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BALLADS AND BROADSIDES IN BRITAIN, 1500-1800.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 8vo., pp.xv,357, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BARDACHD ALBANNACH: SCOTTISH VERSE FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAN OF LISMORE.
Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press Ltd, 1978. 8vo.,pp. xl,327, hardcover, gilt; a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine with water marking, rubbing to extremities with light chipping to head and foot of spine and light wear to corners.
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BASIL BUNTING ON POETRY.
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xlv,232, hardcover, copper lettering, 9 b/w plates; lightly foxed to top edge, very slight bruising to spine which is slightly rolled, else very good indeed, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly sunned and creased to headband, otherwise very good indeed.
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BAWDY PLAYS OF BYGONE DAYS. Seven Early Dramas.
Privately published, 2015. 8vo., pp.xx,139, paperback; ownership inscription to title, a very good, fresh copy.
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BELLUM GRAMMATICALE SIVE NOMINUM VERBORUMQUE DISCORDIA CIVILIS (printed 1635); THIBALDUS SIVE VINDICTAE INGENIUM (printed 1640). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 12.
Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),(xii),66,(xvi),80(facsimiles), paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, small underlinings to one page, else clean, a very good copy.
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BEN JONSON 11 VOLUMES: Volume I & II: The Man and His Work; Volume II:I A Tale of a Tub; The Case is Altered; Every Man in His Humour; Every Man out of His Humour; Volume IV: Cynthia’s Revels; Poetaster; Sejamus; Eastward Ho; Volume V: Volpone; Epocoene; The Alchemist; Catiline; Volume VI: Batholomew Fair; The Devil is an Ass; The Staple of News; The New Inn; The Magnetic Lady; Volume VII: The Sad Shepherd; The Fall of Mortimer; Masques and Entertainments; Volume VIII: The Poems; The Prose Works; Volume IX: Survey of the Text; Stage History; Commentary; Volume X: Commentary; Volume XI: Commentary; Literary Record; Notes; Index.
Oxford: At the Claredndon Press, 1952. 11 volumes, the set, 8vo., green cloth, gilt lettering with gilt emblems to front boards, b/w frontispieces; light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise near-fine, in mostly price-clipped dust-jackets, with some surface scuff marks and rubbing to extremities, overall a very good set.
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BEOWULF AND FOUR RELATED OLD ENGLISH POEMS.
A Verse Translation with Explanatory Notes.
New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Signed by the author, 8vo., pp.xxv,170, pictorial cloth, black lettering; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, very slightly bruised to upper corner of front board, otherwise a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,235, navy hardcover, gilt; ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, light glue staining to paste-down endpapers, bruising to front board extremities and lightly to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly soiled and rubbed to headband, else very good.
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BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON. Parallels and Analogues.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp. x,230, navy hardcover, with pale blue title label to front board, gilt lettering to spine; upper section of front free endpaper cropped, otherwise a clean and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BETRAYALS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.(ix),308, black hardcover lettered in silver; author’s signature to title page, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, else very good.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE CHURCH LIBRARIES AT TURTON AND GORTON, BEQUEATHED BY HUMPHREY CHETHAM.
Manchester, The Chetham Society. 8vo..pp.192, brown cloth, gilt; some pages uncut at upper margin, rubbed and sunned to spine and extremities, light wear to head and foot of spine and toning to marigns, o/w a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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BIBLIOTHEQUE ANDRE DESGUINE: LES INCUNABLES CATALOGUE.
Nanterre, Archives Departementales, 1992. 8vo.,pp. 159, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; lightly toned to margins, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE REVEREND JOSEPH WARTON, D.D.
Master of St. Mary Winton College; prebendary of Winchester Cathedral; and Rector of the parishes of Wickham and Upham: to which are added, a selection from his works; and a literary correspondence between eminent persons reserved for publication by the Rev. John Wooll, A.M.
London: Gregg International Publishers Ltd, 1969. Facsimile republication of the 1806 edition, 8vo., pp. xix, 407, hardcover, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to prelims, endpapers and edges, margins only occasionally and slightly affected, otherwise internally clean, boards lightly rubbed, overall a very good copy.
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BLAKE RECORDS.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii, 678, illustrated throughout in b/w, cloth, gilt, with pictorial gilt stamped to spine, minor rubbing to extremities, minor foxing to fore-edges, o/w a very good copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with minor scuffing in a clear book protector
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BLANQUERNA.
Dedalus European Classics.
London/New York: Dedalus/Hippocrene Books, 1992. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.536, paperback; partial sunning to wrappers, crease to spine, internally clean and very good, a good+ copy.
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BLANQUERNA: A THIRTEENTH CENTURY ROMANCE.
London: Jarrolds, 1926. Tall 8vo., pp.536, backed in cream linen, gilt, marbled boards; light foxing to prelims, foxing to fore-edges, rubbing and light wear to paper covering at extremities of boards, internally fresh, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has 3cm closed tear and creasing to front lower margin, and two further small closed tears to extremities, else very good.
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BLOODY CONSTRAINT. War and Chivalry in Shakespeare.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.246, brown hardback, red gilt, b/w frontispiece; owner’s inscription to front board --------- (Craig Taylor, University of York - relevant? seems that he’s professor of medieval history) ----------, fine with near-fine unclipped dust-jacket with sunning to spine.
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BLOOMSBURY.
London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 8vo., pp.126, brown hardcover lettered in white; includes selection of TLS regarding future corrections to the text; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear, light creasing and very mild chipping to extremities. Now in a protective cover.
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BLOOMSBURY AESTHETICS AND THE NOVELS OF FORSTER AND WOOLF.
London/Basingstoke: Macmillan. 8vo., pp.xii,249, brown hardcover, gilt, 24 b/w illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BLUE IN OLD ENGLISH. An Interdisciplinary Semantic Study. Costerus New Series 110.
Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997. 8vo., pp.333, paperback; slight shelfwear, a very good, fresh copy.
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