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1849ABE-1680040946499Philadelphia: J.W. Moore; New York: Wiley & Putnam 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo quarter calf over blue marbled boards titles stamped in gilt over black leather 670pp. Calfskin shows some abrasions at spine fading and bumping to corners; marbled boards show a few spots of discoloration and rubbing. Pages are wholly age toned at edges and show scattered spotting and foxing with an ownership signature to front endpaper else text is unmarked. Binding square and tight. A one volume edition of Robert Burton's classic of medical literature psychology and satire structured in three partitions. Prints the complete text of the New Edition with a facsimile frontispiece of the Sixth Edition the first complete volume. A lovely nineteenth century fine binding example this being a very handsome copy. Philadelphia: J.W. Moore; New York: Wiley & Putnam hardcover
1883H126London: Chatto and Windus 1883. New Edition . Brown buckram Gilt. Vg. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii747 32pp pub. cat. dated October 1886. Facsimile of original frontispiece. Tissue guard of the frontis. foxed affecting the title page some under-lining in neat hand of the first 18 pages and the original binding torn a little wear on edges. A tight clean copy otherwise in original but worn cloth. What It Is with All the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostics and Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
189845626London: The University Press Ltd 1898. First Edition. Octavo; burgundy cloth boards; 107pp. Cloth a shade sunned at spine else a tight straight Very Good copy. The two titles bound together as issued; second title has its own half-title but pagination is continuous. Includes Appendix "The English Press and the Prosecution." Two works the first a satirical play the second a scholarly essay attacking British censorship laws and the suppression of public speech. The University Press sometimes calling itself the "Watford University Press" was a project of Rowland de Villiers a freethought and free-speech activist and publisher of controversial literature who has been described by one historian as "a somewhat shady character at best" see Odin Dekkers J.M. Robertson. Lon:1998. Villiers was most famously the British publisher of Havelock Ellis's treatise on sexual inversion; he was arrested on obscenity charges in 1901 and died in police custody. "G. Astor Singer" appears to have been a Villiers pseudonym and we would not be entirely surprised if "Frederick Raymond Coulson" was an alias as well. The University Press, Ltd unknown books
184948134London:: William Tegg & Co. Good. 1849. Hardcover. A reprint edition. Thick octavo half-bound in brown leather and marbled boards raised band gilt lettering on a black label and design along the spine all edges red. Leather binding and boards show considerable shelf wear with a piece torn at the crown of the spine previous owner's name on front free endpaper large portion of rear free endpaper has been torn away else good. ; 748 pages . William Tegg & Co., hardcover books
