Strawberry Hill Press
Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine Hamilton
£580
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Nouvelle édition, augmentée de notes et d'éclaircissemens necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill: [Strawberry Hill Press], 1772. One of 100 copies, 4to, 19th-century citron morocco gilt by Riviere, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, xxiii 290 [3] pp., 3 engraved portraits including frontispiece [Hazen 18];
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. London: Rest Fenner, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century green crushed half morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, top edges gilt, half-titles;
[Procter, Bryan Waller]. Effigies Poeticae: or, the Portraits of the British Poets. London: James Carpenter and Son, 1824. 8vo, contemporary straight-grain green morocco by Hering, spine gilt in compartments, decorative gilt panels to covers, all edges gilt;
Gilbert, David (editor).Some Ancient Christmas Carols, with the Tunes to which they were formerly sung in the West of England … Second Edition. [Bound with:] Mount Calvary, or the History of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Written in Cornish … interpreted in the English Tongue, in the Year 1682. London: John Nicholas and Son; Nichols and Son [and others], 1823-6. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary diced russia gilt, rebacked, first work with several folding plates of engraved music (collation not established);
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Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman