English Literature and Criticism
A'BECKETT (Gilbert Abbott) The Comic Blackstone. Revised and extended by Arthur Wm. A'Beckett. With 10 coloured plates and 20 illus. in text by Harry Furness, pp. 350, cloth gilt, gilt edges. 1887, reprinted 1985 £18.00
ADAMS (Joseph Quincy) Shakespearean Playhouses; a History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 48 plates and illus, pp. 487. With pencil note at end 'this book originally belonged to John Dover Wilson', ownership signature of Andrew J. Brown and book label of John Fuggles. Houghton Mifflin, 1917 £40.00
ADDISON (Joseph) SMITHERS (Peter) The Life of Joseph Addison. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 4 plates, pp. 500, buckram, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O. U. P., 1954 £32.00
ALABASTER (William) The Sonnets. Edited with Introduction by G. M. Story and Helen Gardner. Pp. 118, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O. U. P., 1959 £30.00
ALLEYN (Edward) HOSKING (G. L.) The Life and Times of Edward Alleyn. With 8 plates, pp. 285, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Cape, 1952 £28.00
AMARASINGHE (Upale) Dryden and Pope in the Early Nineteenth Century: a study in changing literary taste 1800-1830. Pp. 255, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1962 £28.00
ARBUTHNOT (John) The History of John Bull. Edited by Alan Bower and Robert A. Erickson. 5 facsimiles, pp. 435, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1976 £32.00
ARISTOPHANES. The Eleven Comedies. Now for the first time literally and completely translated from the Greek tongue into English. With translator's foreword, an introduction to each comedy, and elucidatory notes. 2 vols, roy. 8vo, orig half parchment and grey cloth, gilt tops, bindings slightly dust soiled and spotted. 1912 £65.00
Edition limited to 600 numbered copies printed for the Athenian Society.
ARNOLD (Matthew) Literature and Dogma; an essay towards a better apprehension of the Bible. Cr.8vo, pp. 29 + 232, orig. brown cloth. Smith, Elder, 1883 £35.00
Popular edition with a new preface: 'When I praise cheap books and insist on the need for them, people turn round upon me and say, "physician, heal thyself! Nobody's books are dearer than your own." '.
-- Matthew Arnold's Notebooks. Preface by Eleanor Wodehouse. FIRST EDITION. With portrait and facsimile, cr. 8vo, pp. 145, orig white cloth, spine little dust soiled, with armorial bookplate of Grace, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston. Smith, Elder, 1902 £25.00
-- The Oxford Poems of Matthew Arnold, with rambles in the country around Oxford to which the poems refer. With plates from photographs, cr. 8vo, pp. 65, quarter cloth and boards, binding little dull, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford, Alden & Co., 1929 £15.00
-- Essays, Letters, and Reviews. Collected and edited by Fraser Neiman. Pp. 412, quarter cloth and boards, with d/w. Harvard U.P., 1960 £28.00
-- CHAMBERS (E.K.) Matthew Arnold; a Study. ORIGINAL EDITION. Pp. 150, buckram. O.U.P., 1947 £30.00
-- DAVIS (Arthur Kyle, Jr.) Matthew Arnold's Letters: A Descriptive Checklist. Portrait, illus, lge. 8vo, pp. 474. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1968 £28.00
ARNOLD (Thomas, the younger) Letters 1850-1900. Edited by James Bergram. With 12 plates, endpaper maps, pp. 312, with d/w. Auckland U.P., 1980 £28.00
ARNOLD. TREVOR (Meriol) The Arnolds; Thomas Arnold and his family. With 8 illus, pp. 206, with d/w. 1973 £15.00
ATKINS (J. W. H.) English Literary Criticism; the Medieval Phase. Pp. 220, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1943 £25.00
-- English Literary Criticism; the Renascence. Pp. 382, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Methuen, 1947 £25.00
AUSTEN (Jane) AUSTEN – LEIGH (William and Richard A.) Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters; a family record. With portrait, pp. 452, binding worn, from a library with bookplate and stamps. Smith, Elder, 1913 £18.00
-- PINION (F.V.) A Jane Austen Companion. With 19 plates and 4 maps, pp. 355, with d/w. 1976 £25.00
-- SOUTHAM (B.C.) Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts: A study of the novelist's development through the surviving papers. With frontispiece, pp. 165, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1964 £28.00
AYTOUN (W.E.) Stories and Verse. Introduction by W. L. Renwick. Sm. 8vo, pp. 365, pictorial cloth with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Edinburgh U.P., 1964 £15.00
BACON (Francis) The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. Introduction by Christopher Morley and A. S. W. Rosenbach. Imp. 8vo, pp. 212, quarter buckram and gilt boards, unobtrusive wear to edges, book label of John Fuggles. New York, Heritage Press, 1944 £45.00
-- The Charge Touching Duells. Pp. 61. 1614, reprinted English Experience, 1968 £28.00
-- The Instauratio Magna: Last Writings. Edited with introduction, notes and translations by Graham Rees. With 6 illus., pp. 460, book label of John Fuggles. Works, Oxford Edition, Vol. XIII, O.U.P., 2000 £55.00
-- GREEN (A. Wigfall) Sir Francis Bacon. Pp. 200, with d/w, ownership signature of Norman White. New York, Twayne, 1966 £15.00
BARBAULD (Anna Letitia) RODGERS (Betsy) Georgian Chronicle; Mrs Barbauld and Her Family. With 8 illus., cr. 8vo, pp. 298, with d/w. Presentation copy inscribed by the author and with later book label of John Fuggles. Methuen, 1958 £25.00
BARING-GOULD (Sabine) PURCELL (William) Onward Christian Soldier: Life of S. Baring-Gould, Parson, Squire, Novelist, Antiquary. Introd. John Betjeman. 8 plates, pp. 196, 1957 £18.00
BARRIE (J.M.) A Window in Thrums. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 7+217+6 adverts, orig. buckram, gilt top, bookplate on free endpaper. Hodder & Stoughton, 1889 £45.00
Colbeck, Barrie, 4. Sadleir 171.
-- Auld Licht Idylls. With 18 full page etchings by William Hole, roy. 8vo, pp. 12+232, orig. navy cloth, edges untrimmed. Hodder & Stoughton, 1895 £45.00
Edition limited to 550 numbered copies on hand made paper.
-- George Meredith, 1909. FIRST EDITION. With a wood engraving, 12mo, pp. 16, each page within red ruled border, orig. cream buckram lettered in gilt on upper cover, binding little dust soiled, book label of John Fuggles. Constable [printed at the Chiswick Press], 1909 £25.00
BATESON (F.W.) English Comic Drama, 1700-1750. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 165, orig. cloth, printed label, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1929 £25.00
BEATY (John O.) and John W. BOWYER. Famous Editions of English Poets. Thk. roy. 8vo, with numerous plates, pp. 1312, buckram. New York, 1935 £30.00
Facsimiles of the original editions of: Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1609; Poems of Mr John Milton, 1645; Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1681, etc.; Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1711, etc; Gray, Poems, 1768; Wordsworth & Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, 1798; Wordsworth, Poems, 1807; Byron, Hebrew Melodies, 1815, etc; Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 1820; Keats, Lamia, 1820; Tennyson, Poems, 1842; Browning, Dramatic Lyrics, 1842.
BEAUMONT (Francis) and John FLETCHER. Plays. Edited with introduction and notes by J. St. Loe Strachey. With portraits, 2 vols, pp. 310 & 528, orig. dull green cloth, edges untrimmed. Mermaid Series, Vizetelly, 1887 £30.00
-- The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Pp. 76. 1613, reprinted English Experience,1969 £18.00
BECKETT (Samuel) No's Knife; Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1966. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Pp. 168, with d/w. Calder & Boyars, 1967 £30.00
-- BRATER (Enoch) The Drama in the Text: Beckett's late Fiction. Pp. 244, with d/w. O.U.P., 1994 £24.00
BEHN (Aphra) The Rover and Other Plays. Edited by Jane Spencer. Pp. 430, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford Drama Library, 1995 £25.00
BELL (Gertrude) Poems from the Divan of Hafiz. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 152, orig. olive buckram, binding little faded and chafed, some pencil underlining in text. Heinemann, 1897 £25.00
Gertrude Bell's second publication.
-- The Letters. Edited by Lady Bell. 2 vols. 1927. – The Earlier Letters. Edited by Elsa Richmond. 1937. Together 3 vols, plates. 1927-37 £32.00
-- WINSTONE (H. V. F.) Gertrude Bell. With 42 illus., and maps, pp. 334, with d/w. 1978 £15.00
BENLOWES (Edward, 1602-76) JENKINS (Harold) Edward Benlowes: Biography of a Minor Poet. Lge. 8vo, pp. 381. Joan Bennett's copy with her review for MLR inserted and book label of John Fuggles. Athlone Press, 1952 £30.00
BENSON (E.F.) MASTERS (Brian) The Life of E.F. Benson. 17 illus., lge. 8vo, pp. 333, with d/w. 1991 £18.00
BERRYMAN, (John) Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Pp. 111, with d/w. Faber, 1959 £45.00
Contains some poems not in the slightly earlier US edition.
-- Recovery. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Pp. 268, with d/w. Faber, 1973 £15.00
BESTERMAN (Theodore) [FESTSCHRIFT] The Age of the Enlightenment: Studies presented to Theodore Besterman. Edited by W. H. Barber and others. Portrait, pp. 480, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oliver & Boyd for University of St. Andrews, 1967 £25.00
BLAKE (W.) Poetical Sketches, 1783. Facsimile edition. Pp. 70, orig. boards. Noel Douglas Replicas, 1926 £15.00
-- The Prophetic Writings. Edited with general introduction, glossarial index of symbols, commentary and appendices by D. J. Sloss and J. P. R. Wallis. FIRST EDITION. With 12 plates, 2 vols., pp. 645 & 382, buckram, printed labels, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1926 £120.00
-- The Letters, with Related Documents. Edited by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Third Edition. With 25 plates and 3 text illus., pp. 265. O.U.P., 1980 £35.00
-- Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray. Edited with introduction and commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. With 16 drawings reproduced in colour and 116 in monochrome, 4to, pp. 90, with d/w. 1972 £35.00
-- BUTTERWORTH (Adeline M.) William Blake, Mystic; a Study. Together with Young's 'Night Thoughts': Nights I & II. With frontispiece from Blair's 'The Grave', and 42pp. of Young's poem with Blake's engravings reproduced in reduced facsimile from the original edition of 1797, cr. 4to, pp. 24+42, orig. printed boards and quarter cloth, edges untrimmed, spine neatly repaired, leather lettering piece. Liverpool & London, 1911 £55.00
Bentley, Blake Books, 516.
-- DAVIES (J. G.) The Theology of William Blake. Pp. 175, with d/w, book label John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1948 £28.00
-- RAINE (Kathleen) Blake and Tradition. With 194 illus., 11 in colour, 2 vols, cr. 4to, pp. 460 & 380, from a library with stamp, with d/ws, in slip case. Bollingen Series, Princeton U.P., 1968 £85.00
Learned investigation into the sources of Blake's knowledge of the Neoplatonic and Hermetic traditions. Based on A.W. Mellon Lectures, 1962. Bentley, Blake Books, 2478.
BLIGH (Eric) Tooting Corner. FIRST EDITION. 4 plates, pp. 336, with slightly worn d/w. Secker & Warburg, 1946 £20.00
BLOOMFIELD (Robert) WICKETT (William) and Nicholas DUVAL. The Farmer's Boy; the story of a Suffolk Poet. With 30 plates and illus., pp. 144, with d/w. 1971 £15.00
BLUNDEN (Edmund) Poems. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 355, orig. cream cloth, binding slightly dust soiled. With J. C. Squire's Observer review loosely inserted. Cobden-Sanderson, 1930 £28.00
BOAS (Frederick S.) Queen Elizabeth in Drama and related Studies. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 212, with d/w. 1950 £28.00
-- (ed. & introd.) Songs and Lyrics from the English Playbooks. With plates and decorations by Hans Tisdall, pp. 275, with d/w. Cresset Press, 1945 £18.00
BOCCACCIO (G.) The Decameron. Translated by J. M. Rigg. With 15 photogravure plates by Louis Chalon, 2 vols, lge. 8vo, orig. white buckram gilt, gilt tops, other edges untrimmed. Navarre Society, [1932] £45.00
BODLEY HEAD QUARTOS. Reprints of Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets and Plays. Edited by G. B. Harrison. Separate titles available, listed below. Sm. 8vo, orig cloth. 1922-25 per vol £15.00
BONE (Gertrude) The Cope. FIRST EDITION. With wood engravings by Stephen Bone, sm. 8vo, pp 48, quarter cloth and boards, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Medici Society, 1930 £18.00
BOND (Richmond P.) Studies in the Early English Periodical. Pp. 215, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. North Carolina U.P., 1957 £25.00
-- The Tatler; the Making of a Literary Journal. With 8 illus, pp. 284, with d/w. Harvard U.P., 1971 £28.00
BOOTH (Bradford A., editor) A Cabinet of Gems. Short stories from the English annuals. [By J. G. Lockhart, C.R. Maturin, Jane Porter, J. Hogg, Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, etc.] Pp. 415. California U.P., 1938 £38.00
BORDE OR BOORDE (Andrew, 1490-1549) Gli itinerary d'Europa (The Introduction of Knowledge). A cura di Maria Palermo Concolato. With woodcut illustrations. Pp. 360, orig. wrappers. Napoli, Liguori, 1992 £18.00
Borde's text and Italian translation published en face; with full editorial apparatus.
