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Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.

Condizione: New.

Hardback. The original embossed cloth binding is worn and the spine is peeling top and bottom, it remains sound. The free endpaper and title pages have an excised section. The portrait and title have some foxing. The text is slightly browning throu ghout. Portrait, 384.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condizione: Gut. 270 p. Der Einband ist leicht bestoßen. Der Vor- und Nachsatz weisen leichte Bereibungen und tlw.Papierschaden auf. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ The binding is slightly bumped. The preliminaries and postscript show slight rubbing and partial paper damage. Otherwise a good and clean copy. - Fulke Greville was the courtier, statesman, and political theorist who, like? Sidney and Dyer, began to write in the 1580s and whose Workes (1633) were published posthumously in the same year as Donnes. Two important verse treatises excluded from that collection were issued as The Remains (1670). A Treatise of Religion had been suppressed in 1633, its omission accounting for the twenty-two missing pages in the Workes. There had apparently been no plan to include A Treatise of Monarchy; even in 1681 it was to strike Richard Baxter as presenting doctrines 'which I greatly wonder this Age would bear. These Treatises have been available only in Southeys British Poets (1831) and in Grosarts Fuller Worthies Library (1870), both deriving from the inaccurate 1670 edition. The present text is the first to be based on the Warwick MSS. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid original antique portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Very unusual and decorative .

62pp. Modern ¼ style brown cloth gilt, grey paper sides, paper gilt label to front board, sprinkled leaf edges.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Engraved By Meyer (illustratore). A fine original copper engraving with great detail. ca. 1817. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine portrait printed 1810. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase an unusual and attractive finely engraved portrait.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid engraved portrait, printed in circa 1840. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraved portrait.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid engraved portrait, printed in circa 1840. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraved portrait.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Engraved By Chambers (illustratore). A fine original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. Decorative and attractive.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. C. 1840.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Engraved By Dean (illustratore). A fine original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. Decorative and attractive. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. .

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Engraved By Meyer (illustratore). Fine original engraving, very detailed. Mounted and ready to frame. Attractive and very decorative.

Hb original red cloth , gilt titles to spine, 8vo, xvii,313pp, frontis plate and illustration plates to text. Gift inscription to fep o/w A Vg Bright copy.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo,pamph. in modern protective wrapper, fine bar a few corners of pages turned down, 4+ 71 pp. An important pamphlet in the intense Parliamentary debate on India at the time. Size: 8vo.

FIRST EDITION, 2vols., pp.xxiv(2)402 + errata leaf: vi,467; portrait frontispiece, four other plates & two folding facsimiles; a good untrimmed copy in original green cloth, neatly rebacked with paper labels. Nugent's sympathetic account was favourably reviewed by Macaulay in the 'Edinburgh' and adversely by Southey in the 'Quarterly. Biography Civil War History.

Statesman and writer (1788-1850). 3pp., 8vo. He has heard that his name has been used in the prospectus for the Gwennap mining company. He explains that he was approached but decided not to allow his name to be used or to buy any shares in it. He hopes the Lord Mayor will take any opportunity of saying this.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Engraved By Agar (illustratore). Fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Attractive and decorative.

Half-Leather. Condizione: Fair. 70; 46; 31; 175; 45; 16 p. 22 cm. Half leather with marbled boards. Burnt spine, front board loose, title written on spine, corners bumped. Contents written in ink on front pastedown. Pencil notations and dampstains front endpapers. Page 151 of item 4 has large tear in top and stain on its last page. Author of speech written in ink on 5th title page. Worm holes in rear endpapers. Contents: 1. Substance of Mr. Canning's Speech, in the House of Commons, Tuesday, December 11, 1798, on Mr. Tierney's Motion, Respecting Continental Alliances. 2. A Letter to the Marquis of Buckingham. on . Emigrant French Priests.Resident and Maintained in England at the Public Expence. 3. The Speech of The Right Honourable Lord Grenville, in the House of Commons, 16th Jan. 1789, on the Proposed Regency Bill. 4. Letters on the Subject of The Catholics, to My Brother Abraham who Lives in the Country. 5. Letter to Lord Holland on Foreign Politics. 6. Substance of the Speech of Viscount Normanby, in the Debate on the Catholic Petitions in the House of Commons, on Monday, the Third of May, 1819 on the Motion of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. London: Bemrose and Sons, 1871. 9 pp. 16.5 x 22 cm. Green cloth covered boards with decorative stamping in blind and gilt titling to cover; illustrated with nine plates and one folded plate as frontispiece. Rubbing to spine ends with a 14 x 5 mm chip to tail of spine edge of front cover. Starting to front joint at both head and tail, but it appears that the tail split has been repaired with glue. Light bumping and light wear to corners of boards. Splitting along both front and rear hinges. Dampstaining along tail of front and rear endpapers, but not to text or plates. Some foxing to initial and final pages. All plates intact with two of them still possessing their tissue guards. Overall a fairly decent copy of a scarce telling of the story of the Dole of Tichborne, which has been illustrated by the half-cousin of Charles Darwin. . Hard Cover. Good.

