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HUNT (Leigh) Works, a handsome and rare Collection of this esteemed Author's writings, together 39 vols, various sizes as published, UNIFORMLY BOUND, half blue morocco extra, gilt edges (about half, gilt tops with edges uncut), £30—1802–55 [274

Comprises the undermentioned works:

Juvenilia

Rimini

Amyntas

Bacchus in Tuscany

Descent of Liberty
The Months
The Reflector
Classic Tales

Feast of the Poets
The Indicator

The Liberal
Companion

Literary Examiner

Sir Ralph Esher

Poetical works, collected
Legend of Florence
Imagination and Fancy
Stories from Italian Poets
Wit and Humour
A Jar of Honey

Readings for Railways
Table Talk

Religion of the Heart
Stories in Verse

Old Court Suburb

Saunter thro' the West End

and Correspondence.

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HUNT (Leigh) A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, with numerous woodcut illustrations by Richard Doyle, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, in the illuminated cover by Owen Jones, £1 1s-1848 RVING (Washington) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, 2 vols, post 8vo, boards, UNCUT, £1 1s-1821

With a quotation from Shakespeare's Tempest in the handwriting of
LORD RADSTOCK, "Admir'd Miranda," &c. (act 3, scene 1), finishing with-
"Could the immortal Shakespeare have even for a moment peeped into
my Lizzy's heart he would have at once discovered his 'Miranda' to be no
longer a portraiture of ideal perfection!"

"For my Lizzy."-RADSTOCK, Feb. 2, 1821. X

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AMESON (Mrs.) Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the Fine Arts, illustrated by drawings and woodcuts, the FIRST EDITION, square 8vo, original cloth, £3 5s-1852 [277

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JAMESON (Mrs.) Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical, ILLUSTRATED WITH FIFTY VIGNETTE ETCHINGS, 2 vols, post 8vo, cloth, 17s 6d-1846 JAMES (G. P. R.) The Last of the Fairies, with illustrations from designs by John Gilbert, within engraved borders, 12mo, original cloth gilt, gilt edges, 9s-N.D.

Ranges in form and binding with Dickens' Christmas Books.

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JERROLD (Douglas) Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, amusing illustrations by Charles Keene, the ORIGINAL EDITION, small 4to, cloth, 12s 6d-1866

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JESSE (J. H.) London and its Celebreties, and Literary and Historical Memoirs of London, BOTH SERIES, 4 vols, 8vo, half calf gilt, marbled leaves, £5 15s 6d-1847-50 JESSE (J. H.) London, its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places, frontispieces, 3 vols, large post 8vo, newly bound, half morocco extra, panel backs, gilt tops, £2 5s-1871

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JESSE (Edward) Favourite Haunts and Rural Studies, including Visits to Spots of Interest in the Vicinity of Windsor and Eton, the FIRST EDITION, with numerous illustrations, post 8vo, cloth, 10s 6d-1847

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JESSE (Edward) Gleanings in Natural History, with Local Recollections, to which are added Maxims and Hints for an Angler, &c., 2 vols, post 8vo, boards, UNCUT, 10s 6d-1832-34 [284 JEST BOOK. The Hundred Merry Tales, or Shakespeare's Jest Book, newly bound, half Levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, 12s 6d-1831 [285

JOHNNY Gibb of Gushetneuk, in the Parish of Pyketillim, with Glimpses of Parish Politics about A.D. 1843, numerous etchings by George Reid, R.S.A., large royal 8vo, cloth boards, UNCUT, £3 13s 6d-Edinburgh, 1880

The edition de lure of Johnny Gibb, extremely scarce, having almost immediately on its publication become out of print.

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JOHNSON (Dr. Samuel) Rasselas, excellently printed in large type, WITH BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS by A. RAIMBACH, FROM PICTURES BY R. SMIRKE, R.A., brilliant proof impressions, 4to, boards, UNCUT, £1 1s-1805 [287

Presentation copy from the engraver, "To Mrs. EMMERSON. This book is presented as a respectful testimony of esteem by her obliged humble servant, ABRAHAM RAIMBACH, April 7th, 1805."

JOHNSON (Dr. S.) Lives of the Poets, with Critical Observations on their Works, the BEST LIBRARY EDITION, edited by Peter Cunningham, 3 vols, 8vo, cloth, £1 5s-J. Murray, 1854 [288 JOHNSON. Graphic Illustrations to the Life and Times of Dr. Samuel Johnson, a series of 24 fine portraits, engravings, dc., with descriptive Letterpress, royal 8vo, cloth, £1 1s-1835-37

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EATS (John) Poetical Works, comprising: Poems, 1817; Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes, and other Poems, 1820; Endymion, a Poetic Romance, 1818, together 3 vols, in the original boards, UNCUT, £25 nett

A fine and unique set, being presentation copies to Harriet Haviland, from her brother, B. R. Hayden, the painter, and friend of Keats.

