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The Complete Works of Robert Burns. (Self Interpreting), Illustrated with Sixty Etchings and Wood cuts, Maps and Facsimiles. Edition De Luxe.
by BURNS, Robert.
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- no date (ca. 1909)
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New York: Edinburgh Fraternity, no date (ca. 1909). Limited edition, one of 1000 sets, complete in six octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated including frontis in color in each volume. Publisher's maroon cloth with printed paper labels on the spines.
Bindings very slightly soiled, shallow loss & fraying at the top of the spine on volume six, spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tom Brown's School Days by an Old Boy ...
by [Rugby School]. HUGHES, Thomas, with introduction by W.D. Howells & illustrations by Louis Rhead.
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- [1926]
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New York: Harper & Brothers, (1926 per C-A date code). Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), xxiii, [1], 375 & [1] pages, with 37 plates, including 4 in color, by Louis Rhead. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt & black, with a large color illustration applied to the front cover. Top edge stained orange.
Spine lettering dull, binding slightly soiled, couple of tiny… Read more about this item Item Price
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King Arthur And His Knights of the Round Table.
by [MALORY, Sir Thomas], with illustrations by Margaret Malpass Geiszel.
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- (1928)
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New York: J.H. Sears & Company, (1928). Tall octavo (9.75" x 8"), iv & 243 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth with a large color illustration applied to the front cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Spine gilt slightly dull, binding lightly soiled, otherwise near fine in good only soiled & rubbed dust jacket, with edge wear including short tears & small losses… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Glossary of the Provincial Words used in Teesdale in the County of Durham. Signed copy.
by [DINSDALE, Frederick].
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- 1849
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London: J.R. Smith, 1849. First edition, this copy with presentation in ink at the ffep: "R. Higginson, Esq / With the author's / kind regards." Octavo (8.25" x 5"), xiv, [1, "Addenda et Corrigenda"] & 151 pages plus 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. With frontis map depicting "Part of Teesdale in Durham. Showing the District to which the Teesdale Glossary… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire.
by STERNBERG, Thomas.
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- 1851
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London: John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), xvi & [1] - 200 pages. Errata slip tipped to p. xvi. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind.
Binding moderately soiled, small stain on the lower cover, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, short annotation in old ink at the ffep, otherwise… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dialect of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Short History of Leeds and other Towns
by DYER, Samuel.
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- 1891
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Brighouse, [Yorkshire]: John Hartley, 1891. First Edition. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5"), vi, [3], 10 - 142 & [2] pages. Publisher's brown cloth lettered & decorated in gilt on the upper cover.
Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, edges & joints with minor rubbing, otherwise very good.
"In this little book is an ethnological survey of the various races of men who… Read more about this item Item Price
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Speech from before the Throne on Home Rule.
by [Ireland, Anti-Home Rule]. "Edmund Burke" (pseudonym).
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- no date (ca. 1880's}
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$225.00
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No place (United Kingdom ?), no publisher, no date (ca. 1880's per OCLC). First & only edition. 12mo (7" x 5"), 76 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth over flexible boards. Recorded by OCLC but not located (accession number 4263946).
Ex-library (deaccessioned) with call number label on the upper cover, bookplate, rubber stamped markings, etc., modest edge wear, front cover warped, cloth… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft: An Historical Sketch of Early English Medicine. Lecture Memoranda, American Medical Association, Atlantic City, 1912.
by WELLCOME, Sir Henry S. (Foreword).
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- 1912
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London: Burroughs Wellcome, 1912. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4"), 262 & [2] pages followed by several unused leaves for memoranda & 12 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout (some in color), & two maps of Atlantic City. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover & decorated with the Burroughs Wellcome Unicorn trade mark. All edges gilt, decorated endpapers.
Covers spotted, soiled… Read more about this item Item Price
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Poems of Dedication. Signed copy.
by SPENDER, STEPHEN.
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- (1947)
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New York: Random House, (1947). First American edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Spender at the half-title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6"), 60 pp. Publisher's decorated paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black cloth, in printed dust jacket.
Covers lightly browned at the upper margins, modest offsetting, foxing, & toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, occasional minor… Read more about this item Item Price
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Leicestershire Words, Phrases and Proverbs. Signed copy.
by EVANS, ALFRED B., D.D. (compiler).
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- 1848
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$125.00
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London: William Pickering, 1848. First edition, this copy with signed presentation by Evans in ink at the front pastedown to the Library of the [Royal] Archaeological Institute. 16mo, xvii & 116 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind. All edges gilt.
Ex-library with the small rubber-stamped mark of the Royal Archaeological Institute in the margins of several… Read more about this item Item Price
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City of Oxford (cover title). "T. Nelson & Sons English Views."
by [Travel, Tourism, England]. T. Nelson & Sons.
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- no date (ca. 1860)
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- Pictorial wraps
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London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1860 per British Library). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Description of Plates" (16 pages, sewn) & 12 lithographs in color laid in (as issued).
