London: Printed for John Cary, 1787. First edition, 4to. Engraved title and dedication, plus 46 maps on 47 sheets - the West Riding of Yorkshire being over two sheets, some light foxing. Modern gilt titled brown buckram, a very good copy. The first printing of Cary's popular atlas - Chubb.....

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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1976-94. Thirteen volumes, 8vo. Contemporary signature to the fly leaf in volumes I, II, VI and IX. Gilt titled cloth, an excellent complete set.

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London: John Murray, 1878, 1877, 1877, 1875. Four volumes, mixed editions. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary green full calf, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered red spine labels, the other compartments richly gilt, endpapers and all edges marbled , the early book label of a Walter Palmer of "The Acacias.....

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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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Princeton University Press in conjunction with The William Blake Trust, 1991-95. First editions, US issue. Six volumes. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Profusely illustrated in colour. Occasional minor shelf wear to the jackets, very good overall, Identical to the British issue published at the same.....

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London: John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second issue, fifth thousand, 8vo, x, 502 pp, bound without the advertisements. Folding table, leaf N2 (pp. 267/8) with some marginal loss and old tape repairs. Modern green half calf, marbled sides and endpapers. Freeman 376. First published the previous year. The first issue.....

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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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London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Limited edition, no. 248 of 376 copies from a total edition of 440. Oblong folio. (14) pp. Publisher's brown quarter morocco over grey cloth sides, matching cloth slipcase. 7 plates and 11 further illustrations. An attractive copy.

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London: Eugrammia Press, 1967. An out-of-series copy from an edition of 600. Two volumes. Folio. Facsimile bound by Zaehnsdorf in period style gilt tooled full vellum, housed in plain black slipcase, introduction (56 pp.) bound in red cloth, gilt to upper cover, loosely inserted is the original prospectus for the.....

More info about The Trinity College Apocalypse. [with] An Introduction and Description by Peter H. Brieger

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. 8vo. xii, 496 pp., bound without the publisher's catalogue sometimes found to the rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, later pencilled ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece showing Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1. Neatly rebacked preserving.....

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(Guildford): Circle Press Publications, (1978). Limited edition, no. 1 of 250 copies initialled by King, folio, (xii), 57, (3) pp. Vignette to title and 14 full page illustrations. Original blue cloth, darker blue cloth slipcase with very minor wear. Accompanying the book is a card folder containing 18 (of 20).....

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London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to.....

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