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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 60p. Disbound. Adapted from Metastasio's L'isola disabitata', by Arthur Murphy. Long critical appreciation on title page verso in a contemporary hand.

Full-Leather. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. 1740 10th edition. 60pp plus very lengthy index to rear. Good/None. Brown leather boards with blind stamped decoration, some rubbing/chipping to edges/spine, some scuffing, split to side of hinge. Very old label to spine. Contents generally clean and tight but for minor soiling/browning, ink notation inside back cover. Beautiful early volume of the works of Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the reign of Augustus, particularly known for his Satires and Epistles. This volume includes notes by Louis Desprez and a life of Horace by Andre Dacier. Latin text.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Volume four (of four) only. Frontispiece. Full calf leather. 16mo. 309pp., Index. Scattered foxing on pages, owner name erased on front pastedown, offsetting on pages 2-3 and endpapers, joints broken, spine and edges darkened and chipped, a fair to good only copy. Originally issued in folio, three times a week, here containing No. 190, Tuesday, June 27, 1710 to No. 271, Tuesday, January 2, 1710. …

Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Condición: Good. Edition Unstated. Size: 12mo <7 3/4". 97 pp. Hinges cracked. Spine worn. Front joint 1/2 split from base. Previous owner's inscriptions in ink, dated 1800 and 1802. Edges browned. End papers removed. Covers marked and worn. Corners bumped. The publication date given above is an estimate only, there being no date given in the book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Religion & Theology; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Law & Criminal Studies. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 45982.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Full leather with banded spine and red spine-label with gilt lettering. Gilt lining around edges of covers, marbled end-papers, title-page printed in red and black. Occasional decorative engravings. Volume has been re-backed using a new spine and leather underlining to covers, sound binding, clean pages. One volume of the 6-volume set. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-4kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 14823081025. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.…

8vo,pp. x, [ii], 362, [4]; title page browned at edges; bound in recent half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, green morocco label. First edition: the author's principal collection of verse. Edward Cobden (1683-1764) was a fashionable high church London clergyman, one of the King's Chaplains in Ordinary. He was a friend and schoolmate of the neo-Latin poet Edward Holdsworth, whose Muscipula was in its day regarded as a masterpiece of classical wit; included here is Cobden's translation, 'The Mouse-Trap', which he had written in 1718. There are also a number of Hertfordshire poems, and one addressed to Pope on his translation of Homer. The assessment of this volume in the original DNB is amusingly dismissive: 'In this work he eulogizes Stephen Duck's poetic fame, glorifies somebody's squirrel and a lady's canary, and laments over a dead cow'. A more recent evaluation in the Oxford DNB does not comment on the quality of Cobden's verse. Foxon p. 129.…

