1. ADDISON, Joseph. The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison. With Notes by Richard Hurd.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1862. In six volumes. A new edition, with large additions, chiefly unpublished, collected and edited by Henry G. Bohn. 8vo., 20th century half calf, marble boards, leather labels. The first three volumes are bound in a light tan calf, while vols. 3-6 are bound in dark brown calf, some rubbing, a good serviceable set.

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2. ANON. Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys To the North of England In Latin and English Verse... Together With Bessy Bell. To Which is Now Added, (Never Before Published) the Ancient Ballad of Chevy Chase, In Latin and English Verse.
London: Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1822. A new edition, "Printed From the Edition of 1778." 8vo., orig. paper boards, paper spine label, 203, (6)pp. index, (3)pp. ads. The top and bottom of the spine are missing, approximately 2" from the top and 3" from the bottom o/w a nice copy.

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3. (ANSTEY, Christopher). The New Bath Guide: Or, Memoirs of the B--R--D Family...
London: Printed for J. Dodsley,..., 1767. The fifth edition. 8vo., full cont. calf, 173pp. Outer front hinge split, 4" piece out of the spine, a good copy.

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4. BALE, John. Kynge Johan A Play in Two Parts.
London: Printed for the Camden Society, 1838. Small 4to., orig. green cloth, xiv, 110pp. Upper board detached o/w a good working copy.

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5. BLOOMFIELD, Robert. The Banks of Wye: A Poem. In Four Books.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, ..., 1823. Third edition. 8vo., cont. cloth, paper label on spine, (viii), 109, (1)p. ads. Spine ends chipped, some wear along the spine o/w a nice copy.

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6. BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood..., 1802. First edition. Tall 8vo., full cont. calf, (xii), 105, (1)pp. Bookplate, outer hinges cracked, binding worn, a good copy.

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7. BOSWELL, James. Boswell's Life of Johnson... Edited by George Birbeck Hill.
New York: Bigelow, Brown & Co., nd (192-?). In six volumes. Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth with printed paper spine labels. Some rubbing, labels have some chipping, a very good set.

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8. BOWER, (Archibald). Mr. Bower's Answer To A Scurrilous Pamphlet, Intituled Six Letters from A------d B----r To Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits in England & c. Part I.
London: Printed for W. Sandby, at the ship..., 1757. First edition. Tall 8vo., bound in modern blue cloth, 132pp. Ex-library with a stamp on the verso of the titlepage, bookplate but no other library markings, the top of the titlepage has been reinforced on the verso, lacking the half-title, but this is still a better than very good copy in a plain binding. ESTC T86849.

Archibald Bower [1686-1766] Scottish religious controversialist and historical writer.

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9. BURKE, Edmund. The Epistolary Correspondence of The Right. Hon. Edmund Burke and Dr. French Laurence. Published from the Original Manuscripts.
London: Printed for C. and J. Rivington, 1827. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth, printed paper spine label, 305, (7)pp. ads. Front board reattached with archival tape, spine worn and has a 2" piece out at the top.

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10. BURKE, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770. Sixth edition. Tall 8vo., full cont. calf, (xvi), 342pp. Upper board detached o/w a good working copy.

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11. BURKE, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With an Introductory Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1787. A New Edition. Tall 8vo., full cont. calf, (xvi), 342pp. Outer hinges cracked, a good copy.
 
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12. BUTLER, Samuel. A Sketch of Modern and Antient Geography For the Use of Schools.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Fourth edition. Tall 8vo., orig. paper boards. Boards worn, spine chipped away, with pieces missing, a good copy only.

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13. CHAPONE, Mrs. Miscellanies, In Prose and Verse.
London: Printed for J. Mawman, ..., 1810. A new edition (so stated on title). 12mo., cont. half calf, marble boards, viii, 133pp. Top of spine chipped, a very good copy.

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14. COMBE, William. Doctor Syntax's Three Tours In Search of the Picturesque, Consolation and A Wife.
London: John Camden Hotten, nd (188-?). 8vo., orig. cloth, 354 (double columns), (10)pp. ads. With eight colour plates. Spine faded o/w a very good copy.

