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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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BLAKE'S VISIONARY UNIVERSE.
Manchester University Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.,xiv,394, green hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; light spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, light toning to top, title page creased, o/w a very good copy in price-clipped dust-jacket in clear protective cover.
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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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BOETHIUS AND DIALOGUE.
Literary Method in The Consolation of Philosophy.
Princeton University Press, 1985. 8vo., pp.x,264, brown cloth with stamped title label, gilt; light partial sunning to cloth, slight roll to spine, a very good, internally fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOK CATALOGUES: THEIR VARIETIES AND USES.
St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1986. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,284, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light creasing to headband, slight toning to edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS AS HISTORY.
The Importance of Books Beyond their Texts.
London: The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2011. Reprinted revised edition, small 4to., pp.208, paperback, colour-illustrated; very minor creasing at tailband and lower corner of front wrapper, a very good copy indeed.
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BOOKS FOR SALE.
The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2009. 8vo., pp.xvi,191, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS ON THE MOVE. Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2007. 8vo., pp.xv,164, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight bruise to upper edge of front board, else fresh and fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS UNDER SUSPICION.
Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England.
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.lii,562, hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light bruising to extremities, else fresh and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing to extremities.
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BOTTOM: On Shakespeare.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. 470, paperback, pictorial title page; light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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BOY. A Novel.
London: Boriswood Limited, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.271, orange cloth lettered in black, top edges black; some foxing to edges and front free endpaper, a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly rubbed and chipped to upper edge.
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BROKEN HARMONY: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. 8vo.,pp. xiv,261, navy cloth, silver lettering, b/w figures; heavily annotated in ink to front paste down and front free endpapers with light annotation to rear free endpaper, some light pencil annotation to margins of text, lower corners of boards slightly knocked and small sticker marking to rear, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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BUNTING: THE SHAPING OF HIS VERSE.
Oxford University Press, 1992. 8vo., pp.xx,370, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
A History, From the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne.
Cambridge University Press, 1986. 8vo., pp.xviii,510, navy cloth, gilt, top edges blue, 31 b/w illustrations; small mark to fore-edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly worn to edges.
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CANAL DREAMS.
London: Macmillan. First edition, 8vo., pp.198, black hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to half title and title pages, slight mark to lower margin of front board, else fresh and near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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CANCER; FRAUS HONESTA. Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series: 2.
Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction),249-378,(iv),133 (facsimiles), paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); a very good copy indeed.
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