82 ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Danish Fairy Legends and Tales. Translated by Caroline Peachey. With a memoir of the author. Third edition, enlarged. George Bell, 1881.  £45
Pp.xxxii,456; 12 full-page & numerous vignette wood-engravings; a good copy in contemporary tan calf, morocco label; gilt badge of Spondon House School on upper cover, backstrip gilt faded, lightly rubbed but sound. Much enlarged from the original edition of 1846.

83 ARABIAN NIGHTS. GALLAND, Antoine. [Translator] The Arabian Nights' Entertainments: consisting of one thousand and one stories. [In four volumes.] Translated into French from the Arabian MSS. by M. Galland... and now done into English from the last Paris Edition. The Seventeenth Edition. Printed by W. Darling, Edinburgh, 1783.  £135
4vols., pp.viii,350(2); 356(2); (2)359(1); (2)328(2); piece torn from margin of final leaf vol.IV (clear of text), marginal worm slits affecting first leaves of vol.II (becoming two marginal holes for first half of vol.), otherwise a good set in contemporary full tan sheep, double morocco labels; short split in one hinge, extremities rubbed, but sound & attractive; ownership signature of 'Ann Edwards 1791'. First published early in the century, this anonymous English translation from Galland remained the standard version until Lane's more scholarly, though expurgated, attempt appeared in 1840.

84 ASHTON, John. Modern Street Ballads. With fifty-six illustrations. Chatto & Windus, 1888.  £25
FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,405 + advert.leaf and 32pp, Chatto catalogue for Dec. 1887; vignette illustrations in line; a good uncut copy of this standard work in original blue cloth, pictorially blocked in gold.

85 BARTON, Bernard. Poems and letters. Edited by his daughter. With a memoir. [by Edward FitzGerald.] New Edition. Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co., 1853.  £30
Pp.xl,363; frontis. portrait; a very good uncut copy in original blind-stamped cloth. Includes a 30pp. memoir by Edward FitzGerald who is also said to have advised on the selection of poems. The letters include correspondence with Southey & Lamb.

86 BETJEMAN, John. Selected Poems. Chosen With a Preface by John Sparrow. John Murray, 1948.  £65
FIRST EDITION, pp.xxii,127; a good copy in original cloth, lacking paper label; signed by Betjeman on title.

87 BLAKE. GILCHRIST, Alexander. The Life of William Blake with selections from his poems and other writings. A new and enlarged edition illustrated from Blake's own works with additional letters and a memoir of the author. In two volumes. Macmillan and Co., 1880.  £180
Second & best edition; 2vols., pp.xxi(3)431; x,383; illustrations in various media throughout, many engraved by Linton after Blake's original drawings; vol. II includes original prints: - three from the Virgil woodblocks (in this second edition well printed on India paper), and 17 from electrotypes made from the original copperplates of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience. A very good copy of this deluxe production, uncut & largely unopened, in original pictorial cloth, gilt; neatly recased with unobtrusive reinforcement to head & tail of backstrips.

88 BORROW, George [Translator] Ballads of all Nations. A Selection edited by R. Brimley Johnson from the texts of Prof. Herbert Wright. Alston Rivers, 1927.  £20
FIRST EDITION, pp.xxiv,342; very good in original green cloth.

89 BROADBENT, R.J. A History of Pantomime. Simpkin, Marshall... 1901.  £38
FIRST EDITION, pp.226(2); a good copy of this wide-ranging survey in original maroon cloth, gilt; slight snag at head of backstrip.

90 BROWNING, Robert. Jocoseria. Smith, Elder & Co., 1883.  £25
FIRST EDITION, pp.(6)143 + 4pp. adverts.; a very good uncut copy in original cloth; backstrip slightly faded.

91 BULWER LYTTON, Edward. Alice; or the Mysteries. G. Routledge & Co., 1854.  £20
16mo., pp.(2)302; bound with Bulwer's The Last of the Barons which lacks title-page; contemporary half calf, morocco label; a little rubbed but a sound copy of this 'yellowback' edition.

92 BURKE. MOSLEY, Charles [Editor] Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage [with] Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons. 107th Edition. [In three volumes] Boydell & Brewer, 2003  £150
3vols., pp.4,500; new in original cloth, gilt. First published in 1826, this standard reference now includes knights, dames, Scottish and Irish Chiefs and Scottish feudal barons, representing a 'tangible marker' for those families affected by reforms in the Scottish feudal land tenure system and the House of Lords. The three volumes cover over 5,500 families and 1,000 years of history. This 107th edition is likely to be the last before the work transfers to an online subscription service. Published at  £399, we have a few sets at bargain price; inland UK shipping will be  £8.

93 BURY, J.B. [General Editor.] GWATKIN, H.M. & WHITNEY, J.P. [Editors.] The Cambridge Medieval History. [In five volumes.] Cambridge, 1924-26.  £85
Second Edition, 5vols., pp.xxii,754; xxiv,889; xxxix,700; xxxvi,993; xliv1005; one rear endpaper torn, otherwise well preserved in original green buckram, backstrips uniformly faded with traces of shelf-mark; without the separately issued portfolio of maps.

94 CAMBRIDGE History of English Literature. Edited by Sir A.W. Ward and A.R. Waller. [In fifteen volumes.] Cambridge University Press, 1932.  £75
15 vols., each c.400pp. including index volume; a good set of this standard reference in original blue cloth.

