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THE OLD GARDEN and other verses. Decorated by Walter Crane.
London: Osgood McIlvaine & Co, 1893. Printed on French-fold paper throughout and in colour. First edition. Original decorative cloth; original printed dust-wrapper. Bookplates to front pastedown; wrapper chipped and worn, but more or less complete. A near fine copy. Rare in dust-wrapper. The U.K edition preceded the American by a year.
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THE OLD ROAD. With Illustrations by Willam Hyde.
London.Archibald Constable and Company. 1904. ii-x, [1-2], 3-173pp. 11 photogravure plates, plus 16 line illustrations on art paper, and 6 folding maps to rear. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. t.e.g. Cloth a little rubbed with minor wear to corners and spine edges. Head and heel of spine a little worn. Some browning to endpapers. Bookplate to paste-down endpaper. Else a very good copy. Cahill no 18.
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THE OLYMPIA PRESS (Paris: 1953-1965) A Handlist compiled by P. J. Kearney.
London.P. J. Kearney. 1975. 34 pages. Original printed wrappers. Vertical soft crease to the entire work; else fine. Loosely laid in is the original typed and hand-written receipt, initialled by Patrick Kearney.
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The Origin of Garden Plants.
London: Constable, 1989. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Revised edition. A fine copy in a like wrapper.
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THE PALACE AND PARK: Its Natural History, and its Portrait Gallery, together with a description of the Pompeian Court, in the undermentioned Guides: 1. Palace and Park; 2. Portrait Gallery; 3. Ethnology & Natural History. 4. Extinct Animals; 5. Pompeian Court.
London: Crystal Palace Library; and Bradbury and Evans, 1856. Half-title; General title; 197; 238; 92; 39,[1]; 73, [1], Illustrated throughout all five parts with some folding maps and plans, and with many engravings within the text, and with a plan of 'The House and Pansa' at the end of the book. Original blue cloth gilt. A near fine copy. The Crystal Palace was moved from its original site in Hyde Park to a location at Sydenham, Kent in 1854.
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THE PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. In two volumes. The twelfth edition, considerably improved.
London.F. C. Rivington. 1819. Vol' I: Engraved portrait frontispiece of George III; engraved title; title; [ii], cx, 80pp. of engraved plates, 638pp. Vol' II: title, [3] 650 - 1439pp. Contemporary half-calf, gilt with red labels. Title-page of vol' II has a crease, else a very handsome set.The gap in pagination between the close of vol' I and the commencement of Vol' II is an anomaly as there is no text missing.
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THE PENTAMERONE OF GIAMBATTISTA BASILE. Translated from the Italian of Benedetto Croce Now edited with a Preface, Notes and Appendixes by N. M. Penzer, M.A. With a Portrait Frontispiece, twelve reproductions of title-pages and other illustrations, together with a contemporary plan of the City of Naples. In Two Volumes.
London.John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. 1932. Two volumes. lxxv, [1], [2], 3- 309pp. vi, [2], 333pp. Original buckram gilt. Large octavo (quarto size). Spines very slightly sunned; bookplate in each volume else an excellent set.
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THE POLISH GENERAL, and Faithful Servant: TO WHICH IS ADDED, The Wonderful Deliverance of a Soldier.
London: J. Evans and Son, No date [circa 1815]. 8 pages. Wood-engraving to cover/title. Lightly marked; else a very good copy.
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THE POLITE GAMESTER: CONTAINING SHORT TREATISES On the Games of WHIST, BACK-GAMMON, QUADRILLE, PIQUET and CHESS. TOGETHER WITH An Artificial Memory, OR AN Early Method of assisting the Memory of those that Play at the Game of WHIST.
Dublin. G. and A. Ewing, 1745. Hardcover. [6], 66, [3], 4-23, [1], [2], 69, [1], [4], [1], 68, [4], 5-21, [3 catalogue] pages. Quarter bound calf over marbled boards. Small octavo, measuring approximately 16.2 x 10 cm. Spine expertly repaired,; endpapers replaced at some time; one short tear closed; binding rubbed and worn. Small ink mark (approximately 2cm at longest point) affecting foredges of the first 36 pages; some browning to endpapers; else a good copy. First Dublin edition.
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THE POLITICAL STRUWWELPETER. Illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould. Second edition.
