HENRY BUTTER

The Etymological Spelling Book and Expositor

London, Simpkin, Marshall; and Others. 1848, 113th Edition. Hardcover. Book, Blind stamped decorated green cloth; 158pages + 1page catalogue. Endpapers missing; all pages fairly brown; worn but complete. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000425

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Spelling, Orthography, Etymology Antiquarian Education

HENRY BUTTER

The Etymological Spelling Book and Expositor

London, Simpkin &Co, Hamilton, Longmans, Etc. 1879, 392nd Edition. Hardcover. Book, Blind stamped decorated green cloth, worn on spine; 158 pages + 2 page catalogue. With portrait of the author. Eight publishers listed: Simpkin, Longmans, Hamilton, Kent, Cassell - London, Oliver & Boyd - Edinburgh, M. H. Gill - Dublin and George Robertson - Melbourne / Sydney / Adelaide. Fair.

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Book number: 004891

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Spelling, Orthography, Etymology Antiquarian Education

REV T. COOKE

The Universal Letter Writer, or New art of Polite Correspondence, to Which are Added the Complete Petitioner, Forms of Law, Etc, Also, a New English Grammar

London, Milner & Co.. Hardcover, Sm. 8vo, 3.5 x 5 Ins. Book, Front hinge cracked; some spine lean; covers bit worn, corners bruised, small marks on back cover. slight evidence of worm at some time in the past, otherwise clean and sound. No date or edition given. Brown cloth with gilt and black decorated spine; lovely chromo frontispiece of a young woman writing at a davenport. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006189

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Epistolary Art

JOSEPH ANGUS M.A. D.D.

The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature

London, Religious Tract Society. 9999, Edition not Stated. Hardcover. Book, Brown embossed cloth, 688 pages plus catalogue. Two pages of catalogue partly stuck together; edges and corners worn; top of spine torn; endpapers brown and hinges cracked. No date, probably 1870s/ 80s. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006083

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Antiquarian English Literature Anthology Literature, Essays Etc.

J. T. DANN & F. COURVOISIER

The French Commercial Correspondent

London, Asher & Co. 1880, Fourth Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Book, Binding darkened, but worn on edges, two inch split at edge of spine; hinges weak, name on flyleaf, edges bit stained, foxing to prelims; generally good. Possibly yellow cloth, with wonderful gilt lettering and decoration which is not at all worn. Asher's Model Books of Foreign Commercial Correspondence. With English notes, explanatory & idiomatical, a glossary of commercial terms, and general vocabulary adapted for translation into English; table of coins, weights & measures, for the use of schools and for self-instruction. Consists mainly of sample letters for all kinds of business. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006139

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Language Letters French Language

J. R. LUMBY DD

Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII

London / Cambridge / Leipzig, Cambridge University Press. 1881, Not Known. Hardcover, Sm. 8vo. Book, Endpapers browned; back cover stained; slightly shaken; some neat pencil underlining; edges boards bit worn.Cloth binding. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000883

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: History History

D. L. MACKENZIE

A Practical Dictionary of English Synonyms, Alphabetically Arranged

London, Ward and Lock. 1857, Edition not Stated. Hardcover, 16mo. Book, Small square book, embossed cloth rather worn, spine torn and detached, hinges cracked, contents clean and sound. Title page has (presumably bookseller's) stamp "James Anderson & Co, Calcutta". Scarce. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005740

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Words Language English Language Reference

JOHN MILLHOUSE & H. HAMILTON

Dialogues, Anglais et Francais, Enrichie d'un Voyage a Londres

Milano / Milan, A Spese Dell'autore, Contrada di Borgonuovo. 1847, First Edition ?. Hardcover. Book, Spine completely detached, hinges cracked, boards very worn; quite a bit of foxing, name at top of page one, but seems to be complete. Small format, boards and leather spine, 132 pages. English-French phrase book, with section on letters, and short chapter, in Italian, on English grammar. On verso of title page gift inscription dated 1863, and apparently signature of author to declaration concerning international convention of 22 May 1840 regarding copyright. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005100

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Language Phrase Book French English Italian Language

MARGARET QUEEN OF NAVARRE

The Heptameron

London, Clifton, Chambers & Co. Reprint. Soft cover. Book, Complete edition, 5 vols in one. Promises illustrations, but all I can find is a portrait frontispiece. No date, probably 1890s. Quite browned; clearly a cheap edition. Covers rather worn round the edges. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006298

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Fiction Translation Pre-19th Century Fiction

ED. W. MEYNELL WHITTEMORE, D.D.

Sunshine for 1887, for the Home, the School and the World

London, George Stoneman. 9999, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Binding very worn, parts of spine and paper covering to front missing; hinges weak; browning to endpapers, some damp damage to front edge. Illustrated with engravings, colour picture on front cover. Adverts front and back. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005711

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Children's Annual Children's Books