BUNYAN John

The Pilgrim's Progress as Originally Published. Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition.

Elliot Stock,, 1875. 8vo., on laid paper, with 2 woodcut frontispieces and 16 woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers very lightly browned; original brown cloth, boards with elaborate floral roll in blind, back with four flat bands, second compartment with label lettered in gilt, red edges, backstrip lightly pulled at head else a very good, crisp, clean copy. With the contemporary binder's ticket of Smith Brothers of Paternoster Row on rear paste-down. Bunyan's allegory was first published in 1678, less than a handful of copies are known to exist. This much-needed facsimile includes the frontispieces and titles to both parts, the 14 woodcut illustrations of the first part and the 2 woodcut illustrations of the second part. All marginalia (comprising arguments and biblical references) are faithfully retained. The work was not divided into chapters until Burder's edition of 1786. A notable and very scarce facsimile edition.

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Book number: 15206

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BUNYAN John

The Pilgrim's Progress as originally published by John Bunyan. Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition. 350 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Elliot Stock,, [1885]. 12mo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with full-page facsimiles of the first edition title, free endpaper moderately browned; attractively bound in ivory faux-vellum, boards ruled and blocked in red to a geometric pattern enclosing small arabesque, backstrip lettered and tooled in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES. A delightful, affordable and good quality facsimile of the sole surviving first edition.

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Book number: 21800

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BUNYAN John

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come. A New Edition with explanatory Notes by Offor. Illustrated by John Gilbert.

Routledge Warne & Routledge,, 1860. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and plates, some very light age-staining, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original dark red cloth, sides elaborately blocked in blind, gilt back, brown endpapers, uncut, a very good, firm copy. With the nineteenth century trade ticket of Thew of King's Lynn on rear paste-down.

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Book number: 26460

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BUNYAN John

The Pilgrim's Progress. From this World to that which is to come. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. A New Edition, adorned with Cuts. [Parts I, II and III together] BUNYAN IMPERFECT BUT RARE

Printed for T. Wilkins, No. 23, Aldermanbury,, 1797. 3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., with woodcut frontispiece and 18 woodcut plates, separate pagination for each of the three parts, frontispiece and title mildly age-soiled, some lighter age-soiling throughout (rather heavier on a few blank margins), neat nineteenth century inscription on front paste-down, PART III WANTING LAST TWO LEAVES; nineteenth century full roan, back with flat bands in blind, neatly rebacked to style with old backstrip laid down, a very good, firm copy. 'Wherein is discovered I. The Manner of his Setting-Out; II: His dangerous Journey; and III: His late Arrival at the Desired Country. Also that of Christian's Wife and Children following after him'. The woodcuts are delightfully naïve as befits a mock-chapbook treatment. A VERY SCARCE EDITION, ALBEIT WANTING TWO LEAVES. ESTC locates only 4 copies: BL; Birmingham; Quebec; Florida.

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Book number: 28100

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BURNET Bishop [Gilbert]

The Lives of Hale, Bedell and Rochester by Bishop Burnet: with Fell's Life of Dr. Hammond. BURNET'S LIVES IN PERIOD BINDING

J.F. Dove, St. John's Square,, n.d. [?1830]. 12mo., First Edition thus, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved and printed titles, and separate titles to the parts, small neat signature on blank preliminary; attractively bound in dark red full calf, boards with frame border in gilt enclosing double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in blind, back with three flat bands, second compartment with green leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, label chipped (without loss of lettering), joints moderately rubbed, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), else a very good, clean, crisp copy. The plates are engraved for Dove's 'English Classics'. The frontispiece reproduces Robert Graves' portrait of Matthew Hale; the engraved title, the same artist's portrait of Rochester. RARE. BLPC gives one copy and provisional dating.

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Book number: 19564

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BURNEY Fanny

The Famous Miss Burney. The Diary and Letters of Fanny Burney. Edited by Barbara G. Schrank and David J Supino.

John Day, New York NY,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly creased and frayed at extremities.

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Book number: 21924

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BURNEY Fanny

The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay). Volume III Great Bookham 1793-1797. Letters 122-250. [THIS VOLUME ONLY].. Edited by Joyce Hemlow with Patricia Boutilier and Althea Douglas. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1973. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwapper. Volume III Great Bookham 1793-1797. Letters 122-250.

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Book number: 45998

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BURNS Robert

The Glenriddell Manuscripts of Robert Burns. With an Introduction and Notes by Desmond Donaldson. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

EP Publishing, Wakefield,, 1973. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous pages of facsimiles, free endpapers lightly dust-soiled; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. SCARCE

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Book number: 24021

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BURTON Sarah

A Double Life. A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Viking,, [2003]. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.

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Book number: 47468

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Keywords: literature, lamb, charles lamb, mary lamb, sarah burton

BUTLER Samuel

Erewhon Revisited. [Travellers' Library].

Jonathan Cape,, [1934]. 8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. First published in The Travellers' Library in 1926.

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Book number: 15613

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BUTLER] [Samuel

Hudibras, in Three Parts, written in the Time of the late Wars: corrected and amended. With large Annotations and a Preface by Zachary Grey. SCARCE IRISH PIRATE?

