£70
Miscellaneous Books & Manuscripts. A Fox-Hunting Poem in the Mid-19th Century. The Captive Fox: a tale founded on fact, written by W.R., illustrated by C.H., 1850, [11]ff card leaves inscribed in ink MS with the narrative verse, and illustrated with 10 sepia wash, pen-and-ink, and/or pencil 'carciatures', each titled within the image, and tipped-in within black-ruled borders, the images and text mentioning an unidentified earl and his hunt, contemporary brown straight-grain morocco (rubbed, some scratches, bumps and chips, but OK), the upper-cover gilt-lettered within rolled borders and fillets, marbled endpapers, oblong royal folio (34.5cm x 49cm), Piety in Regency England. The Psalms, n.d. [early 19th century], an ink manuscript transcript, contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco, disbound, marbled endpapers, 4to, Questions in Arithmetic, by Harry Green, Parsonage House Academy, 1866, [80pp] of manuscript, contemporary crimson quarter-roan gilt, 4to, a post-World War Two photograph album, dated 1946-49, b/w snapshots of various trips within the British aisles, annotated, original blue boards, oblong 4to, Stead (William Thomas, editor), Penny Popular Novels, approx. 40 numbers, including Dumas (Alexandre), The Three Musketeers, parts I & V-VII only, Hugo (Victor), Les Misérables, parts II-V only, De Quincey (Thomas), The Mystery of the Masque, Burgin (G.B.), Gascoigne's Ghost, other authors including S. Baring-Gould, Sir Walter Scott, William Harrison Ainsworth, Lord Lytton, William Joseph Yeoman, etc., original wrappers, a few detached but present, one or two lacking, 8vo, [&] Thackeray (William Makepeace), The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century, eighteen numbers only (of 24), including some duplicates, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-58, full-page plates, in-text illustrations, some adverst, mostly with original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, (62)
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