Wraps mostly split at the fold & now repaired with archival tissue on the verso, soiled, edge wear, previous owner's name… Read more about this item Item Price
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Isle of Wight. Scenery of Richmond's Annals of the Poor (cover title); Views in the Isle of Wight (running title). "T. Nelson & Sons English Views."
by [Travel, Tourism, England]. RICHMOND, Rev. Legh.
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London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1860 per OCLC). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Views of the Isle of Wight as described by the Rev. Legh Richmond (16 pages, sewn) & 10 lithographs in color plus a folding panorama laid in (as issued).
Wraps soiled, edge wear including a loss at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Views of Richmond & Hampton Court (cover title). "T. Nelson & Sons English Views."
by [Travel, Tourism, England]. T. Nelson & Sons.
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- no date (1859 per OCLC
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London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, no date (1859 per OCLC). Oblong 16mo (4.25" x 6.5"), Publisher's pictorial printed wraps with "Description of Plates" (16 pages, sewn) & 12 lithographs in color laid in (as issued).
Wraps moderately soiled, brief edge wear, previous owner's name in ink on the upper wrap (C.R. Buchinger ?), text browned, light foxing/… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cope. "Look You, It Fits My Humour Well." (cover title).
by [Advertising, Tobacco]. Cope Brothers & Company
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- no date, ca. 1900
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London: Cope Brothers & Company, no date, circa 1900. Bifolium, single sheet measuring 8.75 inches by 11 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. The front cover features an amazing lithographed illustration signed in print "G.P." depicting a court jester, tobacco pipe in hand, exhaling smoke, with a dog at his feet, & a quote from Shakespeare's As You Like… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Cambridge Edition.
by TENNYSON, Alfred, edited by William James Rolfe.
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- (1898)
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- Full crushed morocco
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Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1898). "Cambridge Edition." Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xvii & 887 pages, with frontis portrait & illustrated title page. Publisher's reddish-brown full crushed morocco, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or decorated in gilt in all compartments, the covers ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles, all edges… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn: A Further Inquiry into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-Century Forgers.
by RATCHFORD, Fannie E. (editor).
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- (1944)
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). First edition. Tall octavo (9.5" x 6.75"), xiv, 591, & xvi pp. plus 15 plates, & 4 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Red top stain.
Modest toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, browned at the spine, moderately soiled,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Avon and Shakespeare's Country.
by BRADLEY, A.G., with illustrations by A.R. Quinton
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London: Methuen & Company, (1913) "Second and Cheaper Edition." 8vo, ix, 365, 30 (publisher's catalog) pp. plus 30 color plates (including frontispiece) Publisher's maroon cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt on the spine.
Spine a bit faded, boards lightly spotted, brief wear at corners, sporadic foxing throughout, a good or better copy. Item Price
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The Lord Provosts of Glasgow from 1833 to 1902. Biographical Sketches, with a Chronological Record of the Chief Events in the City's History During that Period.
by [Scotland]. TWEED, John (compiler), updated by John S. Samuel.
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- 1902
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Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1902 First edition thus, limited to 230 copies, this number 132. Small 4to, x, 587 pp, with frontis & 6 plates. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with Glasgow's coat of arms on the upper cover. Top edge gilt.
Spine lightly faded, small gouge along the upper joint, half-title page browned, foxing mostly at… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Old-Spelling Shakespeare: Being the Works of Shakespeare in the Spelling of the best Quarto and Folio Texts. 9 volumes.
by SHAKESPEARE, William, edited by F.J. Furnivall (and others).
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- 1908 -1909
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New York: Duffield & Company; London: Chatto & Windus, 1908 - 1909 Nine variously paginated octavo volumes only (of thirteen), one of 1000 sets of which 500 "are reserved for America" Publisher's gray cloth backed in vellum, lettered in red & black on the spines Top edges gilt, the others uncut.
Bindings soiled & lightly spotted, vellum browned, text tanned… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Attorney's Pocket Companion; or, a Guide to the Practisers of the Law: In Two Parts: Being a Translation of Law-Proceedings in the Courts of King's-Bench and Common-Pleas, Containing a Collection of the common Forms, beginning with the Original, and ending with the Judicial Process: Together with an Historical as well as Practical Treatise on Ejectments To which is also added, The Law and Practice of Fines and Recoveries, and several other Precedents.
by [Mallory, John], “Gentleman of the Inner-Temple.” [John G.C. Brainard’s copy].
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- 1741
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$500.00
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[London]: "In the Savoy, Printed by E and R Nutt for Thomas Harris, at the Looking-Glass and Bible on London Bridge," 1741. "Third Edition, carefully corrected," this copy with the ownership signature of John G.C. Brainard at the first blank page. 16mo (65" x 425"), [2], 348, & [16] pp, two parts bound in one volume. Contemporary full sheep, the… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00