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[WOOD ENGRAVING]. [Running-title:] Modern wood engraving. [London]. [Henry Hooper, [1838]. 8vo. [1], 266-278pp, [2]. With 30 plates of wood-engravings. Bound by Clyde of London in near contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Joints rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Lawrence Richardson Baily to FEP. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 25791
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DRINKWATER, John. Rupert Brooke: an essay. London. Printed for the Author at the Chiswick Press, 1916. First edition. 12mo. Limited edition, number 11 of 115 copies printed. 22pp, [2]. With half-title. Title in red and black. Original publisher's blue paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 17204
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BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Rural tales, ballads, and songs. London. Printed for Vernor and Hood...and Longman and Rees, 1802. First edition. ix, [1], 119pp, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 11 engraved plates. Modern mottled calf, tooled and lettered in gilt to spine, with contrasting olive-green morocco lettering-piece. Very lightly rubbed. Lightly browned throughout, scattered spotting, with small marginal tear to fore-edge of second blank fly-leaf. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35129
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[RUSTIC EXCURSIONS]. Rustic excursions to the Villages round London. By a father and his children. London. Printed for Richard Phillips...By J. Adlard, 1811. First edition. 12mo. [4], 168pp, [8]. With four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, loss to head of spine, corners exposed. Early inked ownership inscription of John Johnstone to FEP, without free-endpapers, scattered spotting. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript note to FEP: 'Could this be Godwin's Rural ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27935
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GURNEY, Joseph John. Sabbatical verses. London. Published by J. and A. Arch, 1837. First edition. 8vo. [6], 58pp, [2]. Original publisher's blind-stamped red moire cloth, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, wear to spine, damp-staining to lower board, some marking. Occasional light spotting. Association copy, inscribed in ink to front blank fly-leaf; 'Mary Ann Birkbeck / with E. P. Gurney's dear love / Grove - 1850', presumably Eliza Paul Gurney (1801-1881), third wife of Joseph John Gurney. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16080
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[SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco Destroyed. Milwaukee. C. N. Caspar Co., [1906]. Oblong 8vo. [24] leaves. Original publisher's brown wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 24161
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SAPPHO. WHARTON, Henry Thornton. Sappho: memoir, text, selected renderings and A Literal Translation by henry thornton wharton m.a. oxon. London. David Stott, 1887. Second edition. Quarto. [2], xvi, 213pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate. Original publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, lettered in red and black. A trifle rubbed, lightly discoloured, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. Limited edition, inked inscription to verso of title page: 'Twenty-five copies of this book have been printed on Large Paper. Each one is numbered and signed by me, this Copy being No. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 26570
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TASKER, Joe. Savage arena. London. Metheun, [1982]. First edition. 8vo. 270pp. With 24 photographic plates, eight maps, and six diagrams in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in silver, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to FFEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23443
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BENSON, E. F. Scarlet and Hyssop. London. William Heinemann, 1902. First edition. 8vo. 316pp, [32]. Original publisher's yellow cloth boards lettered in black, with the red, blue and black flower pot design stamped to front board. Boards a little marked, spine toned, bumping to spine ends and corners; else a crisp copy. Top and fore edge untrimmed, internally bright and clean. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30030
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COTTON, Charles. Scarronides, or virgil travestie, a mock poem, on the first and fourth books of virgil's aeneis, in english burlesque. London. Printed by John Galton, 1804. Thirteenth edition. 8vo. [2], 122pp. With an engraved frontispiece, one further engraved plate, and a single engraved illustration in the text. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, loss to spine, joints starting. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting/staining. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27339
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BOWLES, W[illiam] Lisle. Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative... London. William Pickering, 1837. First edition. 8vo. [18], xlv, [1], 118pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, an initial publisher's advertisement a catalogue, and a final advertisement leaf. Original publisher's green buckram, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, spine sunned, lettering-piece chipped. Book-label of J. O. Edwards and pencilled ownership inscription of professor of American literature at the University of Leeds Douglas Grant (1921-1969) to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, frontispiece ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23690
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BOWLES, W[illiam] Lisle. Scenes and shadows of days departed: a narrative accompanied with poems of youth and some other poems of melancholy and fancy in the journey of life from youth to age. London. William Pickering, 1837. First edition. [3], vi-xlv, [1], 118pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece.

[Bound with:] BOWLES, Caroline. The birth-day; a poem, in three parts: to which are added, occasional verses. Edinburgh. William Blackwood and Sons, 1836. First edition. [4], ii, 288pp.

12mo. Contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked, A.E.G. Boards rubbed. Recent book-label of James Stevens Cox to FEP, offsetting to first title, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21562