£100 - £150
Bindings. Byron (Lord), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, extra-illustrated 'grangerised' copy, London: John Murray, 1845, half-title, divisional titles, xvi, 227pp, illustrated with approx. 50 engraved plates, some of which are called for, including the portrait frontispiece engraved by Finden after Phillips, but most are uncalled for and thus extra-illustrations, including 6 title-page proofs printed on India paper and press-rolled onto leaves, unlettered and other proof states of Ada Lovelace portraits, some plates in duplicate states, etc., numerous engraved vignettes, a fine binding of contemporary olive green morocco gilt, the lettered spine gilt to a Neoclassical design, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pastedown with later 19th/early 20th c polychrome printed armorial bookplate, 8vo; Rogers (Samuel), Italy, [&] Poems, first editions, London: Printed for T. Cadell, et al, 1830 & 1834, Poems with half-title, vignettes engraved Turner and others, finely bound in uniform vellum gilt, gilt-lettered morocco lettering pieces, Italy flat spine, all edges gilt, 19th c crested bookplates: Richard Wilson, D.D., 8vo; Cruikshank (George, illustrator) & [Collier (John Payne)], Punch and Judy, with Twenty-Four Illustrations, [...] and other plates. Accompanied by the Dialogue of the Puppet-Show, an Account of its Origin, and of Puppet Plays in England, fourth edition, London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, n.d. [c. 1859], later 19th c mottled calf gilt, split and somewhat rubbed, but holding, uncut, 8vo; Northumberland: Bewick (Thomas, illustrator), A Collection of Newspaper Extracts [...], first edition, Alnwick: Printed by W. Davison, 1833, frontispiece of Brislee Tower, viii, 220pp, some under-lining in places, in-text wood-engraved vignettes, contemporary half-crimson morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed and worn, but holding, marbled edges and endpapers conforming, armorial bookplate: James Mac Master, 12mo in 6s; Shropshire: The Leisure Hour Improved; or, Moral Miscellanies, In Prose and Verse, Original and Selected. Ironbridge: Printed and Sold by William Smith, et al, 1809, wood-engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette, contemporary red quarter-morocco gilt over papered boards, contemporary armorial bookplate: Bruce of Balchrystie House, Fife, Scotland, 8vo; Roper (William), The Life of Sir Thomas More, Singer's edition, first thus, Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1822, frontispiece, contemporaneous scarlet morocco over marbled boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, 12mo; [Defoe (Daniel)], The New Robinson Crusoe, Dublin: Printed for Christopher Bentham, 1820, vernacular wood-engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette, original publisher's sheep, 12mo in 6s; other poetry, including Milton's Paradise Lost, Paris, 1833, contemporary English quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo; etc., (14)
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