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KEATS (John) Poetical Works, with a Memoir by Lord Houghton, ilustrated with 120 designs, original and from the Antique, drawn on wood by G. Scharf, jun., 4to, whole bound, blue morocco extra, tooled sides, gilt edges, £6 6s-Moxon, 1854

A LARGE PAPER COPY of the first issue of this beautiful edition of Keats.
No record of any other copy ever having been offered for sale seems traceable.

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KEATS (John) Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes, portrait by Severn, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 12mo, cloth, UNCUT, £1 1s-E. Moxon, 1848

Slightly ink-marked in places.

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KING CHARLESI. The Works of King Charles the Martyr, with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, and other Papers concerning the differences betwixt his said Majesty and his two Houses of Parliament, with the History of his Life, as also of his Tryal and Martyrdome, plates, folio, old calf, £1 1s—1687

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KNIGHT (Charles) The Quarterly Magazine, edited
by W. M. Praed, 3 vols, 8vo, half calf, £1 1s-1823-4
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Contains the early productions of Lord Macaulay, W. M. Praed, Derwent
Coleridge, and other literary celebrities.

KNIGHT'S Gallery of British and Foreign Portraits, with Memoirs by Distinguished Biographers, containing 168 fine portraits beautifully engraved on steel, ORIGINAL IMPRESSIONS, 7 vols, imperial 8vo, half green morocco, gilt tops, UNCUT, £5 5s-C. Knight,

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AMB (Charles) Elia, Essays which have appeared
in The London Magazine, the RARE FIRST EDITION OF BOTH SERIES,
2 vols, post 8vo, £3 3s-1823-33
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The SECOND SERIES is a fine copy in boards, uncut; the first series is in
cloth boards, but cut down.

LAMB (C.) Works, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 2 vols,

12mo, half bound, gilt tops, UNCUT, £1 18s-C. and J. Ollier, 1818 [297 LAMB (C.) Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with Notes, the SECOND EDITION, post 8vo, polished calf extra, gilt edges, £1 1s-1813 [298 LAMB (C.) Album Verses, with a few others, FIRST EDITION, post 8vo, newly bound, polished calf, super extra, gilt top, £1 10s-E. Moxon, 1830 [299 LAMB (C.) Letters and Final Memorials, with Sketches of some of his Companions, by Thomas Noon Talfourd, the ORIGINAL EDITIONS, 4 vols, post 8vo, CLOTH, UNCUT, £1 188-E. Moxon, 1837-48

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LANDOR (Walter Savage) Works, COLLECTED EDITION, 2 vols, royal 8vo, cloth, £1 4s-Moxon, 1853 LANDOR. Hellenics, comprising Heroic Idylls, &c., 8vo,

cloth, 4s 6d-1839

LANDOR.

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Gebir, Count Julian, and other Poems, the FIRST EDITION, post 8vo, cloth, UNCUT, 15s-Moxon, 1831 LANDOR. Last Fruit off an Old Tree, FIRST EDITION, post Svo, cloth, UNCUT, 10s-1853 LECKY (W. E. H.) History of European Morals, from Augustus to Charlemagne, BEST LIBRARY EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, cloth, £2 28-1869 [305 LEECH. A Little Tour in Ireland, being a Visit to Dublin, Galway, Connamara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Glengarriff, Cork, &c., by an Oxonian (Canon Hole), coloured frontispiece and woodcut illustrations by John Leech, square 8vo, newly bound, half Levant morocco, gilt edges, £1 1s-1859 [306 LEECH. "Ask Mamma," or the Richest Commoner in England, by Surtees, FIRST EDITION, coloured plates and woodcuts by JOHN LEECH, 8vo, newly bound, half red morocco, panel backs, gilt edges, £1 158-1858

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LEECH. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (by Surtees), the FIRST EDITION, with best impressions of the famous coloured plates by John Leech, 8vo, half red morocco neat, gilt edges, £1 15s-1853

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LEECH. Maxwell (W. H.) The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran and his Man, Mark Anthony Toole, ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LEECH, 8vo, cloth gilt, UNCUT, 158-1853

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LE SAGE. Adventures of Gil Blas, 3 vols, Asmodeus, the Bachelor of Salamanca, and Vanillo Gonzales, translated by Smollett, Townsend, and others, together 6 vols, large 8vo, illustrated with 24 etchings by R. de Los Rios, UNIFORMLY BOUND, half Spanish calf extra, panel backs, gilt tops, A HANDSOME SET, £6 68-1880-81

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Large paper, with proofs of the etchings on JAPANESE PAPER. Only 100 copies so printed. LES FRANCAIS. Peints par Eux-memes, BOTH SERIES, comprising Paris and the Provinces, Les Anglais peints par Euxmêmes, also the extra volume (Le Prismo), illustrated with nearly 3,000 clever and spirited engravings by Gavarni, Tony Johannot, and others, of the MANNERS, HABITS, AND COSTUMES OF EVERY CLASS OF FRENCH SOCIETY, together 11 vols, imperial 8vo, uniformly bound, half red morocco neat, gilt tops, UNCUT, £8 8s-Paris, 1840-43

A magnificent set of this extremely interesting and amusing work.
Rarely are the 11 vols found together and in such fine state.

