Shop antiquarian books on “English Books – 1801 onwards”

[GIRDLESTONE, Charles]. The social conduct of a Christian considered in seven sermons addressed to an individual. Oxford. Printed by W. Baxter for J. Parker, 1825. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 148pp. Original publisher’s cloth-backed buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed, marked, and discoloured. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title, loss to RFEP, scattered foxing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 26390

GILSTRAP, Elizabeth Haigh. The harp of colne. [London]. Printed [for the Author by Cassell and Company] for Private Circulation, 1886. First edition. 8vo. ix, 230pp. Unopened in original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed. Ink-stamp of Nottingham Public Libraries to verso of title page, two early manuscript corrections to text. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31346

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GILPIN, William. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views. Edinburgh. Fraser & Co., 1834. 8vo. In two volumes. viii, 368; [2], 344pp. With a lithographed frontispiece to each volume, and a further 18 lithographed plates. Attractively bound in contemporary burgundy calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed, spines heavily sunned. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32383

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[GILPIN, Joshua]. A monument of parental affection to a dear and only son. Wellington [Salop]. Printed by and for F. Houlston and Son, 1811. Fourth edition. xi, [1], 13-178pp, [2]. With half-title and a terminal advertisement leaf.

[Bound with:] GIRDLESTONE, C[harles]. The social conduct of a Christian considered in discourses addressed to an individual. Oxford. Printed by W. Baxter, 1828. Second edition. xi, [1], 148pp. Short tear and some loss to gutter margin of title with leaf separating from text-block.

8vo. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Rubbing and ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14643

[GILES, William]. The refuge. London. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1801. Fourth edition, with additions. 8vo. iv, 255pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscriptions to recto of front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23909

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GILES, James. English parsing; comprising the rules of syntax, exemplified by appropriate lessons under each rule. With an index, containing all the parts of speech in the different lessons unparsed. For the use of schools, private teachers, and elder students. London. Thomas Allman and Son, 1854. New edition. 12mo. viii, [1], 10-120pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine rubbed, some discolouration. Contemporary ink inscription to head of title-page, slight tear to C8 - just clipping text, small hole to text of C10 - with slight loss of sense. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16412

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GILDEA, Colonel Sir James. Historical record of the work of the soldiers' and sailors' families association from 1885 to 1916. London. Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 318pp. With a photographic plate. Original publisher's blue, red, and white calf in Union Flag design, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31000

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GILCHRIST, Octavius. An examination of the charges maintained by messrs. malone, chalmers, and others, of ben jonson's enmity, &c. towards shakspeare. London. Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1808. First edition. [4], 62pp. With a half-title.

[Bound with:] GILCHRIST, Octavius. A letter to william gifford, Esq. on the late edition of ford's plays; chiefly as relating to ben johnson. London. Printed for John Murray, 1811. First edition. 45pp, [3]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements.

8vo. Modern half-cloth, marbled boards. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting, inked ownership inscription to head of title ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25731

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GILBERT, W. S. The Bab Ballads: with which are included songs of a savoyard. London. Macmillan and Co., 1922. 8vo. xii, 563pp, [1]. Bound by Truslove & Hanson in contemporary gilt-tooled navy half-calf, blue cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine and head of upper board sunned. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29827

GILBERT, W[illiam] S[chwenck]. The Bab Ballads: with which are included songs of a savoyard. London. Macmillan and Co., 1906. 8vo. xii, 563pp, [1]. With numerous illustrations by the author in the text. Title in red and black. Handsomely bound in contemporary brown crushed morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29520

GIFFORD, William. The baviad, and maeviad. London. Printed for Becket and Porter, 1811. Eighth edition. 8vo. [5], x-xxi, [1], 191pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, richly tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, upper joint split, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. Label of the Barrett's Circulating Library, Simla, to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22377

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GIBSON, T. A. GIBSON, G. M.. Etymological geography; being a classified list of Terms & Epithets of most frequent Occurrence, entering, as postfixes of prefixes, into the composition of geographical names... Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black, and Fraser and Crawford, 1840. Second edition. 12mo. xii, 163, [3], 2pp. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Original publisher's navy roan, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, splitting to upper joint. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14858

GIBSON, R[ichard] H[enry]. Three years of naval warfare. London. William Heinemann, [1918]. First edition. 8vo. xii, 326pp, [2]. With a half-title and a portrait frontispiece of Admiral John Jellicoe. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, corners a trifle bumped. Marking to REP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 18946

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GIBB, Sir Alexander. Gwalior state. Proposed railway extensions. Bombay. Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, [1927]. First edition. Folio. [1], 6ff. Letterpress title page and six leaves of typescript. With a large coloured folding map. Original publisher's black cloth-backed printed buff wrappers. Rubbed and marked, coloured pencil shelf-mark to upper board. Occasional coloured pencil annotation to text. Terminal leaf signed in initials Gibb. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31569

[GIBBS, Henry Hucks]. The game of ombre. London. Printed [at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham] for private circulation, 1878. Second edition. Quarto. viii, 120pp. With a half-title and a frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's brown cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'Thomas Gaisford / from ' Henry H. Gibbs / 1879' More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25044

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GIBBS, Frederick Waymouth. Recognition: a chapter from the history of the North American & South American States. London. Printed by W. M'Dowall, 1863. Second edition. [2], 46pp.

[Bound after:] The foreign enlistment act, London, William Ridgway, 1863. 74pp.

[And with:] Once a clergyman, always a clergyman. A letter to the Lord Bishop of London. London, William Ridgway, 1865. 78pp.

[And:] Extradition treaties. London, William Ridgway, 1868. 69pp

8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities somewhat rubbed to joints and corners. Internally clean ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 12929

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GERRARD, R. Ellis. Ballads of battle and poems of peace. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. North of England Printing Co., 1914. First edition. 8vo. [12], iii, [1], 204pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Binding cocked, heavily rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Decorated endpapers, near contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24616

[GEORGE IV]. Death of the king. Poole. Moore and Sydenham, Printers, [1830]. Dimensions 190 x 230 mm. Single sheet handbill, text within black border. Creased, some loss to margins, evidence of removal from a mount to verso. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 25473

[GEORGE IV]. A Brief Account of the coronation of his majesty, george iv. July 19, 1821. London. Printed for D. Walther, 1821. First edition. 8vo. [2], 32pp. With a stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, six aquatint plates by W. Read, and a line engraved illustration of the regalia.

[Bound with:] Official Programme: coronation of Queen Victoria. Single leaf broadside. Dimensions 390 x 490 mm. [London]. Orlando Hodgson, [1838]. Letterpress text in three columns within an engraved border, including the order of the procession from St James's Palace to Westminster Abbey, and ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27788

[GEORGE III]. Memoirs of his late most excellent majesty king george III. Chiefly illustrative of his private, domestic, and christian virtues; His Patronage of the Arts, Literature, &c. &c. &c. With numerous original anecdotes. London. Published by R. Miller, 1820. Second edition. 8vo. 64pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one further engraved plate (a portrait of George IV). Uncut. Later stitched into original publisher’s printed buff wrappers, with the edition of a [2]pp publisher's advertisement announcing the publication of the present work. Extremities worn, loss to spine. Plates foxed. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26129