6th Edition, 1778. Remarkably free from foxing or browning.

Review copy with publisher’s slip loosely inserted. Very good, remarkably clean tight sound square copy. Good dust wrapper; chipped with very slight loss to head of spine. Overall impression is very good. This highly desirable 1st UK edition volume is interesting as a review copy with no evidence of previous owners and no price-clipping.

In 3 volumes. Original leather binding with marbled endpapers and gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Some wear and bumped corners to all volumes but all contents are clean and bindings tight. Good condition for age. Previous owner’s bookplates present on inside front covers of each volume.

Two volumes, in a much sought after binding, that would enhance any serious American Civil War collection.

A critical appraisal with notes by Henri Chamard, reprinted in 1948, of this classic text from 1549 by the poet du Bellay. It is considered to be the manifesto of the literary movement known as La Pléiade, who were concerned with ways of enriching the French language.

George Bellairs was the nom de plume of Harold Blundell (1902-1985), a crime writer and bank manager born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, who settled in the Isle of Man on retirement. He wrote more than 50 books, most featuring the detective Inspector Littlejohn. He also wrote four novels under the alternative pseudonym Hilary Landon. His first novel Littlejohn on Leave was published in 1941.