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THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. To which is Prefixed a Critical Essays on the Poem, by Mrs. Barbauld.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1825. New Ed. Sm. 8vo. 157pp. + [ii]. Frontis. and illus. title page. Frontis. and illus. title page lightly browned and sl. spotted, some minor spotting to first few leaves, hinges sl. tender but firm, contemporary maroon cloth backed boards, rubbed, corners bumped with sl. wear, spine browned and faded with browned and rubbed paper title label to spine, head and tail of spine chipped with sl. loss, fore edge uncut.
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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.
¶ 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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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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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.
¶ 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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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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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, 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.
¶ The Rescue Series.
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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 heavier 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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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 title to spine, some very minor soiling and very minor rubbing to extremities, a.e.g.
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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.
¶ The Rescue Series.
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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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FILLI DI SCIRO.
In Venetia Appreseeo L. Hertz, N.d. c.[1700]. 16mo. 178pp. + 11pp. 4 x 2 inches. Dec. initial letters and devices, plates, engraved title page, 6 plates. Italian text. Some light staining and browning, contemporary sheep very sl. loss to corners, head and tail of spine amateurishly repaired with leather, dec. dec. gilt spine with loss to compartments.
¶ Inscribed ‘a ujo di Felice Caron Barnabita Genova’ with a signature Luigi ? partially inked out below. Felice Caronni (1747–1815) was an Italian memoir writer, numismatic and archeologist. Born into a family of wealthy merchants, after completing his studies in the Milan Seminary Felice Caronni entered the Barnabite Order, teaching literature in various colleges in Italy. He fell victim to the Barbary slave trade after having been abducted by the barbary corsairs in 1804 and sold in Tunis, where he spent several years as a slave. After having returned to Italy, he wrote a memoir of his experience as a slave, which is one of the latest slave narratives of the barbary slave trade.
¶ Inscribed ‘a ujo di Felice Caron Barnabita Genova’ with a signature Luigi ? partially inked out below. Felice Caronni (1747–1815) was an Italian memoir writer, numismatic and archeologist. Born into a family of wealthy merchants, after completing his studies in the Milan Seminary Felice Caronni entered the Barnabite Order, teaching literature in various colleges in Italy. He fell victim to the Barbary slave trade after having been abducted by the barbary corsairs in 1804 and sold in Tunis, where he spent several years as a slave. After having returned to Italy, he wrote a memoir of his experience as a slave, which is one of the latest slave narratives of the barbary slave trade.
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‘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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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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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.
¶ 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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THE BRONTË SISTERS. The Complete Novels. Introduction by ...
CRW Publishing Limited, 2006. Collector’s Library Eds. 4to. 892pp. Numerous b/w. ills. Marbled e.ps., upper leading corner of lower board bumped, otherwise good in d/w. very lightly faded to spine, a.e.g.
¶ Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Jane Eyre. The Professor. Shirley. Villette. Wuthering Heights.
¶ Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Jane Eyre. The Professor. Shirley. Villette. Wuthering Heights.
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