95 CAMPBELL, Olive Dame. SHARP, Cecil J. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Comprising 122 Songs and Ballads, and 323 Tunes. With an Introduction and Notes. Putnam's, 1917.  £95
FIRST EDITION, pp.xxviii(2)341; frontispiece map; original blue cloth, dull, damp-faded strip at head of sides, extremities rubbed but a sound copy of this important & influential collection. Ownership signature of 'C. Malpin [?] March 1920'; words for 'Dimps Song' and 'Whistle Daughter Whistle' transcribed on endpapers.

96 CAMPBELL, Thomas. The Poetical Works. Illustrated by thirty-seven wood-cuts. Edward Moxon, 1849.  £28
Pp.xii,343; 8pp. Moxon list dated Feb.1st, 1849, inserted at front; a good uncut copy in original blind-stamped cloth, minor wear at head & tail of backstrip, bookplate of James Oldham.

97 CANTON, William. A Lost Epic and other poems. William Blackwood, 1887.  £25
FIRST EDITION, pp.x,215; a good uncut copy in slightly marked original maroon cloth, gilt; embossed 'with the Publishers' compliments' and inscribed, 'Lily Campbell T.S.V.' Born on the Chinese island of Chusan, Canton spent most of his working life in London & Glasgow as a journalist & poet praised by Max Müller & Walter Pater; best known for 'The Invisible Playmate', 1894 and 'A Child's Book of Saints', 1898.

98 CARLYLE, Thomas. NEWBERRY, Percy [Editor] Rescued Essays. The Leadenhall Press, [1892]  £24
FIRST EDITION, pp.(4)125 + advert. leaf; a good copy in original cloth-backed boards, paper label; extremities rubbed but sound; Ex libris Alicia M. Amherst to whom this copy is inscribed '...from the Editor, Percy E. Newberry Nov. 1892.' Essays on Louis-Philippe, the Death of Charles Buller and six on Ireland.

99 CLARK, Hugh. An Introduction to Heraldry... Embellished with forty-eight engravings.. The fifteenth edition - improved and enlarged. Henry Washbourne & Co., 1854.  £24
12mo., pp.xii,267; extra pictorial coloured title & 48 plates, mostly foxed, titles lightly stained but a sound copy of this standard reference in modern green cloth.

100 COLLINS, William. Drafts & Fragments of Verse. Edited from the manuscripts by J.S. Cunningham. Oxford, 1956.  £20
FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.xii,50; a very good copy, largely unopened, in original cloth, paper labels, dust-wrapper slightly frayed. Annotated transcripts of the only known examples of Collins' verse in autograph manuscript; discovered among the Warton papers in Trinity Coll. Library, Oxford.

101 COX, Edwin Marion. The Ballads of François Villon. Alexander Moring, 1917.  £12
First separate printing; pp.24; original printed wrappers (lower wrapper scuffed). With a list of 43 French & 3 English editions. Reprinted from The Library, Jan. 1917.

102 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Chaplets from Coquet-side; by Joseph Crawhall. [Printed by M. & M.W. Lambert... and to be sold by Robert Robinson, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1873.  £400
FIRST EDITION, 100 copies printed; pp.83(1); hand-coloured woodcut vignettes throughout; some light spotting & soiling but a sound copy of this anthology of angling & other ballads & poems in original green morocco-backed crimson boards, gilt backstrip, Roxburghe-style; rubbed & lightly worn at extremities but sound. Inscribed by Crawhall 'for my dear son Hugh'. Autograph letter, signed & dated Jan 17, '37, from A.S. Hartrick to 'Haward Marks Esq. 25 Red Lion St.', concerning 'a few slight memories of Jo Crawhall in a chapter in a book that is not yet published. The best writing of him... is a Sketch by Cunningham-Graham in a book called 'Writ in Sand'... The Sketch is called 'Creeps' a nickname by which he was known when he lived in Tangier...' Hartrick's 'A Painter's Pilgrimage' appeared in 1939. Westwood & Satchell p.69.

103 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Chorographia, or A Survey of Newcastle upon Tyne: 1649. Andrew Reid, Newcastle upon Tine, 1884.  £265
FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.121(3); woodcut map, illustrations & decorations throughout; a good uncut copy of this deluxe production on hand-made paper in original half vellum, printed boards, lightly rubbed & soiled.

104 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Crawhall's Chapbook Chaplets. Field & Tuer, 1883.  £250
FIRST EDITION, 4to., 12pp. prelims. & advert. leaf and eight separately-paginated chapbooks, each with original printed coloured wrappers; comprising: The Barkeshire Lady's Garland, pp.32; The babes in the Wood, pp.24; I Know what I know, pp.28; jemmy & nancy of Yarmouth, pp.36; The Taming of a Shrew, pp.32; Blew Cap for Mee, pp.28; John & Joan, pp.20; George Barnewel, pp.52; woodcut illustrations throughout, all hand-coloured; a very good uncut set in handsome later half russet morocco, marbled sides, backstrip gilt in compartments. 'As the illustrations herein are all hand coloured the issue is necessarily limited'.

105 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Ducks & green Peas; [with] Ducks & green Peas; A Farce. [Field & Tuer] 1883.  £45
4to., pp.14; 32; hand-coloured woodcut vignettes throughout; good copies of two ballads subsequently collected in Crawhall's Olde ffrendes wyth newe Faces; original pictorial printed wrappers, soiled with some marginal loss.

