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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (10 books 5 volumes)
- £150.00
- From Tauchnitz's series Collection of British Authors, as follows (vol, # in series, date etc) - I, #172, 1849 - Bks 1 & 2, 413pp - II, #174, 1849 - Bks 3 & 4, 332pp - III, #338, 1855 - Bks 5 & 6, 300pp - IV, #340, 1855 -…
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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (in 2 volumes)
- £110.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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Actions and Reactions
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- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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Altar Services (proposed in 1928)
- £50.00
- Full title: The Order Of The Administration Of The Lord's Supper Or Holy Communion With The Additions And Deviations Proposed In 1928
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An Answer To A Challenge Made By A Jesuite In Ireland; And With A Discourse Of The Religion Anciently Professed By The Irish And British
- £850.00
- Full title: An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland wherein, the judgment of antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the novelty of the new Romish doctrine plainly discovered (1686) To which is added A Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish…
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Book of Common Prayer
- £500.00
- Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramanets, under King George 1717, beautifully illustrated throughout.
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Book of Common Prayer
- £30.00
- Book of Common Prayer, with Psalter and Ordinal
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
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Demeter and other poems
- £200.00
- 1st edition of Tennyson's poem Demeter and others including a celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.
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Donne’s Poems of Love
- £8.00
- Anthology introduced by Kinglsey Hart
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
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Fasti Etonenses: a Biographical History of Eton from The Lives Of Celebrated Etonians
- £250.00
- A history of Eton College, told through the lives of some of its famous students. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some of which are coloured. Including chapters on De Quincey, Charles Simeon, Tennyson, Gladstone, and many others. Benson was an Etonian himself, from a literary family which included E.F Benson…
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Festivals and Prayers (6 vols) according to the ritual of the German and Polish Jews
- £250.00
- 6-volume set of Jewish liturgies from the traditions of Polish and German Jews, in Hebrew with parallel English translation by Rev. D. A. de Sola of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London. Ex-Library (Latimer Trust)
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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Hume’s History of England (vols I & II only)
- £75.00
- Hume set out at first only to write a history of England under the Stuart monarchs James I and Charles I, which appeared in 1754. He followed this with a second history that continued to the Revolution of 1688. With the relative success of these two volumes, Hume researched the…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Ivanhoe
- £50.00
- Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "Ivanhoe" is the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his father due…
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Ivanhoe
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
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Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
- £12.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
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Kim
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a…
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La Liturgie ou le Livres des Prières Publiques (BCP in French)
- £16.00
- The BCP translated into French by SPCK
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Lays of Ancient Rome
- £180.00
- With Illustrations by George Scharf, Jr.
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
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Life and Correspondence of Arnold (vols I & II)
- £60.00
- The biography of the famous Victorian educator and headmaster of Rugby, by one of this former pupils.
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Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Liza of Lambeth (Jubilee edition)
- £150.00
- Maugham's 1st novel. In the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £250.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £60.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
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My Lady Ludlow and other tales
- £35.00
- Vol V (in Knutsford edition) of Complete works of 'Mrs Gaskell'. The short stories in this collection first appeared in 1851-9 and all reflect Mrs Gaskell's response to the confusion and distress caused by intolerance and lack of understanding. With the exception of "Mr Harrison's Confessions", the stories first appeared…
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Paradise Lost
- £100.00
- Milton's great epic poem first published in 1667 with 10 books, then in 1674 with 12. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, as stated…
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Paradise Lost (facsimile) (PROVENANCE)
- £500.00
- In Ten Books, The text reproduced from the first edition of 1667, with an appendix containing the additions made in later issues and a monograph on the original publication of the poem.
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Pilgrim’s Progress (Part 1)
- £150.00
- So-called 'Elegant' edition with extensive notes by Thomas Scott (Chaplain to the Lock Hospital). Part I only (i.e. the story of Christian; Part II features Christiana)
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story.
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Poems (Matthew Arnold) vols I, II, III
- £180.00
- Collected poems published in the year of Arnold's death. Vol I: Early poems, Narrative poems, Sonnets vol II: Lyric & elegiac poems vol III: Dramatic & later poems.
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Poems by Mr Gray
- £75.00
- A New Edition' of Gray's poetry published just 7 years after his death in 1771.