First Edition. Good to very good copies all in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now with minor surface-wear and some minor abrasions. Panel edges and corners show some wear. Spines gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, the former slightly rubbed along with joints and endbands, and the latter partly or entirely lacking on a few volumes. Some joints cracked, with hinges weak and board becoming loose. Vol. 19 bottom edge shows a stain, with text unaffected. Marble endpapers; preliminary and final leaves foxed. Core text blocks remain uniformly strong, showing only the expected faint foxing and offsetting of age. A well-preserved set overall. Further scans, images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; complete in 21 volumes ; 25 cm. Notes; Each volume has a half-title. Text printed in double columns. Includes index. Contents; Vol. 1, Chaucer -- Vol. 2, Gower, Skelton, Howard, Wyat, Gascoigne, Turbervile -- Vol. 3, Spenser, Daniel -- Vol. 4, Drayton, Warner -- Vol. 5, Shakspeare, Davies, Donne, Hall, Stirling, Jonson, Corbet, Carew, Drummond -- Vol. 6, J. Beaumont, G. and P. Fletcher, F. Beaumont, Browne, Davenant, Habington, Suckling, Cartwright, Crashaw, Sherburne, Brome, C. Cotton -- Vol. 7, Cowley, Denham, Milton -- Vol. 8, Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden -- Vol. 9, Dryden, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison -- Vol. 10, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay -- Vol. 11, Lansdowne, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somerville, Savage, Swift -- Vol. 12, Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson -- Vol. 13, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young -- Vol. 14, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, Boyse -- Vol. 15, W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, Hamilton -- Vol. 16, Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson -- Vol. 17, Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns -- Vol. 18, Cotton, Logan, T. Warton, J. Warton, Blacklock, Cambridge, Mason, Jones, Beattie, Cowper -- Vol. 19, Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal, Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry, Francis's Horace -- Vol. 20, Rowe's Lucan, Grainger's Tibullus, Fawkes's Theocritus, Apollonius, Rhodius, Coluthus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, Garth's Ovid, Lewis's Statius, Cooke's Hesiod -- Vol. 21, Hoole's Ariosto and Tasso, Mickle's Lusiad. Subjects; English poetry. Collections. Poets, English. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good to very good copies all in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now with minor surface-wear and some minor abrasions. Panel edges and corners show some wear. Spines gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, the former slightly rubbed along with joints and endbands, and the latter partly or entirely lacking on a few volumes. Some joints cracked, with hinges weak and board becoming loose. Vol. 19 bottom edge shows a stain, with text unaffected. Marble endpapers; preliminary and final leaves foxed. Core text blocks remain uniformly strong, showing only the expected faint foxing and offsetting of age. A well-preserved set overall. Further scans, images and additional bibliographical material available on request. Physical description; complete in 21 volumes ; 25 cm. Notes; Each volume has a half-title. Text printed in double columns. Includes index. Contents; Vol. 1, Chaucer -- Vol. 2, Gower, Skelton, Howard, Wyat, Gascoigne, Turbervile -- Vol. 3, Spenser, Daniel -- Vol. 4, Drayton, Warner -- Vol. 5, Shakspeare, Davies, Donne, Hall, Stirling, Jonson, Corbet, Carew, Drummond -- Vol. 6, J. Beaumont, G. and P. Fletcher, F. Beaumont, Browne, Davenant, Habington, Suckling, Cartwright, Crashaw, Sherburne, Brome, C. Cotton -- Vol. 7, Cowley, Denham, Milton -- Vol. 8, Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden -- Vol. 9, Dryden, Smith, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Addison -- Vol. 10, Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay -- Vol. 11, Lansdowne, Yalden, Tickell, Hammond, Somerville, Savage, Swift -- Vol. 12, Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson -- Vol. 13, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young -- Vol. 14, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, Boyse -- Vol. 15, W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, Hamilton -- Vol. 16, Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson -- Vol. 17, Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns -- Vol. 18, Cotton, Logan, T. Warton, J. Warton, Blacklock, Cambridge, Mason, Jones, Beattie, Cowper -- Vol. 19, Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Dryden's Virgil and Juvenal, Pitt's Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry, Francis's Horace -- Vol. 20, Rowe's Lucan, Grainger's Tibullus, Fawkes's Theocritus, Apollonius, Rhodius, Coluthus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus, Garth's Ovid, Lewis's Statius, Cooke's Hesiod -- Vol. 21, Hoole's Ariosto and Tasso, Mickle's Lusiad. Subjects; English poetry. Collections. Poets, English. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Large folio. Two volumes. Unpaginated. Fifth edition. Title-pages in red-and-black. Part of volume II (18 sheets, 8E-8Y) printed by William Bowyer; his records show 3584 copies printed; 24 sheets (probably in volume II) printed by Charles Ackers (his records show 3500 copies printed); 24 sheets (11Z-11Tt, 12A-12D) printed by William Strahan. Contemporary reversed calf, very worn. All plates present. ESTC T135707; Alston III, 541; Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 3122 & 3341; McKenzie and Ross. A ledger of Charles Ackers, 55 & 56.…

Inevitably sole edition of this evocative Home Front journal by and for the crews of a London A. R. P. (Air Raid Precautions) post as a local morale booster and fund raiser. Numbered 31 of an unknown limitation, only the Imperial War Museum lists a set, theirs complete in 36 issues through to May 1942. A scarce resource, offering genuine insights into London's, uncensored, mood under the Blitz. This is a typical wartime mix, carrying harrowing reports of the impact of war, "Calvary in St James'. almost half Jermyn Street was a shambles"; facetious humour, "Is it only a rumour that the favourite drink of the Italian Navy is port?"; local notes, "the oldest lamp post in London. now, unfortunately, it has suffered at the hand of the Vandal. destroyed"; some dubious recipes, "half a pint of Churchill sauce"; occasional reports from "other parts of the field"; appeals for volunteers; incitements to "carry on!"; all alongside not infrequent moments of genuinely moving introspection; "Piccadilly during the People's War (at 9 p.m.). Traffic lights flashing monotonously green - yellow - red. The noticeable ticking of the automatic lights' machinery. An occasional taxi and car. A rare bus. Perhaps fifty persons in Piccadilly Circus. The Statue of Eros boarded up and protected by rotting sandbags. The hot blast of exhausted air from the underground exits. The rush of fire-engines towards fire. The pleasing gap where the 'Fifty Shilling Tailors' had their shop. The stark picture of the blackened ruins of St James' church opposite. The whispered appeals of 'Hello darling' from mysterious female forms. The whizzing of shrapnel on the street. The criss-cross of searchlight beams in the heavens. Not a single newsboy. A solitary cat crossing the street". Circulation rose rapidly, issue 5 claiming 2,000 copies, and the following number proclaiming five times that, "Last week's issue was completely sold out. Although we keep on printing more and more copies we are quite unable to meet the demand. We claim the BIGGEST SALES of any Blitzkrieg News-sheet in Britain. Copies are being sent as historic mementoes to every part of the world". A "Final Notice" in issue 24 notes that there are for sale "a few bound volumes containing the first 24 issues at Six Guineas ($30)", maybe about £1,000 today in real terms. All moneys raised from the Lyre went to the local St James' Bomber Fund, "costs of production are borne privately". Folio. pp. 80 spirit-duplicated text in all on variously coloured paper stock. Original three-quarter - spine and fore-edges - greyish yellow buckram, spine lettered longitudinally in black, attractive matte black patterned paper boards, golden stars on a wavy grid pattern. Pictorial masthead. Just a little rubbed and soiled, endpapers slightly toned; text with occasional spots of foxing, but overall clean and sound, very good.…