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DE STAAL, Madame. Mémoires de madame de staal (mademoiselle delaunay). Paris. Librairie L. Conquet, 1891. 8vo. Limited edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 98. [10], xxviii, 386pp, [4]. With and engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 34 engraved plates (duplicating engraved vignettes). Elaborately bound by Maurius Michel (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary richly gilt- tooled brown morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Modern ink-stamp to rear blank fly-leaf comprised of Asian inspired motifs and lettered 'Jean'. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25912
[HAVERGAL, Frances Ridley]. Mizpah. [London]. [Ernest Nister], [Printed in Bavaria], [s.d., c. 1897] 16mo. [16]pp. Chromolithographed illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial boards, contemporary - and likely original - glassine wrapper. Slight shelf-wear, wrapper dulled. Early inked gift inscription to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 34244
MILTON, [John]. Milton's paradise lost. London. Printed T. Bensley, 1802. New edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], 264; [2], 250pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I and a further 12 engraved plates. Finely bound by Stoakley in early twentieth-century gilt-tooled half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle dulled. Very occasional early inked annotations, scattered spotting. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 30201
LA MOTTE, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, comtesse de. Memoires justiicatifs de la comtesse de valois de la motte, ecrits par elle-meme. Imprimés a Londres [i.e. London]. [s.n.], 1788 [1789] 8vo. 232, 46pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf-backed, vellum-tipped marbled paper boards. Rubbed, without lettering-piece. Signed by the author, as issued, to foot of p.232. From the recently dispersed family estate (by descent) of George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770-1850), Scottish jurist, satirist, and friend of Walter Scott and Lord Monboddo, with his armorial bookplate to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34170
[DODSLEY, Robert]. Melpomene: or The regions of terror and pity. An ode. London. [s.n.], 1757. First edition. Quarto. 15pp, [1]. Modern tan cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Book-label of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to upper board. Loan label of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to FEP, typed booksellers description tipped-in to FFEP, ink-stamps of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to title page, p.3, and p.15, nineteenth-century inked ownership inscription and manuscript author attribution to title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29353
MASON, James. Masterpieces in colour: Fra angelico. London. T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1907]. First edition. 8vo. 80pp. With eight colour plates. Contemporary hand-painted vellum, elaborately lettered 'Fra Angelico' in red, green, and blue to upper board, embellished with heightened in burnished gilt, decorated endpapers, protective red paper wrapper with imitation crocodile skin pattern. Wrapper rubbed with some loss to head and foot of backstrip. A trifle discoloured. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31137
JAMESON, Robert. Manual of mineralogy: containing an account of simple minerals, and also a description and arrangement of mountain rocks. Edinburgh. Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1821. First edition. 8vo. [8], liv, [2], 501 [i.e. 491]pp, [5]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33502
PLAUTUS. M. Acci Plauti Sarsinatis comœdiæ xx. superstites. Francofurti [i.e. Frankfurt]. Impensis Ionæ Rhodii, 1610. 8vo. [50], 899pp, [3]. Engraved portrait of Plautus on title page, engraved portrait of Johann Philipp Pareus on following leaf. Bound in later brown sailcloth, title embroidered in white thread to spine. Small central hole to title page, slight loss to lower corner of leaf Ii2, dampstained, some softening, occasional marginal worm-tracks, very occasional early manuscript annotations. Octagonal ink-stamps to verso of title page reading Octagonal ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 33493
[CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOKS]. Little Peepy. London. William Wesley, [s.d., c. 1855] 24pp. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Apparently unrecorded.

[Bound with:] Little Folk's Books. The story of Little Maia. Edited by the Madame de Chatelain. [London]. [Darton & Co.], [s.d. c. 1855]. [16]pp. OCLC records copies at just two locations (Princeton and Toronto). Darton H150.

[And:] The little fortune seekers. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 23pp, [1]. With ... More >
£ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 33132
DICKENS, Charles. Little dorrit. London. Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition in book form. 8vo. xiv, 625pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, green cloth boards, marbled edges. Later recased, new endpapers. Rubbed and marked. Later inked ownership inscription to title page, small hole to leaf A8 (list of plates), with slight loss of text and sense, plates foxed, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32516
RAWNSLEY, Rev. H[ardwicke] D[rummond]. Literary Associations of the English Lakes. Glasgow. James MacLehose and Sons, 1901. Second edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xi, [3], 236, [2]; vii, [3], 251pp. With half-titles and 32 plates. Extra-illustrated with 156 plates, primarily engraved landscapes views of the Lake District and portraits of the Romantics and their circle. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled navy crushed half-morocco, blue cloth boards, T.E.G.Slightest of rubbing. Bookplates of Brackenburn and morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle to front endpapers. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 31072
CRAWFORD, Mrs. A. Lismore. London. Thomas Cautley Newby, 1853. First edition. 12mo. In three volumes. [2], 283; [2], 282; [2], 264, [2], 16pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements to Vol. III. Contemporary blind-tooled black calf-backed, green cloth-tipped marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, corners bumped, remnants of bookseller's advertisement to upper board of Vol. I. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, short tear to leaf D8 of Vol. III, ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 22311
HAMILTON, Elizabeth. Letters on education. Bath. Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1801. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 413pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, joints starting. Armorial bookplate of Robert Williams Jr. to FEP. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34127