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The Public and Private Life of His late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty, George the Third, embracing its most memorable incidents, as they were displayed in the important Relation of Son, Husband, Father, Friend, and Sovereign. With a variety of Secret Anecdotes of His Majesty, the Royal Family, and other Distinguished Characters, connected with the British Court; The whole collected from the most Authentic Sources, and tending to illustrate the Causes, Progress, and Effects, of the principal Political Events of his Glorious Reign. Comprising also, a most Valuable and Interesting Historical Memoir of the House of Brunswick, from its early Foundation to the Present Period, translated expressly for this History, from the Celebrated Latin Work, entitled Origines Guelphicae. With Portraits and other Illustrations.
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1821. [Royal Biography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 724 [2]. Complete with 18 copper-engraved plates, including a portrait frontispiece and a decorated title page. A touch of colour carefully applied to final plate. Contemporary marbled calf boards with gilt rule, re-backed to-style..... More
The Life of Wellington. A New Edition, Revised, Condensed and Completed.
London: Bickers and Son, 1893. [Military Biography] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 387 [3]. With occasional in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece portrait of Wellington. Contemporary green polished calf, with gilt titles to a red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
The Wrecker.
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 427 [12]. Publisher's catalogue dated May 1892. With 12 half-tone illustrated plates by Hole and Metcalf, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Repair to split lower hinge. Spotting and..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
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Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] Safety Match [and] Smoked Skipper [and] Clochette [and] The Gray Parrot [and] The Madness of Mr. Lister [and] Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation [and] The Stolen Body [and] Underground Passages and Trap-Doors [and] Where the Air Quivered [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 15 and 16, complete.
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... More
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A New Edition.
London: Edward Moxon, 1847. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[30] 619 [3]. With a steel engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title page. Small print over two columns. Full tan calf, with gilt titles to dark green label, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, panelled..... More
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