ABBOTT C.C.

Early Mediaeval French Lyrics.

Constable,, 1932. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original dark green buckram, backstrip with printed paper label, gilt top, uncut, boards and backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book no.: 12941

GBP 16,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 18.25 US$ 21.04 | JP¥ 3244]

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Keywords: literature, france, french literature, french lyrics, french poetry, medieval lyrics, c.c. abbott, literature, early, mediaeval, french, lyrics

ALCIATO Andrea

Andreae Alciati Emblematum Flumen Abundans; or, Alciat\'s Emblems in their Full Stream. Being a Facsimile Reprint of the Lyons Edition by Bonhomme, 1551; and of Titles of similar editions 1548-1551. Edited by Henry Green.

Holbein Society,, 1871. Sm. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and very numerous fine full-page facsimiles in the text, neat signature on half-title and verso; original maroon cloth, boards elaborately blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, backstrip moderately sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. High-quality photo-lithographic facsimile reissue, with an introduction, alphabetical list of all the Latin mottoes and general index. SCARCE.

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Book no.: 15388

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Keywords: literature, emblems, emblem books, latin, alciat, bonhomme, lyons edition, holbein society

ALLEN Vivien

Hall Caine. Portrait of a Victorian Romancer.

Sheffield Academic Press,, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous illustratioins from photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The best biography to date, including a worthy attempt at a bibliography of the novels

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Book no.: 14619

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ANON

Are These Things So? 1740 [with] The Great Man\'s Answer to Are These Things So? (1740). Introduction by Ian Gordon. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1972. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 153. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19453

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ANON

The Art of Architecture. A Poem in Imitation of Horace\'s Art of Poetry (1742). Introduction by William A. Gibson. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1970. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 144. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19457

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Keywords: literature, horace, art of poetry, art of architecture, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library

[ANON]

Ballads and Songs Loyal to the Hanoverian Succession (1703-1761). Introduction by John J. McAleer. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1962. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 96. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19420

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ANON

An Essay on the New Species of Writing founded by Mr. Fielding (1751). Fielding (1751). Introduction by Alan D McKillop.[Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1962. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 95. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19443

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[ANON]

Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals. Introduction by John Loftis. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1960. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 85-86. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19438

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ANON

The Female Wits (1704). Introduction by Lucyle Hook. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1967. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 124. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19458

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[ANON]

The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass. Newly Collected, Chronicled and Set Forth, in our English Tongue. And Adorned with many most diverting and cunning devices. Second Edition. [Illustrated by A. Crowquill, pseud. A.H. Forrester].

Trubner & Co.,, 1860. 8vo., Second Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, illustrated title in red and black, 6 fine wood-engraved plates FINELY COLOURED BY HAND and 26 engraved illustrations in the text, wanting front free endpaper, frontispiece and title lightly spotted; original pictorial red coarse-grain cloth, upper board elaborately blocked with multiple frame border in gilt and blind enclosing jester and title all in gilt, gilt back, gilt edges, bevelled boards, yellow endpapers, covers moderately age-soiled, corners scuffed, joints somewhat rubbed with one short tear, gathering cracked at F6-7 (but binding wholly sound) else a firm, tight copy. With Westley\'s binder\'s ticket on rear paste-down. Mackenzie\'s version of the German mediaeval classic was first published in 1860 as a Christmas volume, but stocks were swiftly exhausted and a second edition prepared to meet continuing demand. Mackenzie produced a lengthy additional preface to this second edition, attributing the success of the venture partly to \'the generous and unanimous verdict of the press\' but also, surely, to the wonderful illustrations by \'Alfred Crowquill\' (A.H. Forrester). Many would-be Christmas readers must have been disappointed for Mazkenzie dates his preface Christmas Eve, but scholars of mediaeval romance and fantasy will find this a most useful edition replete with extensive historical preface and bibliographical and other scholarly appendices. The US edition (T&F of Boston) of the same year is the first American edition of the tale in English. Scarce.

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Book no.: 15819

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ANON

Poeta de Tristibus: or, The Poet\'s Complaint (1682). Introduction by Harold Love. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1971. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 149. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19424

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ANON

Political Justice. A Poem (1736). Introduction by Burton R. Pollin and John W. Wilkes. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1965. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 111. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19455

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ANON

Scotch Modesty Displayed, in a Series of Conversations that lately passed between an Englishman and a Scotchman. Addressed to the Worthy Patriots of England.

Printed for John Bew, No. 28 Pater Noster Row,, 1778. 16mo., First Edition, on laid paper; attractively bound in twentieth century grey boards, paper label lettered and ruled in black on upper board, small marginal chip in D4 (not affecting text), a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Most attractive copy of a none-too-subtle satire on the supposed power of the Scots in the English establishment and society. The barb was evidently a popular one, for it reissued in the same year with a third printing in 1780. Rare.

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Book no.: 9378

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[ANON]

The Scribleriad (1742) [with] The Difference between Verbal and Practical Virtue (1742). Introduction by A.J. Sambrook. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1967. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 125. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book no.: 19450

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ARBER] [Edward

An English Garner. [Ingatherings from our History and Literature. Complete set.] BEST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH GARNER COMPLETE

Constable,, 1903. 12 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, some endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops (save Beazley), uncut, a very good, bright, firm set. Ten volumes have a uniform pictorial personal bookplate on front paste-down, two volumes have the fine armorial bookplate of the Signet Library [Edinburgh]. This valuable compilation of tracts, poetry, prose and other contemporary documents was first assembled under the editorship of Edward Arber and published in eight volumes between 1877 and 1896. Here the entire collection is reissued in greatly expanded form, rearranged and reclassified under the general editorship of Thomas Seccombe. There is much new material and the series as a whole benefits from fresh critical apparatus from some of the finest scholars of the day. The collection comprises: Aitken (G.A). Later Stuart Tracts (1903); Beazley (C.R). Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries (2 vols) (1903); Bullen (A.H). Shorter Elizabethan Poems (1903); Bullen (A.H). Some Longer Elizabethan Poems (1903); Collins (J.C). Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903); Firth (C.H). Stuart Tracts 1603-1693 (1903); Lang (A). Social England Illustrated. A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts (1903); Lee (S). Elizabethan Sonnets, newly arranged and indexed (2 vols; 1904); Pollard (A.F). Tudor Tracts 1532-1588 (1903); Pollard (A.W). Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse (1903). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book no.: 12194

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