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Boccaccio, Giovanni.
STORIES OF BOCCACCIO. (THE DECAMERON). Translated From the Italian Into English.
pp. xviii, 493. NO PLATES. Uncut. 195mm. Original full cloth binding, spotted. Remnants of paper spine label. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CLASSICS BX 2
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Middleton, Dr.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. The Life Of Cicero. by Dr. Middleton. Cicero's Letters To Several Of His Friends. Translated by Wm. Melmoth. Cicero's Letters to Atticus. Translated by Dr. Heberden.
pp. xviii, 828. Some notes in Latin. Mildly XLib. Double column. Title page slightly foxed, text clean. Inner hinges reinforced with tape. 235mm. Rebound in library buckram. Front board stamped in gold gilt, Jeremiah Zimmerman Library. (The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Zimmerman, Lutheran minister and educator; and a well-known numismatist and Egyptologist).CLASSICS BX 2
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Euripides; Murray, Gilbert.
THE ALCESTIS OF EURIPIDES. Translated Into English Rhyming Verse With Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray.
pp. xvi, 82. Top edge gilt. Bookseller's label on rear paste down. Inked ownership of Emilie F. Latimer (from York, PA), March, 1916 on first fly leaf. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. CLASSICS BX 1
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Euripides; Murray, Gilbert.
THE BACCHAE OF EURIPIDES. Translated Into English Rhyming Verse With Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray.
94 p. Top edge gilt. Inked ownership of Emilie F. Latimer (from York, PA), on first fly leaf. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in gold gilt, slightly rubbed. CLASSICS BX 1
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Euripides; Murray, Gilbert.
THE MEDEA OF EURIPIDES. Translated Into English Rhyming Verse With Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray.
pp. xi, 96. Top edge gilt. Bookseller's label on rear paste down. Inked ownership of Emilie F. Latimer (from York, PA), Christmas 1916, on first fly leaf. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. CLASSICS BX 1
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Euripides.
THE TROJAN WOMEN OF EURIPIDES. Translated Into English Rhyming Verse With Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray.
93 p. Top edge gilt. Inked ownership of Emilie F. Latimer (from York, PA), 1916 on first fly leaf. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. CLASSICS BX 1
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Euripides; Murray, Gilbert.
THE IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS OF EURIPIDES. Translated Into English Rhyming Verse With Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray.
pp. xi, 105. Top edge gilt. Bookseller's label on rear paste down. Inked ownership of Emilie F. Latimer (from York, PA), March, 1916 on first fly leaf. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. CLASSICS BX 1
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Gesta Romanorum; Swan, Rev. C.
SELECT TALES FROM THE GESTA ROMANORUM. Translated from the Latin and Preliminary Observations and Notes by the Rev. C. Swan.
pp. vii, 253, (5) [List of Ariel Booklets] + Frontis. Title page printed in red and black. Deckle edges. Top edge gilt. 140mm. Original full red limp leather binding. Front board decorated in gold gilt with a printing press. Edges worn and rubbed. Small loss at head of spine. Top of hinge on rear board fragile. Ariel Booklets series. CLASSICS BX 3
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Jusserand, J.J.
ENGLISH WAYFARING LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES (XIVth CENTURY). Translated From the French by Lucy Toulmin Smith. Third Edition.
451 p. + Frontis. Illustrated with full page plates, and text illus. 8vo. 215mm. Original full red cloth binding lettered in gold. Original priced dust jacket, slightly soiled, and worn at head of spine. Hardbound. Very Good. First published 1888. An interesting and informative book ENGLAND BX 6
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Santvoord, G. Van.
LIFE OF ALGERNON SIDNEY; With Sketches of Some of His Contemporaries and Extracts From His Correspondence and Political Writings.
334 p. Early inked ownership of Mattie C. Gifford, Syracuse, NY. on title page. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. Lacks first fly leaf. 12mo. 190mm. Original stamped publisher's cloth binding embossed in blind. Small loss at head and tail of spine and corners. Hardbound. Very good. ENGLAND BX 4
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Escott, Thomas Hay Sweet (1844-1924).