BOSSCHERE (Jean de, illustrator) FLAUBERT (G.) The First Temptation of Saint Anthony. Translated by Rene Francis, with introduction by E. B. Osborn. With 20 full page plates, some coloured, and many black and white illus by Jean de Bosschere, tall 8vo, pp. 276, orig crimson cloth gilt, spine slightly faded. Bodley Head, 1924 £20.00
FIRST BOSSCHERE EDITION, limited and numbered.
BOSWELL (James) The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange. Edited by Ralph S. Walker. Pp. 420, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 1, 1966 £35.00
-- The Correspondence and other Papers … relating to the making of the Life of Johnson. Edited by Marshall Waingrow. Pp. 744, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 2, 1969 £45.00
-- The Correspondence …with certain members of the Club. Edited by Charles N. Fifer. Pp. 572, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 3, 1976 £40.00
-- The Correspondence … with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone. Edited by James M. Osborn and others. Pp. 508, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 4, 1986 £45.00
-- The General Correspondence, 1766-1769. Vol 1, 1766-67. Edited by Richard C. Cole and others. Pp. 332, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 5, 1993 £35.00
-- The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple. Vol 1, 1756-77. Edited by Thomas Crawford. Pp. 540, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 6, 1997 £30.00
-- The General Correspondence, 1766-69. Vol 2, 1768-69. Edited by Richard C Cole and others. Pp. 352, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 7, 1997 £30.00
-- The Correspondence … with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate. Edited by Nellie P. Hankins and John Strawhorn. Pp. 332, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Correspondence, Vol 8, 1998 £30.00
-- Life of Johnson. An edition of the original manuscript. Edited by Marshall Waingrow. Vols 1-2, 1709-76. 2 vols, pp. 555 & 320, with d/ws, book label of John Fuggles. Private Papers, Research Edition, 1994-98 £65.00
-- Boswell's London Journal, 1762 – 1763. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. With 4 plates and endpaper map, pp. 382, with d/w. Private Papers, 1950 £18.00
-- Boswell in Holland, 1763-64, including his Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. With 5 maps and plates, lge. 8vo, pp. 447, cloth gilt, with d/w. Heinemann, 1952 £18.00
-- Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Now published from the original MS. Edited with notes by Frederick Pottle and C. H. Bennett. With 6 plates and illus, pp. 455, buckram, binding faded as usual. 1936 £20.00
-- The Life of Samuel Johnson. With marginal comments and markings from two copies annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. [Edited] with introduction by Edward G. Fletcher. With coloured frontispieces, 3 vols, lge. 8vo, buckram, in slip cases. Heritage Press, New York, 1963 £75.00
-- DAICHES (David) James Boswell and his World. With 99 illus, cr. 4to, pp. 128, with d/w. Thames & Hudson, 1976 £18.00
-- DOWLING (William C.) The Boswellian Hero. Pp. 218. Georgia U.P., 1979 £20.00
-- FINLAYSON (Iain) The Moth and the Candle; A Life of James Boswell. With 27 illus., pp. 385. 1984 £18.00
-- FITZGERALD (Percy) Boswell's Autobiography. With 8 plates, pp. 292, binding slightly faded. Chatto & Windus, 1912 £25.00
-- MALLORY (George) Boswell the Biographer. FIRST EDITION. With portrait, pp. 346, orig. cloth, spine spotted. Smith, Elder, 1912 £28.00
-- POTTLE (Frederick A.) James Boswell; The Earlier Years, 1740-1769. With 9 plates, lge. 8vo, pp. 630. 1966 £28.00
-- POWELL (L. F.) FESTSCHRIFT. Johnson, Boswell and their Circle; Essays presented to Lawrence Fitzroy Powell. Edited by Mary Lascelles and others. With 2 plates, pp. 350. O.U.P., 1965 £35.00
-- SCHWARTZ (Richard B.) Boswell's Johnson; A Preface to the Life. Pp. 140. Wisconsin U.P., 1978 £18.00
BOYD (Arthur) and Peter PORTER. Jonah. FIRST EDITION. With over 100 drawings by Arthur Boyd, roy. 8vo, pp. 127, with d/w. 1973 £50.00
Printed at the Westerham Press. One of a small number of advance copies in pre-publication state with dust wrapper flaps untrimmed (these were subsequently trimmed in error, mutilating Boyd's illustration).
-- The Lady and the Unicorn. FIRST EDITION. With 20 black and white plates by Arthur Boyd, 4to, buckram, with d/w by the artist. 1975 £65.00
Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by both artist and author. This is one of 250 copies reserved for the artist, poet and publishers.
-- Mars. FIRST EDITION. Fully illust. throughout in black and white with drawings by Arthur Boyd, cr. 4to, pp. 112, fine with pictorial d/w. 1988 £15.00
BREDSDORFF (Elias) and others. An Introduction to Scandinavian Literature from the earliest time to our day. Pp. 245, with torn d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Copenhagen & C.U.P., 1951 £18.00
BRETON (Nicholas) Poems not hitherto reprinted. Edited with biography, canon and notes by Jean Robertson. With portrait and 5 facsimiles, pp. 388, book label of John Fuggles. Liverpool U.P., 1952 £45.00
BREWER (E. Cobham) Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Revised edition. Pp. 975. 1963 £25.00
BRONTE (Charlotte) FRASER (Rebecca) Charlotte Bronte. 16 half tone plates, lge. 8vo, pp. 565, with d/w. 1988 £28.00
-- PETERS (Margot) Unquiet Soul. A Biography of Charlotte Bronte. 24 plates, thk. 8vo, pp. 476, with d/w. 1975 £20.00
BRONTE (E.) HEWISH (John) Emily Bronte: a Critical and Biographical Study. Pp. 204, with d/w. 1969 £12.00
BRONTE. WILKS (Brian) The Illustrated Brontes of Haworth. Scenes and characters from the lives and writings of the Bronte sisters. Introd. Victoria Glendinning. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, roy. 8vo, pp. 224, with d/w. 1986 £15.00
BROOKE (Rupert) HASSALL (Christopher) Rupert Brooke; a Biography. With 38 illus., lge. 8vo, pp. 557, with d/w. Faber, 1964 £25.00
BROWN (Merle E.) Double Lyric; Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry [Larkin, Silkin, Gunn, etc.]. Pp. 250, with d/w. 1980 £15.00
BROWN (Tom, 1663-1704) Amusements Serious and Comical, and other Works. Edited with notes by Arthur L. Hayward. 16 plates, roy. 8vo, pp. 495, with d/w. Routledge, 1927 £38.00
BROWN (T.E.) Old John and other Poems. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 12+251, orig. blue cloth. Macmillan, 1893 £25.00
-- MEMORIAL VOLUME. Thomas Edward Brown; a Memorial Volume, 1830-1930 [Personal recollections, letters, bibliography]. With 6 plates, roy. 8vo, pp. 255, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1930 £28.00
BROWNE (Sir Thomas) The Works. Edited by Charles Sayle. Portrait and facsimiles, 3 vols, orig. quarter buckram and board sides, leather lettering pieces (slightly rubbed). Edinburgh, 1904 £40.00
-- Religio Medici and Other Works. Edited by L. C. Martin. With 5 plates, pp. 410, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1964 £45.00
BRUSS (Elizabeth W.) Autobiographical Acts; The Changing Situation of a Literary Genre. Pp. 190. Johns Hopkins U.P., 1976 £18.00
BULLEN (A.H., ed. and introd). Davison's Poetical Rhapsody. 2 vols, orig. quarter calf, gilt tops, uncut, spines little rubbed, pictorial bookplate of Ernest R. Debenham. G. Bell, 1890-91 £55.00
LARGE PAPER EDITION limited to 250 numbered copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. Francis Davison's 'Poetical Rhapsody', first published 1602, is one of the most valuable of our old anthologies.
-- England's Helicon: A Collection of Lyrical and Pastoral Poems, published in 1600. Pp. 300, title in red and black, orig. buckram, gilt top. Limited to 500 numbered copies. 1887 £30.00
BUNYAN (John) Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Edited with introduction, notes, etc. by Roger Sharrock. With frontispiece, pp. 226, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1962 £40.00
-- The Pilgrims Progress. Edited by James B. Wharey. Second edition, revised by Roger Sharrock. With 18 illus., pp. 480, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1960 £48.00
-- HILL (Christopher) A Tinker and A Poor Man; John Bunyan and his Church, 1628-1688. Pp. 414, with d/w. New York, 1989 £18.00
-- NEWEY (Vincent, editor) The Pilgrim's Progress; Critical and Historical Views. Pp. 315, with d/w. Liverpool U.P., 1980 £15.00
BURGESS (Anthony) The Age of the Grand Tour, 1720-1820. With an Appreciation of the Art of Europe in the Eighteenth Century by Francis Haskell. FIRST EDITION. Fully illust. with over 250 plates and illus. in colour and black and white from contemporary art, pp. 135, lge. oblong folio, with d/w. 1967 £55.00
-- A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, especially English. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 367, with d/w. 1992 £15.00
BUSH (Douglas) English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century 1600-1660. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 628, with d/w. A. L. Rowse's copy with his notes. Oxford History of English Literature, 1945 £30.00
BUTLER (Samuel, 1612-80) Hudibras. Edited with introduction and commentary by John Wilders. With 2 plates, pp. 524, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles and a postcard to Edmund [sic] de Beer inserted. Oxford English Texts, 1967 £65.00
BUTT (John) Pope, Dickens and others; Essays and Addresses. Edited by W. L. Renwick. Pp. 182, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Edinburgh U.P., 1969 £15.00
-- FESTSCHRIFT. Imagined Worlds; Essays on some English Novels and Novelists in Honour of John Butt. Edited by Maynard Mack and Ian Gregor. With portrait, pp. 510. 1968 £25.00
BUXTON (John) A Tradition of Poetry [from Thomas Wyatt to Lady Winchilsea]. With 7 plates, pp. 199. A. L. Rowse's copy with his pencil notes. 1967 £18.00
BYERLY (Alison) Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth Century Literature. With 16 illus., pp. 240, with d/w. C.U.P., 1997 £20.00
BYROM (John 1691-1763) HANCOX (Joy) The Queen's Chameleon: The Life of John Byrom, a study in conflicting loyalties. 13 plates, 15 text figures, pp. 280, with d/w. 1994 £15.00
-- HANCOX (Joy) The Byrom Collection [of over 500 original drawings, illustrating renaissance thought, the Royal Society, theatre building, etc.] Numerous illustrations, some in colour, cr. 4to, pp. 320, with d/w. 1992 £20.00
BYRON (G.G., Lord) BUTLER (E.M.) Byron and Goethe: Analysis of a Passion. 6 plates, pp. 240, from a library with stamp, with d/w. 1956 £15.00
-- HASLETT (Moyra) Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend. Pp. 318, with d/w. O.U.P., 1997 £20.00
-- MARCHAND (Leslie A.) Byron: A Biography. FIRST EDITION. With 48 plates and illus., 3 vols, lge. 8vo., buckram gilt, bindings rather faded and spotted. New York, Knopf, 1957 £50.00
CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM (The) Vol. 8: From Formalism to Poststructuralism. Edited by Raman Selden. Pp. 495, with d/w. C.U.P., 1995 £28.00
CAMPION (Thomas) The Works; complete songs, masques, and treatises with a selection of the Latin verse. Edited with introduction and notes by Walter R. Davis. With 3 plates, pp. 550, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Faber, 1969 £45.00
-- Observations in the Art of English Poesie. Sm. 8vo, pp. 52, with d/w. 1602, Scolar Press facsimile, 1968 £18.00
CAREW (Thomas) The Poems. With his Masque Coelum Britannicum. Edited with introduction and notes by Rhodes Dunlap. Portrait, pp. 375, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1957 £45.00
CARLYLE (Alexander, 'Jupiter', 1722-1805) Anecdotes and Characters of the Times. Edited with introduction by James Kinsley. With 9 plates, pp. 342, with d/w. Oxford English Memoirs and Travels, 1973 £25.00
