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Haunts of Ancient Peace AUSTIN, Alfred Adam and Charles Black, London, 1908, hardback, GD, boards blue/black with gilt title on spine, printed design to front board, and spine head and tail, gilt top edge, pages uncut, colour frontispiece with tissue guard, in addition to 19 full page colour plates, with titled tissue guard, by Agnes Locke, 169 pp. Boards edge worn, dust stained,… Read more about this item

Cranford (illustrated edition) GASKELL, Elizabeth J.M.Dent & Co., London, 1904, hardback with decorative gilt embossed boards to front and spine, and gilt top edge, VG, decorative end papers, pages hand cut, colour frontispiece and illustrated title page with tissue guard, beautifully illustrated from an additional 24 full page colour illustrations by C.E. Brock, 255 pp. Boards edge worn, quite grubby with marks… Read more about this item

Palmistry for All 'CHEIRO' (WARNER, William John) Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, c. 1900, hardback with printed boards, GD-, illustrated from one b/w frontispiece and over 60 pen and ink drawings, 187 pp. Boards edge worn, abrasions to both boards and spine strip (see scans), boards slightly bowed, damp stained, ink stain to back board, inscription on front free end paper defaced (see scans),… Read more about this item

A Glossary of The Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland. (includes two separately published supplements 'with grammar of the dialect' written by Prevost and Dickson Brown which were later bound to create a three volume book) DICKINSON, W./ PREVOST, E. W. & DICKSON BROWN, S. Bemrose & Sons, Henry Frowde & Thurnam & Son, London & Carlisle, 1899, hardback,… Read more about this item

HENTY, G. A. A Chapter of Adventures or, Through the Bombardment of Alexandria Blackie & Son, Limited, London, c. 1891, hardback with pictorial cloth boards, VG, grey end papers, six full page illustrations by W. H. Overend, 288 pp plus a further 32 pages of advertising 'Blackie & Sons Books for Young People' to the rear. Boards quite grubby with age, small stain… Read more about this item

The Gift of Love HYATT, Alfred, H. (Editor) T. N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1911, hardback, VG, beige pictorial boards, illustrated from eight tipped-in and tissue guarded water colour plates by Lewis Baumer, hand cut pages, 147 pp. Boards clean and firm, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned, foxing to edges of text block in addition to the… Read more about this item

The Imperial-Royal Dream Book, and The Imperial-Royal Fortune Teller and The Oraculum or, Napoleon Buonaparte's Book of Fate JONES, B c 1900, hardback with decorative red cloth boards and gilt (see scans), GD+, steel engraved paste down frontispiece, illustrated from one diagram detailing palmistry lines (see scan), 176 pp. Boards edge worn, overall quite grubby, top fore-edge corner of back board damaged… Read more about this item

COLLINGWOOD, Harry The Congo Rovers. A Story of the Slave Squadron Blackie & Son, Limited, Glasgow & Dublin, c. 1887, hardback with pictorial cloth boards, VG, b/w frontispiece in addition to five plates; all illustrated by John Schonberg, 352 pp. plus a further 32 pages of advertising 'Blackie & Sons Books for Young People' to the rear. Boards edge worn with bumps to… Read more about this item

MOORE, Dorothea The Making of Ursula S. W. Partridge & Co., Ltd., London, 1910, hardback with pictorial cloth boards (see scans), VG, b/w frontispiece in addition to five b/w plates, 128 pp plus a further 32 pages of advertising 'S. W. Partridge & Co's Catalogue of Popular Illustrated Books' to the rear. Boards edge worn, bumps to corners, dedication written in pen on… Read more about this item

DICKENS, Charles The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Papers. Complete Edition Chapman and Hall, and George Routledge and Sons., London, c 1879, hardback with cloth covered boards, GD, boards brown/gilt, red speckled page edges, illustrated title page, 331 pp. Shelf wear to spine edges, 10 cm split to one side of spine strip (see scans), neat inscription on half title page dated 1879,… Read more about this item

