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First edition; folio (375 x 270 mm); engraved title with vignette of Windsor Castle by John Grieg after Frederick Nash, rare advertisement leaf with subscriber's list to verso, (which Abbey does not cite), 21 hand-finished stipple-engraved portraits by Mary Ann Bourlier, Thomas Cheesman and others after Sir William Beechey, Thomas Gainsborough and others, one plate (Prince Octavius) with reduced margins, not affecting image, possibly from another copy, age-toning, the occasional spot, mostly to tissue-guards, some light, finger-soiling to a few margins, otherwise very good; near contemporary half green morocco gilt, over buff boards, replaced endpapers, rubbed and soiled but sound and presentable.

First edition; 8vo; bookplate removed from front pastedown, overall internally in fine condition; publisher's cloth, an attractive, sharp and undulled copy, in the original first issue dust-jacket correctly priced at 7'6, browning to spine, small closed tears to corners, otherwise a very good example.

One volume bound in two; 8vo, (215 x 160 mm); text in Hebrew and Latin; contemporary morocco binding with gilt raised bands, twin labels and fine ornamental gilt tooling to spine and boards, gilt gauffred edges; I - [13], 2-333 ll; [1], 335-686, [2] llpp.

First edition, inscribed by the Author to recto of front free endpaper; 4to; numerous illustrations, both in colour and black & white, by the author, slight age-toning, near-fine; publisher's pictorial boards with corresponding dust-jacket, rubbed at extremities, some creasing to upper edge, otherwise very good.

First edition, inscribed; 'For Lucy with love from the author. January 14th 1936' in black ink on the front free endpaper; 8vo; publisher's cloth, slight rolling to spine, dust-jacket designed by Misha Black, slightly frayed at extremities of spine, otherwise very good.

First edition, 8vo; slight age-toning, bookplate to upper pastedown, else fine; publisher's black cloth gilt, geometric design to upper cover, printed dust-jacket, the upper panel bisected into boxes containing appraisals of the author's literary skills and the rear one with reviews of this title from literary luminaries such as Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos and Waldo Frank, some age-darkening, more so to spine, chipped on corners and spine-ends with short split to inner edge of upper panel, otherwise in a remarkably good and original state; [1-15], 16-214, [215, blank] pp.

6 vols, 4to (27 x 22 cm); Ornamental Greenhouse Plants and Ornamental Perrenials vol 1 First editions, 303 (of 304 hand-coloured lithograph plates, lacking 1 plate from Wild Flowers at page 144) occasional light spotting and soiling; publisher's green cloth gilt, pictorial vignettes to spine and upper covers, spines faded to tan, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set.

Hand-coloured aquatint with etched outline, third state (the first being produced in 1818), 520 x 700mm (20½ x 27½ inches), some scattered, light foxing, only really evident in middle background, otherwise still very bright.