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THE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING. Edited by George Saintsbury. In twelve volumes. IIlustrated by George Cruickshank.
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THE WORKS of Mr.Hogarth MORALIZED.
London: John Trusler, No date, but circa 1770s. Price Bound One Pound Eighteen Shillings. [4], viii, 212, v index, [3 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece of William Hogarth; engraved title, and a total of 77 other engravings. Bound in full calf gilt. Octavo. First edition, but a later issue, bound without the letterpress title found Iin the first and second printings. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good, clean copy. This was Trusler’s first work compiled especially for children.
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THE WORKS OF MR. JOHN DRYDEN. The Third Volume. Consisting of the Author's Original Poems and Translations. No first Publish'd together.
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THE WORKS OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, BAR. Complete in four volumes Octavo. To which is prefixed, The Life and Character of the Author. A New Edition.
London.J. Brotherton and W. Sewel. J. Whiston. C. Bathurst. J. and F. Rivington. T. Payne. W. Johnston. S. Crowder. B. White. L. Hawes and Co. C. Rivingto 1770. Vol I: [vii], xxviii, [29], 30-524pp. Vol II: [1], 2-568pp. Vol III: [5], 6-544pp. Vol IV: [i], ii, [3], 4-466pp + [87]pp index at rear. Original full calf, gilt, with twin labels in red and black, and elaborately decorated gilt panels. Octavos. Hinges of vols 1, 2, and 3 cracked and worn; front hinge of vol. 4 cracked and rear hinge just splitting at heel of spine; all 4 volumes have some loss of calf at head and heel of spines; each volume has a bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and neat previous owner's notes on front free endpapers and title-pages. All 4 volumes are internally clean and fresh. A good set.
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THE WORLD CRISIS [Volume 5] The Aftermath.
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1929. 474 pages. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Few light spots and start and end; else a very good copy.
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THE WORLD DISPLAYED; or, the characteristic features of nature and art exhibited. On a new plan. Intended for youth in general, as an outline of the most striking parts of useful information, and as a remembrancer to those of riper years.
London.C. Cradock and W. Joy. 1810. vi, 664pp. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full calf with gilt decoration to the spine and a red title label. 12mo. First edition. Spine cracked and splitting at both joints, and with some loss at head revealing headband; corners and edges a little worn and rubbed; prize inscription for 1812 on front fixed endpaper; last few pages of index have some light worming affecting a few letters; else a good plus copy.
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The World in Miniature. South Sea Islands. Being a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character, Religion and State of Society Among the Various Tribes Scattered over the Great Ocean, called the Pacific, or the South Sea.
Volume I only. xvi, 320 pages. Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured plates as called for. Contemporary half-morocco gilt. Head of spine pulled and worn; frontispiece offset onto title; else very good.
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THE WORLD OF ANTIQUE TOYS.
London.Mint & Boxed. No date. Number 4244 of a limited edition of 5000. A near fine copy in slipcase.
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THE WORLD OF ICE; or, Adventures in the Polar Regions. By Robert Michael Ballantyne. With Illustrations.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860. [iv], 315 pages. Engraved frontispiece and two other full-page plates. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Front free endpaper stamped: ‘Mr Pennington Harford House School West Hackney.’ Inscribed beneath the stamp: ‘Master Palmer first class Arithmetic Prize Christmas 1860.’ Some slight discolouration to frontispiece; else a very good copy. Quayle [21a] states page 316 is an advert leaf, but in this copy page 316 is blank. He also cites four plates, though this copy has three as do others held in major collections. This title is scarce in first edition form.
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THE WORLD OF THE DARK CRYSTAL.
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1983. 128 pages. Illustrated in colour. Hardback. Pictorial dust-wrapper. First U. K. edition. Folio. An excellent copy with no inscriptions or marks, etc.
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THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN; or, No News, and Strange News. Adorned with cuts.
York: J. Kendrew, Colliergate, No date [circa 1830]. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece, vignette on title, and 27 wood engravings within the text. Original printed terracotta wrappers. 103 x 65 mm. A fine copy of one of Kendrew’s scarcer titles.
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THE WOULDBEGOODS Being The Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers.
London.T. Fisher Unwin. 1902. [xiii], 331 pp Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Black and white illustrations. Original pictorial red cloth, gilt. 8vo. First edition. Covers lightly soiled; fading to spine; cracking at inner joints. Browning to free endpapers. Occasional light staining to text. Some signatures and illustrations sprung due to cracking. Book label on inside front cover and previous owner's note to front free end paper.
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THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. Illustrated.
London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1887. [32] pages. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Original decorative embossed leather with gold thread securing the spine. Some spotting on endpapers; else a very good, clean copy in an unusual, Japanese inspired, binding.
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THE WRECK OF THE SERICA. A narrative of 1868 by Thomas Cubbin, Master, with wood engravings by John Worsley.
Now published by The Dropmore Press, 1950. Number 13 of 30 copies specially bound and signed by the writer of the introduction and by the Artist. Bound in full blue niger morocco. Top edge gilt. Quarto. Original dust-wrapper. Wrapper has small loss at head and heel; else this copy is in pristine condition.
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THE WREN; or, The Fairy of the Green-House, consisting of Song, Story and Dialogue. Founded upon actual Incidents, and put together for the Amusement and Instruction of three Little Boys during the Confinement of their Mother. No date [circa 1790]. [4], 5 - 76, [3 ad's] pages. The blank recto of the frontispiece and the blank verso of the last leaf of ad's pastedowns to the boards. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and twelve other woodcuts throughout, some signed 'L' - probably John Lee. Contemporary Dutch floral boards. Binding 10.4 x 9 cm. Contained in a morocco-backed clamshell box. Strained between frontispiece and title, else a near fine copy. Osborne page 87.
London: John Marshall, 1790.
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THE WRETCHED STONE. Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Mint. Signed on the title-page by Chris Van Allsburg.
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THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK. Edited by Andrew Lang.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1942. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 321 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original yellow cloth with embossed pictorial design; gilt to spine. Octavo. Wrapper chipped at head of spine, and with a piece missing from the lower part of the spine; else a very good copy.
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THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK Edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1894. Hardback. No dust-wrapper. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Near contemporary full 'yellow' morocco. Top edge gilt. Octavo. Bookplate; binding a little dulled and marked; else a very clean copy.
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THE YORKSHIRE GARLAND, containing the Celebrated old Songs of "Yorke Yorke, for me Monie," and the Pattern of True Love; or, Bowes Tragedy. To which are added specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect, selected from the Register Office, Richard & Betty at Ickleton Fair, the Ripon Bellman, &c.
Northallerton.E. Langdale. 1825. 34pp. Engraved frontispiece by Thomas Bewick; wood-engraved tailpiece at end. Original printed wrappers. 12mo. Paper lost from spine; little worn at extremities; small corner lost from the upper outer corner of the rear wrapper; hand-written catalogue description of the book on the blank verso of the front wrapper; old auction 'Lot' sticker on front wrapper; else a very good copy.
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THE YORKSHIRE HUNT; or, an extraordinary chase of the parson and the cat, (in the Wolds of Yorkshire) By William Cowper. Embellished with Six Spirited Engravings on Wood, after the manner of Cruikshank, by M.U. Sears.
London: Alfred Miller, 1831. 20 pages. Sic full-page engraved plates. Bound in slightly later half tan calf with gilt title label in black calf to the spine. Neat ownership name on the balnk recto of one of the frontispices; binding a little rubbed; else a very good copy. In imitation of Cowper’s famous John Gilpin, the poem tells the tale of a fox-hunting parson onto whose head a frightend cat jumps, with dire consequences.
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