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  • FULTON, J.F.
    A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE. Fellow of the Royal Society.

    Oxford.John Johnson at The University Press. 1932. [i-iii], 4-171pp. plus original wrappers bound in to rear. Frontispiece plus 22 illustrations. Brown buckram, gilt. Quarto. First edition thus. Front and rear boards faded and a trifle stained. A very good copy.Reprinted from the Oxford Bibliographical Society Proceedings and Papers. Volume III Part I, pp. 1-172.

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  • GRAY, G.J.
    A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON. Together with a List of Books illustrating his Work. Notes by George J. Gray. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.

    London.Dawsons of Pall Mall. 1966. 80pp. Original cloth-backed boards. No wrapper. Octavo. Black and white illustration on frontispiece. A fine copy. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

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  • A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, M.A.) by WILLIAMS, Sidney Herbert.
    WILLIAMS, Sidney Herbert.
    A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, M.A.)

    London: The Bookman's Journal, 1924. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Number 538 of a limited edition of 700 copies. A fine copy.

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  • KIRKPATRICK, B. J.
    A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VIRGINA WOOLF. Third Edition.

    Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1980. Hardback in original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. A fine copy.

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  • A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE SUDAN. The second edition of A Biographical Dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. by HILL, Richard.
    HILL, Richard.
    A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE SUDAN. The second edition of A Biographical Dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

    London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1967. xvi, 409 pages. original red cloth gilt. Octavo. A fine copy.

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  • A BIRTHDAY PRESENT.

    Nister & Co. No date [circa 1900]. [12] pages. Illustrated with four colour plates, and line drawings. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 9.3 x 8 cm's. Just a touch rubbed at extremities; light browning of text block; else a very good copy of this attractive little book.

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  • STUDDY, G. E.
    A BONZO Tobacco Jar.

    Circa 1920's. A bisque two-piece tobacco jar in the form of a rather worse for wear Bonzo, presumably after a night on the tiles. Approximately 6 inches tall. This image was reproduced on a postcard. Fine condition.

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  • A BOOK EXPLAINING THE RANKS AND DIGNITIES OF BRITISH SOCIETY. Intended chiefly for the instruction of Young Persons. With twenty-four coloured engravings. Price Seven Shillings, Coloured. by [LAMB, Charles.]
    [LAMB, Charles.]
    A BOOK EXPLAINING THE RANKS AND DIGNITIES OF BRITISH SOCIETY. Intended chiefly for the instruction of Young Persons. With twenty-four coloured engravings. Price Seven Shillings, Coloured.

    London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library…, 1809. [4], 136, [1 List of the plates], [1 blank], [2 ad’s]. pages. Illustrated with 24 hand-coloured engraved plates. Bound in half green sheep gilt over green cloth. All edges gilt. 148 x 100 mm. A very good, clean, fresh copy.

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  • A BOOK OF BRIDGES. by BRANGWYN, Frank, A.R.A. and SPARROW, Walter Shaw.
    BRANGWYN, Frank, A.R.A. and SPARROW, Walter Shaw.
    A BOOK OF BRIDGES.

    London. New York.John Lane The Bodley Head. John Lane Company. 1915. [iv], xiv, [2], 3-413pp. 36 full-page coloured plates and numerous black & white illustrations. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Quarto. First edition. Extremities a little rubbed; touch of wear to head and heel of spine; two tiny wear holes along front edge of spine; light spotting on title and at start; else a very good copy.

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  • BEECHING, H. C. Selected by.
    A BOOK OF CHRISTMAS VERSE. With ten designs by Walter Crane.

    London. Methuen and Company, 1895. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [i-vi], vii-xvi, [1-2], 3-173, [174] pages, plus 32 ad's. Ten black & white illustrations. Original pictorial green and red cloth. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Small bookplate and bookseller label to paste-down front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers and half-title; Tissue guard to title foxed; else a very good copy.

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  • A BOOK OF KITTIES. by RADNOR, John Horina.
    RADNOR, John Horina.
    A BOOK OF KITTIES.

