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BOWLES, W[illiam] Lisle. Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative... London. William Pickering, 1837. First edition. 8vo. [18], xlv, [1], 118pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, an initial publisher's advertisement a catalogue, and a final advertisement leaf. Original publisher's green buckram, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, lettering-piece chipped. Book-label of J. O. Edwards and pencilled ownership inscription of professor of American literature at the University of Leeds Douglas Grant (1921-1969) to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, frontispiece ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23690
COTTON, Charles. Scarronides, or virgil travestie, a mock poem, on the first and fourth books of virgil's aeneis, in english burlesque. London. Printed by John Galton, 1804. Thirteenth edition. 8vo. [2], 122pp. With an engraved frontispiece, one further engraved plate, and a single engraved illustration in the text. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, loss to spine, joints starting. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting/staining. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27339
BENSON, E. F. Scarlet and Hyssop. London. William Heinemann, 1902. First edition. 8vo. 316pp, [32]. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black, with the red, blue and black flower pot design stamped to front board. Boards a little marked, spine toned, bumping to spine ends and corners; else a crisp copy. Top and fore edge untrimmed, internally bright and clean. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30030
TASKER, Joe. Savage arena. London. Metheun, [1982]. First edition. 8vo. 270pp. With 24 photographic plates, eight maps, and six diagrams in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23443
SAPPHO. WHARTON, Henry Thornton. Sappho: memoir, text, selected renderings and A Literal Translation by henry thornton wharton m.a. oxon. London. David Stott, 1887. Second edition. Quarto. [2], xvi, 213pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate. Original publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, lettered in red and black. A trifle rubbed, lightly discoloured, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. Limited edition, inked inscription to verso of title page: 'Twenty-five copies of this book have been printed on Large Paper. Each one is numbered and signed by me, this Copy being No. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 26570
[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco in ruins. Denver. Smith-Brooks Company, [s.d., c. 1906] First edition. Oblong octavo. iv, 112pp. Original publisher’s pictorial limp black cloth boards. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24157
[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco Destroyed. Milwaukee. C. N. Caspar Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. [24] leaves. Original publisher's brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24161
DUREL, John. Sanctae Ecclesiae anglicanae adversus Iniquas atque inverecundas Schismaticorum criminationes vindiciae. Londini. Typis Guliel. Godbid, prostant apud Guliel. Wells & Rob. Scott, 1669. First edition. Quarto. [116], 537pp, [1]. With initial imprimatur leaf misbound after title-page. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities a trifle rubbed and discoloured, recent ink library shelf-mark to spine. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of 'Revd. Francis Fortescue Knottesford' to FEP alongside later book label of 'Guliemi O'Brien' and the recent book label of 'Miltown Park Library', ink-stamp of Miltown Park Library to title-page, ink correction to ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 15489
[HUDDESFORD, George]. Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. First edition. Quarto. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut in modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28910
[HUDDESFORD, George]. Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1791. First edition. Quarto. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf.Recent brown paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Lightly foxed, very occasional contemporary inked manuscript corrections to text. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19191
[HUDDESFORD, George]. Salmagundi; a miscellaneous combination of original poetry: consisting of illusions of fancy; amatory, elegiac, lyrical, epigrammatical, and other palatable ingredients. London. Printed by T. Bensley...For T. Payne et al., 1791. First edition. Quarto. [6], 151pp, [3]. With an additional engraved title-page and a terminal errata leaf. Early twentieth-century half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Additional engraved title-page foxed, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 17067
PRESCOT, Kenrick. Saint paul at athens. Cambridge. Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1770. First edition. 8vo. [4], 112pp. With a half-title. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Inked ownership inscription of C. Preston (dated 1812), later armorial bookplate of John Norcliffe Preston, and recent bookplate of Kenneth Monkman of Shandy Hall to FEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 19695
[CUNNINGHAM, Peter]. Saint anne's hill. A poem. London. Printed [by S. Gosnell] for the author; sold by J. Debrett...and R. Wetton, 1800. First edition. 25, [1], 26-34pp, [1]. With a makeshift frontispiece (almost detached, and not recorded in other copies) consisting of a printed title and an engraving of Fox's villa after Reynolds. ESTC locates copies at just three British libraries (BL, Edinburgh and Oxford), and elsewhere just a single copy, at Harvard. ESTC T47027.

[Bound with:] ADAIR, R[obert]. Sketch of the character of the late duke of devonshire. ... More >
£ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23005