Shop antiquarian books on “English Books – 1801 onwards”

SCOTT, Leader [i.e. BAXTER, Lucy]. The Castle of Vincigliata. Florence. Printed by G. Barbèra, 1897. First edition. 8vo. x, [2], 304pp, [3]. With numerous photographic illustrations in the text, full-page photographic portraits of Louisa Temple Leader and John Temple Leader (Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy). Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges red. Rubbed, some chipping to joints. Upper hinge exposed, armorial bookplate of publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin (1848-1935) to FEP, FFEP detached. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23688

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[HILL, Thomas]. The Cause of Truth defended; being a plain statement of the facts connected with the Two Trials of the Rev. T. Hill, methodist preacher, for defamation of the character of Miss Bell, of North-Shields, containing a correct report of the trial at York, And other Matter relative thereto, illustrated by fac-similes of Three different Hand-Writings of Mr Hill.. London. Simpkin and Marshall, 1827. First edition. 8vo. viii, 155pp, [1]. With six folding plates containing facsimiles of manuscript letters. Uncut in contemporary two-tone paper boards, rebacked, contrasting modern gilt-tooled burgundy morocco lettering-piece to spine. Lightly worn, with chipping to foot of spine, and bumping to corners. Some light damp-staining to gutters, scuffing to endpapers, and occasional spotting, but largely clean. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 35067

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[CAWNPORE]. The cawnpore commercial directory and guide to Cantonments, Civil Lines, and the City. Cawnpore. Printed at the Christ Church Mission Press, 1911. 8vo. [2], vii [i.e. viii], 178pp. Original publisher's printed green wrappers. Heavily rubbed, marked, and creased, surface loss to spine. Occasional marginal damp-staining. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25389

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TWAIN, Mark. The celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county, And other Sketches. New-York. C. H. Webb, Publisher, 1870. 8vo. 198pp. Original publisher's gilt-stamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Rubbed, marked, and sunned, chipping to head and foot of spine. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 27978

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[TRADE UNIONISM]. HYNDMAN, H. M. The chicago riots and the class war in the united states. (A Reprint from "Time."). London. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1886. First offprint edition. [2], 16pp

[Bound with:] [Caption title:] To-day. No. 26.----february, 1886. [33]-64pp.

[And:] "The Times" and Mr. Parnell: the press and the patriot. A lecture, Being a Criticism of the pRess and a Defence of the Patriot, Delivered in the Unitarian Christian Church, Aberdeen, 7th May, 1887. First edition. Aberdeen. George Middleton, [1887]. 12pp. Ink-stamp of the Aberdeen Branch of the Socialist League to head of ... More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 29372

WILSON, W. Carus, Rev. [editor]. The children's friend. London. Sold by Arthur Foster, [1844]. 12mo. [1], 50-72pp. Original publisher's pictorial salmon wrappers. Extremities sunned and a trifle rubbed, early inked ownership inscription to head of upper wrapper. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23416

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[YONGE, Frances Mary et al.]. The child's christian year: hymns for every sunday and holy-day, compiled for the use of parochial schools. Oxford. John Henry Parker, 1841. First edition. 12mo. xii, 113pp, [19]. With nine terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29843

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[RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY]. The child's companion; or, Sunday Scholar's Reward. Vol. IV. for 1826. London. Printed [by J. Hill] for the Religious Tract Society, [1826]. 16mo. iv, 380pp. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary sheep. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting, occasional browning. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34241

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[CHILD'S OWN BOOK]. The child's own book. For April, 1839. London. Published by Richard Davis, [1839]. 16mo. 49-64pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed yellow wrappers.