Sole edition; privately printed. [4], 89pp, [1]. A well-margined copy, with fore-edge untrimmed, in nineteenth-century half morocco, gilt, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. The leather is somewhat scuffed, spotting to text. With the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire to FEP, and an A.L.S. from the author at Dropmore House, dated 4th May 1829, bound in facing the title, and manuscript corrections to the text to D2r, G4r&v, H2r, I1r, L2r, L4r&v, M1v and M3r. A rare collection, privately printed and with a presentation note addressed to E.A. Barker, described within as 'a scholar', of poetic 'trifles' in neo-Latin, Greek and English, by William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759-1834). As the author, a Tory politician who presided over a short lived Ministry which nevertheless secured the Abolition of the Slave Trade, explains in his preface, the 'following trifles, written at very different periods of the Author's life.were attempted as translations, others as paraphrases only, or still more distant imitations of the poetry to which they refer: the very few original pieces are entirely occasional'. By repute, the majority of the circa 50 copies of this work printed were retained in Grenville's family. Size: Quarto.

Leather bound. Condizione: Very good. Presentation copy of Nugae Metricae by Lord W.W. Grenville, inscribed to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce from George M. Fortescue, nephew of the author. (illustratore). Private Publication. Quarto, [6], 89pp. Marbled boards with red morocco spine and corners, title stamped in gilt on spine. Leather rubbed along spine and corners, scuff mark near lower left corner of back cover. Some foxing, mainly endpapers and flyleaves, untrimmed pages, small closed tear along fore edge of pages 53/54. Inscription on front flyleaf: "The Lord Bishop of Oxford, from GM Fortescue, Dropmore, Aug. 18, 1866." (Lowndes II, 942) A nice example of this scarce publication, with approximately 50 copies being printed and bought up primarily by family. The author of this work, Lord William W. Grenville (1759-1834), was a member of the House of Lords and Prime Minister of England from 1806-1807. His most notable accomplishment during his ministry was the passing of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which resulted in the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Lord Grenville's home was Dropmore, which was built in the 1790s, and with his death in 1834, Lady Grenville continued to live at the estate until her death in 1864. Having no children, the home passed into the hands of her nephew, George M. Fortescue (1791-1877). In 1866, Fortescue presented Bishop Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873) with this copy of his uncle's book of poetry, Nugae Metricae. Bishop Wilberforce was the third son of William Wilberforce, who played a prominent role in the movement to abolish the slave trade in the early nineteenth century. Bishop Wilberforce was involved in the 1860 Oxford debate on evolution, in which he opposed Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Signed.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

British statesman, several times Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (DNB). Intimate and interesting communication beginning 'I have only time to say in answer to your obliging note, that I shall be most happy to take you by the hand as soon as is convenient to you, as I trust in God that my poor wife after a most severe fever is this day beginning to recover. As to Dr 's business I can say distinctly, that I know you to have been most scandalously & I fear wickedly used by that very wicked man his elder brother' and ending with postscript 'If you see Bernard pray let him know that I shall be glad to see him.' (Perhaps Sir Thomas Bernard (DNB)).

Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Disbound. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). First edition. An uncommon pamphlet regarding a political speech given by Lord Grenville in the House of Lords on the 13th November 1801. The first and only edition of this work.Disbound.This speech, given by Lord Grenville, speaks out against the St Petersburg Convention.Despite his disagreement,Grenville worked hard to hold allied coalitions and worked on a complex alliance between Russia and Austria. The treaty Grenville refers to was signed in St Petersburg on the 17th June in 1801 and is the agreement on the principles of free navigation for neutral states and freedom of trade. Grenville disagreed with this because of the adverse effects it could have on Britain. Grenville wished to 'confirm and strengthen the dispositions of friendship, between those to whom Europe still looks for its preservation, and may stifle the seeds of every possibleTo the rear is the treaties Grenville refers to in his speech. Disbound. Externally, very smart with a few light spots to the front and rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Light tidemark to the head of pages 116-122 affecting the margin only. Otherwise, just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. book.