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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Martin Secker, [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Publisher's red quarter morocco, t.e.g., faint sunning of spines otherwise an excellent set.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With... illustrations by John Tenniel.
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1871. 27th thousand, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Original gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., rebacked with the majority of the original backstip still present.
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[Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey...
AUSTEN, Jane.London: Robert RiviƩre & Son, [c. 1920s]. Six works in five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary red half calf over cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and attractively decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Colour frontispieces. Some mild sunning and occasional mild rubbing.....
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A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, presenting under each...
BELL, James.Glasgow: A. Fullarton, 1834. Four volumes, 8vo. Folding general map and 44 smaller folding county maps, bound at the front of each volume. Contemporary inscription to fly leaves of Anne Turnell, Dallington Grange, who has numbered each map and written a list of them to each paste down. Some foxing.....
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Il Libro del Cortegiano del Conte Baldessar Castiglione. Nuouamente Ristampato.
CASTIGLIONE, Baldessare.Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding.....
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The Player of Games.
BANKS, Iain M.London: Macmillan, (1988). Limited edition, no. 76 of 201 copies, (viii), 309, (1) pp. Maroon cloth, slipcase with a colour illustration to one side, faint rubbing to the slipcase otherwise an excellent copy.
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Danny the Champion of the World. Illustrated by Jill Bennett.
DAHL, Roald.London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition. 8vo. 206, (2) pp. Publisher's russet cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. Black and white illustrations in the text. Slight spine slant, a little light edge wear to the jacket with a small triangular surface loss to the foot of.....
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Cary's New Pocket Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark:...
CARY, J.London: J. Cary, No. 181 Strand, Jany. 1, 1797. Map dimensions 30.5 x 60 cm, overall 41 x 61 cm. Folding plan of central London, original colour highlighting the bodies of water and the parks with a thin outline marking out the boundary of the City, dissected into 18 sections.....
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William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job. The Engravings and Related...
BLAKE, William.London: The William Blake Trust, 1987. Limited edition, one of five special sets from a total edition of 387 copies. Four parts, each containing subdivisions of text volumes and/or portfolios of illustrations. Dark blue half morocco, the text volumes and solander boxes over marbled boards with gilt labels, the portfolios.....
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The Natural History of British Insects; Explaining them in their Several States...
DONOVAN, E.London: Printed for the Author and for F.C. and J. Rivington, Volume I 1802, the others 1793-1813. Sixteen volumes bound in eight, first issues of all but volume I. Contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and with butterfly or.....
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Sketches of Ceylon.
BRUCE, Lydia Beresford.London: Printed by Cassell and Company, 1914. Sole edition, 4to, (6) pp, followed by 12 colour plates tipped in with captioned tissues. Original pictorial card covers bound in. Modern quarter cloth with marbled sides. Scarce - OCLC lists only one copy, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, with one.....
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The Book of Beauty.
BEATON, Cecil.London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition. 4to. xii, 67, (1) pp. Pink beaded cloth backed white boards, these decorated with large gilt circles, early pencilled gift inscription. Colour frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text plus 27 photographic portrait plates. Slight sunning to the spine, two small marks to the cloth.....
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