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Coelebs in Search of a Wife. In two volumes.
London: Charles Tilt, 1837. 2 vols., 12mo (4.25 x 2.75 inches). Full mauve morocco, with decorative gilt tooling framing title on spine. Double blind rule framing gilt scrolling foliage centre tool to both boards. All edges gilt. Unusual oxidised book plate 'Sarah'. Engraved frontispiece plates.
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry.
London: Routledge, 1872. Full red morocco, 8.5 inches tall. A heavy Victorian binding with gilt raised bands, title, dentelles and all edges and splendid gilt tooling to the panels and boards. An excellent anthology of English poetry from the perspective of the time. With illustrations by Millais, Gilbert, Tenniel, Birket Foster and others. An owners name on the paste down endpaper has been crossed out and there is some foxing to the blanks, otherwise clean.
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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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Touraine And Its Story.
London: Dent, n.d. c.1905. Full morocco, 10 inches tall. Full straight grain morocco by Bumpus, gilt raised bands, panels, titles, dentelles and all edges. A splendid copy of this fascinating volume with 50 full page colour illustrations and many black and white in the text. Foxing to the first few blanks and then clean from the half title. Ink inscription on the first blank.
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The Minor Poems of John Milton.
London: George Bell, 1898. Half morocco, 7.75 inches tall. A simple yet pleasing binding by MacMillan & Bowes with raised bands and gilt title and all edges. A scarce edition profusely illustrated throughout by A. Garth Jones.
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Lives of British Physicians.
London: John Murray, 1830. Full morocco, 6 inches tall. A charming little binding with gilt raised bands, blind pallets to the panels and a single fillet and wide blind roll framing the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. 4 engraved portraits.
With bookseller's label 'Sold by Wallason Bookseller &c 31 New Bond Street', and bookplate of Charles Anderson-Pelham (1781-1846), 1st Earl of Yarborough, of Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight.More details Price: £200.00 -
La Lyre Française.
London: Macmillan, 1867. Full crushed morocco, 6 inches tall. An elegant binding by Holloway with gilt raised bands, delicate gilt centre tools to the panels, dentelles and all edges. Two bookplates. An anthology of French poetry with the verse in the original French and the preface and notes in English. A delightful volume.
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Mason on Self-Knowldge; Memmoth's Great Importance of A religious Life, Considered; Dodsley's Economy of Human Life.
London: Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1839. 3 works bound in 1, 5 1/4 inches tall. A delightful little early Victorian full calf binding with gilt raised bands, contrasting green label, elegant gilt tooling to the panels and blind scales within a series of fillets. Engraved frontispiece and title page.
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Belisarius; Florian; The Shipwreck; The Chase.
London: J. F. Dove, c.1835. 4 volumes bound in 1, 5 inches tall. A delightful early Victorian half calf binding with red label and dense gilt tooling to the smooth back. 2 engraved frontispieces and title pages, each covering 2 volumes.
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Memoirs of the Most Renowned James Graham, Marquis of Montrose.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1819. Half calf, 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. Some foxing on the engraved frontispiece, otherwise clean. A tear on one leaf, not affecting the text. Romanticized by Sir Walter Scott and John Buchan, 'The Great Montrose', Seventeenth century Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier, fought for Charles I in the Civil War.
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The Household of Sir Thomas More.
London: Dent, 1906. Full vellum, 7.5 inches tall. A delightful copy of this scarcer title from the 'The series of English Idylls' collection. With 24 colour plates by C. E. Brock. An unusually nice 'unbowed' example
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Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature Taken From Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic
London: Strahan and Cadell, 1789. 2 volume set, 9 inches tall. Straight grain morocco with gilt raised bands, titles and delicate gilt and blind tooling to the panels. A particularly nice copy of this scarce work in a late 18th century binding.
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The Poetical Works of John Milton
London: Richardson; Rivington et al, 1811. Half straight grain morocco, 5.25 inches tall. An elegant little Regency binding with blind bands and Grecian lyre centre tools within gilt framed panels. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Occasional foxing. With the armorial bookplate of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire.
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Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance.
London: Charles Noble, 1867. Full morocco, 4 inches tall. An exceptional Victorian binding with gilt raised bands, very fine floral gilt tooled panels and dentelles. The print is tiny and there is some offsetting making it doubly unreadable but housed in a delightful little binding.
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The Poetical Works of Edward Moore
Edinburg: The Apollo Press, 1781. Full speckled calf, 5 inches tall. With gilt bands and label. A pristine copy.
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