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1748493London, John and Paul Knapton in Ludgate Street, 1748. This is a subscriber copy, so the real first edition of Anson's book. A brick of a book with 215 x 260 mm, 80 mm thick. 33 unpaginated pp. at the beginning, 417 (2) pp. Contemporary thick binding of a deep purple hue, four nerves on the spine, three black title pieces with author's name, book title and year in gold print characters. Includes the list of subscribers, p. 319 incorrectly designated as p. 219, two pages of instructions to the binder at the end of the book. With 42 copper plates: 14 maps and 28 engravings, all folding (38 having dimensions close to the book itself or to unfold horizontally and 3 being large folding maps). Comes with a sliding protective case. This is a copy of George Anson's account of his circumnavigation voyage. Complete with all the features which are often missing or signal a later edition. A lively tale of hardship, courage, curiosity, risk-taking and doing the impossible: overtaking Spain on the Peru coast, taking a Spanish galleon and completing the travel around the world with an awesome booty and an epic story to tell. The victory of Anson's Centurion launched the age of British dominance over the oceans and paved the way for a Victorian empire where "the sun never sets."
1739151910Oxford: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the University 1739 & 1751. A large Bible and prayer book for the Georgian lectern An imposing early Georgian lectern bible together with the Prayer Book both preserved in matching contemporary reversed calf bindings and unusual thus. Baskett monopolized English bible production for decades with his folio editions the grandest and most imposing designed for use in churches. His great bible of 1717 was a truly impressive edition of which Harry Carter the historian of Oxford printing writes "only Baskerville's Bible Cambridge 1763 is its equal among English Bibles for beauty of type impression and paper" The History of the Oxford University Press 1975 I p. 171. Two works folio Bible: 464 x 288 mm; Prayer Book: 400 x 246. Engraved frontispiece in Prayer Book. Contemporary panelled reversed calf. Divisional title for New Testament with verso recording births and deaths in the Holgate Family in Whixley from 1809 to 1913. Both with minor repair at foot. Bible: front free endpaper affixed to pastedown light peripheral wear staining to fore margin some worming in gutter of sigs. B and C in the New Testament not affecting text. Prayer Book: slight rubbing and minor wormholes at head of spine. Handsome copies. ESTC T90374 & T216675; Bible: Darlow & Moule 1042. unknown
179168436Very Rare Early American Edition of a ChildrenÃs Pocket Bible BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Abridged: Or the History of the Old and New Testament. Illustrated with Notes and Adorned with Cuts. For the Use of Children. Two lines from Luke. Boston: Samuel Hall 1791. Early American edition and first Samuel Hall edition second Boston edition. There were only a total of five Children's bibles published in America before 1791. The First American edition was printed in Boston in 1782 by Robert Hodge for N. Coverly followed by a Worcester Massachusetts 1786 edition by Isaiah Thomas 1786 and 1788 Philadelphia editions and a 1790 New York edition. Our present copy was published the year after the New York edition. Thirtytwomo 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches; 104 x 67 mm. 4 vii-ix 8 18-173 1 pp. With frontispiece of Adam and Eve and fifty-nine crude but charming woodcuts illustrations depicting stories from the text meant to appeal to young children. The stories that have been abridged for use in this Bible generally consist of the more well- known stories which would be of interest to children such as Creation Adam & Eve and Jonah and the Whale from the Old Testament as well as the birth baptism and crucifixion of Jesus from the New Testament. Listed in Evans but not in Sabin. We could find no copies of this edition at auction and only one copy found at the Massachusetts Historical Society. All early American editions are rare and only two complete copies of the New York 1790 edition since 1976. There was the 1786 Worcester edition at auction in 2008 but it was incomplete. Contemporary marbled paper over boards repacked with matching paper. Inner hinges strengthened. Bound without endpapers. Some soiling and toning throughout. One leaf page 145 with some fraying to the edges not affecting text. Overall very good particularly for a childrenÃs book. The rarity of this book can somewhat be contributed to its very small size and that it was intended for the use of children. Something as delicate and tiny as this Bible in the hands of a child had little hope for a bright future. ìBy 1789 Bible story collections specifically for children had existed in the mother country for nearly a century an active market in the American colonies had not opened up. Neither American Protestants nor American Catholics of whom were growing in numbers seemed ready to give Bible stories to their children. In the 1780Ãs the American situation changed radically. Boston printers pirated NewberyÃs Holy Bible Abridged; in 1786 the astute Worcester printer Isaiah Thomas followed suit; and by 1815 The Holy Bible Abridged had been printed in urban and provincial print centers all over the America northeast.î The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present. By Ruth B. Bottigheimer Shipton & Mooney 46126 Bristol B7648 Welch D.A. Amer. childrenÃs books 6127 ESTC W1077 Brinley 5815. HBS 68436. $6500 Samuel Hall hardcover books
