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: J. and R. Tonson, 1741. Third edition thus, four volumes, 4to. Frontispiece and an engraving above the dedication plus 6 pages of medals at the end of volume I and a few more in the text. Some worming at the beginning and end of each volume, armorial bookplates of.....

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London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1760. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), xi, (i), 23, (1), 23, (1), 13, (3), 93, (15), 81, (3) pp. Some occasional foxing, marbled endpapers. Later gilt decorated black morocco, a.e.g., some faint rubbing, a very good copy. Including "The Wife" by John Overbury and.....

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London: The James Press, [1931]. First edition, 8vo, 57, (1) pp. Dedication leaf and 7 full page illustrations on pink paper, text on light blue paper with light marginal browning throughout, some other small illustrations, with the initials of the writer and artist Wilfrid Blunt on the fly leaf, Betjeman's.....

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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: 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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London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First edition. 8vo. (iv), 204 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Map frontispiece and 8 pages of black and white photographs, map endpapers A little light spotting to the upper edges of the flaps, a lovely, bright copy.....

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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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London: P.S. King & Son, 1930-35. First edition, nine volumes, 8vo, volume IV and VII being map volumes. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Charles Booth in volume I. The map volumes containing 13 folding maps, plus 13 folding maps and a folding chart in the text volumes as well as further.....

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Venetiis (Venice): Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi Filium, 1554. 8vo. 240 ff., but 248 leaves in total with quires M1-8 and N1-8 both numbered 89-96. Later white sheep to style with a handwritten spine title, marbled endpapers with what appears to be a bishop's armorial bookplate, this possibly 19th century. Occasional.....

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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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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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