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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Illustration by John Tenniel
beautiful hand coloured copy 1870
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beautiful 19th century prize bindings
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Whittier - art nouveau cover designs by *Talwin Morris c1910
Morris was a friend and contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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old leather bound books from the 19th century 
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Engraving from an early 17th century title page - 1607 
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reserve stock - almost every bookseller will have a room seldom opened to keep some of the more interesting and older books - to prolong their life and keep them safe..:)
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unusual painted book binding - oil on leather 
A world without souls by JW Cunningham 7th Edn 1818 
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Scarce Puritan survivor
Christ’s Famous Titles - The Second Part containing several significant names, titles, and similitudes, whereby our Lord Jesus Christ is described in the Holy Scriptures … : in seven sermons, preach’d in and about the city of London : persuant to the design of the first part formerly published - by William Dyer Late Minister of the Gospel London Printed for Nath. Crouch a the bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1701 180 pages + 12 page publishers catalogue
contains (from t. p.) I. The great shepherd – II. The power of God – III. The wisdom of God – IV. The glory of his people – V. The light of the world – VI. The gift of god – VII. The hope of salvation.
William Dyer (1632-1696) was a godly pastor in London, who was expelled from his church in the ‘Great Ejection’ of 1662. He is described as a man of great piety, and a serious fervent preacher.
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old leather bound book
19th century
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Finely detailed engraved headpiece - London 1634
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Institutiones imperiales, erotematibus distinctae, atque ex ipsis principiis regulisque juris, passim insertis, explicatae. Antonio Perez Amsterdam Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1647. Editio Sexta
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Johnson’s English Dictionary [Vol 2] 1760
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Sesame Music Finder and Preserver - Unusual deeply embossed leather cover
Mid 19th century c1855-65
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The Three Kittens - Dean and Sons
19th century children’s book 1859
A well loved incomplete example 
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The Venture - 2 volumes 1903 & 1905 [All Published]
The 1905 issue of THE VENTURE contains “Two Songs” by James Joyce preceding his first book, CHAMBER MUSIC, by two years and marking his first appearance in book form. Other authors included are Edmund Gosse, Alice Meynell, W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Symons, T. Sturge Moore, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Hardy, Havelock Ellis, Laurence Binyon, E. F. Benson. Artists included are Charles Ricketts, Lucien Pissarro, E. Gordon Craig, J. M. Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Augustus John, Arthur Rackham. Slocum & Cahoon.
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Winnie the Pooh books by AA Milne - decorations by Ernest H Shepherd
Publishers deluxe full leather bindings with AAM blocking on the covers - all page edges gilt..
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19th century letters
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