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15. COWPER, William. Poems By...
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1806. In two volumes. A new edition. 12mo., full cont. calf, (xii) 288; (viii), 274pp. The last signature of volume two, pp. 265-274, has been bound in volume one after the tale of contents, o/w a very good set.

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16. DEFOE, Daniel. The Life of Robinson Crusoe...
London: Published and Sold by the Booksellers; and by T. Wilson and R. Spence, ..., 1801. A new edition, complete in one volume. 8vo., full contemporary calf, 264pp. With illustrations. Contemporary names on title, head and foot of spine chipped, loss of 1/4 of the ffep top right corner, a good copy only.

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17. EDMONDS, Charles (editor). Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin: Comprising The Celebrated Political And Satirical Poems, Of The Rt. Hon. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, The Marquis of Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, The Earl of Carlisle, and Others... Third Edition, Considerably Enlarged, With Six Illustrations by James Gillray.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. "Third edition, considerably enlarged, with six illustrations by James Gillray." Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth with a diagonal strip in yellow with lettering in silver on upper cover, (xxxii), 341, (32)pp. ads dated "1894." Silver lettering on spine a bit flaked o/w a near fine copy.

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18. FIELDING, Henry. The Works of... Complete in One Volume, With Memoir of the Author by Thomas Roscoe... New Edition. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Tall thick 8vo., cont. half calf, cloth with leather spine label, xxviii, 1116pp. double columns. Hinges cracked, dampstaining to top of frontis not affecting image and lower corner clipped, binding somewhat worn, a nice copy.

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19. (FORBES, Duncan). Some Thoughts Concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed with a Letter to a Bishop Concerning Some Important Discoveries in Philosophy and Theology. Carefully Corrected.
Edinburgh: Printed by J. Cochran & Co., 1743. 12mo., full cont. calf, 145, 51, (1)pp. ad. Front cover attached with archival tape, covers worn, a good working copy.

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20. FORSYTH, William. The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, In Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the Age.
London: John Murray, 1871. 8vo., orig. green cloth, viii, 347, 16pp. ads. Inner hinge cracked, small hole to ffep, covers worn. A good only copy.

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21. GRAY, Thomas. The Letters of … Chronologically Arranged from the Walpole and Mason Collection.
London: John Sharpe, 1819. Two volumes in one. 12mo., calf with marble boards, 191, 184pp. With engraved titles. Front cover reattached with archival tape, wear to spine ends and extremities, a good working copy.

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22. (GRAY, Thomas). TOVEY, Duncan C. (editor). The Letters of Thomas Gray Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1900-1912. In three volumes. 8vo., orig. maroon cloth, xxxiv, 393, 32pp. ads, xxxv, 306, (1)pp. errata, (2)pp. ads, xvi, 421, (32)pp. ads. Someone has affixed a portrait of Gray to the page facing the titlepage, spines slightly faded, near fine.

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23. (JOHNSON, Samuel). Dr. Johnson His Life Works & Table Talk.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884. "Centenary Edition." 12mo., orig. paper/vellum, 156pp. A nice copy. 

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24. JUNIUS. The Letters of Junius. Complete in One Volume. With A Copious Index.
London: no publisher, 1786. 8vo., full contemporary calf, leather spine label, 394pp. Bookplate, some wear to the foot of the spine o/w a very good copy.

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25. LACKINGTON, James. Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington...
London: Printed for the Author,..., nd. Thirteenth edition. 8vo., full contemporary calf, (xx), (21)-352pp. Front board reattached with archival tape, binding worn, a good copy.

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26. LLOYD, Peirson. Sermons on Several Occasions, Preached in Westminster-Abbey, and St. Margaret's, Westminster.
London: Printed for the Author, Sold by J. & R. Tonson, etc., 1765. 8vo., calf with marble boards, xxxix, 379pp. Wear to spine and extremities, a nice copy.