172741004London: R. Wilkin 1728 i.e. 1727. 64mo 4 cm 1.57". 6 154 2 155278 6 pp.; 16 plts. <br><br>Delightful example of an illustrated thumb Bible this being => the earliest known prose appearance of such according to Adomeit. Wilkin printed this tiny volume in 1727 and Adomeit notes that "copies are most commonly found with date altered in ink to 1728" as is indeed the case here "but there seems to be no difference between the copies outside of this change." In addition to the two engraved title-pages the text is illustrated with => 16 minscule engraved plates.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Full black calf gilt extra board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Adomeit Thumb Bibles B16 see also p. xvi; ESTC N64949; Opie L 25. Binding as above slightly expectably sprung spine gilt showing one crack. Dates inked in an early hand as above; frontispiece for New Testament affixed to final page of Old Testament. Pages and plates very clean. => A remarkable copy of a desirable item. R. Wilkin unknown books
1791373037Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition. 48 engraved plates complete. 1310 2 89 3pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT unaccomplished. Royal quarto. Contemporary calf covers ruled in gilt spine gilt with raised bands red morocco lettering piece marbled endpapers joints cracked but cords holding worn at extremities spine a bit abraded with some loss at top. Foxing a few leaves with short tears or small voids. Provenance: Ebenezer Byles signature on verso of the OT title. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. First Edition. 48 engraved plates complete. 1310 2 89 3pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT unaccomplished. Royal quarto. Thomas' quarto bible was published in three distinct issues: with 2 copperplates only i.e. frontispieces to the Old and New Testaments; with two copperplates and John Brown's 89-page concordance in the rear; and the rarest and most deluxe form as here with 48 copperplates and the concordance. Of this last issue according to Thomas's catalogue the work was published "in elegant binding." The explanation for the work being complete with 48 plates rather than the 50 plates of the folio Thomas bible of the same year is easily explained: the frontispieces used for the folio bible plates I and XXXIII were too large for the quarto edition and thus were omitted with plates XXIX and XLVIII used as frontispieces of the quarto bible instead.<br /> <br /> A very difficult edition to find in a contemporary unsophisticated binding. Evans 23185; Hills 30; ESTC W4496 Isaiah Thomas unknown
1733151582London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch and J. Osborn in Pater-noster-Row 1733. Finely bound eighteenth century example of Godfrey Richards' English translation of the first book in Palladio's monumental work. Octavo bound in full contemporary polished calf with a morocco spine label lettered in gilt front and rear panels decoratively stamped in blind title page printed in red and black additional engraved pictorial title page illustrated with 71 engraved plates and full-page illustrations 4 folding including a view of St. Paul's Cathedral woodcut illustrations advertisement leaf at end. Twelfth edition. Neat ownership inscriptions and small bookplate to the front free endpaper. Bookseller's ticket to the pastedown. In very good condition with the engravings very crisp and bright. One of the foremost architects of the Venetian Renaissance Andrea Palladio 1508–1580 based his designs on the principles of classical Greek architecture and the traditions of Roman building as described by Vitruvius. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western architecture particularly known for his villas in the Veneto as well as his palaces in Vicenza and churches in Venice all within the Venetian Republic. His architectural theories were codified in his treatise I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura The Four Books of Architecture which exerted a lasting influence on architectural practice across Europe and the United States. Palladio’s style later termed Palladianism combined elements of Greek Roman and Renaissance design emphasizing symmetry proportion and harmony in a manner inspired by classical temple architecture. Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, and J. Osborn in Pater-noster-Row unknown
