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English Books - 1801 onwards

WALLIS, Richard. The Happy Village. A Poem. Dedicated to the Honble. & Reverend the Trustees of the Late Lord Crewe... So. Shields. Printed and Sold By John Paxton, 1802. First edition. Quarto. [2], 20pp. Title page engraved, with large copper-engraved vignette from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Finely bound in antique style calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tipped corners, gilt. Thomas Davidson's copy, with his ink inscription to FEP and title, bookplate to FEP. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 31767
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
[POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. The Harvest Moon. London. Hildesheimer & Faulkner, [1888]. 12mo. [12]pp. Original publisher's pictorial limp card boards, original pictorial dustwrapper. Dustwrapper a trifle chipped and lightly browned, else clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 28164
MORRIS, James. The Hashemite kings. London. Faber and Faber, [1959]. First edition. 8vo. 225pp, [1]. With eight leaves of photographic plates. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers, later rebacked. A trifle rubbed and marked. Leaves browned. Signed by Morris on title page. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 33775
YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis. The heart of a continent: Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his journey from Peking to India by way of the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan, and across the himalaya buy the Mustagh Pass. London. John Murray, 1937. 8vo. xvi, 246pp, [2]. with a half-title, a photographic portrait frontispiece, two further photographic plates, and a folding map. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Esther Waldegrave with sincerest good wishes from her old friend Francis Younghusband. June 22. 1938'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25319
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
FORSYTH, Captain J. The highlands of central india: notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports. London. Chapman & Hall, 1871. First edition. 8vo. [5], viii-xii, 472pp. Without half-title. With a chromolithographed frontispiece, a further five chromolithographed plates, a lithographed folding map, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled black half-calf, grey cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked. Inked ownership inscription of George James Ferguson to title page, manuscript note to foot of p.285, scattered spotting/staining. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32897
LANYON, Helen. The hill o' dreams. Dublin. Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1909. First edition. 12mo. 32pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, some marking to boards. Endpapers browned, contemporary inked initials to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22210
SHERWOOD, Mrs. [Mary Martha]. The hills. London. Houlston and Stoneman, 1847. New edition. 16mo. 15pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. Frontispiece and final leaf pasted to inside of upper and lower covers respectively, as issued. Original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Inked ownership inscription to head of upper cover, Lightly creased and spotted. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20995
THADANI, R. V. [compiler]. The historic state trial of the ali brothers and five others. [Karachi]. [Published by R. V. Thadani], 1921. First edition. 8vo. [16], xx, 463, [3], 198pp. With a photographic frontispiece and a further eight photographic plates.Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in black. Heavily rubbed, numerous worm-tracks to boards - running throughout text-block - spine sunned. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting. Inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'With compliments from the Central Khilafat Committee of Bombay. M. Saldan. Lahore 21 1/22'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 32230
EDWARDS, Bryan. The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the west indies. London. Printed for John Stockdale, 1801. Third edition. 8vo. In three volumes. xxiv, xxiii, [1], 576; viii, 617, [1]; [2], xxxii, 477pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 10 engraved folding plates, and 11 engraved folding maps. Bound by Vicary & Co. of Plymouth, Devon (tickets to FEPs) in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to lower board of Vol. I, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31542
HOFLAND, Mrs.. The history of a merchant's widow and her young family. London. Printed for A. K. Newman & Co., [1857]. New edition. 12mo. [2], 176pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription to head of engraved title, scattered foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 24314
POYER, John. The history of barbados, from the first discovery of the island, in the year 1605, till the accession of lord seaforth, 1801. London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1808. First edition. Quarto. xxix, [7], 8, [2], 9-668pp. With a list of subscribers. Bound by W. & G. Baird of Belfast in later half-calf, brown cloth boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. Minor shelf-wear. Endpapers browned, binder's ticket and armorial bookplate of Anglo-Irish British Army officer and politician Hugh McCalmont (1845-1924) to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 950.00 Antiquates Ref. 30178
BROOKE, Stopford. The history of early english literature being the history of english poetry from its beginnings to the accession of king alfred. In two volumes. London. Macmillan and Co., 1892. First edition. 8vo. [2], 5ff, 344, [1], 1-337pp, [1]. With half-title to Vol. I, without title, half-title and preliminaries to Vol II. Annotated throughout by the author in manuscript, with corrections, alterations and additions. Contemporary gilt-tooled tan half- calf. Marbled endpapers. Worn, with upper board detached. Inscribed 'Mr Stopford Brooke proofs with his own corrections' to blank fly-leaf, numerous ink-stamps and date-stamps of the printers to margins, throughout. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 26315
[COMBE William]. [ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. . The history of johnny quae genus, the little foundling of the late doctor syntax: A Poem. London. Published by R. Ackermann, 1822. First edition. 8vo. [4], 267pp, [1]. With a hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, and a further 23 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, cocked, spine dulled. Early book-label to F. R. Atkinson of Pembleton and later book-label of Ann Spokes to FEP, offsetting, occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 24359
[DAY, Thomas]. The history of little jack. By the author of sanford and merton. Chiswick. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1820. First Whittingham edition. 16mo. 67pp, [3]. With half-title, woodcut vignette to title, a further 22 woodcuts in the text, and terminal advertisements. Stab stitched within original printed wrappers. Rubbed, with a little tearing to head and foot of spine; corners slightly dog-eared. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21358