1. [Cullen, Stephen] Anonymus.

The Haunted Priory: or, The Fortunes of The House of Rayo. A Romance founded partly on historical Facts.

The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box / solander-box. Beautifully restored and bound by a master bookbinder. Including the original endpapers and the original half-title. Front free endpaper and halftitle with dampstain to lower corner only. Dampstain in lower corner of the titlepage only faintly present. One of the rarest titles of Irish Literature and one of the rarest, early gothic-novels / horror-novels. Absolutely scarce and in excellent condition after the beautiful restoration.

2. [De Foe, Daniel] Chadwick, William.

The Life and Time of Daniel De Foe with Remarks Digressive and Discursive.

New York, Burt Franklin, 1968. 14.5 x 22cm. Frontispiece, (8), 464 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition, as new other than some very mild spotting to top edges. [Burt Franklin: Research and Source Works Series 328, Essays in Literature and Criticism, 19].

3. [Fielding, Henry] Thomas, Donald.

Henry Fielding.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. X, 436 pages. Dustjacket design by Anita Turpin with a further 12 pages of black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Front of jacket with an illustration of an engraving of Henry Fielding by John Basire after a sketch by Hogarth, 1733. Back of Jacket ‘The Laughing Audience’ by Hogarth, 1733. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von] Pelikan, Jaroslav.

Faust the Theologian.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995. 15 cm x 24.5 cm. XI, 145 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Designed by James J. Johnson. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. [Smollett, Tobias] Kelly, Lionel.

Tobias Smollett – The Critical Heritage.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. 22.8cm x 14.5cm. XVII, 380 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition.

6. [Steele, Richard] Bickerstaff, Isaac.

The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. [With four engravings by F.Haymandel / C.Grignion].

Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, J.Buckland, H. Woodfall, etc., 1764. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). Frontispiece, [2], 300, [14], Frontispiece, [3], 336, [13], Frontispiece, [5], 318, [16], Frontispiece, [7], 320, [12] pages. Hardcover / Oiginal 18th century full leather with original spinelabels and gilt lettering on spine. All four Volumes complete and in protective Mylar. Housed in a wonderful, bespoke Solander-Box. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume.

7. [Swift, Jonathan] / Taylor, W.D.

Jonathan Swift – A Critical Essay.

London, Peter Davies, 1933. 14.7 cm x 22 cm. 312 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Good- condition with definite signs of external wear. Cracks to rear hinge of spine. Binding still good and firm. Bookblock tight and square. Sun-fading evident. Edges dust-toned. Minor foxing also. Very minor tears to some preliminary pages. Interior unmarked.

8. Anonymus [Giovanni Tegrimi, Lucchese].

Rime Scelte di Diversi Autori Antichi, e Moderni. Tradotte in Lingua Latina da N.N. Con un’ Elegia in fine del medesimo Autore.

Lucca, Sebastiano ed Angelo Cappuri, 1745. Small Octavo. 235 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good in full vellum and raised bands on the spine.

9. Ashton, Robert / Michelburne, John.

Two Historical Plays: The Battle of Aughrim, or the Fall of Monsieur St. Ruth / Ireland Preserved, or the Siege of Londonderry.

Dublin, C.M. Warren, No date [c.1880] 9 cm x 14 cm. 144 pages. Softcover / Original, titled brochure. Good condition with signs of external wear. Damage to corners of front page. Spotting on page edges, front and rear page and several pages within. Otherwise clean inside and intact.

10. Austen, Jane / Chapman, R.W. (Collated by).

The Novels of Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion with introductory notes. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman With Notes Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.

One Volume. Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. 12 cm x 19 cm. Northanger Abbey: Frontispiece (The Pumphouse, &c. From Bath, Illustrated from a Series of Views, from the Drawings of John Claude Nattes, 1806), XIII, 252 pages / Persuasion: Frontispiece (Autumnal Walking Dress, Invented by Mrs. Bell. From La Belle Assemblée, 1815), 333 pages. Some black and white illustrations throughout both novels. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper. [The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen (Volume V of VI)].