CARLYLE (Thomas) The Letters of Carlyle to his Brother Alexander. With related family letters. Edited by Edwin W. Marrs. Frontispiece, facsimile and map, pp. 848, buckram, with d/w. Harvard U.P., 1968 £18.00
CHAMBERS (E. K.) The Mediaeval Stage. FIRST EDITION. With frontispieces, 2 vols, thk. 8vo, pp. 461 & 485, orig. green buckram gilt, spines trifle faded. O.U.P., 1903 £120.00
CHANDLER (Raymond) Selected Letters. Edited by Frank MacShane. With frontispiece, pp. 520, with d/w. 1981 £18.00
CARPENTER (Edward) The Art of Creation; Essays on the Self and its Powers. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 265, orig. green cloth, gilt top, headband little worn, book label of Norman Routledge. George Allen, 1904 £25.00
CHALKHILL (John) The Works. Edited with introductory essay, commentary and appendices by Charles Ryskamp and Scott D. Westrem. With 20 illus, imp. 8vo, pp. 234, silk cloth. Princeton U.P., 1999 £75.00
CHAPMAN (George) Chapman's Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey; and, the lesser Homerica. Edited with Introductions, Textual Notes, Commentaries and Glossaries by Allardyce Nicoll. With facsimile frontispieces, 2 vols, lge. 8vo, pp 760 & 670, buckram, with d/ws, book label of John Fuggles. Routledge, 1957 £75.00
CHAYTOR (H. J.) From Script to Print; an Introduction to Medieval Literature. Pp. 164, ownership signature of T. F. Higham of Trinity and book label of John Fuggles of St. Johns. C.U.P., 1945 £18.00
CHESTERFIELD (Philip Dormer, Lord) Letters written … to his Son. Edited with notes and biographical notice by Charles S. Carey. 2 vols, cr. 8vo, with d/ws. 1912, reissued c.1950 £25.00
CHUDLEIGH (Mary, Lady) The Poems and Prose. Edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell. Pp. 428, book label of John Fuggles. Women Writers in English, O.U.P., New York, 1993 £25.00
CLAPHAM (John) The Historie of Great Britannie. Declaring the successe of times and affaires in that Iland, from the Romans first entrance, until the raigne of Egbert. Sm. 4to, pp. 316. 1606, reprinted English Experience, 1975 £45.00
CLARK (E. Kitson) The History of 100 Years of Life of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. With 31 illus., pp. 256, orig. quarter parchment, lettering piece, spine discoloured. Leeds, 1924 £25.00
CLIVE (John) Scotch Reviewers; The Edinburgh Review, 1802-1815. Pp. 225, binding little faded under d/w. Faber, 1957 £28.00
CLOWES (William, 1544-1604) Selected Writings. Edited with introduction and notes by F. N. L. Poynter. With 8 plates, sm. 8vo, pp. 179, with d/w. Harvey & Blythe, 1948 £18.00
COBBETT (William) Rural Rides. New edition with notes by James Paul Cobbett. Introduction by Edward Thomas. 2 vols, sm. 8vo, pp. 330 & 340. Everyman, 1924 £18.00
COCKBURN (Henry) Memorials of His Time. New edition with introduction by Harry A. Cockburn. With 12 coloured and 8 other plates, pp. 480, buckram, gilt top, binding little faded. T.N.Foulis, 1910 £25.00
-- MILLER (Karl) Cockburn's Millennium. 5 plates, pp. 340, with d/w. Harvard U.P., 1976 £20.00
COLERIDGE (Hartley) HARTMAN (Herbert) Hartley Coleridge; Poet's Son and Poet. With 6 plates, pp. 215, with book labels of Printer's Library and John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1931 £30.00
COLERIDGE (S. T.) The Notebooks. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. Vols 1-2, 1794-1808. With facsimiles, 2 vols in 4, pp. 2,500, bindings of 2 vols slightly spotted. Bollingen Series, 1957-61 £85.00
-- BAKER (James V.) The Sacred River; Coleridge's Theory of the Imagination. Pp. 320. Louisiana State U.P., 1957 £25.00
-- BEER (John B.) Coleridge's Visionary Languages. Essays in honour of J. B. Beer. Ed. Tim Fulford and M. D. Paley. Pp. 223. D. S. Brewer, 1993 £20.00
-- COBURN (Kathleen) The Self-Conscious Imagination; A Study of the Coleridge Notebooks. Sm. 8vo, pp. 85, with d/w. O.U.P., 1974 £18.00
-- COLMER (John) Coleridge, Critic of Society. Pp. 240, with d/w. 1967 £25.00
-- JAMES (Ivor) The Source of The Ancient Mariner. Sm. 8vo, pp. 92, orig. wrappers, lower wrapper and last leaf torn, book labels of Meyrick Library, Jesus College, Oxford, and John Fuggles. Cardiff, Daniel Owen, 1890 £20.00
-- WALLACE (Catherine M.) The Design of Biographia Literaria. Pp. 180, with d/w. 1983 £15.00
COLERIDGE (S. T.) and Robert SOUTHEY. Omniana or Horae Otiosiores. Edited by Robert Gittings. Pp. 360, with d/w. Centaur Press, 1969 £25.00
COLERIDGE (Sara) MUDGE (Bradford K.) Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: her Life and Essays. With plates, pp. 304, with d/w. Yale U.P., 1989 £18.00
COLLES (H. C.) Voice and Verse; a Study in English Song. Pp. 178, quarter cloth and boards, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1928 £20.00
COLLINS (William) Drafts and Fragments of Verse. Edited from the manuscripts by J. S. Cunningham. Pp. 60, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1956 £18.00
COLMAN (George, the younger) BAGSTER-COLLINS (Jeremy F.) George Colman the Younger, 1762-1836. Portrait, pp. 375, ex-libris of James M. Osborn. New York, 1946 £28.00
COMPTON-BURNETT (Ivy) Darkness and Day. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, pp. 236, with (slightly frayed) d/w. 1951 £25.00
CONGREVE (William) The Complete Plays. Edited by Herbert Davis. Pp. 510, cloth gilt with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Curtain Playwrights, Chicago U.P., 1967 £38.00
-- Incognita. Edited by H. F. B. Brett-Smith. Pp. 90, quarter linen and boards, book labels of Vivian de Sola Pinto and John Fuggles. Percy Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1922 £15.00
CONRAD (Joseph) KARL (Frederick R.) Joseph Conrad; The Three Lives. A Biography. With many plates, lge. 8vo, pp. 1024. 1979 £28.00
CONSTABLE (Henry) The Poems. Edited by Joan Grundy. With frontispiece, pp. 261, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Liverpool U.P., 1960 £30.00
CORBETT (Richard, 1582-1635) The Poems. Edited with introduction by J. A. W. Bennett and H. R. Trevor-Roper. Frontis, pp. 292, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1955 £45.00
CORDNER (Michael) and Ronald CLAYTON, Editors. Four Restoration Marriage Plays. Pp. 500, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford Drama Library, O.U.P., 1995 £28.00
CORKRAN (Alice) The Romance of Woman's Influence. FIRST EDITION. With 11 plates, cr. 8vo., pp. 377, orig cloth gilt, gilt top, binding chafed, inscription on half title. Blackie, 1906 £20.00
CORNFORD (Francis, Editor and Translator) Plato and Parmenides; Parmenides' Way of Truth and Plato's Parmenides. Pp. 268, occasional pencil marking in margins. International Library, 1950 £15.00
CORNFORD (Christopher, Illustrator) SANDWICH (George Montagu, Earl of) Boyhood; an autobiography [in verse]. With 13 drawings in text by Christopher Cornford, pp. 40, binding trifle stained under d/w by the artist. Privately printed at C.U.P., 1951 £20.00
CORNWALL (Barry, i.e. Bryan Waller Procter) ARMOUR (Richard W.) Barry Cornwall: Biography of Bryan Waller Procter. With unpublished letters. 4 plates, pp. 370. Boston, 1935 £28.00
COTTON (Charles, 1630-87) [Complete] Poems. Edited with introduction and notes by John Beresford. 2 plates, pp. 420, orig. cloth, printed label, with book labels of Marcus Stapleton Martin and John Fuggles. Cobden-Sanderson, 1923 £45.00
COWPER (William) RYSKAMP (Charles) William Cowper of the Inner Temple: Study of his life and works to the year 1768. With 5 plates, pp. 292, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1959 £25.00
CRABBE (George) New Poems. Edited with introduction and notes by Arthur Pollard. With frontispiece, pp. 200, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Liverpool U.P., 1960 £28.00
CRASHAW (Richard) Poems, English, Latin and Greek. Edited by L. C. Martin. Second Edition. 4 plates, pp. 570, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1957 £48.00
CROSS (Nigel) The Common Writer; Life in Nineteenth Century Grub Street. Pp. 270, from a library with bookplate and stamp, with d/w. C.U.P., 1985 £18.00
DAICHES (David) and John FLOWER. Literary Landscapes of the British Isles; a narrative atlas. 60 illus. and many maps, pp. 287, with d/w. 1979 £15.00
DAILEADER (Celia R.) Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage; transcendence, desire and the limits of the visible. With 8 illus, pp. 205, with d/w. C.U.P., 1998 £20.00
D'ANNUNZIO (Gabriele) The Flame of Life. Translated from the Italian by Kassandra Vivaria. First English Edition. Cr. 8vo, pp. 8+403+32 adverts, orig. maroon cloth, spine a little faded. Heinemann, 1900 £25.00
DARWIN (Charles) WILLEY (Basil) Darwin and Butler; Two Versions of Evolution. Hibbert Lectures, 1959. With d/w. New York, 1960 £18.00
DATTA (Kitty S.) FESTSCHRIFT. CHAUDHURI (Sukanta, Editor) Renaissance Essays for Kitty Scoular Datta. With portrait, pp. 300, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P. India, 1995 £15.00
DAVIE (Donald) The Eighteenth Century Hymn in England. 8 plates, pp. 178, with d/w. C.U.P., 1993 £18.00
DAVIES (Lady Eleanor) Prophetic Writings. Edited by Esther S. Cope. Pp. 400, book label of John Fuggles. Women Writers in English, O.U.P., 1995 £25.00
DAVIES (Sir John) The Poems. Edited by Robert Krueger and Ruby Nemser. Pp. 520, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1975 £48.00
DAY (Gary, editor) Varieties of Victorianism; the Uses of a Past. Pp. 282, with d/w. 1998 £18.00
DEFOE (Daniel) An Essay on the Regulation of the Press. Cr. 8vo, pp. 45, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Luttrell Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1948 £18.00
-- PAYNE (William L) Mr. Review; Daniel Defoe as Author of the Review. Pp. 156, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. King's Crown Press, New York, 1947 £35.00
-- WRIGHT (Thomas, of Olney) The Life of Daniel Defoe. FIRST EDITION. With 18 plates and 8 text illus, 1 table, pp. 460, orig. buckram gilt, from a library with a few stamps. [1894] £35.00
DELONEY (Thomas) The Works. Edited with introduction and notes by Francis Oscar Mann. With facsimiles, pp. 643, cloth gilt, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1912 £45.00
DICKENS (Charles) A Christmas Carol. With 4 coloured plates and 4 text illus. by John Leech, sm. 8vo, pp. 117, two tone cloth, with d/w. Reprint Society, 1950 £15.00
-- AYLMER (Felix) The Drood Case. With 16 illus., pp. 228, with d/w. Hart-Davis, 1964 £18.00
-- GREAVES (John) Dickens at Doughty Street. 16 plates, pp. 197, with d/w. 1975 £15.00
-- NICOLL (W. Robertson) The Problem of 'Edwin Drood'; a study in the methods of Dickens. With frontispiece, pp. 230, buckram, binding slightly faded and chafed. [1912] £18.00
-- PUGH (Edwin) The Charles Dickens Originals. With 30 plates, pp. 355. T. N. Foulis, 1913 £18.00
DIDEROT (Denis) FURBANK (P.N.) Diderot: A Critical Biography. 12 plates, 5 text illus., lge 8vo, pp. 537, with d/w. 1992 £18.00
DODDRIDGE (John) The Lawyers Light: Or, a Due Direction for the Study of the Law. Sm. 4to, pp. 232. 1629, reprinted English Experience 1973 £35.00
DODSLEY (Robert) STRAUS (Ralph) Robert Dodsley, poet, publisher and playwright. With 13 plates, pp. 422, buckram. 1910, reprinted Burt Franklin, 1968 £25.00
DOLBEN (Digby Mackworth) Poems. Edited with a memoir by Robert Bridges. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, with 3 plates, pp. 111+129, orig. quarter linen and boards, printed label, edges untrimmed, spine trifle spotted but a nice copy. O.U.P., 1911 £75.00
Hayward 325. Dolben, an Eton friend of Bridges, was drowned shortly before he was due to go up to Oxford. Bridges' Memoir includes Dolben's correspondence as well as letters from G. M. Hopkins, their mutual friend.
