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Photo of "Some poems"
AUDEN, W. H.. Some poems. London. Faber and Faber, 1940. First edition. 8vo. 80pp. With a half-title. Original publisher's salmon paper boards, dustwrapper. Very slight marking to boards, dustwrapper a trifle chipped and creased, spine panel sunned. Internally clean and crisp. A very good copy. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 18774
Photo of "Pride and prejudice"
AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and prejudice. London. Cassell & Company, [1886]. 8vo. 382pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. Lightly rubbed. Decorated endpapers, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30253
Photo of "Mansfield park. A novel."
AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield park. A novel.. London. George Routledge and Sons, [1876]. 8vo. 288pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting gilt- tooled red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, scoring to boards, light wear to edges. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 33733
Photo of "Sense and sensibility: a novel"
AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and sensibility: a novel. London. Richard Bentley, 1846. 8vo. [3], vi-xv, [1], 331pp, [1]. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece.

[Uniformly bound with:] AUSTEN, Janes. Emma: a novel. London. Richard Bentley, 1849. 8vo. [2], 435pp, [1]. Without half-title. with an engraved frontispiece.

[And:] AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield park: a novel. London. Richard Bentley, 1847. 8vo. [2], 424pp. Without half-title, with an engraved frontispiece.

[And:] AUSTEN, Jane. Northanger abbey. A novel; Persuasion. London. Richard Bentley, 1848. ... More > £ 6,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34766
Photo of "The Fate of Lewellyn; or, ..."
A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF TRURO SCHOOL [POLWHELE, Richard]. The Fate of Lewellyn; or, the druid's sacrifice. A legendary tale. To which is added, The genius of carnbre', a poem. Bath. Printed by R. Crutwell, for the Author, 1777. First edition. Quarto. [6], 5-55pp, [1]. Modern green wrappers. Book-label of J. O. Edwards to verso of upper wrapper. Small marginal worm-track running throughout, blank lower margin of leaf F1 shaved, ink-stamps of Merton House to terminal leaf, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 30003
Photo of "Festus: a poem"
BAILEY, Philip James. Festus: a poem. London. William Pickering, 1845. Second edition. 8vo. xvi, 396pp, [2]. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, later rebacked preserving majority of original back-strip. Extremities rubbed and marked. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: '(?) James Fenton / With the Author's / compts.' More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 29555
Photo of "Festus: a poem"
BAILEY, Philip James. Festus: a poem. London. William Pickering, 1852. Fifth edition. 8vo. [4], 562pp, [2]. Bound by Henderson & Bisset in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Church of England clergyman John Mitchell Harvey (1835-1876) to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 30446
Photo of "A series of plays: in ..."
BAILLIE, Joanna. A series of plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, [1806-1812] Vol. I. fifth edition; Vol. II third edition; Vol. III, first edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [4], 410; xi, [1], 478; xxxi, [1], 314pp, [6]. With half-titles to Vols. I and II, three terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements to Vol. III. Contemporary panelled calf, later rebacked, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Boards rubbed, corners exposed. Scattered spotting. Inked ownership inscriptions of Robert Milligan to titles of Vols. II and III, manuscript notes to front and rear blank fly-leaves of ... More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 29991
Photo of "The ballads and songs of ..."
[BALLADS OF AYRSHIRE]. The ballads and songs of ayrshire, illustrated with sketches, historical, traditional, narrative and biographical.. Ayr. Published for the editor by John Dick, 1846. First edition. 8vo. 120pp. With original publisher's printed yellow front-wrapper bound in. Nineteenth century yellow cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked, spine dulled, light surface wear to corners. Inked ownership inscription to FEP. Paper repairs to wrapper, light scattered marginal spotting. More > £ 95.00 Antiquates Ref. 34789
Photo of "The novels of honoré de ..."
BALZAC, Honoré de. The novels of honoré de balzac; now for the first time completely translated into english. Philadelphia. Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie and Son. [s.d., c. 1898] Limited edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is copy No. 509. In two volumes. [6], 353pp, [1]; [6], 355pp, [1]. Titles in red and black. With half-titles, an engraved frontispiece to each volume and eight further engraved plates by Frédéric-Emile Jeannin. Later navy half-morocco, richly gilt-tooled, with red morocco onlays in fleur-de-lis pattern to spine compartments; blue cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34761
Photo of "Fabliaux et contes des poetes ..."
BARBAZAN, [Etienne]. Fabliaux et contes des poetes francois des XI, XII, XIII, XIV et XVe siecles, tires des meilleurs auteurs. A Paris. Chez B. Waree, 1808. Nouvelle edition [i.e. new edition]. In four volumes. [4], xxi, [1], 465, [1]; [4], xiv, 467, [1]; [4], xxxii, 514; xvi, 521pp, [3]. With half-titles and a suite of three engraved plates to each volume.

[Bound uniformly with:] MEON, [Dominique Martin]. Nouveau recueil de fabliaux et contes inedits, des poetes francais des XIIe, XIIIe, XIVe, et XVe siecles... A Paris. Chez Chasseriau, 1823. First edition. In two volumes. viii, 500, ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20270
Photo of "Argenis, Nunc primum illustrata"
BARCLAY, John. Argenis, Nunc primum illustrata. Lugd. Bat. [i.e. Leiden]. Ex officina Francisci Hackii, 1659. 8vo. [28], 637pp, [19]. With an engraved title page. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, joints starting, slight loss to head and foot of spine. Early ownership inscriptions to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 19405
Photo of "A selection from unpublished poems"
BARNES, The Rev. William. A selection from unpublished poems. Dorchester. Published at the school, Winterborne Monkton, 1870. First edition. 8vo. 24 leaves, 48pp. With a pasted-in photographic portrait frontispiece of the author and engraved title page. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with spotting to wrappers, heavy loss to spine, Heavy spotting to initial leaves, scattered spotting to text. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34616