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Proust | Three Dialogues.
London: John Calder, 1965. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A nice crisp, clean copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges. Near fine. A republication of Beckett's..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha; explained with Short, Apt, and Instructive Notes, in a Method entirely different from all Modern Publications of the Sacred Book: and Cleared from that Variety of Opinions and Conjectures, many of which have no Support in the Scriptures; have been collected without Judgement; and serve more to disturb and confound, than to instruct, edify, and confirm the Reader in the Faith and Practice of a Christian.
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, date misprinted [1770]. [Illustrated Bible] RARE IMPRINT. Folio, (42 x 28cm), unpaginated. Collation: A-13F2. Date misprinted as 2170 in Roman numerals. With a copper engraved frontispiece by Cole after Wale, as well as 33 further copper engraved plates by various artists. With an index..... More
Don Quixote; Pamela; Peruvian Tales etc; Arabian Nights [Four bound volumes of The Novelist's Magazine].
London: Harrison and Co., Paternoster Row, 1782-6. [Literature] Four volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 19). Vignette engraved illustrations to title pages. Engravings to Pamela (XIV plates) and Peruvian Tales (XV plates). Bound in simple red half English calf over marbled sides, five raised bands, simple gilt rule and titles..... More
Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. Vol. II part I, containing Cambridgeshire.
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. [Topography] EX LIBRIS WILLIAM WADE PORTEOUS. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.[2]; 296; xxii; [2]. With twenty six copper engraved plates, including a hand-coloured county map and one further hand-coloured plate. Blue ink ownership inscriptions of Mr. Wade Porteous, a notable book..... More
Capital. A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production. Translated from the Third German Edition, by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. And edited by Frederick Engels.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1896. [Political Economy / Marxism] FIFTH UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxxii; 816. Half title present. Publisher's dark olive cloth with gilt titles to spine, ruled to crown and tail in gilt, blind ruling to top and bottom edges of upper cover, publisher's tan foliate/monogrammed patterned..... More
The Amber Witch. [Bound With: Journal of a Residence in Norway].
London: John Murray. [Residence in Norway published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans]. 1844. First edition of The Amber Witch (first English translation by Lady Duff Gordon, a virtually simultaneous but less popularly approved translation by E.A. Friedlander was published in the same year). Octavo. Two volumes bound in one..... More
[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
Irish Short Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Short Story Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Small blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Light spotting and browning to edges and endpapers. Jacket with chips and closed..... More
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