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AMORY, Thomas [1691?-1788].
The Life Of John Buncle, Esq.A New Edition.
London: Septimus Prowett, 1825..
3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 326; 2 p.l., 334; 2 p.l., 412. complete with half-titles. later (c1900) half morocco, t.e.g., others untrimmed (occasional light foxing). "The book is a literary curiosity, containing an extraordinary medley of religious and sentimental rhapsodies, descriptions of scenery, and occasional fragments of apparently genuine autobiography. "The soul of Rabelais," says Hazlitt, "passed into.[Thomas] Amory." The phrase is suggested by Amory's rollicking love adventures.". (DNB)
$450 USD                          Book Number: elala184                         Order / Enquire



[ANSTEY, John] [d. 1819].
The Pleader's Guide, A Didactic Poem, In Two Parts: Containing Mr. Surrebutter's Poetical Lectures On The Conduct Of A Suit At law, Including The Arguments Of Counsellor Bother'um, And Counsellor Bore'um, In A Action For Assault And Battery, Betwixt John-
London: Printed For T.Cadell And W.Davies, 1815..
8vo. pp. xvi, 212. with half-title. Uncut in original bds., rebacked in cloth (hinges strengthened with cloth. The author was a poet, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and a commissioner for auditing public accounts. Holdsworth, in his 'History of the English Law' (Vol. XIII, pp. 460ff.) devotes four pages to this work, one of the best and most popular examples of the humorous and satirical literature arising from the law of procedure and pleading. "Porson is said to have know it by heart, and Lord Campbell quotes it in his 'Lives of the Justices." (DNB) Sweet & Maxwell I 262.5.
$300 USD                          Book Number: ENSe[ANS27                         Order / Enquire



ARIOSTO, [Lodovico] [1474-1533].
Orlando Furioso.With Memoirs And Notes By Antonio Panizzi.
London: William Pickering, 1834..
4 Volumes. 8vo. 1 p.l., [vii]-viii, clxxvi, 198, 79; 2 p.l., 436; 2 p.l., 424; 2 p.l., 330. woodcut frontis. portrait. woodcut printer's device on title. very handsome contemporary binding of full vellum over bds. by Hayday, gilt tooled spines, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt (covers bowed). First Panizzi Edition. Usually found with Panizzi's edition of Bioardo's Orlando Innamorato, published by Pickering in 1830 in five volumes. Keynes p. 90.
$1998 USD                          Book Number: elala1621                         Order / Enquire



[ARMSTRONG, John] [1709-1779].
The Art Of Preserving Health: A Poem.
London: Printed for A.Millar, 1744..
4to. pp. 1 p.l., 134. woodcut title vignette & tailpieces. contemporary sprinkled sheep, rebacked & recornered (rubbed). First Edition. "In the class of poetry to which it belongs, the Art of preserving Health holds a distinguished place. No writer of the eighteenth century had so masterful a grasp of blank verse as is shown in parts of this poem. the powerful passage descriptive of the plague (book iii.) has been highly praised. As in all didactic poetry, the practical directions are of little interest; but those who value austere imagination and weighty diction cannot afford to neglect Armstrong's masterpiece." (DNB) "[Armstrong's] masterpiece.the verse is dotted frequently with beautiful phrases, and has many passages of extreme power, both in description and in an oratorical eloquence that is Armstrong's own." (Williams) Bib. Osleriana 4335. Blake p. 19. Foxon A296. Hayward 168. Rothschild 56. Wellcome II p. 57. Williams pp. 21 & 33.
$699 USD                          Book Number: elala2365                         Order / Enquire



ARNE, Tho[mas] Aug[ustine] [1710-1778] (Translator & Composer).
Artaxerxes. An English Opera As it is Performed at the Theatres Royal In Drury-Lane, And Covent-Garden. The Musick composed by.New Edition.
London: Printed for G.Kearsly and W.Griffin, [c1763]..
8vo. pp. 47. woocut ornaments. disbound (few running titles & page numbers cropped). Nicolls III 233.
$85 USD                          Book Number: elala2366                         Order / Enquire



ASIMOV, Isaac.
Opus 300.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983..
8vo. pp. xv, [1], 377. quarter cloth. dw. (very slight wear to dw. corners). First Edition, First Printing.
$100 USD                          Book Number: dola2641                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W. H.
Making, Knowing And Judging. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before The University Of Oxford On 11 June 1956.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956..
8vo. pp. 33, [1]. wrs. (2 chips to edges of wrs.). First Edition.
$60 USD                          Book Number: dola2434                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh] & Chester KALLMAN.
The Magic Flute An opera in two acts Music by W.A.Mozart English version after the libretto of Schilamder amd Giesecke.
London: Faber And Faber, [1957]..
8vo. pp. 120. Fine in beige cloth in fine dw. First UK Edition.
$150 USD                          Book Number: dola98                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh] & Christopher ISHERWOOD.
a melodrama in three acts On The Frontier.
London: Faber And Faber, [1938]..
8vo. pp. 123. A very good untrimmed copy in red cloth. dw. (chips to edges of dw., tear in spine, ownership entry on front free-endpaper). First Edition.
$150 USD                          Book Number: dola97                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh].
About The House.
[New York: Random House, 1965]..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 84, [1]. A fine copy in black cloth-backed brown bds. dw. (some light wear & soiling to dw. which is price-clipped). First Edition (precedes UK edition).
$100 USD                          Book Number: dola78                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh].
For The Time Being.
[London:] Faber And Faber, [1945]..
8vo. pp. 124. Very good in light gold cloth (faint soiling to upper edges of covers). tattered & partly defective dw. First UK Edition, Second Impression.
$40 USD                          Book Number: dola86                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh].
Forewords and Afterwords...Seleced by Edward Mendelson.
London: Faber And Faber, 1973..
8vo. pp. xi, 529. A fine copy in quarter dark green cloth over beige paper sides. fine dw. First UK Edition.
$60 USD                          Book Number: dola87                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh].
Mountains. [At Head of Title:] Ariel Poem.
[London]: Faber And Faber, [1954]..
8vo. [pp. 5]. illus. title & 2 other illus. (1 full-page colour) by Edward Bawden. A fine copy in yellow printed wrs. in very good original pink printed envelope (light scuff mark). First Edition.
$65 USD                          Book Number: dola88                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh].
New Year Letter.
[London]: Faber And Faber, [1946]..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 13-188. A very good copy in red cloth (spine faintly sunned, ownership entry on front free-endpaper). Third Printing.
$40 USD                          Book Number: dola89                         Order / Enquire



AUDEN, W[ystan] H[ugh].
Poems.
New York: Random House, 1935..
8vo. pp. 218. A near fine copy in red cloth (ownership entry on front free-endpaper). tattered & soiled dw. First Edition, Second Printing of the poet's first American publication.
$75 USD                          Book Number: dola92                         Order / Enquire


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