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Under the Lantern of "Our Lady of woolnoth" Being a Few Lectures on the Various Epiphanies of God: Together with Some Others for the Most Part Delivered in the Above Church

By: Brooke, J. M. S.

Price: £109.06

Publisher: London, London: Printed By Bowles and Sons, George Street, Mansion House, E.C.: 1887

Seller ID: 10556

Binding: Fine Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Size 8¾" x 6¾", 184 pages. Burgundy leather fine binding, with 2 thick gilt frames and large diagonal gilt title on the front cover, gilt frames on the back cover. gilt lines on the cover edges and tiny little gilt flowers on the inner turn-ins. 5 raised bands to the spine with gilt title in the second compartment and gilt flower motifs and corner pieces in the other compartments. All pages edged with thick bright gilt. On thick cream paper, the texts are printed in a red border on each page, with titles at the head of each page in large ornate font, and vignettes and red initial cap...
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The Golden Reciter: Prose & Verse For Reading & Recitation

By: Cairns James

Price: £9.72

Publisher: 38 Great Russell St, Seeley, Service and Co: 1907

Seller ID: 00130

Binding: Decorative Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Size 5.2" x 8" tall,703 pages, blue cloth with lots of gilt lettering on spine. Blind stamped decoration and lettering on front cover.pastedown has very small sticker with bookshops address. spine slightly faded, spine ends rubbed, a few finger marks to pages.
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Liber Amoris and Dramatic Criticisms

By: Hazlitt, William. With an Essay of Introduction By Charles Morgan

Price: £41.65

Publisher: London, Peter Nevill Limited: 1948

Seller ID: 10729

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

From the Library of Sir John Mills and Mary Mills. Signed by Mary Mills. Size 8¾" x 5½", 426 pages. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the front cover and spine. Beige dustjacket with red and green titles. Book condition near fine, bottom edge of spine a little rubbed else fine. Dustjacket condition very good, grubby esp spine, top edge a little frayed, spine edges rubbed, else fine, not price clipped.
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The Ideal Life and Other Unpublished Addresses By Henry Drummond F.R.S.E. With Memorial Sketches By W. Robertson Nicoll and Ian MacLaren

By: Henry Drummond. W. Robertson Nicoll. Ian MacLaren

Price: £11.66

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton:

Seller ID: 014603

Binding: Cloth Bound Boards

Condition: Very Good

Not dated, c.1885-1890. Size 8" x 5.25", 315 pages. Red cloth with gilt titles to the spine. No dust jacket. Condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, spine faded, endpapers toned, gift inscription on front endpaper else contents clean.
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Macaulay's Literary Essays

By: Lord MacAulay

Price: £8.91

Publisher: London, The Amalgamated Press Ltd: 1905

Seller ID: 10299

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

The Harmsworth Library no 16. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the front cover and spine, further gilt decoration to the spine, blind stamped design to the front cover. 473 pages. Publishers advertisements at the front of the book. Condition very good, some wear to cover outers, contents clean complete and intact. Size 6¾" x 4¼".
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If I May

By: Milne, A. A.

Price: £13.12

Publisher: 36 Essex Street, W.C. London, Methuen & Co Ltd.: 1920

Seller ID: 11586

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

1920 Methuen & Co Ltd. Second Edition. Blue cloth on boards with gilt title and decoration on spine, side & bottom edge uncut. Book Condition very good, spine slightly sunned, prev owners name on end paper "kimB 22-12-1920" a few marks on half title page, else very clean pages, back endpaper discoloured. A series of essays reprinted from various newspapers and magazines 183 pages size 12mo.
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The Colloquies of Erasmus. Translated By N. Bailey.

By: N. Bailey. The Rev. E. Johnson, M. A.

Price: £16.35

Publisher: London, Reeves & Turner: 1878

Seller ID: 13504

Binding: Cloth Bound Boards

Condition: Fair

Printed in 1878. Complete in two volumes. Size Octavo, 8.75" x 5.5", 464 and 467 pages. Deep purple cloth covered boards with ornate blind frames to each cover and gilt titles to the spines, grey endpapers, top page edges gilt. Condition fair, the spines and top and outer edge of each cover have faded, back cover faded unevenly, corbers and head and tail of spine heavily rubbed, cloth torn at head and tail of spine with 1cm loss at tail of spine on vol I, cloth torn at head of spine on vol II. inner hinges cracked, front cover and backstrip coming away together on vol I. The internal c...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes, Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor, a Little Before His Death. Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton.

By: Pope, Alexander

Price: £337.39

Publisher: London, London: Printed for A. Millar, J. And R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst.: 1757

Seller ID: 11229

Binding: Full calf

Condition: Very Good

1757. Size 12mo, 6¾" x 4¼". Nine Volumes. Condition very good, rubbing and edge wear to all covers, spine labels missing on vols 2-5, a couple slightly loose, neat owner's inscriptions on front pastedowns else contents generally clean. Original brown calf bindings with raised bands to the spines and tooled edges, red speckled page edges. With 24 beautiful full page engravings, 5 in Vol I, 2 in Vol II, 8 in Vol III, 3 in Vol IV, 5 in Vol V and 1 in Vol VI. Also nice vignettes. Title pages printed in Red and Black. A lovely early complete set.
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The Queen of the Air. Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

By: Ruskin, John

Price: £7.29

Publisher: London, London: George Allen: 1906

Seller ID: 10512

Binding: Decorative Leather

Condition: Very Good

Thirty-Seventh Thousand. Size 6" x 4", 233 pages, plus 2 pages of publisher's advertisements. Soft green leather cover with gilt titles and JR motif on the front cover and gilt titles on the spine. Top page edge gilt, with green book mark ribbon. Condition very good, slight rubbing on spine edges, spine a little faded, front cover slightly grubby. Contents complete, binding sound and pages clean.
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Essays on the Most Important Subjects in Religion. Thirteenth Edition

By: Scott, Thomas

Price: £29.30

Publisher: London: Printed for L. B. Seeley and Son, Longman and Co. Hatchard and Son, Baldwin and Co...: 1825

Seller ID: 10548

Binding: Full calf

Condition: Very Good

Size 5" x 3", 477 pages including index. Condition good, covers slightly rubbed, bottom right hand corner of spine chipped, endpapers spotted but contents clean, complete, intact. Brown calf binding with ruled gilt frame on the front and back covers. Four gilt bands on the spine with gilt titles on a burgundy leather panel in the second compartment and gilt motifs in the other compartments. Red speckled page edges.
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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

By: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Price: £4.86

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1909

Seller ID: 10293

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Size 6¼" x 4" 193 pages. Dark Green cloth covered boards with blind stamped emblem and titles to the front cover, gilt titles and gilt repeat pattern to the spine. Top page edge gilt, green floral design on pastedowns and endpapers. Condition Good / Very good, some fading/staining to front cover, small neat owners name on front free endpaper, contents very clean and binding sound. Title page printed in Red and Black. Fine Paper Edition
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Outspoken Essays Second Series

By: William Ralph Inge

Price: £6.48

Publisher: London, Longmans Green and Co: 1926

Seller ID: 00326

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Size 5" x 7.6" tall,dustjacket very poor condition,in two pieces and lots of small tears also,blue hardcover with title to spine. Spine ends rubbed, spine ends faded, pastedowns have writing in pen and pencil,275 pages all clean with no marks
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Category: Essays