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CRANE, Walter. The baby's bouquet. A fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes. London. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [s.d., c.1900] Quarto. 56pp. 11 full-page colour illustrations and numerous illustrated borders throughout. Original publisher's tan cloth backed glazed pictorial boards, pictorial dustwrapper. Light rubbing to extremities, dustwrapper chipped at edges with substantial tear to upper panel. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 20697

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[12TH ROYAL LANCERS]. [An attractive scrapbook predominantly comprised of material relating to the 12th Royal Lancers]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1860s-70s] Oblong folio. [34] leaves, of which 23 used, the remainder blank. Containing, inter alia, 13 hand-drawn watercolour postal fronts, 20 watercolours/pen and ink sketches, and 34 photographs, primarily depicting members of the Royal Lancers. Contemporary gilt-ruled half crushed morocco, brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to upper board 'A. F. 12th. R. L.', T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 27689

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SHAKESPEARE, William. HEATH, Charles. The heroines of shakspeare: comprising The Principal Female Characters in the plays of the great poet. London. W. Kent & Co. (Late D. Bogue), 1858. Quarto. vi, [90]pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further 44 engraved plates. Twentieth-century red morocco, small dark green morocco inlays - ivy leaf motif executed in Arts and Crafts style, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G., lettered in gilt to rear lower turn-in: '19 M. R. 04'. Lightly rubbed, sine dulled. Closed tears to frontispiece, title page, and one leaf of text, scattered spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32031

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[TOWNELEY, John]. Bibliotheca towneleiana. A catalogue of the curious and extensive library of the late john towneley, esq. Part I.... [London]. [Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.], [1813]. First edition. 8vo. Part one only. [2], 47pp, [1]. Uncut in modern gilt-ruled red morocco-backed marbled paper boards. Pencilled annotation to title page. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31918

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[WOOLLEN MACHINERY]. Observations on woollen machinery. Leeds. Printed by Edward Baines, 1803. First edition. 8vo. 24pp. Modern grey paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine. A fine copy. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 26481

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SCOTT, Major John. A short review of the transactions in bengal during the last ten years. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1782. First edition. 8vo. [2], 120pp. Without half-title. Modern brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Short closed tear to creased title page, single early manuscript correction to text, scattered spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32633

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WALPOLE, Hugh. Fortitude: a romance. London. Macmillan and Co., 1933. 8vo. viii, 432, 6pp. With three terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Preliminary leaves partially misbound. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. lettered in gilt to front lower turn-in: 'B. H. H. EASTER 1935. I. C.', signed 'Katharine Pountney' to rear lower turn-in. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to spine. Decorated endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32114

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CENTLIVRE, Mrs. The works of the celebrated Mrs. centlivre. In three volumes. Containing, Perjur'd Husband. Beaux's Duel. Gamester. Basset Table. Love at a Venture. Love's Contrivance. Busy Body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic Lady...With a New Account of her life. London. Printed for J. Knapton.. 1760-1 First edition. 12mo. xii, 376; 380; 372pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author to Vol I (included in pagination). Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled sheep, red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed, with some cracking to joints (but all boards firmly attached), some old worm tracks to foot of spines of Vols. I-II. With the armorial bookplate of Vane Londonderry to each FEP, and the later bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst ... More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 32749

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NORRIS, John. A catalogue of the pictures, models, busts, &c. in the bodleian gallery, oxford. Oxford. Printed for, and sold by, the author, at the Picture Gallery Baxter, Printer, [1847?] 8vo. 60pp. With a half-title. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. Initial four leaves and six terminal leaves detached from text-block. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22501

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WESTMACOTT, C[harles] M[olloy]. British galleries of painting and sculpture, comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections... London. Published by Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824. First edition. 8vo. viii, 240pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a further four engraved plates. Uncut in later navy crushed morocco-backed marbled paper boards. A trifle rubbed, spine stained and sunned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22613

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[BAVEREL, Jean-Pierre]. Notices sur les graveurs qui nous ont laissé des estampes marquées de monogrammes, chiffres, rébus, lettres initiales, etc., avec une description de leurs plus beaux ouvrages et des planches en taille-douce, contenant toutes les marques dont ils se sont servis : suivies d'une table qui en donne l'explication. Besançon. De l'Imprimerie de Taulin-Dessirier, 1807-08 First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xv, [1], 360, lix, [1]; [3], 6-322pp. With five engraved folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black calf lettering-pieces. Rubbed, joints starting, spines dulled. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23277

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ALBERTI, Leonbatista. Della pittura e della statua. Milano. Dalla Società Tipograpfica de'Classici Italiani, 1804. 8vo. xxv, [1], 136pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, supralibros of George Agar-Ellis to both boards. Rubbed, without lettering-pieces. Recent bookplates of J. B. Bury and Michael Bury to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32523

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BARRY, James. An inquiry Into the Real and Imaginary obstructions to the acquisition of the arts in england. London. Printed for T. Becket, 1775. First edition. 8vo. vii, [5], 277pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, marked, upper board held by cords only, lower joint starting, spine sunned. Book-label of Westdean Library to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 22614

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[WINSTANLEY, Thomas]. Observations on the arts, with tables of the principal painters of the various italian, spanish, french, flemish, dutch, and german schools, their scholars and imitators, with lists of the most celebrated painters of those schools, arranged by the subjects in which they excelled.. Liverpool. Printed by W. Wales and Co., [1828]. First edition. 12mo. [2], x, 132, xxii pp. With the title page, preface, and index of the second edition bound in. Contemporary navy half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper board sunned. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to blank leaf bound after title page: 'To Henry Norris Winstanley / from his affc. Father'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32521

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ROBINSON, J[ohn] C[harles]. Catalogue of the Soulages Collection; being a descriptive inventory of a collection of works of decorative art, formerly in the possession of m. jules soulages of toulouse, Now, by permission of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Exhibited to the Public at the Museum of Ornamental Art, marlborough house. London. Chapman and Hall, 1856. First edition. 8vo. xiii, [3], 200pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22628

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WILDE, W[illiam] R[obert]. A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities of gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. Hodges, Smith, and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. [4], 100, iv pp. With 90 engraved illustrations in the text. Later brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's printed buff wrappers and a contemporary envelope addressed to 'Mr. Pfister, Medal Room, British Museum' bound in. Rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27877

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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

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PRICE, Uvedale. A letter to h. repton, Esq. on the application of the practice as well as the principles of Landscape-Painting to Landscape-Gardening... Hereford. Printed by D. Walker; for J. Robson, 1798. Second edition. 8vo. viii, 180pp. Later gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Rubbed, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30019

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BERENSON, Bernard. The florentine painters of the renaissance: with an index of their works. New York. G. P. Putnams' Sons, 1896. First edition. 8vo. [2], 141pp, [3]. With a frontispiece. Original publisher's brick red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Booksellers ticket of Galloway & Porter of Cambridge and bookplate of Bernhard and Mary Berenson to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To / Capt Wakey Chandos-Pole / with the best / remembrances of / Bernard Berenson / I ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27198

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CAREY, William. The national obstacle to the national public style considered. Observations on the probable decline or extinction of British Historical Painting, from the effects of the church exclusion of paintings... London. Printed by Howlett & Brimmer, 1825. First edition. [4], 151pp, [1]. With a terminal page of errata. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'To the Revd. H. C. Morewood, Alfreton, Derbyshire, this tract is presented with the Author's best respects, May 6. 1825. 37 Marylabonne Street, Piccadilly, London'.

[Bound with:] C**** [i.e. CAREY, William]. Patronage of irish genius. Two letters, shewing the utter unfitness, inutility, and public discredit of erecting ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22625