Church, Stephen: King John and the Road to Magna Carta. New York: Basic Books, 2015. First American edition. 8vo., pp. xxii, 300. Maps, genealogy and illustration. Hardback: buff cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54471
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Epistolae ad Familiares. Pauli Manutius Annotationes breves in margine adscriptae. Eiusdem scholar. Verba Greca Latinos expressa. Dionysii Lambini Monstroliensis viri doctiss emendationes, & earum rationes. Gulielmi Canteri locorum aliquot explications & emendationes, nunc p Amstelreodami (sic) [Amsterdam]: Henricum Laurentii, 1626. 8vo., pp.[xvi], 487, [i]. Printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials. A few tiny manicules etc to margins. Faint tidemark to first gathering, final two gatherings nibbled along edge of lower margin but no loss of text. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, fore-edges slightly overlapped, edges sprinkled red. Spine darkened, quite a few smudgy marks and stains, corners frayed especially at the bottom of the upper board, turn-ins lifting and endpapers grubby but still a very good, if well-used, copy. To title-page, ownership inscription of James Forbes in an old hand. To ffep also in an old hand, the name Cornelius Heijmenberg crossed through followed possibly by Gerardii (smudged), three lines of numbers, and the name Heijmenberg then repeated. To ffep verso a single line of ms, 'So have I seen a King on Chaff'. Seemingly a reprint of the 1577 Estienne with notes of Paulus Manutius, Lambinus, etc. and WIlliam Canter's explanations of place. (see Dibdin I. 423). This edition appears scarce, with Jisc Library Hub finding no copies and Worldcat only one. The Worldcat copy lists no publisher and, as the publisher's name is clearly visible on the title-page here, some room for doubt is left as to whether it is in fact the same edition. Ref: 54658show full image..
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Ernesti, Johann August, ed.:) Opera Omnia [...] cum Notis et Clave Ciceroniana. Halis Saxonum [Halle an der Saale]: In Orphano Tropheo, 1773-77. 5 vols bound as 8, 8vo., pp. LXXXVI; XVI, 734, [ii] + frontispiece + portrait of Ernesti opposite p.1; XXII, [ii], 847, [i]; [iii], 852-1696; XVI, 510, [ii]; VIII, 513-1166, [ii]; VIII, 736; [iii], 740-1200; XVI, 910, [ii]. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Some foxing and toning though vol. 4 parts 1 and 2 are less affected, occasional spots and smudges, vol. 4 part one with a few paper flaws to fore-edges, final vol. with a small strip torn from the upper margin pp.III-IV but not affecting text. Contemporary half tan calf, raised bands gilt ruled, red and green title labels, brown sprinkled paper boards, edges sprinkled red. A bit rubbed, corners fraying, very good. Vol.1 [Rhetorica]; vol.2, pars 1-2 Orationes; vol.3, pars 1 Epistol? ad diversos - vol.3, pars 2 Epistol? ad Atticum, Q. fratrem et Brutum; vol.4, pars 1 Opera philosophica; vol4, pars 2 Opera philosophica. Accedunt fragmenta scriptorum deperditorum; [vol.5] Clavis Ciceroniana. The third and the 'more critical and profound' of Ernesti's editions of Cicero. '"No man, since the restoration of literature", says the Bibl. Crit. Amst., "has more contributed towards the illustration of Cicero than John Augustus Ernesti"....The third edition is more particularly valuable, as presenting us in each volume with some account of the editions of the various works of Cicero, and a few additional notes and emendations of the text' (Dibdin). Dibdin (4th edn.) I 403. Schweiger II 109. Dibdin (4th edn.) I 403. Schweiger II 109. Ref: 54723show full image..
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Mai, Angelo, ed.:) De Re Publica. Impressum Romae. Denvo Impressum Londini: impensis J. Mawman, 1823. 8vo., pp. LVI, 349, [i] + engraved frontispiece and 1 folding plate. Toned, heavy foxing to first few leaves, fore-edge of folding plate tattered. Presentation copy, contemporary brown calf heavily tooled in gilt and blind with gilt dedication to centre of upper board, marbled edges and endpapers. Recently and very sympathetically refurbished. To centre of upper board: 'St Paul's School / 1826 / Frederick Grueber Lugard / Quoesitum Meritis.' Pencilled inscription 'Lugard' to preliminary blank. Dibdin writes of the edition published in Rome the year before: 'A newly discovered work; which the Discoverer and Editor has published on paper of four sizes [?] The great strength, or most interesting portion, of this volume consists in the 2nd book: of which however much is yet wanting. The Somnium Scipionis forms the 6th book, of which fragments were known before.' (Dibdin I 4th ed, 463-4). This London edition contains two of the plates Dibdin lists for the Rome edition (the group of figures and the facsimile palimpsest), but was issued without the bust of Pius VII found in the latter. Colophon reads 'T. White and Co. Printers, 14 Bear Alley, London.' Rev. Frederick Grueber Lugard (1808-1900), British Army chaplain at Madras, was the father of Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1853-1945), British soldier, mercenary and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong and of Nigeria. Ref: 54127show full image..
Clarendon, Edward (Hyde), Earl of: The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford: at the University Press, 1839. 7 vols. 12mo., pp.[ii], xxxvi, 468; [iv], 543, [I]; [iv], 540; [iv], 562; [iv], 534; [iv], 561, [I]; [iv], 548. Half-title to all vols. Some ms pencil notes to rear of all vols. except II. Very slightly toned, occasional very light foxing. Polished tan calf, marbled endpapers, all vols neatly rebacked with new black title and vol. number labels. Occasional scratches to boards but very good indeed. Bookplate of the novelist and biographer Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842), author of The Life of Clarendon (1838) to front paste-down of each volume. Ref: 54390show full image..
Classen, Albrecht (ed.): Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2004. First edition. 8vo., pp. 374. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: edges slightly dusted, otherwise as new. With a Commentary by the translator. Ref: 53394
Cockburn, J. S. & Baker, T. F. T. (eds.): The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex. Volume IV. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1971. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, still very good. Ref: 53995
Coffey, John: Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8vo., pp. xii, 304. Hardback: brown cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. endpapers discoloured along hinges (for no discernable reason), edges lightly bumped. Dust-jacket, mildly shelf-worn with creasing to edges. Still, a very good copy. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series. Ref: 53746
Cohen, Helen Louise: The Ballade. New York: Columbia University Press, 1915. First edition. 8vo, pp. [xvii], 397. Slight toning, else a very good copy. Blue cloth, boards and spine gilt, upper hinge loosening, a bit faded in places, but still very good. Bookplate of Brenda M Cook to front pastedown. Ref: 53530
Cohen, Morton N: Lewis Carroll: A Biography. London: Macmillan, 2015. First UK edition. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 577 + plates. Illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, very good. Ref: 54265
