Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer by John Dryden. With a Memoir o the Author

New York, Calvin Blanchard, 1845. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Hardcover. 227pp. No date c1840s. Brown blind-stamped boards, gilt motif to front and gilt spine decoration, engraved title page and engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard. Very good copy with very little wear both inside and out, faint stain to top edge, binding is sound. Very Good.

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Book number: 004760

Catalogue: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Biography

Keywords: Dryden Palamon Arcite Iphigenia

Cumplido, Ignacio

Presente amistoso dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicanas

Mexico, I. Cumplido, 1847. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 194pp. Blind stamped boards, gilt stamped floral border, gilt stamping and gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, 7 engraved plates with tissue-guards, signed on editor's page "Maria G. Haro." Edge worn, spine chipped with minor loss, endpapers stained, very occasional foxing to text. Good/As New.

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Book number: 004753

Catalogue: Illustrated, Poetry, Biography

Keywords: Senoritas Women Mexico

Fairfield, Jane

The Life of Sumner Fairfield, Esq.

Boston, Published By the Author, 1857. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 132pp. Later printing. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, frontispiece with tissue-guard. Book is in very nice condition, with only very slight exterior wear. Contents are age-toned, clean and appear to be unread. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003187

Catalogue: Poetry, Biography

Howitt, William

Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets. (2 Volumes Complete)

London, Richard Bentley, 1847. Second Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 504, 473pp. Green stamped cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Spines chipped at head and tail, Volume 2 chipped near center, edges and spines faded, contents are age-toned, some foxing to first and last few pages,owner's bookplates on front pastedowns, pencilled name on front free endpaper, some cracking to hinges but binding is holding. Essays on 41 British poets and their homes, accompanied with an illustration of each home. From Chaucer to Tennyson. Good.

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Book number: 002504

Catalogue: Poetry, Biography