106 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Ducks & green Peas; A Farce [with] The Gloamin' buchte. [Field & Tuer] 1883.  £35
4to., pp.34; 22; woodcut vignettes throughout; good copies of two ballads subsequently collected in Crawhall's Olde ffrendes wyth newe Faces; first title lightly soiled, otherwise well preserved in original pictorial printed wrappers, lightly soiled, backstrip sometime reinforced.

107 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Olde Tayles Newlye Relayted. Enryched with all ye Ancyente Embellyshments. The Leadenhall Press, 1883.  £110
FIRST EDITION, 4to., general title in red & black with woodcut vignette and fourteen separate ballads, each c.32pp. with separate title, colophon & pagination; woodcuts & decorations by Crawhall throughout; a good uncut copy in original pictorial green cloth, rubbed but sound, sometime rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Includes: The Barkeshire Lady's Garland, The Babes in the Wood, jemmy & nancy of Yarmouth, The Taming of a Shrew, The Long Pack: A Northumbrian Tale, The Gloamin' Buchte, A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal to Mrs. Bargrave. Felver p.139.

108 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Olde ffrendes wyth newe Faces. Adorn'd With sutable Sculptures. Field & Tuer, 1883.  £135
FIRST EDITION, limited, 4to., 12pp. prelims & advert. leaves and nine separately paginated ballads, each with pictorial printed grey wrappers; comprises: The louing ballad of Lord Bateman, pp.24; A true Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal to Mrs Bargrave, pp.38; The Long Pack: A Northumbrian Tale, pp.36; The Sword Dancers, pp.20; John Cunningham, pp.34; Ducks & green Peas; pp.14; Ducks & green Peas; A Farce [dramatised version], pp.34; Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes Esquire, pp.48; The Gloamin' buchte, pp.22; vignette & full-page woodcut illustrations throughout, all hand-coloured; a very good copy in original two-tone printed boards, rather rubbed & marked but serviceable; unobtrusively re-backed retaining original backstrip.

109 CRAWHALL, Joseph. Several Sovereigns for A Shilling. Adorned by Joseph Crawhall. Mawson, Swan & Morgan, Newcastle; Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1886.  £65
FIRST EDITION, landscape format (220 x 280mm), pp.(24); woodcut illustrations & decorations throughout; some light soiling but a well preserved copy of this uncommon collection in original ribbon-tied pictorial printed grey wrappers.

110 CRAWHALL, Joseph. WALTON & COTTON. Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke. Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1885.  £280
FIRST EDITION, 4to., no.33 of 100 Large Paper copies; pp.120 + numerous blank leaves with running title for additional 'Fysshe Stories'; hand-coloured woodcut illustrations throughout; a very good copy, sometime rebound in full vellum, lettered in gold, with original printed linen wallets reattached at front & rear. An abridgement of Walton's Compleat Angler with 36 songs & poems taken from the 5th Ed. Horne 122

111 CRISP, Frederick Arthur. Fragmenta Genealogica. New Series Vol.1. Printed at the Private Press of Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1910.  £32
No.34 of 100 copies printed, lg.4to., pp.(10)159; 2 colour plates; original half-vellum, morocco label; extremities worn but serviceable; label & stamps of Atkinson Free Library, Southport, but internally well preserved. The last volume issued by Crisp in this series; includes: Register of Codford St. Peter, Wiltshire; Waring Family Pedigree & Deeds; Memoranda in Heraldry by Peter Le Neve, 1694-1705.

112 [DALTON, James Forbes] Some of my contributions in Rhyme to Periodicals in bygone days. By A Septuagenarian. William Blackwood, 1860.  £28
FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,180(4)adverts.; a very good copy in original maroon cloth, backstrip uniformly faded. Poetry from Blackwood's, Bentley's, Fraser's & Ackermann's Forget me not.

113 DANIEL, Mgr. Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire universelle. Nouvelle édition publiée et continuée jusqu'a nos jours par Ch. Marie. Paris, 1865.  £18
Pp.(4)592; contemporary maroon half roan, matching pebble grain cloth sides, very good. Intended for the lycées it has the merit of being easy to read. Written during the second empire with a staunchly patriotic stance.

114 DANTE. The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Translated by Henry Francis Cary. With a Life of Dante... Frederick Warne and Co., [1890s]  £135
Pp.xlviii,496; frontispiece portrait; contemporary full green calf with gilt floral motifs in sections of backstrip; backstrip darkened, sides a little marked but well preserved; all edges gilt concealing double fore-edge paintings depicting paradisial cottage garden and infernal 19thC industrial scene.

115 DAVISON, Francis. The Poetical Rhapsody: Edited by A.H. Bullen. In two volumes. George Bell, 1890.  £35
No.180 of 520 copies, 2vol., pp.xcii,139; x,207; well printed at the Chiswick Press on laid paper; a very good set in original buckram over bevelled boards, top edges gilt, others uncut.

116 DEACON, Malcolm. Philip Doddridge of Northampton 1702-51. Northamptonshire Libraries, 1980.  £15
FIRST EDITION, pp.212; 51 illustrations & facsimiles; a very good copy of this well-produced book in original cloth & dust-wrapper. An important academic study of this most influential Nonconformist who fulfilled an energetic ministry in Northampton in the second quarter of the 18thC.

