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1883184551London: Crosby Lockwood & Co 1883. Hardcover. VG Cover has general wear and staining. Spine has small piece missing at connection to front cover. Bookblock has age toning. Fold out diagram at front of book free from binding Interior pages have age toning. Signature of previous owner on inside front cover dated 1889. Red cloth boards with gilt cover design and gilt lettering on spine. xiii 400 pages illustrations. Other Titles: A Rudimentary Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking: with a chapter on church clocks; and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster clock. With numerous drawings. Crosby Lockwood & Co hardcover books
1846WRCAM37115Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements plus engraved frontispiece and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott àBeckett after the first British edition of the same year. Beckett who here parodies the revered 18th-century jurist William Blackstone pursued careers as both a barrister and a comic writer - he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1841 the same year in which he helped found PUNCH as part of its original staff. THE COMIC BLACKSTONE was published in both its American and British editions in four parts between 1844 and 1846. The printed titlepage in the present copy refers to the work as whole without mention of the parts with 1846 as the publication date while the engraved titlepage states 1844. The publisher's advertisements are dated May 1845. Carey and Hart unknown books
1850D14004Bradbury Agnew & Co. n.d. c. 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Half gilt-ruled green morocco and green cloth gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands a.e.g.; 8vo; pp. xii 308 with illustrated title-page printed in b/w and red; plus 10 hand-colored steel-engraved plates numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text; collates complete. Spine sunned with tiny split at head of spine along front joint holding just fine; boards lightly rubbed. A little faint marginal foxing but text block is overall bright and clean and plates are in fine condition colors remain true. An excellent copy in a lavish binding. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. hardcover books
1844245664Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1844. Very Good binding. Cruikshank. The first two parts of the First American Edition bound together dated 1844 and 1845. Brown ribbed cloth binding rebacked with most of original spine and leather title label laid down. Some foxing rather heavy to preliminaries but scattered and moderate thereafter. Very Good binding. Carey and Hart unknown books
185227771London: John W. Parker & Son 1852. 12mo. 29 pp. <br><br>Denison is of the opinion that such a marriage as detailed in title might well be held legal in England but that nothing is certain. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-leaf detached. Minor chipping to some page edges. John W. Parker & Son unknown books
1846WN40814London: The Punch Office 1846. Original blind stamped plum cloth gilt spine sunned and some soiling staining and bubbling of cloth. AEG. Ownership bookplate and signature on preliminaries. Author better known for his comic history of England. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Leech John. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade. The Punch Office Hardcover books
1850D14014London: Bradbury Evans and Co. n.d. c. 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Half gilt-ruled green morocco and green cloth gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands a.e.g.; complete set of 2 volumes 8vo; pp. xviii 320; 304; with 20 hand-colored steel-engraved plates 10 in each volume numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text; collates complete. Spines sunned; boards lightly rubbed; corners a little scuffed. Internally bright and clean with plates in excellent condition colors remain true. Armorial bookplate of George Burnham Wells on front paste-down of Volume 1. A handsome set. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Evans, and Co. hardcover books
18634426Portland ME: Brown Thurston 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Light shelf/edge wear two small pinholes at front hinge several small moisture stains at front board very minor foxing at preliminaries minor age toning at text block edges small moisture stain at top edge at rear else tight bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements advert. endpages tipped in ad fold-out map. 12mo. 324pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>Though the boards show a bit of age/wear the textblock is extremely nice and both the fold-out elements advert for Bailey & Noyes Booksellers and map are in Fine condition. Map "Plan of Portland - 1863" is particularly lovely being in "blueprint" style with streets and most interestingly the various piers in the harbour all identified. Overall a handsome copy. Brown Thurston hardcover books
1850134903London: John Weale 1850. Hardcover. Fair Ex-lib. pocket inside front cover pocket inside back usual markings; Light wear to cloth; Pages very clean; Two pages have pulled loose from binding but are present. Red cloth over boards library binding; 279 pp.; Numerous bw figures. Author designed the clock mechanism in the Clock Tower now called the Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster. John Weale hardcover books
