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Prolusions; or, select Pieces of antient Poetry, compil'd with great Care from...
[CAPELL, Edward].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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A Catalogue of Works by Sir John Betjeman, from the Collection of.....
(BETJEMAN). CARTER, Ray.London: Warren Editions, 1983. Limited edition, no. 56 of 80 signed copies from a total edition of 380 copies, signed by Betjeman, Harte, Piper and Gili, 8vo, (28) pp. Cloth backed boards, d.w., a fine copy.
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Poems.
AUDEN, W.H.London: Faber & Faber, 1937. Second edition, third impression. 8vo. 89, (1) pp. Publisher's grey cloth, blue lettered to the spine, signed by Auden on the front free endpaper. Marking and wear to the cloth, else very good. Bloomfield and Mendelson, A2b. First published in 1930, the second edition originally.....
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Bacon's Australian Atlas of the World. Containing... Maps, Letterpress Descriptions, Gazetter and...
BACON, G.W.London: G.W. Bacon & Co., Limited, 1910. Second edition. 4to. (iv), (4), 20, 16, 4, 2 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the upper panel, rebacked to style. Frontispiece illustrating the "flags of all nations", 6 full page maps including individual maps of the north and south polar regions.....
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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: Robert Riviére & 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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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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Sense and Sensibility: A Novel.
AUSTEN, Jane.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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The Complaint. Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. [with] Night...
(BLAKE, William). [YOUNG, Edward].London: The Folio Society, 2005. Three volumes - two volumes folio, the commentary 8vo. Folios bound in midnight blue goatskin over blue-grey silk boards, illustrated and with matching leather title labels to the upper covers, commentary bound in dark teal cloth, silver lettered to the spine with a blue-grey title.....
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A Night in London. Story of London night in sixty-four photographs by.....
BRANDT, Bill.London: Country Life, (1938). First edition, large 8vo, (vi, 64) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Paperback, with recent repairs to the spine, held in a modern black folding box.
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Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of Several...
BORLASE, William.London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols: for S. Baker and G. Leigh...; T. Payne...; and Benjamin White, 1769. Second edition, folio, xvi, 464 pp. Two maps - one folding - and 25 plates - one of these also folding, plus 10 illustrations in the text, early owner's signature.....
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, to which...
CLARENDON, Edward [HYDE], Earl of.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1826, 1827, 1831. Together thirteen volumes, eight for the "History", three for the "Life" and two for the "Religion and Policy". Large 8vo. A handsome and rather curious uniform 19th century binding of full Russia boards with close matching morocco spine and corners, the transition.....
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