ABBOTT C.C.

Early Mediaeval French Lyrics.

Constable,, 1932. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original dark green buckram, backstrip with printed paper label, gilt top, uncut, boards and backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 12941

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, france, french literature, french lyrics, french poetry, medieval lyrics, c.c. abbott, literature, early, mediaeval, french, lyrics

ADAMS Kathleen

George Eliot. A Brief Biography. Illustrated by William J. Adams. NEAR FINE COPY

Warwickshire County Council, Warwick,, 1970. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

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Book number: 29000

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, george eliot, mary anne evans, kathleen adams

ADAMS Kathleen

The Little Sister. The Story of Mary An n Evans who became George Eliot. Illustrated by William J. Adams. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Warwickshire County Council, Warwick,, 1975. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER VERSO.

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Book number: 28999

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, george eliot, mary anne evans, kathleen adams, signed

ADBURGHAM Alison

Silver Fork Society. Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840.

Constable,, [1983]. 8vo. First Edition with frontispiece and very numerous illustrations throughout; burgundy cloth backstrip lettered in silver a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper the latter sunned at backstrip.

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Book number: 27597

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ADDISON Joseph

Cato. A Tragedy. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane, and Covent-Garden. Regulated from the Prompt-Books, by Permission of the Managers. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN BOARDS

Bell,, 1791. 12mo., with 2 engraved plates; twentieth century grey boards, upper board with printed paper label, a very good, bright, crisp copy.

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Book number: 32076

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Keywords: literature, addison, joseph addison, cato

ADDISON Joseph

The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison. With the Life of the Author. EARLY FRANKLIN LIBRARY COPY OF RARE PHILADELPHIA PRINTING

Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson and Robert Johnson, Philadelphia PA,, 1805. 12mo., First Edition thus[?], some mild age-soiling; contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, boards worn, a good, sound copy. This copy was formerly in the Franklin Library in Camillus [New York State?] as volume No. 65. The library's printed accession sheet (with number and original cost completed in MS) is mounted on front paste-down with a related MS note on facing page. The latter page also bears a large circular blind stamp containing the word 'YALE' and dated 1802. The accession sheet carries the library's lending regulations: 'This book belongs to The Franklin Library, in Camillus, and liable to the following fines: For lending, or exchanging with any person 25 cents; Turning over a leaf with a wet finger 6 cents; Turning down a leaf 6 cents; Every drop of tallow 6 cents'. A NOTABLE, ALBEIT AGE-WORN, COPY OF AN EARLY AMERICAN LIBRARY BOOK COMPLETE WTH ACCESSION DATA. We can find no record of this edition. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 28165

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ADDISON, Joseph

The Spectator. Volume the First [to Volume to Eighth]. CRISP, CLEAN SET IN CONTEMPORARY TREE CALF

Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and many others],, n.d. [c.1790]. 8 vols., 12mo., on laid paper, with eight engraved frontispieces and title-vignettes; most attractively bound in contemporary full tree calf, backs framed in gilt with five flat bands ruled and tooled in gilt, second and fifth compartments with black leather labels lettered, ruled and tooled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a stylised blossom, primrose edges, a few light age-stains to backstrips else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp, clean copy. With the small bookplate of Gerard Paxon on front paste-downs. The engravings are by Charles Grignion after drawings by Francis Hayman. The full list of publishers is Messrs Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley, White, Law, Rodson, Crowder, Johnson, Nichols, Dilly, Robinson, Cadell, Stuart, Bowles, Sewell, Murray, Flexney, Baldwin, Goldsmith, Lowndes, Knox, Otridge, Hayes, Piquinet, Macqueen & Newbury. The Spectator appeared in two separate series, the first edited by Steele and published on weekdays from 1 March 1711 to 6 December 1712 (issues 1-555); the second edited by Addison and published thrice weekly from 18 June to 20 December 1714 (issues 556-635). The two series were first published in eight successive volumes between 1711 and 1714, and several times during the remainder of the eighteenth century. A beautiful set. NCBEL II, 1098.

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Book number: 21624

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Keywords: literature, addison, steele, spectator, francis hayman, charles grignon, joseph addison, richard steele, literature, the, spectator

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound. Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Introduction and Notes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Allen & Unwin,, [1931]. 8vo., First Edition; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with two short tears.

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Book number: 31298

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Keywords: literature, classical literature, greek literature, aeschylus, gilbert murray, prometheus

AESCHYLUS

The Seven against Thebes [Septem contra Thebas]. Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Introduction and Notes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Allen & Unwin,, [1935]. 8vo., First Edition; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip and fold-ins.

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Book number: 31299

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Keywords: literature, classical literature, greek literature, aeschylus, gilbert murray, thebes

AESOP

The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author. Embellished with One Hundred and Twelve Plates. [Translation by Samuel Croxall.] STOCKDALE'S AESOP: THE CROZIER COPY ON LARGE PAPER

Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly,. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER, with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf, boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt, backs with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a splendid, crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER [1775-1849] ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably [as here] the first issue with uncorrected page numeral [891] on p.198, and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables, each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake, Clarke, Eastgate, Grainger, Landseer, Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation (first published in 1722) to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange (first published 1692, many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text). Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies, but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41457

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Keywords: literature, aesop, fables, stockdale, john stockdale, croxall, samuel croxall, william blake, crozier, rawson boddam crozier

ALLEN Vivien

Hall Caine. Portrait of a Victorian Romancer.

Sheffield Academic Press,, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustratioins from photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The best biography to date, including a worthy attempt at a bibliography of the novels

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Book number: 14619

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Keywords: victorian literature, bibliography, biography, vivien allen, literature, hall, caine

ANDERSEN]. [Hans Christian

H.C. Andersens Moder en Brevsamling. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: A RARE SURVIVAL

Rasmus Hansens Boghandel, Odense,, 1947. 8vo., First Edition, text in Danish, with plates, small neat contemporary inscription on front wrapper verso; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, backstrip lettered in black, uncut, covers lightly browned at margins else a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A SCARCE SURVIVAL.

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Book number: 43151

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, andersen, hans christian andersen, fairy tales,

ANGELI H.R.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Friends and Enemies. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hamish Hamilton,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 25665

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Keywords: literature, rossetti, h.r. angeli, literature, dante, gabriel, rossetti

ANON

Are These Things So? 1740 [with] The Great Man's Answer to Are These Things So? (1740). Introduction by Ian Gordon. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1972. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 153. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 19453

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Keywords: literature, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library

ANON

The Art of Architecture. A Poem in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry (1742). Introduction by William A. Gibson. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1970. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 144. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 19457

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, horace, art of poetry, art of architecture, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library