Beschreibung:

[Fables; French]. Fabliaux or Tales, abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries by M. Le Grand, selected and translated into English Verse. With a Preface and Notes, 2 volumes, London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1796-1800, [4] xxxvii [3] 280, [2] 340 pp., woodcut illustrations throughout by John and Thomas Bewick repaired closed tear in volume 2 signature H8, modern half morocco, 8vo (22.7 x 15.2 cm), together with: [Akenside, Mark]. The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In Three Books, 1st edition, London: R. Dodsley, 1744, half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, advertisement leaf, spotting and toning, contemporary calf, covers detached, 4to (25 x 20 cm), Richardson (T. M.). Memorials of Old Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1st edition, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1897, 42 etched plates (some mounted), original cloth, rubbed, spine defective at head, large folio, and approximately 15 others (not collated), 19th-century English literature and British topography (including odd volumes of incomplete sets), bindings worn or defective, including Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1840-1 (original cloth, bindings worn, volume 3 binding broken); Allom, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, & Northumberland, 1833 (rear cover detached); Finden's Views of the Ports, Harbours & Watering Places of Great Britain, 1839; two sets of Old and New London, London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, c.1880, 6 volumes (one set bound in 3); and similar (Qty: approx. 30) ESTC T35124 (Fables: the first volume is in fact re-issue of the first edition of 1796, with a cancel title-page); Foxon A139 (Akenside).