1847D4612London: Punch Bradbury and Evans 1847-8. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Complete set of 2 volumes. Lovely dark brown gilt-ruled morocco and blue marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering and detail in compartmented spine all edges gilt. Each volume complete with 10 hand-colored etchings 20 total as well as numerous woodcuts in text. Joints a bit scuffed; corners lightly bumped; otherwise a simply lovely set. <br/><br/> Punch [Bradbury and Evans] hardcover books
1847897821847. BECKETT S. B. THE PORTLAND REFERENCE BOOK AND CITY DIRECTORY FOR 1847-8. Printed by Thurston & Company 1847. 312 pp. folding map. 12mo. library binding with gilt leather spine label. Ex-library with usual markings; perforation stamp on title page. Folding map published by S. H. Colesworthy complete small closed tear at hinge no loss. Persons businesses vessels railroads societies and lodges and Counting House Almanac; with business directory at end many ads illustrated with wood engravings. a. unknown books
1852028146London: Bradbury Agnew & Co 1852. Octavo. hand-colored frotispiece and nine other hand colored plates pictorial title page in red and black xii 308 pages. In the middle of the 19th century there was a taste for humor with issues of Punch and in books by Lewis Carroll and Gilbert A Beckett which often had symbolical or allegorical overtones. The puns in this volume often bring a hidden delight along with the ten etched engravings by John Leech all of which are handcolored. Cicero Denouncing Cataline is issued as a frontispience instead of at the end of the book. Bound in 3/4 red polished calf over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled raised bands with lettering gilt and compartments fully gilt decorated edges rubbed. A clean bright copy without foxing names or bookplates. Bradbury, Agnew & Co unknown books
1883516851883. Duffy Sir. Frank Gavan; Thomas Turner A Beckett. Introduction and Notes to the Transfer of Land Statute by Thomas A'Beckett. Second Edition with Amending Acts and Additional Notes and Forms by Frank Gavan Duffy. Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell 1883. xiii 1 l. 311 pp. Ex-library. Mild wear to cover corners bumped hinges cracked. Some pencilled underlining and notes. Mild foxing. A good copy. $350. No copies found in OCLC. unknown books
1835127369London England: Chatto and Windus 1835. half leather marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers. 12mo. half leather marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers. viii 160; ii 161-388; viii 184; ii 185-428 pages. 4 Volumes. First volume with prefatory remarks. Illustrations by George Cruikshank Cohn 184 and other illustrators. In a signed binding by W. Roach from NY. An assortment of humorous matter. Each volume with frontispiece a foldout in the third volume. Black and white plates and illustrations in text throughout. According to Cohn this is a complete run. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges and along spine. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1846015195Published at The Punch Office 1846. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Beautiful Fine Copy In Light Full Brown Leather Six Compartments With Gilt.First Edition1846 Parts 1-IV Gorgeous Copy. Published at The Punch Office Hardcover books
187135802London: John Camden Hotten 1871. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: John Camden Hotten 1871. 2 vols. Fold-out frontispiece and many illustrations including several fold-outs. Hardcover. 8vo. Professionally rebacked original gilt-stamped cloth boards. New end leaves. Volume I First Series 1835 - 1843. 388 pp. 32 pp. adverts dated 1871. Frontispiece and many illustrations. Volume II Second Series 1844 - 1853. 428 pp. 32 pp. adverts dated 1871. Corners bumped light rubbing to heel edge; light foxing to frontis title and half-title in volume II. Penultimate leaf of ads in volume two has a 1" tear. Overall quite good. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. John Camden Hotten hardcover books
185351924Portland ME: Sanborn & Carter 1853. First edition. 12mo. 180 pp. Wood engravings plates extra engraved title page folding map. Original gilt-stamped green cloth faded spine ends chipped. Very good. <br/><br/> Sanborn & Carter hardcover books
1885D11315London: Messrs. Christie Manson and Woods 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. Half mottled green cloth and printed paper over boards gilt-stamped lettering on spine; small 4to 162 x 255 mm; pp. 2 title-p. conditions of sale 283 plus 33 Woodburytype photographic prints 120 x 192 mm each numbered in pencil on the mount. Three portions of a massive auction bound together by R. S. Buffery of Mortimer Street. Boards rubbed and scuffed mostly along the edges; tidy marginalia in ink throughout usually just recording hammer prices but also some occasional underlining. <br/><br/>Auction catalogue of 3354 lots detailing the extensive art collection of British colonial administrator and Conservative politician Christopher Beckett Denison 1824-1884. Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods hardcover books
