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
Collinson, Patrick: The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. 8vo, pp. 528. Maps as endpapers. Hardback: quarter green cloth with cream buckram boards, gilt-lettered to spine, a slight bow to upper board and a hint of dust to edges, still very good. Dust-jacket, rather shelf-worn and a little grubby, with creasing to top edge and tears to corners and head of spine, good only. Ref: 53753
Comba, Emilio: (Comba, Teofilo E., trans.:) History of the Waldenses of Italy, From Their Origin to the Reformation. London: Truslove & Shirley, 1889. First edition. 8vo., pp. [viii], 357, [i]. With half title. Internally very clean. Green publisher's cloth, gilt title to spine and upper board, black decorative band to top and bottom edge, publisher's monogram to upper board, brown endpapers. Joints a little rubbed, corners bumped, edges slightly foxed. Very good overall. Inscription to ffep verso, 'Macd. Mom's'. Ref: 54118show full image..
Condren, Conal & Cousins, A. D. (eds.): The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990. First edition. 8vo., pp. ix, 221. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered, fine. Dust-jacket, light shelf-wear only, very good. Includes an essay by William Lamont, and from his library although with no evidence of ownership. Ref: 53736
Cooper, Janet (ed.): The Victoria History of the County of Essex. Volume IX. The Borough of Colchester. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1994. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Light shelf-wear, jacket creased and starting to fray along top edge, still a good to very good copy. Ref: 54104
Cooper, Thomas: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae & Britannicae [...]. London: 1584. Folio. [1716]pp., wanting first and last blank. Decorated initials, double column. Title a bit soiled, intermittent light marginal water staining, heavier to first and last gathering, ancient repair to upper outer blank corner of A2, small clean tears to few margins, one with loss touching text to upper margin of 3E2, two more to outer blank margin of 3F and lower outer blank corner of 4Q2, slight toning, small ink splash to 2H4-5 and 2V6. Recently rebound in goatskin using early 19th-century marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Desmond Morris to front pastedown; autograph Tho: Beach to ffep and R.H. Whitehurst 1803 to fly; ex-libris Francis Garbet 1654 to verso of 7M5; monogram Th.M.(?) inked to 3O2; occasional 17th-century marginalia. Third edition of this monumental Latin-English dictionary authored by Thomas Cooper, later Bishop of Winchester. It was inspired by Thomas Elyot's own Latin dictionary, which Cooper completed after Elyot's death. The ex-libris of Francis Garbet, dated 1654, points to the clergyman of Wroxceter who was Richard Baxter's instructor in theology during his early years. One of the marginalia refers to Cardinal Bellarmine's doctrines. The copy was more recently in the collection of Desmond Morris, author of "The Naked Ape" (1967). ESTC S121950; STC (2nd ed.), 5689. Ref: 53172show full image..
Coote, Stephen: John Keats: A Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. First edition. 8vo., pp. xii, 356 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Spine cocked, light shelf-wear and dusting, good. Ref: 54257
