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[PARALLEL]. The parallel: An essay on friendship, love and marriage. London. Printed for Henry Playford, at his shop near the Temple-Church, 1689. First edition. Quarto. [4], 35pp, [1]. Twentieth- century gilt-tooled red morocco backed cloth boards. With the modern bookplate of Peter Stewart Young to FEP. Some browning, two inked numerals to title, occasional pen trial and a single manuscript correction (shaved) to margins of text. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25653
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[PANTOMIME]. For the Benefit of Mr. Bradbury. On friday, January 25, 1799, will be performed, (Not acted these Two Years) the favourite comedy of The Way to get Married...To which will be added, an entire original pantomime, with new scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, called harlequin sailor: Or, The flight from africa... [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1799]. Dimensions 160 x 230 mm. Single leaf handbill, printed on one side only. A trifle browned, manuscript price '£88-8-6' to verso (presumably the evening's box office take?) More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25369
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PALUDAN-MÜLLER, Frederik. The fountain of youth. London. Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition in English. 8vo. 1447pp, [13]. With an engraved frontispiece, nine further engraved plates, and six terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Inked inscription to verso of FFEP: 'Major Gaisford / with the translators / kind regards.' More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29276
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PALIN, Ralph. Iphotelle; or the longing-fit. A Poem. London. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. First edition. 8vo. [4], 71pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards. Without backstrip, naively rebacked with clear tape. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Charles Westrop to head of title page. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19761
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PALGRAVE, Francis Turner. The golden treasury... London. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, [1942]. 8vo. xv, [1], 574pp, [2]. With a half-title and a photographic portrait frontispiece depicting Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Contemporary red leatherette, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29602
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PAGE, James A. Gathered leaves. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. First edition. 8vo. ix, [3], 152pp, [16]. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled.Paper repair to FFEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 30861
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OWENSON, Miss. [i.e. MORGAN, Lady Sydney]. The novice of saint dominick. London. Printed for Richard Phillips, 1806. Second edition. 12mo. In four volumes. [2], 364; [2], 360; [2], 378; [2], 363pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt- tooled calf, supralibros of a swan and dragon to upper boards. Rubbed and marked, spines sunned, surface loss to lower boards of Vols. I and II, and upper board of Vol. III. Very occasional light spotting, very small hole to leaf O10 of Vol. I, not touching text, some loss to ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29067
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OUTRAM, George. Legal & other lyrics. London. T. N. Foulis, [1916]. 8vo. [12], 203pp, [5]. With 15 illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt, T.E.G., pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper lightly soiled, chipping to head of spine panel. Bookplate of Thomas Birkett to FEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 21854
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OULTON, [Walley Chamberlain]. The busy body: a collection of periodical essays, Moral, Whimsical, Comic, and Sentimental, by Mr. Oulton, author of several fugitive pieces. Dublin. Printed by William Porter et al., 1789. First Dublin edition. 12mo. [6], 322pp. Contemporary calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and soiled, joints cracked, surface loss to spine. Foxed throughout, ink inscription to recto of FFEP, 'Wm. Pollock (?) 2 Augt. 1796'. More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 12429
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OTWAY, Thomas. The works of Mr. thomas otway...Consisting of his plays, poems, and letters. London. Printed for C. Hitch et al., 1757. 12mo. In three volumes. xii, 308, [2]; 406, [12]; 382pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Contemporary speckled calf, recently rebacked and recornered, preserving contemporary spine panels, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, gilt. Rubbed. Recent bookplates of Eric Gerald Stanley to all FEPs, near contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I: 'P. Souvoroff / Dec. 2. 1768', underneath which ... More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 22380
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ORCZY, Baroness. The Emperor's Candlesticks. A tale. London. Greening and Co., Ltd., 1905. 8vo. 288pp. With half-title. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt and black with device in black to upper board. Rubbed, slight loss to sunned spine. Leaves lightly toned/foxed. Presentation copy, inscribed in ink to recto of FFEP: 'To R. Barber with fond love from Emmuska Orczy, 1905' and again to half-title, 'With my dear love Emmuska Orczy, May 1905'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11111
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ORCZY, Baroness. 'Skin O'My Tooth' His Memoirs, by his Confidential Clerk. London. Hodder and Stoughton, [1928]. First edition. 8vo. 307pp, [8] publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's light blue cloth, lettered in black, dustwrapper. Very minor rubbing to extremities, slight bubbling of cloth to boards, light browning to head and foot of spine, wrapper extensively sympathetically restored and a trifle creased and dust soiled. A little browning to blank endpapers, occasional spot of mild foxing in places, overall internally clean and crisp. A very good copy, ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 11108
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ONE WHO HAS BEEN "ALMOST WORRIED TO DEATH". The greatest plague of life or the adventures of a lady in search of a good servant. Edited by the brothers mayhew. London. George Routledge and Sons, [1892]. 12mo. [2], 285pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved vignette to title, and a further 11 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Contemporary gilt-tooled dark green half-morocco, green cloth boards, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, plates foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 33040