Literature

AINSWORTH, William Harrison.
Jack Sheppard a romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
London, Richard Bentley, 1839.

Three volumes, octavo, with 27 illustrations by George Cruikshank (one from volume 1 bound in volume 2), half-title...

First edition. The most celebrated of the prolific Ainsworth's "Newgate" novels, chronicling the career of the...

Sadleir, 14.

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ARNOLD, Matthew.
Merope. A Tragedy.
London, Longmans, 1858.

Small octavo, 2pp + 32pp. advertisements dated November 1857; a good copy in original green cloth, head of spine...

First edition: Arnold's first poetical work after he was elected Oxford professor of poetry: 'a sort of 'poetical...

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ATKINSON, E.J.Rupert.
A Nocturne.
Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, 1920.

Octavo, two black & white plates by Napier Waller; a fine copy in original pictoria wrappers with yap edges.

A two-act play with an unusual idea for staging involving cinematic sets. Illustrated by Napier Waller.

Miller, p. 391.

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[AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR] FELLOWSHIP OF AUSTRALIAN WRITERS.
The Australian Author Produced... [for] Authors Week 1935.
Sydney, 1935.

Quarto; a fine copy in the original wrappers.

Includes contributions by Lindsay, Slessor, Deamer, and many others

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BACON, Francis.
The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall.
London, Cresset Press, 1928.

Large quarto; vellum, uncut and limited to 250 copies.

Number 7 of an edition of 250: with the bookplate of Vyvyan Edwards.A beautiful copy of Bacon's Essayes, printed...

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BACON, Sir Francis, Viscount of St. Albans.
Histoire Naturelle...
Paris, Antoine de Sommaville…, 1631.

Octavo, woodcut device on title and woodcut initials throughout, with some contemporary ms. annotations; slight...

First French edition of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum (first published in English in 1626), and thus of Bacon's...

Gibson, 'St. Thomas More... with a Bibliography of Utopiana', 614.

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BAYLDON, Arthur Albert D.
Poems... An Edition of these Poems will be Published in London in a few months.
Brisbane, W.H. Wendt & Co., 1897.

Octavo; some spotting but a very good copy in the original purple cloth, spine faded.

Very scarce: the first edition of Bayldon's first Australian volume of verse. Born in Yorkshire, Bayldon emigrated to...

Hornibrook, p. 4; Miller, p. 277; Serle, p. 17.

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[BAYLEBRIDGE, WILLIAM] BLOCKSIDGE, William.
Seven Tales.
London, Privately Printed, 1916.

Octavo, original wrappers, uncut, partly unopened; a very good copy.

A very good copy of the only edition, with pencil revisions to several poems, probably by Baylebridge...

Farmer, p. 32; Hornibrook, p. 7; Miller, p. 296; Serle, p. 22.

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BELL, John.
Bell's British Theatre, consisting of the most esteemed English plays.
London, George Cawthorn, 1797.

34 volumes, 16mo., engravings; a fine and handsome set in contemporary sprinkled calf, full blue morocco spines richly...

A most handsome set of collected plays by the famous publisher Bell, 'the mischievous spirit, the very Puck of...

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[BINDING] BUTLER, Samuel.
Hudibras.
London, W. Nicol for John Murray, 1835.

Two volumes, octavo, extra-illustrated with 71 plates by Hogarth and others (inlaid to size or pasted down); a very...

A very handsome extra-illustrated copy of Butler's famous mock epic, in fine condition. This edition begins with a...

Lowndes, I, 336.

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