The Cryes of London: The Collection in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. With an Introduction by Richard Luckett, Pepys Librarian.

Burton Salmon, Leeds: Old Hall Press, 1994. Folio. pp. xxi, 81 plates including some folding. Printed paper boards, leather backed. Fine in slip case. Limited Edition of 425 copies printed on Van Gelder paper.

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I.V.W. [IRVING VAN WART Illustrated by AMES VAN WART]

Fannie. A Recollection of Wondrous Wanderings.

Fontainebleau: [privately printed], Dec. 1864. 4to. pp. 67> illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. A little wear to the head of the spine otherwise a Fine copy. PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by the illustrator "To Mrs Douglas Story with the kindest regards of her friend Ames Van Wart. Oct 1907." With a little sketch of a dancing rabbit. Written by Irving and illustrated by his twin brother Ames who were great nephews of Washington Irving. Irving Van Wart's humorous rhyming travelogue of a journey through Europe, largely Germany and France, was illustrated by his twin Ames. He remarks on the prodigious quantities of beer in Germany and describes a donkey ride in Aix, France. Irving Van Wart was named after his uncle, Washington Irving (Washington's sister Sarah was Irving Van Wart's mother). Washington Irving lived with the Van Wart family in Birmingham, England on a few separate occasions, and wrote many of his classic stories there, including Rip Van Winkle.

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C.G.H. [MRS C.G. HAMILTON]

Margaret Waldegrave> the Power of Truth.

Edinburgh: W.P. Kennedy, 1846. 1st. [only?] Edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 540, iv [publisher's adverts]. Original cloth, a little unevenly faded, rear joint just starting but an excellent copy. Several sources identify the author as Mrs Charles Gillington Hamilton, wife of a clergyman.

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AUSTEN, Jane

Pride and Prejudice, a Novel.

G. Routledge & Co., 1852. Small 8vo. pp. 290. Contemporary half calf, rubbed but sound. C. Henry Daniel's copy with his ownership stamp. Charles Henry Daniel founded and ran the Daniel Press in Frome, then Oxford where he was Provost of Worcester College.

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[DODGSON, Charles L.] LEWIS CARROLL

Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

MacMillan and Co., 1886. 1st and only edition. A nice bright copy, inner joints sound, small ink mark to front cover and very light fading to the spine which has the slightest trace of wear to the head of the spine. Presentation copy inscribed "Mary James, from the Author. Dec. 3 /92." With the bookplate of Robert Rutson James which bears the pencil note "From my sister's books R.R.J." A lovely copy with a nice presentation to one of his 'child friends' which found its way to the library of her brother, an ophthalmic surgeon of note.

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CHARLES DICKENS

The Great International Walking-Match of February 29, 1868.

Boston: Privately Printed, 1868 [but c. 1912?] Broadside, 380 x 565 mm. [sheet size], 335 x 410 mm. [to printed border]. Restrike[?] printed in black, red, and blue with gilt double ruled border. Folded, with a slight split in the central fold. Signatures in facsimile printed in blue. Verso has a pencil note: 13 [corrected from 12] 15 1/2 x 11 5/8> perhaps relating to the number of copies printed. During his visit to America, Dickens's friends challenged him to an International walking match to lift his spirits: England versus America. Charles Dickens as the Gad's Hill Gasper, and George Dolby [the Man of Ross] versus James Fields [Massachusetts Jemmy] and James Osgood [the Boston Bantam]. Dickens, a passionate walker, won of course, even through the New England snow. Dickens wrote this piece as a sporting narrative and a small number of copies were printed for presentation to the participants and guests at a celebratory dinner on the evening of the 29th. The original edition is rare with probably no more that 15 copies printed and is usually described in all authorities as the only edition. From old auction records and library catalogues it has been possible to ascertain that a facsimile was produced, probably in Boston in around 1912. It is even possible that some of the copies which have appeared at auction over the years may have actually been this facsimile rather than the original edition. In any event, this edition is also uncommon and may present the only alternative to the original for most pockets> the last copy traced of the original was in a Jarndyce catalogue in 2010 at £20,000.

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DICKENS, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Chapman and Hall, 1839. 8vo. pp. xvi. 624. Illustrations by Phiz. Very Good in brown cloth boards. From original parts, two wrappers bound in. Inner joints and spine repaired. Gilt motif to front board. Spine and boards rubbed.

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DUTT, William A.

Some Literary Associations of East Anglia.

