Prolusions; or, Select Pieces of Antient Poetry, Compiled with Great Care from Their Several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publick As Specimens of the Integrity That Should Be Found in the Editions of Worthy Authors. In Three Parts, Containing I: The Notbrowne Mayde; Master Sackvile's Induction; and Overbury's Wife; II: Edward the Third, a Play, Thought to Be Writ by Shakespeare; III: Those Excellent Didactic Poems, Initl'd Nosce Teipsum, Written by Sir John Davis. With a Preface

London, printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1760. Hardcover. One of the first books printed on wove paper in Europe, it is printed on Whatman's wove paper. According to the website devoted to that paper, Whimsie com, most copies of this book contain no watermarks, but this copy does have a watermark, on p. 85 of the Edward III section. On the question of priority, see also Dart Hunter - Papermaking; the History and Technique of an Ancient Craft, p. 125. Full leather with gilt edges. Extremities and backstrip rubbed; endpapers rubbed and edge-browned; pages faintly foxed; corners lacking on rear blank; otherwise very good condition. Three parts in one volume, separately paged. .

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Book number: 42256

Catalogue: English Literature

Ainslie, John

Antipathy, or the Confessions of a Cat-Hater. Edited [Written] by John Ainslie

London, John Macrone, 1836. Hardcover. Three volumes in one, paged separately and with separate title pages, bound in original publisher's cloth. The covers are slightly worn and the cover cloth is split for about one inch at the top of the rear hinge. Internally, there are some minor marginal blemishes. OCLC locates 8 copies. Wolff 34. Three volumes in one, paged separately (279p. 279p. 315p.). .

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Book number: 10750

Catalogue: English Literature

Ainsworth, W. Harrison

The Constable of the Tower

1873/Press, [, n.d. Hardcover (Library buckram). Previous owner's name inside front cover of original paperback; free endpapers slightly wavy; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). The paperback edition rebound in buckram for a collector. ]. 481p. Frontispiece. .

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Book number: 38310

Catalogue: English Literature

Ainsworth, William Harrison

The Star-Chamber; an Historical Romance. Illustrated by Phiz

London, G. Routledge & Co. 1857. Hardcover. In the scarce original embossed binding, somewhat worn and chipped; hinges strengthened with adhesive; outside margins chipped on endpapers; faint erasures and penciling on front endpapers; tear at outside margin of title page, and corner of frontispiece tissue guard; pages slightly toned and cockled. 296p. Illus. Frontispiece with tissue guard. The first illustrated edition, with 8 plates by "Phiz.

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Book number: 47970

Catalogue: English Literature

Antonaccio, Maria

Picturing the Human; the Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch

Oxford University Press, 2000. Softcover. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. 244p. .

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Book number: 50616

Catalogue: English Literature

Arnold, Matthew (S.O.A. Ullmann, ed.)

The Yale Manuscript. Edited and with Commentary by S.O. A. Ullmann

Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, [, 1989. Hardcover. Very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. 236p. Illus. Frontispiece. .

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Book number: 34189

Catalogue: English Literature

Benson, E.F. [Edward Frederic]

The Blotting Book

New York, Arno Press, 1976. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on verso of front endpaper; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). 255p. Reprint of 1908 edition. .

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Book number: 38224

Catalogue: English Literature

Blake, William (Alfred Kazin, ed.)

The Indispensable Blake. Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, by Alfred Kazin

New York, The Book Society, 1950. Hardcover. Ends of backstrip lightly bumped; pages slightly toned; gift inscription on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). In very good slipcase. 713p. Illus. .

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Book number: 51595

Catalogue: English Literature

Bloom, Harold, ed

Modern Critical Views; John Ruskin. (Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Bloom)

New York, Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. Top corner of one page creased; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). 195p. .

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Book number: 24170

Catalogue: English Literature

Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. A New Edition, Elucidated by Copious Notes, and Illustrated with Numerous Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, Engraved from Authentic Sources. Four Volume Set [with] Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson; a New Edition, Illustrated, with Introduction and Notes by Robert Carruthers. Five Volumes in All

London, Office of the National Illustrated Library, [, 1851. Hardcover. Original decorated and blind-stamped cloth. Backstrips sun-darkened; cover edges sun-faded; extremities bumped and worn; 5 volumes lack front free endpaper; front hinge of vol. 1 shaken; previous owner's name inside front cover of vols. 1-3; pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition. Hebrides Journal in similar condition, but has front free endpaper; pages slightly toned, some with chipped margins. ]. 5 volumes, separately paged. Illus. Preface dated 1851 in four-volume set. .

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Book number: 47984

Catalogue: English Literature

Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain (Stuart N. Clarke, Stephen Barkway, Vanessa Channer, et al, eds.)

Virginia Woolf Bulletin, Issue No. 1, January, 1999

Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 1999. Softcover. Stapled binding. Very good condition. 68p. .

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Book number: 51697

Catalogue: English Literature

Brydges, Egerton

Restituta; or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived. 4 Volumes

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. Hardcover. Full leather. Backstrips edge-worn and chipped, with larger sections lacking on vol. 2; cover edges finely cracked and chipped; corners frayed; covers detached from vol. 3; pages faintly toned, with occasional faint foxing; bookplates inside covers of each volume, and previous owner's name penciled on each title page; otherwise very good condition. Four volumes, separately paged. .

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Book number: 46129

Catalogue: English Literature

Butler, Samuel

Selected Essays. With a Biographical Sketch of the Author by Henry Festing Jones

New York, Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [, 1929. Hardcover. Bottom corner crease on first pages; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). ]. 255p. .

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Book number: 50941

Catalogue: English Literature

Chambers, Sir Edmund

Matthew Arnold. (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, Read November 11, 1931)

[n.p.], [n.p.], [, 1931. Softcover. Cover edges slightly sun-faded, with three discolored spots inside front cover; otherwise very good condition. ]. 23p. .

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Book number: 31806

Catalogue: English Literature

Childers, Erskine

The Riddle of the Sands. Introduction by Maldwin Drummond. Illustrations by Daniel Whistler

London, The Folio Society, 1993. Hardcover. Minor bump at bottom edge of front cover; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). In slightly scuffed brown slipcase. 296p. Illus. .

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Book number: 52692

Catalogue: English Literature