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London: Published by J. Francis, printed by James Holmes, 51 issues bound in gilt-lettered one quarter calf & plum cloth, numbers 271 to 322, January 5 to December 28, 1833. Quarto (11" x 9"), 904 & viii pages (continously paginated), with illustrated title page & 4 small illustrations at page 764. Text in three columns.
Binding lightly rubbed, spine faded, occasional minor foxing, otherwise Very Good.
An early volume of this auspicious journal which was published continuously from 1828 to 1921.

New York: The University Society / The Werner Company, (1908). Complete in ten octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, illustrated throughout. Publisher's maroon pebbled roan & marbled paper over boards, the spines elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. Top edges gilt.
Bindings worn: mostly small losses at spine extremities, volume one with chip affecting lettering, volumes three & four with brief staining toward the base of the spines, edges & corners rubbed, otherwise a good & still quite useful set.
The first 5 volumes comprise Tales, volume 6, Poems, volume 7 through 9, Criticisms, & volume 10, Miscellany.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1929 - 1936 First editions. Six tall octavo volumes, variously paginated. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth
Gilt dull on 4 volumes, moderate wear at spine extremities & corners, couple of hinges cracked, previous owner's bookplate in all volumes, foxing, certainly Good or better. From the library of Richard Cecil Garlick, Jr who was professor of French at the University of Virginia. Henry Carrington Lancaster, chair of the Romance Languages Department and professor of French at Johns Hopkins, was the world's foremost expert on French dramatic literature of the 16th through 18th centuries. He was also the first non French citizen to be awarded the Legion d'Honneur Three further volumes, extending the exhaustive treatise through 1700 (not offered here). were eventually published.

London: Editions Poetry Limited, (1945). First edition. Duodecimo (7.5: x 5"), 118 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, margins lightly sunned, otherwise very good in good, moderately rubbed & soiled dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & closed tears.
"Personal Landscape was a magazine run in Cairo by Robin Fedden, Lawrence Durrell and Bernard Spencer, and it printed the work of writers, who through the fortunes of war had become "exiles" in Egypt ..." ~From the dust Jacket.
In addition to poetry by Durrell & others, the book includes "acute critical articles on subjects as varied Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and Shakespeare's Dark Lady, and some remarkable translations from the modern Greek of George Seferis and Elie Papadimitriou."

London: David Nutt, 1898.
London: David Nutt, 1898 First edition Small octavo (775" x 525"), viii, [1] & 462 pages plus [2] pages of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt
Binding lightly spotted & soiled, foxing & offsetting at pastedowns & endpapers, otherwise Very Good
The author was an authority on poet Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots. Additionally, he supplied entries on Scots of note for the Dictionary of National Biography and Encyclopedia Britannica

Harrisburg, [Pennsylvania]: Henry Sprigman, 1828. 24mo (5.75" x 3.5"), 227 & [2] pages. Original full sheep lettered & ruled in gilt on the spine.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, foxing & toning throughout, several leaves with shallow diagonal creases, previous owner's name & place at first blank page, otherwise Good or better.
Quite prolific, Pratt authored about 40 publications, many under the pseudonym, Courtney Melmoth. He is most widely known for the novel Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War, (1780) & Sympathy, a poem published in 1788.