Akenside, Mark.

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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Alexander, Gavin.

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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[Anon].

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.

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[Barham, R.H.].

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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Barrett, Eaton Stannard.

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.

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[Beloe, William].

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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(Bonarelli, Conte Guidobaldo).

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.

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Book number: 288210

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Boothby, Guy.

‘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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Borrow, George.

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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(British Critic).

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.

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(Brontë). White, Kathryn.

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.

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Brontë, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.

THE COMPLETE NOVELS. Agnes Grey. The Professor. Wuthering Heights. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Villette. Jane Eyre. Shirley.

Folio Society, 1993. 4th Folio Printing. 7 vols. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway, Howard Phipps, Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, Ian Stephens, Peter Forster and George Tute. Original gilt lettered silken green cloth, spines faded to an attractive pink, together in gilt lettered silken cloth covered slipcase mostly faded to pink, a faint waterstain to top edge.

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(Brontë). Lock, John and Dixon, Canon W.T.

A MAN OF SORROW. The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Brontë 1777-1861. Foreword by The Archbishop of York.

Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1965. 1st Trade Ed. Large 8vo. [xvi] + 566pp. Port. frontis., 33 plates. Some sporadic spotting, shaken, original gilt lettered cloth with lettering sl. rubbed to spine, in lightly soiled and chipped d/w. browned to spine.

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Browne, Isaac Hawkins.

A PIPE OF TOBACCO: In Imitation of Six Several Authors. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell/Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1923. New Ed. Sm. Slim 8vo. [viii] + 62pp. F.e.ps. browned, some sporadic light spotting, blind embossed ownership stamp to front f.e.p., very sm. ownership signature, original boards with paper title label to upper board, in lightly soiled d/w. browned and sl. chipped to spine.
¶ Parody, originally published in 1736.

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Brydges, Sir Egerton.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of ...

Cochrane and M’Crone, 1834. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xxvii + 424pp. + xxiv + 431pp. + [i]. Red and black lettered t.ps. with b/w. device. Port. frontiss. Some light browning, bookplate, contemporary speckled calf with gilt Signet lib. stamp to boards, some loss to corners, rebacked with much of original cracked and worn spines laid down, gilt lettered title labels to spines.

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Book number: 278793

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