HALIFAX, Charles Montague, Earl of.—Poems on Several Occasions. By the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Halifax. London: Printed [for E. Curll &c] in the Year M D C C X V. 8vo, calf, gilt back, gilt edges, by Bedford.
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Collation: Title, A1 (verso blank). "On the Earl of Halifax's Poems. By Mr. Addison," (verses). A2, Dedication "To the Right Honourable George, Earl of Halifax," the author's nephew, by the Editor. A3 (misprinted A2)-A4 (verso blank). Preface, A1, repeated. Poems, etc., pages 1-92. Memoirs, pages 1-264. Copy of the Will of Lord Halifax, pages i-viii.
HALIFAX, Charles Montague, Earl of.—(I.) The Works and Life Of the Right Honourable Charles, late Earl of Halifax. Including the History of his Lordſhip's Times. London: Printed for E. Curll, . . . J. Pemberton, . . . and J. Hooke, . . . M DCCXV. . . . (II.) [Same title as in the preceding item.] 8vo, Cambridge calf.
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Another issue of the same edition, with a general title-page and without the verses by Addison. The sheets of the text are the same as in the other issue.
Collation: General title (I. above), A1 (verso blank). Dedication to George, Earl of Halifax, A2-A3 (verso blank). Preface, A4. Second title (II. above), A1, repeated. The remainder of the volume is like the preceding issue.
HALL, H. Byng.—The Adventures of a Bric-a-Brac Hunter, by Major H. Byng Hall . . . London: Tinsley Brothers . . . 1868. . . . Post 8vo, cloth, uncut edges.
HALLAM, Henry.—Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. By Henry Hallam . . . London: John Murray . . . MDCCCXXXVII. [-XXXIX.] 8vo, four volumes, blue levant morocco, gilt back, gilt over uncut edges, by Bedford.
First edition. Illustrated by the insertion of four hundred and fifty portraits, the majority being proofs, of which one hundred and five are on India paper. The portraits include fine examples of engraving by Faithorne, Hollar, Marshall, Crispin de Pass, Delaram, Nanteuil, Ficquet, Vertue, and others, and a drawing of Sir John Davies.