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2012Atlantic-9781412903691Sage Publications 2012. Hardcover. New. Sage Publications hardcover
110639First edition first issue. London Printed for John Murray 1815. 2 blank 8 53 1 blank pp. 6 pp. publisher`s adverts with announcement of Jacqueline; a Tale and 2 titles and half-titles for The Works of Lord Byron at end. Bound with original wrappers in later brown half calf. Bookplate Gilbert Compton Elliot at front pastedown. Top edge gilt. Gilt spine. Uncut. . unknown
1995C102815Arthena. As New. 1995. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 717 pages; approximately 800 illustrations including 32 in color. Hallé Noël Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Arthena hardcover
1995C128844Arthena. As New. 1995. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 717 pages; approximately 800 illustrations including 32 in color. Hallé Noël Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Arthena hardcover
1981C91516Hales & Iremonger. As New. 1981. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 168 pages; illustrated with both black and white and with color images. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Hales & Iremonger hardcover
2004C102556ARTHENA. As New. 2004. Paperback. 2903239312 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 167 pages; well-illustrated with many black and white and 45 color illustrations. Noël-Nicolas Noel Nicolas Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . ARTHENA paperback
19329076New York City London 1932. Green paper wrapss with color illustration pasted to front cover string bound bifolium printed in black and red ink on Vidalon paper signed by Rackham on the first page very good. <p><br /> John Barry Ryan Jr. was the grandson and heir of prominent financier Thomas Fortune Ryan. In 1928 he married Margaret Nin Kahn daughter of Otto Kahn whose wealth and mustache were the inspiration for "Mr. Monopoly" and was sometimes known as "the King of New York."<br /> <br /> The Ryans were both collectors and patrons of the arts. A limited number of Rackham's The Night Before Christmas were printed with an extra leaf tipped in to the the front of the book that reads "A Merry Christmas from Mr. and Mrs. John Barry Ryan Christmas 1931" and supposedly distributed to friends and family. <br /> <br /> This is their Christmas greeting from 1932. Printed inside is Church's "Yes Virginia There is a Santa Claus." It seems to be a sort of prenatal gift as their daughter Virginia was born on February 9 1933. Virginia Ogilvy Countess of Airlie was the first American to be a lady-in-waiting serving Elizabeth II until her death in 2022 and was a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.<br /> <br /> The Santa Claus illustration on the cover seems to be specially commissioned by Ryan for the occasion as "Copyright 1932 by John Barry Ryan" is printed right beneath it. This image was not included in Rackham's illustrations for The Night Before Christmas and is stylistically different enough that it isn't believed to be an abandoned plate for that project. Arthur Rackham signed this copy on the bottom of the first page.<br /> <br /> Scarce with one holding in OCLC and no previous sales records.</p> . unknown
198251679Penguin Books. As New. 1982. Paperback. 0140063137 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine clean & unmarked - 210 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Penguin Books paperback
90969London Paul Jerrard n.d. circa 1860. . First edition. 8vo. Hand-coloured pictorial title-page hand-coloured presentation page 10 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates text printed in red with decorative borders of grasses printed in gold. Contemporary green morocco gilt covers with fancy gilt borders and decorative gilt centre panel panelled spine in 6 compartments red morocco lettering piece with gilt to second others richly gilt raised bands all edges gilt.<br /> 'A scarce treasure for the collector' Dunbar.<br /><br />Published in Paul Gerard's series Cream and Gold Presents appropriate for marriage birthday and festive occasions for all seasons these were the ultimate in Victorian drawing-room books. Originally brought out in a gutta-percha binding copies easily fell apart and few have survived. The present copy is extremely fine.<br /> Dunbar p56. London, Paul Jerrard, n.d. circa 1860. hardcover
