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MARTINEAU, Harriet. Deerbrook. A Novel. London. Edward Moxon, 1839. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [4], 336; [4], 331, [1]; [4], 304pp. Modern gilt-tooled black half-calf, black cloth boards, contrasting orange morocco lettering-pieces. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, scattered spotting. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 22291
RICCOBONI, Madame. Letters from lord rivers to sir charles cardigan, and to other english correspondents, While he resided in France. Dublin. Printed by S. Colbert, 1785. First Dublin edition. 12mo. 288pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked. Leaves browned, spotted, and damp-stained, near contemporary ownership inscription and bibliographical note to title page, later ownership inscription 'Elisa Shaw her Book' to head of p[9], small hole to text of leaf O3, with slight loss of sense. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 27070
WITHER, George. Divine Poems (by way of Paraphrase) on the Ten Commandments... London. Printed for Joseph Marshall, 1728. Second edition. [16], 118pp. Preliminaries misbound. With 12 engraved illustrations in the text. ESTC N55028. ESTC records a single copy of this edition in the British Isles (V&A), and one further in North America (Illinois).

[Bound after:] MURPHY, Arthur. The grecian daughter. A tragedy... London Printed for W. Lowndes, 1796. 60pp. Early inked ownership inscription to browned title page. Not in ESTC.

[And:] ADDISON, [Joseph]. Cato. A ... More >
£ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 28851
[WESTMINSTER SCHOOL]. Anthologia sive Epigrammatum Græcorum ex Anthologia editâ, MS. Bodleianâ, aliisque autoribus delectus in usum Scholæ Westmonasteriensis. Oxoniæ [i.e. Oxford]. E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1724. First edition. 8vo. [2], 99p, [3]. The first and sixth words of the title are transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary panelled sheep. Rubbed, joints starting, paper label with title in manuscript to head of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Stuart to front endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24901
HITCHCOCK, Thomas C.. Flights of Fancy: being Occasional Poems. Clonmel. [1839]. 16mo. [6], 44pp, [6]. Manuscript on paper. Contemporary marbled paper boards. Rubbed and dust-soiled, spine worn. With an additional manuscript title with adhered engraved classical motifs, facing an ink manuscript dedication 'To George Rock Hitchcock as a Token of remembrance from his loving Brother Thomas Cooke Hitchcock', all in the same neat hand, the dedication with adhered engraved border and decorations, each decoration with contemporary ink ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 26181
GOETHE, Baron [Johann Wolfgang]. The sorrows of werter... London. Printed by W. Lewis...for James Goodwin, 1813. 12mo. iv, 191pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Later burgundy half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, paper shelf-label to foot of dulled spine. Foxed, offsetting to title. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 26351
GENLIS, [Stéphanie Félicité], Comtesse de. Tales of the castle: or, stories of instruction and delight... London. Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. Fourth edition. 12mo. In five volumes. Bound by Roberts of Helston, Cornwall, in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Extremities rubbed and a trifle marked. Binder's tickets and early armorial bookplates of Rev. Henry Grylls to all FEPs, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of J. W. Grylls to all FFEPs, scattered foxing. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24712
[GRENVILLE, Lord William Wyndham]. Nugae metricae. [s.l.]. [s.n.], 1824. Sole edition; privately printed. Quarto. [4], 89pp, [1]. A well-margined copy, with fore-edge untrimmed, in nineteenth-century half morocco, gilt, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. The leather is somewhat scuffed, spotting to text. With the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire to FEP, and an A.L.S. from the author at Dropmore House, dated 4th May 1829, bound in facing the title, and manuscript corrections to the text to D2r, ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 25624
[NAUBERT, Benedikte]. Alf von deulmen: or, the history of the emperor philip, and his daughters. London. Printed for J. Bell, 1794. First edition in English. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. xx, 300; [2], 305pp, [1]. Bound by J. Parkin's of Westminster in contemporary diced calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities worn. Early inked ownership inscription (Mrs. Rowland, Abingdon St.) and later ink-stamp of Sir Walter John Trevelyan, Sheriff of Cornwall to recto of FFEP, Vol. I advertisement leaf (A2) detached with loss to gutter - recently naively reattached with ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 19642
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
A MODERN ANTIQUE [BYRON, Medora Gordon]. Celia in search of a husband. London. Printed at the Minerva Press, For A. K. Newman and Co., 1809. Second edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. viii, 322; [4], 306pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Modern brown cloth. A trifle rubbed and marked. Small hole to leaf Q7 of Vol. I - touching text without loss of sense, scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 30831
[PATMORE, Coventry]. The Unknown Eros and other odes. London. George Bell and Sons, 1877. First edition. 8vo. x, 128, ix pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's brown cloth, printed paper lettering -piece to spine. Extremities worn and sunned, spine panel attached at upper joint only. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden to FEP, ink ownership inscription of Richard Garnett to head of title, occasional light marginal spotting. With a one-page ALS tipped-in to front blank fly leaf: 'Hastings Sept. 19, 1877. Sir, ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29797
CRABBE, George. The works. London. John Murray, 1823. 8vo. In five volumes. With half-titles. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled crushed green morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and bumped, spines dulled. Scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 23344
KIPLING, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the hills. Calcutta. Thacker, Spink and Co., 1888. First edition, second impression. 8vo. xii, 283, [1], xxxii pp. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in black and gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Ticket of the Exchange Stationary and Bookselling Store of Alexandria to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Reginald Rudyerd / Capt. Royal Irish Rifles / Alexandria / Egypt / Nov: ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25021
AN ADEPT [i.e. JOHNSTONE, Charles]. Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea... London. Printed for T. Becket, 1760. First edition. 12mo. In two volumes. xxvi, [12], 234; [12], 275pp, [1]. Bound by Riviere in later gilt-tooled mottled calf, recently rebacked preserving spine panels and contrasting dark green morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. Housed in modern brown cloth slipcase. Rubbed, chipping to spines. Armorial bookplate of J. Leveson Douglas Stewart and later bookplate of American industrialist and bibliophile Alfred Edward Newton (1864-1940) to FEPs. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29123
WARREN, Samuel. Passages from the diary of a late physician. Edinburgh. William Blackwood & Sons, 1838. Fifth edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [5], viii-xii, 338; [4], 354; [4], 509pp, [1]. Without half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards, brown morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaves of all volumes. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page of Vol. I: 'The Honble. Mr. ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 26069
MONCRIEFF, W. T.. Songs, duets, chorusses, &c. &c. serious and comic, as sung in The New Broad Comic Extravaganza Entertainment, in two acts, 'yclept Giovanni in London; or, the libertine reclaimed. Comprising all the subsequent adventures of that celebrated character, as performed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. London. Printed for John Lowndes, [s.d., c. 1820] 16pp. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece depicting 'Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni' by caricaturist and painter Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1764-1811).

[Bound after:] [STUART, James]. The trial of james stuart, esq. younger of dunearn, before the High Court of Justiciary, at edinburgh, on monday, june 10. 1822... Edinburgh. Printed by Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. First edition. [4], 186, [2], 20pp.

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£ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28234
[CRABBE, George]. The library. A poem. London. Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. First edition. Quarto. 34pp. Modern gilt-tooled vellum-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. A clean and crisp copy. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25824