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CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The complete works of geoffrey chaucer. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1901. 8vo. xxiv, 732, 149pp, [1]. With half-title and photographic reproduction of an early manuscript as frontispiece. Finely bound by Mudie in contemporary brown morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt initials 'B.E.C. ' to upper board, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Blanche E. Cheekley to front blank fly-leaf. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 25635
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BYRON, Lord. The Poetical Works of lord byron. London. Henry Frowde, 1896. Oxford edition. 8vo. x, 924pp. With a half-title. Finely bound by Mudie in contemporary dark brown morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt initials 'B.E.C. ' to upper board, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked gift inscription addressed to Blanche E. Cheekley, from M Darnell, and dated October 1903, to front blank fly-leaf. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 25636
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BROWNING, Robert. Dramatis Personæ. London. Chapman and Hall, 1864. Second edition. 8vo. [6], 250pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Finely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Endpapers lightly browned, light scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34424
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Under the Deodars. Allahabad. Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co., [1888]. First edition. 8vo. [8], 106pp, vii, [1]. With a preliminary leaf and terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Finely bound by Morrell (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-tooled black morocco. Gilt dentelles, A.E.G. Very lightly rubbed. Very light scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers. A fine copy. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25947
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CROCKER, Charles. The vale of obscurity, the lavant, and other poems. Chichester. Printed for the author by W. Mason, 1830. First edition. 8vo. 120pp. Original publisher's two-tone wrappers, printed paper lettering-piece to upper wrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, light damp-staining to upper board. Light browning and staining to initial leaves, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 34696
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POPE, Alexander. The dunciad, variorum. With the prolegomena of scriblerus.. London. Printed for A. Dod, 1729. First edition. Quarto. 16, [2], 6, 9-29, [3], 118pp, cxix-cxxiv, [2]. With an engraved title page and terminal index. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily worn, with lower joint cracked and upper joint split, significant loss to corners, slight losses to head and foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of Richard Bingham to FEP. Early inked inscriptions of Robert Eddowes to FFEP, dated 1748, and ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30339
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GAY, John. Poems on several occasions. London. Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1720. First edition. Quarto. Two volumes bound as one. [10], 268pp, [6], [271]-546pp. Pages 104, 242, 377, 378 misnumbered 102, 422, 363, 368 respectively. Title page in red and black. With a preliminary list of subscribers and errata slip, but without the three plates originally issued with this work. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Worn, with surface wear to boards, upper joint split, small losses to head ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33551
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CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The ghost. Book III. London. Printed fro the Author, and Sold by WIlliam Flexney, 1762. First edition. [5], 58-113pp, [1]. With a half-title. ESTC T40804.

[Bound with:] CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The ghost. Book IV. London. Printed for J. Coote, 1763. First edition. [5], 128-213pp, [1].

[And:] CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The prophecy of famine. A scots pastoral... London. Printed for the Author, And Sold by G. Kearsly, 1763. Fourth edition. [4], 28pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. ESTC T98760.

