| "LOUD LAUGHTER" HUMOROUS DRAWINGS ILLUSTRATING "EASY FRENCH EXERCISES" |
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unpaginated, 8 Colour plates. Original red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Binding rubbed and worn to edges, somewhat marked. Contents clean and tight, minimal spotting, a little reading wear and a few small marks particularly to rear end papers, paper to hinges worn/cracked. A good to ver... £38.00
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| A BOOK OF QUAKER SAINTS |
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pp xii, 547, fine plates by Cayley-Robinsin, tipped on colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 6 other tipped-on colour plates. Original decorated end papers. Top edge cut, other edges uncut. Original oatmeal cloth, with black lettering, binding very good with minimal wear. Contents clean and tig... £30.00
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| A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE. [TWO VOLUME SET]: WITH AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM BY BARON CUVIER; COPIOUS NOTES OF DISCOVERIES IN NATURAL HISTORY; AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY WASHINGTON IRVING |
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No date, but circa 1868; pp. lvi, 536; 54; engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, engraved title pages to both volumes with hand-coloured vignettes; 72 hand-coloured plates (complete) bound in, in a non-numerical order to reflect text (the directions to the binder are not present in this copy).... £140.00
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| A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE. [TWO VOLUME SET]: WITH AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM BY BARON CUVIER; COPIOUS NOTES OF DISCOVERIES IN NATURAL HISTORY; AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY WASHINGTON IRVING |
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No date, but circa 1868; pp. lvi, 536; 54; engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, engraved title pages to both volumes with hand-coloured vignettes; 72 hand-coloured plates (complete) bound in a non-numerical order to reflect text (mostly in accordance to the directions to the binder). Contempo... £150.00
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| A PANORAMA OF THE PROGRESS OF HUMAN LIFE FASHIONABLY DISPLAYED ILLUSTRATING SHAKESPEARE'S AGES AND GIVING AT THE SAME TIME THE MANNERS, COSTUME, AMUSEMENTS, AND FIELD SPORTS OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE |
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pp. 36. Fine mounted colour plates with tissue guards. Original red cloth backed plain buff boards with gilt lettering to spine, in original slip-case. Binding very good with just a little light rubbing, and a few small marks, spine slightly faded. Slip-case very good, a little rubbed and slightl... £25.00
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| A WEST COUNTRY PILGRIMAGE |
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pp. 115, 16 fine tipped in colour plates after watercolours by A.T.Benthall. Original brown cloth binding with bevelled edges to the boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board, binding good with a little general wear and rubbing, cloth slightly marked. Contents clean and tight, no inscrip... £25.00
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| AHA |
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b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket fine, not price-clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine bright copy.... £6.00
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| ALL THIS AND BEVIN TOO |
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230 pages, Cover & 7 full-page drawings by Mervyn Peake. A first edition copy of this stapled booklet. Covers very good with a little general wear and a litle dust and age soiling, very small chip to head of the spine (3mm x 10mm). Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, paper slightly toned. ... £175.00
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| AN ALPHABET |
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No. 20 of "limited edition of 150 sets printed at Whittington Court from the original woodblocks on a Columbian Hand-press..". 39 leaves, approximately 400 x 290mm. 34 original woodblock prints, 2 reproductions from line-blocks, one block reproduced from an electrotype and one lithographic reproduc... £650.00
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| ARMENIAN LEGENDS AND POEMS |
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Illustrated and Compiled by Zabelle C. Boyajan. With an Introduction by the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, and a Contribution on "Armenia: Its Epics, Folk-Songs, and Medieval Poetry," by Aram Raffi. pp. xvi, 195, [i]; 12 fine colour plates tipped onto grey-green thick paper, captioned in sepia. Top edg... £210.00
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