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THE VICTORIAN HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. Volume Five Kington Hundred.
London.Oxford University Press. 1949. xiii, [1], 224pp. Illustrated throughout. Original decorative red cloth, gilt. Small folio. A very good copy.
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THE VILLAGE CARPENTER. A Tale of Poverty & Injustice. In Two Parts. Parts I and II. New Penny Histories. No's 2 & 3.
Morpeth.J. Mackay. No date. (Circa 1830.). Both parts 24pp. Woodcut on title/upper covers. Uncut and unstitched, but folded as issued. 12mo. Little dusty at edges, else very good copies.
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THE VILLAGE: containing and account of some of the young people in it.
London.The Religous Tract Society. No date. [Inscribed 1876, but probably earlier]. [3], 4 - 128 pp. Illustrated with wood-engravings throughout. Original grey cloth, gilt. Small 8vo. Previous owner's note on front free endpaper. A very good copy.
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THE VILLAGE SCHOOL; or, a Collection of Entertaining Histories, for the Instruction & Amusement of all Good Children. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed & Sold by J. Marshall & Co. No. 17 Queen Street, Cheapside; and No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard in Bow Lane, No date [1789]. (Price 6d. in Gilt paper. – 9d. Bound.) Volume I: 92, [2 booklist] pages. Engraved frontispiece and title, and nineteen woodcuts. Volume II: [4], 7 – 106 pages. Engraved frontispiece and title, and twenty woodcuts. Recently re-bound in 18th century Dutch flower paper-covered boards, Each: 122 x 82 mm. Piece torn from the blank margin of one leaf in Volume I resulting in the loss of one letter to each page; name on endpaper of volume II; juvenile scribble on title and on blank verso; else a very good set of a rare title contained in a morocco backed folding box. Three woodcuts show scenes relating to cricket.
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THE VILLAGE SCHOOL; or, a Collection of Entertaining Histories, for the Instruction and Amusement of all Good Children. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed & Sold by J. Marshall & Co. No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane. [Price Six Pence, Bound and Gilt.]. No date [between 1779 and 1789]. Volume II only. 105 pages. Engraved frontispiece and title, and twenty-two woodcuts. Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards. 124 x 82 mm. Contained in a cloth gilt folding box. Lacks front endpaper; short tear in frontispiece but without loss; some paper lost from spine; else a very good copy. Two woodcuts show scenes relating to cricket.
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THE VIOLIN: ITS HISTORY & CONSTRUCTION ILLUSTRATED & DESCRIBED FROM MANY SOURCES. Together with a list of Italian and Tyrolese violin makers. 29 illustrations and folding example of the first music for lute, fiddle and voice. Translated in full from the German of Abele and Niederheitmann.
LondonWilliam Reeves, Music Publisher. No date. [1907]. [i-v], viii, 207 pages. 29 black and white illustrations. Hardback in original tan cloth. Small octavo. First edition. Small run on front endpaper; owner's ink stamp to front endpaper, else a very good copy.
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THE VIOLIN-MAKERS OF THE GUARNERI FAMILY (1626-1762) Their Life and Work. By William Henry Hill Arthur F. Hill and Alfred Ebsworth Hill. With an introductory notes by Edward J. Dent...
London: William E. Hill & Sons, 1931. Hardcover in slipcase as issued. xxxvii, [3 blank],181, [1 blank], [4 ad's] pages. Illustrated in with 17 colour plates, plates in photogravure and many other illustrations in the text. Original quarter vellum over green cloth, with coat of arms to the upper panel. One of approximately 500 copies for subscribers. A fine copy in a slightly worn slipcase.
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THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY.
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Lungarno Series No. 4. 216 pages. First edition. Number 690 of a limited edition, printed on hand-made paper, of an edition of 810 copies. Original white boards with pictorial phoenix device to upper cover. Octavo. Text block largely unopened. Original printed dust-wrapper. Head of spine bumped with consequent crack to the upper joint extending some 5cm's from the top of spine; else a very good fresh copy, in a very good wrapper with just a small amount of wear to the head & heel of spine; spare spine label tipped-in at rear.
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THE VISION OF THE THREE T'S. A Threnody by the Author of " The New Belfry".
OxfordJames Parker and Co, 1873. 37, 38 pp. Recently rebound in half calf gilt over marble boards with leather title label to upper cover. First edition. A very good copy of a scarce title.Williams, Madan, Green 94.
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THE VISIT FOR A WEEK; or, Hints on the Improvement of Time. Containing original tales, anecdotes from Natural and Moral History, &c. Designed for the Amusement of Youth. The Third edition. Revised and Corrected. By the author of The Six Princesses of Babylon, Juvenile Magazine, Knight of the Rose, and Ambrose and Eleanor.
London: Hookham and Carpenter… and for the Author, at the Juvenile Library…, 1796. [2], 335, [2 ad's] pages. Contemporary full sheep; red git label to spine. 12mo. Joints cracked and worn, with some small loss of leather; no half-title, if called for; ownership inscription for 1816 on front endpaper; else a good, clean copy. First published in 1794.
