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  • GLORIOUS MID VICTORIAN FULL STRAIGHT GRAIN MOROCCO
    Night Thoughts. by YOUNG, Edward
    YOUNG, Edward
    Night Thoughts.

    Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1853. Full morocco, 8 1/2 inches tall. A truly superb binding in full straight grain morocco by J. Wright, a bookbinder "of the highest order" (Ramsden). With gilt raised bands and glorious gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Young's 'Night-Thoughts' was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, with its notable illustrations by William Blake.

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  • SPLENDID VICTORIAN FULL HARD GRAIN MOROCCO
    Night Thoughts. by YOUNG, Edward
    YOUNG, Edward
    Night Thoughts.

    Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1853. Full morocco, 8.5 inches tall. A splendidly bound volume with gilt raised bands, very fine gilt tooling to the panels and exceptionally ornate gilt tooling framing the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. From the library of Dalton Hall and from the Hayhurst collection. Bookplate. A well printed and handsomely bound copy of one of the most influential 18th century English poems.

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  • WISE WORDS IN SUPERB LITTLE FULL MOROCCO BINDING
    Pensées Grises by YZARN-FREISSINET, Le Vte.
    YZARN-FREISSINET, Le Vte.
    Pensées Grises

    Paris: Chez Amyot, 1836. Full morocco, 5.25 inches tall. A superb little full morocco with gilt raised bands, very fine floral gilt tooling to the panels, dentelles and all edges. The monogram A.F. on the upper board is framed within gilt panels and ornate gilt corner tooling. Watered silk doublures and free endpapers. A series of profound and mournful adages. Some foxing and rubbing. In the original French.

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  • YONGE'S FIRST COMMERCIAL SUCCESS IN FINE FULL CALF
    The Heir of Redclyffe. by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
    Yonge, Charlotte Mary
    The Heir of Redclyffe.

    London: Macmillan, 1868. Full calf, 7.5 inches tall. A very good looking mid-Victorian full calf with gilt raised bands, label and extra gilt tooling to the panels. Colour frontispiece and further monochrome plates.

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