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Sand and Canvas; a Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, with a Sojourn Among the Artists in Rome.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. [Travel Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 370 [2]. With eight engraved plates, including a frontispiece, after drawings by the author, six being hand-coloured, each with a tissue guard. Pencil note to verso of fly-leaf stating: 'Wm. Bevan - my..... More
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are added, two brief dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, at the Primary Visitation, in the Year M.DCC.LI.
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, G. Wilkie, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [etc.], 1817. [Theology and Philosophy] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.lxiv; 408. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label on spine, and marbled paper over boards..... More
A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Origin and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed A History of the Language, and an English Grammar. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed for G. and J. Offor, W. Allason [et al.], 1822. [Dictionary] OFFOR'S EDITION, third impression thus. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm). pp.[4] 60; 1029 [3]; pp.[4] 1084. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and a leaf with spare paper spine labels bound in..... More
Heroes of Discovery: Livingstone, Park, Franklin, Cook, Magellan.
Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1886. [Travel and Exploration] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 349 [3]. With an engraved portrait of each explorer. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration..... 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
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