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE VICTORIAN AGE. A Survey Of Court And Country.
pp. xii, 450. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding lettered and decorated in gold. Spine and top of front board faded. Remnants of library call numbers on spine. First American Edition. Hardbound. Good. ENGLAND BX 4
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Forster, John.
THE STATESMEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND; With A Treatise On The Popular Progress In English History. Edited by J. O. Choules.
pp. xlii, 647 + Engraved Frontis and engraved full page portraits. Double column. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Some age staining. 4to. 240mm. Original full publisher's cloth binding, faded and worn. Hardbound. Good. First American edition. ENGLAND BX 3
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Knight, Charles (Editor).
HALF HOURS OF ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Roman Period To the Death of Elizabeth.
pp. v, 687. XLib stamp on title page. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. Marbled edges and endpapers. 8vo. 215mm. Original quarter leather over marbled boards. Front board detached. Spine elaborately decorated in gold gilt with raised bands. ENGLAND BX 4
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Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn.
HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY. The Landing of Augustine. The Murder of Becket. Edward the Black Prince. Becket's Shrine. With Illustrations.
xii, 361 + Frontis and Eleven Full Page Sepia Plates with printed tissue guards. Text drawings, maps and charts. Uncut and partially unopened. Top edge gilt. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. 4to. 230mm. Original full blue cloth binding. Front board handsomely bordered in gold with shield and title also in gold. White call letters on spine. Second American from the Eleventh London Edition. ENGLAND BX 3
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Bernardin De Saint Pierre, J. H.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA. Translated From The French.
pp. iv, 140 + Engraved Half Title decorated with a drawing of a woman lying on a shore with two men, black and white, looking on in horror. Small vignette on title page. Age staining. 125mm. Disbound. Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin lived on the island for a time and based part of the novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there." LIT BX 8
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Lamb, Charles and Mary.
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
386 p. + Twelve photographic illustrations mounted to heavy card. 8vo. 220 mm. Original full leather school prize binding by Bickers and Son, Leichester Square, London. The boards in attractive flame calf with a gilt roll. In the center of the front board is a gilt stamp of Walthamstow High School. Mounted to the front fly leaf is a prize certificate awarded to May Barton for excellence in English history. The spine on this binding is quite worn and probably should be restored. Hardbound. Good+. The Walthamstow County High School for Girls opened in 1890 as a private school on West Avenue, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. SHAKESPEARE 1
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Walker, Albert Perry (Editor).
MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON MILTON. Edited, With Introduction, Notes, Etc. by Albert Perry Walker. BOUND WITH: MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON ADDISON. Heath's English Classics.
pp. xxx, 116; pp. xxxiv, 158 + Portrait Frontis and full page plates on glossy paper. Mildly XLib. 16mo. 165mm. Original full cloth binding, slightly soiled. Hardbound. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LIT BX 7
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(Vicars, Hedley Shafto Johnstone).
MEMORIALS OF CAPTAIN HEDLEY VICARS, NINETY-SEVENTH REGIMENT. By the Author of "The Victory Won."
pp. 300, 12 [Publisher's catalogue] + Engraved Portrait Frontis. Portrait, Title Page and Text dampstained and very foxed. Bookplate of the Bible Class Library of the Church of the Nativity, Philadelphia. Inked inscription on first fly leaf "Emma Heilman with the love of Clara L. Webb, Dec. 31, 1856 (Note: earlier than book's publishing date - but not that ususual for a Christmas / New Years gift) "Fight the good fight of faith. Looking unto Jesus". Also a light inked ownership of Richard R. Moore. First inner hinge cracked. 175mm. Original full cloth binding decorated and embossed in blind. Rear edge of spine worn and fragile with loss. Tail of spine worn with loss. Hardbound. Good. BIOGRAPHY BX 1
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Welsby, W. N. (Editor).
LIVES OF EMINENT ENGLISH JUDGES OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.
