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The Heroines of Shakpeare

By: N/A

Price: $475.00

Publisher: London & New York, the London Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd.:

Seller ID: P-070120B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inv. # 070120B. Full light brown leather designed to appear 3/4 with large gold-stamped portrait of Shakespeare on front boards. All edges gilt. The work "compris[es] the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet. Engraved in the highest style of art, from drawings by eminent artists. With letterpress extracts from the text, in English and French; and critical essays on each of the characters." The book is close in looks to Inventory # P-070120A, The Complete Works of Shakspeare, and was published by the same company around the same time, mid 19th Century. It wou...
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Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold

By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: $195.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co., Ltd.: 1922

Seller ID: 1329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#1329. 3/4 blue leather over blue boards, marbled endpapers. Golden Treasury Series. Bound by Bickers & Son, Ltd.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
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Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold

By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: $195.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co., Ltd.: 1890

Seller ID: P-041214

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#P-041214. Full brown leather. Golden Treasury Series. Bound by Bickers & Son, Ltd.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
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Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co., Ltd.: 1903

Seller ID: P-020320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#P-020320. Full black leather, bound by Riviere & Son, Ltd. A.E.G.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 510 pages
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The Song Celestial, or the Bhagavad Gita

By: Arnold, Sir Edwin

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay: 1934

Seller ID: P-041122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

#P-041122. Black cloth, with silver illustrated cover. ; B&W Illustration s; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 135 pages
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The Novels of Jane Austen

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $2,650.00

Publisher: London & New York, J.M. Dent/E.P. Dutton: 1907-1909

Seller ID: P-071104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inv. # P-071104. 6 volumes bound in 3/4 brown leather over green cloth boards, with marbled endpapers and T.E.G. Six dentelles on spine with gilt-stamped decoration and titles. Illustrated in color by H.M. and C.E. Brock. A classic set of Austen's novels, but not including the shorter works. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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The Complete Works of Jane Austen

By: Austen, Jane

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, the Folio Society: 1975

Seller ID: P-071220A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Inv. # P-071220A. 7 volumes. Boxed set bound in light gray cloth over salmon boards, gilt-stamped decoations on spine. Publisher's original box intact. This is the Fifth (1988) printing of the Folio Society's 1975 edition, with wood engravings by Joan Hassall, and based on the Chapman edition. This set includes the shorter works. ; Wood engraving; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher

By: Beaumont & Fletcher

Price: $550.00

Publisher: London, Edward Moxon: 1840

Seller ID: 1203B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket; Some wear to hinges. One corner slightly bumped. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Inv. #1203B. Two volumes. Full Black Crushed Morocco with gilt decorations on front and back boards and Six Dentils on Spine. Signed binding by J. Wright Noel Street. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: $850.00

Publisher: London, Office of the National Illustrated Library: 1859

Seller ID: 447B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#447B. 4 vol. 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and edges. Ornate gilt decoration on spine, red and black leather labels. Profusely illustrated with engravings of places and people significant in Johnson's life.; Steel engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1839

Seller ID: P-020227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket; Some boards expertly reattached.

#P-020227. 10 vol. Full tan calf, with marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Elaborate gilt decoration on spine, black and green leather labels. ; Steel engraving; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
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The Complete Poetical Works

By: Burns, Robert

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Boston & New York, Houghton and Mifflin: 1897

Seller ID: 4917E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inv. # 4917E. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Poets. ; 8vo; 397 pages
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The Anatomy of Melancholy

By: Burton, Robert

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: NY, Sheldon & Company: 1862

Seller ID: P-030713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Inv. #P-030713. Three volumes. Modern rebinding in 1/2 Blue Leather over Marbled Boards.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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The Anatomy of Melancholy

By: Burton, Robert

Price: $575.00

Publisher: New York, W.J. Widdleton: 1865

Seller ID: P080803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Inv. # P080803. 2 volumes bound in 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece to the original edition. "The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it. In Three Partitions. With their several Sections, Members, and Subsections, Philosophically, Medically, Historically Opened and Cut Up. By Democritus Junior." A New Edition. Originally published in 1652. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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Poetical Works of Lord Byron (12 volumes in 6)

By: Byron

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Phila., PA, J.B. Lippincott: 1892

Seller ID: 1090A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket; Minor ageing characteristics. No major defects.

Inv. #1090A. Six volumes. Three-quarter black leather over marbled boards and endpapers. Tight binding; small type. Spine titles marked in gilt. Very attractive set ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron

By: Byron, Lord

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Paris, A. & W. Galignani: 1835

Seller ID: P-010306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

#P-010306. 3/4 brown leather over tan boards. Marbled endpapers. A.E.G. Facsimile letter of Byron inserted into book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 935 pages
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Poetical Works

By: Byron, Lord

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1814

Seller ID: 1326

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inv. # 1326. Full tan leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Rebound early editions of three of Byron's long poems: "The Giaour," (eleventh edition) "The Bride of Abydos," (eighth edition) and "The Corsair" (sixth edition). ; 8vo
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Carlyle's Complete Works

By: Carlyle, Thomas

Price: $750.00

Publisher: NY, John W. Lovell Co.: N.D.

Seller ID: 448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#448. 10 vol. Circa 1890. 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Black and red leather labels.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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The Memoirs of Jaques Casanova de Seingalt

By: Casanova, Jaques

Price: $400.00

Publisher: NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons: N.D.

Seller ID: 445D

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Inv. # 445D. Six Volumes. Green cloth with gold-stamped title on spine. Translated by Arthur Machen. Stated to be "The First complete and unabridged English translation." Published in England by Elek Books, and in Canada by Longmans, Green & Co. ; Wood engraving; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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The Carmina of Catullus

By: Catullus (Burton & Smithers, Tr.)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: NY, Privately Printed: 1928

Seller ID: 1381B

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#1381B. No. 375 0f 750 copies. Brown cloth boards with tan buckram spine. Publisher's black leather label on spine. Top edge stained brown, all other edges untrimmed. "The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, Completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, and the Prose Portion, Introduction and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers; Including the Latin Text of Catullus." Privately printed for subscribers only. With 8 full page plates.; Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 323 pages
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Coleridge's Poetical Works

By: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Price: $155.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Company , Limited: 1883

Seller ID: 446A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

#446A. Full leather. Marbled endpapers and edges.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 424 pages
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