117 DICKENS. MACKENZIE, R. Shelton. Life of Charles Dickens. With personal recollections and anecdotes, letters never before published, and uncollected papers in prose and verse. T.B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, [1870].  £45
FIRST EDITION, pp.484,6 (the Dickens Controversy) + 22pp. publisher's adverts.; portrait frontispiece; occasional slight soiling but a sound copy in original green cloth, gilt, a little rubbed and faded. Published within two months of Dickens' death, including 140pp. of uncollected pieces and his last will.

118 DICKENS, Charles. REYNOLDS, Frank [Illustrator] Mr Pickwick. [Excerpts from Pickwick Papers.] Illustrated in Colour by Frank Reynolds RI Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]  £110
FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xvi,174(2); pictorial title & 25 tipped-in colour plates with captioned guards; a very nice copy of this Edwardian gift book in later half crimson morocco, gilt.

119 DIPROSE, John. Diprose's New Sixpenny Song Book - Comic and Sentimental. New Edition. David Bryce, [bound with] Diprose's Selection of Love Songs. Diprose & Bateman. [bound with] Diprose's Standard Song Book and Recitations. Comic & Sentimental. J. Diprose, [1850s]  £45
Three works bound together; pp.vi,80; 96; 207(1); contemporary crimson roan-backed green cloth with original pictorial wrappers bound in; rebacked preserving most of original backstrip. One leaf torn without loss but generally well preserved copies of these ephemeral collections.

120 DOBSON, William T. A Narrative of the Peninsular Campaign 1807-1814. Its Battles and Sieges. With ten illustrations in permanent photography. Bickers & Son, 1889.  £55
FIRST EDITION, pp.x,408; double-page map & 10 mounted photographic plates; a very good copy of this abridgement of Napier in contemporary rose calf, gilt, prize binding of Dorchester Grammar School; extremities rubbed but sound and attractive.

121 DOD, Charles R. The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for 1852... Twelfth Year. Whittaker and Co., 1852.  £24
Pp.657,35 (adverts.); woodcut illustrations of regalia; original cloth, gilt; lacks front free-endpaper, soiled & worn at backstrip & hinges but a good working copy.

122 DOUGLAS, Robert B. Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit. With seven copper-plate engravings by Adolphe Lalauze. Charles Carrington, Paris, 1898.  £25
FIRST EDITION limited to 500 copies; pp.x(2)272(4); 4 full-page & 3 vignette engravings; a good uncut copy in original tan cloth, backstrip lettering faded. The leading soprano at the pre-revolutionary Paris Opera, but known for her wit as well as her voice; Arnould was friend to Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau & Franklin.

123 EDWARDS, H. A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities, extracted from the Reports made by the Commissioners for Enquiring into Charities in England and Wales. John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1842.  £40
FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,267; some light spotting but a good copy in original green cloth; backstrip darkened and a little worn at head & tail, short split in upper hinge but sound. Inscribed 'With the Publishers Compliments...' at head of half-title; ex libris G.N. Maynard [of Ipswich Museum].

124 EPHRAEM, Syrus. BURGESS, Rev. Henry. [Translator] The Repentence of Nineveh, a metrical homily on the mission of Jonah. Translated from the original Syriac, with an introduction and notes. Robert B. Blackader... 1853.  £35
FIRST EDITION, pp.lx,214(6) adverts.; a very good copy in original blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gold, all edges gilt. The first English translation of St. Ephraem's homily to which Burgess adds 'An Exhortation to Repentance, and some smaller pieces' and an introductory essay on the various Latin translations. A rather scarcer work than Burgess's earlier translation of Ephraem's Hymns and Homilies, 1835.

125 EROTICA. Fashionable Lectures: composed and delivered with birch discipline by the following, and many other, Beautiful Ladies... The Fourth Edition with Considerable Additions. Printed for G. Peacock, 66 Drury Lane. [Facsimile reprint by John Camden Hotten, 1872]  £40
Pp.120 + advert leaf; well printed on Whatman laid paper; original boards, neatly rebacked, edges a little worn but sound. No.7 of Hotten's 'Library Illustrative of Social Progress, from the original editions collected by the late Henry Thomas Buckle'. Copac lists BL copy only of this reprint, ESTC records no copy of the original 18thC edition.

126 ETIQUETTE. The Habits of Good Society: A Handbook of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen... James Hogg & Sons, [1860s]  £35
Pp.378 + 6pp. adverts.; wood-engraved frontispiece; a little browned but generally well preserved in original blue cloth, gilt; extremities rubbed, slight wear at head & tail of backstrip but sound. Evidently an early edition of this bestseller which first appeared in [1859].

127 EVANS, W.R. Lays of Other Lands: Poems translated or imitated... with some original pieces. Printed for the Author, 1861.  £35
FIRST EDITION, pp.200(6) subscribers list; original blue cloth decorated in gold & blind, all edges gilt; sides differentially faded but well preserved. Copac locates only Bodleian, Cardiff & Glasgow.

128 FIRBANK, Ronald. Works in Eight Volumes. Duckworth, 1929/30.  £65
8 vols. in the 'Rainbow' First Collected Edition in original multi-coloured buckram; backstrips slightly faded and marked but a good collection of the first 8vols. issued. Comprises: Prancing Nigger, Valmouth, Flower beneath the foot, Cardinal Pirelli, Inclinations, Caprice, Vainglory and Princess Zoubaroff.

