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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF COLOR IN THE MEDIEVAL AGE.
(A Cultural History of Color, Volume 2)
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Large 8vo., pp.xii,260, pictorial glazed hardcover, colour plates and b/w figures; light bruising to upper corners of boards, else near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A CURIOUS HIEROGLYPHICK BIBLE;
Or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical figures, for the Amusement of Youth: Designed Chiefly to familiarize tender Age, in a pleasing and diverting Manner, with early Ideas of the Holy Scriptures. To which are subjoined, a short Account of the Lives of the Evangelists, and other Pieces, Illustrated with Cuts. The Thirteenth Edition.
London: Robert Bassam, 1796. 12mo., pp.136, calf boards professionally rebacked with morocco spine, contrasting gilt-lettered title label, blindstamped borders to boards, engraved frontispiece, woodcut figures throughout; complete, with the usual mispagination, various ownership inscriptions to front endpapers and prelim blanks, some toning and occasional light foxing throughout, a very good copy.
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A DAUGHTER OF THE NARIKIN.
Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1932. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,325, uncut, black moire cloth, gilt, with blindstamped Japanese title to front board, top edges green, pictorial title page; bookseller’s label to front paste-down endpaper, light foxing to fore-edges, slight marking to lower edges, very slight wear at tailband, very slight bruising to corners, a very good copy.
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A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.
New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1934. 8vo., pp.xi,260, brown cloth, gilt, pictorial title, t.e.g.; light stain to lower edges/fore-edges at corner, else clean and very good.
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A DIRECTORY OF COMPOSERS FOR ORGAN.
Second Revised and Enlarged Edition.
Swindon: John Henderson (Publishing) Ltd. 8vo., pp.xii,789, red faux-leather hardcover, gilt; a fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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A DOG OF WAR.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. Limited edition, no. 28 of 375 copies, tall 8vo., pp.32, quarter orange buckram, gilt, orange paper-covered boards, coloured frontispiece and 4 further hand-coloured plates; toning and some foxing to endpapers, light foxing within, spine just lightly sunned, with light surface soil to boards and wear to paper covering at lower corners of boards, overall a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, partially toned, with closed tears and light loss to upper margin.
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A DOMESDAY OF ENGLISH ENCLOSURE ACTS AND AWARDS.
Reading: The Library, University of Reading, 1978. 4to., pp.viii,459, brown cloth binding with stamped title-label to spine, gilt; toning to Index, a very good, clean copy.
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A DORSET SOLDIER: The Autobiography of Sgt William Lawrence 1790-1869.
Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1995. 8vo., pp.176, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and maps; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A DOUBLE SINGLENESS.
Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.x,220, navy cloth, gilt; near-fine in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography.
Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.192, black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A FACSIMILE OF BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, MS DOUCE 104.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992. 8vo., pp.xciv,unpaginated facsimile, green cloth, black title band and gilt lettering to spine, colour plates, b/w figures and facsimile; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A FEW LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
London, John Murray. Frist edition, 8vo.,pp.vi,95, blue cloth, cream title label to front, black lettering; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, lightly toned to spine, light surface soiling.
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A FLINT SEASIDE CHURCH: St Augustine’s Abbey Church, Ramsgate.
Ramsgate, The Pugin Society. 8vo.,pp. ii,58, paperback, b/w and colour figures; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy.
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A GARDEN DIARY,
September 1899-September 1900.
London: Methuen and Co, 1901. 8vo., pp.(iv),245, uncut, quarter dark green buckram, gilt, with gilt-lettered green paper-covered boards, t.e.g., title in red and black; toning to free endpapers, foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, some foxing within, light paper-splitting to inner hinges, a very good copy.
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A GENEALOGY OF MANNERS.
Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century.
Chicago/London: University of Chicago. 8vo., pp.x,312, paperback; sunned to spine, slight shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean and fine, overall a very good copy.
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A GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRE OF GERMANY, HOLLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, PRUSSIA, ITALY, SICILY, CORSICA, AND SARDINIA;
With a Gazetteer of Reference to the Principal Places in Those Countries. Compiled and translated from the German. To which are added, Statistical Tables of all the States of Europe; Translated from the German of J.G. Boetticher of Konigsberg. With a Supplementary Table, Showing the Changes Since the Commencement of the Present War. Illustrated with Twemty-Four Plates, and a large Three-Sheet Post Map of Germany, Holland, Italy, Etc.
Lo: John Stockdale, 1800. 4to., pp.390,viii,87, full contemporary speckled calf, 5 raised bands, red title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, frontispiece map, 3 folding maps, 23 city plans; light evidence of removed bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor marginal worming, not affecting printed area, 4cm wear to foot of upper external joint, 1.5cm wear to foot of lower external joint, rubbing/superficial wear along upper joint and to lower inner corner of front board, a clean and handsome copy.
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A GOLDEN CASKET OF STORIES.
London: John Long, Limited, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp.320, pictorial purple cloth, lettered in gilt and stamped in green and beige, colour frontispiece and fifteen b/w plates by Amelia M. Bowerley; edges and prelims foxed, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, foxed, with tear and small area of loss to head of upper fold over spine, chipping to headband, and toning to spine.
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A GRAMSCI READER.
Selected Writings 1916-1935.
London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1988. First edition, 8vo., pp.447, green hardcover, gilt; toning to edges, slight sunning to upper edges of boards, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has bardcode sticker to rear.
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A GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY;
Accompanied by a History and Description
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; J. Murray. Folio, pp.viii,174, attractive, twentieth-century quarter calf with five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, new endpapers, 20 engraved plates, including additional pictorial title and one in the text; light foxing to pictorial title, lower corner of rear board a little bumped, otherwise a very good copy indeed.
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A GUIDE TO THE PICTISH STONES.
Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1997. 8vo.,pp. 154, paperback, b/w illustrations and figures; toned to margins, otherwise very good.
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