Methuen & Co., 1907. 8vo. pp. xiv, 342> colour and black and white illustrations. Half morocco, Very Good.

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GEORGE BICKHAM, MONS. B. PICART and WILLIAM LEEKEY

The Young Clerk's Assistant> or, Penmanship made easy, instructive and entertaining: being a compleat pocket-copy-book, neatly engrav'd for the practice of youth in the art of writing [by Geroge Bickham]. [bound with] A New Drawing Book of Modes, by Mons. B. Picart [engraved by George Bickham]. [bound with] A Discourse on the Use of the Pen... by William Leekey.

Richard Ware, c. 1735? 8vo. 3 works in one volume. pp. 61 [engraved plates]: 13 [engraved plates]: 32. Modern half calf, edge of plate 34 reinforced, corners of pp. 25/6 and 27/28 torn away with no loss of text. These three works are often found bound together.

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REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART [editor]

Occasional Issues of Unique or Very Rare Books. Edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.

Privately printed for subscribers only, 1875 - 1881. 1. Vol. II. Poems of Giles Fletcher, LL.D. (1593) pp. xliii, 103. 50 copies. 4. Poems of Bartholomew Griffin, Gentleman. (1569) pp. xiv, [8], 84. 5. Acolastus His After-Witte (1600) A Poem by Samuel Nicholson, containing quotations and adaptations from Shakespeare and Barnfield, etc. pp. xxv, 75. 50 copies. 6. Vol. IV. The Sonnets of William Percy. (1594) pp. viii, 29. 50 copies. 11. Poems by Richard Linche, Gentleman. (1596) pp. xiii, 89. 50 copies. 12. Chloris, by William Smith. (1596) pp. x, 33. 50 copies. 13. Democritus his Dreame. Or, The Contention between the Elephant and the Flea. Of Peter Woodhouse. (1605) pp. viii, 39. 50 copies. 14. Barley-Breake, or a Warning for Wantons, of W.N. Gentleman. (1607) pp. x, 39. 50 copies. 15. Vol. VI. The Poems of Matthew Grove. (1587) pp. x, 149. 50 copies. 18. Prose and Verse of John Dickenson, viz. I. The Shepheardes Complaint. (nd) II. Arisbas, Euphues Amidst His Slumbers> or Cupid's Journey to Hell. (1594) III. Greene in Conceipt. New Raised From His Grave to Write the Tragique Historie of Valeria of London. (1598). Pp. xix, 170. 50 copies. 19. Skialetheia of Edward Guilpin. (1598) pp. x, 78. 50 copies. 20. VIII. The Poems of Thomas Howell. (1568 – 1581) pp. 106, xv, 107 - 273. 50 copies. 23. Alcilia, Philoparthen's Loving Folloe. (1595) pp. xxxi, 67. 51 copies. 24. Vol. X. The Poems of Mildmay, 2nd Earl of Westmoreland. (1648) pp. xv, 183. 50 copies. 26. Vol. XII. Willobie's Avisa, 1594. Apologie, 1596. The Victorie of English Chastitie, 1596. Penelope's Complaint, by Peter Colse, 1596. Pp. xxxii, 201. 62 copies. 28. Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover, by Richard Tofte, Gentleman. (1598) pp. 132, lxix, 133 – 155. 62 copies. 29. Vol. XIV. The Works of Robert Armin, Actor. (1605 – 1609) Foole upon Foole, The History of Two Maids or More-clacke, The Italian Tailor and his Boy. pp. 228. 62 copies. 32. Swetnam the Woman hater Arraigned by Women. (1620) pp. lii, 95. 62 copies. 33. Vol. XV. Elizabethan England in Gentle and Simple Life being I. England's address to her Three Daughters, the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn: from Polimanteia, 1595. II. A Quest of Enquirie by Women to know whether the Tripe-woman was trimmed. 1595. pp. 152, xxiv, 153 – 177. 62 copies. 34. Tasso's 'Godfrey of Bulloigne' translated by Richard Carew, Esq. (1594) pp. xiv, 133. 62 copies. 35. Vol. XVII. Honor's Fame in Triumph Riding, by Robert Pricket. (1604) A True Coppie of a Discourse written by a Gentleman, employed in the late Voyage of Spaine and Portingale…1589. pp. xxi, 111. 62 copies. 37. "Choice, Chance and Change" (1606) or Glimpses of "Merry England" in the Olden Time. pp. x, 83. 62 copies. Small 4to. 36 books [of 37] in 17 volumes, bound into 9 in dark blue cloth. Many title pages from the original works are reproduced in facsimile and there are occasional decorations using original woodcuts. Each title is limited to between 40 and 62 copies after which "Proof sheets and waste pages have been destroyed." Each is numbered, usually 49, and initialled by the editor. These copies were for subscriber George Henry White of Torquay who left them to the Torquay Natural History Society under the terms of his will. They all bear bookplates and spine markings of the Society. The Society collections appear to have been dispersed in the late 1940s. Alexander Balloch Grossart [1827 – 99] was a prolific literary editor with a particular interest in Puritan literature. In addition to editing individual works, he produced, in addition to this one, three further series of early books: Fullers Worthies Library consisting of 39 volumes mostly limited to around 100 copies each, The Huth Worthies in 29 volumes and The Chertsey Worthies Library. He personally sought out rare copies from which to make the new editions, travelling extensively in the U.K. and Europe tracking down rare and elusive volumes. Lacking the first title, 'The Poems of Barnabe Barnes' which was issued in an edition of only 30 copies. This set includes all the additional notes published at the conclusion of the series, errata, corrections and generally tidying up loose ends and providing additional information. These extra pages could be bound in a separate volume, or, as here, bound into the individually relevant volumes giving a continuous pagination.