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Poems with a Memoir (Clough)
- £60.00
- Having died aged only 42 in 1861 (buried in the English Cemetery in Florence), Clough had a small but important literary output. He had spent 6 years as Florence Nightingale's devoted assistant; his poetry has been quoted often (e.g. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth), and John Fowles quotes several…
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Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- £15.00
- Beautiful edition with Prefatory Memoir, including 'Aurora Leigh'
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Poetical Works Vol 3: A Sixth Book to the Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
- £40.00
- First published in 1633, this later edition combines various works
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Puck of Pook’s Hill
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Playing in the gardens of their home, Dan and Una come across Puck, an ancient fairy with a gift for storytelling. Plucking figures from history to weave his magical stories, Puck takes the children from the Norman conquest to the signing of the Magna Carta. Set in…
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R. Brooke’s Poems
- £50.00
- Combination of various publications of Brooke's work. 1908-1911 poems; 1914 & othe poems; The South Seas; Other poems
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Sermons or Homilies (with original notes)
- £50.00
- Georgian edition of the Book of Common Prayer Homilies by Cranmer et al, with notes by a Manchester clergyman. With 39 Articles appended.
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St. Ives, being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
- £15.00
- An unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
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Stalky & Co
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
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Tales from Shakespeare
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays for children.
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Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
- £25.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
- £75.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, is the first edition of his 1st novel. Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who…
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The Ebb-tide
- £15.00
- The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption.
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The Farmer’s Boy; A Rural poem
- £10.00
- Bloomfield's autobiographical poem
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The Five Nations
- £10.00
- The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in UK & USA. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably "Recessional", of 1897), sometimes in different versions. (format identical to…
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The History Of England From The Accession Of James II (2 volumes)
- £80.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
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The Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
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The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers (in 3 vols)
- £150.00
- The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers chiefly written by themselves from Christopher Hopper to John Pritchard
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The Lord of the Isles, a poem
- £175.00
- The Lord of the Isles is a narrative poem by Walter Scott in six cantos with substantial notes. Set in 1307 and 1314 Scotland it covers the story of Robert the Bruce from his return from exile in Ireland to the successful culmination of his struggle to secure Scottish independence…
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (edited with a critical memoir)
- £30.00
- Complete poetry of Keats, edited by W. M. Rossetti (brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina); Engraved portrait frontispiece of Keats with his signature in facsimile (with tissue-guard), five engraved plates by Seccombe, head and tail pieces.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Oxford Edition)
- £40.00
- Originally published with Forman's editing and notes in 1906.
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £95.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £50.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
- £40.00
- Albion edition including introduction and notes
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £150.00
- Beautiful edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882-1955) prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books.
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The Siege of Corinth; Parisina
- £150.00
- Byron's two narrative poems. The Siege of Corinth is a rhymed tragic poem inspired by the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison holding the Acrocorinth in 1715. Parisina narrates the sordid tale of the wife of one of the Dukes of Ferrara who had incestuous relationship with his bastard son…
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The Vicar Of Wakefield: A tale (in 2 vols)
- £1,200.00
- The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional Vicar of Wakefield. Specifically, it follows the Primrose family, humble and moral in spite of its material wealth and indicative of Goldsmith's idealization of pastoral life, after they fall into poverty and subsequent…
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The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
- £45.00
- Cary's famous blank verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy was published at his own expense in 1814 (because his publisher wouldn't risk it after his Inferno failed to sell). This won acclaim, however, especially once Samuel Taylor Coleridge sang its praises during a lecture at the Royal Institution.
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The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse & Prose (vol III of X)
- £200.00
- Third volume (of 10) of Pope's collected works. Containing his Essay on Man (in 4 epistles); The Universal Prayer; Moral Essays (in 5 epistles); Appendix: Essay on Satire; A Letter to a Noble Lord; Notes and Observations by Gilbert Wakefield
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The Works of George Crabbe (in 5 volumes)
- £250.00
- The collected poetry and prose writings of the great poet, surgeon and clergyman, George Crabbe. Published in his lifetime (1754-1832). Complete with engravings. Includes The Borough sequence (the basis of Benjamin Britten's operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes)
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The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life (4 vol)
- £350.00
- Full title: Burns (Robert). The Works of Robert Burns; 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. 4 volumes, 4th edition (1st in 1800)
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The Wrecker
- £15.00
- The Wrecker (1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only…
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Wild Flowers: Pastoral and Local Poetry
- £100.00
- Bloomfield was a labouring class poet who was self-taught like Mary Collier and John Clare. Includes a lovely extended dedication to his son Charles. Unfortuantely, 6 years later, his publisher of Vernor & Hood went bust, causing Bloomfield significant hardship.
