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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID; AND THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF RELIGION. WITH NOTES SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY THE RIGHT REVEREND RICHARD MANT D.D. 1776-1848. RICHARD MANT. Published by C.J.G. Rivington and Parker Oxford: London & Oxford,… Read more about this item

L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane pis a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, by Tobias Smollett in 1748. Gil Blas is born in misery to a stable hand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria,… Read more about this item

2 vols., 48vo, ff. [287; 343]. Contemporary dark green paste grain morocco, boards bordered with a double-blind rule, spines divided by blind rules and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, housed in the original black morocco vertical slipcase with tabbed lid. A plain but attractively bound pair of miniature devotional volumes. Fore-Edge Painting Vol I. Basingwerk Monastery. Ranulf de Gernon was earl of… Read more about this item

8vo Bound in full red hard-grain Morocco early inscription to front fly leaf dated 1877, Gilt lines on the boards gilt dentells and lines lettering centre tool of a thistle to the spine. Some mild foxing a nice tight copy with a very nice Fore-Edge Painting. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800 - 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian… Read more about this item

[FORE–EDGE PAINTING] THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by George Gilfillan. The Gilfillan Poets, series POPE, Alexander Published by Edinburgh, London, Dublin. James Nichol & James Nisbet and Co. 1856. Bound in full forest green hard grain Morocco, gilt paneling on the front and rear boards, full gilt spine, marble endpapers and gilt dentles. A beautiful tight binding… Read more about this item

MILTON'S PARADISE REGAINED with Select Notes Subjoined: to which is added a Complete Collection of his Miscellaneous Poems, both English and Latin Milton, John Published by Printed by Bensley for Printed by T. Bensley; for T. Longman, B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G. and J. Robinson, W. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, J. Scatcherd, Ogilvy and… Read more about this item

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] THIRTY YEARS' CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JOHN JEBB AND ALEXANDER KNOX Edited by Charles Forster. Published London: J. Duncan and J. Cochran, 1834. 2 Vols each with a fore-edge painting. Bound in full Maroon straight grain Morocco, bound by J. Hatchard's and son Piccadilly. A beautiful combination of blind and gilt tooling in excellent condition. FORE-EDGE PAINTING'S Scenes of Dorset – Lyme Regis – Ockford -… Read more about this item

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED A new edition. Edited by the Rev. C. Bradley ... With a biographical sketch of the author, and a list of his works John PEARSON (Bishop of Chester.) Printed and Sold by J. F. Dove, 1832 An Exposition of the Creed 616 pages, was a work by John Pearson which was first published in 1659. It was based… Read more about this item

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] THE MISCELLANEOUS PROSE WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART Scott, Walter Published by Cadell, 1848, Houlston & Stoneman, London Complete in one Volume, containing a summary and parts of larger more comprehensive works, including The Life of John Dryden, Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Novelists, Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk, Essay on Chivalry, Essay on Boarder Antiquities, Provincial Antiquities… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press, 1951. first Facimilie. full Morocco. THE FORSYTE SAGA John GalsworthyFORE-EDGE PAINTING Published by William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press 1951 This is the 1951 reprint from 1922 including folding family tree chart as frontice. 1042pp not illustrated as per the original 1922 edition. Bound in full red straight grain Morocco for Henry Sotherans, Ltd. With tipped in… Read more about this item

THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT Rev A. B. Grosart LLD Published London George Bell and Sons 1892 (FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Herbert, George. The Poetical Works. Frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary full red morocco gilt-stamped Sherborn School prize binding by Bickers & Son, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, spine tips and raised bands rubbed, abraded school prize bookplate to… Read more about this item