1800CJW1405London: T. Bensley for T. Macklin final volume Bensley for T. Cadell & W. Davies 1800. First Printing of this Edition. 484 x 390 mm. 19 x 15 1/4". Seven volumes. <br/> Once splendid contemporary black straight-grain morocco gilt covers framed by Greek key roll palmette roll and multiple gilt rules double raised bands spine compartments densely gilt with rows of alternating star and circlet tools gilt titling turn-ins with gilt chain roll purple endpapers all edges gilt some inexpert but not obvious repairs to joints and backstrips. With more than 100 allegorical headpieces and tailpieces and some 70 SPLENDID LARGE-FOLIO SIZE COPPER PLATES after Fuseli Reynolds West and others. Herbert 1442 and 1651. ◆Extremities rather rubbed boards a bit scuffed but the decorative contemporaneous bindings solid and not without appeal. Plates somewhat foxed mostly to margins mild to moderate offsetting from plates occasional mild offsetting in the text bed but still a fresh wide-margined copy.<br/> <br/> The most prodigious form of scripture in English ever published the Macklin Bible features very large and bold type fine Whatman paper and a series of engravings by some of the most celebrated artists of the period. Like the Boydell "Shakespeare Gallery" also printed by Bensley our Macklin Bible is a vast picture book with illustrations that are grand both in size and emotional impact. According to DNB Macklin 1752/3-1800 announced his intention to produce a lavishly illustrated luxuriously produced folio Bible in 1789 and he spent the next 11 years and £30000 making his dream a reality. His efforts paid off: "the subscription list for 703 copies at £46 1s. apiece was headed by the king the queen and the prince of Wales." Sadly Macklin died just five days after the last engraving was finished and did not live to see his masterpiece become one of the most acclaimed English Bibles. As DNB observes "The Macklin Bible endures as the most ambitious edition produced in Britain often pirated but never rivalled." Copies of the Macklin Bible were often put into ornate bindings as was the present set; despite the depradations of time the workmanship of a superior London binder remains apparent. T. Bensley for T. Macklin [final volume Bensley for T. Cadell & W. Davies] unknown
1787271Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid 1787. Very good. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo 211 x 130 mm. Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8 complete. PSALMS: A-E8 complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers a.e.g. in vol. 1 the front joint expertly repaired and tape removed from inner hinges. Preserved in a protective cloth case. INNOVATIVE AND HIGHLY UNUSUAL SCOTTISH CHIPPENDALE ROCOCO BINDINGS COMBINING CHINOISERIE AND NEOCLASSICAL ELEMENTS EXHIBITING THE INDEPENDENCE OF SCOTTISH WORK AT THIS TIME. <br /> <br /> The present example is a striking hybrid of late 18th-century decorative art in Britain the likes of which we have not encountered hitherto. Here "oriental" birds and peacocks are juxtaposed with patriotic depictions of Britannia uncharacteristically surmounted by a fleur-de-lis bold anchors columns sunbursts dripping garlands flowers sheaves of wheat and urns. Presented in the Chippendale style the present binder who is as yet unnamed introduces rococo ornaments while enclosing all of the above with an unmistakably neoclassical greek-key roll. <br /> <br /> EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROCOCO BINDINGS OF THIS QUALITY ARE RARE PARTICULARLY THOSE EXECUTED IN SCOTLAND. <br /> <br /> Rococo book arts in Scotland have been almost completely unexplored on account of the paltry number of examples with which we are able to study. Robert Adam's designs for the bindings of his "Ruins of Spalatro" 1764 is a bold statement of the neoclassical for he was justly celebrated. But we now know that Adam was not exclusively "Grecian." David Pullins' heroic archival research in Sir John Soane's Museum has shown that Adam received three previously unexamined commissions for a seemingly antithetical kind of decoration which he calls "neoclassical chinoiserie" specifically Adam's drawings for an unrealized chinoiserie looking-glass dated 1769 for Edwin Lascelles 1st Earl of Harewood. SOURCE: "Robert Adam's Neoclassical Chinoiserie" in: West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture online. We would argue that the present bindings exhibit such a blend of Chippendale chinoiserie rococo and neoclassical. For a general note on English "Chippendale" and "Chinoiserie" bindings see G.D. Hobson "English Bindings of J.R. Abbey" p. 126.<br /> <br /> ¶ Our bindings may be linked to four others -- all greatly inferior -- which share the large "eagle" tool in common as noted by Mirjam Foot:<br /> <br /> 1. British Library Davis 253 Bible Edinburgh 1790 = Henry Davis Gift Vol. II No. 283; <br /> 2. National Library of Scotland F.4.e.9 Bible Psalms Edinburgh: Assigns of A. Kincaid 1789; <br /> 3. Washington Cathedral Library Bible Edinburgh 1789; <br /> 4. Glasgow University Library DXC 48-48A Bible Cambridge 1792 Psalms Glasgow 1793. <br /> <br /> PROVENANCE: red morocco bookplate of "MARION MALLOCH 1794" inside both volumes -- sold by us to a private collector in 2007 -- bought back by us in 2023. <br /> <br /> ¶ REFERENCES: ESTC 91765 Darlow & Moule 1319; ESTC 91766. Assigns of Alexander Kincaid unknown
