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Photo of "Viga glum's saga. The story ..."
HEAD, Sir Edmund [trans.]. Viga glum's saga. The story of viga-glum. Translated from the icelandic... London. Williams and Norgate, 1866. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 124pp. With a half-title and two folding charts. Title page in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, burgundy cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to verso of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27703
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H. C. [IRELAND, William Henry].. The fisher boy. A poem, Comprising his several avocations, during the four seasons of the year. London. Printed for Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, [1808]. First edition. vi, 116pp. With an engraved title page and a further four engraved plates.

[Together with:] IRELAND, W[illiam] H[enry]. The sailor-boy. A poem, in four cantos: Illustrative of the navy of great britain. London. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1822. viii, 208pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates.

12mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled ... More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15267
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[HAZLITT, William]. The plain speaker: opinions on books, men and things.. London. Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [4], 465pp; [4], 447pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue paper boards, recently rebacked in buckram, contrasting burgundy morocco lettering-pieces. Boards rubbed, marked, and worn at edges. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription to FFEP, some surface loss to title page of Vol. I., some loss to terminal gathering of Vol. II, without loss of textscattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29116
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HAZLITT, William. Lectures on the English comic writers. London. Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1819. First edition. 8vo. [4], 343pp, [5]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, recently rebacked in calf, contrasting calf lettering-pieces. Board rubbed and marked. Recent typed booksellers description and bookplate of Dennis Douglas to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29245
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HAZLITT, William. Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of elizabeth... London. Stodart and Steuart, 1820. First edition. 8vo. viii, 356pp, [4]. With two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Very occasional marginal manuscript annotations, recent typed booksellers descriptions pasted to rear blank endpapers. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29244
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[HAZLITT, William]. Memoirs of the late thomas holcroft. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. viii, 300pp; [2], 283pp; [4], 320pp. With half-titles. Modern gilt-ruled calf backed light blue paper boards, contrasting red and black morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed and marked, with minor surface loss to lower board of Vol. III. Inked ownership inscription of Croydon's Library, dated Jan 4th 1817 to title of Vol. III. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29113
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HAYM, Nicolai Francisci. Nicolai francisci haym romani, thesauri britannici sev museum numarium, quo continentur numi graeci et latini, omnis metalli et formae, necdum editi, ab autore ipso caelati. Interprete aloysio comite cristiani, mediolanensi. Vindobonae [i.e. Vienna]. Ex officina Krausiana, 1763. [6], 296pp, [8]. With an engraved frontispiece (seemingly extracted from the first London edition) and 30 engraved folding plates.

[Together with:] HAYM, Nicola Francesco. Thesauri britannici pars altera, seu museum numarium conplexum numos graecos, et latinos omnis metalli, et formae necdum editos... Vindobonae [i.e. Vienna]. Typis Joannis Thomae de Trattnern, 1765. [28], 398pp, [10]. With 50 of 51 engraved folding plates (without plate No. 24). ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 24058
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HAY, Lieut.-Col. Leith. A narrative of the peninsular war. London. Henry Washbourne, 1834. Second edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xvi, [2], 314pp, [2]; viii, [2], 298pp, [2]. With 22 engraved plates, a leaf of errata and a terminal list of plates to both volumes. Finely bound in contemporary burgundy morocco, richly gilt-tooled, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Book-labels of Charles Benson to FEPs; inked gift inscription addressed to 'Theodore Beale, from his friend Henry Gore Hulse on his leaving ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 34472
Photo of "The triumphs of temper. A ..."
[HAYLEY, William] . The triumphs of temper. A poem: in six cantos.. Chichester . Printed by J. Seagrave; for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Twelfth edition, corrected. 8vo. xii, 163pp. With an engraved frontispiece and five further engraved plates by Maria Flaxman. Contemporary gilt-tooled half calf, marbled boards. Rubbed and marked, with surface loss and staining to boards, joints starting. Lengthy inked gift inscription to FFEP. Very occasional light scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30564
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HAYLEY, William. The triumphs of temper; a poem. In six cantos. London. Printed for J. Dodsley, 1781. First edition. Quarto. xii, 164pp. With a half-title. Later two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Recent bookplates of 'E.M.L. and Helen M. Scurr to FEP, half-title washed (faint manuscript annotations to foot), blind-stamps of the University of Bridgeport Library to title page and leaf M1, scattered spotting. Early inked ownership inscriptions of George Glennie and James Beattie to title page. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20385
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HAYLEY, William. The triumphs of temper. A poem: in six cantos. Chicester. Printed by J. Seagrave; for T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1803. Twelfth edition, corrected. 8vo. [3], vi-xii, 165pp, [1]. With six engraved plates. Without half-title. Bound by Barratt of Oxford in contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, contrasting calf lettering-piece, A trifle rubbed, sunned. Marbled endpapers, later armorial bookplate of Sir Mervyn Lloyd Peel to FEP, early inked ownership inscriptions of Catherine Cleaver and Frances Peel to recto of blank fly-leaf. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 14841
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HAYDON, B. R., HAZLITT, William. Painting, and the fine arts: being the articles under those heads contributed to the seventh edition of the encyclopaedia britannica. Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black, 1838. First edition. 8vo. [4], 227pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Upper hinge exposed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher to recto of FFEP: 'To William Lawson Esq. / From his Scotch Friend / Charles Black / Edinburgh / 9 April 1838'. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20254
Photo of "[A manuscript commonplace]"
[HAXBY HALL]. [A manuscript commonplace]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1850] Oblong 8vo. Manuscript on paper. [28] leaves. Contemporary red half-roan, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dulled. Hinges exposed, marbled pastedowns, without free-endpapers, several leaves seemingly removed, scattered spotting, occasional marginal loss. Engraved advertisement sheet pasted to FEP: 'Haxby Hall. Revd. John Heslop, Curate of Skelton, receives into his Family, a limited number of Young Gentlemen under fourteen years of Age; ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 31336
Photo of "Reminiscences of a French Eton"
HAWTREY, Stephen. Reminiscences of a French Eton. London. Printed by Mary S. Rickerby, 1867. Second edition. 12mo. [4], 79pp, [1]. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green buckram. Slight rubbing to extremities. Upper hinge exposed, occasional very light dust-soiling. Presentation copy, inscribed to title; 'R. K. Phillipps / from his sincere / friend / the writer'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 13973
Photo of "Wonder-book for girls and boys"
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Wonder-book for girls and boys. Boston. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First American edition. 8vo. vi, [7]-256pp. With an engraved frontispiece and six engraved plates after designs by Hammat Billings. Without inserted publisher's catalogue. Original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Rebacked, with original spine laid-down. Spine sunned with some loss to head, foot, and joints, slight rubbing to boards. Internally clean and crisp but for the occasional spot of light foxing, bookplate to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 12908
Photo of "What hope for green st?"
HAWKS, Olive. What hope for green st?. London. Jarrolds Publishers Limited, [1945]. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped green dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, chipping to edges, losses to spine with some further marks. A note on the front free endpaper in Williamson’s hand: 'I rewrote a rather crude TSS for a newcomer, & I suppose about 60% of this is mine - but not the characters. I did dialogue & improved some ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27240