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1843Eight Volumes. XLib stamps on title pages and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste downs. Age stained. Marbled endpapers. All edges marble. 8vo. 220mm. Original half leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spines with raised bands, rubbed. Original leather title and volume spine labels. Volume IV loss of some leather on spine. A few volumes loss of marbled paper on boards. Hardbound. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 2
1937pp. 48, xii [Illustrated advertisements]. Numerous color and monochrome photographs. Damp staining on top margin of last few pages and advertisements. Folio. Softcover. Original blue wraps decorated and lettered in gilt gold. Spine worn with some loss. Very good condition. Similar (if not identical) to the Strand Magazine edition. ENGLAND 6
1813Two volumes. pp. [2], xxvi, 486; xi, 731, [1]. Large 4to. 250 mm. x 300 mm. Modern plain full navy blue leather bindings. Hardbound. Very good+. A wonderful work of history, folklore, nostalgia, and sociology by the Newcastle antiquary, John Brand (1744-1806). The first volume deals with holidays and customs associated with them, such as: New Years Eve; Valentine's Day; customs surrounding many long lost feast days; Easter; pagan mid-Summer rites and dances; Allhallow Even; Yule and Christmastide; Harvests; Etc. The second volume deals with customs and ceremonies relating to life events and common folklore, such as: marriage; death; communion; sailors going tp sea; fairs; fairies; devils and witchcraft; omens; charms; divination; Etc. There are also over 30 pages describing games and sports, including: Archery; Boxing; Foot-Ball; Goff or Golf; Nine Pins; Races; the Ring; Wrestling; etc. & etc. First issued as a small octavo in 1777, Brand continued collecting materials for a revised edition for the rest of his life. He acquired a large amount of additional information from the statistical enquiries in Scotland instigated by Sir John Sinclair. A second edition was planned in 1795, but Brand was apparently overwhelmed by the task of arranging systematically so much material. He did not live to complete the project. Instead the collections were purchased after his death by a bookseller for L600 and were incorporated into this new edition by Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869). It still stands as an entertaining and essential starting point for studies of English folklore and customs. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150
1866pp. vi + 80 plates. All edges gold gilt. Folio. 320 mm. Loose in original full blue cloth binding; decorated in gilt, black, and blind. Black endpapers chipped. Binding quite worn, but still attractive. Plates and text in excellent condition. Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was a greatly celebrated English painter and illustrator, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. ART4
1981142 p. 8vo. 240 mm. Original binding of beige linen, front board decorated with a berried branch, printed in two colors upon silky green cloth Spine lettered in gilt. Limited Edition, No. 146 of 150 copies signed by the author. Designed by Richard Bartlett. Printed and Bound by Hadden Craftsmen. The initials opening each chapter were designed by Eric Gill. No slipcase, but a very good copy. W34
1929pp. (iv), 24, (2). Thin 4to. 300 mm. Original paper boards binding. Number 317 of an edition limited to 435 numbered copies. Printed by Richard W. Ellis at his Georgian Press, on hand-made deckle edged paper, unopened. Ransom p. 292. Doctor [Oliver] Goldsmith (1728-1774) wrote Retaliation in 1774, responding to a proposal by David Garrick, that they compare their skill at epigrams by writing each other's epitaph. Goldsmith decided to write Garrick's epitaph along with those of ten others he imagined gathered about a table, including himself. but Death took the pen from Goldsmith's hand before he could write his own epitaph. David Garrick (1717-1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager, producer and social butterfly, who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century. He and was an active figure in the circle gathered about his friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson. W37
1798Fifteen Volumes. Foxed. XLib stamp on title pages and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste downs. No plates. 8vo. 215mm. Original full worn leather bindings. All volumes worn and rubbed with small loss at head and tail of spines. Volume I spine torn with loss at tail. Volume VIII loss at tail. Volume XIV and Volume XV top edge torn. Volume VI, Volume VIII, Volume XII and Volume XIII lack leather spine labels. The complete set of the original edition. Worthy of binding restoration. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 2