17956211London: R. Bowyer 1795. First thus. Near Fine. Two large quarto volumes 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages with a separate title-page for the New Testament and sixty-two plates including two frontispieces from the works of Dürer Rembrandt Van Dyck Rubens and others. Lower corner of 3H3 possible paper-fault torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double raised bands ruled in gilt blind-stamped Greek key design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board-edges decorated in blind elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins gray liners and endleaves all edges gilt. Gift signature to front flyleaf in volume one dated 1841 and a tipped-in square of paper with another nineteenth century gift inscription. Some light scuffing to the boards otherwise near fine.<br /> <br /> A spectacular example of the large paper edition this Bible sometimes called the "Killer Bible" for its typographical error in Mark 7 verse 27: "Let the children be killed" rather than "filled." It was richly illustrated by James Fittler 1758-1835 an esteemed British engraver of portraits and landscapes who served as marine engraver to King George III. He produced illustrations for the Boydell Shakespeare and Dibdin's Aedes Althorpinae. In this edition Fittler based his engravings on Old Master paintings befitting the gravity of the text. The printer Thomas Bentley produced large editions for Thomas Macklin Rudolph Ackermann and Paul Colnaghi all publishers of plate books; he also printed several of the earliest books for the Roxburghe Club.<br /> <br /> ESTC lists three editions of the Bowyer and Fittler Bible: this one which ESTC describes as the large paper edition; the regular two-volume quarto edition also 1795; and a: two-volume twelvemo edition 1796 which was issued in parts. ESTC T95050. Near Fine. R. Bowyer unknown
1791373866Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf panelled in gilt and blind spine with raised bands in six compartments tooled in gilt on either side of each band red and black morocco labels expert repairs. Moderate to heavy foxing repaired tears to text leaves and plates. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution" Wright.<br /> <br /> Dubbed "the Baskerville of America" by Benjamin Franklin Isaiah Thomas issued a folio and a quarto Bible almost simultaneously. Published immediately after the ratification of the Bill of Rights the folio edition arguably his magnum opus opens with a note from Thomas situating it as an important accompaniment to this national development: "The civil authority hath set an example of moderation and candor to all Christians by securing equal privileges to all; and it must be their ardent and united wish independently of foreign aid to be supplied with copies of the sacred Scriptures the foundation of their Religion - a religion which furnishes motives to the faithful performance of every patriotic civil and social duty."<br /> <br /> In preparing the work Thomas compared the language of "not less than eight" significant English Bibles most but not all of which were printings of the King James translation and then had every page of the present edition examined by "the Clergymen of Worcester and . other capable persons." <br /> <br /> In keeping with his patriotism all the plates are by American engravers an expensive undertaking: the majority by Joseph Seymour with others by John Norman Samuel Hill and Amos Doolittle. It is unusual to find complete copies with all fifty plates. The plate list often lacking is present in this copy. The work was issued either in one volume or in two volumes as here the latter including an additional general title page for the second volume bound in as a cancel.<br /> <br /> A celebrated American Bible from one of the young country's most important printers. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497; Sabin 5172; Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88 Isaiah Thomas unknown
