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COLMAN, George. Broad grins...comprising, with new additional tales in verse, those formerly published under the title of 'My night-gown and slippers.'. London. Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. First edition. 12mo. vii, [1], 125pp, [3]. With half-title. Contemporary half-calf, plain paper boards. Rubbed, joints split, dust-soiled. Armorial bookplate to FEP, later ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, lightly foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 14506

COLMAN, George. The heir at law, a comedy in five acts... Dublin. Printed for P. Byrne, 1800. 12mo. 68pp, [2]. Recent burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly spotted internally, small hole to leaf A5 - touching text with slight loss of sense. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 19460

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COLMAN, George. The poor gentleman: a comedy, in five acts... London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. 8vo. 77pp, [1]. Later buff paper boards, calf lettering-piece. Extremities lightly marked and sunned. Foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 19459

[CONDER, Josiah]. The Associate Minstrels. London. Printed by George Ellerton...for Thomas Conder, 1810. First edition. 8vo. v, [1], 214pp. With an additional engraved title-page. Handsomely bound in contemporary calf, red morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Boards a trifle scuffed. Marbled endpapers, very small worm-trail to bottom margin throughout, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 11983

CONGREVE, William.. Love for Love. A Comedy. Dublin. Printed for Peter Wilson., 1757. 12mo. 94pp, (2). Recent cloth with contrasting label and gilt titling. Browning to title, beginning and end. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 10486

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CONGREVE, William. The works of william congreve...Consisting of His plays and poems. Birmingham. Printed by John Baskerville; For J. and R. Tonson, 1761. 8vo. In three volumes. xxiv, [16], 164, [20], 187-358, [2]; [12], 17-274, [20], 295-514, [2]; [12], 17-514pp, [2]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I and a further five engraved plates. Finely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, brown morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 2,000.00 Antiquates Ref. 17563

CONRAD, Joseph. The rover. London. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923. First edition. 8vo. 317pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Slightest of marking to boards, fore-edge foxed, dustwrapper lightly dust-soiled and a trifle chipped. Browning to endpapers, else internally immaculate. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 18283

CONRAD, Joseph. Last essays. London & Toronto. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1926. First edition. 8vo. xvii, [1], 253pp, [1]. With a frontispiece: 'A facsimile of the last page written by Conrad'. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Very light shelf-wear, dustwrapper sunned and spotted, some loss to foot of spine panel. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 18286

CONRAD, Joseph. HUEFFER, Ford Maddox. The nature of a crime. London. Duckworth & Co., 1924. First edition. 8vo. 119pp. [1]. With a half-title. Publisher's announcement of Hueffer's forthcoming Joseph Conrad; a personal remembrance loosely inserted. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Endpapers a trifle browned, dustwrapper ever so slightly dust-soiled, a fine copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 18287

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[CORNEILLE, Pierre]. Cinna's Conspiracy. A tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's Servants. London. Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1713. First edition in English. Quarto. [6], 55p, [5]. Without half-title. Later half-vellum, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Extremities lightly rubbed and discoloured. Foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19176

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CORNWALL, Barry. The flood of thessaly, the girl of provence, and other poems. London. Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1823. First edition. 8vo. [6], 248pp. Contemporary red half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 18947

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COTTIN, [Sophie]. Elizabeth; or, the exiles of siberia. A tale founded upon facts. London. Printed for John Sharpe...by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1822. 12mo. [4], 191pp, [1]. With an additional engraved title page and four engraved plates. Contemporary black morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J Hayhurst to verso of FFEP, lightly spotted. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 20515

COWLEY, Abraham. The works of Mr Abraham Cowley. Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed: and Those which he Design'd for the Press: Now published out of the Authors original copies. London. Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringham, 1684. Eighth edition. [2], xl, 41, [1], 80, [4], 58, 61-70, 154, 23, [1], 148pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. With an engraved portrait frontispiece.

[Bound with:] COWLEY, Abraham. The second part of the works of Mr. Abraham Cowley. Being what was Written and Published by himself in his younger years. And now Reprinted together. London. Printed by Mary Clark, for Charles Harper, 1684. Fifth edition. [8], 161pp, [1]. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11736

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[COWPER, William]. The diverting history of john gilpin: showing how he went farther than he intended and came safe home again. London. Charles Tilt, 1828. 8vo. iv, [1], 6-20pp, [4]. With a wood-engraved frontispiece, five wood-engraved plates, and two terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's drab printed paper wrappers. Extremities chipped and marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of 'Fanny Thorp' to verso of upper panel, occasional light spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 16974

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COWPER, William. Poems...With a memoir of the author by the rev. henry stebbing a.m.. London. Printed for Scott, Webster, and Geary, [s.d., c.1840] 12mo. 416pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, A.E.G. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Ellen Stockdale to recto of front blank fly-leaf, light spotting to frontispiece and engraved title page. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 20497

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COWPER, William. Poems. London. Published by Thos. Kelly, 1819. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], 343, [1]; [2], iv, [4], 367pp, [1]. With an engraved title page to each volume, an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I, and a further four engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf. Extremities sunned and lightly rubbed. Occasional spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22206

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COXE, R.C.. Musings at Tynemouth: Ten Sonnets. North & South: Ten Sonnets. Newcastle. M.A. Richardson, 1848. First separate edition. 8vo in 4s. [28]. Original publisher's printed wrappers. A little chipping to spine, slightly marked. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22417

CRABBE, G[eorge], Rev.. The borough: a poem, in Twenty-Four Letters. London. Printed for J. Hatchard, 1810. First edition. 8vo. [3], vi-xli, [3], 344pp. Without half-title. Recent calf-backed tan cloth, morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Toned and foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21651

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CRABBE, George, Rev.. Rev. George Crabbe's poems... London. John James Chidley, 1846. New edition. 12mo. iv, 359pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Original publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, small split to head of sunned spine. Hinges exposed, inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22265

CRESSWELL, Walter D'Arcy. Poems (1921-1927). London. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 1928. First edition. 8vo. [10], 78pp. With half-title. Original publisher's navy cloth boards, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and bumped, chipping to dustwrapper spine. Inked correction to p.57, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 20076