1924878F18London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford 1924 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 8.5". Not Stated. The two volume first edition of this beautifully and richly illustrated study of the history of tennis. The two volume first edition of this work. While eight-hundred copies of this work were produced it is thought that between three and four hundred copies were destroyed and only around four hundred sets put in general circulation.Illustrated with one-hundred and sixty illustrations across two volumes over one hundred and twenty-six plates. Including a colour frontispiece to volume I. Collated complete.Volume I examines the history of tennis from 1800 onwards alongside tennis in Australia and America and the history of amateur and professional champions while volume II contains sections on the laws and literature of tennis alongside discussion of the construction of courts and handicaps. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip head and tail with fading to spines. Minor light rubbing to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford hardcover
174364781-V6-1Leyden: S. Luchtmans 1743. Half perkament. 4to. Gegraveerde titelprent 'J. Punt inv. et fecit 1742'. 1469 4 pp. plus uitvouwbare platen. - Ruggen en platten wat geschaafd en iets vlekkig hoeken wat gebutst knepen iets los binnenwerk her en der iets vochtvlekkig de marges wat krap afgesneden. Compleet met 80 genummerde uitvouwbare platen plus een ongenummerde uitvouwbare kaart tussen pp. 1326 en 1327 De uitklapbare gegraveerde platen illustreren het proces van het distilleren de kunst van het meten en de huischemie. Onder de S vindt men ook de "Geheimen" waaronder waterwaarzeggerij hoe goud uit vergulde lijsten te halen en de "geheimen van Hippocrates". Andere gravures tonen tuinontwerpen planten en zelfs een ontwerp voor een open haard. De meeste van de tachtig uitvouwbare gegraveerde platen illustreren echter het vangen van vogels vissen en dieren - niet alleen konijnen en hazen maar ook wolven en vossen allemaal met behulp van een grote verscheidenheid aan vallen en ingewikkelde machines. De tekst geeft vooral advies over het houden en verzorgen van huisdieren de bijenteelt en het kappen van bomen. Het Huishoudelijk woordboek is ook een kookboek met veel recepten voor maaltijden en huismedicijnen al doet de titel dat niet vermoeden en ook tips en trucs om je schoonheid en gezondheid te behouden. Het bleef gedurende de 18e eeuw erg populair in heel Europa en ook in Japan waar de Nederlandse vertaling veel in gebruik was. Het werd begin 19e eeuw zelfs in het Japans vertaald. S. Luchtmans unknown
166200547<p><strong>"PERHAPS THE GREATEST SCANDAL.IN FRENCH THEATER"</strong> --- A composite volume containing six rare comedies from the age of Molière: Thomas Corneille. <em>Le festin de pierre; comedie mise en vers sur la prose de feu Mr de Moliere</em>. Paris: Sign of St. Louis Thomas Guillain and/or Jean Ribou 1683. 4 115 1 p. pi2 A-I6 K4. First edition. --- Noël Le Breton de Hauteroche.<em> Crispin musicien; comedie. </em>Paris: Pierre Promé 1674. 6 136 p. pi4-pi4 A-L8/4. First edition. --- <em>Le soldat Poltron; comedie</em>. Paris: Jean Ribou 1668. 48 p. A-D6. First edition. --- Jean de Rotrou. <em>Les sosies; comedie</em>. Paris: Gabriel Quinet 1668. 2 92 p. pi1 A-G6 H4. Possibly the second edition after the first of 1638 but one of three editions or issues published in Paris the same year. --- François Doneau. <em>La cocue imaginaire; comedie</em>. Paris: Jean Ribou 1662. 12 35 1 p. ã6 A-C6. Probably the third edition after Ribou editions of 1660 and 1661; another edition of 1662 based on the present has VIII 26 p. --- Charles Chevillet de Champmeslé. <em>Les grisettes; comedie</em>. Paris: Pierre Le Monnier 1671. 