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LES GUEPES, par Alphonse Karr, with some humorous illustrations by Bertall, from its commencement in November, 1839, to May, 1847, 30 vols, 24mo, half cloth, marbled paper sides, £2 12s 6dParis, Bureau de Figaro, 1839-47

An amusing periodical, full of witty and pithy comments on the times, on popular men and things, &c. The original edition as published in monthly numbers and bound up together.

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LEVER (C.) Jack Hinton, the Guardsman, portrait of the Author and numerous illustrations by Phiz, 8vo, ORIGINAL CLOTH, UNCUT, 17s 6d-1842

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[313 LEVER (C.) St. Patrick's Eve, illustrations by Phiz, FIRST EDITION, crown 8vo, cloth, 10s-1845 LEVER (C.) The Martins of Cro' Martin, with illustrations by Phiz, the FIRST EDITION, complete in the original numbers, with all the covers, £1 10s-1856 [315 LEVER (C.) One of Them, with illustrations by Phiz, FINE COPY, complete in the original numbers, WITH ALL THE ILLUSTRATED WRAPPERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS, £1 7s 6d-1861 [316 LEVER (C.) Barrington, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHIZ, complete in the original numbers, with all the illustrated covers and advertisements, £1 7s 6d-1863

[317 LEVER (C.) Cornelius O'Dowd upon Men and Women and other Things in General, the THREE SERIES COMPLETE, 3 vols, post 8vo, FIRST EDITION, cloth, UNCUT, 128 6d-1864 [318 LITTLE (Thomas), The Poetical Works of, 12mo, boards, UNCUT, 5s-1819

The amatory poems of Thomas Moore, published under the pseudonym of Thomas Little. LITTELTON.

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The French Littelton, a most Easie, Perfect and Absolute Way to Learne the Frenche Tongue, set forth by Claudius Holyband, also le Jardin de Vertu et Bonnes Moeurs plain de Plusieurs belles Fleurs, in the same vol, 24mo, calf, 10sThomas Vautrollier, Blacke-Friers, 1581-83

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LEWIS (Sir G. Cornewall) Essays on the Administration of Great Britain, from 1783 to 1840, edited by Sir Edmund Head, portrait, 8vo, cloth, £1 8s—1864 LEWIS (Sir G. Cornewall) Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages, post 8vo, newly bound, half calf gilt, gilt top, 10s 6d-1862 [322 LONDON. Coxhead (J.) Antiquities of London, with Anecdotes of Eminent Persons connected therewith, chiefly from the works of Pennant, ILLUSTRATED WITH 55 PLATES, 8vo, half calf, 10s-1814

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LOW (George) A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, containing Hints relative to their Ancient, Modern and Natural History, collected in 1774; and with an Introduction by Joseph Anderson, numerous illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 12s 6d-1879 [325 ANON LESCAUT, Histoire de, et du Chevalier des Grièux, par l'Abbé Prévost, édition illustrée par Tony Johannot, précédée d'une Notice Historique sur l'auteur par Jules Janin, royal 8vo, in original wrapper, UNCUT, £1 15sParis, E. Bourdin et Cie.

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Very scarce, especially in this state. The first edition, with best impres sions of the famous woodcuts of Tony Johannot, marked by Paris booksellers 75 francs.

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MANON LESCAUT, par l'Abbé Prévost, précedée d'une Preface par Alex. Dumas, Fils, beautiful proofs of the exquisite etchings of Leopold Flameng. Thick 8vo, vellum wrapper, UNCUT EDGES, £1 10s— Paris, 1875 [327 MANON LESCAUT, translated from the French of the Abbé Prévost, illustrations on India paper, and woodcuts by Tony Johannot, royal 8vo, cloth, UNCUT, £1 10s-1841 [328 MARRIAGE Ceremonies. Studies in Ancient History, comprising a Reprint of Primitive Marriage, an Inquiry into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremonies, by J. F. McLennan, M.A., LL.D., post 8vo, scarce, being quite out of print, £1 5s-1876 [329 MARTINEAU (Harriet) Illustrations of Political Economy, complete in 9 vols, 18mo, cloth, £1 58-C. For, 1834 MAYHEW (Brothers) Acting Charades, or Deeds not Words, a Christmas Game, to make a long Evening short, coloured frontispiece and title, and comical cuts by H. G. Hines, square 12mo, newly bound, half Levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT edges, 12s 6d-Bogue,

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MERIVALE (Charles) History of the Romans under the Empire, 8 vols, crown 8vo, whole bound, tree calf extra, marbled leaves, £3 10s-1865 [332 MERIVALE (J. H.) Orlando in Roncesvalles, a Poem in five Cantos, the FIRST EDITION, post 8vo, calf, 12s 6d—1814 MOORE (Thomas) Irish Melodies, BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED

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BY BECKER'S PROCESS, within artistic engraved borders, with exquisite engravings by D. Maclise, R.A., in facsimile of the original drawings, ELEGANTLY BOUND, WHOLE GREEN MOROCCO, SUPER EXTRA, RIVIERE, £1 18s-N.D.

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