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A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
With Illustrations by John Leech.
Book ID: 4047More details Price: £2,500.00
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Amelia.
In four volumes.
London: Harrison and Co, 1780. First Thus (Harrison & Co. edition). Four volumes bound as one. In quarter leather with mottled brown card boards. Contemporary titles and gilt rules to the spine. The binding is in good, sound condition, with a little bumping and rubbing only. Frontispiece and a further four engraved plates (five in total). Internally clean and tidy throughout, in very good condition. iv, 299 pages. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3340More details Price: £150.00 -
Domnine
Book ID: 3958More details Price: £125.00
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Jérome Paturot à la recherche d'une position sociale.
Édition illustrée p. J.-J.Grandville.
Book ID: 4093More details Price: £150.00
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Set of five Sporting Novels with hand coloured illustrations by John Leech
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour / Handley Cross / Ask Mama / Plain or Ringlets / Mr Romford's Hounds
Book ID: 4053More details Price: £650.00
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Signed Cheque
London: Coutts & Company, 1860. A signed cheque, presented by Charles Dickens, pay to "House" for £5.10.0 drawn against Coutts & Co. Dicken's signature is clear, and has his usual flourish. The cheque is slightly darkened, but in very good condition, and embossed with a "one penny" device over the word "Bearer" The cheque is mounted behind glass, with a gilt border of 22cm x 11.5cm This in turn is within a much larger frame of 41cm x 35.5cm which also holds an attractive engraved portrait of Dickens, and a brass plaque, bearing the title "Charles Dickens 1812-1870." The background is a dark brown felt / baize. To the rear of the frame is a paper label for the Heritage Collectors' Society of Pennsylvania.
Book ID: 4022More details Price: £1,800.00 -
Some essays and passages by John Eglinton; Selected by William Butler Yeats.
Book ID: 3713More details Price: £150.00
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The Catholic Crusoe;
Adventures of Owen Evans, Set Ashore on a Desolate Island 1739.
Edition: Reprint
London: Burns and Oates, 1889. Ninth Edition. Original red cloth gilt, spine faded, covers with a couple of small marks, book-label of Syon Abbey, Devon. First issued in 1863 by Fowler of Dublin; one copy on Copac, at Trinity College Dublin, is listed under the name of Anderson, with the note that it was later published as "The Catholic Crusoe". The Bodleian copy states that Anderdon was the author; other copies give the authorship to Owen Evans [pseud.]. There is no copy recorded as this one. xi, (i), 371, (i), 16 pp. Catalogue, Frontispiece and 11 wood-engraved plates.
Book ID: 1040More details Price: £30.00 -
The Dramatic Works of John Wilson. With Prefatory Memoir, Introductions, and Notes.
Book ID: 4201More details Price: £50.00
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Tom Raw, The Griffin: A Burlesque Poem, In Twelve Cantos: Illustrated by Twenty-Five Engravings
Descriptive of the Adventures of a Cadet in the East India Company's Service...
Book ID: 4142More details Price: £950.00