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The Story of Two Noble Lives. Being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford.
London: George Allen, 1893. 3 volume set, 7 1/2 inches tall. A neat Edwardian half calf with gilt pallets and top edges. Profusely illustrated throughout. Previous owners ink names on the paste down end papers and half title.
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Queen Victoria.
London and Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Co. (GOUPIL), 1897. Full morocco, 13 inches tall. A luxurious full crushed morocco by Ramage with gilt raised bands and elegant gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Delightful gilt dentelles and top edge. Occasion very light foxing. With a colour frontispiece and monochrome plates and vignettes throughout. A lavish work on the Life of Queen Victoria at the height of her reign.
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The Spanish Conquest in America. And its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies.
London: John W. Parker, 1855: 1855. 4 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. A spectacular mid-Victorian full hard grain pink morocco by Grieve of Edinburgh, with gilt raised bands, green labels and a blind Aldus leaf centre tool. Wide gilt rolls and blind fillets frame the boards. With the armorial bookplate of Peter Carmichael. Maps, including 2 double page. A superb set of this great history devoted to the relationship between the conquering Spanish forces and the native American Indians.
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Chrysomela. A Selection of the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Full morocco, 6 1/4 inches tall. A very pretty binding by Bumpus with gilt raised bands and charming gilt tooling with hearts and leaves in the panels. Twin gilt fillets and the same tooling in the corners frame the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. There is a large bookplate on the free end paper and foxing on the half title, otherwise clean. A delightful copy of the selected verse of this great 17th century English lyric poet.
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The History of England, from The Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 in eight volumes.
London: A Millar, 1763. 8 volume set, 8 inches tall. A beautiful 18th century French mottled calf with gilt raised bands, twin labels and gilt floral tooling to the panels. With the label of the Bibliotheque de Champvieux. There is some slight cracking to a couple of joints and some slight rubbing but the set is perfectly solid and firm. Internally this is a very clean set of the first octavo edition of this great history of England.
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The Works of Robert Herrick. The Hesperides & Noble Numbers.
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 2 volume set, 7 inches tall. A splendid tree calf binding by Otto Shulze of Edinburgh with raised bands, fine gilt tooling to the panels and labels. A delicate gilt fillets frames the boards, wide dentelles and gilt top edge. Bookplate. This excellent large paper edition is printed on hand made paper and limited to just 200 copies. Edited by Alfred Pollard and with a preface by Algernon Swinburne, who considered Herrick to be "the greatest song writer ever born of English race". A lovely set of the most celebrated works of this great English 17th century poet.
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The History of England.
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Letters from the North of Italy.
London: John Murray, 1819. 2 volume set, 8 1/2 inches tall. A splendid Regency binding on half 'Russia' calf, with gilt raised bands, blind pallets and ornate, dense extra gilt panels. Particularly interesting marbled paper on the boards. From the library of Alfred de Rothschild but without the bookplate. A fascinating early work by the great English Historian presented as a series of letters addressed to him discussing all aspects of life from the North of Italy. A most attractive set.
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The Literature of Europe.
London: John Murray, 1837-39. 4 volume set, 9 inches tall. A beautiful early Victorian full calf with gilt raised bands, superb twin labels and extra gilt panels. Twin gilt fillets frame the boards. From the library of Alfred de Rothschild but without his bookplate. 'Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries' achieved great success and was reprinted throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A sparkling set.
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Antiquities of Great Britain. Illustrated in views of Monasteries, Castles, and Churches, now existing.
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe.
London: John Murray, 1847. 3 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. A very good looking Victorian full calf binding with gilt raised bands, extra gilt panels and twin labels, the volume label being particularly ornate. Some rubbing but overall a most handsome binding. This fine set does not have the bookplates but it has come from the library of Alfred de Rothschild. Covering the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this classic work by Henry Hallam is still considered the definitive work on the subject.
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The Constitutional History of England.
London: John Murray, 1846. 2 volume set, 8 3/4 inches tall. A very good looking Victorian full calf binding with gilt raised bands, extra gilt panels and twin labels, the volume label being particularly ornate. Some rubbing but overall a most handsome binding. This fine set does not have the bookplates but it has come from the library of Alfred de Rothschild. Covering the period from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II, this work has long been considered a classic on the subject.
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers.
London: John Templeman, 1841. Full morocco, 6 3/4 inches tall. A delightful little binding in fine full crushed morocco with gilt raised bands and delicate floral gilt tooling to the panels. All edges gilt. Triple gilt fillets and floral corner tooling frames the boards. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. Extra-illustrated with 52 fine engraved plates. Hazlitt is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language.
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe.
London: John Murray, 1847. 3 volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall. A very handsome Victorian full calf binding by Nutt. With gilt raised bands, fine twin labels and ornate gilt tooling to the panels. Withe the Gilt block of Rugby School on the upper boards and a neat ink inscription on the reverse of the free endpaper. A synoptical view of European literature in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries.
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Views and Reviews.
London: David Nutt, 1890. Full calf, 7 inches tall. A neat little Victorian binding by Morrell with gilt raised bands, twin labels and charming floral gilt tooling to the panels. Gilt top edge. Extra-illustrated with 26 plates added. From the Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey. A delightful copy of this collection of essays on celebrated literary characters.
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Poems of Felicia Hemans
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. Full morocco, 9 1/2 inches tall. A rather magnificent tall heavy Victorian binding, not stinting on the gold leaf with raised bands and dense extra gilt panels. The boards have a complex series of highly ornate gilt and blind tooling. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Double column text. Foxing to the title page, otherwise clean. Hugely popular in her day now mostly remembered for two opening lines: "The boy stood on the burning deck" and "The stately homes of England".
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The Writings of Bret Harte.
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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent.
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Les Femmes du Temps Passé.
Paris: Morizot, 1863. Full red morocco, 10 1/2 inches tall. A spectacular binding by Jean-Baptiste Tinot with gilt raised bands and delicate gilt tooling with green calf onlays to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. First edition with 20 steel engraved portraits with somewhat browned tissues. This work celebrates the lives of 20 famous 18th century women, including Madame de Pompadour, Madame du Chastelet and Marie-Antoinette. With a couple of marks to the binding and a little foxing to the plates but overall a fine and impressive binding. In the original French.
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Italy and her Invaders.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-99. 8 volume set bound in 9, 8 1/2 inches tall. A handsome half calf with gilt raised bands, dense gilt panels and twin labels. Colour frontispiece to volume I, photographic views, maps and other illustrations throughout. An interesting work rarely found in a fine binding.
More details Price: £750.00