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27. MEIKLE, James. The Select Remains of… Or, Extracts From Manuscripts Found Among His Papers…
Edinburgh: Printed by J. Pillans & Sons, …, 1801. Small 8vo., full cont. calf, x, 373pp. Lacks last blank page, outer front and back hinges split, 2" piece out of the spine, a good copy.

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28. (OSSIAN). MacPHERSON, James (translator). The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal... To which are prefixed, Dissertations on the Era and Poems of Ossian.
Glasgow: Printed by Chapman & Lang, 1779. "Imray's Edition". 12mo., cont. full calf, leather spine labels, 151, (4), 100; 234pp. Bookplates, contents page of vol. 1 misbound, lacking ffeps and perhaps half-titles in both volumes, binding lightly worn, otherwise a good copy.  

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29. PAINE, Thomas. The Age of Reason: Being An Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology.
New York: G. Vale, 1848. Two parts in one volume. Small 8vo., orig. boards with cloth spine, (1)-60, (61)-167pp. Some occasional foxing on first few leaves, front cover reattached with archival tape. A good working copy.

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30. PEPYS, Samuel. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty... With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke.
London: H.G. Bohn, 1858. In four volumes. Sixth edition. "Bohn's Historical Library." 8vo., orig. blue blind-stamped cloth, (4)pp. ads, xl, 427, (6)pp. ads, (4)pp. ads, 484, (6)pp. ads, (4)pp. ads, 481, (4)pp. ads, (4)pp. ads, 495, (6)pp. ads. With illustrations. Name, shelf wear, vol. 1 has a chipped spine end, some rubbing, an about very good set.

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31. (PEPYS). TANNER, J.R. Mr. Pepys An Introduction to the Diary together with a Sketch of his Later Life.
London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1925. 8vo., orig. blue cloth, xv, 308pp. Near fine in a d/w that has a touch of wear at the spine ends and a small hole to the rear wrapper.

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32. PHILIPS, Ambrose. Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and Other Original Poems, with Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho.
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1765. Second edition. 12mo., full cont. calf, 174pp. Offsetting to the first 3 pages, front cover reattached with archival tape. A good copy only.

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33. (PITT, William, First Earl of Chatham, Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine). Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added, the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier. Selected by a Member of the Philadelphia Bar.
Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1849. Large 8vo., full calf with leather label, 540pp. Name on title, front outer hinge cracked, wear to spine ends, about very good.

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34. (PRIOR, Matthew). POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1711. 12mo, full calf with leather label, (xxviii), 248pp. With frontis. Contemporary annotations on endpapers, front cover reattached with archival tape, chips to spine ends, a good working copy.

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35. RATCLIFFE, Mrs. The Romance of the Forest. Interspersed With Some Pieces of Poetry.
Brattleboro: Published by Holbrook and Fessenden, 1824. Later U.S. edition. 8vo., paper boards (covers original but rebacked with a modern paper spine), 300pp. Foxing throughout, rebacked with new paper spine which has a 3" piece torn off, boards worn, a good copy.

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36. ROGERS, Samuel. Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. To Which is Added Porsoniana.
London: Edward Moxon, 1856. Third edition. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth, xvi, 357pp. Bookplate, spine faded, chip at head of the spine, very good.

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37. SMITH, James and Horace. Rejected Addresses: Or The New Theatrum Poetarum.
London: Printed for John Miller, ..., 1813. Tenth edition. 12mo., cont. half leather, marble boards, viii, 127pp. Some rubbing o/w very good.

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38. SMITH, Rev. Sydney. Two Volumes of Sermons.
London: Printed for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1809. In two volumes. Tall 8vo., full leather w/ leather labels on spine, vi, 436, 4pp. ads, (1)errata, vi, 424pp. With university library labels on pastedowns of both vols and on first blank in vol. 2, vol. 2 outer hinge cracked and reinforced with archival tape, binding worn, good.

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39. SMOLLETT, T. (Tobias). The Adventures of Roderick Random.
London: Printed by Lewis & Hamblin, ..., 1808. 12mo., later paper boards, xxxii, 568pp. With an engraved frontis and titlepage. Some foxing, boards chipped in the spine gutters, a good copy.

