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Ripon and London: William Harrison & Son and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1921. [5], 2-156pp. Chivers binding in full morocco, smooth spine with author and title in gilt, upper cover with single line border, thick and thin line frame surrounding a stylised floral frame containing a hand-painted panel showing the witch, with the title hand-painted beneath, lower cover with the single line border and thick and thin line frame only, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., with watered silk endpapers and pastedowns. Boards very slightly splayed, hint of foxing to edges of text block and title, very occasional spot here and there, but generally fairly bright and clean. Frontispiece of Knaresboro' Castle after Bernard Evans and four other tissue-guarded plates (one slightly adhered to bottom corner and torn). Manuscript 'author's note' bound in after title with hand-drawn seal, noting that she was only a teenager when this novel was first published in 1904, and that she now feels able to use…
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The Witch of Knaresbro'. An Historical Romance
by Var, F. Rylstone; [Knowles-Foster, Frances G.]
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Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video Consisting of Twenty-four Views: Accompanied with Descriptions of the Scenery, and of the Costumes, Manners Etc. Of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their Environs
by Vidal, E[meric] E[ssex]
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London: R. Ackermann, 1820. xxviii, 115pp, [1]; 24 plates. Handsomely rebound by Temple Bookbinders in full morocco, raised flat bands, spine in six panels, title and author labels to second and fourth panels, remaining panels gilt, covers with double panel design, inner panel with black onlay, elaborate gilt borders, gilt to inner edges with marbled endpapers. Internally some light soiling and offsetting, some plates with faint offsetting from text but generally clean, folding plates a little creased at outer edge, plates with stab-holes to outer margins. Twenty-four colour aquatint plates by T.Sutherland, G. Maile and J. Bluck after Vidal, (four folding). Housed in a modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box with raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author to third, date to foot, with silver flower device to fourth and fifth panels. "English interest in South America flourished after the capture of Buenos Aires by Commodore Sir Home Popham and Colonel Beresford in…
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