565 p. Slight foxing. Early inked ownership of Leah Frazer on front paste down. Early bookseller's label of J. Gish & Co, Lancaster. 235mm. Original full cloth binding. Spine repaired with black tape. Edges worn with slight loss. Hardbound. Good. BIOGRAPHY BX 1
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Steele, Sir Richard.
THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS, A COMEDY. With Alterations As Performed at the Theatres.
72 p. + Frontis. Title page printed in black and red. 155mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. VERIA BX 1
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(Steele, Sir Richard).
THE FUNERAL OR, GRIEF A-LA-MODE. A Comedy. Bound With: THE TENDER HUSBAND; OR, THE ACCOMPLISH'D FOOLS. A Comedy
Two Plays bound together: 162 p. Continuous pagination. Early ownership of J. Waldier, 1774, on first title page. Bottom margin of The Funeral title page clipped. 12 mo. 155mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. Sir Richard Steele (ca. 1672-1729), was a famed english author and politician. The Funeral (first produced in 1702), with its patriotic motifs, apparently attracted the favourable attention of the King himself. The Tender Husband, a comedy, had a brief initial run in April 1705. It returned to Drury Lane for performances later in the year and remained a staple of the London stage repertory for many decades, without remuneration for the author. It is significant that Steele did not have another new play produced until many years later when he was a partner in the Drury Lane management and thus able to reap rewards both as author and as manager - DNB. ESTC T9516 & T9517. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! VERIA BX 1
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Strutt, Joseph; Hone, William.
THE SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND; Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles. A New Edition. By William Hone.
pp. lxvi, 420. Illustrated with 140 wonderful descriptive woodcut vignettes. Text foxed. Engraved bookplate on front endpaper. Engraved and manuscript gift label presentation on front paste down "presented by the Council of King's College, London to George W.H. Fletcher as a prize for Divinity Dept. of General Literature & Science 29th June, 1852". 220mm. Original full leather binding. Boards detached. Front board decorated with the King's College coat of arms embossed in gold. Gilt decorated spine with homemade spine label. Could be fairly easily repaired. Hardbound. Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SPORTS/ GAMES BX 5
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Thomson, James.
THE SEASONS; A Poem. A New Edition, With Notes, Historical and Explanatory, by John Williams.
pp. l, 276. Preface includes a Life of Thomson by Dr. Samuel Johnson, and a critical essay by Miss Seward. Ownership clipped from title page with loss. Inked manuscript ownership, on second fly leaf: V. H. Porter . Text foxed. A few penciled notations. 175mm. Original leather spine over marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands. Lacks original leather spine label. Loss at head and tail of spine and corners. Binding worn. POETRY BX 2
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Sue, M. Eugene.
THE WANDERING JEW. A Novel. Translated From the French.
pp. (3), 13-598. Foxed. Double column. Loss on rear fly leaf. Penciled ownership of D. L. Taylor, Jr. 230mm. Original quarter leather over marbled boards. Binding very worn with loss. Joseph Marie Eugene Sue (1804-1857) was a French novelist. He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the day, and these prompted his most famous works, the Anti-Catholic novels: Les Mysteres de Paris (10 vols. 1842-1843) and Le Juif Errant ("The Wandering Jew") (10 vols. 1844-1845), which were among the most popular French serial novels of the era. First American edition of this popular work. LITERATURE BX 6
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Strindberg, August.
THERE ARE CRIMES AND CRIMES. A Comedy. Translated From the Swedish With An Introduction By Edwin Bjorkman.
86 p. Top edge gold. 195mm. Original full cloth binding lettered and decorated in gold. Head and tail of spine bumped. Corners bumped. Boards slightly stained. Hardbound. Johan August Strindberg (1849-1912) was an important Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist. Very good. First American edition. VARIA BOX 1
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Timbs, John.