[Together with:] Another copy of the same work in variant publisher's printed blue wrappers. A trifle creased and dusty. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 25268

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FENOLLOSA, Ernest. POUND, Ezra [editor]. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. [San Francisco]. City Lights Books, [1960]. 8vo. 45pp, [3]. Original publisher's illustrated paper wrappers. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. From the library of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995), with his inked ownership inscription to title page. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23610

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DRINKWATER, John. The christ child at christmas manuscript. Highgate. [s.n.], 1930. Quarto. Pencil on paper. Three (single side) leaves, with a covering note on lined paper ‘My dear ?Jeff This, the original draft of 'The Christ Child at Christmas', of which the first page appears to have been written on blotting paper, is to wish you a very happy Christmas and New Year. Yours affectionately, John Drinkwater, Highgate, Christmas 1930'. More > £ 540.00 Antiquates Ref. 29663

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A CLERGYMAN [HENSLOWE, William Henry]. The christian hebdomad, or week of human life. A souvenir of the savior! And an occasional help to family devotion. London. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1866. First edition. 8vo. 117pp, [3]. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and sunned, a trifle marked, some chipping to head and foot of spine. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to recto of FFEP, blank marriage certificate pasted to RFEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FEP: 'Ellen E. Henslowe / 29 April 1884 / from the author WHH'.

[Together with:] [HENSLOWE, William Henry]. ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20817

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[CHRISTIANITY]. The christian's daily guide to prayer, and the study of the holy scriptures. Bath. Binns & Goodwin, 1845. First edition. 12mo. viii, 88pp, [4]. With two terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's blind-stamped burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned, marking to boards. Later bookplate of the Bath Public Reference Library to FEP, with their occasional embossed stamps throughout, foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16872

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KEBLE, John. The Christian Year: thoughts in verse for the sundays and holydays throughout the year.. London. Bickers and Son, 1880. 8vo. [2], 315pp. Title page in red and black. With half-title, a pasted-in engraved frontispiece, and 11 further engraved plates. Finely bound by Ramage (stamp-signed to ontemporary brown morocco, richly gilt-tooled. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Very lightly rubbed, corners a little bumped. Inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP. Light scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29953

[KEBLE, John]. The christian year: thoughts in verse for the sundays and holydays throughout the year. Oxford. Printed by W. Baxter, For J. Parker; and C. and J. Rivington, 1827. First edition. 12mo. xii, 201, [1]; viii, 200pp, [2]. With half-titles to each volume and a terminal errata leaf to Vol II. Uncut in original publisher's paper boards (blue for Vol. I, brown for Vol II), expertly rebacked to style in contrasting paper. Some marking to boards, loss to extremities. With an entire A.L.S. from the author to 'The Revd. F. Kilvert, Claverton Lodge, Bath', loosely inserted, spotted, ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18023

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[SMITH, Rev. John?] . The chronicles of gotham; or, the facetious history of official proceedings. Glasgow. To be had of the booksellers, 1856. First edition. 8vo. [1], 239pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 21 further illustrated plates depicting scenes from 'Gotham'. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and a trifle marked, top edge dusty. Title page browned, very occasional spotting throughout, More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33397

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[CHRONOLOGY]. The chronology of kings of england, from the conquest: in Prose and Verse. London. William Darton and Son, 1834. 16mo in 4s. [40]pp. Without wrappers. Some loosening to sewing, short tear at foot of spine. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 33480

ROBINS, Rev. Sanderson. The church schoolmaster. London. Francis & John Rivington, 1850. First edition. 8vo. [8], 212, 8pp. With a half-title and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Modern orange cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Bookplate of Swansea Training College to FEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34256

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AN AMERICAN INDIAN. The citizen of nature, in a series of letters from an american indian, in london, to his friend at home. London. Published by W. Benbow, 1824. [2], iv, 238pp.

[Bound after:] Every night book; or, life after dark. London. Published by T. Richardson, 1827. [3], xvi, [17]-192pp. Without half-title.

12mo. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed, without lettering-piece. Recent book-label of Peter Stewart Young (antiquarian bookseller of Tillingham) to FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27665

QUIN, Thomas. The city of refuge: in four books. London. Printed for the Author, by J. Haddon, 1817. First edition. 12mo. 132pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, without front blank fly-leaf, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21148