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POINTS OF MISERY; or FABLES FOR MANKIND: Prose and Verse, Chiefly Original, by Charles Westmacott.
by Charles Westmacott
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- Used
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- Large paper copy. Original wrapper bound in.
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- 1823
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- Quarter green morocco on marbled boards.
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New York, New York, USA
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NZ$1,419.24
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Westmacott, Charles, POINTS OF MISERY; or FABLES FOR MANKIND: Prose and Verse, Chiefly Original, by Charles Westmacott. Illustrated with Twenty Designs by Robert Cruikshank. London: Published by Sherwood, Jones and Co. Paternoster-Row, 1823. Large paper copy with original wrapper bound in. Presentation copy, with "From the Author" on the initial blank following the original wrapper front cover. Imperial 8vo.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eloisa en Dishabille: being a new version of that Lady’s Celebrated Epistle to Abelard. Ascribed to Professor Porson.
by John Matthews [Pope]
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- Used
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- printed in the year 1822.
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- Full blue morocco with gilt edges and rosettes, gilded page edges.
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New York, New York, USA
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NZ$1,586.22
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[Pope] Matthews, John, Eloisa en Dishabille: being a new version of that Lady's Celebrated Epistle to Abelard. Ascribed to Professor Porson. London, printed in the year 1822. 8vo, [ii;43;1], 19 cm, printed in parallel text throughout, full blue morocco with gilt edges and rosettes, gilded page edges, front hinge cracked but holding. Only fifty copies of this lively satire of… Read more about this item Item Price
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BOMBASTES FURIOSO: A Burlesque Tragic Opera.
by Rhodes, William Barnes
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- Used
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- 1830
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- Bound in gilt-ruled mottled brown calf, binder’s stamp of F. Bedford.
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New York, New York, USA
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NZ$1,001.82
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Rhodes, William Barnes. BOMBASTES FURIOSO: A Burlesque Tragic Opera. With Designs by George Cruikshank. London: Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street; and T. Griffiths, Wellington Street, Strand. MDCCCXXX [1830]. Printed by Lowndes and White, Crane Court, Fleet Street. 12mo. 16cm. [1 blank; 34 pages followed by a full-page woodcut , "Tu ral, lu ral, la, /Tu ral, laral, laddi" below three… Read more about this item Item Price
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Odds and Ends. In Verse and Prose.
by Merle, William Henry
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- Used
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- Presumed first.
- Published
- 1831
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- Bound in half long grain tan calf, spine and corners over marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Gold ruling and a decorate
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New York, New York, USA
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Merle, William Henry, Odds and Ends. In Verse and Prose. By William Henry Merle, Esq. Illustrated by George Cruikshank, from Designs by the Author. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row, 1831. 8vo. 20 cm. Presumed first edition. Thirteen illustrations, of which eleven are woodcuts, and one is a signed etching by George Cruikshank, with "WHM" opposite… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eccentric Tales In Verse. .
by Colman, George
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- Used
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- Second
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- 1812
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- Bound in quarter speckled calf over marbled boards.
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New York, New York, USA
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NZ$1,502.73
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George Colman. Eccentric Tales. In Verse. Ascribed to George Colman, the Younger, Esq. Forming a New Volume to His Broad Grins. The Second Edition. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 111, Cheapside; and William Allason, 31, New Bond Street, 1812. Fold-out hand-colored frontispiece J. A. Atkinson, del., published by S. Tipper, Leadenhall Street. [xi; 144 pages] Printed by J. Haddon, Tabernacle… Read more about this item Item Price
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