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BOWDLER, Miss [Jane]. Poems and essays, by the late miss bowdler. Published for the benefit of the general hospital at bath. Bath. Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1793. Seventh edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 289pp, [1]. With a half-title. Attractively bound in contemporary red morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. With a well-executed fore-edge painting depicting a pastoral scene. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription to p.[vii], occasional inked underlining/highlighting, lightly spotted. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 20011
Photo of "In ladybird's garden"
ROONEY, Joseph A.. In ladybird's garden. [Firenze]. [Tipografia Domenicana], [1915]. First edition. 12mo. [36pp]. Original publisher's printed limp drab linen, lettered in red. Extremities lightly rubbed, text-block detached from binding, contemporary bookplate of Arthur Lloyd Taylor to FEP, neat ink annotation to foot of penultimate page, else clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 17604
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REGNIER. Henri de. Moi, Elle et Lui: roman. Paris. Mercure de France, 1935. 8vo. 278pp, [1]. With a half-title. Extra-illustrated with an original hand-drawn coloured pencil frontispiece, an additional manuscript title page, three full-page coloured-pencil illustrations, a manuscript 'table des illustrations', and three full-page hand-painted designs for the binding by A. J. Powilewicz. Contemporary vellum, painted decoration in red, green, and gilt, T.E.G., original publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in. Boards a trifle bowed. Decorative hand-painted endpapers, leaves trimmed, ... More > £ 650.00 Antiquates Ref. 20132
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JONES, Henry. The Earl of essex. A tragedy... London. Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753. First edition. vi, [2], 61pp, [3]. ESTC T100668.

[Bound with:] FIELDING, Henry. The wedding-day. A comedy... London. Printed for A. Millar, 1743. First edition. [4], 82pp, [2]. ESTC T164921.

[And:] [MARTYN, Benjamin]. Timoleon. A tragedy... London. Printed for J. Watts, 1730. First edition. [14], 66pp, [2]. ESTC T50339. The variant state with the 12-line preface devoid of ornaments. Without half-title or final two leaves (advertisements?)

[And:] FROWDE, ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20336
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[NEVILLE, O.]. The lay of the last minstrel, travesty. London. Sold by H. Colburn, 1811. Virgin edition. 8vo. [8], 237pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary calf-backed drab paper boards. Extremities worn, without lettering-piece, loss to spine and joints, boards bumped and marked. Front pastedown sprung, occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 11359
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GAY, [John]. Achilles. An opera. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden... London. Printed for J. Watts, 1733. First edition. 8vo. [6], 68pp, [4]. Without half-title. With three final pages of publisher's advertisements. Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in later blind-tooled straight-grain red morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Joints and corners rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate to FEP, title page a trifle dust-soiled, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19206
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BERANGER, [Pierre-Jean de]. Oeuvres completes. Paris. Perrotin, 1841. Edition Elzevirienne. 8vo. [4], 500pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Attractively bound by Clarke & Bedford in contemporary richly gilt-tooled brown morocco. A trifle rubbed. Morocco bookplate of Robert Samuel Turner to FEP, foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 19078
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LEMIERRE, [Antoine-Marin]. La peinture: poeme en trois chants. A Paris. Chez le Jay Librarie, [1769]. First edition. Quarto. [4], vii, [1], 94pp. With a half-title, an engraved titlepage, and three engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled sheep, morocco lettering-piece. Extremities worn, some loss to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-label of the Chez Bouvat Library, St. Petersburg to FEP, loss to gutter of front blank fly-leaf, contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title, slight paper-flaw to border of one plate, twentieth-century Russian library stamp/label to ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20055
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WHITEHEAD, W[illiam]. An hymn to the Nymph of Bristol Spring. London. Printed for R. Dodsley...And Sold by M. Cooper, 1751. First edition. Quarto. 37pp, [3]. With a half-title, a terminal publisher's advertisement leaf, and three fine engraved vignettes by Boitard. Recent plain grey paper boards. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp, a very good copy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 19192
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[BON MOTS]. Elite des bons mots et des pensees choisies, Recueillies avec soin des plus celebres Auteurs, & principalement des Livres en ana. A Amsterdam. Chez Jaques Desbordes, 1706. 12mo. In two volumes. [6], 492, [6]; [2], 476pp. Titlepages in red and black. With three final leaves of publisher's advertisements to Vol. I. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, some marking and discolouration, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplates of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEPs, occasional spotting. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 19498
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ROWE, N[icholas]. The tragedy of jane shore. Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style. London. Printed for Bernard Lintott, [1714]. First edition, first issue. [8], 63pp, [1]. Without initial leaf (half-title?). ESTC T55544

[Bound after:] Memoirs of the lives of King Edward IV. And jane shore. London. Printed for E. Curll, 1714. First edition. 28pp. ESTC T139789.

Quarto. Nineteenth-century half-vellum, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and a little marked, slight chipping to lettering-piece. Pen-trials to title and final page of first mentioned work, terminal leaf of ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 18582
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CLEVELAND, John. Poems...With Additions, never before Printed. [London]. [s.n.], Printed in the Year, 1654 Tenth edition. 8vo. Two parts in one volume. [4], 107, [4], [2], 12pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait. Nineteenth-century tan morocco, spine richly gilt, with diamond lozenge ruling to boards, in the style of Charles Lewis. Unidentified monogram bookplate to FEP. Rubbed, with chipping at head and foot of spine, crack to upper joint (but with board holding firmly). Occasional shaving, without loss of sense, paper adhesion to blank-fly ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 14122
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HULL, Mr [Thomas]. Richard Plantagenet a Legendary Tale, Now first Published. London. Printed for J. Bell, [1774]. First edition. 8vo. [2], iv, 30pp, [2]. Without half-title. With an engraved titlepage and a final advertisement leaf. Twentieth-century blue crushed half-morocco, cloth boards, gilt titling to spine. Very slight fading to spine, else externally fine. Engraved title shaved at head just touching first line, very slightly marked. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 19193
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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
Photo of "Les georgiques de virgile"
VIRGIL. Les georgiques de virgile. A Geneve [i.e. Geneva]. [s.n.], 1777. 12mo. [4], 191pp, [1]. Parallel Latin and French text. With a half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, contemporary inked inscription to head of title-page, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 19258