PEAKE, Mervyn
The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
London The Grey Walls Press 1949: 1949
- $86
First Edition, but perhaps a later issue. Original grey hardback boards with title on spine, lettering in black. In original unclipped dust jacket. Pagination: 11, [3] + 62 pages (full-page illustrations in both colour and b/w). 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches). The dust jacket is spotted. FFEP has Sherratt Goathland written in pen at bottom right corner.
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A Dissertation on the Antiquity and Use of Seals in England. Collected by **** 1736.
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The Love Books of Ovid Being the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae of Publius Ovidius Naso
OVID, Translated By J. Lewis May First Edition Thus. Limited edition of 3,000 copies; this copy remains unnumbered. Hardback in blue, with gilt vignette to front and gilt lettering to spine. This edition is translated from Latin by J. Lewis May. 24 full- page colour and b/w illustrated plates by Jean De Bosschère; all those intended have their tissue guards. Top of page edges in dark blue. xxxiv, 216 pp. 250 by 165 mm (9¾ by 6½ inches). In a very good condition, with minimal handling. With armorial bookplate of J. F. D. Tutt to front pastedown.- $86
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Souvenir De Voyage 1895-1899
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Montaigne’s Essays.
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A Collection Of Hand Coloured Lithographs.
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Home Thought’s and Home Scenes in Original Scenes. And pictures by A.B. Houghton, engraved by the Brother’s Dalziel
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The Juniper Tree And Other Tales From Grimm. Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak.
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Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
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The Soft Ashes Of Berlin Snowing On Hans Falladas Nose
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C. Julius Caesar’s Commentaries of His Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey.
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A Travel Photograph Album Of England, Germany, South Tyrol And Austria
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An Essay on the Variation of the Compass, shewing how far it is influenced by a change in the direction of the ship’s head, with an exposition of the dangers arising to navigators from not allowing for this change of variation. Interspersed with Practical, Observations and Remarks.
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Illustrated London Almanack 1865-1876
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Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum
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Illustrirter Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung des K. K. Österreich. des K. K. Österreich. Museums für Kunst und Industrie
ANON] Very scarce. First edition. In half leather hardback, with red mottled boards. Contains many fascinatingly detailed b/w illustrations. Text in German. 271 pages. 265 x 185 mm (10½ x 7¼ inches). Spine is sun faded and rubbed, with some splitting begining to top front of spine. Otherwise boards show minimal handling. Internally the book does have some foxing, mainly to edges of the pages. Slight curl to both FFEP and RFEP. This book was issued on the day the new museum building was opened - November 4, 1871.- $108
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La Luciade ou l’âne. Traduit de Lucius de Patras par Paul-Louis Courier
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Histoire de la “Réforme” protestante, en Angleterre et en Irlande, dans laquelle on démontre que cet événement a appauvri et dégradé la masse du peuple dans ces deux pays; dans une série de lettres, adressées à tous les Anglais sensés et équitables. (Premier ouvrage pour 1826)
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Table de l’Ordre des Chiens
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