[And:] CHURCHILL, C[harles]. The ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 23316
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GRAY, [Thomas]. The poems of mr. gray. To which are prefixed memoirs of his life and writings by w. mason, m.a. York. Printed by A. Ward, 1775. Quarto. [4], 416, 111pp, [3]. In two parts. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and errata slip. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, boards scuffed, with splitting to joints, and some loss to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Isaac Reed, book label of Graham Pollard, and one further book-label with the initials GM to FEP. ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28429
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CALLIMACHUS. The works of callimachus, translated into english verse. The hymns and epigrams from the greek; with the coma berenices from the latin of catullus: with the original text, and notes carefully selected from former commentators, and additional observations, By h. w. tytler, m.d.. London. Printed by T. Davison, 1793. First edition. Quarto. viii, 268pp, [6]. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, some surface loss to boards. Hinges exposed, contemporary armorial bookplate and recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 33012
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WATTS, Alaric A.. The literary souvenir. London. Longman, Rees, Orne, Brown and Green, 1832. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 344pp. With an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements, colour engraved frontispiece, and 11 further plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green calf, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities. Hinges exposed; spotting and browning throughout. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 35200
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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The professor at the breakfast-table; with the story of iris.. London. Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1860. First English edition. 8vo. 286pp. Finely bound by Riviere (stamp-signed to FEP) in contemporary richly gilt-tooled buff morocco, contrasting black and brown morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, with light wear to joints. Scattered spotting. Inked gift inscription addressed to J. T. Coleridge, 'on his seventy second birthday from his children, J. D. Coleridge and J. F. Coleridge, 9th July. 1862'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26070
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REGNUM JACK. Rhymes in Rambles. Chichester. Charles Knight, Printer, 1899. First edition. 8vo. 61pp, [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher's decorated printed paper wrappers. Rubbed, marked, and browned, loss to head and foot of spine. Light scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FFEP: ' O.W. Wyatt Esq., with the author's fraternal regards'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 34699
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SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. One day in the life of ivan denisovich. London. Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First edition in English. 8vo. 192pp. With half-title. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with original printed yellow paper dust-wrapper. Some light spotting and occasional slight chipping to edges of dust-wrapper. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of 'E.S.C, ?' dated 1963 to head of FFEP. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27365
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The complete poetical works of percy bysshe shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems. London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne and Bombay. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. Oxford edition. 8vo. xxiv, 912pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece of the author. Finely bound by Orford (stamp-signed to FEP) in contemporary navy calf, richly gilt-tooled, with contrasting red straight-grain morocco lettering-piece to spine. Blind-stamped turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed, with light scoring to boards. A little spotting to initial and terminal blank fly-leaves. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 35279
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[WAR POETRY]. Songs of the brave. The soldier's dream, and other poems and odes.. London. Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856. First edition. 8vo. [2], 46pp. Interleaved with blanks throughout. With an additional engraved title page and numerous in-text illustrations. Contemporary red morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, with the supralibros of Cowbridge School to upper board. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, spine sunned. Inked prize inscription 'Xmas Exam 1876 III Form Classical Prize awarded to D. Birrell. Maurice Williams M.A. Head Master' ... More > £ 65.00 Antiquates Ref. 35208
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ALIGHIERI, Dante. The vision; or hell, purgatory, and paradise. London. Printed for John Taylor, 1831. The third edition, with the life of Dante, notes, and an index. 8vo. In three volumes. [8], li, [3], 280pp; [2], ix, [1], 286pp; [4], 271pp, [27]. With half-titles to each volume and a terminal index to Vol.III. Modern burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with the printed paper labels of the London Library, St. James's Square, to upper board of each volume. Very lightly rubbed. With the regulation book-label and barcode of the London Library to ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 35150
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LANE, E[dward] W[illiam]. Forty-One Eastern Tales and Anecdotes. London. Dean and Son, [1854]. First edition. 12mo. 216pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 33 engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in twentieth century green morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Marbled endpapers, inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, near contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of frontispiece, leaves browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24993
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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The autocrat of the breakfast-table. Edinburgh & London. Alexander Strahan and Co., 1861. 8vo. viii, 200pp. Finely bound by Riviere (stamp-signed to FEP) in contemporary richly gilt-tooled buff morocco, contrasting black and brown morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Inked gift inscription addressed to J. T. Coleridge, 'on his seventy second birthday from his children, J. D. Coleridge and J. F. Coleridge, 9th July. 1862'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26071
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[BYRON, Lord]. [ROGERS, Samuel].. Lara, a tale. Jacqueline, a tale.. London. Printed for J. Murray, 1814. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. With a half-title. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in modern gilt-tooled blue calf, contrasting red and brown morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, joints creased. Very occasional light spotting. W. A. Foyle's copy, with his morocco bookplate to FEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 31057