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  English printers ornaments

  HENRY R. PLOMER

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  A fascinating look at the decorative art used in English printing from early presses to the 18th century. This detailed study appeals to bibliophiles, typographers, and historians of publishing and design.

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  The Virgin Of The Sun

  HR HAGGARD

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  The Virgin of the Sun – Complete Edition.Brand New Copy.By H. Rider HaggardThe Virgin of the Sun is a novel by H Rider Haggard set in South America.There are some who find great interest, and even consolation, amid the worries and anxieties of life in the collection of relics of the past, drift or long-sunk treasures that the sea of time has washed up upon our modern shore. The great collectors are not of this class. Having large sums at their disposal, these acquire any rarity that comes upon the market and add it to their store which in due course, perhaps immediately upon their deaths, also will be put upon the market and pass to the possession of other connoisseurs. Nor are the dealers who buy to sell again and thus grow wealthy. Nor are the agents of museums in many lands, who purchase for the national benefit things that are gathered together in certain great public buildings which perhaps, some day, though the thought makes one shiver, will be looted or given to the flames by enemies or by furious, thieving mobs.

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  Coningsby - or The New Generation

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  A young aristocrat comes of age as the old Tory party dies and asks what a party is for. Disraeli wrote it in 1844 as a manifesto for Young England and put half the cabinet into it under other names; it is the first English political novel of ideas. This edition is bound with a gallery of 59 plates after painters including Frith, Leech, Morland and Turner, dating from 1789 to 1883.

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  Jamaica Anansi Stories

  Martha Warren Beckwith

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  Jamaica Anansi Stories is a book by Martha Warren Beckwith published in 1924. It is a collection of folklore, riddles and transcriptions of folk music, all involving the trickster Anansi, gathered from Jamaicans of African descent.

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  The Eye of Istar - A Romance of...

  William Le Queux

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  An Englishman crosses the Sahara to a hidden kingdom in search of a talisman and a woman who wears it. Le Queux wrote these desert romances between his spy scares and put real caravan routes into them. This edition adds a gallery of 53 plates after David Roberts, Eugène Delacroix and others, plus six illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

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  All the Best Parts of Beauty - A...

  P. O. Dixon

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  “Wherever two souls first meet, love destined to be will surely be.” 
  All the Best Parts of Beauty is a collection of Pride and Prejudice variations based on the premise: “What if Darcy and Elizabeth’s first meeting was not in Hertfordshire?” 
  The featured stories are A Lasting Love Affair, Only a Heartbeat Away, Impertinent Strangers, and By Reason, by Reflection, by Everything. 
  About the Featured Stories: 
  Impertinent Strangers — A first meeting that takes place in Kent. Imagine Darcy and Elizabeth falling in love right under Lady Catherine’s watchful eye. 
  A Lasting Love Affair — Darcy meets and falls in love with Elizabeth in a place far, far away from Hertfordshire and long before he meets any of her family. 
  Only a Heartbeat Away — This first meeting occurs in London! Elizabeth missed meeting Mr. Darcy at the Meryton assembly. Based on all she had heard of the proud man, Elizabeth could hardly wait to make his acquaintance. 
  By Reason, by Reflection, by Everything — Darcy and Elizabeth meet in Derbyshire. While he is destined for one sister, he is bewitched by the other. 
  Author’s Note: As a special bonus, Pride and Sensuality is also included. This delectable tale follows Darcy and Elizabeth in the days and nights leading up to their wedding. It’s not a “first meeting not in Hertfordshire” story, but there’s chocolate. 
  And who doesn’t love chocolate? 
  Be it friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, love at first sight, or slow-burning romance, there’s something in store for everyone to love. 

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