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y her niece ... With Preface and Notes by Austin Dobson.
Macmillan and Co., Limited 1904-5
6 vols., complete. Large 8vo. Engraved port. frontiss., many other
ills., ports., autographs, views etc. Ex.-libris A.E.G. Wright,
contemporary ownership inscription to head of t.ps., new e.ps.,
rebound in modern maroon cloth with gilt lettered leather title
label to spines. £200.00
387. Burns, Robert. THE WORKS. With an Account of His
Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To Which are Prefixed,
Some Observations on the Character and Condition of The
Scottish Peasantry. [with] RELIQUES OF ROBERT BURNS;
Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical
Observations on Scottish Songs. Collected and Published by R.H.
Cromek. J. M’Creery ... 1800-8.
5 vols. in all. Port. frontis., t.p. devices. Light browning, inner gilt
ruling and blind fillet, vols. 1-4 in contemporary gilt and blind
filleted calf, extremities rubbed, vol. 5 in later calf backed boards,
all vols.1-4 rebacked and vol. 5 with much of original gilt dec.
spines laid down, some loss to original spines, a.e.g. £240.00
388. Burton, Richard F. THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND
NIGHTS AND A NIGHT. With Introduction Explanatory Notes
on the manners and customs of Muslem men and a Terminal
Essay upon the History of The Nights. [With] SUPPLEMENTAL
NIGHTS To the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes
Anthropological and Explanatory. Burton Club for Private
Subscribers only N.d. c.[1918].
Shammar Ed. 10 vols. + 7 vols., thus 17 vols. in all. Frontiss.
Lightly soiled grey coloured cloth with red and black lettered
paper title labels to browned spines, t.e.g. £250.00
No. 649 of a Limited Edition of 1000 Sets.
389. Butler, Samuel. HUDIBRAS, A Poem. With Notes,
Selected From Grey and Other Authors; To Which is Prefixed, A
Life of the Author, and a Preliminary Discourse on the Civil War,
&c. Thomas M’Lean 1819.
New Ed. 2 vols. lxxiv + 444pp. + 494pp. 12 hand cold. aquatint
plates. Ex.-libris James Elvin, pp.291-2 torn with sl. loss, very
light browning, half roan with cloth boards, gilt ruled spines with
gilt motifs, sl. rubbed, joints sl. cracked to heads and tails.
£115.00
390. Byron, Lord. THE SIEGE OF CORINTH. A Poem.
PARISINA. A Poem. England John Murray 1816.
1st Ed. 89pp. + [i] Notes. Half title present. Some light browning
and soiling, marbled e.ps., rebound in half calf with marbled
boards, gilt ruling with gilt lettered title label to spine. £75.00
Wise I p.106.
391. (Byron). Dallas, The Late R.C. RECOLLECTIONS OF
THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON, From the Year 1808 to the End
of 1814; Exhibiting His Early Character and Opinions, Detailing
the Progress of His Literary Career, and Including Various
Unpublished Passages of His Works. Taken from Authentic
Documents in the Possession of the Author. Charles Knight ...
1824.
1st UK Ed. T.p. + [viii] + xcvii + [i] + 344pp. Without the 4pp.
publishers adverts. Half title present. With annotations to rear
e.ps., some very light browning, pencil ruling to margins, early
diced cloth boards, extremities rubbed, rebacked in modern calf
with gilt lettered title label. £150.00
ODNB ‘... Dallas remains best-known, however, as a result of his
connection with Lord Byron ...’
392. (Byron). Hobhouse, John. HISTORICAL
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOURTH CANTO OF CHILDE
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HAROLD: Containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome; And
An Essay on Italian Literature. John Murray 1818.
2nd Ed. Revised and Corrected. viii + 576pp. Some very light
browning, ex.-libris Horace Pym, original boards, joints cracking,
chipped title label to spine. £75.00
Wise p.71.
Horace Pym (1844-1896) was a confidential solicitor, book collector and
the editor of the best-selling private journal of the Quaker writer,
Caroline Fox: Memories of Old Friends, published in 1881.
393. Caldecott, Randolph (Illustrator). MORE “GRAPHIC”
PICTURES. George Routledge & Sons 1887.
1st Ed. Landscape 4to. Cold. Frontis., cold. vignette to t.p.,
contents leaf, 33 leaves colour printed on side only. Some very
light browning, pp.57 with neat repair, original cloth backed
boards, some soiling and signs of wear, boards neatly reinforced
to edges. £75.00
394. Carnac, Carol. THE STRIPED SUITCASE. Macdonald
& Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 1946.
1st Ed. 223pp. Ex.-libris Judith & Stephen Dresner, original pale
green hessian cloth lightly faded to spine, good in lightly soiled
and chipped d/w. lightly faded to spine. £75.00
395. Carroll, Lewis. A TANGLED TALE. Macmillan and Co.
1885.
2nd thousand. Crown 8vo. [x] + 152pp. + [i] advert. 6 ills. by
Arthur B. Frost. Ex.-libris J.W. Hill, margins very lightly
browned, hinges tender, gilt lettered gilt ruled cloth with gilt
device to boards, device to lower board sl. rubbed, 2 sm. water
spots to both boards, spine lightly faded and discoloured with
some very sl. chipping at head, a.e.g. £75.00
First published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The
Monthly Packet magazine
396. Carroll, Lewis. THREE SUNSETS And other Poems.
Macmillan and Co. 1898.
1st Ed. Slim 8vo. [x] + 68pp. + 2pp. publ. adverts. With 12 fairyfancies
by E. Gertrude Thomson. Margins very lightly browned,
edges of t.p. and frontis. lightly spotted, e.ps. very lightly
browned with hinges very sl. tender at head and tail, faded and
browned original dec. gilt lettered cloth very sl. bumped to
corners, rebacked in later cloth, a.e.g. £75.00
397. Carter, Frederick (Artist). MANFRED A Tragedy by
Lord Byron. Decorated by ... With an Introduction by the Artist.
Issued for the Subscribers of Fanfrolico Press 1929.
Subscribers Ed. Royal 8vo. ([A]-K). Title with dec. border in
purple, 4 purple plates, dec. devices. Some very light browning,
japon backed purple silk boards with gilt device to upper board,
minor soiling to head of spine, original dusty glacene wrapper,
t.e.g. £150.00
One of a Limited Edition of 550 Copies.
Typography and production arranged by Jack Lindsay and P.R.
Stephensen.
Frederick Carter (1885-1967). Carter became a mystic symbolist artist,
involved with Aleister Crowley and worked on illustrations for D.H.
Lawrence's Apocalypse. He was also a friend of Austin Osmond Spare
and helped with his theories of automatic drawing.
398. Cassell’s ILLUSTRATED FAMILY PAPER. Vol. I.-New
Series [Only]. Cassell, Petter and Galpin 1858.
1st Ed. Sm. 4to. viii + 416pp. Folding ‘panoramic’ maps of India
and China, numerous ills. Some light browning, original gilt
lettered blind embossed cloth, some light fading, spine sl. chipped
with split to head of lower joint. £75.00
With a ragged edition of the ‘Illustrated Mail’ Vol. II, No 86 London,
Febraury 2, 1901 ‘Edward VII. God Save the King’