London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue. 8vo. vi, 374, (4) pp. Recent green half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and a gilt device repeated to the others, top edge gilt. 7 Heliotype plates and 21 engravings in the text.....

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London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. First edition. 4to. xii, 475, (1) pp. Bespoke designer binding of tan full morocco skilfully inlaid with panels of blue, russet, black and red in an abstract pattern, blind lettered vertically to the spine, top edge gilt, original printed covers bound in to.....

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Oxford: At the Theater, 1675. Two works bound in one, 8vo, (viii, 96; 96) pp. Common Prayer lacking its frontispiece but extra illustrated with nine 18th century engravings, several mounted or with repair to the lower margin, 18th century manuscript to a rear blank recording three births. Contemporary calf, worn.....

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Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1804. Two volumes, third edition of volume I, first edition of volume II, demy 8vo. Wood engraved illustrations, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplates. Contemporary calf,gilt banded spines with red and black labels, recent repairs to the joints. Tattersfield 1.16, 1.17...

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London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1935). First edition. 8vo. (iv), 283, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g., a handsome copy.

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London: Printed for and sold by the Booksellers, 1753. First edition. 12mo. xxviii, 140 pp. Contemporary full sheep, spine with raised bands, renewed gilt lettered red label, old ink ownership stamp of a John Beard to the front free endpaper. Repairs to the spine, some wear to the corners, semicircular.....

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London: John Churchill, 1847. Sixth edition. 8vo. iv, 512 pp. Later quarter brown calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered label. The top inch of the title page neatly excised and subtly restored, mild sunning to the spine, very good overall. First published anonymously in 1844 for.....

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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860-1869. Twenty volumes. 8vo. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, endpapers and all edges marbled. Numerous black and white illustrations. Even fading to the spines, rubbing to the extremities, four volumes with neat joint.....

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London: John Murray, 1895. Sixth edition, "with additions and corrections", forty seventh thousand. 8vo. xxi, (1), 432 pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt lettered direct, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Folding plate. Mild sunning and rubbing to the spine, a little spotting to the front and.....

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. "New edition," 8vo, xvi, (i), 331, (1) pp. Light foxing to early leaves, contemporary signature to fly leaf, marbled endpapers. Slightly later green half morocco, spine faded to brown. Published as volume I of Austen's works in Chapman and Hall's Select Library of Fiction. "Retains.....

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London: John Lehmann, 1951. First edition, 8vo, 247, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w. designed by John Minton with loss to the top of the spine and top edge and much milder loss to other extremities.

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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press... London: Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Robson [et al], 1776. First edition. 4to. (iv), xiv, (ii), 304 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, retaining one of the original gilt lettered red labels, early ownership inscription, "Somerset Bridge Club," to the front free endpaper. 7 plates -.....

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