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Analysis of the game of chess / by Mr. Philidor. A new edition, improved and greatly enlarged. To which is added, several parties, played by the author blindfold, against three adversaries. London : printed for P. Elmsly, MDCCXC [1790]. Bound in leather, federal style with gold stamped and leather stained decoration; rebacked. Three-panel fore-edge painting of a game of chess.A Game of Chess

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell : from the manuscript in the library at Wooburn [sic] abbey. To which are prefixed, an introduction, vindicating the character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple, &c. ; and the trial of Lord William Russell for high treason, extracted from the State trials. Embellished with three elegant engravings. London : J. Mawman, 1801. Bound in contemporary paneled calf, gold and blind stamped in "Etruscan" style, gilt edges, by Edwards of Halifax, in cloth case. Fore-edge painting by Edwards of Halifax of Harewood House and the surrounding countryside.Harewood House

Specimens of the early English poets. London : Printed for Edwards..., 1790. Edited and compiled by George Ellis. Bound in full vellum, gilt design within panel borders on sides, elaborate design on the back with lyres and Etruscan motif, gilt edges, by Edwards of Halifax. Fore-edge painting of the house of Sir Thomas Claverings, Oxwell Park, Northumberland whose name appears in ink on the fly leaf of the volume.Oxwell Park, Northumberland

Poems by Mr. Gray. London : Printed for J. Murray, (No. 32.) Fleet-Street, 1785. Bound in full vellum gilt borders and leaf decorations on sides, pictorial subject beneath the vellum in center of each cover, gilt decorated spine, gilt edges, rose colored end papers. In a half maroon box case. Bound by Edwards of Halifax. Fore-edge painting of a bridge across a river with the rooftops of buildings visible in the distance and with mountains in the backgroundBridge Over a River

A history of New York : from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker. London : John Murray, 1821. Bound in full green straight-grain morocco, gilt back, gilt paneled sides, gilt edges by Riviere. Fore-edge painting by Miss C.B Currie, of a view of the White House in Washington. With a signed autograph inscription by Miss C.B Currie on a front fly-leaf in reference to this volume.The White House, Washington

The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson / written by Izaak Walton. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1824. Bound in contemporary calf, gilt edges. Fore-edge painting divided into two parts, showing an angler arriving on the bank of a stream, in the first part, and the same scene with the man in the act of fishing, in the other part.Man Fishing

Oberon : a poem, from the German of Wieland / by William Sotheby, Esq. London : Printed for Cadell and Davies ... Edwards ... Faulder ... and Hatchard ..., 1798. Bound in original dark olive green grained morocco, stamped in blind in an ornamental patterned surround, gilt spine title, pink sink moire endleaves, all edges gilt. Fore-edge painting of a scene from the book "Bagdad, 'go hence to Bagdad'", p. 34.Middle Eastern City

Dictionnaire grec-français : composé sur l'ouvrage intitulé Thesaurus linguae graecae de Henri Étienne / par Jos. Planche. Paris : Le Nornant, 1817. Bound in original red straight-grained morocco, richly gilt and blind-tooled, in original red roan solander case. Fore-edge painting of Diana sitting with a handmaid by a lake.Diana With a Handmaid