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Photo of "Scenes from scripture and other ..."
FISHER, M. Scenes from scripture and other poems. Carlisle. Printed and published by John Irving Lonsdale, 1859. First edition. 8vo. iv, [5]-104pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Very minor shelf-wear, spine a trifle dulled. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27716
Photo of "Blanche the huguenot. A Tale"
ANDERSON, William. Blanche the huguenot. A Tale. London. Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. First edition. 8vo. 303pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, and additional engraved title page, and a further seven engraved plates by G. and W. L. Thomas. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Minor shelf-wear. Blind-stamp of booksellers S. & C. Turtle to FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27708
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BOWLES, Rev. W[illiam] L[isle]. The grave of the last saxon; or, the legend of the curfew. A poem. London. Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822. First edition. 8vo. [4], xi, [1], 111pp, [1]. With a half-title and an initial leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed, chipping to spine. Recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title: 'With the Author's Respects / June 4th 1822'. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20764
Photo of "The refuge"
[GILES, William]. The refuge. London. Printed by C. Whittingham, 1801. Fourth edition, with additions. 8vo. iv, 255pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, later inked ownership inscriptions to recto of front blank fly-leaf, offsetting to title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23909
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GRAHAME, James. The Sabbath, with sabbath walks, and other poems. Edinburgh. Printed for Ogle, Allardice, & Thomson, 1817. Eighth ediiton. 8vo. xiii, [1], 161pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, gilt supralibros with initials 'JAR' to upper board, marbled edges. Rubbed, chipping to head and foot of dulled spine, upper board held by cord only. Marbled endpapers, remnants of armorial bookplate to verso of FFEP, manuscript extracts, in two separate unidentified hands, from John Wilson's elegy on the author to rear ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 27702
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SCOTT, Walter. Essays by sir walter scott... Paris. Published by A. and W. Galignani, 1828. 8vo. In two volumes. [2], 237, [1]; [2], 202pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-labels of Jane Yates to both FEPs, with her inked ownership inscriptions to front blank fly-leaves, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP of Vol. I, very occasional spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22306
Photo of "Poems. Third series"
INGELOW, Jean. Poems. Third series. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. First edition. 8vo. [6], 248pp. With a half-title. Original red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Bound by Spottiswoode & Co., with a bookbinder's label to the rear pastedown. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Book-label of Rugby School Library, Hodgson Bequest to front pastedown. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Shadworth H. Hodgson / With love from / Jean Ingelow'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27692
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ROGERS, Samuel. Poems. London. Edward Moxon, 1839. 8vo. [8], viii, 311pp, [1]. With a half-title and an 8pp publisher's catalogue tipped-in to front pastedown. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Very minor shelf-wear, top-edge a trifle dusty. Inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: 'George Farmer / Purchased at Penbryn sale April 28th / 1858', short tear to head of leaf O1, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27710
Photo of "Wild flowers; or, pastoral and ..."
BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Third edition. 12mo. 12, x, [2], 132pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an initial publisher's advertisement catalogue. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, chipping to lettering-piece. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27715
Photo of "Louisa, or the bride"
[MOZLEY, Harriet]. Louisa, or the bride. London. James Burns...and Henry Mozley, 1842. First edition. 8vo. [4], 302pp, [2]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, a trifle cocked. Early inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25760
Photo of "Trilby: a novel"
DU MAURIER, George. Trilby: a novel. London. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895. First illustrated edition. 8vo. 447pp, [6]. With an illustrated frontispiece and 120 illustrations in the text by the author, and six final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Without dustwrapper. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of Mervyn Ll. Peel to verso of FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21476
Photo of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the ..."
BYRON, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the fourth. London. John Murray, 1818. First edition, second issue. 8vo. xiii, [3], 257, [3], 11pp, [1]. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue dated May, 1818. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed, joints starting. Scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25409
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[WESTMINSTER SCHOOL]. Anthologia sive Epigrammatum Græcorum ex Anthologia editâ, MS. Bodleianâ, aliisque autoribus delectus in usum Scholæ Westmonasteriensis. Oxoniæ [i.e. Oxford]. E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1724. First edition. 8vo. [2], 99p, [3]. The first and sixth words of the title are transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary panelled sheep. Rubbed, joints starting, paper label with title in manuscript to head of spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of James Stuart to front endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24901
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BOWLES, Rev. W. L.. The little villager's verse book; consisting of short verses For Children to Learn by Heart... London. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, [s.d., c. 1830] Seventh edition. 8vo. viii, 9-38pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved illustrations in the text. Original publisher's green roan-backed pictorial paper boards. Heavily marked and worn, without lower board, upper board held by cords only. Small hole to title page, contemporary inked ownership inscription to vers. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27684
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[POETICAL ABRIDGEMENT], [KING, William]. A Poetical Abridgement, Both in Latin and English, Of the Reverend Mr. Tutor Bentham's Letter to A Young Gentleman of oxford. To which are added Some Remarks on the Letter to a Fellow of a College. London. Printed for W. Owen, 1749. First edition. 8vo. 61pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin text. Without half-title. Later marbled wrappers. Extremities worn, loss to spine and corners, title in manuscript to head of upper wrapper. Later inked ownership inscription to head of title page, foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 14719
Photo of "Poems"
ROBERTS, Dr. [William Hayward]. Poems. London. Printed for J. Wilkie, 1774. First edition. 8vo. 7, [1], 163pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, joints starting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23961
Photo of "Marmion; a tale of Flodden ..."
SCOTT, Walter. Marmion; a tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh. Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, 1808. First edition. Quarto. [8], 377, [1], cxxvi pp. With additional engraved title page (dated 1809) and a further six plates after designs by Richard Westall. Contemporary brown straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, gauffered edges. Rubbed, spine dulled. Yellow silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, scattered spotting, pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to verso of FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27638