129 [FITZGERALD, Edward.] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia, rendered into English verse. Third Edition. Bernard Quaritch, 1872.  £85
Square 8vo., pp.xxiv,36; first & final leaves spotted, lacking final free endpaper but a sound copy in original roan-backed maroon cloth, a little rubbed & marked; ownership signature of the historian 'Arthur L. Smith, Trinity Coll. Oxford Nov.[18]74', in which year he became a fellow of the college. 'In this edition...nine of the quatrains were cancelled...It is of importance because it was not till after its issue that it first dawned upon the reading and thinking classes of the time that a new star had arisen in the literary firmament.' Prideaux pp.30-6.

130 FREEMAN, Edward A. The chief periods of European history. Six lectures... with an essay on Greek cities under Roman rule. Macmillan, 1886.  £28
FIRST EDITION, pp.ix(3)250; full calf, gilt backstrip & borders, marbled edges & endpapers, by Bickers; prize inscription and gilt badge of Bristol Grammar School on upper cover. Small piece torn from corner of half-title, else very good. Lectures delivered as Professor of History at Oxford by one of the great Victorian historians.

131 GARDINER, Robert Barlow [Editor] The Registers of Wadham College, Oxford. [In two parts] From 1613... to 1871. Edited with biographical notes... George Bell, 1889/95.  £85
FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.xxiv,511; xvi(4)626; a little wear at extremities but a sound uncut set of this scarce record in original blue cloth, gilt.

132 GLEIG, G.R. Chelsea Hospital, and its traditions. In three volumes. Richard Bentley, 1838.  £90
FIRST EDITION, 3vol., pp.xii,307; 342; 295; light spotting throughout, otherwise a good set in contemporary half calf, marbled sides, lettered in gold; minor chips to head of backstrips; from the Easton Neston Library. Having served in the Peninsula campaign and at New Orleans, Greig became chaplain of Chelsea Hospital in 1834. His history includes an account of British military history as reflected in its records and traditions, and many reminiscences of the Napoleonic Wars by surviving veterans.

133 GRAVES, Robert. The English Ballad. A Short Critical Survey. Ernest Benn, 1927.  £28
FIRST EDITION, pp.139; slight spotting of first & final leaves but a good copy in original cloth, paper label, backstrip a little faded; ownership signature of 'Ruari McLean, Hammersmith Dec. 1938.'

134 GREENWOOD, Sir George. The Shakspere Signatures and 'Sir Thomas More'. Cecil Palmer, 1924.  £25
FIRST EDITION, pp.xviii,112; 11 facsimile illustrations; a very good copy in dust-wrapper (bruised along top edge).

135 GREY, Charles, 2nd. Earl. [GRACIE, John Black. Editor?] The Grey Festival; being a narrative of the proceedings connected with the Dinner given to Earl Grey at Edinburgh... and a corrected report of the speeches... Adam and Charles Black [& others], Edinburgh, 1834.  £35
FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,107; spotting of first & final leaves, otherwise a good uncut copy in original boards, paper label; backstrip worn. With an appendix of Addresses to the Noble Earl and other documents, as Scotland gave thanks to the architect of the Reform Bill.

136 [GREY, Elizabeth Caroline] Vileroy; or, The Horrors of Zindorf Castle. A Romance of Chivalry. E. Lloyd,  £85
Pp.(4)235; 24 suitably melodramatic half-page woodcuts; two leaves torn without loss, some light soiling but generally well preserved in contemporary half calf, morocco label; rubbed but sound; slight worming in front board & bottom margin of first leaves. A surprisingly uncommon gothic melodrama from the prolific Mrs Grey: Copac records just Bodley (attributed to Thomas Peckett Prest) & BL copies of the first printing in 52 parts of [1842]; this double column edition appeared in 30 parts c1850 according to WorldCat which records New York, Yale & Chapel Hill copies only.

137 GREY, Mrs [Elizabeth Caroline]. The Young Prima Donna. G. Routledge and Co., 1854.  £25
16mo., pp.(4)252; contemporary half calf, morocco label, marbled sides rubbed but sound. First published in 1840, 3vols., this (Railway Library) edition is the only other printing listed in BM Cat.

138 HAGGARD, Andrew C.P. Women of the Revolutionary Era, or some who stirred France. Stanley Paul, 1914.  £20
FIRST EDITION, pp.(14)375; gravure frontis. & 16 half-tone plates; a good copy in original cloth.

139 HAGGARD, H. Rider. Mr Meeson's will. With sixteen illustrations. Spencer Blackett, 1888.  £65
FIRST EDITION, pp.286 + 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated Oct., 1888; a good uncut copy in original pictorial cloth, backstrip dulled with neat repairs at head & tail.

140 HALLIWELL, James Orchard. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England. John Russell Smith, 1849.  £35
FIRST EDITION, 12mo., pp.xii,276 + 12pp. publisher's catalogue; a good uncut copy in original tan blind-stamped cloth; neat modern reback with morocco label.

