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Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field
Edinburgh: Constable, Miller & Murray, 1811. Full diced calf. 8.75 inches tall. A fine binding dating from the regency period, with raised gilt bands and very fine gilt tooling to the panels. The diced boards are framed within a wide gilt roll. Slight superficial loss to an ancient insect. A faint neat ink owner's inscription 'Eliza Smith' on the title page. A delightful copy. See our 'Lady of the Lake' and 'Rokeby' in uniform bindings.
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The Poetical Works.
London: Printed by Whittingham at the Stanhope Press for John Sharpe, 1806. 2 volume set, 5 inches high. A sparkling little half calf with labels, wide gilt bands and gilt tooled panels. Pink speckled edges. 2 engraved plates. With the bookplate of W. Buck. A bright, neat set of the verse of this English 18th century poet.
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The Book of Common Prayer.
London: John Reeves, c.1835. Full morocco, 5.5 inches tall. A superb and very unusual little binding with raised bands elaborately tooled panels and board in ink, a most uncommon style in the 1830's. All edges gilt. Slight foxing to the preliminaries, a lengthy ink inscription on the second blank and the name 'Mary Wheatley' on the half title.
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La Plume
Paris, 1896. Half calf, 10 inches tall. With superb gilt tooling on the spine involving vine leaves and a devils head, gilt top edge. This famous special number of La Plume of 15th June 1896 is dedicated to Felicien Rops. It is profusely illustrated throughout. A beautiful copy of this famous edition.
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Histoire des Revolutions de Suede
Paris: Belin, 1794. 3 volume set, 6.5 inches tall. Full mottled calf with raised bands, twin labels and gilt filets. Slight worming affecting the first few leaves in the bottom corner of volume one, otherwise a fine copy in a completely pristine binding.
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Lord Granville Leveson Gower. Private Correspondence 1781 to 1821
London: John Murray, 1916. 2 volume set, 8.5 inches tall. A handsome Edwardian half morocco binding with raised bands, titles, simple gilt framed panels and gilt top edge. With 10 full page illustrations. An elegant copy of this fascinating work.
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A Sketch of The Denominations of The Christian World; With a Persuasive to Religious Moderation.
London: Crosby & Co., 1811. Half calf, 5 1/2 inches tall. A superb little Regency half calf binding with gilt bands and tooling to the panels and green label. With the binder's ticket of James Condie of Paisley. Engraved frontispiece.
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Mémoires Historiques et Politiques du règne de Louis XVI, depuis son mariage jusqu’a sa mort.
Paris: Truttel et Würtz, 1801. 2 volumes, 8.25 inches tall. A beautiful tree calf with gilt bands and labels. Blue speckled edges. Folding portraits. The armorial bookplate of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo. A further 6 volumes were published.
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The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is due.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. Full Morocco, 8 1/2 inches tall. A very fine Edwardian binding with gilt raised bands and intricate and fine gilt tooling to the panels and boards and all edges gilt. A prize bookplate on the first blank.
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The History of England.
London: Longmans et al, 1873. 2 volume set, 7.5 inches tall. A most attractive classic Victorian by Riviere in full calf with gilt raised bands, fine floral tooling to the panels and twin labels. Gilt prize inscription on upper board of volume 1.
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Sesame and Lilies.
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. Half morocco, 6 1/2 inches tall. A good looking Edwardian binding with gilt raised bands, neat gilt panels and gilt top edge. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. A pristine example of a finely printed work on hand-made paper by Humphreys. 'Sesame and Lilies', first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women.
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T. Livii Patavini Historiarum Libri Qui Supersunt Omnes et Deperditorum Fragmenta.
EIPZIG, Tauchnitz, 1829-1848. 5 volume set, 5.25 inches tall, Half calf with gilt bands and tooling to the spines and red labels. Some foxing and rubbing and scuffing to the boards but no splitting. A neat little set of the works of this great Roman historian. In the original Latin.
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Essays, selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review.
London: Longmans, 1860. 3 volume set, 6.5 inches tall. A classic full calf by Hayday. A neat binding with gilt raised bands, twin labels and gilt tooled panels. Armorial bookplate.
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The Book of Common Prayer.
London: Printed by the Queen's printers for Peacock, Mansfield, and Britton, c.1870. Full morocco, 5 inches tall. A superb little edition with exceptionally bold clasps with raised bands, gilt title and all edges. The clasps are in full working order. A neat ink inscription, dated 1879, on the first blank.
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The History of Scotland.
Glasgow: David Brownlie, 1802. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A very handsome Georgian full calf with gilt bands and triple labels in red, green and black.
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Maxims. (in English).
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1911. Half morocco, 6 inches tall. A delightful little robust half morocco binding with gilt raised bands and gilt tooling to the panels. Top edge gilt. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. A finely printed work on hand-made paper. First printed in 1665 his Maximes portraying the callous nature of human conduct, with a cynical attitude towards putative virtue and avowals of affection, friendship, love, and loyalty. These established La Rochefoucauld in his position among the men of letters of the period.
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Letters of Lady Rachel Russell from the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey.
London: Mawman et al., 1820. Full calf, 6 3/4 inches tall. Full Georgian lilac calf with gilt raised bands, olive label and delightful gilt and blind tooling to the panels. Gilt and blind fillets and corner tools frame the boards. Portrait.
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English Men and Manners in the Eighteenth Century.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1929. Half morocco, 8 inches tall. A robust half morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf with raised bands and gilt titles and top edge. Profusely illustrated throughout. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. A highly entertaining and well respected social history.
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The Chace.
London: Albion Press, 1804. Half calf, 7 inches tall. A delightful Regency half calf with label within delicate gilt tooling. Gilt top edge. Embellished with full page engravings and vignettes.
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Charles O'Malley the Irish Dragoon
Dublin: William Curry 1841. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A very bright half calf with gilt raised bands, red label and striking floral gilt tooling to the panels. Illustrated throughout with full page plates by Phiz. Hugely popular in his time Lever, 'The irish Dickens', is now out of fashion, but this tale of an rogue Irish dragoon who witnesses the Battle of Waterloo is still a good read.
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