Delf [Delft]: Abraham Jacobs, [c.1635]. 16mo, (x), 539, (3 blank) pp. Engraved title page, brief inscriptions to blank opposite. Recent full calf, very good. Originally published some 25 years earlier - the second edition of 1612 is the earliest extant, and a popular devotional work that was still in print.....

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Paris: Librarie des Arts Décoratifs, [1929]. First French edition, folio, xv, (i) pp, followed by 120 black and white plates. Mild browning to endpapers only. Original gilt titled green cloth, d.w. browned and a little soiled with some loss to spine ends and extremities. Scarce.

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London: Taylor and Hessey, and E. Drury, 1821. First edition, two volumes bound in one, 8vo, (iii)-xxviii, 216, (iii-viii), 211, (1) pp, bound without the half titles and 4 pp of advertisements at the end of volume II. Frontispiece portrait of the poet, engraved by Scriven after the portrait by.....

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London: Warren Editions, 1983. Limited edition, no. 56 of 80 signed copies from a total edition of 380 copies, signed by Betjeman, Harte, Piper and Gili, 8vo, (28) pp. Cloth backed boards, d.w., a fine copy.

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(Paris): Éditions Albert Morancé, [1927]. First edition, 4to, (40) pp, followed by 54 plates, the text partly unopened. Held loose in the original pictorial covers with ties intact, gilt to the spine rubbed away, some light marking, overall a very good copy. Construction using reinforced concrete, steel and glass...

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London: H. Johnson; Manchester: Bancks and Co.; Stalybridge: Davis, 1839. First edition, 8vo, 150 pp. Folding lithographic frontispiece and woodcut illustrations in the text. Recent half calf over contemporary marbled boards, the latter with light wear, otherwise very good. Uncommon. A pioneering surgeon, Clay was a committed bibliophile whose collection.....

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London: Printed for Charles Wilson, 1842. 23rd edition, oblong 8vo, xxx, 440 pp. Frontispiece, later slip of paper stuck to paste down, contemporary signature to paste down and fly leaf. Contemporary hessian covered boards, OCLC lists one copy of the 1840 22nd edition, and two copies of the 1847 24th.....

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London: John Murray, 1974-84, 1994. First edition, 13 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces in all but the index volume, two in colour. Cloth, d.w.'s, that to volume I slightly worn otherwise very good.

More info about Letters and Journals of... In My Hot Youth. Famous in My Time. Alas! The Love of Women....

London: John Murray, 1918. First edition. 8vo. xviii, (ii), 316 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, inscribed on the front free endpaper "Doctor J. Milne. With the Authoress' kindest regards & best wishes. Malta 5th April, 1924", her calling card inscribed with her "kindest regards".....

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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1904-09. Five volumes. 8vo. Recent dark blue quarter morocco over matching cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and with a gilt device to the others, top edges gilt. Numerous illustrations throughout, "Pride" illustrated by Charles Brock, the others by Hugh.....

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London: B. Law and J. Hewett, 1769. Small 4to, (ii), xxv, (v) pp, 159, (8) ff, 13, (1) pp. Early manuscript list of "Arms of the Cornish Gentry" to two final blanks, both with some damp staining to the top corner but not affecting the text leaves. Modern black morocco.....

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