London: Grant Richards, 1899. [2] 24 leaves, printed on rectos only. Illustrated in colour throughout in imitation of the original format of Hoffman's Struwwelpeter. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 4to. Covers a little dust-soiled; corners worn; else a very good copy. Baumgartner II. 10.
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK, In Aid of The Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital For Children.
London.Hodder and Stoughton. No Date. [1933.]. [i-vi], 7-224pp. 5 colour plates including frontispiece, plus two double Disney colour plates, plus numerous black & white illustrations throughout. Original cream pictorial cloth, gilt. Pictorial Dustwrapper. Decorative endpapers by Rex Whistler. Cloth pristine. Dust wrapper has marginal chipping to corners and head of spine. Else, an excellent, bright copy.
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THE QUARRELSOME DOG Translated freely from the German. Second edition.
Leipzig/London.William Engelmann/Joseph, Myers & Co. No date (circa 1850). 27, [5 ad's]pp. Illustrated with 12 hand-coloured engravings. Original paper-covered boards with an hand-coloured vignette on upper boards. Oblong: 10.5 x 16.5 cm's. Neatly respined; covers lightly soiled; occasional mark; else a very good copy.
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THE RED BOOK, and The Black Book. By the author of Summer Rambles.
London: E. Lloyd, 1802. Two volumes. Volume I: [4], 127 pages; engraved frontispiece. Volume II: [4], 152 pages. 12mo. Original half calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked, with gilt banding and red title labels. First edition. A very good copy of a scarce title. Osborne Catalogue page 296, Volume I only, wrongly attributed in the to Elizabeth Sandham. Good deeds are recorded in the Red Book and bad deeds in the Black.
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THE RESULT OF FALSE PRINCIPLES: or, error convicted by its own evidence. Extracted from the original of Dr. Womack, sometime Bishop of St. David's, and author of the Calvinist Cabinet Unlocked.
London.J. Marsom. 1790. 262pp. Original two-colour paper-covered boards. Octavo. Spine chipped at head and heel with some loss at heel; cracked at rear hinge; uncut. A good plus copy.
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THE ROMANCE OF THE FORUM, or, Narratives, Scenes, and Anecdotes from Courts of Justice. By Peter Burke, Serjeant-at-Law.
London. Hurst and Blackett. No date. ix [x], 341 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half red calf, gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. Light rubbing to corners; else a very good copy.
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THE ROYAL KALENDAR: and Court and City Register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, for the Year 1840. Including a Correct List of the Thirteenth Imperial Parliament, summoned to meet for their First Session November 15, 1837…. [Price, including an Almanack, 5s – and 1s. 6d. in addition with the Appendix or Index of Names.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme & Co;…, 1839. Contains: Rider's British Merlin; The Royal Kalendar; Companion to the Calendars; Ridgway's Peerage; Arms of the Peers, Peeresses & c.; Ridgway's Baronetage; An Appendix to the Royal Kalendar; al, bound as one. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco, elaborately gilded, and with a crown on upper and lower panels and monogram, AR. All edges gilt. Two leaves a little dusty and slightly worn where previously loose; binding expertly repaired; spine a little darkened; else a very handsome copy.
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THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE A Narrative of D. H. Lawrence.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. xiii, [1 blank], 296 pages. Original cloth, gilt. Original printed unclipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. First issue. Light dust-soiling to wrapper; else a near fine copy.
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THE STANLEY GIBBONS CENTENARY 1856 – 1956. Designed by Ken Williamson.
London: Stanley Gibbons. Ltd, No date [1956]. Hardcover. Printed tissue dust-wrapper. 4to. A fine copy in a wrapper that is a little worn at corners and heel of spine. Rarely found in the frail dust-wrapper.
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THE ULTIMATE BRACE A Unique Product of Victorian Sheffield.
Erica Jane Publishing, 1989. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 4to. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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THE UNIVERSAL DIRECTORY FOR TAKING ALIVE AND DESTROYING RATS, And all other Kinds of Four-footed and Winged Vermin, in a Method hitherto unattempted: Calculated for the Use of Gentleman, the Farmer, and the Warrener. By Robert Smith, Rat-Catcher to the Princess Amelia.
London: Printed for the Author, 1768. vii, [1 blank], 218 pages. Illustrated with 6 engraved plates- some folding. Contemporary sheep sometime re-backed, with a red gilt label. Octavo. First edition. Residue of an old label to the blank verso of the title; binding rubbed and worn but sound and firm. A very good copy.
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