141 HEMANS, Felicia. CHORLEY, Henry F. Memorials of Mrs Hemans with illustrations of her literary character from her correspondence. In two volumes. Saunders and Otley, 1836.  £65
FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.xiv,309; viii,358; engraved frontispieces (lightly browned); contemporary half calf, marbled sides, double morocco labels, by Moody of Alresford with his label; lightly rubbed but a good set; handsome wood-engraved bookplate of Leonard Noble, 1893. The best account of the prolific poet, based on her correspondence; Chorley befriended Mrs. Hemans in her final years but traces her life from birth in Liverpool to retirement in Kilkenny & Dublin in the land of her father.

142 HENTY, G.A. In Greek Waters: A story of the Grecian War of Independence (1821-1827). Blackie & Son, [c1897]  £25
Pp.384; 12 plates & map; a very good copy in contemporary prize binding of full rose calf, gilt, morocco label; gilt badge & bookplate of Trinity College, Harrogate.

143 HERALDIC EXHIBITION. DORLING, E.E. [Compiler] Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of British Heraldic Art to the end of the Tudor period. [With an introduction by Oswald Barron.] Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1916.  £20
FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xx,127; some light spotting but a sound uncut copy in original printed wrappers & cloth-backed boards; printed at the Chiswick Press.

144 HINDLEY, Charles. The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle... and Seven Dials, London. Charles Hindley, 1886.  £75
FIRST EDITION, Large Paper Copy limited to 250 signed & numbered copies; sm.4to., pp.xlii(2)308; wood-engravings, woodcuts & facsimiles throughout, some tinted; a good uncut copy of the deluxe issue on laid paper in original printed boards; extremities rubbed and a little worn but sound.

145 HINDLEY, Charles. The Life and Times of James Catnach, (late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger. Reeves and Turner, 1878.  £45
FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,432; '230 woodcuts of which 42 are by Bewick' and nine are hand-coloured; contemporary green roan-backed cloth, top edge gilt; intermittent light soiling but generally well preserved. The Bewick blocks had been purchased at the Hugo Sale in the previous year.

146 HOGARTH, William. The Works... in a series of engravings: with descriptions... by Rev. John Trusler. To which are added anecdotes of the author and his works by J. Hogarth and J. Nichols. Jones and Co., 1833.  £75
4to., 2vols. pp.116(2); (2)(117-)224(4); frontispiece portrait & 108 steel-engraved plates; occasional foxing, water stain in top margin of vol.1, but a decent set in contemporary half calf, double morocco labels (1 chipped); rubbed but sound.

147 [IRVING, Washington.] Bracebridge Hall; or, the humorists. By Geoffrey Crayon. John Murray, 1845.  £18
Pp.iv,375; cr.8vo.; a sound copy in contemporary half tan roan, marbled sides, extremities rubbed but sound.

148 KEIGHTLEY, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology, illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of various Countries. A new edition, revised and greatly enlarged. George Bell, 1884.  £35
Pp.x,560; 16pp. Bell catalogue at front & 31pp. Complete Catalogue of Bohn's Libraries, 1886, bound in at end; etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank; a very good uncut copy in original blind-stamped green cloth of Bohn's Antiquarian Library, backstrip a little faded.

149 [KEIGHTLEY, Thomas.] Secret Societies of the Middle Ages. Charles Knight, 1837.  £65
FIRST EDITION, 12mo., pp.xii,408; several wood-engraved illustrations; very good in original blind-stamped cloth of Knight's Library of Entertaining Knowledge for which it was commissioned. Head & tail of backstrip chipped, otherwise a well preserved uncut copy of this esoteric history of the Assassins of the East, Knights Templar and the Fehm-Gerichte, or Secret Tribunals of Westphalia; by the author of The Fairy Mythology.

150 LAMB, Charles. The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. By Thomas Noon Talfourd. A new edition. Ed. Moxon, 1849.  £45
Pp.xiv,414(2); portrait; original fine vertical ribbed cloth, silk finish, blocked in blind, gilt lettered on backstrip; lower cover slightly marked but a good copy. Originally published in 1837, this second edition was issued after Mary's death in 1848 to accompany Talfourd's 'Final memorials...'

151 LAW. [OWEN, Aneurin. Editor] Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales; comprising laws supposed to be enacted by Howel the Good... and Anomalous Laws... with Indexes and Glossary. Commissioners of the Public Records, 1841.  £135
FIRST EDITION, folio, pp.(6)xvi(8)1005; occasional spotting, small hole at foot of half-title, but well preserved in original green cloth, rebacked, paper label; circular stamp of Warrington Museum at head of title. An important text with Welsh & English translation in parallel columns, includes 'A few Latin Transcripts, containing digests of the Welsh laws, principally of the Dimetian Code'; also issued in 2vols. 8vo.

152 LAWRENCE, D.H. The Triumph of the Machine. Drawings by Althea Willoughby. Faber & Faber, [1931]  £25
FIRST EDITION, pp.(4); coloured frontispiece & illustration in line on upper cover; a good copy in original green wrappers of Ariel Poem no.28; printed at the Curwen Press.

153 LAWRENCE, D.H. Women in Love. Martin Secker, 1921.  £55
FIRST EDITION, pp.508(4)adverts.; edges browned, otherwise well preserved in original brown cloth; slight differential fading, gilt lettering dulled.

154 LAWRENCE, D.H. SKINNER, Martin. The Boy in the Bush. Secker, 1924.  £35
FIRST EDITION, pp.vi,369(7)adverts.; backstrip slightly darkened but a very good copy in original tan cloth.