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MRS JOHN HUNT [ELIZA MEADOWS SHEPHERD THORPE]

The Wards of Plotinus.

Strahan and Company, [1881] 3 volumes in one. Only Edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, [3], 271: [4], 319: [4], 340, [4, publisher's catalogue]. Original publisher's cloth, half title to first volume only. Written by Eliza Hunt, following suggestions by John Hunt, her husband, Vicar of Offord, near Sevenoaks. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "George Grant with his friend the author's compliments Eliza Huint" Additionally signed by John Hunt and with the Vicarage stamp.

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THOMAS INGOLDSBY

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. First Series.

Richard Bentley, 1840. 11th Edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 338, [1]> illustrations. A nice copy in the original cloth which is a little rubbed and unevenly mottled.

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JAMES, Henry

French Poets and Novelists.

MacMillan and Co., 1878. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1,250 copies printed. Original cloth, a little wear to the head of the spine and inner joints just starting, otherwise a Very Good copy. A presentation copy, inscribed in the author's hand "With the compliments of the Author" on the title page. With the bookplate of Robert Crewe-Milne, 1st Marquess of Crewe [1858 - 1945]. In 1878 James was in England at the start of his literary career, bolstered by the publication of literary essays published in American periodicals. Over Christmas 1878 James made a notable stay at the home of James Milne Gaskell, Thornes House, near Wakefield. For New Year, he left for nearby Fryston Hall, the hospitable house of Lord Houghton, Richard Monkton Milnes, who as a well known literary patron would introduce James to the English literary establishment of the day. Lord Houghton's twenty year old son Robert, later owner of this copy, was also present at this time and like his father showed strong literary leanings. It is almost certain therefore that this copy was inscribed on this occasion, possibly to the son, but much more probably to Lord Houghton himself, later inherited by the first Marquess who put his bookplate in it. In any case, both father and son are closely associated with the novelist making this a presentation copy of particular interest and significance.

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JABEZ JENKINS

Jenkin's Vest-Pocket Lexicon. An English Dictionary of All Except Familiar Words> including the principal scientific and technical terms, and foreign moneys, weights, and measures. Omitting what everybody knows, And containing what everybody wants to know, And cannot readily find.

Trubner & Co. and G. Routledge & Sons, 1871. 1st U.K. Edition. 12mo. 90 x 65 mm. pp. 563. Original cloth, top chipped off preface page, but Very Good. "Advertisement. Being convinced of the great utility of this little American work, I have caused numerous important alterations to be made, adapting it especially to the use of the British public, to whom it is now offered. James Bromley." First published in the U.S. in 1861, this is the first U.K. edition.

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LARKIN, Philip and BRENNAN, Maeve

'A Lifted Study-Storehouse' The Brynmor Jones Library 1929-1979, updated to 1985 with an appreciation of Philip Larkin as Librarian by Maeve Brennan

Hull: Hull University Press, 1987. 8vo. pp. 50> illustrations. Wrappers, Fine. Originally published in 1979, this is the 2nd edition.

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Book number: 10103

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