DONNE (John) The Divine Poems. Edited with introduction and commentary by Helen Gardner. ORIGINAL EDITION. With frontispiece, pp. 245, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1952 £45.00
-- Essays in Divinity. Edited by Evelyn M. Simpson. ORIGINAL ISSUE. Pp. 167, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1952 £48.00
-- BALD (R.C.) Donne and The Drurys. With 14 plates and illus, pp. 186, with d/w, ownership signature of Joan Bennett and book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1959 £38.00
-- HARDY (Evelyn) Donne: a Spirit in Conflict. 5 plates, sm. 8vo, pp. 287. 1942 £18.00
DOUGLAS (Norman) Old Calabria. Pp. 358, orig. brown cloth. M. Secker, 1923 £25.00
Third printing, limited to 1000 copies.
-- Together. FIRST EDITION. Plates, pp. [8]+248, orig. maroon cloth, little foxing, cover trifle marked. Chapman & Hall, 1923 £25.00
-- Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 222, orig. blue cloth (second binding) 1928 £20.00
-- Looking Back; an Autobiographical Excursion. First Ordinary Edition. With 8 plates, pp. 534, binding slightly dust soiled and dull. 1934 £18.00
-- Siren Land. Introduction by Mark Holloway. Pp. 208. 1982 £15.00
-- ALDINGTON (Richard) Pinorman: Personal Recollections of Norman Douglas, Pino Orioli and Charles Prentice. FIRST EDITION. Plates, pp. 218, with d/w. 1954 £25.00
DRUMMOND (William, of Hawthornden) MASSON (David) Drummond of Hawthornden: the Story of his Life and Writings. FIRST EDITION. Frontis, cr. 8vo, pp. 505, orig. cloth gilt. From the library of James M. Osborn, with a note in his hand 'from the library of C. H. Wilkinson'. Macmillan, 1873 £30.00
DRYDEN (J) The Poems and Fables. Ed. James Kinsley. Pp. 876. Oxford Standard Authors, 1962 £15.00
-- MINER (Earl) and Jennifer BRADY, editors. Literary transmission and authority; Dryden and other writers. Pp. 175, with d/w. C.U.P., 1993 £18.00
-- ZWICKER (Steven N.) Dryden's Political Poetry; the Typology of King and Nation. Pp. 170, with d/w. Brown U.P., 1972 £15.00
DU BEC-CRESPIN (Jean) The Historie of the Great Emperour Tamerlan. Newly translated out of French into English by H.M. Sm. 4to, pp. 270. 1597, reprinted English Experience, 1968 £45.00
DU MAURIER (George) Trilby. First English one-volume edition. With 120 illus. by the author, lge. cr. 8vo, pp. 10+450, orig. navy pictorial cloth gilt, gilt top (slightly chafed). Osgood, McIlvaine, 1895 £30.00
Wolff 1952c. Gordon Ray 199.
DUNBAR (William) The Poems. Edited by W. MacKay MacKenzie. Pp. 310, buckram, with torn d/w. Edinburgh, 1932 £30.00
-- TAYLOR (Rachel A.) Dunbar; the Poet and his Period. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 87, pictorial boards with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. The Poets on the Poets, Faber, 1931 £15.00
D'URFEY (Thomas) The Songs. Selected and edited by Cyrus Lawrence Day. With portrait and musical scores, pp. 178, orig. cloth, gilt top, book label of John Fuggles. Harvard Studies in English, Harvard U.P., 1933 £38.00
DURRELL (Lawrence) The Black Book. Introduction by Gerald Sykes. Pp. 250, with d/w. New York, Dutton, 1960 £48.00
First American Edition; no edition was published in England before the 1970's.
-- (Translator) ROYIDIS (Emmanuel) Pope Joan. A Romantic Biography. Trans. from the Greek. FIRST EDITION. Frontis, pp. 164, with d/w. Derek Verschoyle, 1954 £35.00
-- KACZVINSKY (Donald P.) Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels, or the Kingdom of the Imagination. Pp. 183, with d/w. Susquehanna U.P., 1997 £18.00
DUTCH LIBRARY (The) Translated by Pieter Geyl and others. 4 vols, sm. 8vo, quarter linen and boards, printed labels, book label of John Fuggles. The Hague, Nijhoff, and London, etc., Gyldendal, 1924-27 £45.00
Lancelot of Denmark; Esmoreit; Mary of Nimmegen; The Tale of Beatrice.
EDMUNDSON (Mark) Literature against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida; a Defence of Poetry. Pp. 255. C.U.P., 1995 £21.00
EGAN (Ken) The Riven Home; Narrative Rivalry in the American Renaissance. Pp. 221, with d/w. Susquehanna U.P., 1997 £18.00
ELIADE (Mircea) The Myth of the Eternal Return. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. Pp. 206. Routledge, 1955 £25.00
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNIA. Or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. By a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland. With 160 copperplate engravings, 3 vols, 4to, in full imitation old-style calf, lettering pieces. 1966 £85.00
Good quality facsimile reproduction of the first edition, Edinburgh 1771
ENCYCLOPEDIE. LOUGH (John) The 'Encyclopedie'. With 9 plates, pp. 442, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. 1971 £18.00
ELIOT (T.S.) For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 145, orig. blue cloth, printed label, spine little faded. Faber & Gwyer, 1928 £45.00
Gallup A12. With ex-libris of the critic T. R. Henn.
-- Selected Essays. Third, enlarged edition. Pp. 516, with torn d/w. Faber, 1951 £25.00
First appearance of the final text of Selected Essays.
-- On Poetry and Poets. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 262. Faber, 1957 £25.00
With several contemporary newspaper cuttings with reviews by Cyril Connolly, Raymond Mortimer, etc., loosely inserted.
-- Poems Written in Early Youth. First Ordinary Edition. Pp. 43, with d/w. Faber 1967 £15.00
-- The Letters. Ed. Valerie Eliot. Vol I: 1898-1922. 32 plates, thk. lge. 8vo, pp. 670, with d/w. 1988 £15.00
-- LOCKERD (Benjamin G.) Aethereal Rumours; T. S. Eliot's Physics and Poetics. Pp. 318, with d/w. Bucknell U.P., 1998 £20.00
-- McGREEVY (Thomas) Thomas Stearns Eliot: A Study. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, pp. 71, orig. boards. Dolphin Books, 1931 £20.00
-- THORMAHLEN (Marianne, editor) T. S. Eliot at the Turn of the Century. [Contributors: Bernard Bergonzi, Lois Cuddy, Barbara Everett, etc.]. Pp. 244, with d/w. Lund Studies in English, 1994 £20.00
-- TIMMERMAN (John) T. S. Eliot's Ariel Poems: The Poetics of Recovery. Pp. 203, with d/w. Bucknell U.P., 1994 £20.00
[?ELYOT (Sir Thomas)] Papyrii Gemini Eleatis Hermathena, seu, De Eloquentiae Victoria. Slim sm. 4to, orig. two tone cloth. Cambridge, 1886 £25.00
Only 150 copies printed. Allegory on the Victory of Eloquence. Complete facsimile of the original printed at Cambridge by John Siberch, 1522 [STC 11719]. With appendix of Henry Bradshaw's notes; edited by Francis Jenkinson.
ERASMUS (D.) ALLEN (P. S.) Erasmus; Lectures and Wayfaring Sketches. With frontispiece, pp. 228, buckram, binding little stained, some pencil marking in margins. O.U.P., 1934 £30.00
-- MANSFIELD (Bruce) Phoenix of his Age: Interpretations of Erasmus c.1550-1750. Pp. 366. Toronto U.P., 1979 £30.00
-- MASSING (J. M.) Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom; an Illustrated Moral Compendium for Francois I. With coloured frontispiece, and 120 other illus., pp. 222, book label of John Fuggles. Warburg Institute, 1995 £20.00
EVELYN (John) Tyrannus, or The Mode. Edited by J. L. Nevinson. Cr. 8vo, pp. 55, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Luttrell Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1951 £15.00
FABLE OF PHILARGYRIE. The Fable of Philargyrie the Great Gigant. Reprinted from the only known copy. Introduction by W. A. Marsden. Sm. 8vo, pp. 64 of facsimile, buckram, book label of John Fuggles. Emery Walker, 1931 £28.00
FAWCETT (F. Burlington, Editor) Broadside Ballads of The Restoration Period from the Jersey Collection known as The Osterley Park Ballads. Folio, pp. 274, quarter parchment and decorated cloth, with torn d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Bodley Head, 1930 £95.00
Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Of the collection of 93 ballads, 28 are unique and 31 very rare.
FELLOWES (E. H.) English Madrigal Verse, 1588-1632. THIRD AND BEST EDITION. Pp. 828, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1967 £45.00
FIELDING (Henry) WRIGHT (Andrew) Henry Fielding: Mask and Feast. Pp. 214, with d/w. 1968 £18.00
FLETCHER (Joseph S., 1863-1935) Scarhaven Keep. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 256, orig. red cloth. Lady Violet Milner's copy with signature. Ward Lock, 1929 £25.00
FLINT (William Russell, illustrator) CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales. With 24 coloured plates by W. Russell Flint, lge. 8vo, pp. 651, orig. maroon cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, gilt top, two leaves carelessly opened. J. Cape and Medici Society, 1928 £75.00
FOLKENFLIK (Robert, editor) The English Hero, 1660-1800. Pp. 230. Delaware U.P., 1982 £25.00
FORSTER (John) RENTON (Richard) John Forster and his Friendships. FIRST EDITION. With 38 plates, pp. 293, spine little faded. Chapman & Hall, 1912 £35.00
FORSYTH (Frederick) The Odessa File. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 319, with d/w. 1972 £25.00
FOWLER (H. W.) A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Cr. 8vo, pp. 750. O.U.P., 1950 £18.00
FRANK (Judith) Common Ground: Eighteenth Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor. Pp. 240, with d/w. Stanford U.P., 1997 £18.00
FRYE (Northrop) The Great Code; the Bible and Literature. Pp. 284, with d/w. 1982 £15.00
FULLER (Ronald) The Beggars' Brotherhood [The English Beggar in History and Literature]. With 16 illus., pp. 253. 1936 £25.00
GALES (Richard Lawson) Poems. Selected with introduction by Anthony C. Deane. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 8vo, pp. 80, quarter cloth and decorated boards, printed label. With ownership signature of Noel Blakiston and book label of John Fuggles. Brentano's (printed at the Alcuin Press), 1930 £15.00
GAMMER GURTONS NEDLE. By Mr S., Mr. of Art. Edited by H. F. B. Brett-Smith. Cr. 8vo, pp. 95, with ownership signature and book label of Vivian de Sola Pinto, and book label of John Fuggles. Percy Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1920 £20.00
GARRICK (David) The Letters. Edited by D. M. Little, G. M. Kahrl and P. de K. Wilson. BEST EDITION. With 25 plates, 3 vols, lge. 8vo, pp. 1510, buckram, in slightly worn slip case, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1963 £150.00
-- The Lying Valet; A Peep behind the Curtain; Bon Ton; Three Farces. Edited with introduction by Louise B. Osborn. With 4 plates, sm. 8vo, pp. 146, book label of John Fuggles. Yale U.P., 1925 £25.00
GASCOIGNE (George) A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres. Edited with an introduction and commentary by G. W. Pigman III. Pp. 846, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 2000 £60.00
GERRARD (Ernest A.) Elizabethan Drama and Dramatists 1583-1603. Pp. 400. 1928, reprinted Cooper Square, New York, 1972 £20.00
GIBBINGS (Robert) Lovely is the Lee. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with engravings by the author, pp. 199, with slightly torn d/w. 1945 £20.00
GIBBON (Lewis Grassic) A Scots Hairst: Essays and Short Stories. Edited and introduced by Ian S. Munro. Pp. 270, with d/w. 1967 £18.00
GISSING (George) Will Warburton. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 333, orig. red cloth, gilt lettered, binding trifle marked, with 16 pp. of adverts at end, red morocco book label of W. Van R. Whitall. Constable, 1905 £65.00
Collie B2a Gissing's last novel: 'a calm uncomplicated novel, the incarnation of Gissing's final intellectual evolution...the philosophy of resignation' (Spiers & Coustillas). O.U.P. gave it a World's Classics edition 25 years later.
-- Mr First Rehearsal, and, My Clerical Rival. Edited with introduction by Pierre Coustillas. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 35, with d/w. Limited to 350 numbered copies. Enitharmon Press Gissing Series, 1970 £25.00
-- George Gissing and H. G. Wells: Their Friendship and Correspondence. Edited with introduction by Royal A. Gettmann. FIRST EDITION. 3 plates, cr. 8vo, pp. 285, with d/w. Hart-Davis, 1961 £18.00
-- COUSTILLAS (Pierre) George Gissing at Alderley Edge. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 46, with d/w. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Enitharmon Press Gissing Series, 1969 £25.00
-- COUSTILLAS (Pierre) Gissing's Writings on Dickens; A Bio-bibliographical Survey…with two uncollected reviews. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 30, with d/w. Limited to 275 copies. Enitharmon Press Gissing Series, 1969 £25.00
-- SWINNERTON (Frank) George Gissing, a Critical Study. FIRST EDITION. With portrait by William Rothenstein, pp. 198, orig. cloth gilt. Martin Secker, 1912 £30.00
GLANVILL (Joseph) Scepsis Scientifica or Confest Ignorance, The Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion. Edited with introductory essay by John Owen. Title in red and black, sm. 8vo, pp. 70+218, orig. green cloth, gilt top, spine a little dull, book label of John Fuggles. Kegan Paul, 1885 £35.00
GODOLPHIN (Sidney) The Poems. Edited by William Dighton. Introduction by John Drinkwater. Cr. 8vo, pp. 120, orig. parchment, book label of John Fuggles. Tudor and Stuart Library, O.U.P., 1931 £25.00
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. JOHNSON (Samuel) The New London Letter Writer; containing the Compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance and Perspicuity. Introduction by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve. With wood engraved plates and illus. by the editor, pp. 64, quarter buckram and marbled boards, gilt top, spine little faded, recent ownership signature. 1948 £45.00
Only 500 numbered copies printed.
