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WORKS OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. [Set of ten volumes, comprising:] MAID MARIAN; MELINCOURT, or Sir Oran Haut-Ton (in two volumes); CROTCHET CASTLE; NIGHTMARE ABBEY; CALIDORE & MISCELLANEA [Including Memoir of the author by Sir Edward Strachey]; THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN; GRYLL GRANGE (in two volumes).
Aldine House, London: J.M. Dent, 1891. Ten volumes, pocket 8vo., uncut, decorative oatmeal cloth, lettered in burgundy and black and decorated in black, decorative head- and tailpieces to text, illuminated letters, titles in red and black, b/w frontispieces; variable tone to cloth, light chipping to head and tailbands, light bruising to a few of the corners, overall a very good set.
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WRITING; A COMPOSITION BOOK; STEIN IMITATIONS. For Madison 1953.
Albuquerque: Sumbooks, 1964. First edition, limited to 375 copies, square 8vo., pp.(lx) + loose errata leaf, stapled blue paper wrappers; toning to contents throughout, small closed tears to fore-edge of rear wrapper (which stands proud of contents), light marking to rear wrapper, else very good.
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WRITING AND READING ROYAL ENTERTAINMENTS.
From George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson.
Oxford University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.x,305, navy hardcover, gilt; light rubbing to foot of spine, else fresh and very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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WRITING LIVES TOGETHER. Romantic and Victorian Auto/Biography.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 8vo., pp.x,148, hardcover; two light indentations to front board, internally fine, a very good, clean copy.
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WRITING WAR: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare.
Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2004. 8vo.,pp. ix,235, burgundy hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, b/w figures; small ownership inscription to front paste-down, rubbing extremities, bump to upper margin, a very good copy indeed, no dust-jacket.
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WULFSTAN’S PROSE:
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, British Academy.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. First edition, 8vo., pp. 36, paper pamplet, uncut; darkening and wear to extremities, a good copy.
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YEATS.
Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition, 8vo.,pp.,xii,500, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light spotting to head, o/w a very good copy in a price clipped dust-jacket.
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YEE? BAW FOR BOKES.
Essays on Medieval Manuscripts and Poetics. In Honor of Hoyt N. Duggan.
Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers, 2013. 8vo., pp.x,296, navy cloth, gilt; a fine copy in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to upper margin of spine.
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