1869Two Volumes. Title pages printed and red and black with an elaborate border and decorated with rural scenes engraved by John Leighton. Ruled in black throughout. Double column. Numerous text illustrations. XLib stamp on title pages and elsewhere. Library label of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary; and on the front paste downs the donation label of Rev. Jeremiah Zimmerman (1848-1937), a well-known numismatist and Egyptologist, and long-time trustee at Gettysburg. 4to. Original quarter leather over cloth covered boards. Boards detached. Spines detached and worn, with some loss. Hardbound. Almost fine internally. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 1
1855Two Volumes. Foxed. XLib stamp on title pages and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste downs. All edges marbled. 12mo. 185mm. Original quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards. Original leather spine labels and raised bands. Library white call numbers on spine. Extremities worn and rubbed with some loss. First American Edition. Hardbound. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 3
1876Four Volumes. Profusely illustrated with wood and steel full page plates from drawings by A. De Neuville, Sir John Gilbert, P. Leyendecker, G. Staal, Emile Bayard, T. Weber and others. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. XLib stamp on title pages and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste downs. Half Title in volume one printed in red and black with stamped ownership of J.T.R. McKay. 4to. 250mm. Original half leather over marbled paper covered boards. Spines lettered and decorated in gold with original spine labels and raised bands. Hardbound. Very good. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. This full four volume set of this First American Edition is rather scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 4
1723pp. 13, 359 + Mezzotint portrait frontis by J. Faber Junior, after H. Hawkins. Portrait soiled and worn at bottom edge. Mezzotints of this era are scarce. Nice head and tail pieces, and decorative initials. Folio. 320 mm. Modern plain full black leather binding. Hardbound. Very good. Thomas Newcomb (1681/2-1765), poet, was born in Shropshire. At Corpus Christi College he met the poet Edward Young, his most significant literary associate. Newcomb took the degree of BA in 1704 and became chaplain to Charles Lennox, first duke of Richmond. He was rector of Stopham in Sussex from 1705 to at least 1723. He was also rector of nearby Barlavington from 1707 until his death. He began his literary career in 1709 with An Epistle from the Duke of Burgundy to the French King, a panegyric on Marlborough, returning to the theme with Pacata Britannia (1713), on the treaty of Utrecht. His satiric voice was established with Bibliotheca: a Poem. Occasion'd by the Sight of a Modern Library (1712), along lines suggested by Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books; it contains virulent attacks on many modern writers, especially Daniel Defoe and Richard Bentley, a panegyric on Richard Steele, and a vision of the goddess Oblivion, whose resemblance to Alexander Pope's Dulness was noted by John Nichols and Joseph Warton. In 1723 Newcomb published, by subscription, this Miltonic epic. It was dedicated to the Earl of March, who succeeded that year to the title of Duke of Richmond. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
1898104 p. + Portrait Frontis. Deckle edges. Top edge gold gilt. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. 16mo. 180mm. Original full cloth binding lettered and ruled in gold. Hardbound. Very good. ENGLAND BX 4
1885319 p. Top edge gilt. Deckle edges. Unopened. Paper beginning to slightly brown. 200mm. Morley's Universal Library uniformly bound. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine slightly darkened. Second edition. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. LOC W48/BAG 2
1882pp. 540, 32 [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis. Text illustrations. Foxed. Inked ownership M. E. Babcock, September 17th, 1883 on dedication page. Inner hinge repaired with library tape. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. Large 8vo. 225mm. Original full blue cloth binding, worn with some loss at head of spine. Remnants of library call numbers on spine. ENGLAND BX 3
1852pp. xvi, 309; pp. xxiv, 262 + Engraved Portrait Frontis. Title pages printed in red and black with an elaborate border. Title page of the 1852 edition repaired at top margin and old tape repair of page 305 and 306. Some age staining. All edges gilt. Though there are no markings, this copy probably came from the library of the great actor Edwin Forrest. Though the manuscript presentation does not seem to be his: "To Lizzie from her husband Dec. 8th, 1855" on first fly leaf. 170mm. Original full leather binding, edges rubbed. Spine lettered in gold gilt with raised bands. Very slight loss at tail of spine. Hardbound. Very good. Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) was the most famous American actor of his era. RELIGION BX 12