155 LAWRENCE, T.E. The Letters. Edited by David Garnett. Jonathan Cape, 1938.  £25
Pp.896; various illustrations & maps; a very good copy of the second impression (same month as first) in original cloth & slightly soiled dust-wrapper.

156 LAWSON-JOHNSTON, Sir George, First Baron Luke Of Pavenham. 1873 - 1943. A few of the many press notices and comments which appeared in tribute to a life of service. [Privately Printed by Lund Humphries, 1943]  £25
FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.51(3); 4 tipped-in plates; a handsome production on handmade paper in original blue cloth, lettered in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut. Printed slip tipped on title verso: '...when the work was in course of preparation a flying bomb... destroyed the bookbinding premises, and it was only by good fortune that anything was salvaged.'

157 LAWSON-JOHNSTON, Laura, Lady Luke Of Pavenham. 1879 - 1941. Notes on her Life and Public Service based on the many tributes published at the time of her death. [Privately Printed by the Fanfare Press, 1941]  £25
FIRST EDITION, sm.4to., pp.32(4); 4 tipped-in plates; a handsome production on handmade paper bound in full morocco, lettered & decorated in gold, top edge gilt, others uncut; backstrip a little faded.

158 LEE, Laurie. The Firstborn. The Hogarth Press, 1964.  £30
FIRST EDITION, pp.12; 5 photographic plates; very good in original cloth & pictorial dust-wrapper.

159 LEWIS, Wyndham. SYMONS, Julian [Editor] Twentieth Century Verse. Wyndham Lewis Double Number. No.6/7. Nov./Dec. 1937.  £20
FIRST EDITION, pp.(48); well preserved in slightly browned & creased original wrappers with device by Lewis who also contributes a 2pp. letter to the editor. T.S. Eliot writes on Lewis' The Lion and the Fox; also A.J.A. Symons, Constant Lambert, D.S. Savage, Gavin Ewart, &c.

160 LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The courtship of Miles Standish and other poems. Ticknor and Fields, Boston. 1859.  £25
Pp.215 + 16pp inserted publisher's catalogue dated Nov. 1858; a good uncut copy in original cloth blocked in blind, lettered in gold. Evidently the second edition with corrected version of line 3 on p.124.
161 LOWER, Mark Antony. The Curiosities of Heraldry. With illustrations from Old English Writers. With numerous wood engravings from designs by the author. John Russell Smith, 1845.  £45
FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,319 + 24pp. publisher's catalogue, extra pictorial chromolithograph title illuminated in colours & gold by Hanhart, various woodcut illustrations in text; some light spotting chiefly of first & last leaves, otherwise a good copy in original red cloth, gilt, rebacked preserving original backstrip.

162 MAHAN, A.T. Types of Naval Officers drawn from the History of the British Navy. With some account of the conditions of naval warfare at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and of its subsequent development during the sail period. Sampson Low, Marston, 1902.  £20
FIRST EDITION, pp.xviii,500; plan & six portraits; original blue cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut; head & tail of backstrip a little rubbed. Ex libris Ruari McLean.

163 MELVILLE, G.J. Whyte. The Queen's Maries. A romance of Holyrood. [In two volumes.] Parker, Son and Bourn, 1862.  £65
FIRST EDITION, 2vol., pp.(4)304; (2)254 + advert. leaf; first & final leaves spotted, otherwise a good copy in contemporary full calf, backstrips gilt with double morocco labels, a little rubbed but a nice set of Melville's historical novel of the life of Mary Queen of Scots.

164 MERCHANTS. BOURNE, H.R. Fox. Famous London Merchants. A Book for Boys. Virtue & Co., [1878.]  £25
Pp.314; + 4pp. adverts. & 40pp. publisher's catalogue at end; 24 full-page & vignette illustrations; front endpapers renewed, otherwise a good copy in original purple cloth pictorially blocked in gold & black, backstrip a little faded.

165 MEREDITH, George. One of our conquerors. In three volumes. Chapman and Hall, 1891.  £85
FIRST EDITION, 3vol., pp.(4)302; iv,320; iv,307; original royal blue morocco-grained cloth decorated in black on sides, gilt-lettered on backstrips; extremities a little rubbed and light fading on sides whence labels have been removed but no library marks; a very good uncut set as Sadleir 1700c with panel of Meredith's works printed on verso of front fly-leaf in each volume.

166 MERRIMAN, Henry Seton. Prisoners and Captives. In two volumes. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1891.  £15
2vols. bound in one; 16mo., pp.279; 279; contemporary roan-backed boards; rubbed but sound.

167 MERRIMAN, Henry Seton. The Velvet Glove. [bound with] Young Mistley. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1902, 1889.  £18
2vols. bound in one; 16mo., pp.286; 320; contemporary half vellum, morocco label, marbled sides; rubbed but sound.

168 MILITARY. CROOK, Capt. Ronald Lewis. Wartime Letters of a West Kent Man. The World War Two letters and related correspondence of Captain Ronald Lewis Crook, 6th Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, who was killed in action in Tunisia, 30th November 1942. Edited by Martin Lewis Crook. Privately Published [Distributed by Claude Cox Books, Ipswich] 2007.  £15
FIRST EDITION, limited to 400 copies; sm.4to., pp.x,132; 20 half-tone illustrations, facsimiles & map; new in printed laminated card covers. A moving account, skilfully edited, with useful appendices. We are sole distributors of this book, trade terms available.