GOLDEN LOTUS (The) A Translation from the Chinese Original of the Novel Chin P'ing Mei, by Clement Egerton. ORIGINAL EDITION. 4 vols, orig. buckram. 1939 £85.00
GOLDING (William) Free Fall. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 253, with torn d/w by Anthony Gross. Faber, 1959 £50.00
GOLDMANN (Lucien) The Hidden God; a Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine. Translated by Philip Thody. Pp. 438, with d/w. International Library, 1964 £18.00
GOLDSMITH (O.) The Deserted Village. 2 plates, 3 vignettes by John and Thomas Bewick, pp. 29, 4to, orig. wrappers. Linotype and Machinery Ltd., 1921 £28.00
Type facsimile of Bulmer's 1795 edition, printed by George W. Jones on Arnold unbleached paper at the Sign of the Dolphin.
GOODMAN (Cardell) Beawty in Raggs, or, Divine Phancies putt into Broken Verse. Edited with the introduction by R. J. Roberts. With frontispiece, pp. 94. 1958 £30.00
Only 150 numbered copies printed in the School of Art, University of Reading, under the direction of William McCance.
GORGES (Sir Arthur, 1557-1625) The Poems. Edited by Helen E. Sandison. With 4 plates, pp. 312, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1953 £45.00
GOSSON (Stephen) The Schoole of Abuse, and, a Short Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse. Edited by Edward Arber. Sm. 8vo, pp. 80, orig. cloth. Arber's English Reprints, 1895 £15.00
-- RINGLER (William) Stephen Gosson; A Biographical and Critical Study. Pp. 158, from typescript. Princeton U.P., 1942 £45.00
GRAHAME (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows. With many illus. in colour by Ernest H. Shepard, pp. 262, with d/w. 1977 £15.00
GRAVES (Richard, 1715-1804) The Spiritual Quixote: or, the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffrey Wildgoose. A comic romance. Introd. Charles Whibley. Portrait, 2 vols in 1, pp. 585, buckram. 1926 £28.00
GRAY (Thomas) The Complete Poems, English, Latin and Greek. Edited by H. W. Starr and J. R. Hendrickson. With portrait, pp. 300, with d/w. With a postcard to Esmond de Beer inserted, and book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1966 £48.00
-- An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard. The text of the first quarto, with the variants of the mss. and of the early editions, a bibliographical and historical introduction and appendices by Francis Griffin Stokes. Cr. 4to, pp. 98, quarter cloth and boards, book label of John Fuggles. Only 750 copies printed. O.U.P., 1929 £28.00
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-- DOWNEY (James) and Ben JONES, editors. Fearful Joy. Papers from the Thomas Gray Bicentenary Conference at Carleton University. With 26 plates and illus., pp. 282, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. McGill-Queen's U.P., 1974 £28.00
-- JONES (William Powell) Thomas Gray, Scholar; The True Tragedy of an Eighteenth-Century Gentleman. With portrait, pp. 205. From the library of the Swiftian scholar Harold Williams with his notes for review, and with later book label of John Fuggles. Harvard U.P., 1937 £45.00
GREENAWAY (Kate) SPIELMAN (M. H.) and G. S. LAYARD. The Life and Work of Kate Greenaway. 52 plates in colour, 31 black and white illus., roy. 8vo, pp. 404, with d/w. 1905, facsimile reprint 1986 £25.00
GREENE (Graham) Nineteen Stories. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 221. Heinemann, 1947 £25.00
-- The Heart of the Matter. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 300, cover dull. 1948 £28.00
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-- The Quiet American. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 247, contemp. inscription on endpaper. 1955 £25.00
-- A Sort of Life. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 220, with d/w. Bodley Head, 1971 £25.00
-- The Tenth Man. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 158, with d/w. 1985 £15.00
-- Yours etc. Letters to the Press 1945-89. Selected and Introduced by Christopher Hawtree. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 290, with d/w. 1989 £15.00
-- HOGARTH (Paul) Graham Greene Country. Foreword and Commentary by Graham Greene. FIRST EDITION. Profusely illustrated in full page and marginalia water-colours including scenes from 24 novels, oblong 4to, pp. 175, with d/w. 1986 £20.00
GREENE (Robert) The Plays and Poems. Edited with Introductions and Notes by J. Churton Collins. With folding facsimile, 2 vols, pp. 330 & 419, orig. green buckram gilt, nice set with d/ws. O.U.P., 1905 £135.00
ORIGINAL & BEST EDITION. A.L.Rowse's set, in characteristically fine condition; with occasional neat annotation in the margins, and an offprint from The Bard, 1975, 'Greene's Pandosto; Political Propaganda for the Stuart Succession?', by Margaret Hotine.
-- The Scottish History of James the Fourth. Ed. N. Sanders. Frontis. and facsimile, pp. 217, with d/w. Revels Plays, 1970 £18.00
-- and T. LODGE. Menaphon, by Robert Greene; and A Margarite of America, by Thomas Lodge. Edited by G. B. Harrison. Cr. 8vo, 2 facsimiles, pp. 246, quarter linen and boards. Oxford, Blackwell, 1927 £28.00
GREG (W. W., Editor) The Play of Antichrist from the Chester Cycle. FIRST EDITION. With 2 facsimiles, pp. 190, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1935 £75.00
GREVILLE (Fulke, Lord Brooke) The Remains; being Poems of Monarchy and Religion. Edited by G. A. Wilkes. Pp. 283, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1965 £35.00
-- REBHOLZ (Ronald A.) The Life of Fulke Greville. With portrait, pp. 410, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1971 £30.00
GRIERSON (Herbert J. C., Editor) Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century, Donne to Butler. Cr. 8vo, pp. 324, with d/w. O.U.P., 1925 £20.00
GRYMESTON (Elizabeth) Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives. Sm. 4to, pp. 68. 1604, reprinted English Experience, 1979 £25.00
GUEVARA (Anthony of) The Diall of Princes. Translated by Sir Thomas North [1582]. Select passages. With introduction and bibliography by K. N. Colvile. Pp. 311. Scholar's Library, 1919 £20.00
GUY OF WARWICK (c.1240) Guy of Warwick, a Knight of Britain… Translated by Caroline Clive in 1821. Now first edited by William B. Todd. With facsimiles and woodcuts from the 1525 French edition, roy. 8vo, pp. 192, with d/w. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the editor to James M. Osborn with the latter's book label. Texas U.P., 1968 £25.00
HALIFAX (George Savile, Marquess of) Complete Works. Edited with introduction by Walter Raleigh. With portrait and facsimiles, pp. 284, with book labels of Graham Pollard and John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1912 £30.00
HALL (Donald E., editor) Muscular Christianity: embodying the Victorian Age. [Ideological Connections between Christianity and Writers including Kingsley, Emerson, Hughes, MacDonald, Pater, etc.] Pp. 256, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1994 £25.00
HALL (John) The Advancement of Learning (1649). Edited by A. K. Croston. Sm. 8vo, pp. 68, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Liverpool Reprints, Liverpool U.P., 1953 £15.00
HAMILTON (Patrick) FRENCH (Sean) Patrick Hamilton; a Life. With 8 pages of plates, pp. 340, with d/w. 1993 £15.00
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HANSON (Elizabeth) Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Pp. 202, with d/w. C.U.P., 1998 £20.00
HANWAY (Jonas) TAYLOR (James S.) Jonas Hanway, Founder of the Marine Society; Charity and Policy in Eighteenth Century Britain. 16 plates, 4 coloured, pp. 264, with d/w. Scolar Press, 1985 £16.00
HARRIS (R. W.) Reason and Nature in the Eighteenth Century. Pp. 439, with d/w. History and Literature, 1968 £15.00
HASLEWOOD BOOKS. ELIOT (T. S.) and J. DRYDEN. Of Dramatick Poesie: an Essay, 1668, by John Dryden. Preceded by a Dialogue on Poetic Drama, by T. S. Eliot. Folio, pp. 111, quarter blue buckram and marbled boards, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. 1928. £48.00
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An index volume was issued some years later but is not present here.
-- Liber Amoris and Dramatic Criticisms. With an Essay of Introduction by Charles Morgan. Pp. 426, with d/w. Peter Nevill, 1948 £25.00
-- HOWE (P.P.) The Life of William Hazlitt. Introd. Frank Swinnerton. 7 plates, pp. 459. 1947 £18.00
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HERBERT (Edward, Lord) The Poems, English and Latin. Edited by G. C. Moore Smith. Pp. 205, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1923 £35.00
HERRICK (Robert) Poetical Works. Edited by F. W. Moorman. With portrait and facsimiles, pp. 515, with d/w. O.U.P., 1915 £45.00
HEYWORTH (P. L., editor) Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder. [Three 15th century texts]. With frontispiece, pp. 188, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1968 £25.00
HOBBES (Thomas) Leviathan. Edited with Introduction by Michael Oakeshott. Cr. 8vo, pp. 535, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Blackwell's Political Texts, Oxford, c.1950 £20.00
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HOLCROFT (Thomas) The Life…written by himself, continued to the time of his death by William Hazlitt, and now newly edited with introduction and notes by Elbridge Colby. BEST EDITION. With 10 plates, 2 vols, buckram, gilt tops, with ownership signature of Sir Alan Barlow and book label of John Fuggles. Only 700 copies printed. Constable, 1925 £65.00
HOOLE (Charles, 1610-67) A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole. 1660. [Reproduced original size in full in facsimile from the B.L. copy.] Pp. 75+309, cr. 8vo. Scolar Press, 1969 £25.00
HOPKINS (Gerard Manley) GARDNER (William H.) Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889: A Study of Poetic Idiosyncrasy in Relation to Poetic Tradition. Foreword by Gerard Hopkins. BOTH SERIES. With 3 plates, 2 vols, orig. blue buckram, spines rather faded as usual, book label of John Fuggles. Secker & Warburg, 1944-49 £48.00
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HOUSMAN (A. E.) The Poems. Edited by Archie Burnett. Pp. 640, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1997 £50.00
HUNT (Wray) Essays. With portrait, pp. 186, buckram, printed label, armorial bookplate of Arthur Charrington and book label of John Fuggles. Privately printed by Hatchards, 1899 £18.00
HUNTER (William B., editor) The English Spenserians; the Poetry of Giles Fletcher, George Wither, Michael Drayton, Phineas Fletcher and Henry More. 9 plates, cr. 4to, pp. 465, with d/w. Utah U.P., 1977 £25.00
HUTCHINSON (Sara) The Letters from 1800 to 1835. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. 3 plates and folding genealogical table, pp. 512, binding slightly faded (as usual) under d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Routledge, 1954 £45.00
HYDE (Mary) The Impossible Friendship; Boswell and Mrs Thrale. With 30 illus., roy. 8vo, pp. 204. Harvard U.P., 1972 £25.00
IRVING (Washington) Works. Popular Edition. 19 vols in 6, thk. cr. 8vo, orig. cloth gilt, gilt tops. New York, c.1900 £45.00
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JACK (Ian) Augustan Satire; Intention and Idiom in English Poetry 1660-1750. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 173, with d/w. O.U.P., 1952 £25.00
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-- SALMON (Richard) Henry James and the Culture of Publicity. Pp. 240, with d/w. C.U.P., 1997 £20.00
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JOHNSON'S ENGLAND. An Account of the Life and Manners of his Age. Edited by A. S. Turberville. With 160 plates, illus. and maps, 2 vols., pp. 428 & 413, with torn d/ws. O.U.P., 1952 £55.00
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-- Johnson on Johnson; A Selection of the Personal and Autobiographical Writings. Edited by John Wain. Pp. 270, with d/w. 1976 £15.00
-- Johnson on Shakespeare. Essays and Notes, selected with introduction by Walter Raleigh. Sm. 8vo, pp. 236. O.U.P., 1908 £15.00
-- Johnsonian Miscellanies. Arranged and edited by George Birkbeck Hill. BEST EDITION. 2 vols, lge. 8vo, pp. 502 & 524, orig. maroon cloth. O.U.P., 1897 £120.00
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First Birkbeck Hill Edition. The first collection of Johnson's correspondence that aimed at completeness, printing several hundred letters hitherto unpublished.
