Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Recent green half calf, t.e.g., marbled sides, cloth sides, a fine set.

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London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Second edition, third impression, 8vo, iv, 356 pp. Contemporary signature to paste down, title and subsequent leaf, faint damp stain to the top corner of some early leaves. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, some restoration and a new label to the spine. Stung into...

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London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1903. Second impression, 8vo, xii, 336, (4 advertisement) pp. Four maps (1 folding), some occasional light foxing. Original black cloth, silver vignette to upper cover, rebacked retaining the original, slightly dull, backstrip.

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Boughton Monchelsea, Kent: Ebeneezer Press, [1969]. Limited edition, no. 71 of 100 copies. Folio. 16 folio folded sheets bearing the text and the plates, each of the plates signed by the artist, all printed in colour on Mellotex High White Cartridge using a Cogger press. Original gilt lettered hide spine...

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London: J.M. Dent, 1897-8. Sixth edition thus, 10 volumes, small 8vo. 31 plates, some light browning, mostly to endpapers. Original light green gilt decorated cloth, top edges gilt, gilt spines slightly darkened, minor rubbing to several spine tops.

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London: Printed for Matthew Turner, 1686. 12mo, (xxiv), 432 pp. Mild browning to early leaves, rear free endpaper stained, new front free endpaper. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled calf, spine in compartments with a gilt tool to each, upper hinge and top of spine with subtle repair. Wing A4212A. A work...

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London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1879. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution...

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London: Richard Bentley, 1856. Small 8vo. (iv), 424 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and richly decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece and engraved title, both dated 1833. The head of the upper joint neatly...

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London: H.S. Nichols, 1894. Library edition, 12 volumes, large 8vo. Half title and the final leaf of text in each volume browned, bookplates designed by Max Beerbohm of Granville Barker, actor, producer and playwright, later inscriptions to the fly leaf and the foot of each bookplate. Original black cloth, t.e.g......

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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. First edition, 4to, 357, (1) pp. 64 plates, some foxing, with a letter to a previous owner and several relevant press cuttings tipped in, other material loosely inserted. Original gilt titled dark blue buckram, some rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. A scholarly and very scarce...

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London: C. Smith. 172 Strand. Jan. 1st, 1851. Overall dimensions 165 x 130 cm. Very large map of England and Wales printed over four conjoined sheets mounted on linen and fixed upon original wooden rollers, printed brief title label to upper roller. Original colour demarcating the counties. Slight fraying to...

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Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (iii)-xiv, 187, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Handsomely bound in brown crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to two panels and decorated to the others, gilt inner...

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