•  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white, green, and gilt; binding slightly cocked, with light rubbing to extremities. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate ("Fifth Form English Library"); front free endpaper with small bookseller's ticket and pencilled owner's name. A clean, handsome copy. (16721)

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The volume is illustrated with one oversized, folding map, a frontispiece and eight plates, and a number of in-text engravings done “Chiefly after designs by the Hon. A.Y. Bingham.”

•  NSTC 0922089.   Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine pictorially gilt-stamped; spine slightly darkened, cloth rubbed at edges, extremities, and joints. First few leaves (including map) with lower outer corners waterstained, pages otherwise clean. (20695)

Binding: Full black linen, stamped in gold on the front cover from a design by Levine. The slipcase is covered with black paper and bears a gilt title on the spine.

The colophon is signed by both the designer and the illustrator. This offering includes the monthly newsletter.

Binding, slipcase, and illustrations all properly evoke the grittiness of the London underworld.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 529.   Bound as above, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase; wrapper with tiny nicks and chips in a couple of places. A fine copy, in a fine slipcase.  (22080)

Very uncommon.

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•  Publisher's bright blue cloth, with the title gilt-stamped on the spine and front; cursive title within a neat black-stamped frame, on cover. Front hinge (inside) cracked with the front free endpaper detaching and back hinge tender — yet, volume not too fragile for careful use and enjoyment. Pages age-toned. Good+.  (22218)

Tyson and Walton signed the document on 24 August 1791.

An excellent display piece.

•  Old folds with a few short tears. Residue of mounting tape at two points on the left margin. (14729)

•  Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club 1929–1985, 194.   Bindings as above, spines very slightly rubbed. In original cloth-covered slipcase sunned where exposed on a shelf, slightly scuffed on the sides, and paper spine label detaching from bottom edge with lower right corner chipped (but no loss to printing). Top of case not quite solid—the top right edge is cracked within its cloth covering, though this is not immediately apparent. A fresh, handsome set.

•  Shoemaker 8213.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather scuffed, front joint starting from top. Front free endpaper with ownership inscriptions, one dated 1938 and one much older. A little spotting and staining, light to very moderate — a nice copy. (21041)

Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.

•  Good++. Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)

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•  BAL 2036, first state with p. 274 left blank.   Publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding, front stamped in gold and black, back stamped with publishers' seal in blind. Small areas of gold on front darkened. Traces of wear at head and base of spine. Previous owner's penciled signature on the front free endpaper; no other markings. Pages clean, binding tight. In fact, an uncommonly nice copy.  (23461)

The Irish-born Burnside, then treasurer of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, was later a justice of the Pennsylvania state supreme court.

A notary’s seal is affixed to the document, which was signed by both Burnside and Patton.

•  Creased and slightly age-toned, with the folios separated and some offsetting from seal; a few small holes, touching text without notable loss.

•  NSTC 2B62711; Shoemaker 19905. On Butler, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary paper-covered boards, spine with printed paper label; sides with spots of light discoloration, paper split and cracked along joints and spine, paper shelving label on spine. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1828; front free endpaper, title-page, and dedication rubber-stamped. Back free endpaper affixed to back pastedown. Sewing loosening. Pages untrimmed.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 1178. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and rubbed; joints cracked, spine with cracking gilt-stamped leather label and chipped paper shelving label. Front pastedown with small institutional bookplate. One “somewhat immodest” proverb carefully excised from footnotes, with no other loss of text.

•  Sternick 255.   Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; corners and spine extremities a bit rubbed, cloth with a few small scuffs, still a very attractive copy. Title-page and first text page rubber-stamped “Property of Board of Education City of New York”; pages and plates otherwise clean.  (19694)

•  Binding as above, very gently sunned, upper outer corners slightly bumped. Front pastedown with private collector's armorial bookplate. Pages clean. (19634)