1847313830London: Published at the Punch Office 85 Fleet Street 1847. First edition. 20 colored etching and 120 woodcuts by John Leech. xii 320; xii 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in half calf with gilt spine and marbled paper boards. Loss of text on plates due to trimming in rebinding else very good. Leech John. First edition. 20 colored etching and 120 woodcuts by John Leech. xii 320; xii 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street unknown books
185334293Portland Maine: Sanborn & Carter and H. J. Little & Co 1853. First edition. Engraved plates and illustrations by Baker Smith & Andrew after original sketched by C. E. Beckett illustrated title reading "Portland White-Mountains & Montreal Rail-Road Guide" with Foster Gerrish & Co Printers 1858 folding map at back. 180 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth stamped in blind lettered in gilt on upper cover. Some rubbing of extremities page 67 and adjoining leaves with stain near gutter not affecting legibility else a very good copy. First edition. Engraved plates and illustrations by Baker Smith & Andrew after original sketched by C. E. Beckett illustrated title reading "Portland White-Mountains & Montreal Rail-Road Guide" with Foster Gerrish & Co Printers 1858 folding map at back. 180 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sabin 4247; Cobb #207; Bent p.5 Sanborn & Carter and H. J. Little & Co unknown books
1851800541851. LEECH John. A BECKETT Gilbert Abbott. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. Illustrated by John Leech. London: Bradbury Evans and Co. 1851. First edition bound from original parts. Illustrated with 10 full-page hand-colored steel etchings and with smaller wood engravings in text. Octavo. xii308 pp. Full calf skillfully rebacked with decoratively gilt-tooled spine with two green lettering pieces laid-down. Inside dentelles gilt green coated endpapers with bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive copy with only slight darkening of spine and edges of boards. Two leaves have short tears at edges and near the end there is a shallow dampstain at the top edge of some pages which does not affect text or illustrations; otherwise the interior is quite clean. Eight of the nine front wrappers from the original parts issue have been bound-in at the end missing only the cover for number six along with some of the advertisements such as 2 of 4 pp. of "Comic Rome advertiser no. 1 May 1851" and the 16 p. "Guild of Literature and Art. Prospectus of a new endowment" from the first issue and a couple of other slips advertising a new work by Dickens and Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. However the advertisements are not bound in order. Comic versions of serious subjects with appropriatly humorous illustrations became popular beginning in the 1840s. This work contains lovely and witty illustrations by John Leech one of the most popular artists of his day. Tooley 298: "More rare than the Comic History of England.". unknown books
1869311016London: George Bell & Sons York Street Covent Garden 1869. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half blue morocco with original covers bound in spine laid down by Root & Son. Cruikshank George. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "To Chas. Kent Esquire with the best regards of George Cruikshank July 4 1870." opposite engraved title. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden unknown books
1845134225London UK: Published at the Punch Office 1845. full leather five raised bands gilt letter on spine. Guild of Women-Binders. 8vo. full leather five raised bands gilt letter on spine. 284 pages. Elegant arts and crafts crimson crushed morocco Guild of Women-Binders bookbinding from the turn of the twentieth century. Single panel in blind to the boards and plain leather turn-ins in place of dentelles with 'Guild of Women Binders' in gilt at the tail of the front pastedown and all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with some offsetting from the crimson turn-ins. The letter-press title page is preceded by Cruikshank's engraved title page text engraved throughout and very clean. An excellent copy most attractively bound under the aegis of Frank Karslake who founded the Guild. Published at the Punch Office unknown books
185194242London: Bradbury Agnew and Co. Ld 1851. leather edges gilt five raised bands gilt lettering on spine. Guild of Women-Binders. 8vo. leather edges gilt five raised bands gilt lettering on spine. iv xii 308 pages. First edition Tooley 298. Not in Field. Illustrated by John Leech with 10 full-colored etchings and 98 woodcut vignettes. John Leech was a staff artist for "Punch" from its early issues in 1841. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the original staff members for "Punch." One of the Victorian era's best-known comedies. This particular copy is bound in full Chocolate Crushed Morocco both covers blind ruled with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title in gilt lettering on the spine between the first and second band from the top. Guild of Women-Binders ticket in gilt on the lower leather turnin on the front pastedown. Two faint scratches on the front cover. Spine lightly sunned. Leather offsetting onto free endpapers. Moderate foxing on preliminary pages with a majority of the text and colored plates being uneffected. Title page has small chip in top right corner. The binding while austere but as one would expect from the Guild of Women-Binders it is well executed. Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ld unknown books
