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New York: Phaidon, [1969] Second edition of this catalogue raisonne of the 15th century Italian painter. . Cloth. Quarto. Tipped in color frontis. and 5 tipped in color plates. 169 black and white illustrations. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has mild fading at spine and a portion of front cover. The standard reference work on Uccello. First published in 1949.

Munster und Paderborn: Druck und Verlag von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1888 First edition. Rebound in cloth, original front wrapper bound in. Octavo. Very good.

[New York:] The Library of Applied Design, [1990] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Light shelfwear. Very good in very good dust jacket with one tear near top of spine.

Cambridge: typis Johan. Hayes, 1694/5 First edition of this collection of poems by Cambridge men in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and English, lamenting the death of Queen Mary. Includes a 94-line elegy by Ambrose Philips, then an undergraduate at St. John's College. This was his first appearance in print. He went on to a successful career as a poet, dramatist, translator and journalist. He came to be mockingly called "Namby Pamby" as a result of his trochaics for children, but Johnson admired his juvenile poems and said that he was "eminent for bravery and skill with the sword. Contemporary marbled boards with recent sprinkled calf spine, gilt olive morocco label. . Small octavo. A very good copy.

Graz- Austria: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt, 1971 Two volumes, consisting of a manuscript facsimile, printed in color and in gold and silver, and a text volume with black and white photographic reproductions. Both volumes are quartos, with the facsimile volume being [16] pp and the text volume being 28 pp. Text volume bound in printed white paper wrappers. Facsimile volume printed on simulated vellum. . A fine set in a very good leather clamshell case lettered and stamped decoratively in gilt, slightly toned at the edges and spine and lightly worn. The facsimile of the Codex Vindobonensis 958 reproduces the ninth century Carolingian manuscript (named for the period of Emperor Charlemagne's reign), which is thought to have been created in the Abbey of Saint-Amand in the north of France. While a Sacramentary is the book for a priest celebrant, containing all and only the words spoken by him, the present work is considered a "Sacramentary fragment," as some of the portions are missing. On… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1992 First edition. Signed by the author. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Portland, Maine: Published by William H. Hyde for Z. Hyde, 1834 First edition. Octavo. Very good uncut copy in original boards, rebacked with spine laid down. Roback 1952: "the most analytic mind in psychology of his day.

London: Printed for G. Hawkins, 1746 Contemporary calf, professionally rebacked, with contemporary gilt backstrip laid down. . Octavo. Gilt-ruled covers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate, and ink inscription by the same owner, dated 1836. An interesting study of Shakespeare language, grammar, and versification, with particular attention to the relationship between the plays and the literature of Greece and Rome. Upton was trained at Oxford in the scholarly tradition of Richard Bentley (though he regards Bentley himself as somewhat devious in his methods). When this book was published Upton was Prebendary of Rochester; he later produced an edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene, and a critical work on Ben Jonson (though this is sometimes ascribed to his father James Upton).

New York: Macmillan, 1929 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light shelfwear. A very good, bright copy.

New York: Barnes & Noble, [1976] First U.S. ed. Cloth. Octavo. Ink signature. Very good in lightly edgeworn d.j.

[Toronto:] M&S, [2001] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j. Signed by the author.