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THE WORKS OF ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON (of Marlborough & Cambridge) Author of “The Light Green” together with his Life and Letters.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1904. ix, [3], 219 pages. Two illustrations. Original green cloth with black lettering and decoration. Octavo. Carte-de-visite of his grave mounted on blank recto of frontispiece. Notes on endpapers and a gift inscription on the half-title; bookplates; else very good. Has a chapter on Sandwich, Kent. Scarce.
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THE YOUNG ARDIZZONE An autobiographical fragment.
London. Studio Vista, 1970. Hardback in unclipped dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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TOMMY THUMB’S PRETTY SONG BOOK. The First Collection of English Nursery Rhymes. A Facsimile Edition with a History and Annotations.
Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013. Limited edition of 500 sets. Comprising a folding cloth box containing Nurse Lovechild’s Legacy and Three cloth bound facsimiles of Tommy Thumb’s Song Book; The Pretty-Book; Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book Vol. II. A fine copy – as new.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH His Home and Haunts. With twelve drawings in crayon by A. Forester and Four Portraits.
London. Edinburgh.T. C. & E. C. Jack. [1910]. [iv], vii. [viii], [1], 80pp. 16 black & white plates including frontispiece. Original boards gilt with pictorial pastedown to upper board. Octavo. First edition. Spine edges splitting with some loss at base; some small loss also to head of spine and chipping to heel; corners and top edge of front board a little bumped; endpapers browned; a few spots to top edges of rear endpapers; internally, a little shaken; else a good plus copy.Presentation copy from Wordsworth's granddaughter, Dora. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: "Miss L Phillips with love, & every good wish for Xmas & the New Year. Dec. 1910. from Dora Wordsworth".
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WOODFORDE, Passages from the Five Volumes of the Diary of a Country Parson, 1758- 1802. The Reverend James Woodforde.
London: Oxford University Press, 1935. xix, [1], 534pp. Black & white frontispiece, folding map and folding family tree. Original black cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition thus. Head of spine very lightly worn; bookplate; light browning on half-title; else a handsome, bright copy.
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