Aleman, Mateo.

THE ROGUE: Or, The Life of Gvzman de Alfarche. Written in Spanish.

Oxford : printed by William Turner, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard [, London], ann. Dom., 1630. Royal 8vo. *6 + A6 + A6 + 267pp. + [**8] + 357pp. Dec. initial letters and headpieces including some historiated. [Gg6] is a blank. Signature B2 repaired, prelims. upto signature B2 with sm. spilt to fore-edge, ‘Mr Hugh Jones His Booke 1680’ together with pen markings to title page with sl. loss to corners, blank to rear heavily annotated, occasional underlining, some browning and occasional stains, marbled e.ps., old mottled calf boards, sympathetically rebacked in C20th calf with gilt compartments and gilt lettered label to spine.
¶ Armorial bookplate ‘Tempvs Edax Rervm’ to verso of title page, ex-libris Bisset family of Lessendrum House, Huntly, Aberdeen. ESTC S106807. ‘A translation of: Alemán, Mateo. Aventuras y vida de Guzmán de Alfarache, which was originally published in two parts as Primera [Segunda] Parte de Guzman de Alfarache. Translator’s dedication signed: Don Diego Puede--Ser, i.e. James Mabbe. In Mabbe’s Second part passages occur which are only to be found in Barezzo Barezzi’s Italian translation--cf. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly’s introduction to The rogue, 1924 (The Tudor translations, 2nd series). The second part has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous. STC (2nd ed.), 290. Madan, I, p. 148.’ The Mabbe translation first published in 1622.

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Alexander, Gavin.

WRITING AFTER SIDNEY. The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586-1640.

OUP, 2006. 1st Ed. xliv + 380pp. 3 ills. Very good in d/w.

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[Anon].

ELEGANT EXTRACTS, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, Miscellaneous and Epistolary, in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons. Being similar in design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry.

London: Stereotyped and Printed by and for A. Wilson, 1811. Stereotype Ed. 5 parts in 1. Thick 8vo. Title page + xvi + 6pp. + [ii] + 1060pp. + [ii] adverts. Ex.-libris Charles and Grace Booth, marbled e.ps. neatly repaired to hinges, edges marbled, contemporary double gilt rule edged full diced calf, rubbed and sl. soiled, some wear to corners, rebacked in later calf with gilt ruled bands gilt lettering and dec. gilt compartments to spine.
¶ 1. Moral and Religious. 2. Classical and Historical. 3. Orations, characters and letters. 4. Narratives, Dialogues. 5. Natural History. Charles Booth (1868-1938) was chairman of Alfred Booth & Company and Booth Steamship Company in 1912. He was also the chairman of the Midland Railway between 1919 and 1922, and a director of Martin’s Bank and of the LMS Railway Company.

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Ariosto, Lodovico.

L’ORLANDO FURIOSO. Edizione Formata sopra i Testi antichi più accreditati, E Principalments sopra quello di Valgrisi del 1556.

Venezaia Vitarelli, 1811. 6 vols. 12mo. Engraved port. frontis. Italian text. Some light browning, inscription scratched out to pastedowns, contemporary calf backed marbled boards, some loss to marbled paper, gilt lettered labels and gilt tooling to spines.

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Austen, Jane.

THE WATSONS. Completed in Accordance with her intentions by Edith (her Great Grand-Niece) and Francis Brown.

Alkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd., 1928. 183pp. + [i]. Some sporadic spotting, f.e.ps. lightly browned, ownership signature, edges of leaves sl. spotted, fore edge uncut, original gilt lettered blue cloth backed boards decorated and lettered in blue to upper board, some light soiling, sl. wear to corners of upper board, binding sl. cockled, spine lightly faded and sl. bumped at head and tail with lettering dulled.
¶ The Rescue Series.

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[Barham, R.H.].

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS Or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire.

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1874. Royal 8vo. xiv + 514pp. Frontis., 71 ills. by George Cruikshank, John Leech, John Tenniel and Henry Doyle. [Without half title]. Title page and frontis. spotted, sporadic mainly marginal spotting throught haevier in parts, p.409-416 lightly browned, large prize inscription dated 2nd January 1875, Myddelton Hall Programme of a Grand Elocutionary Competition tipped in to verso of front f.e.p., inner gilt dentelles, marbled e.ps., hinges cracked and tender, contemporary full dark red morocco with gilt lettering and gilt gilt decoration to boards depicting the ‘Jackdaws of Rheims,’ edges of boards sl. darkened, gilt ruled edges, wear to corners, gilt filleted raised bands gilt motifs (including ‘Hand of Glory’ ‘Jackdaw of Rheims’) and gilt title to sl. darkened and rubbed spine worn with sl. loss at head, a.e.g.

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[Barham, R.H.].

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or Mirth and Marvels.

Richard Bentley & Sons, 1881. Carmine Ed. [xvi] + 546pp. + [ii]. Frontis., additional decorative red & black lettered title page, 16 steel engraved plates by Cruikshank, Leech and Barham, many woodcuts, text enclosed in red ruled border with dec. corners. Some sporadic spotting, marbled e.ps., inner gilt ruling, full gilt lettered gilt rule edged red morocco, gilt ruled edges, gilt ruled raised bands (top raised band sl. chipped) gilt jackdaw motifs and gilt tile to spine, some very minor soiling and very minor rubbing to extrmities, a.e.g.

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Barrett, Eaton Stannard.

THE HEROINE. With an Introduction by Michael Sadleir.

Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd., 1927. Reprinted from the 1815 3rd Ed. . 364pp. + [iv] adverts. E.ps. very lightly browned, ex.-libris David Wyndham Smith, gilt lettered two-tone blue cloth, minor soiling and rubbing, boards faded, t.e.blue rest uncut.
¶ The Rescue Series.

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[Beloe, William].

THE SEXAGENARIAN; Or, the Recollections of a Literary Life.

F.C. and J. Rivington, 1818. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. viii + 435pp. + T.p. + 388pp. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary half morocco, some surface wear, gilt lettering to spine, some rubbing.

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Boothby, Guy.

‘FAREWELL, NIKOLA’

Ward, Lock & Co., 1901. 1st Ed. 315pp. + [iv]. publ. adverts. 8 ills. by Harold Piffard. Some light sporadic browning, original bright gilt lettered cloth with inlaid ills. to upper board, spine sl. rubbed with loss to lettering and very sl. bumped.

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Borrow, George.

THE BIBLE IN SPAIN; Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an attempt To Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula. With the Notes and Glossary of Ulick Ralph Burke.

John Murray, 1901. 3rd Imp of the latest (1899) Ed. [xxvi] + 12pp. + 838pp. Etched frontis., photogravure, etched plate, colour folding map. Ex.-libris Elisabeth & Frank Bayley, prelims. spotted, marbled e.ps. and edges, upper hinge tender but firm, contemporary half dark green calf with marbled boards, some minor soiling and rubbing, sl. wear to corners, upper joint rubbed, raised bands gilt motifs and gilt lettered brown title label to sl. rubbed and lightly browned spine chipped with sl. loss at head.

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Bos. [Prest, Thomas Peckett].

THE PENNY PICKWICK.

Edward Lloyd, N.d. c.[1837-8]. Issues 1-96 [only of 112 Issues in total]. 432pp. + 330pp. Each issue headed with a woodcut and with some textual woodcuts. Several issues with residue of original wrapps. along gutter hinge, upto pp. 68 with loss along upper portion of fore-edge, pp.299-302 ragged along fore-edge, without the original wrapps., some soiling and browning, rebound in modern crushed half brown morocco with marbled boards, worn original gilt lettered label to spine.
¶ An extremely rare piece of plagarism, rarely if ever found complete. Appearing weekly running to 112 issues, with the drop-head title The Penny Pickwick, it also appeared in two volumes. ‘Later editions are titled Post-humorous notes of the Pickwickian Club.’ University of Aberdeen. Thomas Peckett Prest (1809/10–1859). ODNB ‘... in 1836 Edward Lloyd, then a minor publisher of ephemera, issued Prest's The Sketch Book, by ‘Bos’ in penny numbers. In April 1837, a year after Dickens (Boz) had begun Pickwick Papers (1836–7) in monthly shilling parts, Prest began writing a penny weekly serial, The Posthumorous Notes of the Pickwick Club, or, The Penny Pickwick, by ‘Bos’ (1837–8). Prest's version freely adapted and expanded Dickens's work for a working-class readership. Aided by spirited woodcuts by the popular cartoonist C. J. Grant, 'this disgraceful fabrication', as G. A. Sala noted, 'had an immense sale' (Sala, 74). At over 850 pages it was considerably longer, and at the time probably sold more copies, than Dickens's original ... Prest has been commonly credited with being the author of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, but recent scholarship has revealed that the tale was actually the work of James Malcolm Rymer ... Prest wrote vigorous, stylized prose that popularized penny fiction at the moment when an increasingly literate working-class public were tiring of political and educational reading and looking for entertainment. With his knowledge of popular taste and in particular melodrama he adapted middle-class writing for a popular audience, facilitating a significant stage in the development of literature for the masses ...’

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(British Critic).

THE BRITISH CRITIC, For July, August, September, October, November and December MDCCCVIII. Volume XXXII [only].

London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809. 1st Ed. [xxvi] + 656pp. + [viii] index + [ii]. Some sporadic light browning and spotting heavy in parts, ownership inscription, bookplate covered with plain paper, contemporary calf backed marbled boards with corners tipped in vellum, some minor soiling and rubbing, joints cracking, gilt ruled bands vol. nos and gilt lettered leather title label to sl. rubbed spine.
¶ The British Critic: A New Review was a quarterly publication, established in 1793 as a conservative and high-church review journal riding the tide of British reaction against the French Revolution. The headquarters was in London; the journal ended publication in 1843.

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(Brontë). Gaskell, E.C.

THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË. Author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," "Villette," &c.

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. viii + 352pp. + viii + 327pp. + [i]. Port. frontis., frontis and facsimile of handwriting. Large ownership inscription to front f.e.ps., plates lightly spotted, half calf with marbled boards, rubbed, joints split but firm with a couple of sm. cracks intruding onto spines, sl. wear to corners, gilt filleted raised bands dec. gilt compartments and gilt lettered red leather title labels to lightly browned and sl. rubbed spines with sl. wear at head and tail.

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(Brontë). Lock, John and Dixon, Canon W.T.

A MAN OF SORROW. The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Brontë 1777-1861. Foreword by The Archbishop of York.

Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1965. 1st Trade Ed. Large 8vo. [xvi] + 566pp. Port. frontis., 33 plates. Some sporadic spotting, shaken, original gilt lettered cloth with lettering sl. rubbed to spine, in lightly soiled and chipped d/w. browned to spine.

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Book number: 286193

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