Toquato Tasso.

La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso. Preceduta da un Discorso Critico Letterario di Ugo Foscolo, Ed Illustrata da Note Storiche.

Terza Edizione. Firenze, Felice Le Monnier, 1850. 17 x 11.5 cm. xx, 440 pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Marbled end papers and edges. Black spine label with gilt title. Gilt decorations. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Ex Libris of previous owner on front past down (‘Josephine Martineau’). Internally clean. A nice copy in a very pretty binding.

Butler, Samuel.

Hudibras in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. With a Life of the Author, Annotations, and an Index.

London, Printed for J. Walker et al. 1809. 12.5 x 7 cm. viii, 336 pages plus 16 pages index. With a frontispiece and illustrated title page. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges and end papers. Gilt title and decorations. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down. Closed tear to edge of frontispiece (see image).

Gaffney, Rev. M.H.

The Story of St. Patrick for Boys and Girls. By Fr. M.H. Gaffney. With many Illustrations by Mildred R. Lamb.

First Edition. Dublin and Cork, The Talbot Press, [1931]. 22 x 17 cm. 61 pages. With illustrations in B&W. Original decorated boards. Hard cover. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped with small material losses to spine ends. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean. Losely inserted ‘compliment card’. See images.

Macray, William Dunn.

A Manual of British Historians to A.D. 1600. Containing a chronological Account of the early Chroniclers and Monkish Writers their printed Works and unpublished MSS.

First Edition. London, William Pickering, 1845. 21 x 13 cm. xxiii, 109 pages. Decorated Initials. Half calf over marbled boards. Speckled edges. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Sound binding. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.

James Lane Allen.

Flute and Violin and other Kentucky Tales and Romances.

New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. 18 x 12 cm. (10), 308 pages. Illustrated in B&W. Original cloth with gilt title and decorations. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Faint stains to front board. Edges and end papers dust dulled and mildly foxed. Internally clean.

Anstey, F.

Vice Versa or A Lesson To Fathers.

London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1883. 18 x 12 cm. vi, (2), 370 pages. Contemporary half morroco over marbled boards. Black spine label with gilt title. Gilt decorations. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Top of front joint started to crack (c. 5 cm). Glue remnants on front paste down. Name stamp of Egerton Castle. on title page. Internally bright and clean.

Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. By his Nephew the Right Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart.

New Edition. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 18 x 12 cm. xiv, 695 pages. Contemporary calf. Prize binding. Spine label, gilt title and decorations. Marbled edges and end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with some mild fraying to spine ends. Edges dust dulled. Partial remains of a prize paper label on front paste down. Internally clean. A nice reading copy.

Titmarsh, M.A. [Thackeray, William Makepeace].

The Kickleburys on the Rhine.

Second Edition. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866. 18 x 14 cm. xv, 87 pages plus 12 pages publishers list. Illustrated. See images. Original dark cloth hard cover. Gilt titles and Illustrations. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Front joint started to crack. Both hinges cracked. Binding holding. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Small bookseller label on front paste down.

[Hardwicke, Robert]. Anon.

Holiday Excursions of a Naturalist. Forming A Guide-Book to the Natural History of the Inland and Littoral.

First Edition. London, Robert Hardwicke, 1867. 18 x 12 cm. viii, 345 pages. Publishers List. Contemporary dark cloth. Gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Hinges weak. Names of previous owners inscribed. Internally clean.

Shakespeare, William / J. Dover Wilson (Introduction).

Julius Caesar. A Facsimile of the First Folio Text with an Introduction by J. Dover Wilson, Litt.D. and a List of Modern Readings.

London, Printed at the Chiswick Press and published by Faber & Gwyer, ND (c. 1930). 33 x 21 cm. TP, (2), Facsimile pages numbered 109 to 130, (2). With a ‘First Folio Line Indicator’ tool. See image. Original quarter green cloth over paper covered boards. Hard cover. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Internally mildly foxed, otherwise clean.