ADAMS, W.Davenport editor THE COMIC POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Original red cloth gilt over bevelled boards, heavily decorated in black and gilt. Pp. xvi, 400, all edges gilt, with 6 woodcut plates. Joints cracking. [First edition] George Routledge and Sons, [1876].

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ADDISON, Joseph and STEELE, Richard. THE SPECTATOR.

Original brown cloth gilt, extremities a little worn and frayed. Pp. xxiv, 920, the text in double columns. Joints tightened. George Routledge and Sons, no date [1865].

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ADDISON, Joseph and STEELE, Richard. THE SPECTATOR IN LONDON.

Original decorated blue cloth gilt. Pp. xi, 323, illustrated by Ralph Cleaver. Seeley & Co., no date [1896]. A selection of essays from The Spectator, originally published in 635 numbers between 1711 and 1714.

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ADELER, Max pseud. for CLARK, Charles Heber. OUT OF THE HURLY BURLY

Original pictorial boards, roughly rebacked. Pp.398, with nearly 400 humorous illustrations by Arthur Burdett Frist. The cheap paper rather browned throughout. Author’s edition, Port Sunlight: Lever Brothers, no date [late 1870s].

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ADRA. LEGENDS OF LAKELAND.

Small 4to. Original red cloth gilt over bevelled boards, a few slight marks. Pp. (vi), 166, all edges gilt, single line border to each page in red. Edges of first and last leaves a little spotted. Scarborough: S.W.Theakston, 1881. An uncommon collection, containing legends in verse of St.Bees Head, Beckermet, Ara Force, Egremont Castle, the Solway Firth etc.

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AINGER, Alfred. TENNYSON FOR THE YOUNG.

Full calf gilt prize binding. Pp. xiv, 120. Macmillan, 1891.

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AINSWORTH, William Harrison. THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES.

Original red cloth gilt, a little soiled and darkened, spine frayed at the head. Pp. 492, (iv), with 12 illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. George Routledge and Sons, no date [c.1875].

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AINSWORTH, William Harrison. THE WORKS.

16 volumes, early 20th century half crimson calf gilt with double spine labels, one volume nicely rebound to match. Illustrated by John Gilbert. Library stamp to back of one title, An excellent and attractive set. George Routledge & Sons, no date [late 19th century].

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AINSWORTH, William Harrison editor AINSWORTHS MAGAZINE:

2 volumes, old half calf gilt, with raised bands and double spine labels, a trifle rubbed. Pp. iv, 346; iv, 572, with 20 engraved plates by George Cruikshank and 6 engraved plates by Tony Johannot and George Cruikshank, mostly a little browned or stained in the margins. Cunningham & Mortimer, 1842. Contains the first printing of Ainsworth's "The Miser's Daughter".

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AKENSIDE, Mark. THE POETICAL WORKS.

Original blind-stamped cloth gilt. Pp. xxvi, 300. Title a trifle spotted. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1857. A very nice copy of the complete poetical writings of Mark Akenside in the British Poets series, in the original cloth.

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ALBUM: THE BIRTHDAY BOOK OF QUOTATIONS

Original blind-stamped green cloth gilt over bevelled boards, extremities a trifle nicked or frayed. Unpaginated; interleaved with feint paper, with coloured lithograph frontispiece on fawn card (spotted on the reverse) and 9 decorative leaves at the end “machinagraphed” by Ebenezer Bacon & Son. Bacon & Son, etc., 1878.

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ALDERSON, R. LINES, WRITTEN AND PRINTED AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIEND,

Old half calf gilt with marbled boards. Pp. 16. Title and first leaf restored, affecting 3 lines of text. A few faint contemporary pencilled notes and alterations (in one of which punny is altered to puny). Second edition, Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by R.T.Edgar, Pilgrim Street, 1825. Very scarce provincial printing. The first edition consisted of the original 8-page poem only.

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ANACREON. POETA LYRICUS,

Small 8vo. Old full calf, lower hinge cracked, few other slight faults. Pp. lxxviii, 341, (vii, index), with engraved portrait. of Josua Barnes but lacking the 2 further plates called for. Greek and Latin texts on opposing pages, with notes. Jacob, John and Paul Knapton, 1734.

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ANDERSON, Martin. THE HUMOURS OF CYNICUS.

Small 4to. Original pictorial cloth gilt over bevelled boards, a trifle soiled. Unpaginated, all edges gilt. Humorous verses, illustrated with cartoons, hand-coloured throughout. A very good copy. The Studio of Cynicus, 1891. Cynicus (Martin Anderson) was a political and social cartoonist, who produced and published numerous postcards, and satirical books in limited editions from his studio at 59 Drury Lane, London.

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ANDERSON, Martin. THE SATIRES OF CYNICUS. CARTOONS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL

Large 4to. Original pictorial cloth gilt with gilt emblem of Perseus and the head of Medusa over bevelled boards, rather soiled, spine frayed at head and foot. Unpaginated. Title and 36 cartoons, hand-coloured throughout. [Large paper edition de luxe] The Studio of Cynicus, 1893. “Cynicus” (Martin Anderson) was a political and social cartoonist, who produced and published numerous postcards, and satirical books in limited editions from his studio at 59 Drury Lane, London.

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ANDERSON, Robert. BALLADS IN THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT,

Modern half levant morocco gilt. Pp. vi, 258. Second edition, Wigton: E.Rook, 1815.

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ANDERSON, Robert. BALLADS IN THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT

Original printed boards, printed backstrip a little defective, neatly re-cased. Pp. vi, 258, untrimmed, with engraved frontispiece. [First edition] Wigton: printed by R.Hetherton, 1808.

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ANDERSON, Robert. BALLADS IN THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT

Original printed boards, worn, spine chipped at head. Pp. iv, 166, untrimmed, with engraved title (foxed). Front flyleaf removed. Carlisle: H.K.Snowden, 1828.

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ANDERSON, Robert. BALLADS IN THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT

Modern cloth gilt. Pp. vi, 258, untrimmed, interleaved, with engraved frontispiece. Preliminaries rather browned, some fingering in places. [First edition] Wigton: printed by R.Hetherton, 1808.

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ANDERSON, Robert. BALLADS IN THE CUMBERLAND DIALECT

12mo. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt. Pp. 224. Carlisle: B.Stewart, 1864.

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