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1803pp. xxxii, 312, clii [Appendix]. Mildly XLib. Early engraved bookplate with an unusual cipher TSC(?). Bookplate of W. Emmert Swigart and Juniata College. All edges marbled. 8vo. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Boards detached. Spine very worn with loss. Should be considered disbound. Peltier was a French Royalist who took refuge in England around 1792. Accused of promoting the assassination of Napoleon, he was tried by an English court in 1803. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 4
1816390p. Inked ownership of Williams A. Stevenson, May, 1819, on title page. 8vo. Quarter green leather over marbled boards. Front board detached. Spine decorated in gold with raised bands. Leather spine labels chipped with loss. Head of spine worn with loss. Extremities worn; boards rubbed. Hardbound. Very good. Second edition. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 6
1885Five Volumes (I-V). Illustrated with numerous fine full page portrait engravings. Marbled end papers. All edges marbled. Inked ownership of Ada P. Smith. Large 8vo. Original quarter tan leather over marbled boards. Spines decorated in gold with original leather spine labels. Raised bands. Extremities worn. Printed and bound by Trow's, New York. Fine set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 7
1771Three Volumes. XLib. Engraved bookplate of R. Wellwood, Esq. in two of the volumes. Bookplate of Juniata College in all three volumes, given by Miles Murphy. XLib stamps embossed in blind on title pages and elsewhere. 12mo. Original full leather bindings. All boards very fragile, and detaced - or almost detached. Small loss at head and tail of spines. Extremities worn with some loss. Gilt lettered spines. Raised bands. Spines lack leather labels. Stated Second edition - see notes at the end of this entry. Hardbound. Very good. Priced to allow for restoration. "In the last month of 1769, Smollett's health compelled him, to leave England. He went to Italy, and, in the spring of 1770, settled in a villa near Leghorn. Here, he wrote his last and most agreeable novel, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. In its way, this is another picaresque story, insomuch as, during its progress, the characters (who relate everything in letters to their friends) pursue their travels in England and Scotland. But its tone and temper (owing, possibly, to the influence of Sterne, possibly, to the pacific mood which often blesses the closing days of even the angriest men) are very different from those of Roderick Random and of Peregrine Pickle. Smollett the humourist, of whom we have had but brief glimpses in his earlier works, is more evident here than anywhere else. Matthew Bramble, the outwardly savage and inwardly very tender old bachelor, his sister Mrs. Tabitha Bramble, smart Jery Melford, their nephew, and his sister Miss Lydia, Mrs. Winifred Jenkins, the maid, and Humphrey Clinker himself, the "methodist" manservant whom they pick up on their travels - all these are characters more deeply and kindly seen than any of their predecessors except Hawser Trunnion. The best among them all is Lismahago, the Scottish soldier, needy, argumentative, proud, eccentric - a figure of genuine comedy, among whose many descendants must be reckoned one of great eminence, Dugald Dalgetty. The novel is planned with a skill unusual in Smollett's fiction. In Richardson, the device of telling the story in letters leads to wearisome repetitions and involutions. Smollett contrives to avoid much repetition; and the story, though loosely built, as picaresque novels must be, goes steadily and clearly forward to reach a more or less inevitable ending. This was his last work. He died at his villa in September, 1771, and is buried in the English cemetery at Leghorn." - Cambridge History of English and American Literature; CBEL II 964. This is apparently a piracy that shares the basic appearance of the second authorized edition. The date could possibly be false -- as this edition could have been printed anytime after Sept. 1771. The ESTC has neglected this edition (there's no entry for it), - Thanks to Jim May for this information. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 5