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Writings of The Rev. John Knox (British Reformers), minister of God’s word in Scotland
- £12.00
- Various treatises, sermons and letters from Scotland's Reformer
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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (10 books 5 volumes)
- £150.00
- From Tauchnitz's series Collection of British Authors, as follows (vol, # in series, date etc) - I, #172, 1849 - Bks 1 & 2, 413pp - II, #174, 1849 - Bks 3 & 4, 332pp - III, #338, 1855 - Bks 5 & 6, 300pp - IV, #340, 1855 -…
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A History of England from the Accession of James the Second (in 2 volumes)
- £110.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
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Across the Plains, with other Memories and Essays
- £10.00
- Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7…
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Actions and Reactions
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in…
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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Altar Services (proposed in 1928)
- £50.00
- Full title: The Order Of The Administration Of The Lord's Supper Or Holy Communion With The Additions And Deviations Proposed In 1928
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An Answer To A Challenge Made By A Jesuite In Ireland; And With A Discourse Of The Religion Anciently Professed By The Irish And British
- £850.00
- Full title: An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland wherein, the judgment of antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the novelty of the new Romish doctrine plainly discovered (1686) To which is added A Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish…
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Book of Common Prayer
- £500.00
- Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramanets, under King George 1717, beautifully illustrated throughout.
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Book of Common Prayer
- £30.00
- Book of Common Prayer, with Psalter and Ordinal
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Debits and Credits
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: ‘Debits and Credits’ is a collection of anguished and bleak stories written by an author struggling with his own inner sufferings. Marital discord and adultery, war and death, cancer and disease are recurring themes throughout the stories, with the relentless ticking of the clock acting as a…
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Demeter and other poems
- £200.00
- 1st edition of Tennyson's poem Demeter and others including a celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1887.
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Donne’s Poems of Love
- £8.00
- Anthology introduced by Kinglsey Hart
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Eighteenth Century Vignettes (vol I & II)
- £25.00
- The first two series of Dobson's very popular vignettes (from 1894).
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Fasti Etonenses: a Biographical History of Eton from The Lives Of Celebrated Etonians
- £250.00
- A history of Eton College, told through the lives of some of its famous students. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates, some of which are coloured. Including chapters on De Quincey, Charles Simeon, Tennyson, Gladstone, and many others. Benson was an Etonian himself, from a literary family which included E.F Benson…
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Festivals and Prayers (6 vols) according to the ritual of the German and Polish Jews
- £250.00
- 6-volume set of Jewish liturgies from the traditions of Polish and German Jews, in Hebrew with parallel English translation by Rev. D. A. de Sola of the Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in London. Ex-Library (Latimer Trust)
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From Sea to Sea and other sketches (vol I)
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: I want to go Home! I want to go back to India! I am miserable. The steamship Nawab at this time of the year ought to have been empty, instead of which we have one hundred first-class passengers and sixty-six second. All the pretty girls are in…
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History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (vols 1 & II but missing III)
- £50.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (combined vol I-V)
- £100.00
- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794-1872) was a Swiss protestant minister who became a renowned church historian. His Reformation history became an instant classic and was translated into many languages soon after its publication. This combined edition is scarce.
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Hours in a Library (2nd series)
- £100.00
- Second series of essays by Leslie Stephen (father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell) on a range of writers: Sir Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, William Law, Horace Walpole, Dr Johnson's Writings, Crabbe's poetry, William Hazlitt, Mr Disraeli's Novels.
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Hume’s History of England (vols I & II only)
- £75.00
- Hume set out at first only to write a history of England under the Stuart monarchs James I and Charles I, which appeared in 1754. He followed this with a second history that continued to the Revolution of 1688. With the relative success of these two volumes, Hume researched the…
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
- £8.00
- Consisting Of The Beach Of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle Of Voices.
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Ivanhoe
- £50.00
- Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "Ivanhoe" is the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his father due…
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Ivanhoe
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel, the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his…
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Jack Hinton, The Guardsman
- £12.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, his 3rd novel, was first published in 1843.
