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London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition under the title of Monks and Demons, and including Cantos III & IV. The poem was published in 1813, in two cantos, two additional cantos were added in 1818.. In style and stanza, Frere's "Specimen" was imitated in Byron's Beppo, and is thus regarded as a seminal influence on Byron's Don Juan. CONDITION Half leather bound with leather spine and corner and marbled bds, bright gilt tooling and title to spine, Pp 119. Leather rubbed to extremities, bds scuffed, some small chips but mostly nice, name inside front, copy is mostly bright and very crisp with atmospheric spotting at ends and odd mark internally.. 4th Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: M J Godwin at the Juvenile Library, 1915. Printed by B McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden in colophon. Written by the publishers daughter, a then 10 year old Mary Godwin (Shelley) adapted a jaunty vaudeville song into a children's rhyme, ''Mounseer Nongtongpaw,'' which makes spirited fun of English bigotry and greed. Godwin published it, the first work of his prodigious child. Later research suggests a more likely author is John Taylor with the story outline being supplied by Mary. He was the author of 'Monsieur Tonson', which was also published by M J Godwin as another Juvenile Library title. CONDITION Original Pink card wraps dated 1813 to front, advertising for other Juvenile Library titles to rear (light age toning and soiling to covers, mildly rubbed to spine ends) dated 1815 to title page, pp 16 with 12 leaves of Copper plate engravings. Internally bright and clean with only the slightest age toning to page edges, original whip stitching to… Leer más

London, United Kingdom: George Routledge/Piper, Stephenson & Co, 1850. Omoo, Early Edition. Brown Marbled bds with Black Leather spine and cnrs, bright Gilt title in Burgundy flag to spine, pp ix 242.. BOUND with The Post and the Paddock, Nice frontis engraving by H. Beckwith, pp vii 232. CONDITION Very nice copy with mild wear to bds, named to both title pages with partial erasure causing minor damage to titlepage of Omoo, minor page browning o/w tight and clean.. Re-Issue. Half-Leather. Very Good/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: W Richardson at the Royal Exchange , 1793. Full Leather bindings, blind embossed decoration to both bds, pp vi 245 [1 Ads]. Bds curving with splits at spine joints, small nick to rear bd top, buffed through leather at cnrs first blank missing, name at top of title page, bright and clean internally apart from brown splatter drips to one page not obscuring text.. 6th Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: William Blackwood & Sons, 1879. Foreign Classics for English Readers. An account of the life of Francois Rebellais 16th Century man of letters. CONDITION Green bds with gilt spine title and black stamped border and title to front, cnrs sl cantedr, eps browned, pp 194, interior clean and bright with tight book block, not foxed.. First English. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Edward Arber, 1869. Comedy thought to be originally performed sometime before 1553 it was edited by Arber from a copy held in Eton College and pub as part of the English Reprint series. Brown card backed paper cover with gilt title and black decorative border, cover is rubbed so that title is partially obscured, edges chipped, spine rubbed with head and foot chipped, two tone title page, pp 88, interior has odd spot but is clean and tight.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good/N/A. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824. The very scarce book of proverbs. John Wade was the British political reformer who published the notorious and influential Black Book (1819), a litany of British political and industrial abuses. CONDITION Contemporary professional rebound in Black cloth with Gilt spine title, with new antiqued eps, pp xxiv pp 215, tight with bright text block, with expected light dustspotting due to age, not inscribed.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Not Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: John Murray, 1886. Green bds with bright Gilt title and palm decoration (fresh with mild wear, 2cm fray to spine head) Black eps with gutter crack to paper (mull very tight) pp xvi 318 with 11 nice wood cut illus and one fold out map, named to first black and resudue where pasted in note to preface has been removed (not effecting text) expected scattered light foxing.. 6th Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mainz, Germany : Antonii Boetzeri , 1618. Summa de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Principles in Latin. Part 1 are Virtues, Part 2 are Vices. Original Vellum wraps, Pp 48 Prolog, Pt 1, Pp 404 plus 12 page index, Pt 2, Pp 346 plus 7 page index. CONDITION Very good for age, all present, a few insect pin holes along bottom edge of covers, note to front ep in red and one loose blank page, ownership not on title page date 1625, pages are legible though paper browned. Overweight. First Edition Thus. Vellum. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 1903. Fine bindings in full Burgundy calf with Gilt tooled spine with 5 raised bands, School Crest tooled in Gilt of St William's College, Isle of Mann, (top rear cnr sl bruised) tooled dentille edging to inside of bds, marbled to all edges, marbled eps, presentation plate to front pastedown, nice steel engraved portrait frontis with foxed tissue guard, pp 591, bright and clean (light foxing mainly near ends, ink blot to one page). 17th Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/N/A. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.