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MICHAEL, Rev. Thomas. "The other side." A lecture delivered by the rev. thomas michael, in the mechanics' Hall, Halifax, on thursday evening, july 9th, 1868, in reply to an address on the disestablishment of the irish church, by the rev. w. robert morrison, m.a., incumbent of st. james's, halifax. Halifax. T. and W. Birtwhistle, Printers by Steam Power, 1868. First edition. 8vo. 64pp. Stitched, as issued. Lightly rubbed, title page and verso of terminal leaf creased and dust-soiled. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33008
MICHAELIS, Gustav. Meine Erinnerungen an Josef Kainz. [Austria]. [Nowawes, Th. Steiner], 1930. First edition. Private printing. 8vo. 243pp. With a photographic frontispiece. Original publisher's gold cloth, stamped in gilt and green, top-edge green. Boards and all edges a little foxed, spine worn. A little toned throughout. Presentation inscription to FFEP: 'He who has a God given gift has everything. – To us God’s gifts go not to Emperors [and] Kings but to artists who are the heaven-sent Princes of the World.” (Written ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 31239
MEYNELL, Alice. Poems . London. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. Second edition. 8vo. ix, [3], 72pp, [4]. With half-title. Uncut in original publisher's olive green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed, with boards and spine toned, edges singed. Inked ownership inscription of Harold Addleshaw to FFEP. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 34540
[METHODISM]. J. M.. A history of methodism in coleraine, from its introduction till about the year 1820; with Notices of Many of the Early Methodists, and numerous extracts from the mms. journals of john galt, Esq., late of coleraine. Coleraine. Printed by William M'Murdy, [1870]. First edition. 8vo. [2], ii, 35pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Extremities worn, marked, and chipped, without spine panel, struck through inked inscription to foot of upper panel. Occasional spotting, single inked correction to text, inked numerals to margins of p.3. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 16857
MERIVALE, John Herman. Poems original and translated. London. William Pickering, 1844. New and corrected edition. 8vo. xviii, [2], 347pp, [3]. Handsome Harrow School prize binding of contemporary calf richly tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Slightest of spotting to extremities. Marbled endpapers, prize bookplate of Harrow School to FEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 15358
MEREDITH, George. A reading of earth. London. Macmillan and Co., 1888. First edition. 8vo. vi, 136pp. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30447
MEREDITH, George. Poems and lyrics of the joy of earth. London. Macmillan and Co., 1883. First edition. 8vo. ix, 181pp, [3]. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements, half-title and a terminal leaf of meter explanations for three poems. Contemporary navy paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, with chipping to head and foot of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of H.P. Addleshaw, Sept. 2nd 1889, to half-title. Small manuscript addition to terminal leaf of meter notation. Spotting to ... More > £ 65.00 Antiquates Ref. 34539
MEREDITH, George. The tragic comedians. A study in a well-known story. London. Chapman and Hall, 1880. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], 199, [1]; [4], 181pp, [1]. With half-titles. First edition, first issue, with the original title-leaves dated 1880 intact. Published on 15th December 1880, the following year the publisher inserted cancelled titles dated 1881 into their remaining copies. Contemporary green half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and sunned, very small worm-hole to Vol. I spine, ink-spot to upper board of ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 14667
MEREDITH, George. The case of general ople and lady camper. New York. John W. Lovell Company, [1890]. 126pp.

[Bound with:] MEREDITH, George. The tale of chloe: an episode in the history of beau beamish. New York. John W. Lovell Company, [1890] 144pp.

8vo. Contemporary green calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, slight loss to head of sunned spine. Marbled endpapers, pencilled ownership inscription to title of first mentioned work of the author's daughter, Marie Eveleen Meredith (1871-1933). More >
£ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 29554
MEREDITH, Constance A. [compiler]. Whisperings from the great: An Autograph Birthday Album. London. Henry Frowde, 1906. Quarto. Unpaginated. Two calendar dates to a page with quotations opposite, both with red borders and fleur-de-lis decoration to corners. Finely bound in contemporary red half-morocco, vellum boards, stamped and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and discoloured, corner's bumped. Marbled endpaper, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, partially completed, two charmingly naive watercolour illustrations pasted in. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23357
MENPES, Mortimer. Brittany. London. Adam & Charles Black, 1905. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by the illustrator, of which this is copy 116. ix, [1], 254pp. With 75 colour plates by Menpes. Uncut in original publisher's decorative cream cloth. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dulled. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23311
[MENDOZA, Daniel]. Brusing unmask'd. Being the Sum and Substance of the Odiham Riot in Moorfields, or a true Epitome of the Tragical Contest between Mendoza and Humphries; or, S. Oliver, (commonly call'd DEATH,) and CRAB, shewing how they painted each other. [s.n., s.d., but c. 1790s]. Folio. Single leaf broadside, trimmed to text with title and sub-title separately trimmed, all mounted to later album sheet (with another apparently unrecorded broadside, unrelated ('Four potatoes'), similarly treated, tipped to verso), resulting in the loss of any imprint. More > £ 3,750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29888
[MEMORIAL DIARY]. Day unto Day. An Illuminated Diary. London. The Religious Tract Society, [s.d., c. 1875] Oblong 8vo. [32]pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and blind, illustrated colour onlay to upper board. A trifle rubbed. Hinges cracked, inked gift inscription to FFEP, occasional manuscript entires (birth, deaths etc.) More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 26265
[MELMOTH, William, the younger]. The letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne. London. Printed for J. Dodsley, 1784. Ninth edition. 8vo. xii, 452pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. A trifle rubbed, splitting to joints, some loss to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate to FEP, an internally clean and crisp copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14479
MELMOTH, William Henry. The new universal story-teller; or, a modern picture of human life: consisting of A greater Variety of valuable Matter calculated for the Pleasure and Improvement of Readers of every Class, than was even given in any Book of the Kind: and including A Complete Collection of Genuine and Entertaining stories, tables, narrations... London. Printed for Alex. Hogg, No. 16 Pater-noster Row, [s.d., c.1780] First edition?. 12mo. iv, [1], 14-448pp [i.e.248pp]. With an engraved frontispiece referencing the story of 'Maria: An affecting Narrative', contained within the text of the volume. Contemporary sheep, rubbed and worn, with splitting to joints, loss to spine and extremities, boards holding by binding cords. Paper flaw to H5 without loss of sense. Contemporary ink inscription dated June 27th 1781 to FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20467