4 77 1 p. pi2 A-F8/4 G4-G4. Second edition but sometimes called the first having been so reduced from its three-act first appearance that one might reasonably consider it a different work. --- The headliner here is the first edition of Corneille's <em>Festin de Pierre</em> first performed in 1677.Corneille younger brother of the much more famous Pierre adapted his <em>Festin de pierre</em> from Molière's <em>Dom Juan</em>. In truth it's a rather family-friendly version stripped of its more risqué exchanges. Thus it stands as "perhaps the greatest scandal in the history of the French theater" DeJean. Elements of Molière's original production incensed the censors—which of course did nothing to quell popular demand. "In 1674 a year after Molière's death the long suppressed work was obviously still hot property." But nobody could get their hands on a copy. It didn't appear in print until 1682 and even then heavily censored. Thomas Corneille however managed to obtain a manuscript copy from Molière's widow "the one play whose publication had never been allowed." Corneille struck the offensive bits and found great success with it. "Indeed until the mid nineteenth century it continued to be staged instead of any text more closely linked to Molière's despite the fact that more authentic texts soon became available." ¶ While the others may be more obscure they surely have their own places in the history of French drama. Hauteroche's <em>Crispin</em> was among a small group of plays that "prefigure the parodic procedures that inform Dancourt's opera parodies" a successful series of farces and "alluded to the shift of power that had taken place in the Paris opera scene" Powell. ¶ <em>Le soldat Poltron </em>still mystifies scholars. A note on our title page calls Claude de La Rose aka Rosimond the author but this seems to have been debunked. "Fournel concludes that the play is so poor that the question of its authorship has no importance" Lancaster. The play's context is the 1667-1668 War of Devolution when France invaded territories in the Northeast held by Spain. ¶ <em>Les sosies</em> which takes as its subject the Greek legend of Amphitryonis the oldest play in the group first performed in 1636 and a theme Molière later explored in his own <em>Amphitryon</em>. Rotrou's play was tapped for related stage productions in 1650 and 1653 refreshed with elaborate stagecraft and a new ballet context respectively. "These precedents showed the vitality of the theme and also its adaptability which offered Molière the further possibility of producing scenes relying heavily on clever machinery—the 'pièce en machine' had become quite popular and Molière was always ready to utilize the latest techniques" Forehand. ¶ Our <em>Cocue imaginaire </em>was Ribou's shameless attempt to profit from the success of Molière's <em>Sganarelle ou Le cocu imaginaire</em>. "This <em>Cocuë imaginaire</em> which was never performed was thus a new fraudulent calculation of Ribou. F. Doneau was content to render <em>démarquer</em> <em>Sganarelle </em>scene by scene and often verse by verse and even hemistich by hemistich" Mongrédien. ¶ The final play in the volume Champmeslé's <em>Les grisettes</em> is perhaps the least familiar in the group. "The principal merit of Champmeslé's comedies" according to 19th-century bookseller J. Techener "consists above all in the faithful portrait of the little absurdities of bourgeois society." The play did draw on some elements of Molière's <em>Dom Juan</em> so perhaps it's fitting closure. ¶ All of these are scarce. We find a few North American copies of Corneille's <em>Festin de pierre</em> and this <em>Crispin musicien</em> at Harvard but none for the other four plays. Of <em>Les sosies</em> in fact we find no copies at all. --- PROVENANCE: An early owner has inked on each title what they seem to have thought was the date of the play's first performance.<em> Crispin</em> with faint penciled markings throughout. Early list of contents handwritten on a front fly-leaf. Old description of the volume clipped from a bookseller's catalog and tipped to a rear fly-leaf. Front paste-down bears the bookplate of Dr. Ernest Desnos 1852/1853-1925. --- CONDITION: Early brown leather the spine tooled in gold and with a leather label <em>Festin de Pierre</em>; marbled endpapers; red edges. ¶ All plays cropped close occasionally shaving a headline; E gathering of <em>Pierre </em>dampstained in the lower right and maybe half a dozen leaves with large tears affecting text A4 perhaps the worst more than 3" long partially repaired and with minor textual loss; <em>Cocue</em> dampstained and a bit ragged at the edges the lower margin wormed sometimes touching text; upper corner of <em>Grisettes </em>title torn away affecting a single letter. Extremities worn with the tailcap mostly chipped away the headcap partially so; leather covering the joints split about an inch from the bottom but all cords intact and the binding remains very strong; superficial surface crackling in the