Literature - mainly 18th and early 19th century, including S...

Hammer

£130

Literature - mainly 18th and early 19th century, including Select Fables of Esop (sic) and Other Fabulists [...], John Baskerville, Birmingham 1764, engraved frontispiece only, vignettes throughout, full contemporary calf, the boards with gilt-embossed single-fillett and incurved trefoils at angles, fragmentary spine with butterfly, bird, beasts and flowers in compartments of raised bands, 12mo (faults); Massinger's New Way To Pay Old Debts, A Comedy; Adapted to the Stage by J.P. Kemble; and Now Published as it is Performed at The Theatres Royal, John Miller, London 1814, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, Plain Armorial bookplate: Robert Foote Esqr., Charlton Place, 12mo; Anonymous [Richardson (Samuel)], Clarissa [...], eight-volume set, F.C. and J. Rivington, London 1810, contemporary crested calf spines, ochre buckram boards, Gold Age Armorial bookplate: Sir George John Armytage Baronet, F.S.A., 12mo, (8); Bell's British Theatre, various, 20th century brown buckram, 18mo; Warton (Thomas), The History of English Poetry [...], second edition, volume I only, J. Dodsley, London 1775, publisher's card boards and paper title label, 4to; Prior (Matthew), Poems on Several Occasions [...], T. Johnson, London 1720, early 19th century quarter-calf and marbled boards, 12mo; Addison (Joseph), A Letter From Italy, To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax, Together with the Mourning Muse a Alexis: A Pastoral Lamenting the Death of our Late Gracious Queen Mary by Mr Congreve [...], To which is added the Defpairing (sic) Lover, H. Hills, London 1709, 16pp, 20th century paper covers, 12mo; Otway [Thomas], Titus and Berenice, A Tragedy, With a Farce call'd The Cheats of Scapin, J. Tonson, London 1736, 100pp, disbound, 12mo; Provincial Imprint, Mason (William), Poeems, A. Ward, York 1774, full contemporary speckled tree calf binding, 8vo; Huddesford (George), The Poems [...], two-volume set, J. Wright, London 1801, 20th century morocco spine and ochre buckram boards, 12mo; Smollett (Dr [Tobias]), The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, C. Cooke, London [1793], full contemporary tree calf, 18mo; Bloomfield (Robert), Wild Flowers; Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry, London 1806, full-page frontispiece and engravings, contemporary gilt-embossed calf, marbled endpapers, 12mo; another copy, similar; The Literary Souvenir; Or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance, edited by Alaric A. Watts, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London 1826, contemporary quarter-green morocco and marbled boards, endpapers en suite, 8vo; The Poetical Works of William Cowper, three-volume set, William Pickering, London 1843, full contemporary red morocco, the boards with double-fillet and flowerhead bosses at angles, titled to spine within raised & banded compartments, marbled endpapers, 12mo, (3); Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, ten volumes, William and Robert Chambers, Edinburgh 1844, contemporary quarter-green leather and marbled boards, gilt-embossed foliate spine, 12mo, (10); Thackeray (W.M.), The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Smith, Elder, and Co., London 1838, 20th century buckram, 12mo; early 18th century harlequin editions of Alexander Pope; Sir Walter Scott; verse, prose, etc (qty)