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
Corneille, Pierre & Thomas: Les Chef-d''Oeuvres Dramatiques de Messieurs Corneille. Avec Le Jugement des Scavans a la fin de chaque Piece Amsterdam: aux D?pens de la Compagnie, 1773. 12mo. 4 vols., pp.viii, 384 + 6 plates; [iv], 314 + 5 plates; [iv], 272 + 3 plates; [iv], 352 + 3 plates. Engraved portrait frontispieces to vols. I and II, woodcut head and tail pieces and initials, a few leaves of vol. IV unopened, '990' in blue pencil at foot of final page vols. I and IV. Occasional light spots and stains, a little damp-staining to vols. II and IV, vol. I with lower corner of leaf F2 torn but not affecting text. Later mottled calf, spines heavily gilt, edges red, marbled endpapers. Edges a little rubbed but very good. To each front paste-down the red-printed book label of the translator Niccolai Gamba-Castelli, with MS shelfmark. Vol. I - Trag?dies de P. Corneille: Le Cid; Horace; Cinna; Polieucte; L Mort de la Pomp?e. Vol. II - Trag?dies de P. Corneille: Rodogune; Heraclius; Othon. Vol. III - Trag?die de T. Corneille: Le Comte D'Essex. Com?die de P. Corneille: Le Menteur. Com?die de T. Corneille: Le Baron D'Albikrac. Vol. IV - Com?dies de T. Corneille: Le Festin de Pierre; La Comtesse D'Orgueil (Nouveau Prologue); L'Inconnu (Nouveau Divertissement). Ref: 54145show full image..
Cowan, Paul (ed.): With Wellington In The Peninsula; The Adventures of a Highland Soldier, 1808-1814. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 214. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54258
Cox, Virginia: Women's Writing in Italy 1400-1650. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxviii, 464. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, book and contents pristine, as new, although edges a touch and cream jacket rather more dust-smudged in places: on balance still a very good copy. Ref: 54306
Craig, Hardin: English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. 4to, pp. [vi], 421. Slight toning, but still very good. Blue cloth, spine gilt, minimally faded, dust-jacket, a little browned, but still very good. Fourth reprint. First published 1955. Ref: 53517
Crawford, Michael J.: The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465?1598. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp. 256. 8 b/w illustrations, 2 maps. Hardback. Dust-jacket. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53375
Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Wiltshire. Volume X. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1975. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Light shelf-wear, a touch of creasing to top edge of jacket, very good. Ref: 54091
Crowley, D. A. (ed.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Wiltshire. Volume XI: Downton Hundred, Elstub and Everleigh Hundred. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1980. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. A touch of shelf-wear only, fine. Ref: 54092
Crowley, D. A. (ed.): The Victoria History of (the County of) Wiltshire. Volume XIII: South-West Wiltshire: Chalke and Dunworth Hundreds. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1987. First edition. 4to. Fully illustrated. Hardback: red cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear, a section of half-title lightly toned, outer edges and corners bumped, still a good copy. Ref: 54094