leather perhaps just dry perhaps a mottling solution gone wrong; once used as a coaster with a ring on the rear board. --- REFERENCES: Joan DeJean "The Work of Forgetting: Commerce Sexuality Censorship and Molière's Le Festin de Pierre" <em>Critical Inquiry</em> 29.1 Autumn 2002 p. 59-65; Mouhy <em>Abrége de l'histoire du théatre François </em>1780 v. 1 p. 195 <em>Festin de Pierre</em> "performed on 12 February 1677 printed in 1683 in-12"; John S. Powell "The Opera Parodies of Florent Carton Dancourt" <em>Cambridge Opera Jounral </em>13.2 July 2001 p. 88-89 on <em>Crispin</em>: "In this play the master of the house is both a singer and harpsichordist and his household servants display varying degrees of musical talent"; Henry Carrington Lancaster <em>A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century: Part III the Period of Molière 1652-1672 </em>Johns Hopkins 1936 v. 1 p. 334-335 on <em>Poltron</em>: "The play is a farce written with apparent haste for an audience that had recently witnessed preparations for the War of Dévolution had seen officers providing their own equipment soldiers who lacked the valor of which they boasted and girls who were temporarily attracted by dreams of military prowess. The plot is slight."; Walter E. Forehand "Adaptation and Comic Intent: Plautus' 'Amphitruo' and Molière's 'Amphitryon'" <em>Comparative Literature Studies </em>11.3 Sept 1974 p. 205; W.L. Wiley "Molière and Plautus: The Legend of Amphitryon" <em>Romance Notes</em> vol. 15 suppl. 1 1973 p. 112 "There are certainly some similarities between Rotrou's <em>Les Sosies</em> especially in its <em>pièce à machine</em> adaptation and Molière's <em>Amphitryon</em> as Paul Mesnard has pointed out; but it is doubtful that Molière's 'first thought was of Rotrou his second of Plautus' as H.C. Lancaster has suggested"; Georges Mongrédien "'Le Cocu imaginaire' et 'La Cocuë imaginaire'" <em>Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France </em>72.5/6 Sep/Dec 1972 p. 1028 cited above but the entire article offers a fascinating account of the dramatic fraud; Librairie J. Techener <em>Description bibliographique des livres choisis en tous genres </em>Paris 1858 v. 2 p. 367 #10861; Lancaster <em>History of French Dramatic Literature</em> v. 1 p. 767 "When Champmeslé brought out a second edition of his play he reduced it to one act and changed the title"; M. Fuchs Review of Joseph-Frédéric Privitera's <em>Charles Chevillet de Champmeslé</em> <em>Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France </em>46.3/4 1939 p. 247 "<em>Les Grisettes</em> M. Privitera tells us was inspired by the <em>Précieuses</em> with the addition of elements taken from <em>Don Juan</em> from <em>Bourgeois Gentilhomme</em> from <em>Avare</em>"</p> hardcover
18471267London: Longman & Company 1847. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Superbly bound in full black impressed morocco binding over beveled boards by Hayday. 31 chromolithographed full-page illustrations chromo title-page text borders and initials all by Noel Humphreys. A monumental production of this most notable and sought-after early Victorian landmark in book binding and color production. A fine copy with almost no signs of wear seldom seen in this condition. Longman & Company unknown
1924316809Oxford: Oxford University Press 1924. First edition one of 800 copies. Profusely illustrated after photographs old engravings etc. 106 plates on 80 leaves in volume I and 54 plates on 47 leaves in Volume II. xv 281; viii 282-580 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Publisher's blue buckram. With front pictorial dust wrapper for each volume laid in. First edition one of 800 copies. Profusely illustrated after photographs old engravings etc. 106 plates on 80 leaves in volume I and 54 plates on 47 leaves in Volume II. xv 281; viii 282-580 pp. 2 vols. 4to. The standard work on the history of court tennis. The archive of the Oxford University Press reveals that in 1932 some 380 sets of the edition were pulped. The true limitation is therefore nearer to 420. Whitman p. 28; Henderson p. 208 Oxford University Press unknown