Printed by A. Reilly, on Cork-Hill, for Robert Owen in Skinner-Row, and William Brien in Dame-Street, Dublin,, 1744. 2 vols., 8vo., with a wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 fine wood-engraved plates (5 folding), some light and inoffensive age-staining, small neat signature on front free endpapers; attractively bound in late eighteenth century calf, backs with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments with (respectively) red and green leather labels lettered, numbered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments ruled in gilt, covers mildly age-worn (a larger scuff on each upper board), joints lightly rubbed else an unusually well-preserved, firm copy. With the fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of John Birney on front paste-downs (one bookplate defaced). With the full index in each volume (14pp and 18pp respectively), and 8pp list of subscribers, and separate single leaf of additional subscribers (often missing) at end of first volume. The first edition with Grey's extensive notes and splendid plates engraved by Mynde after Hogarth. The frontispiece is engraved by Vertue after Soest. The present copy is almost certainly an Irish pirated version of Bentham's Cambridge edition of the same year. The list of subscribers includes several Irish booksellers who presumably resold the Cambridge edition. A clean copy with particularly sharp impressions of the plates. See NCBEL II, p.437

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Book number: 20148

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BUTLER] [Samuel

Hudibras. [In Three Parts, complete]. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended, with Several Additions and Annotations. [With 'The Author's Life']. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 'LIFE'

[First Part] Printed by E.P. for Geo. Sawbridge, in Little-Britain,, 1704. 3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., some moderate age-staining throughout, neat eighteenth-century inscriptions (some dated) on endpapers, front free endpaper expertly mounted, small contemporary signature on title of first part; contemporary panelled calf elaborately tooled in blind, back with four raised bands, uncut, first compartment replaced in calf to style, joints rubbed, lower outer corner frayed, a good, sound copy in a sympathetically restored contemporary binding. Contains the First Part [with 'The Author's Life'], Printed by E.P. for Geo. Sawbridge in Little-Britain, 1704; the Second Part [with 'An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to Sidrophel', first added in 1678], Printed for R. Chiswel, G. Sawbridge, R. Wellington, and G. Wells, 1704; the Third and Last Part, Printed for Thomas Horne, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange, MDCCIV.Early collected edition of all three parts. In keeping with the so-called 'collected editions' of this period, each part retains its individual title and pagination; the first dition with continuous pagination did not appear until 1710. The Author's Life', ascribed by Oldys to Sir James Astrey, APPEARS HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME (the writer professes to supplement and correct the notice given in Wood's 'Athenae Oxonienses'.)CBEL, II: 260; Greco's Catalogue of the Severance Collection (Chapel Hill), 18.

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Book number: 6962

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BUTLER Samuel

Three Poems. Introduction by Alexander C Spence. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1961. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 88. 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: 19441

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BYRON Lord

Byron's Letters and Journals 1798-1824. Edited by Leslie A Marchand. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

John Murray,, [1973-1994]. 12 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome frontispieces; original red cloth gilt, gilt backs, red tops, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Marchand's edition presents the complete and unexpurgated text of all the letters available in manuscript and the full printed text of all others. The set comprises Vol. I: In My Hot Youth 1798-1810; Vol. II: Famous in My Time 1810-1812; Vol. III: Alas! The Love of Women 1813-1814; Vol. IV: Wedlock's the Devil 1814-1815; Vol. V: So Late into the Night 1816-1817; Vol. VI: The Flesh is Frail; Vol. VII: Between Two Worlds 1820; Vol. VIII: Born for Opposition 1821; Vol. IX: In the Wind's Eye 1821-1822; Vol. X: A Heart for Every Fate 1822-1823; Vol. XI: For Freedom's Battle 1823-1824; Vol. XII: The Trouble of an Index. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION

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Book number: 22611

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BYRON Lord

Byron's Letters and Journals 1798-1824. Edited by Leslie A Marchand. COMPLETE EXTENDED SET OF FIRST EDITIONS IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

John Murray,, [1973-1994]. 13 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome frontispieces; original red cloth gilt, gilt backs, red tops, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. A SPLENDID SET, INCLUDING THE SCARCE SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, WITH ALL VOLUMES FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE MURRAY IMPRINT, AND ALL IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS. Marchand's edition presents the complete and unexpurgated text of all the letters available in manuscript and the full printed text of all others. This set includes the scarce supplementary volume. The set comprises Vol. I: In My Hot Youth 1798-1810; Vol. II: Famous in My Time 1810-1812; Vol. III: Alas! The Love of Women 1813-1814; Vol. IV: Wedlock's the Devil 1814-1815; Vol. V: So Late into the Night 1816-1817; Vol. VI: The Flesh is Frail; Vol. VII: Between Two Worlds 1820; Vol. VIII: Born for Opposition 1821; Vol. IX: In the Wind's Eye 1821-1822; Vol. X: A Heart for Every Fate 1822-1823; Vol. XI: For Freedom's Battle 1823-1824; Vol. XII: The Trouble of an Index; Vol. XIII: Supplementary Volume. EXTENDED SETS ARE NOW EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 46417

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