    Chicago: M. A. Donahue & Co, No date [circa 1920]. [10] pages. 4 coloured illustrations, and others printed in brown. Original die-cut covers shaped around the cat’s head. 36.5 x 18.8 cm. Ownership inscription on rear cover; lower outer corners worn, and some leaves with small loss; else very good.

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  • LEAR, Edward.
    A BOOK OF NONSENCE. Fifth edition. With many new pictures and verses.

    London.Routledge, Warne and Routledge. [1862]. [222]pp each verse printed on the recto of each leaf. Illustrated with line drawings. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong octavo. Fifth edition. Binding rather rubbed and worn; head and heel of spine and board corners bumped and worn; upper board damp-stained and a little bubbled; endpapers browned; small wear hole to inner edge of front free endpaper; margins age-toned; light spotting to the last few pages; else a good plus, internally clean copy of an early edition.

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  • A BOOK OF NONSENSE By Derry Down Derry. by [LEAR, Edward.]
    [LEAR, Edward.]
    A BOOK OF NONSENSE By Derry Down Derry.

    London: T. Mclean, No date [1855].(Inscribed 1856). Title and 72 leaves, each printed by lithography on one side only. Original pictorial semi-stiff covers, cloth-backed. Oblong octavo. Second edition. ‘There was an old person of Rhodes,’ and ‘There was an old person of Kildaire’ cropped at bottom edges, and some images slightly cropped at upper edge; some foxing; else a very good copy indeed that has been expertly re-backed and re-cased. An early repair to the endpapers has been left so as to retain the original endpapers with the near contemporary inscription. Rare. First published in 1846 in two volumes, only the first two editions were printed by lithography, wood-engraving being preferred for the third and subsequent editions. Both of…

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    London: T. Mclean, No date [1855].(Inscribed 1856). Title and 72 leaves, each printed by lithography on one side only. Original pictorial semi-stiff covers, cloth-backed. Oblong octavo. Second edition. ‘There was an old person of Rhodes,’ and ‘There was an old person of Kildaire’ cropped at bottom edges, and some images slightly cropped at upper edge; some foxing; else a very good copy indeed that has been expertly re-backed and re-cased. An early repair to the endpapers has been left so as to retain the original endpapers with the near contemporary inscription. Rare. First published in 1846 in two volumes, only the first two editions were printed by lithography, wood-engraving being preferred for the third and subsequent editions. Both of the first two editions were small, possibly as few as 250 – 500 copies being printed. Even the third edition only numbered 1000 copies. The binding method for the first two editions was by the ‘perfect’ or gutta-percha method, and copies are often found in a distressed state, most probably lacking their original bindings and usually incomplete. The first two lithographed editions (the first edition and this, the second edition) include three limericks which were suppressed when Routledge issued the 3rd, wood-engraved, edition.

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  • [LEAR, Edward.]
    A BOOK OF NONSENSE By Derry Down Derry.

    London: T. Mclean, No date. (1855.). Title and 72 leaves, each printed by lithography on one side only. Original pictorial boards, cloth-backed. Oblong octavo. Second edition. Upper board cropped, affecting lettering, and a few images slightly cropped at upper edge; last line of text of the final limerick also slightly affected. Expertly re-backed and re-cased; bookplate of the noted English collector Dr. G. Bell with his notes on the fixed front endpaper. An excellent First published in 1846 in two volumes, only the first two editions were printed by lithography, wood-engraving being preferred for the third and subsequent editions. Both of the first two editions were small, possibly as few as 250 – 500 copies being printed. Even the…

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    London: T. Mclean, No date. (1855.). Title and 72 leaves, each printed by lithography on one side only. Original pictorial boards, cloth-backed. Oblong octavo. Second edition. Upper board cropped, affecting lettering, and a few images slightly cropped at upper edge; last line of text of the final limerick also slightly affected. Expertly re-backed and re-cased; bookplate of the noted English collector Dr. G. Bell with his notes on the fixed front endpaper. An excellent First published in 1846 in two volumes, only the first two editions were printed by lithography, wood-engraving being preferred for the third and subsequent editions. Both of the first two editions were small, possibly as few as 250 – 500 copies being printed. Even the third edition only numbered 1000 copies. The binding method for the first two editions was by the ‘perfect’ or gutta-percha method, and copies are often found in a distressed state, most probably lacking their original bindings and usually incomplete. The first two lithographed editions (the first edition and this, the second edition) include three limericks which were suppressed when Routledge issued the 3rd, wood-engraved,

