Abel, E. Lawrence: Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000. First edition. 8vo., pp. xviii, 398. Hardback: red cloth backed blue boards, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, price-sticker removed from lower corner of front cover leaving a faint trace of adhesive only, still very good. An unused copy. Foreword by Bobby Horton. Ref: 53939
Adolph, Anthony: Brutus of Troy and the Quest for the Ancestry of the British. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. 8vo., pp. xi, 237 + plates. Maps and illustrations to text. Paperback. Unread, light shelf-wear, very good. First published in 2015. Ref: 54444
[Aelian] Aelianus, Claudius: [...] Cl. Aeliani Sophistae Varia Historia, Cum Notis Integris Conradi Gesneri, Johannis Schefferi, Tanaquilli Fabri, Joachimi Kuhnii, Jacob Perizonii, & interpretatione Latina Justi Vulteii [...] Curante Abrahamo Gronovio [...] Lugd. Bat. [Leiden] Amstelodami {Amsterdam] Roterodami [Rotterdam] Ultrajecti [Utrecht] Hagae [The H 1731 4to. 2 parts bound as 1, pp. [xcviii], 566, [ii], 567-1056, [clx]. Half title, additional engraved title, printed title-page in red and black. A title-page for the 2nd part, also in red and black, is bound between p.566 and p.567, though found in most copies at pp.640-641. Woodcut initials and end pieces. Greek and Latin text in parallel columns with notes in Latin, a few illustrations in the text. Toned, with some sections quite heavily affected and others barely at all. Light foxing and a few blotchy marks. Contemporary vellum prize binding, spine richly gilt with red morocco label, gilt frames and borders to each board with central arms of Amsterdam, edges lightly sprinkled red and blue. Spine very slightly yellowed, a few small marks, small scuff near upper board fore-edge, ties lost, still very good. To front paste-down, modern bookplate of J. de Lazerme. 'An admirable edition'. Included in the list of best quarto variorum editions provided by Dibdin in the 3rd edition of his Introduction to the Classics. Dibdin I, 231; Schweiger I, 3; Hoffmann I, 13; Spoelder 10. Ref: 54633
Aeschines & Demosthenes: (Foulkes, P. & Freind, J., eds.:) [Greek titles] In Ctesiphontem Oratio [with] De Corona Oratio. Oxonii [Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1715. Editio secunda. 8vo., pp.(xvi), 151, [i], 182, [xviii]. Greek letter with Latin translation at foot followed by editors' index. Three full-page engravings, of Cicero, Aeschines and Demosthenes. Pencilled annotations.Last few leaves slightly cockled. Contemporary calf, gilt label to spine, Cambridge panelled boards, edges sprinkled red. Endcaps and corners a little worn, ffep removed but a second leaf remaining, lightly rubbed but still very good. Second edition of the recension of Peter Foulkes and John Freind, scholars of Christ Church, first published in 1696 and particularly popular on account of its index of explanations of difficult terms. ESTC T143337; Dibdin (4th edn.) 1. p. 487. Ref: 54125show full image..
Ainsworth, W. Harrison: (Cruikchank, George, illust.:) Rookwood. A Romance. [?] Complete in one volume with illustrations. London: John Macrone, 1836. Fourth edition. 8vo., pp.xxix, 502 + portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title-page and 11 further plates. Plates a little greyed and blotchy. Black morocco, gilt spine with raised bands and red morocco label, gilt borders and dentelles, blind-stamped centrepieces, marbled edges and endpapers. Joints a little creased with the upper just starting at head, a few small chips and scratches but very good indeed. "Rookwood was one of the most successful novels of the nineteenth century. The fact that it has now been largely forgotten is in part an indication of the dynamic nature of literary production during this period, the star of 1834?5, Ainsworth, being rapidly eclipsed by Dickens in 1836. [?] Stylistically, Rookwood is a wonderful enthusiastic amalgam: blending gothic with Newgate, historical romance with underworld anti-heroes, 'flash' dialogue and song, all luridly illustrated by George Cruikshank." From Stephen Carver's The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth (2003), pp.131-2. Ref: 55113show full image..
Alexander of Aphrodisias: (Lewis, Eric, trans.:) On Aristotle's Meteorology 4. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press 1996. First edition. 8vo., 186 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-dusting, still very good. Ref: 54227
Alexander, Paul J.: The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople. Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press (for Sandpiper Books), 2001. Reprint. 8vo., pp. xiii, 287. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: other than a touch of creasing to dust-jacket, as new. Ref: 53384
Alfieri, Alberto: (Weinberg, Carla P. & Matter, E. Ann, eds. & trans.:) Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 204. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 365 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 53643
Alighieri, Pietro: (Chiamenti, Massimiliano, ed.:) Comentum super poema Comedie Dantis Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003. First edition thus. 8vo., pp. 722. Hardback: red cloth. Dust-jacket. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 247 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, and Volume 2 of their Mediterranean Studies Monographs and Texts. Chiamenti's critical edition presents "for the first time the complete text of the most important third and final version of Pietro's Commentarium, a crucial text for the understanding of (his father) Dante, which has been unavailable in its complete form for more than six centuries". Ref: 54303
Allen, Mark, & Amwell, Stephanie (eds.): Annotated Chaucer Bibliography 1997-2010. Manchester University Press, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. xx, 806. Hardback: laminated boards. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. In the series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Ref: 54460