1825Nine Volumes. Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait engraved by W. H. Worthington in Volume One. Frontis foxed with offsetting on title page. Bookplate of Andrew Murray Williams in all volumes. Bookplate of Juniata College, gift of Mrs. John Lowman in all volumes. XLib stamps embossed in blind on all title pages and elsewhere. Top edges gold. All edges XLib stamped. 8vo. Original full leather bindings. Boards ruled in gold with embossed gold designs and lettered "Munificentia Hulmiana". Spines decorated and lettered in gold. XLib call marks on spines. Spines rubbed. Spine on volume one backed with brown cloth retaining original leather spine. Volume Nine lacks spine and front board detached. Loss at head of spines of Volumes Seven and Eight. Slight loss at head of spine on Volume Two. Spines should by backed. JUN5 BOX 7
1970217p. Small 8vo. Original yellow cloth spine over paper covered boards, spine slightly darkened. Original priced dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. LIT BOX 4
1958275p. Small 8vo. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original dust jacket, spine darkened. Book Club Edition. Hardbound. Very good. LIT BOX 4
1909345p. + Plus six color plates by Reginald F. Bolles, including a frontispiece showing some folks taking their first automobile ride. Each page is framed in decorative page borders. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding lettered in gold. Binding slightly worn at extremities and slightly spotted. Hardbound. LIT BOX 3
186840 p. 16 mo. 179 mm. Heavy half leather over marbled boards binding (1860's). "The rare and most vvonderful thinges which Edward Webbe an Englishman borne hath seene and passed in his troublesome trauailes, in the citties of Ierusalem, Dammasko, Bethelem, and Galely: and in the Landes of Iewrie, Egipt, Gtecia, Russia, and in the land of Prester Iohn. Wherein is set foorth his extreame slauerie sustained many yeres togither, in the Gallies and wars of the great Turk against the Landes of Persia, Tartaria, Spaine, and Portugall, with the manner of his realeasement, and comming into Englande in May last. London, 1590." Very good. Arber English Reprints #5. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 1
1947340 p. 8vo. Full cloth binding. Hardback. First published in 1936. Good. In most cases the spellings of the original sources is retained, adding to the charm and information value of this book. Good. ENGLAND 3
1975pp. xiv, 362 + Illustrations. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, lettered in gold. Pictorial dust jacket with a small abrasion on the front. A very nice copy of this wonderful biography. "No English monarch's life can match that of Charles the First for sheer drama." ENGLAND 3
1834Two volumes. pp. xii, 353; xi, 274 + Publisher's advertisements. 12mo. 18 cm. Browned. Original worn publisher's cloth binding, with remains of the fragile paper label. Contemporary (1830's) manuscript ownership of Harriette L. Wassen. These wonderful letters of travel are addressed to Miss Virginia Elizabeth Southard (Hoffman), of Trenton, N.J. (d. 1886). Stewart is most famous for his journals of his residence in the South Seas, but this work about his travels through Great Britain is actually much scarcer, and makes wonderful reading. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENG 1
1720pp. 12 (Ode to Henry S. John; in English and Latin); 36 (Life of Philips by Sewell); 8 (Splendid Shilling)[1719]; 28 (Blenheim); 71 (Cyder); 1 (Publisher's Advertisement) + Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved plate at 'Cyder. Both plates engraved by Gucht. 12mo. 165 mm. Original full leather binding; cracked at joints. Age stain to fly leaves. Manuscript ownership of J. Chappel Woodhouse, 1772 (Woodhouse apparently was Rector of Donington, in Shropshire). Engraved bookplate of George F. Northall. Hardbound. Scarce Third Edition. John Philips (1676-1709), English poet, was one of the few to write in blank / free verse in an age when the heroic couplet was the standard form. His 'Splendid Shilling' (1701, 1705) is a parody of Milton. 'Cyder' (1708), a utilitarian poem describing the cultivation of apples and the pressing of cider, is modeled after Virgil's 'Georgics'. This is a fine early collection of of Philips' major poems, works that, "written in revolt against the heroic couplet, between the death of Dryden and the appearance of Pope, occupy an important position in the history of English literature." The various editions of Philips's poetry are all nonce collections (with separate title pages, and often variant imprint details and dates). Foxon, p. 570 (incorporating p242 and p249); CBEL II 563. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140