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  • A BOOK OF NONSENSE. By Edward Lear, Third edition. With many new pictures and verses. London. by LEAR, Edward.
    LEAR, Edward.
    A BOOK OF NONSENSE. By Edward Lear, Third edition. With many new pictures and verses. London.

    London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1862.]. [ii], 113 leaves printed on one side only. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, sometime re-backed in imitation of the original. A few leaves have some slight damage to the fore-edges where once loose; one leaf repaired; one leaf with juvenile scribble on blank verso; binding very worn to corners and edges, and both boards with old fold marks, now repaired. However, this third printing, the first with woodcut illustrations based on the earlier [1846] lithographs, and the first enlarged edition with 43 new rhymes and illustrations, is extremely rare; in our experience, much more so than the second edition of 1855. -

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  • A BOOK OF NONSENSE. Fifth edition. With many new pictures and verses. by LEAR, Edward.
    LEAR, Edward.
    A BOOK OF NONSENSE. Fifth edition. With many new pictures and verses.

    London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, No date [1862 and inscribed 1862 on front pastedown]. [2ff], 112ff, all printed on one side only. Pictorial title and 112 wood-engraved illustration with limericks beneath. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper -covered boards. Oblong: 145 x 220 mm. Pages mis-numbered from page 89 to 99, as is often the case; boards rubbed and worn at edges and corners. But a good, clean copy with no damage to the leaves. Inscribed on front paste-down: ‘To Miss Fanny Scott. A prize for walking. Midsummer 1862.’

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  • A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES Illustrated by Francis D Bedford.

    London.Methuen& Co. [1897]. [8], 991pp. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth with pictorial paste-down to front board. All edges red. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine and board corners a little bumped with a tiny nick to heel of spine; pictorial paste-down is a little spotted and has some loss to at edges; front hinge is just cracking; half title has inoffensive staining at spine; some light finger-marking to lower margins of one or two pages; else a very good copy.

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  • A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES Illustrated with wood engravings by Enid Marx. by MARX, Enid.
    MARX, Enid.
    A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES Illustrated with wood engravings by Enid Marx.

    Oldham: The Incline Press, 1993. 35 pages. This edition uses 32 Nursery Rhymes and engravings from The Zodiac Book of Nursery Rhymes published by Chatto and Windus in 1939. The drawings on the title page, after the contents, and on page 3 were made later, in 1945. Number 99 of an edition of 260 copies. Original blue cloth-backed boards over patterned paper-covered boards designed by Enid Marx. A fine copy.

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  • BARFIELD, Margery and others.
    A BOOK OF PLAYS FOR CHILDREN.

    London and Glasgow. Blackie & Son Limited. Hardcover with original pictorial dust-wrapper. 48 pages. Frontispiece in full colour by G. W. Goss, and numerous illustrations throughout printed in black and a range of single colours. Grey cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. First edition. 4to. Light spotting to endpapers; two sizeable and two minor tears in dust-wrapper, some of which have been sellotaped; else a very good copy.

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  • A BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE with a frontispiece by Jessie M King. by BURNETT, George [chosen by]
    BURNETT, George [chosen by]
    A BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE with a frontispiece by Jessie M King.

    London.Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1932. [i-vi],vii-xiv,[1]208pp, plus 8pp adverts to rear. Colour frontispiece and pictorial dust wrapper by Jessie King. Blue boards gilt. Octavo. First Edition. Slight spotting to endpapers. Small smudge marks to top of pp 58-9. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at corners, with some small paper loss to head and heel of spine, and to rear of wrapper; else, a very good bright copy.

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