181638597John Murray 1816. 8vo. First Edition EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with engraved frontispiece and 18 engraved plates; most attractively bound in full red calf sides with gilt frame border expertly rebacked to style with old backstrip gilt laid down gilt top gilt dentelles marbled endpapers uncut a remarkably well-preserved fresh crisp copy. With the publisher's 4pp catalogue dated February 1816 at end. THIS COPY WAS BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY FOR CHICAGO PUBLISHER AND WHOLESALER A.C. McCLURG; the binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. It was possibly compiled on behalf of a dedicated collector for the plates and portraits are numerous and relevant. The frontispiece 'Leila' engraved by Mote after Corbaux and 11 plates relate to the first work; the remaining 7 plates to the second. Of particular interest are the fine portraits of John Hobhouse to whom the work is dedicated by Hopwood after Wivell and John Sobieski engraved by Thomson from a picture in the Louvre. A MOST UNUSUAL AND EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE COPY IN sympathetically restored period binding. Randolph p. 55; Wise I p.106. John Murray, unknown
198120690ROGNER & BERNHARD 1981. 1. softcover. Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis ROGNER & BERNHARD paperback
178490300Paris: De BureBarrois aînéBarrois jeune 1784. Fine. De Bure Barrois aîné Barrois jeune Paris 1784-1786 7.6 x 11 cm 7 volumes reliés New edition of the French translation this one by Abbé Pluquet see Cordier Sinica 1395-1396.Contemporary half tan calf bindings over corners smooth spines decorated with double gilt fillets black calf title-pieces some rubbing to spines and headcaps marbled paper boards with some surface wear a few corners slightly bumped speckled edges period bindings.This French translation of Father François Noëls Latin work includes the Observations on the moral and political philosophy of the Chinese legislators The Great Learning or the Science of Adults The Doctrine of the Mean The Book of Sentences Meng Tsee or The Book of Mencius Hiao-king or The Book of Filial Piety and Siao-hio or The Book of the School of Children.Born in Hestrud in the North of France in 1651 the Jesuit Father François Noël departed for China in 1684 where he spent the greater part of his life.He was twice deputed to Rome on matters concerning the Chinese rites and spent his final years in Lille where he died in 1729. De BureBarrois aînéBarrois jeune hardcover
1944189627London: William Heinemann Ltd 1944. The author's copy First edition the author's copy with his elegant art deco bookplate and his signature on the title page. The bookplate was designed by Gladys Calthrop 1894-1980 who worked as a set and costume designer on many of the original productions of Coward's plays including Private Lives 1931 Design for Living 1933 and Present Laughter 1943. This copy later passed into the collection of Geoffrey A. Johnson Coward's close friend and US representative and has his ownership stamps. The two met in 1961 when Johnson worked as the stage manager for the Broadway production of Coward's Sail Away. The two went on to work together until Coward's death in 1973. Johnson acted as a trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation and was the Life President of the Noël Coward Archive Trust. Coward's Middle East Diary relates part of his world entertainment and propaganda tour during which he reported to William Stephenson of the British Security Co-ordination part of MI6. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt brown endpapers. With dust jacket. Corners bumped front inner hinge cracked but stable; jacket unclipped spine toned a little nicked and foxed: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
1944143406London: William Heinemann Ltd 1944. Inscribed to his friend First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author to Coward's friend the actress Joyce Carey on the title page: "For Joyce from !!!". Coward's Middle East Diary relates his late 1943 tour across North Africa the Levant and Iraq visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals and performing a series of morale boosting concerts. Joyce Carey OBE 1898-1993 is best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noel Coward. In the midst of her stage career which lasted 1916 to 1987 she rejoined Coward in 1942 to tour in his three newest plays This Happy Breed as Sylvia Blithe Spirit as Ruth and Present Laughter as Liz a character based partly on Carey herself. She later played all three roles in London. After the war she played in Coward's new plays Quadrille and Nude with Violin alongside Gielgud in London and Coward himself in New York. Her New York Times obituary noted that she "excelled in Coward plays" and that "her constructive comments helped shape" them. Octavo. Original blue cloth titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy in near-fine jacket spine panel a little sunned. hardcover