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THE VISIT OF ST. NICHOLAS.
London: Henry J. Drane, No date [circa 1895]. Softcover. [18, [2]] pages plus covers. With 15 illustrations. Original pictorial stiff covers; gold thread securing the spine, as issued. 15.3 x 11.7 cm. A very good copy of a scarce printing of Moore's 'The Night Before Christmas.' This was also issued in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co.
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THE VISIT TO THE FARM.
London: Faber and Faber, No date [1939]. [32] pages. Illustrated in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. The bottom inch of the rear inner joint has an old worm track; else a fine copy.
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THE VISITANT'S GUIDE TO SOUTHAMPTON, AND NETLEY ABBEY with engravings. Price 1s. 6d.
Southampton: Skelton & Co, No date [circa 1830?]. Softcover. 54 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and two other engraved plates. Original printed blue wrappers. 15.8 x 10 cm. All paper lost from spine, small area of worming to the blank upper margin; else a very good copy of an ephemeral little guide
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THE VISITS OF TOMMY LOVEBOOK to his neighbouring Little Masters and Misses. Embellished with Cuts.
London: J. Harris, 1815. [Price Three-pence.] 64 pages. First leaf [frontispiece] a pastedown. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 woodcuts within the text all by John Bewick. Original printed wrappers. Spine a little worn with some loss of paper; else a very good copy of a chapbook first published by Elizabeth Newbery in 1792, and by Harris in 1804. Moon 958(4).
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THE VISITS OF TOMMY LOVEBOOK to his neighbouring Little Masters and Misses. Embellished with Cuts. [Price Three-pence.]
London: J. Harris, 1815. 64 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 woodcuts within the text, all by John Bewick. Plain blue wrappers that look to have been recycled from another work, as they are printed on the inner faces. 109 x 72mm. Bound in twentieth century red calf gilt over cloth, and contained in a matching slipcase. A very good copy of a chapbook first published by Elizabeth Newbery in 1792, and by Harris in 1804. See Moon 958(4). Despite this being the last Harris edition, this is a rare chapbook.
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THE VISITS OF TOMMY LOVEBOOK to his neighbouring Little Masters and Misses. Embellished with Cuts. [Price Two Pence.]
London: J. Harris, 1806. 64 pages. First leaf [frontispiece] a paste-down. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 woodcuts within the text all by John Bewick. Original printed blue upper wrapper; the lower plain wrapper has been supplied. 98 x 63 mm. A very good copy of a chapbook first published by Elizabeth Newbery in 1792, and by Harris in 1804. Moon 958(2).
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THE VOCABULARY OF EAST ANGLIA. Originally published in 1830.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1970. Two volumes. Hardcovers. Dust-wrappers. Very good copies in slightly rubbed and price-clipped dust-wrappers.
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THE VOYAGE OF THE 'DISCOVERY'. In two volumes.
London.JOHN MURRAY. 1905. Volume 1: [vii], xix, [xx], [1], 2-556pp. Photogravure frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, 1 double-page plate, 115 black & white plates, 16 illustrations in the text and 3 maps. Volume 2: [v], xii, [1], 2-508pp. Photogravure frontispiece, 6 coloured plates, 4 double-page plate, 123 black & white plates and 2 maps in a pocket at rear. Original cloth gilt with embossed gilt devices to upper boards. Octavos. First edition, second impression. Head of spine of volume 1 just a touch bumped with two tiny nicks; endpapers of both volumes a little browned; light spotting to fore-edges; else a handsome set.One of 500 sets with the Murray imprint.
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THE VOYAGES, ADVENTURES, AND MIRACULOUS ESCAPE, OF George Andrew Barton, of Maidstone, in Kent; giving a particular Account of his Departure from Home; the Kindness he received from Capt. Irwin, and his young friend, the Midshipman; His Shipwreck, and Dwelling upon an Uninhabited Island with the Fair Selina, their Algerine Captivity, and providential escape, with their safe Arrival in England, after he had been absent from thence Twelve Years, being supposed to be dead by his Father and Relation
London.S. Carvalho. No date [circa 1820's]. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, and 32 pages. Lacking original wrappers. Some light spotting to frontispiece and title-page; else a very good copy. Ex-Renier copy with their name to recto of frontis'.Scarce, Worldcat, list one copy only by this publisher.
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THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF CAPT. ROBERT BOYLE, in several parts of the world; intermixed with the story of Mrs. Villars, and English Lady, with whom he made his surprising escape from Barbary: likewise including the History of an Italian Captive, and the Life of Don Pedro Acqilio; describing various and amazing turns of fortune.
London.Printed for the Booksellers by William Milner, Halifax. 1837. 287pp. Engraved frontispiece and one other plate. Original green cloth gilt. Endpapers browned; little marked here & there; else a very good copy of this little edition from William Milner.
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