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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London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790. Revised edition, 8vo, (viii), 422, (1 errata, 1) pp. One folding plate, armorial bookplate of Andrew Berkeley Drummond. Contemporary speckled calf, corners bumped, neatly rebacked retaining the original morocco label. A member of the East India Company, Craufurd was appointed to Madras in 1761...

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London: John Betts. 115 Strand (nearly opposite Exeter Hall), [c. 1860]. Map dimensions 75 x 62.5 cm, overall dimensions 77.5 x 64 cm. Folding map of Ireland with attractive original colour in block and outline demarcating the county boundaries. The whole dissected into twenty-four sections and mounted on linen, folds...

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Glasgow: Printed by J. & M. Robertson, 1794, 12mo. 8, 210 [but 112] pp. Later brown quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered maroon label. Frontispiece and 98 plates, including a folding plate of a whaling ship. Lower corner of the frontispiece restored with minor loss to the extremity of...

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London: Printed for George Cowie and Co., 31 Poultry. 1824. 8vo. x, [ii], 207, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, recased and rebacked preserving original spine, original paper label, plain endpapers. Slight loss to cloth at head and foot of spine, paper browned throughout but more pronounced at front and rear...

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London: Printed by Stephen Couchman, for W. Curtis; [last volume] for T. Curtis, 1793-1801. Volumes I-XV bound in four. 8vo. Later tan quarter sheep over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels. 586 (of 588) finely engraved plates, all but one with excellent contemporary hand colouring...

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London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-58. First English edition. Five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tan full calf, spines with raised bands, original red title labels with sympathetically renewed green author and volume labels, loss of gilt to the other compartments, all edges and endpapers marbled. Gift inscription to the...

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Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. Winchester edition, 10 volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in the first volume, several hinges very slightly cracked but sound. Original green cloth, t.e.g., gilt spines with mild rubbing and bumps, faint marks to the heads of the spines of the two volumes of "Sense and Sensibility", generally...

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Privately Printed by the Burton Club, [c.1900]. Sixteen volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces with captioned tissues. Original gold and silver decorated cloth, t.e.g., mild rubbing to the spines of volumes 8, 9 and 10 otherwise a handsome set.

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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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(London: Basilisk Press, 1974-5). Limited edition, no. 454 of 515 copies. Two volumes. Folio. ii, (2), 554, (2); 146 pp. Publisher's cloth using the Larkspur pattern designed by William Morris, vividly printed in red by Liberty, both volumes housed within the original grey board slipcase. Illustrations, initials and decorative borders...

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