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[METHODISM]. Wesley and his successors. London. Charles H. Kelly, 1895. Second edition. Quarto. 273pp, [1]. With 107 plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled black morocco, A.E.G., gilt dentelles. Gilt lettered presentation inscription to FEP: 'Presented to Mr. William Hines on laying a foundation stone of the Wesleyan Methodist School-Chapel, Cauldron Road, Shelton, Hanley. October 5th, 1897'. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28987
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance. London. Chatto and Windus, 1896. First edition. 8vo. [8], 289, [3], 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue (dated March, 1896). Title in red and black. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt.Minor shelf-wear. Armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon and booksellers ticket of Gilbert & Field of London to FEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27464
[SCOTT, Walter]. Waverley; or, 'tis sixty years since. Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., 1814. Second edition. 12mo. In three volumes. [4], 358, [2]; [4], 370, [2]; [4], 371pp, [1]. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and bumped. Later armorial bookplates of Serjeantson of Hanlith to all FEPs. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28177
[SHERWOOD, Mrs. Mary Martha]. Waste not, want not. London. The Religious Tract Society, 1837. 12mo. 72pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial paper wrappers. Without spine panel, dust-soiled and a trifle chipped. Inked and pencilled ownership inscriptions to recto of FFEP and foot of p.70. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21894
HOUSMAN, Laurene (ed.). War letters of fallen englishmen. London. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930. First edition. 8vo. 318pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards, spine lettered gilt. With the original cream dustwrapper lettered black. Boards bright, with minor bumping to corners and ends with the spine a trifle cocked. Wrapper marked and toned, spine significantly sunned with losses to both ends, with the corresponding fading to the cloth. Endpapers toned, otherwise bright and clean throughout save light pencil markings on page 143. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30367
POLLOCK, John. War and revolution in Russia. London. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1918. First edition. 8vo. xviii, 280pp, [4]. With half-title, photographic frontispiece, and two terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in black. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Occasional pencil annotations to text, else an internally clean and crisp copy. Signed by the author 'John Pollock' to recto of FFEP, ink manuscript correction to a single word of preliminaries likely in the author's hand. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 14322
BEVERIDGE, Erskine. Wanderings with a Camera 1882-1898. Edinburgh. Privately printed, William Brown, 1922. First edition. Quarto. Number one of 50 copies printed. In two volumes. 313 leaves of photographic collotype plates. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, bruised at head of spines. Endpapers browned. A crisp copy. The compiler John H. Beveridge's own copy, with his armorial bookplate to FEP and inked ownership inscription to limitation page. More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 23283
JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wall and water gardens. [London]. Country Life & George Newnes Ltd., [1901]. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 177pp, [1]. With 147 black and white photographic plates. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21990
[VIZAGAPATAM]. BARRY, Sir John Wolfe. Vizagapatam. Proposals for the improvement and development of the harbour. . London. Waterlow and Sons, 1914. First edition. Folio. 20 leaves, printed on rectos only. Large partially coloured engraved folding map housed in rear pocket. Original publisher's cloth-backed printed buff paper boards. Extremities rubbed and marked, pencilled shelf-marks/labels and early inked ownership inscription of Rustat Blake to upper board, some surface loss to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 31572
HEAD, Sir Edmund [trans.]. Viga glum's saga. The story of viga-glum. Translated from the icelandic... London. Williams and Norgate, 1866. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 124pp. With a half-title and two folding charts. Title page in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, burgundy cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to verso of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27703
SANGAR, J. T.. Victory over Sin and Death! A sermon, preached in the Churches of St. Werburgh and St. James; Bristol, On Sunday, January, 12, 1812, On occasion of the Death of Miss French, Who departed this Life on the 31st, Dec, 1811, In the 26th Year of her Age...Published for the Benefit of a Near Relation of the Deceased. London. Sold by Longman, Hurst, & Co. et al., [1812]. First edition. 104pp. With half-title.

[Bound after:] BIDDULPH, Thomas T[regenna]. Life a vapour! St. James IV. Being the substance of a sermon...on the death of Mr. John Marker. Bristol. Printed and Sold by W. Bulgin, 1802. Second edition. 33pp, [1].

[And:] BIDDULPH, Thomas T[regenna]. Hezekiah's charge to the congregation of Judah. 2 Chron. xxix. 31. A sermon preached before the Grateful Society, in All Saints'-Church, Bristol, on ... More >
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 14644