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
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
Allen, Thomas: (Whittock, Nathaniel, illust.:) A New and Complete History of the County of York. Illustrated by a Series of Views engraved on steel from original drawings by Nathaniel Whittock. London: I. T. Hinton, 1828; 1831; 1831. 3 vols., 4to., pp. [v], vi-x, 491, [i] + York cathedral frontispiece, engraved title-page and 13 further plates; [ii], 598 + frontispiece, engraved title and 30 further plates; [ii], 550 + frontispiece, engraved title and 96 further plates. Plates quite foxed but only occasional foxing elsewhere, some plates have offset toning onto the page opposite. The Boston Castle plate opposite p.505, vol. III, has wax on it: the image is unaffected, though p.505 has lost 5-6 words. The Scarborough Museum plate is bound opposite p.456 instead of p.446 as listed. Later half tan calf neatly rebacked in a slightly later colour with spines retained, titles and volume numbers gilt lettered directly, marbled boards and endpapers. Rubbed and a bit chipped, a few scuffs, edges worn, but still a good set. Each volume is divided into books (vol.I, books I-III; vol.II books IV-V; vol.III books VI-VII). Bookplate of The Constitutional Club to the front paste-down of each volume, and the Club's crest at the tail end of each spine. The Constitutional Club was a London gentlemen's club with premises (now demolished) at 28 Northumberland Avenue, just off Trafalgar Square. It was established in 1883, disbanded in 1979.Closely aligned with the Conservative party, it counted P.G. Wodehouse among its members and appears in disguised form in several of his novels, including two Psmith novels (Psmith in the City (1910) and Leave it to Psmith (1923)) and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972). Thomas Allen (1803-1833) was a prolific writer and illustrator of topographical works, producing in his short life volumes on The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth and the Archiepiscopal Palace (1827); The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, and Southwark (1827-1828); A New and Complete History of the County of York (1828?31); A History of the Counties of Surrey and Sussex (1829?30); guidebooks to London (1830) and some plates and articles for the Gentleman's Magazine. At the time of his death he had begun publication of A History of the County of Lincoln. Allen's works 'were almost all published in several parts, tosatisfy the demand for cheap, illustrated topographies from a public eager for historical detailsenlivened by romantic and picturesque scenery'. (Baigent, ODNB) Ref: 54598show full image..
Almosnino, Mose ben Baruk: (Zemke, John M. ed.:) Regimiento de la vida: Tratado de los suenyos. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004. 8vo., pp. xix, 545. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 255 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. Ref: 54294
Anderson, Michael Alan: St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2014. First edition. Large 8vo., pp. xvii, 345. Illustrations, Tables and musical Examples to text. Hardback. Contents and binding mint. Dust-jacket, fine. Ref: 53254
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint: (Nicolai, Jean; Drioux, Claude Joseph; Billuart, Charles Ren?; Sylvius, Franciscus, eds.:) Summa Theologica Diligenter Emendata Nicolai, Sylvii, Billuart Et C.J. Drioux Notis Ornata. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Bloud et Barral, [1890]. 16th edition. 8 vols. 8vo., pp. [vi], xviii, 578; [iv], 635, [i]; [iv], 608; [iv], 660; [iv], 659, [i]; [iv], xxvi, 639, [i]; [iv], 735, [i]; [iv], 180, cccclxxviii. Vignette of St Thomas Aquinas and his books to each title. Occasional MS lines, dashed to margins etc. Toned, vol.8 creased at fore-edge pp.81-100. Half vellum, two red morocco labels to each spine (title and small 'Parisiis' label at tail), red cloth boards, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Spines a little darkened, some labels chipped, '230' in modern ink to each vol., occasional marks to boards. Vols.3-5 with some watery staining to boards, the cloth lifting a little on vol.4. Still a very good set. Tiny Blackwell's label to front pastedown vol. I; ink stamp to plain endpaper of each vol. Maynard Smith and Outram Smith Library; MS inscription of Maynard Smith dated Dec. 27th '97 to plain endpaper vols. 1-4 and 7-8. Nocolai (b.1594), a French Dominican theologian, joined the Dominican Order at sixteen, and spent the the majority of his life studying the works of Thomas Aquinas. Ref: 54427show full image..
Armstrong, Elizabeth: Ronsard and the Age of Gold. Cambridge at the University Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 213 + plates. Hardback: light brown cloth with spine gilt-titled on dark green label. Top edge green, a little dusting to each edge. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, a few words of flap-blurb made faint by removal of price-sticker, light creasing to edges. Still, a very good copy. Ref: 53568
