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WOOD, Edward J.. The wedding day in all ages and countries. London. Richard Bentley, 1869. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. x, 241, [1]; viii, 268pp. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and blind. Extremities dust-soiled, spines discoloured, corners bumped. Inked ownership inscriptions to head of both titles, light damp-staining to upper margins of Vol. I, two leaves of Vol. II detached, spotted. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21776
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[WOODWARD, Josiah]. An Account of the societies for the Reformation of Manners, in London and Westminster, And other parts of the Kingdom.... London. Printed for B. Aylmer, 1699. First edition. 8vo. [24], 163pp, [9]. A reissue, with cancel quire replacing title leaf (pi2) and following two leaves ('To the author'). With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary panelled calf, recently rebacked in cloth, modern black calf lettering-piece. Boards rubbed and marked. Later manuscript notes to front endpapers, light damp-staining to initial gathering, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28443
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WOOLF, Virginia. The common reader. London. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper bards. Extremities marked and dulled, lightly rubbed. Scattered foxing, contemporary inked gift inscription and bookplate of Constance Miles to FEP - likely the noted diarist Constance Miles [née Nicoll] (1881-1962). More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 21670
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XENOPHON. Ta tou Xenophōntos Hellēnika; kai ho Agēsilaos. Xenophontis Graecorum res gestae; et Agesilaus... Glasguae [i.e. Glasgow]. In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1762. 8vo. In four volumes. Parallel Greek and Latin text. First seven words of the title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown calf lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Rubbed, a trifle marked and discoloured, loss, cracking, and chipping to spines/lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, worm-track to front endpapers of Vol. I, else internally clean and crisp. Later inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to front blank fly-leaf of ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 26029
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YORKE, Henry Redhead. Elements of civil knowledge. Dorchester. Printed for the author by T. Lockett, 1800. First edition. 8vo. [4], viii, [2], 336pp, [2]. Without half-title: 'Mural nights. Vol.1'. With a terminal advertisement leave: 'Ready for the press, the second volume of Mural nights, containing elements of political knowledge, and a method of studying the ancient classics.' - In fact the second volume was never published. Contemporary sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed, joints starting. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29125
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YOUNG, William. The spirit of athens, being a political and philosophical investigation of the history of that republic. London. Printed for J. Robson, 1777. First edition. 8vo. x, [1], 296pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed, some surface loss to lower board, slight splitting to joints. Armorial bookplate to FEP, ownership inscription of 'Tho. Cook' to same, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to recto of FFEP, internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of title-page; 'Ad amicum suum J. Royds D.D. / W. Young', final two ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 15274