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Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. [Modern Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.109 [1]. With a colour frontispiece over two pages, and 31 in-text line drawings. Elegantly bound in dark red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to twin black morocco labels on spine, and the original..... More
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde for Oxford University Press, 1908. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later printing thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 912 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tree calf for Bangor County School for Girls, signed 'Oxford Binding,' with gilt titles to red label..... More
Philosophical Dissertations on the Egyptians and Chinese.
London: Printed by T. Chapman for J. Edwards, 1795. [Ethnography] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 339 [3]; pp.[6] 320 [2]. With the folding map of Egypt to volume I and the folding map of China to volume II. Recently bound in brown half calf..... More
London Cries: with Six Charming Children, printed direct from stippled plates in the Bartolozzi style, and duplicated in red and brown, and about forty other illustrations, including ten of Rowlandson's humorous subjects in facsimile, and tinted; examples by George Cruikshank, Joseph Crawhill, etc., etc.
London: Field and Tuer, ye Leadenhalle Presse, no date [1883]. [Street Selling] FINE COLOUR PLATES. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[3] 48 [2]. Leaves printed only to recto. In recent red half morocco with gilt titles to spine and orange cloth over boards. Brown endpapers, with the original brown title label..... More
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