169 MILNES, Richard Monckton. Lord Houghton. Selections from the Poetical Works. John Murray, 1863.  £30
FIRST EDITION, pp.viii,284; a good copy in contemporary half crimson morocco, gilt; extremities a little rubbed but attractive.

170 MOORE, Nicholas. FREUD, Lucian [Illustrator] The Glass Tower. Drawings by Lucian Freud. Poetry London, 1944.  £165
FIRST EDITION, pp.128; 6 plates (3 colour), text illustrations, title-page, cover & dust-wrapper designed by Lucian Freud; his first book illustration; a very fresh copy in original cloth-backed decorated boards, dust-wrapper slightly browned with a few small nicks (no loss) at edges.

171 MORRIS, William. MAGNUSSON, Eirikr. [Translators.] Three Northern Love Stories and other Tales. New Edition. Longmans, Green and Co., 1901.  £35
Pp.xii,278 + advert. leaf; a very good, largely unopened copy in original red cloth, paper label (rubbed & slightly chipped). The second printing of this collection which first appeared in 1875.

172 MURRAY, David. The Valuation Roll in Scotland and the Proposal to enter Land values upon it. J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1907.  £30
First Separate Edition, pp.x,44; very good in original blue cloth lettered in gold. 'A reprint of a Paper read at the Glasgow Meeting of The Surveyors' Institution on the 23rd [of May].' The author's copy. AUTHOR'S COPY

173 MURRAY, James A. [Editor] The Oxford English Dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on historical principles... [In 13 volumes.] Oxford, 1933.  £350
13vols., lg.4to.; a well preserved set of this great work in original Oxford blue buckram, backstrips uniformly faded. The original ten-volume work reissued in twelve with Supplementary volume of new words & meanings, additions and emendations, and bibliography. Inscribed to 'Muriel St. Clare Byrne from the Theatre Ladies of the S.C.R. with much appreciation of her past help and with many good wishes for her future research. Edith Evans. President Theatre Ladies SCR August 1946.' 1968 newspaper appreciation by Caryl Brahms of Dame Edith at 80 tipped-in, together with Kodachrome print of the actress ceremonially planting a tree, from August, 1965.

174 M[YERS] L[indo] S. [Editor] Music Cantelenas Songs Etc. from an early Fifteenth Century Manuscript. One Hundred Copies Privately Printed [for Lord Howard de Walden] by J. Davy at the Dryden Press, 1906.  £85
FIRST EDITION, lg.4to., 100 copies printed on Whatman hand-made wove paper, title in red & black; facsimiles of original MS & music with transcriptions on facing pages; a very good copy of this handsome production in original limp vellum, gilt, green silk ties, top edge gilt, others uncut; editor identified by British Library.

175 NELSON, Horatio, Viscount. NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris [Editor] The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. [In seven volumes.] Henry Colburn, 1845/46.  £550
FIRST EDITION but for vol.I which is the enlarged 2nd. ed.; 7 vols; each 500+pp., vol.VII with 290pp. addenda of additional letters & index; engraved portrait, four folding facsimiles & three plans (2 folding); uncut in original blind-stamped cloth, gilt; three backstrips repaired (with slight loss of original cloth) & endpapers renewed, but a good set of this essential primary source for any study of Nelson's career; contains some 3500 letters. Ex Libris Ruari McLean.

176 PAGLESHAM. HARRIS, Rev. J., HATCH, Rev. H.J., WISEMAN, James. The Paglesham Oyster: containing Tales of Fact, Fiction and Romance, Music, Poetry, Charades, Riddles, Enigmas, etc., etc., Arthur Harrington, Rochford, Essex, 1870.  £45
FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.(4)114(2); 5pp. of comic vignettes, 4pp. music original red cloth, gilt; lightly rubbed & worn at extremities, nick in backstrip, but a sound copy of this scarce provincial miscellany, printed at Chelmsford; Copac lists BL copy only.

177 PEERAGE & KALENDAR. The Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, for the year 1873. R. & A. Suttaby. [bound with] Companion to the Calendars...containing the present and last Parliaments...Abstract of the Principal Laws... Ridgways. [bound with] Ridgway's Peerage [& Baronetage] of The United Kingdon, [bound with] Index to the Royal Kalendar... Ridgway's, 1873.  £120
Pp.(24)512; 254; vi,192 + 76 engraved plates; 168 + 45 engraved plates; 88 (index); a very good set of this massive compilation of the movers & shakers at the zenith of the British Empire; original full crimson morocco, gilt, royal crest on sides, all edges gilt.

178 PEERAGE & KALENDAR. The Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, for the year 1832. Suttaby & Co. [bound with] Companion to the Calendars...containing the last and present and Parliaments...Abstract of the Election Laws... James Ridgway. [bound with] Stockdale's Peerage & Baronetage of The United Kingdon, Printed by T.C. Hansard for Suttaby & Co. [& many others] 1831.  £120
Pp.60 (Rider's British Merlin); 408; 152; (4)188;150; extra engraved title & 110 engraved plates in Peerage & Baronetage; edge of printed title a little frayed, final section of plates stained but a good set of this massive compilation in contemporary full crimson morocco, gilt, all edges gilt; extremities a little rubbed, sides distorted by metal clasps but generally well preserved..