. 12mo. [2], xlix, [1], 438pp, [2]. With a half-title and a table. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled morocco, A.E.G. Very slight rubbing and marking to extremities. Marbled endpapers, contemporary armorial bookplate of Richard Langley to FEP, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 19055
HURD, William. A new universal history of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies and Customs of the whole world; or, a complete and impartial view of all the religions...Together with the history of the reformed churches... Manchester. Printed and Published by J. Gleave, 1811. Quarto. vi, [1], 8-910pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates. Attractively bound by T. Claye of Stockport in contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, slight shaving to foot of frontispiece, occasional foxing and offsetting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 14175