1944150261London: William Heinemann Ltd 1944. First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author "To Guy as usual Noel". It is possible the recipient was Guy Burgess who were both involved in intelligence work during the Second World War. Coward's Middle East Diary relating part of his world entertainment and propaganda tour during which he reported to William Stephenson of the British Security Co-ordination part of MI6. Octavo. Original blue cloth titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. A fine fresh copy. hardcover
1930184460Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1930. The Hunt started off from Misery Flats; / Some rode in toppers some billycock hats First edition of this celebration of the Shanghai paper hunt the expatriate community's answer to fox hunting. The text is supported by detailed maps of Shanghai's rural environs and photographs from the private collections of members as well as drawings provided by the Shanghai-based artist Edmund Toeg and the cartoonist H. W. G. Hayter. Equestrian pursuits were extremely popular in Republican China's international settlements. Businessmen diplomats military officers and the well-to-do used them to affirm their status and build connections and Shanghai was perpetually gripped by a "mania" Weirather p. 59 for racing. Founded in 1863 the Paper Hunt Club was one of the oldest expatriate groups in the city and by 1930 it included members from 19 different nationalities. This history anthologizes a large amount of information from the club's archives. A special section pays tribute to Ah Pau the head boy responsible for laying the paper trail for riders to follow. Ah Pau was invaluable when dealing with locals who objected to riders careering across their land: "In his dealings with his fellow countrymen he is usually the embodiment of imperturbability and good humour but when their rapacity and obstructiveness pass all reasonable bounds he lashes them with stinging invective and withers them with biting scorn" p. 29. Quarto 280 x 222 mm. Large half-tone frontispiece after photograph of Christmas 1929 hunt by Ah Fong Photography Studio; 51 plates 2 colour 1 folding many after drawings by Edmund Toeg and 2 after caricatures by Henry William Goodenough Hayter; 6 folding maps of riding country in and around Shanghai; pen and ink illustrations by Toeg in text; red embossed vignette of horse and rider on title page. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt gilt vignette of horse and rider on front board green pictorial endpapers fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A little worming and marking to cloth spine and head of boards sunned black ink spots on fore edge frontispiece and one map creased where incorrectly refolded: a very good copy. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography p. 105; not in Mellon. Larry Weirather Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China 2015. hardcover
1841190305London: William Smith 1841. A gem of 19th-century entomological illustration First edition of this splendidly illustrated book one of Humphreys's most accomplished works as a naturalist illustrator. It is a collaboration with the leading entomologist John Westwood who contributed the letterpress. A skilled artist trained in Brussels Humphreys became interested in natural history after a tour of Italy. Upon his return he settled in London as a neighbour of a relative the landscape architect and prolific author J. C. Loudon. Humphreys is "deservedly remembered for his extensive and significant contribution to the commercially produced book" ODNB. He wrote for a series of garden periodicals including Loudon's Gardener's Magazine and published two entomological works with Westwood: the present work on butterflies and subsequently British Moths and Their Transformations 1843-45. Both proved extremely popular. Westwood 1805-1893 was one of the first entomologists to obtain an academic position at Oxford University and he founded with Frederick William Hope the Entomological Society of London. In 1846 