1828pp. (20) [Notices of Time's Telescope for 1823], 415, (1) [Time's Telescope publications for 1814 to 1827] + Engraved Portrait Frontis of Sofonisba Angosciola. Offsetting from frontis onto title page. Title page printed in red and black. Uncut. Some age staining. 190mm. Disbound. Includes black bordered obituary of the death of the Duke of York and other deaths in 1828. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BX 5
198540 p. Profusely illustrated with color photographs of Bath, ENGLAND. 240mm. Original color pictorial wraps. Softbound. CLASSICS BX 1
1813pp (3), 37, (1) [Contents], 70, (1) [Alphabetical Index]. Title page printed in red and black and decorated with an engraving. Title page printed in black and red with an engraved pictorial inset (Lee Priory?). Ruled in black throughout. Wide margins. Some penciled margins notations. All edges gilt. 290mm. Disbound. This is only the second work issued by the press in quarto. This impression was limited to only One Hundred Copies. First Edition thus. "This was the first attempt to collect into one volume, all the poetical pieces said to have been written by Sir W. Raleigh." - Brushfield. Sir Egerton Byrdges (1762-1837) was an English bibliographer, antiquary, genealogist, Member of Parliament, and one of the original members of the Roxburghe Club. At his home he set up the Lee Priory Press in 1813 and enticed Johnson (the author of 'Typographica') & Warwick, who had worked for Bensley, to work for him to produce "reprints of some of the most curious tracts of former days, in which there shall be an attempt to add beauty of typography and wood-engraving. the books have an agreeable elegance, and at the time of their publication they were highly admired." - Roderick Cave. Hardbound. Very good. Colin Frankin, The Private Presses, 1969; Armitage, Raleigh, 109; Brushfield, Raleigh, 280; Lowndes XI. 220, No 3 & Lowndes VII 2041. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! LOC W42
1974451 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
1885pp. x, 354 + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous text drawings. Mildly XLib. XLib stamp on Frontis tissue and margin of last page. XLib shelf label on front paste down. Floral endpapers. 230mm. Original full brown cloth binding. Beveled edges. Front board lettered in gold with three portraits in an oval, a triangle and a square surrounded with a gilt quill, sword and royal coat of arms. Extremities very slightly rubbed. Hardbound. Very good. ENGLAND BX 4
1886pp. viii, 243. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Inner hinges taped. 8vo. 225mm. Original Folk Lore Society red cloth binding. Boards stamped Mercantile Library in blind. Spine very worn with loss. Library paper label call numbers on spine. Folk Lore Society Volume XVII (1885). Scarce. ENGLAND BX 5
1840pp. xvi, 116, 30 Copper Engraved Plates [Sizing diamonds and pearls]. First signatures loose. Some foxing. Bookbinder's ticket of Josiah Westley, London, on rear paste down. Lacks first fly leaf. Engraved silversmith's label of S. Kirk & Son, Baltimore, on front paste down. 185mm. Original cloth covered boards embossed in blind and decorated in gold on front board. Lacks spine but a remnant of spine title present. The first edition was published in 1750 and was the first book in English to describe how diamonds and pearls can be evaluated on the basis of the factors of size (or weight) and style of cut. ENGLAND BX 5
1910pp. xx, 618 + Frontis and Numerous Full Page Plates. Text illustrations. Top edge gilt. Deckle edges. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. Large 8vo. 220mm. Original full cloth binding lettered and decorated in gold gilt, slightly faded. ENGLAND BX 4
1844pp. viii, 349. Uncut. Penciled ownership of J. H. Drumm?, 1866 on front paste down with his marginal notes. Title page decorated with the publisher's anchor and dolphin symbol. XLib stamp of Lehigh University on title page. Inner hinges cracked. 230mm. Original full faded cloth binding. Original spine paper label, worn and chipped. Head of spine repaired with some loss. Tail of spine and corners worn with slight loss. Hardbound. Very good. Scarce. Robertson, which attracted considerable notice. It showed the impossibility of a literal compliance with all the rubrics, and the consequent need of tolerance and elasticity. ENGLAND BX 5
1808pp. li, 146 + Engraved Portrait Frontis. Offsetting onto title page. All edges marbled. Foxed. Mildly XLib. 265mm. Leather boards worn and detached. Spine very worn with loss. Virtually disbound. ENGLAND BX 5