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Kim
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a rich and powerful abbot in his own country. When the Lama recruits Kim as a…
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La Liturgie ou le Livres des Prières Publiques (BCP in French)
- £16.00
- The BCP translated into French by SPCK
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Lays of Ancient Rome
- £180.00
- With Illustrations by George Scharf, Jr.
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
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Life and Correspondence of Arnold (vols I & II)
- £60.00
- The biography of the famous Victorian educator and headmaster of Rugby, by one of this former pupils.
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Limits and Renewals
- £8.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Limits and Renewals, Kipling’s last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Unsurprisingly therefore, many of the stories take on the themes of pain, inner suffering and mental anguish, with an on-going exploration into the level of physical and psychological…
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Liza of Lambeth (Jubilee edition)
- £150.00
- Maugham's 1st novel. In the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £250.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Memoirs of Sir Thomas F. Buxton, Bart. With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation.
- £60.00
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845) was a noted social reformer and one of the leading members of the campaign to abolish slavery. Buxton had family connections to the Quakers and became an associate of Elizabeth Fry in campaigning for prison reform. He was elected an MP in 1818 and from…
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Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
- £300.00
- "In 1842 his Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa appeared, to become a widely read Victorian missionary classic" (DNB). Robert Moffat (1795-1883) was a missionary in Africa and linguist. One of Moffat's greatest achievements was the translation and printing of the New Testament into Tswana, for the use of…
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My Lady Ludlow and other tales
- £35.00
- Vol V (in Knutsford edition) of Complete works of 'Mrs Gaskell'. The short stories in this collection first appeared in 1851-9 and all reflect Mrs Gaskell's response to the confusion and distress caused by intolerance and lack of understanding. With the exception of "Mr Harrison's Confessions", the stories first appeared…
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Paradise Lost
- £100.00
- Milton's great epic poem first published in 1667 with 10 books, then in 1674 with 12. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, as stated…
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Paradise Lost (facsimile) (PROVENANCE)
- £500.00
- In Ten Books, The text reproduced from the first edition of 1667, with an appendix containing the additions made in later issues and a monograph on the original publication of the poem.
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Pilgrim’s Progress (Part 1)
- £150.00
- So-called 'Elegant' edition with extensive notes by Thomas Scott (Chaplain to the Lock Hospital). Part I only (i.e. the story of Christian; Part II features Christiana)
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story.
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Poems (Matthew Arnold) vols I, II, III
- £180.00
- Collected poems published in the year of Arnold's death. Vol I: Early poems, Narrative poems, Sonnets vol II: Lyric & elegiac poems vol III: Dramatic & later poems.
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Poems by Mr Gray
- £75.00
- A New Edition' of Gray's poetry published just 7 years after his death in 1771.
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Poems with a Memoir (Clough)
- £60.00
- Having died aged only 42 in 1861 (buried in the English Cemetery in Florence), Clough had a small but important literary output. He had spent 6 years as Florence Nightingale's devoted assistant; his poetry has been quoted often (e.g. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth), and John Fowles quotes several…
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Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- £15.00
- Beautiful edition with Prefatory Memoir, including 'Aurora Leigh'
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Poetical Works Vol 3: A Sixth Book to the Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia
- £40.00
- First published in 1633, this later edition combines various works
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Puck of Pook’s Hill
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Playing in the gardens of their home, Dan and Una come across Puck, an ancient fairy with a gift for storytelling. Plucking figures from history to weave his magical stories, Puck takes the children from the Norman conquest to the signing of the Magna Carta. Set in…
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R. Brooke’s Poems
- £50.00
- Combination of various publications of Brooke's work. 1908-1911 poems; 1914 & othe poems; The South Seas; Other poems
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Sermons or Homilies (with original notes)
- £50.00
- Georgian edition of the Book of Common Prayer Homilies by Cranmer et al, with notes by a Manchester clergyman. With 39 Articles appended.
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St. Ives, being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
- £15.00
- An unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
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Stalky & Co
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
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Tales from Shakespeare
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays for children.
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Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
- £25.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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The Canterbury Tales (2 Vols)
- £50.00
- The Folio double-volume edition of the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Edna Whyte's woodcuts
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The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
- £75.00
- Charles James Lever (1806–1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. This, is the first edition of his 1st novel. Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who…
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The Ebb-tide
- £15.00
- The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption.
