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A Treatise of Military Discipline;
BLAND, Humphrey.London: Printed for John and Paul Knapton [et al], 1746. Sixth edition, 8vo, (xxxii), 360 pp. 7 folding plates, armorial bookplate of Sir John Hynde Cotton to title verso with a descendant's bookplate to the rear paste down. Contemporary speckled calf, some light wear, recently rebacked retaining the original spine.....
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Bathers and Dancers. The white line and silhouette engravings of... with an...
BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John.(Wakefield): The Fleece Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 180 copies from a total edition of 206 copies, tall 8vo, 25, (73) pp. 47 illustrations, 5 tipped in, accompanying printed slip from the publisher loosely inserted. Quarter vellum, patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found...
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. "People's edition", 20th and 13 thousands, 8vo, (xii), 173, (1, xii), 208, (1, 3 advertisement) pp. Black and white illustrations, original green cloth covers bound in at the end, some foxing, marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in slightly later red morocco, t.e.g., covers with a striking.....
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Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a preface and some account...
BLUNT, Lady Anne.London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 12 plates and a folding map plus a folding genealogy. Bookplates of Bath Municipal Library to paste downs, with accession numbers to the fly leaves and title versos, plus blind stamps to the frontispieces, titles and several other preliminary leaves in.....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Together with The Journal of a Tour...
BOSWELL, Samuel.London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Limited edition, no. 48 of 104 sets signed by the printer Charles Whittingham, five volumes - with the Life in four volumes, large 8vo. Frontispieces and engraved titles plus 44 plates, contemporary signature to paste downs, mid-20th century catalogue slip for this set tipped.....
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The Canterbury Tales of... Together with a version in modern English verse...
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.New York: Covici-Friede, 1930. Limited edition, no. 278 of 924 copies from a total edition of 999, signed by Kent, two volumes, folio. 24 plates plus illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled cloth, some minor marks, slight browning to spines.
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William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair...
(BLAKE, William). BUTLIN, Martin and PALEY, Morton D.Lavenham: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Limited edition, one of 36 special copies from a total edition of 186 copies. Folio. 95, (1) pp. Publisher's wine red half calf over black moiré silk, gilt lettered to the spine with a matching gilt lettered label to the upper board, slipcase in.....
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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: J.M. Dent, 1907-9. Six volumes, small 8vo. Coloured title page and 23 coloured plates in each volume, one plate in Pride and Prejudice with wear to the outer edge. Publisher's maroon quarter calf, t.e.g., gilt decorated spines a little worn with some minor loss.
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The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. Or An Impartial Survey...
[ALLESTREE, Richard].London: R. Norton for Robert Pawlett, at the Sign of the Bible in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street, 1677. 8vo. (20), 449, (3) pp. 8vo. Later half calf, rebacked with close matching, marbled boards, the earlier spine label preserved. Title page vignette plus two plates. Small closed tear to the.....
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An Essay on Electricity, Explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and...
ADAMS, George.London: Printed by J. Dillon, and Co., for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, 1799. Fifth edition. 8vo. xiv, 594, 14, 2 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with double gilt rules, gilt lettered green label, gilt device of a bird to the other panels, the ownership inscription of a......
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The Works of... Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Martin Secker, 1939. Adelphi edition. Seven volumes. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt to the spine and upper covers, pale blue printed dust jackets, slipcase. Just a light wear to the spine ends of the jacket spines which are a little tanned, mild shelf wear to the case, an unusually.....
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Stieler's Atlas of Modern Geography. Adapted for the use of the English-Speaking...
(ATLAS).Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1909. Ninth edition, folio, (iv, 2), 236 index pp. 100 double page coloured maps bound on stubs, some light wear to the first and last few leaves with some professional restoration to the edges of the final two leaves, new endpapers excepting the fly leaf, some stains.....
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