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[WEST, Miss]. [A Victorian manuscript verse commonplace]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1863]. Quarto. [42] leaves. Original limp brown morocco, lettered and ruled in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 16042

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PRINCE, John Critchley. Autumn leaves: Original Poems. Hyde. Printed by G. Booth, and sold by the author, [1856]. First edition. 12mo. viii, 101pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 29259

LAURENCE, Thomas Benson. Augusta: a tale of the mutiny of 1857 in three cantos and other poems. [Calcutta]. George Wyman & Co., 1866. First edition. 8vo. viii, 126pp. With a list of subscribers. Original publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Rubbed, heavily marked, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting, marginal ink-stain to p.75. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 32608

[DEFOE, Daniel]. A True Relation of the apparition of one Mrs. veal, The next Day after her Death, to one Mrs. bargrave, at canterbury, The 8th of September, 1705. Which apparition recommends the Perusal of drelincourt's Book of Consolations against the Fears of Death. London. Printed for B. Bragg, 1707. Third edition. 8vo. [4], 12pp. Disbound. Some short marginal tears, scattered spotting. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19759

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MASSINGHAM, H. J. [compiler]. A treasury of seventeenth century english verse: form the death of shakespeare to the restoration (1616-1660). London. Macmillan and Co., 1919. 8vo. xxiii, 399pp, [1]. With a tipped-in errata slip. Modern gilt-ruled brown morocco, T.E.G., signed 'Katharine Pountney' to rear lower turn-in. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine lightly sunned. Marbled endpapers. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29139

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[LEATHAM, William Henry]. A traveller's thoughts; or, lines suggested by a tour on the continent. London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837. Third edition. 124pp, [2]. With a half-title.

[Bound with:] [LEATHAM, William Henry]. The victim. A tale of the "Lake of the Four Cantons." London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838. 68pp, [2]. With a half-title and a tipped-in errata slip.

[And:] [LEATHAM, William Henry]. Sandal in the olden time. An historical poem. London. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839. 106pp, [2]. With a half-title. With ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 21038

[MACKAY, Charles]. A thousand and one gems of English poetry. London. George Routledge and Sons, 1881. 8vo. iv, 538pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further eight engraved plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to FEP, inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, lightly foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23122

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[DUNTON, John]. Athenian Sport: or, Two Thousand Paradoxes merrily argued, To Amuse and Divert the Age: as A Paradox in praise of a Paradox. . London. Printed for B. Bragg, 1707. First edition. 8vo. xxxii, 544pp. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, staining and scoring to boards. Armorial bookplate of John Seale to FEP. Leaves lightly browned, light scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33916

ALFORD, D. P.. A tale of tresco, the tavistock chimes, and other poems, mostly of the west country. Tavistock. T. W. Greenfield, 1894. First edition. 8vo. [6], 72pp, [2]. Original publisher's gilt-tooled turquoise cloth. A trifle rubbed and marked. Title page browned. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title: 'N. L. Southam, d.d. D. P. Alford; Christmas 1903'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33391

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-Auguste. Atala, ou les amours de deux sauvages dans le désert. Paris. Chez Migneret, 1801. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo. xxiv, 207pp, [1]. With a half-title. Bound by T. J. Farndell of Windsor in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Binder's ticket and contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP: 'Wm. Danby / the gift of his sister / Mary Harcourt / May 1803'. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 17383

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BARANTE, [Baron de]. A tableau of French literature during The Eighteenth Centuury. London. Smith, Elder and Co., 1834. 12mo. xxxi, [1], 215pp, [1]. Bound by Carss & Co. of Glasgow in contemporary half-calf, green cloth boards. Rubbed, without lettering-piece. Very occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27358

RIDING, Laura. GRAVES, Robert. A survey of modernist poetry. London. William Heinemann ltd., 1927. First edition. 8vo. 295pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth-backed decorated boards, lettered in gilt. Without (the rarely seen) dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed. Bookseller's ticket of Blackwells of Oxford to FEP, early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. Presentation copy, flat signed by Graves to half-title. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20971

BLUNDEN, Edmund. A summer's fancy. London. The Beaumont Press, 1930. Limited issue. 8vo. 53pp [3]. One of 325 copies on handmade paper (numbered 81-405), this no. 231. Original publisher's cloth-backed decorated paper boards, lettered in gilt. Illustrations and decorations throughout designed by Randolph Schwabe. All edges untrimmed. Cloth a little stained and sunned, paper remains bright with slight bumping to corners. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30101

SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. A song of italy. London. John Camden Hotten, 1867. First edition. 8vo. 8, 66, [2], 6pp. With initial and terminal catalogues of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32433

SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. A song of italy. London. John Camden Hotten, 1867. First edition. 8vo. 8, 66, [2], 8, [2], 6pp. With initial and terminal leaves of advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30464

WHARTON, Edith. A son at the front. London. Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923. First U.K. edition. 8vo. v, [1], 365pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, a trifle cocked. Armorial bookplate of Roberti Marchionis de Crewe to FEP, endpapers browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23368

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SURTEES, R.S.. 'Ask Mamma;' Or, the Richest Commoner in England. London. Bradbury and Evans, 1858. First edition in book form. 8vo. xii, 412pp. Frontispiece and 12 hand-coloured plates by John Leech. Gilt-decorated red cloth. Some slight rubbing/bumping to extremities, small chip at foot of spine, splitting to head and foot of spine, hinges split and straining, holding by cords only. Preserved in a cloth chemise and slip-case. With two bookplates to front endpapers (including the gilt-stamped red morocco example of Sir Hugh Walpole, Brackenburn, Keswick) More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 13827

[SURTEES, Robert Smith]. "Ask mamma;" or, the richest commoner in england. London. Bradbury, Evans, and Co., [1858]. First edition in book form. 8vo. x, [2], 412pp. With a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, a further 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, and 69 woodcut illustrations in text by John Leech. Bound by New of Eton in contemporary brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Book-label of A. A. Somerville to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 26632

[SKETCH]. A sketch from nature. A rural poem. London. Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner et al., 1814. First edition. 8vo. vi, [3], 10-53pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's drab paper boards, Extremities a trifle rubbed. Lightly spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17185

T[HOMAS], H[elen]. As it was. London. William Heinemann Ltd., 1926. First edition. 8vo. [8], 116pp, [2]. With half title and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Remnants of original publisher's printed buff wrappers loosely inserted. Pencil ownership inscription of Sir Ian MacAlister to recto of FFEP. Presentation copy, loosely inserted card print 'With the author's compliments'.

[Together with:] THOMAS, Helen, World without end. London. William Heinemann Ltd., 1931. First edition. ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29724