-- The Poems. Edited by David Nichol Smith and Edward L. McAdam. Second Edition. Pp. 524. Oxford English Texts, 1974 £30.00
-- Select Essays. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. With 6 etchings by Herbert Railton, 2 vols, cr. 8vo, orig. quarter parchment and grey cloth, spines discoloured and little chafed, edges untrimmed. Dent, 1889 £35.00
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-- BRACK (O.M.) and Robert E. KELLEY, editors. The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson. Pp. 375. Iowa U.P., 1974 £30.00
-- BURKE (John J.) and Donald KAY, editors. The Unknown Samuel Johnson. With 3 plates, pp. 194. Wisconsin U.P., 1983 £25.00
-- CANNON (John) Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England. Pp. 320. O.U.P., 1995 £25.00
-- CLARK (J. C. D.) Samuel Johnson; Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism. Pp. 284, paperback. C.U.P., 1994 £15.00
-- COURTNEY (W. P.) and D. Nichol SMITH. A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson. With facsimiles, pp. 194. O.U.P., 1925, reprinted 1968 £25.00
-- DAVIS (Bertram H.) Johnson before Boswell; A Study of Sir John Hawkins' Life of Samuel Johnson. Pp. 233, with d/w. Yale U.P., 1960 £28.00
-- DE MARIA (Robert) The Life of Samuel Johnson; A Critical Biography. With 26 illus, pp. 374. Oxford, Blackwell, 1993 £15.00
-- FOLKENFLIK (Robert) Samuel Johnson, Biographer. Pp. 235. Cornell U.P., 1978 £25.00
-- GRAY (James) Johnson's Sermons: A Study. 4 plates, pp. 279, with d/w. O.U.P., 1972 £28.00
-- GRUNDY (Isobel) Samuel Johnson and the Scale of Greatness. Pp. 285. Leicester U.P., 1986 £15.00
-- HAGSTRUM (Jean H.) Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism. Pp. 212, with d/w. Minnesota U.P., 1952 £25.00
-- HILLES (Frederick W., editor) New Light on Doctor Johnson; Essays on the occasion of his 250th Birthday. ORIGINAL EDITION. Pp. 360, slight stain on upper cover. Yale U.P., 1959 £30.00
-- HINNANT (Charles H.) "Steel for the Mind"; Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse. Pp. 262, with d/w. Delaware U.P., 1994 £20.00
-- HOLMES (Richard) Dr Johnson and Mr Savage. With endpaper maps, pp. 272. 1993 £15.00
-- HOOVER (Benjamin B.) Samuel Johnson's Parliamentary Reporting; Debates in the Senate of Lilliput. Pp. 238. California U.P., 1953 £38.00
-- HOPKINS (Mary A.) Doctor Johnson's Lichfield. With 16 plates, pp. 270. Peter Owen, 1956 £20.00
-- KAMINSKI (Thomas) The Early Career of Samuel Johnson. Pp. 280. O.U.P., 1987 £25.00
-- KORSHIN (Paul J., editor) Johnson after Two Hundred Years. Pp. 272. Pennsylvania U.P., 1986 £25.00
-- MANER (Martin) The Philosophical Biographer; Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Pp. 195. Georgia U.P., 1988 £18.00
-- NAUGLE (Helen H.) and Peter B. SHERRY, editors. A Concordance to the Poems of Samuel Johnson. Pp. 608. Cornell Concordances, Cornell U.P., 1973 £38.00
-- NEWTON (A. Edward) Doctor Johnson; A Play. FIRST EDITION. With 9 plates (1 coloured), sm. 4to, pp. 137, quarter cloth and boards with printed label, binding little stained just affecting a few margins. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923 £35.00
Presentation copy inscribed by the author to John Burns: 'Sir', said Doctor Johnson, 'A man should keep his friendships in constant repair'.
-- PARKE (Catherine N.) Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking. Pp. 192. Missouri U.P., 1991 £18.00
-- PIERCE (Charles E.) The Religious Life of Samuel Johnson. Pp. 184. Athlone Press, 1983 £20.00
-- ROSENBERG (Beth C.) Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson, Common Readers. Pp. 166. New York, 1995 £15.00
-- SHAW (William) Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson [with] PIOZZI (Hesther L.) Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson. Edited with intro. by Arthur Sherbo. With 12 plates, pp. 222. Oxford English Memoirs and Travels, 1974 £25.00
-- TINKER (C. B.) FESTSCHRIFT. The Age of Johnson; Essays Presented to Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Edited by Frederick W. Hilles. ORIGINAL EDITION. With portrait, pp. 438, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Yale U.P., 1949 £45.00
-- TOMARKEN (Edward) Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare; the Discipline of Criticism. Pp. 216. Georgia U.P., 1991 £18.00
-- VESTERMAN (William) The Stylistic Life of Samuel Johnson. Pp. 145. Rutgers U.P., 1977 £18.00
-- WALKER (Robert G.) Eighteenth-Century Arguments for Immortality and Johnson's Rasselas. Pp. 73, orig. wrappers. University of Victoria English Literary Studies, 1977 £15.00
JOHNSTON (Denis) Orders and Desecrations; the Life of the Playwright Denis Johnston. Edited by Rory Johnston. With 8 pages of plates, pp. 235, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Dublin, 1992 £15.00
JONES (Richard Foster) [FESTSCHRIFT] The Seventeenth Century: Studies in the History of English Thought and Literature from Bacon to Pope, by Richard Foster Jones, [with] other writings in his honor. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 4 plates, pp. 400, ex-libris of James M. Osborn, with d/w. Stanford U.P., 1951 £45.00
JONSON (Ben) Jonson's Masque of Gipsies in the Burley, Belvoir and Windsor Versions. An attempt at reconstruction by W. W. Greg. With 12 plates, roy. 8vo, pp. 245, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P. for British Academy, 1952 £65.00
-- BROCK (D. Heyward) A Ben Jonson Companion. Pp. 318, with d/w. Indiana U.P., 1983 £25.00
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-- DUTTON (Richard) Ben Jonson; to the First Folio. Frontispiece, pp. 200, with d/w. C.U.P., 1983 £18.00
-- NOYES (Robert G.) Ben Jonson on the English Stage, 1660-1776. Pp. 360, orig. cloth, gilt top, book label of John Fuggles. Harvard Studies in English, Harvard U.P., 1935 £48.00
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JOSEPH (B. L.) Elizabethan Acting. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 165, with 6 illus., with d/w. A. L. Rowse's copy with his pencil notes. O.U.P., 1951 £38.00
JOYCE (James) Ulysses. The corrected text. Edited by Hans Walter Gabler. Preface by Richard Ellmann. Roy. 8vo, pp. 663, with d/w. Bodley Head, 1986 £25.00
-- CAMPBELL (Joseph) and H. M. ROBINSON. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. Pp. 297, spine little faded. Faber, 1947 £28.00
-- DAVIES (Stan G.) James Joyce, a Portrait of the Artist. With 14 illus., pp. 328, with d/w. Davis-Poynter, 1975 £18.00
-- DUFF (Charles) James Joyce and the Plain Reader. Prefatory letter by Herbert Read. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 75. Signed by the author on title. Desmond Harmsworth, 1932 £25.00
-- GLASHEEN (Adaline) A Census of Finnegans Wake. Introduction by Richard Ellmann. Pp. 176, with d/w. Faber, 1957 £25.00
-- GORMAN (Herbert) James Joyce, a Definitive Biography. Portrait and 8 plates, pp. 364, with d/w. Bodley Head, 1941 £25.00
-- RYAN (John, editor) A Bash In The Tunnel; James Joyce by the Irish. Portrait, pp. 259, with d/w. Clifton Books, 1970 £20.00
KAY (Dennis) Melodious Tears; the English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton. Pp. 304, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1990 £25.00
KAYE-SMITH (Sheila) A Wedding Morn. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 51, orig. decorated boards with d/w. Woburn Books, 1928 £35.00
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KEATS (John) The Poems. Edited by G. Thorn Drury. With portrait in photogravure after J. Severn, 2 vols, sm. 8vo, pp. 366+430, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, tops, spines faded. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896 £45.00
FIRST DRURY EDITION, in the pleasing Muses' Library series. With introduction by Robert Bridges, pp. 83. MacGillivray B85.
-- RICKS (Christopher) Keats and Embarrassment. Pp. 232, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1974 £25.00
KEMPE (William) Kempes Nine Daies Wonder, performed in a Journey from London to Norwich. Edited by Edmund Goldsmid. Sm. 8vo, pp. 50, orig. wrappers, trifle worn, book label of John Fuggles. Collectanea Adamantaea, Edinburgh, 1884 £18.00
KING (Henry) The Poems. Edited by Margaret Crum. Pp. 276, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1965 £30.00
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KINGSLEY (Charles) An extensive collection of works in the uniform Collected Edition. Together 25 vols, cr. 8vo, bound in orig. maroon or blue cloth, few bindings slightly chafed. Macmillan, 1879-1905 £150.00
29 vols in all were issued, but sets of any completeness are rarely found. TITLES: Poems, Yeast, Alton Locke, Hypatia, Glaucus, Westward Ho!, The Heroes, Two Years Ago, The Water Babies, The Roman and the Teuton, Hereward the Wake, The Hermits, Madam How and Lady Why, At Last, Prose Idylls, Plays and Puritans, Historical Essays, Scientific Lectures and Essays, Literary and General Essays, Village Town and Country Sermons, National Sermons, The Water of Life, Discipline, Westminster Sermons, Health and Education.
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-- Jackson Knight; A Biography. FIRST EDITION. With 20 illus., pp. 535, with d/w. Oxford, Alden Press, 1975 £18.00
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KORNAROS (Vincenzo) The Erotokritos. [a Greek romantic epic, 1645. Translated] by John Mavrogordato. Introduction by Stephen Gaselee. Pp. 70, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1929 £18.00
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LANDOR (W. S.) To the Burgesses of Warwick. Edited with introduction by R. H. Super. Pp. 28, cr. 8vo, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Luttrell Society Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1949 £15.00
LANDA (Louis A.) FESTSCHRIFT. The Augustan Milieu; Essays presented to Louis A. Landa. Edited by H. K. Miller, Eric Rothstein and G. S. Rousseau. With portrait, pp. 366, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1970 £25.00
LANG (Andrew, editor) Poets' Country. Contributions by J. Churton Collins, W. J. Loftie, E. Hartley Coleridge, Michael MacMillan. FIRST EDITION. With 50 full page plates in colour by Francis S. Walker, pp. 377, lge. 8vo, orig. maroon cloth with pictorial designs in green, gilt and white on upper cover and spine, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, bright copy. Jack, 1907 £45.00
LANYER (Aemilia) The Poems. Edited by Susanne Woods. With 4 plates, pp. 190, book label of John Fuggles. Women Writers in English, O.U.P., 1993 £25.00
LASCELLES (Mary) Notions and Facts; Collected Criticism and Research. Pp. 275. O.U.P., 1972 £30.00
LAWES (Henry) SPINK (Ian) Henry Lawes; Cavalier Songwriter. Pp. 190, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 2000 £25.00
LLOYD-JONES (Hugh) Blood for the Ghosts; Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Pp. 312, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Duckworth, 1982 £20.00
LYLY (John) The Complete Works. Edited with Life, Bibliography, Essays, Notes and Index, by Warwick Bond. With frontispieces, 3 vols, lge. 8vo, orig. green cloth gilt, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1902 £225.00
BEST EDITION, ORIGINAL & BEST ISSUE.
McFARLAND (Thomas) Romanticism and the Heritage of Rousseau. Pp. 355, with d/w. O.U.P., 1995 £25.00
MacPHERSON (James) The Poems of Ossian and Related Works. Edited by Howard Gaskill. Introduction by Fiona Stafford. Pp. 600, paperback. Edinburgh U.P., 1996 £15.00
MALONE (Edmond) MARTIN (Peter) Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar; a Literary Biography. 21 illus, pp. 325, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1995 £30.00
MALORY (Sir Thomas) TAKAMIYA (Toshiyuki) and Derek BREWER, editors. Aspects of Malory. Pp. 248, with d/w. 1981 £15.00
-- VINAVER (Eugene) Malory. With 8 plates, pp. 222. O.U.P., 1970 £18.00
MARCHAM (Frank) The King's Office of the Revels 1610-1622; Fragments of Documents in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. Preface by J. P. Gilson. With 19 collotype facsimiles, pp. 50, roy. 8vo, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Limited edition. Printed for the author, 1925 £28.00
MARLOWE (Christopher) The Works and Life. General editor R. H. Case. COMPLETE SET. 6 vols, demy 8vo, some spines little faded as usual. Methuen, 1930-55 £200.00
Classic edition, very scarce complete. Three vols are in revised editions.
-- Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, 1604-1616. Parallel texts, edited by W. W. Greg. ORIGINAL EDITION. With frontispiece, roy. 8vo, pp. 422, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1950 £75.00
-- The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. A conjectural reconstruction by W. W. Greg. Cr. 8vo, pp. 76, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1950 £25.00
-- Hero and Leander. Begun by Christopher Marlowe and finished by George Chapman. With facsimile title, pp. 120, quarter cloth and boards, edges untrimmed, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Limited and numbered edition. Haslewood Reprints, 1924 £28.00
MARTIN (Robert Bernard) The Triumph of Wit; a Study of Victorian Comic Theory. Pp. 116, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1974 £18.00
MARVELL (Andrew) The Poems and Letters. Edited by H. M. Margoliouth. ORIGINAL EDITION. With portrait and three plates, 2 vols, buckram, printed labels, with d/ws, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1927 £75.00
-- BAGGULEY (W. H., editor) Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678; Tercentenary Tributes. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 12 plates, cr. 8vo, pp. 130, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1922 £28.00
-- GRIFFIN (Patsy) The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell; a Study of Marvell and his Relation to Lovelace, Fairfax, Cromwell and Milton. Pp. 216, with d/w. Delaware U.P., 1995 £18.00
-- LEISHMAN (J. B.) The Art of Marvell's Poetry. Pp. 328, book label of John Fuggles. 1966 £18.00
MASSINGER (Philip) Plays. Edited with introduction and notes by Arthur Symons. With frontispieces, 2 vols, pp. 528 & 470, orig. brown cloth. Mermaid Series, Vizetelly, 1887 £35.00
MATHEWS (M. M.) Some Sources of Southernisms. Cr. 8vo, pp. 165, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Alabama U.P., 1948 £25.00
MAYER (Robert) History and the Early English Novel; Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe. With 9 illus, pp. 258, with d/w. C.U.P., 1997 £25.00
MENCKEN (H. L., editor) A New Dictionary of Quotations; on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources. Thk. roy. 8vo, pp. 1347, with d/w. 1982 £25.00
MIDDLETON (Thomas) and William ROWLEY. The Changeling [1653]. Edited with introduction by N. W. Bawcutt. Cr. 8vo, pp. 206, with d/w. The Revels Plays, 1958 £15.00
MILLER (Andrew H.) Novels behind glass; commodity culture and Victorian narrative. Pp. 254, with d/w. C.U.P., 1995 £21.00
MILLER (Henry) Tropic of Cancer. First London edition. Pp. 322, with slightly torn d/w. Calder, 1963 £35.00
MILTON (John) The Poetical Works. Edited by Helen Darbishire. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 1 plate, 2 vols, with d/ws, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford English Texts, 1952-55 £85.00
-- The Manuscript of Milton's Paradise Lost Book 1. Edited by Helen Darbishire. With 19 leaves of facsimile, roy. 8vo, pp. 115, binding little chafed, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1931 £45.00
-- Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Edited by James H. Hanford. Pp. 470, buckram, with d/w. New York, c.1970 £15.00
-- The Prose. Selected and Edited from the Original Texts…by J. Max Patrick. Pp. 710, paperback edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor to A. L. Rowse with his annotations in text. Anchor Books, 1967 £18.00
-- Sonnets. Edited by E. A. J. Honigmann. Pp. 220, with d/w. 1966 £18.00
-- BRIDGES (Robert) Milton's Prosody. Pp. 126, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1921 £18.00
-- DARBISHIRE (Helen, ed. & introd.) The Early Lives of Milton [by Aubrey, Phillips, Toland, Wood, Richardson, etc.]. 6 plates, pp. 410, from a library with one or two stamps. 1932, reprinted 1965 £18.00
-- GARDNER (Helen) A Reading of Paradise Lost. With 5 plates, pp. 142, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1965 £25.00
-- KOLBRENER (William) Milton's Warring Angels; a study of critical engagements. With frontispiece, pp. 226, with d/w. C.U.P., 1997 £25.00
-- MALTZAHN (Nicholas von) Milton's History of Britain; Republican Historiography in the English Revolution. Frontispiece, pp. 260, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1991 £25.00
-- SENSABAUGH (George F.) Milton [and his appreciation] in Early America. Pp. 333. Princeton U.P., 1964 £25.00
-- WILSON (A.N.) The Life of John Milton. Pp. 278, with d/w. O.U.P., 1983 £15.00
MITFORD (Bertram) The King's Assegai. FIRST EDITION. With 6 plates by Stanley L. Wood, cr. 8vo, pp. 8+248+32 adverts, orig. maroon cloth with pictorial design on upper cover and spine. Chatto & Windus, 1894 £35.00
Mendlessohn II, p.24-'an interesting work of fiction dealing with the Zulus and Matabele in the time of Chaka and Moselekalse'.
MONTHLY REVIEW. NANGLE (Benjamin C.) The Monthly Review, Second Series, 1790-1815; Indexes of Contributors and Articles. With frontispiece, pp. 286, buckram, printed label, with d/w, book labels of the Printer's Library and John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1955 £35.00
MORE (Sir Thomas) The Dialogue concerning Tyndale. Reproduced in Black Letter Facsimile from the collected edition (1557) of More's English Works. Edited with a modern version and an essay by W. E. Campbell. Historical introduction and philological notes by A. W. Reed. With 2 portraits and 185 pages in facsimile, imp. 8vo., pp. 460 of text, buckram, gilt top, with torn d/w. Eyre & Spottiswood, 1927 £125.00
PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the editor to R. N. Green-Armytage, with three A.Ls.s. ('I hope the book will not be procurable second hand, for only a limited number of copies have been printed').
-- ACKROYD (Peter) The Life of Thomas More. With 16 pages of plates, some coloured, pp. 445, with d/w. 1998 £15.00
MORIER (James J.) The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. With introduction by E. G. Browne. With frontispiece, 2 vols, orig. boards, printed labels, gilt tops. English Classics, Methuen, 1895 £65.00
One of only 25 copies printed on Japanese Vellum. With armorial bookplate of Kathleen Alice Rayleigh.
MORISON (Samuel Eliot) Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936. Pp. 520, quarter cloth and boards, ownership signature of the Earl of Belmore and book label of John Fuggles. Harvard U.P., 1936 £25.00
MORRIS (William) The Letters to his Family and Friends. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Philip Henderson. With 8 plates and 4 text illus, pp. 474, with torn d/w to a Morris design. Longman, 1950 £45.00
Colbeck 99. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Morris's correspondence, much of it previously unpublished.
-- BLOOMFIELD (Paul) William Morris. FIRST EDITION. With 8 plates, pp. 324, with d/w to a Morris design. Arthur Barker, 1934 £28.00
-- MARILLIER (H. C.) History of the Merton Abbey Tapestry Works, founded by William Morris. With 29 plates, 6 in colour, 4to., pp. 37, orig. cloth, printed label on cover, binding spotted. Constable, 1927 £45.00
-- THOMPSON (Paul) The Work of William Morris. 9 plates in colour and 16 in black and white, pp. 316, with d/w. 1967 £20.00
MUNRO (H. H., 'Saki') The Bodley Head Saki. Selected and introduced by J. W. Lambert. Cr. 8vo, pp. 489, with d/w. 1963 £18.00
NICOLSON (Harold) Diaries and Letters 1930-62. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. COMPLETE SET. With plates, 3 vols, fine with d/ws. 1967-68 £40.00
NICOLSON (Nigel) Portrait of a Marriage. 13 plates, one coloured, pp. 235, with d/w. 1975 £15.00
NONESUCH PRESS. APULEIUS. Cupid and Psyches, the Excellent Narration of their Marriage. Translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latine Bookes of the Golden Asse. Each page printed within ornamental terracotta borders, slim 8vo, orig. parchment backed decorated boards, spine trifle marked. 1923 £45.00
Dreyfus 7. Edition limited to 625 numbered copies. The earliest of the Nonesuch books to be pirated by the Fortune Press.
-- COBBETT (William) Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, with other Records of his Early Career in England & America. Introduction by G. D. H. Cole. Frontispiece in stencilled colour after Gillray, pp. 164, orig. quarter cloth and marbled boards. 1927 £35.00
Limited and numbered edition on Arches laid paper. Dreyfus 41.
-- DRYDEN (John) The Dramatic Works. With prefatory notes, introduction, chronology, [etc.]. Edited by Montague Summers. 6 vols, imp. 8vo, orig. marbled boards and quarter green buckram, gilt tops, other edges untrimmed, spines faded, sides little rubbed, with green morocco ex-libris of Hermann Kapp. 1931-32 £300.00
Dreyfus 80. Still the best edition of Dryden's Plays. Only 750 numbered sets (and 50 on hand made paper) were printed.
-- BUTLER (Samuel) Butleriana. [Edited by A. T. Bartholomew]. 8 plates, pp. 188, orig. quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt top. 1932 £55.00
Limited to 800 numbered copies. Narrative and longer pieces from the Notebooks, amplified with letters, etc., all published for the first time here. Dreyfus 84.
-- MOORE (George) A Communication to my Friends. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 86, title page vignette by Stephen Gooden, orig. quarter calf and boards. 1933 £30.00
Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, printed at the Fanfare Press to Francis Meynell's design. Moore's last work, planned as an introduction to the collected edition. Dreyfus 87. Colbeck 68. Gilcher A60a.
-- CAVENDISH (William, Marquis of Newcastle) The Phanseys, Addressed to Margaret Lucas and her Letters in Reply. Edited by Douglas Grant. Sm. 8vo, orig. parchment, gilt and decorated in renaissance style. 1956 £28.00
Edition limited to 785 numbered copies on Dutch mould-made paper. Dreyfus 124..
-- ROGERSON (Ian) Sir Francis Meynell and the Nonesuch Press. With portrait and illus. in text, pages 60, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Only 500 copies printed. Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1979 £20.00
NORGATE (Edward) Miniatura, or the Art of Limning. Edited from the manuscript in the Bodleian Library by Martin Hardie. Cr. 8vo, pp. 140, orig. limp parchment, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1919 £30.00
NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (The) Fourth edition. Map endpapers, 2 vols, thk. demy 8vo, pp. 5238, printed on thin paper. 1962 £28.00
OSBORN (James M.) FESTSCHRIFT. Evidence in Literary Scholarship; Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn. Edited by Rene Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro. With 28 plates, pp. 442, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1979 £28.00
OTWAY (Thomas) The Works. Edited by J. C. Ghosh. Frontispiece and facsimiles, 2 vols, buckram, pp. 532 & 542, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1932 £95.00
BEST EDITION (original issue) of the whole of Otway's plays, poems and love-letters. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor to Esmond de Beer.
OVERBURY (Sir Thomas) The Overburian Characters, to which is added A Wife. Edited by W. J. Paylor. Frontispiece, cr. 8vo, pp. 190, quarter linen and boards, book label of John Fuggles. Percy Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1936 £18.00
OWEN (D. D. R.) Noble Lovers [The 800 year old History of the Romantic Love Story, from the French Troubadours]. 15 coloured plates, 105 other illus. from medieval sources, roy. 8vo, pp. 191. Phaidon, 1975 £15.00
OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (The). Edited by John Buxton and others. COMPLETE SET. 15 vols, nice set with d/ws. O.U.P., 1990-1997 £375.00
P.(R.) Poems to his Blind Mistress; a Sequence. FIRST EDITION. Roy. 8vo, pp. 110, orig. wrappers, trifle frayed, book label of John Fuggles. Marakesh, 1940 £25.00
Only 99 numbered copies printed, signed by the author. Presentation copy inscribed to J. G. Wilson of Bumpus by the author.
PALGRAVE (Francis T.) PALGRAVE (Gwenllian F.) Francis Turner Palgrave: His Journals and Memories of His Life. FIRST EDITION. 2 plates, pp. 285, orig. cloth. Longman, 1899 £35.00
PARKES (William) The Curtaine-Drawer of the World. Sm. 4to, black letter, pp. 76, cover little stained. 1612, reprinted English Experience, 1979 £20.00
PARR (Samuel) DERRY (Warren) Dr. Parr; a Portrait of the Whig Dr. Johnson. With 4 plates, pp. 390, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1966 £28.00
PAULET (William) The Lord Marques Idlenes; Conteining manifold matters of acceptable devise. Sm. 4to, pp. 112. 1586, reprinted English Experience, 1979 £28.00
PEACOCK (Thomas Love) The Novels. Edited with introductions and notes by David Garnett. Thk. cr. 8vo, pp. 1004, orig. buckram, slightly faded. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948 £35.00
PEPYS (S.) OLLARD (Richard) Pepys, a Biography. New illustrated edition. Profusely illustrated from contemporary sources, cr. 4to, pp. 423, with d/w. 1991 £20.00
PEPYS BALLADS. The Pepys Ballads, 1535-1702. Edited with introductions by Hyder E. Rollins. 8 vols., orig. cloth, nice set, all but one vol. with d/ws. Harvard U.P., 1929-32 £280.00
Standard edition of the 505 separate broadside ballads collected by Pepys (and not formerly edited by the Ballad Society) dating to 1702 when the growth of newspapers led to the gradual demise of the form.
