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Eloisa en Dishabille: being a new version of that Lady’s Celebrated Epistle to Abelard....
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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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[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 Pope were printed, so stated on the verso of the half-title, by W. Hughes, 29, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. First published in 1784, this copy has the book plate of Charles George Milnes Gaskell. Bookseller's tag of W. & G. Foyle, Ltd., London, is pasted in on the inside front cover.
Charles George Milnes Gaskell PC (23 January 1842 – 9 January 1919) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician. Milnes Gaskell was born in London,[1] the son of James Milnes Gaskell M.P., of Thornes House, Wakefield, Yorkshire, and Wenlock Abbey, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, and his wife Mary Williams-Wynn. He was educated at Eton College and… Read More
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Odds and Ends. In Verse and Prose.
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Odds and Ends. In Verse and Prose.: By William Henry Merle, Esq. Illustrated by George Cruikshank, from Designs by the Author.

by Merle, William Henry

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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 Cruikshank's initials. Cohn 552, This copy was bound without the advertisement. Pages 8-9 are used as a frontispiece. The etching is: "An antique glass supposed to have been in the possession of Mary Queen of Scots," with the writing thereon reproduced in facsimile. [viii; 146 numbered pages with one additional leaf (p. 147-148). The verso of p. 147 is blank but for "S. Manning & Co., Printers, London-House yard, St. Paul's"; 1 blank] Bound in half long grain tan calf, spine and corners over marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Gold ruling and a decorated gilded spine with "Odds and Ends," "Cruikshank" and "1831," all on… Read More
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Publius Terentius Afer
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Publius Terentius Afer

by Pickering Miniature Classics

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Fine. Publius Terentius Afer, Londini impensis Gul. Pickering, 31, Lincolns Inn Fields, MDCCCXXII. Contemporary red morocco, raised bands, gilt edges, 83 mm x 46 mm, 3 7/16 in x 2 1/16 in, one of Pickerings famous miniature classics, containing all six of Terentius' surviving comedies: Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timorumenos, Hecyra, Adelphi, Phormio. [iv; 220 pages, ii] With an additional engraved title page and an engraved frontispiece portrait of Publius Terentius Afer. Royal motto on printed title page, dedication to John Spencer. Printed on India paper, gilt-edging all around, contemporary red morocco, raised bands, Bookseller Louis W. Bondy's clipped catalogue description laid in. Fine.
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