Un Voyage de Desagrements A Londres GAUTIER, Theophale, LECOMTE, Jule c 1852, hardback, gd, no titlepage, quater bound in leather, five bayspine with raised bands, gilt page edges, silk covered end papers, 96pp. 150 x 90 mm. Inscribed on prelim and page 1 (see photo). Ink scribble on back end paper. Board covering chipped off on front and back (see photos). Intermittant… Read more about this item

DE ALARCON, D. Pedro Antonio Obras de D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon De Madrid A Napoles: Tomo Segundo Est. Tipografico Sucessores de Rivadeneyra, 1907, VG, hardback, maarble effect full calf bound, six bay spine with raised bands (see photos), marbled endpapers, 411 pp, 175 x110 mm. Original silk marker still in place. Small piece of calf and part of gilt band missing… Read more about this item

Maeterlinck, Maurice El Pajaro Azul (The Blue Bird) Editorial Lossada, S.A., Buenos Aires, 1944, hardback, VG, quarter bound in calf with gilt tooled title and decoration to spine, plush faux crocodile skin cloth. Marbled endpapers. 156 pp plus publisher's list. Spanish language copy. No inscriptions, tight binding, minimal rubs, pages tanned. SPANISH, LITERATURE 46387 LANG/Spanish £81.50

Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life (two volume set) MOORE, Thomas J & J Harper, New York, 1829/1831, 1st US editions, gd+, two volume set, full calf leather with gilt borders to front, two colour banding to spine. Volume one 480 pp, volume two 565 pp. Front gutter cracked on vol 1 but binding still very strong.… Read more about this item

Later Letters of Edward Lear LEAR, Edward, STRACHEY, Lady (edit.) Duffield & Co, New York, 1911, hardback, VG+, dark green cloth with light green spine, gilt border and title to spine, gilded upper page edges, hand cut pages, 366pp. 31 b/w plates, over 19 sketches in the text. Good sound copy with no inscriptions. LEAR, HUMOURIST, CORRESPONDENCE, LETTERS, BOOK OF NONSENSE 46371 … Read more about this item

Bards of the Gael and Gall SIGERSON, George Phoenix Publishing, Dublin, second edition, undated, hardback, gd+, green textured boards with marble effect spine, b/ew frontis, 432 pp. Red page edges. 215x140x50 mm. Some discolouration to boards, tight binding, no inscriptions. IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY 46369 ANTI/Irish Lit £26.50

WARD, Mrs Catherine G. The Widow's Choice; A Tale Bartlett and Hinton, Oxford, 1825, full leather bound, 621 pages, 215X140X40 mm, six plates from steel engravings ( should be seven). decorated title page. Spine and edges heavily rubbed, page ends dust stained, binding still sound. No inscriptions. Very scarce early novel. ANTIQUARIAN, NOVEL, FEMALE AUTHOR, 19TH CENTURY 46361 ANTI £325.00

MOORE, George Ulich & Soracha The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926, Limited Edition (No. 268 of 1250 copies), VG.vg, hardback, beige linen over board, gilt title to spine, decorative vellum wrapper, b/w steel engraved frontispiece, 286 pp. printed on Japon vellum. Boards browned with age, no inscription or annotations, book plate with decorative crest on front free end paper, sound tight binding, uncut pages,… Read more about this item

RUSKIN, John; WISE, Thomas J. (edit). Harbours of England George Allen, London, 1895, hardback, full red leather with gilt Church Schools Company Ltd shield to front, gilt border, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, marbled page edges, marbled end papers with gilt border to boards. 134 pp. School prize platye to front end paper. Thirteen illustrations with tissue guards. Firm, sound… Read more about this item

The Diocese of Killalow from the Reformation to the Close of the Eighteenth Century DWYER, Philip (Reverend) Hodges, Foster and Figgis, Dublin, 1878, hardback, VG, red boards, black bordering, gilt to spine, bevelled edges, concave bound. 602 pp. eight appendices, one fold out map of the Dioceses of Killaloe, b/w frontispiece, illustrated from four b/w images. Boards edge worn, spine strip grubby,… Read more about this item