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POPE, Alexander. The dunciad, variorum. With the prolegomena of scriblerus.. London. Printed for A. Dod, 1729. First edition. Quarto. 16, [2], 6, 9-29, [3], 118pp, cxix-cxxiv, [2]. With an engraved title page and terminal index. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily worn, with lower joint cracked and upper joint split, significant loss to corners, slight losses to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of Richard Bingham to FEP. Early inked inscriptions of Robert Eddowes to FFEP, dated 1748, and ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30339
[CATNACH, James]. The dying pilgrim. [London]. Printed and Sold by J. Catnach, [s.d., c.1830] Dimensions 260 x 390 mm. Single leaf broadside. With three engraved illustrations. Early central horizontal fold, some chipping to margins. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25334
ROSSETTI, D[ante] G[abriel]. The early italian poets from ciullo d'alcamo to dante alighieri (1100-1200-1300) in the original metres together with dante's vita nuova translated by d. g. rossetti... London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. First edition. 8vo. xxxvi, 464pp, [2]. With a half-title. Bound by Riviere (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in contemporary richly gilt-tooled tan morocco, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G., gilt dentelles. Spine a trifle dulled. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'J. T. Coleridge from his children J. D. C. and J. F. C. on his 73rd birthday 9th July. 1863'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 25997
HUGHES, Ted. The Earth-Owl and other moon-people. London. Faber and Faber, 1970. Reprint of the first edition. 8vo. 46pp. Original publisher's blue cloth boards lettered silver, with the decorative unclipped dustwrapper with additional price label stuck to the front inner flap. Wrapper is smoke-stained and shelf-worn with no losses. Edges a little bumped, internally bright and clean.

From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed, without indication of such; the smoke damage is the result of an errant cigarette dropped by Olwyn down ... More >
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29571
BAEDEKER, Karl. The Eastern Alps... Leipsic [i.e. Leipzig]. Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1903. Tenth edition, revised and augmented. 8vo. 571pp, [1]. With 53 maps, 10 plans, and seven panoramas. Original publisher's blind-ruled red cloth, lettered in gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed and spotted, spine sunned. Later bookplate of George Lowe, beneath earlier inked ownership inscriptions, to FFEP, small holes and tape repairs to initial map. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23432
HAMILTON, Walter. The east india gazetteer; containing Particular Descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of hindostan, and the adjacent countries, india beyond the ganges, and the Eastern Archipelago... London. Printed for John Murray, 1815. First edition. 8vo. xv, 862pp. With an engraved folding map. Contemporary gilt-tooled half- calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper joint split, lower joint starting. Hinges exposed, recent ink-stamp of E. Alistair Smith to recto of FFEP, with his inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 32791
JOHNSON, James. The economy of health, or, the stream of human life from the cradle to the grave: with reflections moral, physical, and philosophical on the septennial phases of human existence. London. S. Highley, 1836. First edition. 8vo. viii, 220pp. With an engraved plate. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate to FEP of Guy Haswell Furness, recent bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to verso of FFEP, occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16517
DIXON, W[illiam] Macneile. The edinburgh book of scottish verse 1300-1900. London. Meiklejohn and Holden, 1910. First edition. 8vo. xx, 938pp, [2]. With a half-title. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-ruled red morocco, red and green morocco thistle onlays to upper board and within spine compartments. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate (signed W.P.B. 1909) to FEP. Internally clean & crisp; overall a fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34514
ALEXANDER, William. The eight beatitudes st. matthew, Chap V.. London. Published Jan. 1st 1822, by W. Alexander, Engraver and Printer to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Clarence, [1822]. Oblong Quarto. [6]pp. With 10 engraved plates, including the engraved title-page. Subscriber's copy. Handsomely bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, lettered 'MAJOR GENERAL SIR HERBERT TAYLOR' to upper board, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed. Internally immaculate. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 16888
[BOLTON, Edmund]. The elements of armories. At London. Printed by George Eld, 1610. First edition. Quarto. [16], 201pp, [1]. With numerous woodcut vignettes, and a volvelle consisting of two overslips stitched to Cc3v. Eighteenth-century calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece and further morocco spine-label with date of 1610 and an armorial device (of Capel Hanbury-Leigh) to the foot of spine. Rubbed, with cracking to joints and chipping to head of spine, some loss of marbled paper to boards. Apart from ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 33654
[BOTANY]. The elements of botany: for families and schools. London. John W. Parker, 1837. Third edition, enlarged. 12mo. 143, [1], 7pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, two further plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, and four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's dark green decorated cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Occasional spoting, booksellers ticket of W. Barwick of Lancaster to FEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 25601
IRVING, David. The elements of english composition. Containing practical instructions for writing the english language with perspicuity and elegance; and Designed, in the Progress of Education, to succeed to the Study of English Grammar, and of the Latin and Greek Classics. London. Printed for R. Phillips...By T. Gillet, 1801. First edition. 8vo. x, 262pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Rubbed and marked, spine worn, boards held by cords only. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31815