the name Westwoodia was given in his honour to a genus of Hymenoptera. He was himself a skilled insect illustrator contributing drawings to several publications between the 1820s and the the 1840s. Large quarto 266 x 206 mm. Original green roan spine with gilt raised bands lettering and floral decoration in compartments covers with blind frame enclosing elaborate floral border and centrepiece board edges and turn-ins richly gilt yellow coated endpapers edges gilt. Hand-coloured lithographic title page and 42 similar plates. Old bookseller's slips loosely inserted; ownership inscription on front free endpaper of the London dentist Ashley William Barrett 1848-1939 and his brother Henry John dated 1901 inscription of one David S. Smith below. Spine and board edges faded to brown corners worn a few marks to covers extremities skilfully refurbished and front inner hinge repaired occasional faint spot of foxing or small mark to contents else clean. A very good copy. hardcover
1848182652London: Longman & Co. 1848. One of the "supreme examples of Victorian Gothic" First edition of this icon of 19th-century book design. It is one of a handful of titles that showcase Humphrey's black so-called papier-mâché binding and displays a fantastic suite of his chromolithographs. Such bindings which imitate carved ebony were cast in plaster over a papier mâché mould. "The result was splendidly gothic and impressive" and they represent "perhaps the biggest triumph among all the ingenuities of Victorian commercial book-binding" McLean pp. 72 & 151. This design was inspired by a binding of carved ivory on a psalter in the British Museum. Humphreys 1810-1879 was also heavily influenced by Italian and Flemish manuscripts of the Middle Ages. The skill of the chromolithography demonstrated here is masterly and improves upon that of his previous titles. Octavo. Chromolithograph title page heightened in gilt 31 chromolithograph leaves with text and borders in medieval style 4 pp. letterpress at end. Original black plaster boards with elaborate gothic relievo design by Humphreys incorporating six medallion vignettes depicting miracles black embossed morocco spine spine and both boards lettered in relief gilt inner dentelles Fountain pattern marbled endpapers gilt edges. Housed in a custom blue cloth box. Relievo crisp and unrubbed boards superficially cracked at edges lower corners bumped letterpress pages foxed plates bright. A near-fine copy. Ruari McLean Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing 1963. hardcover
1727CAT000162Dublin: J. Watts 1727. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary paneled calf corners worn recently rebacked in calf. Introduction by Richard Bradley preface subscriber list. Scattered browning endpapers discolored generally clean internally.<br/><br/>The first English edition was London 1725 the first French was 1709. A great deal of information on food and drink as well as gardening weights and measures destruction of vermin bee keeping etc. Attractive in-text illustrations scattered throughout. Size: Folio. 2-volume set complete. Previous owner's book-plate on front pastedown. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Gardening. Inventory No: CAT000162. J. Watts hardcover
1948140946411London: Grey Walls 1948. First British edition. First British edition first printing. Signed by Charles G. Finney on the half title inscribed to "Lester Koening - with the regards of the author Charles G. Finney / Tucson May 18 1949." Koening the inscribee was an American screenwriter film producer and founder of the jazz record label Contemporary Records. In the 1950s he was blacklisted by HUAC. 151 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with green pictorial stamping spine lettered in gilt green top stain. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket spine panel a little toned and edge worn. Quite uncommon signed by the author. <p>A deeply weird yet enoyable circus-themed novel that defies easy categorization or description. It has been called "dark fantasy" and humor. There are also elements of metafiction to it like the footnotes at the end dubbed "The Catalogue." This UK edition follows the American original by 13 years and has decidedly darker style of illustrations by G.N. Fish rather than Boris Artzybasheff. Inspired the 1964 film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. Grey Walls unknown
