Plotinus. An Introduction to the Enneads.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1993. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. A few neat pencil ticks and other scattered marginalia. Near fine.
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The Enneads. Fourth edition revised by B. S. Page. With a Foreword by Professor E. R. Dodds and an Introduction by Professor Paul Henry.
London: Faber and Faber, 1969. Tall 8vo. Fourth edition. First published by The Medici Society 1917-30. original grey buckram, gilt Top edge stained yellow. Some scattered neat pencil marginalia throughout. Near fine in near fine d/w. 'Reading Plotinus... purges and stimulates the mind and opens up the possibility of ways.....
Ritual, Finance, Politics. Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1994. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Scattered pencil marginalia (mostly ticks) throughout. Near fine in fine d/w. A collection of essays to honour the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford, with contributions from twenty-two leading scholars.....
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontispiece in each volume. Light foxing to edges and some to the prelims, especially in volume 1 which also has an ink ownership on the front free endpaper. The other three volumes have.....
English Critical Essays. Twentieth Century. Second Series. Selected with an Introduction by Derek Hudson.
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pott 8vo. First impression in The World's Classics. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge with a faint grey stain. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine and has a very short, creased tear to the top edge of the front panel. Near fine in.....
Selected Shelburne Essays.
New York: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. Pott 8vo. First thus. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine a little faded and tanned. Some faint marks to the boards. Near fine. #434 in The World's Classics. Only published in the USA. Uncommon...
American Critical Essays XIXth and XXth Centuries.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1930. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine slightly faded. Several essays have underlining in red pencil. Very good. #354 in The World's Classics.
A Book of English Essays (1600-1900).
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1912. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Fine. #172 in The World's Classics.
The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1901. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine a little faded and tanned. Neat ink ownership and hand-drawn coat of arms on fly. Endpapers very slightly foxed. Very.....
Virginibus Puerisque and Across the Plains.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926. Pott 8vo. First thus. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine slightly faded. Front board spotted. Endpapers very slightly foxed. Very good +. #296 in The World's Classics.
Lectures on the English Comic Writers. With an Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1907. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine slightly faded. Neat coloured pencil ownership on fly. Near fine. #124 in The World's Classics.
Table-Talk. Essays on Men and Manners.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1901. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine slightly faded. Near fine. #5 in The World's Classics.
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