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The Farmer’s Boy; A Rural poem
- £10.00
- Bloomfield's autobiographical poem
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The Five Nations
- £10.00
- The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in UK & USA. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably "Recessional", of 1897), sometimes in different versions. (format identical to…
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The History Of England From The Accession Of James II (2 volumes)
- £80.00
- Macaulay's History was originally published in 1848 in 5 volumes, but this edition reduced that to two, without a reduction in text. The History is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history. According to this view, England…
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson I: 1868-1880 (Scotland, France, California)
- £12.00
- First of the 4-volume edition edited by Sidney Colvin (containing 150 new letters previously unavailable).
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The Light That Failed
- £9.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited…
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The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers (in 3 vols)
- £150.00
- The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers chiefly written by themselves from Christopher Hopper to John Pritchard
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The Lord of the Isles, a poem
- £175.00
- The Lord of the Isles is a narrative poem by Walter Scott in six cantos with substantial notes. Set in 1307 and 1314 Scotland it covers the story of Robert the Bruce from his return from exile in Ireland to the successful culmination of his struggle to secure Scottish independence…
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The Master of Ballantrae: A winter’s tale
- £20.00
- Vol X in Tusitala Works of RLS. Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English…
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (edited with a critical memoir)
- £30.00
- Complete poetry of Keats, edited by W. M. Rossetti (brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina); Engraved portrait frontispiece of Keats with his signature in facsimile (with tissue-guard), five engraved plates by Seccombe, head and tail pieces.
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The Poetical Works of John Keats (Oxford Edition)
- £40.00
- Originally published with Forman's editing and notes in 1906.
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £95.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- £50.00
- The Oxford edition: "Including Materials Never Before Printed In Any Edition Of His Poems". Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
- £40.00
- Albion edition including introduction and notes
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- £150.00
- Beautiful edition of the famous translation by Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883). Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Illustrated by Willy Pogany (1882-1955) prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books.
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The Siege of Corinth; Parisina
- £150.00
- Byron's two narrative poems. The Siege of Corinth is a rhymed tragic poem inspired by the Ottoman massacre of the Venetian garrison holding the Acrocorinth in 1715. Parisina narrates the sordid tale of the wife of one of the Dukes of Ferrara who had incestuous relationship with his bastard son…
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The Vicar Of Wakefield: A tale (in 2 vols)
- £1,200.00
- The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional Vicar of Wakefield. Specifically, it follows the Primrose family, humble and moral in spite of its material wealth and indicative of Goldsmith's idealization of pastoral life, after they fall into poverty and subsequent…
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The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
- £45.00
- Cary's famous blank verse translation of Dante's Divine Comedy was published at his own expense in 1814 (because his publisher wouldn't risk it after his Inferno failed to sell). This won acclaim, however, especially once Samuel Taylor Coleridge sang its praises during a lecture at the Royal Institution.
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The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse & Prose (vol III of X)
- £200.00
- Third volume (of 10) of Pope's collected works. Containing his Essay on Man (in 4 epistles); The Universal Prayer; Moral Essays (in 5 epistles); Appendix: Essay on Satire; A Letter to a Noble Lord; Notes and Observations by Gilbert Wakefield
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The Works of George Crabbe (in 5 volumes)
- £250.00
- The collected poetry and prose writings of the great poet, surgeon and clergyman, George Crabbe. Published in his lifetime (1754-1832). Complete with engravings. Includes The Borough sequence (the basis of Benjamin Britten's operatic masterpiece Peter Grimes)
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The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life (4 vol)
- £350.00
- Full title: Burns (Robert). The Works of Robert Burns; 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. 4 volumes, 4th edition (1st in 1800)
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The Wrecker
- £15.00
- The Wrecker (1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only…
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Wild Flowers: Pastoral and Local Poetry
- £100.00
- Bloomfield was a labouring class poet who was self-taught like Mary Collier and John Clare. Includes a lovely extended dedication to his son Charles. Unfortuantely, 6 years later, his publisher of Vernor & Hood went bust, causing Bloomfield significant hardship.
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Writings of The Rev. John Knox (British Reformers), minister of God’s word in Scotland
- £12.00
- Various treatises, sermons and letters from Scotland's Reformer
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