ENGLISH ECCENTRICS AND ECCENTRICITIES.
pp. xvi, 578, 40 [Publisher's catalogue] + Color Frontis. Illustrated with caricature text drawings. Mildly XLib. 12mo. 180mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. When John Timbs (1801-1875), English antiquary, was in his sixteenth year, he was apprenticed to a druggist and printer at Dorking. He had early shown literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly Magazine. A year later he became secretary to Sir Richard Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession. He was successively editor of the Mirror of Literature, the Harlequin, the Literary World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London News. He was also founder and first editor of Year-Book of Science and Art. His published works amounted to more than one hundred and fifty volumes. In 1834 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. VERIA BX 2
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Timbs, John.
CLUBS AND CLUB LIFE IN LONDON. With Anecdotes of Its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns, From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time.
pp. (1) [Publisher's ad for "History of Signboards"], xiv, 544 + Frontis and full page drawings of London clubs. XLib number on title page. Some signatures loose. Penciled margin notations. 12mo. 185mm. Virtually disbound. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. When John Timbs (1801-1875), English antiquary, was in his sixteenth year, he was apprenticed to a druggist and printer at Dorking. He had early shown literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly Magazine. A year later he became secretary to Sir Richard Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession. He was successively editor of the Mirror of Literature, the Harlequin, the Literary World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London News. He was also founder and first editor of Year-Book of Science and Art. His published works amounted to more than one hundred and fifty volumes. In 1834 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. VERIA BX 2
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Rackus, Alexander M.
GUTHONES (THE GOTHS) KINSMEN OF THE LITHUANIAN PEOPLE. A Treatise On the Gothic Ethnology History of the Gothic Dominion In Italy and Spain, Numismatics, Language, and Proper Names. With 75 Illustrations.
432 p. Text illustrations of coins. Text in English and Lithuanian. 200mm. Original full cloth binding lettered in gold. Corners slightly bumped. Very nice copy. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. VERIA BX 2
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).
ELOISA: Or, A Series Of Original Letters Collected and Published By Mr. J. J. Rousseau, Citizen Of Geneva. Translated From The French. A New Edition: To Which Is Now First Added, The Sequel Of Julia; Or, The New Eloisa. (Found amongst the Author's Papers.
Vols. I & II. Two volumes of four. Volume One very dampstained and page xli torn without loss. Both volumes age stained. 180mm. Original full leather bindings. Bindings very worn. Boards detached on volume one. XLib book label of Norristown Library Company on front paste down in both volumes. Poor set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LITERATURE BX 6
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Sabatini, Prof. F.
GUIDE OF ROME AND ENVIRONS. Translated from Italian into English by Rudolph Capalozza.
pp. 216. 6 [Days and Hours for visiting Antiquities, Museums, Palaces, etc. printed on yellow paper]. Illustrated. Lacks rear fly leaf. 157mm. Original full red cloth binding, slightly soiled. Hardbound. Very good. TRAVEL BX 3
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Montagu, Edward Wortley (1713-1776).
EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGU. An Autobiography. (Edited by R. Shelton Mackenzie).
pp. 540, (3) [Publisher's catalogue]. 190mm. Original full green cloth binding, slightly dust spotted. Spine lettered and decorated in gold. A wonderfully detailed personal account of Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The only son of the remarkable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Edward's catalog of his times deserves to be much better know. This Philadelphia edition is apparently quite scarce. BIO BX 2
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Maistre, Xvier De; Goldsmid, Edmund.
BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA. A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room. Translated From The French By Edmund Goldsmid.
70 p. Uncut and unopened. 175mm. Original faux vellum wraps, stained. Limited edition of only 275 small-paper copies. W33
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Rabelais, Francis.
THE WORKS OF FRANCIS RABELAIS. Translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux; With Explanatory Notes by Duchat, Ozell, and Others. A New Edition. Two Volumes.
Two Volumes. Engraved portrait of Rabelais in first volume. Engraved portrait of Sir Thomas Urquhart in second volume. Faint ownership of Latimer (York, PA) on title pages. Frontis portraits and title pages foxed. Partially unopened. 190mm. Original stamped publisher's cloth bindings, embossed and decorated in blind. Loss at head and tail of spines. Insect damage on outer hinge of volume one. Bohn's Extra Volumes. Hardbound. Very good. FREN/ENG BX 4. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
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Quran; Koran; Ahamed, Syed Vickar.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE MESSAGE OF THE QURAN. Translated by: Professor (Dr.) Syed Vickar Ahamed.
pp. xxiv, 378. 215mm. Paperback. Second edition, sixth printing. Crisp copy. ISLAM BX 1
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Hesse, Hermann.
BENEATH THE WHEEL. Translated by Michael Roloff.
187 p. Noonday paperback. Fourth Noonday Press Printing. Beneath the Wheel (Unterm Rad) is a 1906 novel written by Hesse. It is also sometimes titled The Prodigy in English. LIT BX 6
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MacCunn, Florence.
SIR WALTER SCOTT'S FRIENDS.
pp. x, 448 + Frontis and full page Portraits. Frontis loose. Age stained. Uncut. Bookplate of Julia T. Kerr on front fly leaf. 8vo. 225mm. Original full green cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold. Hardbound. Very good. LIT BX 7
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Guerin, Maurice de; Bedford-Jones H.
FROM CENTAUR TO CROSS. The Unpublished Correspondence & The Centaur. Translated by H. Bedford-Jones. Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Chinard.
214 p. 225mm. Original full green cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket, chipped and stained with old tape repairs. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. Mr. Bedford-Jones discovered these letters in the smoking room of a west-bound ocean liner. BIO BX 2
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Melegari, Vezio.
THE GREAT MILITARY SIEGES.
252 p. Profusely illustrated with many drawings in color. 300mm. Original full red cloth binding. Front board stained. VERIA BX 2
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Lancaster, Osbert.
DRAYNEFLETE REVEALED.
67 p. Full page and text drawings by the author. Foxed. Map endpapers. 8vo. 225mm. Original full yellow cloth binding, soiled. Original priced dust jacket, torn with slight loss. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908-1986) was an English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer. This is a humorous history of British architecture, tracing the development of 'Draynflete' over the centuries. HUMOR BX 2
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Lettsom, William Nanson (1796-1865).
THE FALL OF THE NIBELUNGERS, OTHERWISE THE BOOK OF KRIEMHILD: A Translation of the Nibelunge Not, or Nielungenlied.
pp. xxxii, (1) [Errata], 447. XLib bookplates and blind stamps. Engraved bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on front paste down. All edges gilt. 200mm. Original polished calf binding. Boards detached. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! POETRY BX 3
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Charles, Elizabeth Rundle.
THE DRAYTONS AND THE DAVENANTS. A Story of the Civil Wars: by the author of "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta family".
509 p. + Frontis. 12mo. 175mm. Original full cloth binding decorated in black. Spine lettered in gold. Nice copy. Hardbound. Very good. Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828-1896) was the daughter of an English MP from Devon. She authored over 50 books. This one is on the English Civil Wars. LIT BX 7
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Collingridge, A.
NIGHT NEAR WINDSOR OR PORT ROYAL ANNALS; And A Tale Of The Turf. Second Edition.
pp. xii, 228. Foxed. Inked ownership of Thomas Crofs, Woolton 1843 on front paste down. 195mm. Disbound. By the author of 'Rough Sketches Afloat'. A review of the first edition (1838) says: "The writer is a coiner of words, and not always in the most grammatical of moods; the substance is preferable to the treatment, and, though often rather too horrible to please, we must accord the praise of considerable power and invention to the author." Another early review said: "We will not pretend to decide upon the merits of these whimsically unintelligible stories. The incongruous jumble of the scenes, and the still more involved hilarity of the style, baffle all our attempts to penetrate the meaning of the book. Its humour - for it is apparently intended to be humorous - is of the most riotous description ; a sort of uproarious slang, which shatters your animal spirits like the laugh of the hyena." We (in 2010) found it rather fun. LIT BX 6
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Lesseps, Ferdinand de; Pitman, C. B.
RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. Translated by C. B. Pitman. Two Volumes In One.
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 313; 320. Fore-edges dampstained. Large 8vo. 225mm. Original full cloth binding. Head and tail of spine worn. First American Edition. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps (1805-1894) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially sailing distances and times between the West and the East. He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a sea-level Panama Canal during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, and the projected de Lesseps canal was left uncompleted and eventually partially superseded by a non-sea-level canal with locks, built by the United States and completed in 1914. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BIO BX 2
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Colman, George (The Younger).
BROAD GRINS. Comprising, With New Additional TALES IN VERSE, Those Formerly Published Under the Title Of "My Night-Gown And Slippers." The Third Edition.
pp. vii, 128 + Engraved half title. Illustrated with small engravings. Foxed. All edges marbled. On front paste down a lovely hand colored engraving of Castleknock School with penciled tongue in check comment around border "George Hubbard was educated at Castleknock School. Picture of George Joseph Hubbard". Engraved color plate perhaps by Bewick. 167mm. Original half leather over marbled paper covered boards. Spine delicately decorated in gold with small loss at head. Front board fragile. Inner hinges repaired. Hardbound. Very good. The school mentioned is Castleknock College for boys, run by the priests of the Vincentian Order (Roman Catholic Church) since 1835, which was exclusively a boarding school until 1987. POETRY BX 2
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Carey, G. V.
AMERICAN INTO ENGLISH. A Handbook For Translators.
pp. x, 94. A few red under linings. 180mm. Original full red cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket, slightly darkened and soiled. For those "whose task it is from time to time to translate American into English." Hardbound. Very good. VERIA BX 1
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Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer.
GODOLPHIN.
pp. xvi, 224 + Woodcut Frontis by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Text age stained. Double column. 195mm. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind. Gilt decorated spine. Corners and head and tail of spine worn. Binding faded. Hardbound. Good. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. Bulwer-Lytton reached the height of his popularity with the publication of Godolphin (1833). LITERATURE BX 6
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Belloc, Hilaire.
CRANMER. Archbishop Of Canterbury 1533-1556.
333 p. + Full Page Plates. 8vo. 220mm. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, soiled. Third Impression. Hardbound. Very good. Scarce with the dust jacket. BIO BX 2
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Barnstone, Willis (Editor).
EIGHTEEN TEXTS. Writings by Contemporary Greek Authors.
pp. xxii, 187. 240mm. Original full black paper covered binding. Original dust jacket. Edges of binding and dust jacket slightly rubbed. Hardbound. Very good. LIT BX 7
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Birkbeck, Morris.
LETTERS FROM ILLINOIS. Third Edition.
pp. xv, 114. Dampstained. Age stained. Some signatures loose. Lacks rear fly leaves. Tall 8vo. 200 mm. Original stiff paper boards very worn. Lacks spine. This perhaps should best be considered a candidate for rebinding. Scarce. Third London Edition. Howes B 467; Sabin 5566. Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) was an early 19th century Illinois pioneer and publicist. Around 1817-1818 Birkbeck purchased, for himself and others, 26,400 acres of public land in Edwards County, Illinois. His letters and books had wide influence in directing settlers to these 'Western' prairie lands **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AMER BX 5
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Taylor, John.
WORKS OF JOHN TAYLOR THE WATER POET. Edited (and with useful notes by) Charles Hindley, Esq.
Twenty volumes in one. pp. [ii], ii, 39, iv, 68, vi, 24, 15, 24, 18, 32, ii, 42, iv, 65, 26, 19, 18, vi, 30, ii, 45, 14, 8, 7, 28, iv, 24, 22. With facsimile reproductions of the original title pages, and printer's devices. 8vo. 225 mm. Disbound. A collection of twenty rare works by John Taylor (1578-1653), who referred to himself as 'the water poet' because his primary occupation was as a waterman on the Thames; and his earlier naval wanderings. There are some old pencil manuscript notes in this example, including some about Taylor having met Ben Johnson. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! POETRY 3
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