PERRIN (Noel) Dr Bowdler's Legacy; a History of Expurgated Books in England and America. Pp. 312, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. 1970 £15.00
PHILIPOTT (Thomas) Poems (1646). Edited by L. C. Martin. With facsimile title, sm. 8vo, pp. 75, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Liverpool Reprints, Liverpool U.P., 1950 £15.00
PLATT (Arthur, 1860-1925, of University College, London) Nine Essays [literary and classical]. With a Preface [pp. v-xi] by A. E. Housman. FIRST EDITION. Portrait, cr. 8vo, spine a little faded, contemp. ownership signature of Humphrey Gimson and book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1927 £25.00
Carter & Sparrow 41. 750 copies were printed.
PLATT (William) Youth's Love-Lore; a Romantic Play. Bound up with a story by his brother James Platt. With frontispiece, pp. 60, buckram, book label of John Fuggles. 1896 £28.00
'Privately printed and published by William Platt for the pleasure of himself and his friends'. No. 38 of a small edition; this copy signed by the author for presentation to Havelock Ellis.
POLLARD (A. F., Editor) English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes. Eighth edition, revised. With illus. in text, sm. 8vo, pp. 330. O.U.P., 1950 £25.00
POPE (Alexander) ROGERS (Pat) Essays on Pope. Pp. 283, with d/w. C.U.P., 1993 £21.00
-- TILLOTSON (Geoffrey) Pope and Human Nature. Pp. 288, printed label, fine with d/w. O.U.P., 1958 £28.00
PORSON (R.) CLARKE (Martin L.) Richard Porson; a Biographical Essay. FIRST EDITION. 3 plates, cr. 8vo, pp. 140, printed label, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1937 £35.00
POTTER (Beatrix) Beatrix Potter's Letters. Selected and introduced by Judy Taylor. FIRST EDITION. 17 plates in colour, numerous other illus. in text, lge. 8vo, pp. 478, with d/w. 1989 £30.00
-- The Journal 1881-1897. Complete edition. Transcribed by Leslie Linder. Revised and corrected edition. New foreword by Judy Taylor. With plates, some in colour, lge. 8vo, pp. 496, with d/w. 1989 £25.00
POWYS (J. C.) Paddock Calls; a play. Introduction by Charles Lock. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 80, with d/w. 1984 £15.00
POWYS (Llewelyn) The Pathetic Fallacy; a Study of Christianity. FIRST EDITION. Pp. 136. 1930 £20.00
POWYS (T. F.) Unclay. FIRST ORDINARY EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 360, book plate. 1931 £20.00
PUNCH. ALTICK (Richard D.) Punch; The Lively Youth of a British Institution 1841-1851. With many illus., pp. 800, with d/w. Ohio State U.P., 1997 £28.00
PUTTENHAM (George, d.1590) The Arte of English Poesie. Edited by Gladys D. Willcock and Alice Walker. ORIGINAL ISSUE. With two facsimiles, pp. 472, buckram, nice copy with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1936 £65.00
RABELAIS (F.) Pantagruel's Prognostication. Introduction by F. P. Wilson. With facsimile title, pp. 45, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Luttrell Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1947 £15.00
-- BROWN (Huntingdon) Rabelais in English Literature. ORIGINAL EDITION. Pp. 266, spine faded, book label of John Fuggles. Harvard U.P. (printed in France), 1933 £28.00
RALEIGH (Sir Walter) BRADBROOK (M. C.) The School of Light: A Study in the Literary Relationships of Sir Walter Ralegh. ORIGINAL EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 198, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1936 £25.00
RANKINS (William) Seven Satires (1598) Edited by A. Davenport. With facsimile title, sm. 8vo, pp. 66, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Liverpool Reprints, Liverpool U.P., 1948 £15.00
RAPHAEL (Frederic) Obbligato. FIRST EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 224, fine with d/w. Macmillan, 1956 £50.00
Frederic Raphael's first novel.
RATSEIS GHOST. Reproduced in facsimile from the unique copy preserved in the John Rylands Library. Introduction by H. B. Charlton. With 22 leaves of facsimile, quarter parchment and boards, book label of John Fuggles. John Rylands Facsimiles, Manchester U.P., 1932 £28.00
ROBERTS (John R., editor) New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century English Religious Lyric. Pp. 340, with d/w. Missouri U.P., 1994 £25.00
ROCHESTER (John, Earl of) The Poems. Edited by Keith Walker. Pp. 340, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Oxford, Blackwell, 1984 £25.00
-- and Thomas ALCOCK The Famous Pathologist or The Noble Mountebank. Edited with introduction by Vivian de Sola Pinto. With frontispiece, pp. 42, stiff wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor to Gamini [Salgado], and with book label of John Fuggles. Nottingham University Miscellany, 1961 £15.00
[ROLFE (Frederick, 'Baron Corvo')] Chronicles of the House of Borgia. FIRST EDITION. With 10 plates, thk. roy. 8vo, pp. 21+375, orig. crimson buckram with gilt Borgia arms on upper cover, gilt top, binding rather spotted, some occasional foxing, generally a fair copy of a book now difficult to find in good condition. Grant Richards, 1901 £180.00
Woolf A5. Only 1250 copies were printed; of these half went to New York and were issued with E. P. Dutton's imprint. FIRST ISSUE in buckram binding. 'The writer does not write with the simple object of white-washing the House of Borgia; his present opinion being that all men are too vile for words to tell.' – Preface.
-- SYMONS (A. J. A.) The Quest for Corvo. With introductory essays by Norman Birkett and Shane Leslie. With plates, pp. 320, quarter buckram and decorated boards. Folio Society 1952 £25.00
-- WEEKS (Donald) Corvo. With plates, pp. 479, with d/w. 1971 £20.00
ROLLINS (Hyder E., editor) Old English Ballads, 1553-1625, chiefly from manuscripts. Pp. 454, quarter buckram and boards, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1920 £48.00
-- A Pepysian Garland; Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639, chiefly from the collection of Samuel Pepys. With woodcuts in text, pp. 522, quarter buckram and boards, book label of John Fuggles. C.U.P., 1922 £48.00
-- Cavalier and Puritan; Ballads and Broadsides illustrating the period of the Great Rebellion, 1640-1660. With woodcuts in text, pp. 546, quarter buckram and boards, printed label, book label of John Fuggles. New York U.P., 1923 £65.00
ROSENFELD (Sybil) Strolling Players & Drama in the Provinces, 1660-1765. ORIGINAL EDITION. 8 plates, pp. 341, binding a little dust soiled, armorial bookplate of Godfrey Greene.C.U.P.,1939 £45.00
ROSSETTI (D. G.) REES (Joan) The Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Modes of Self-Expression. Pp. 210. C.U.P., 1981 £20.00
RUSKIN (John) Verona and Other Lectures. [Edited by W. G. Collingwood]. FIRST EDITION. Coloured frontispiece and 11 plates from drawings by the author, tall 8vo, pp. 188, orig. green cloth. George Allen, Orpington & London, 1894 £28.00
-- Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin. With 2 portraits, 2 vols, cr. 8vo, orig. cloth. George Allen, 1901 £30.00
RUSSELL (Bertrand) Autobiography, 1872-1967. FIRST EDITION. With many portraits and plates, 3 vols, with d/ws. 1967-69 £45.00
RYAN (Robert M.) The Romantic Reformation; Religious Politics in English Literature 1789-1824. Pp. 300, with d/w. C.U.P., 1997 £25.00
SAINTSBURY (George) A History of the French Novel from the beginnings to the close of the 19th Century. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols, lge. 8vo, pp. 513 & 612. Macmillan, 1917-19 £55.00
-- A Scrap Book. 1922. – A Second Scrap Book. 1923. – a Last Scrap Book, 1924. Together 3 vols, cr. 8vo, orig. purple cloth, spines faded. Macmillan, 1922-24 £45.00
COMPLETE SET. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. With ex-libris of Mary Arnold in each vol.
-- The Memorial Volume; A New Collection of his Essays and Papers, Personal Portraits…Biographical Memoir. Portrait, pp. 226. 1945 – A Last Vintage; Essays and Papers, with Bibliography. Pp. 255. 1950. Together 2 vols., FIRST EDITIONS, binding of the first vol. faded, from the library of Malcolm Macdonald with ex-libris. 1945-50 £30.00
-- (Editor) Minor Poets of the Caroline Period. ORIGINAL ISSUE. With frontispiece, 3 vols, thk. 8vo, buckram, printed labels, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1905-21 £120.00
SALTER (Elizabeth) English and International; Studies in the Literature, Art and Patronage of Medieval England. Edited by Derek Pearsall and Nicolette Zeeman. 38 illus, pp. 390, with d/w. C.U.P., 1988 £30.00
SALTONSTALL (Wye) Picturae Loquentes. Introduction by C. H. Wilkinson. With facsimile title, pp. 95, sm. 8vo, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Luttrell Reprints, Oxford, Blackwell, 1946 £15.00
SATURDAY BOOK. Edited by Leonard Russell and John Hadfield. Volumes available separately, listed below. With plates and illus., orange buckram, bindings of the early vols. little faded. Per vol £15.00
a) Vol. 1, 1941 b) Vol. 3, 1943 c) Vol. 4, 1944 d) Vol. 5, 1945 e) Vol. 6, with d/w, 1946 f) Vol. 7, with d/w, 1947 g) Vol. 11, with d/w, 1951 h) Vol. 30, with d/w, 1970.
SCOTT (Sir Walter) Waverley Novels. Edinburgh Edition. Edited by David Hewitt and others. Vols. available separately, listed below. All vols. with d/ws. Edinburgh U.P., 1993-2001 Per vol £20.00
SEDLEY (Sir Charles, 1639-1701) PINTO (V. de Sola) Sir Charles Sedley: A Study in the Life and Literature of the Restoration. 2 plates, pp. 409, orig. cloth gilt, gilt top. Constable, 1927 £35.00
SEWARD (Anna) The Swan of Lichfield; a selection from the correspondence of Anna Seward. Edited by Hesketh Pearson. With portrait, pp. 316. Hamish Hamilton, 1936 £28.00
SERAO (Matilde) The Conquest of Rome. Edited by Ann Caesar. Pp. 272, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Pickering Women's Classics, 1991 £20.00
SETTLE (Elkanah) The Preface to Ibrahim. Edited by Hugh MacDonald. Sm. 8vo, pp. 20, orig. wrappers, book label of John Fuggles. Luttrell Society, Oxford, Blackwell, 1947 £15.00
SHAKESPEARE (W.) The Works. Arden Edition. Vols. available separately, listed below. 1995-2000 Per vol £18.00
-- The Works. Oxford Edition. Vols available separately, listed below, all vols. with d/ws. 1982-2002 Per vol £18.00
-- ALEXANDER (Peter) Shakespeare's Henry VI and Richard III. Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. Sm. 8vo, pp. 236, quarter cloth and boards, printed label, book label of John Fuggles. Shakespeare Problems, C.U.P., 1929 £20.00
-- BRADBROOK (M.C.) Muriel Bradbrook on Shakespeare. Pp. 175, cover trifle stained under d/w. 1984 £18.00
-- BRADLEY (A.C.) Shakespearian Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. Second edition revised. Pp. 510. 1929 £25.00
-- COGHILL (Nevill) Shakespeare's Professional Skills. 4 plates, pp. 240, with d/w. C.U.P., 1964 £25.00
-- HIGHFILL (Philip H., Jr., editor) Shakespeare's Craft; Eight Lectures. Pp. 185. Tupper Lectures on Shakespeare, Southern Illinois U.P. for George Washington University, 1982 £18.00
-- HINMAN (Charlton) The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. With 14 plates and 40 text figures, 2 vols, lge. 8vo, pp. 1076, with d/ws, book label of John Fuggles. O.U.P., 1963 £120.00
Loosely inserted is the original invoice to John Fuggles from the vendor, the late and much lamented Alan Hancox of Cheltenham, with a short note: 'I would be most grateful for cash on receipt as per terms of my catalogues…this saves me time & money on sending out wretched statements & also prevents you from mislaying your a/c.'
-- JONAS (Maurice) Shakespeare and the Stage; with a complete list of theatrical terms used by Shakespeare in his Plays and Poems. ORIGINAL EDITION. With 21 plates and illus., pp. 412, orig. quarter parchment and cloth gilt, gilt top, spine discoloured, front endpaper removed. Davis & Orioli, 1918 £25.00
-- KILBOURNE (Frederick W.) Alterations and Adaptations of Shakespeare. ORIGINAL EDITION. Cr. 8vo, pp. 192, orig. cloth gilt, gilt top. Boston, 1906 £18.00
With ownership signature of the scholar and historian Henry B. Wheatley, dated 1906, and later signature of the scholar bookseller Percy J. Dobell.
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WYATT (Sir Thomas) Collected Poems. Edited by Kenneth Muir and Patricia Thomson. With 6 plates, pp. 505, with d/w, book label of John Fuggles. Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Liverpool U.P., 1969 £25.00
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