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40. (SMOLLETT, Tobias, translator). Le SAGE. The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Translated from the French of ... by T. Smollett and Illustrated by Jean Gigoux.
London: J.J. Dubochet & Co., ..., 1836. In two volumes. Tall 8vo., cont. half calf, marble boards, leather spine labels, 486, 478pp. With illustrations. Name and date on titlepage of both volumes, spines worn, leather corners worn, good.

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41. (SMOLLETT, Tobias, translator). (Le SAGE). The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Translated from the French of ... by T. Smollett with Twenty-four Line Engravings After Smirke, and Ten Etchings by George Cruikshank.
London: H.G. Bohn, 1861. "A new edition, carefully revised." "Bohn's Illustrated Library." Thick 8vo., orig. green blind-stamped cloth, (6)pp. ads, xii, 600, (4)pp. ads. With illustrations. Inner hinges cracked, some wear to extremities, small 1" x 1 1/2" chip to the top of spine.

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42. (SPENSER, Edmund.) 'The Poet of Poets.' The Love-Verse from the Minor Poems of Edmund Spenser.
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. "The Elizabethan Library." 8vo., cont. leather spine, cloth, t.e.g., 228pp. Darkening to leather spine, near fine.

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43. STERNE, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Illustrations by Maurice Leloir.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1887. Small 4to., orig. two-toned cloth, 210pp. Profusely illustrated. Darkening along spine with rubbing to ends, very good.

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44. STERNE, Laurence. The Works of... In One Volume: with A Life of the Author, written by Himself.
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1834. Tall 8vo., full cont. calf, leather label, (8)pp. ads, frontis, vi, (7)-416pp. double columns. Titlepage and first page clipped top right corner with loss of "The" on titlepage, scattered foxing throughout, leather worn, about very good.

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45. SWIFT, Jonathan. Stella's Birth-Days Poems by... Edited with a commentary by Sybil Le Brocquy.
Dublin: Dolmen Editions, 1967. 1 of 750 copies. 4to., orig. cream paper boards, with gilt decoration on upper cover and title in gilt on spine, (40)pp. Frontis. Near fine with d/w which has some edge wear. 

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46. VIRGIL. DRYDEN, John. The Works of Virgil Translated Into English Verse, By ... 
London: Printed for J. Johnson;..., 1806. In four volumes. 12mo., orig. boards with vellum spines, xxiv, 275, 306, 306, 292pp. Name on title on all four volumes, lacking most of spine on volumes 3 and 4 (see photos) and 1" to volume 1 and 2" to volume 2. A good working copy.

Includes in volume one, "The Life of Publius Virgilius Maro by William Walsh."

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47. WALPOLE, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story.
Philadelphia: H. Carey Baird, 1854. Small 8vo., orig. green cloth, 221pp. Bookplate, small hole top of ffep, spine faded and wear to ends, very good.

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48. WHITE, Henry Kirke. The Poetical Works of...
London: William Pickering, 1830. Small 8vo., orig. blue cloth w/ printed paper spine label, 4pp. ads, lvi, 252pp. Bookplate, outer hinges cracked, spine worn, good only.

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The Pope's Bookbinder
A Memoir
By David Mason

The Pope's Bookbinder AVAILABLE in trade paperback ($24.95) updated with new chapter "Hemingway Heist", and Hardcover ($37.95)

All books purchased through us will be signed by David Mason.

A memoir of Mason's forty-five years in the booktrade. After some years in Europe doing odd jobs, including a period doing bookbinding in Spain, and reading incessantly, Mason returned to Canada, apprenticed in the book trade with Joseph Patrick Books and has been selling used and rare books ever since. His memories include the books dealers, collectors, and libraries he has dealt with over that period.

The added chapter in the trade paperback edition on the Hemingway / Fitzgerald / Callaghan robbery explains what happened and why the author chose not to put it in the original edition.

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