1768pp. (2). 304 (8) [Index]. 8vo. 210 mm. Nice modern faux leather binding. Hardcover. The printer apparently transposed the X & the L of the Roman numerals, changing the correct date for this edition of 1768 to 1748. Early ownership of John Evered. The right to receive tithes was granted to the English churches by King Ethelwulf in 855. The Saladin tithe was a royal tax, but assessed using ecclesiastical boundaries, in 1188. Tithes were given legal force by the Statute of Westminster of 1285. Adam Smith criticized the system in The Wealth of Nations (1776), arguing that a fixed rent would encourage peasants to farm more efficiently. The Dissolution of the Monasteries led to the transfer of many tithe rights from the Church to secular landowners, and then in the 1530s to the Crown. The system ended with the Tithe Commutation Act 1836, which replaced tithes with a rent charge decided by a Tithe Commission. The present work gives wonderful details on the tithe "value" of various monasteries, locales, and institutions. Very good. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W153
175330 p. Top edge of title page cropped without loss of text. Title page soiled. Luhr library slip pasted on verso of title page. 12mo. (Almost 7 1/2 inches) Disbound. Very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! POPERY BOX 1
1841Full title: ON THE CHOICE OF A WIFE; Illustrated by Many Curious Examples in the History of the Frugals - Henry - Stephen - Ralph and John - History of Licentia - and the Wedding Hymn. Also, Directions for the Improvement of the Mind and Religion - Business - Servants - Company - Conversation - Amusements - &c. Calculated for the instruction and improvement of young men and young women in the most essential concerns of life. pp. 108 + Engraved frontispiece. 24 mo. 150 mm. Original full cloth binding; with original printed paper label, slightly chipped and worn. All sorts of Victorian advice in the form of an epic poem. W145 Rt
1806pp. xv, [1], 230 + Engraved frontis, foxed. Text age toned. 16 mo. 170 mm. Nice modern faux leather binding. Hardcover. A very interesting early collection of English epitaphs. "The following pages contain the Epitaphs of many whose lives have been the most distinguished in the annals of fame or longevity, whose excellencies, or eccentricity, have called forth the exertions of the powers of varied genius." Also included are valuable historical and biographical notes. There are many fascinating entries, but those for Samuel Johns and John Baskerville are especially interesting. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W148
1880VOLUME ONE ONLY. 595 p.+ Engraved frontis portrait by Sartain. Slight foxing and age stain. Wide margins. Uncut. Top edge gold. Quarto. Disbound. VOLUME ONE ONLY. PA 44
1972Volume II. 266 p. Profusely illustrated. Large Quarto. Original full blue cloth binding. XLib copy. Volume II covers: England; Netherlands; Poland and Russia; United States of America; South and Central America; Israel; Etc. JUDAICA BOX 2
1856120p. + Frontis and full page engraved plates. Has 4 plates including frontis (may lack a plate?) Numerous text drawings. Decorated title page. 16mo. Original full pictorial decorated wraps. Spine crudely backed in cloth. Original wraps slightly chipped at edges. This particular edition is quite scarce. ENGLAND BOX 2
1879Four Volumes. Illustrated with mounted full page photographic reproductions of engraved plates. Very unusual method of production. Partially unopened. Printed at the Chiswick Press for Charles Whittingham. Top edges gold. Marbled endpapers. XLib. Tall 8vo. All volumes disbound. ENGLAND BOX 3
1880n.p. Accordion fold. 4 Scenes. Two plates marred. Oblong miniature. 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Original full green cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. VERY SCARCE. ENGLAND BOX 2
1904352p. + color maps. Numerous text maps, photographs and drawings. Decorated title page stamped with a Glasgow bookseller's label. Lacks first and last endpapers. Small 8vo. (7") Original full red cloth binding, decorated and lettered in black. Binding soiled. Hardbound. ENGLAND BOX 2
1957n.p. 58 pages of photographs. Mildly XLib. Large 4to. Original full blue cloth binding, faded at extremities. Original dust jacket, chipped at edges. Hardbound. First Edition. ENGLAND BOX 2
1832856p. + Frontis. Numerous text engravings. Text ruled in black throughout. Double column. All edges marbled. Large 8vo. Original quarter leather binding. Gilt decorated raised bands. Spine repaired. Rear board detached. Hardbound. ENGLAND BOX 3