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A Collection of Novels and Tales of the Fairies. Written by that Celebrated Wit of France, the Countess d’Anois. In three volumes. Vol. I [-III]. The Fifth Edition. Translated from the best Edition of the Original French, by several Hands. London, J. Brotherton [&c.], 1766.
Fifth Edition. Three volumes, 12mo, (162 x 92 mm), pp. ix, [iii] advertisements, 288; [ii], [3]-275, [1] advertisements; [ii], [3]-239, [1] advertisements, marginal damp-staining in the second and third volumes, in contemporary tree calf, triple gilt filet to covers with corner floral tooling, joints rubbed but sound, spines elaborately gilt in compartments with red and black labels lettered and numbered in gilt, with the later pencil ownership inscription of W.K. Leslie.
ESTC t82647, at BL, Cambridge, Louisiana State, Newberry and UCLA only.
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Adventures of Musul:
or the Three Gifts; with other Tales.
London, J. Bonsor for Vernor and Hood and E. Newbery, 1800.
FIRST EDITION. 18mo (134 x 78 mm), engraved frontispiece and pp. [4], 175, [1] advertisements, in the original green vellum-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine, a little worn and dusty, bookplate sometime removed from front pastedown, child’s scribbles and pencil sketch of a horse, pencil sketch of a face on the rear endpaper.
ESTC t133645, at BL, NLS, Morgan and Toronto only.
Roscoe J203.
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Courte Description des Quadrupèdes. 1843
Manuscript in Ink. 4to (280 x 220 mm), pp. [ii], [14], written in a neat hand in brown ink within single ink ruled border, an elaborate pen and ink wash drawing to the title-page, 11 further ink drawings of animals framed in yellow borders within brown and black ink rules, some of the inked borders bleeding through the paper, 9 of the 11 drawings tipped in, each picture labelled and accompanied by text written in a neat hand, some light browning throughout and occasional marks, in the original decorative wrappers, spine chipped, edges dog-eared.
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Curiosities in the Tower of London.
Volume the Second. The Second Edition.
London, Thomas Boreman, 1741.
Second Edition. 32mo (56 x 40 mm), frontispiece and pp. [iii]-xviii, [19]-125, [3], including a full-page woodcut illustration of the devil on duty, with a list of subscribers, text block cut close shaving some page numbers, some browning throughout, in late eighteenth, or very early nineteenth, century red morocco, front board lettered in gilt within gilt border in etruscan style, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, with the early ownership inscription ‘[L]yane Everingham Her Book 1772’.
See Osborne Collection II, p. 799-800; ESTC t118393.
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Sixty Amusing and Instructive Fables, in French and English. Divided into Sections, and the Two Languages answering almost verbatim, for the Greater Convenience of Learners. The Whole adorned with Cuts. Designed principally for Schools. The Fifth Edition, Carefully Corrected and Improved. London, Johnson, 1773.
Fifth Edition. 12mo (162 x 108 mm), pp. [iv], 139, [1] advertisements, with 60 part-page woodcut illustrations thoughout the text, printed in two columns in English and French, uncut throughout in the original plain paper covered boards, some light staining but sound.
ESTC n23674, at BL, Bodleian, Toronto, Trinity College (Watkinson Library) and UCLA; OCLC adds Creighton University.
Not in Osborne.
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The English Instructor; or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected from the most eminent English writers, and designed for the use and improvement of those who learn that Language. Paris, Vergani, 1801.
Second Edition. 12mo (165 x 100mm), pp. iv, 259, in contemporary calf-backed dark painted boards, front joint splitting slightly at the top, faded yellow edges.
OCLC lists Bodleian, Penn and Butler.
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Youthful Recreations. Philadelphia, J. Johnson, circa 1816-1818.
Unauthorised Edition. 32mp, (95 x 58 mm), pp. [32], wood-engraved vignette on title-page, including 15 full-page wood-engravings, in the original gilt-speckled yellow wrappers, old repairs to spine and foot of wrappers.
See Darton G1072 for the original London, Darton and Harvey, 1801.
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