1800512129Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. First edition of The Macklin Bible a masterpiece of book design that has been called 'the last of the great Bibles.' Complete in six volumes without the posthumously published Apocrypha. Elephant Folio 19' x 15.5' and . Full red morocco covers with gilt rolled Greek meander borders spines with double raised bands gilt in seven compartments all edges gilt gilt dentelle marbled endpapers. Sturdy bindings are remarkably solid despite the demands of these heavy textblocks. Very Good ex-libris from the John Wilson Collection of Multnomah County Library with small bookplates on paste downs a few penciled notes to versos of title pages but otherwise unmarked. Wide margins. Bindings scuffed and soiled rubbed along joints wear at heads and tails. Contents generally bright with typical offsetting from engravings; many tissue guards still present. Handwritten 2pp. 1889 note from London bookseller Henry Sotheran tipped-in to Vol. 1 wherein he apologizes for the lack of The Apocrypha which was published in 1816. Exhaustively illustrated throughout with engravings including 70 full-page copperplates after Benjamin West Angelica Kauffman Henry Fuseli William Artaud Joshua Reynolds Philip James de Loutherbourg and others. Weighing in at well over 100 lbs this Macklin Bible will ship in multiple boxes and will require additional fees for international delivery. Thomas Bensley for Thomas Macklin hardcover
179864008London: J. and A. Arch 1798. Small 8vo. 2 cancel title viii 1-69 2 70-210 2 errata pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements for Joseph Cottle the original Bristol publisher. Full brown goatskin binding gilt ruling on covers gilt ruling lettering & rosette decorations on spine marbled endpapers occasional light creasing to corners thumbing & faint soiling to fore-edges of a few leaves occasional spotting still a VG copy. First edition second London issue and perhaps the earliest obtainable issue of this pioneering work of English Romanticism as well as the first major literary undertaking of these English poets. The first issue printed in Bristol by Biggs & Cottle to whom Wordsworth had sold the copyright for 30 guineas reached 500 copies and thereupon sold the entire edition to J. & A. Arch who inserted their own title bearing their imprint and this one features Coleridge’s poem “The Nightingale†after “Lewti†was dropped. This copy does bear the “Off†not handcorrected to “Oft†on p. 19 “woods†and “thought†complete on lines 14 & 16 of p. 204 rather than later corrected to wood and without final comma after thought. The two young poets and French Revolution sympathizers had parked themselves in the secluded village of Holfond Somerset avoiding scrutiny in London & Bristol of English authorities and along with Wordsworth’s sister Dorothy and John Thelwall developed a distinctive new artistic vision which influenced future generations. Their intent was to write poetry reflecting seriously on the lives of humble rustic people and in a style of language imitating everyday speech so the verse was less artificial and formulaic of traditional poetry. This first appearance of “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere†explores faith guilt cruelty obsession and endurance of a mariner stranded alone upon a ghost ship afflicted with supernatural forces after killing an albatross and explores the sacredness of nature. See: Mark Reed A Bibliography of William Wordsworth 1787-1930 2013; Wise Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth. J. and A. Arch, unknown
17636390Cambridge: John Baskerville 1763. Very Good/Printing a grand bible had been Baskerville's cherished ambition but the royal privilege belonged exclusively to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Consequently Baskerville applied and was elected printer to the University of Cambridge. An innovator a micromanager a workaholic and an exacting perfectionist he threw everything into the bible project. He invented a stiffer blacker ink for it designed the types and the page layout and demanded smoother paper than was generally available. Ultimately he emptied his own bank accounts and borrowed money when the support of subscribers failed. Indeed he was not able to sell the entire edition of 1250 copies and ended up remaindering more than a third of the press run for pence on the guinea to his enormous personal disappointment and financial pain. The book remains a landmark in the history of English printing "one of the most beautiful books printed in the world" according to the bibliographer Frognall Dibdin a sentiment frequently echoed in Great Britain. This copy with the third longest list of subscribers ending with York. . Imperial folio 50 cm; 573 leaves. Text in double columns. In straight-grain blue morocco with gold-tooled border. Rebacked with original gold-tooled spine laid down. All edges gilt. Later reinforcements to joints and hinges. Light foxing on first and last leaves. Old bookplate on pastedown. Extra shipping charges will apply. References: Gaskell "John Baskerville a Bibliography" 26; Rothschild 2640; Darlow & Moule 857. John Baskerville unknown books
1791345231Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. Folio. Contemporary calf red morocco lettering piece. Expert repairs at top and bottom of spine. Housed in a morocco backed box. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. Folio. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution"--Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497 Isaiah Thomas unknown
175028292Mostly London various imprints and dates 1750-1800 1750. First editions with a few exceptions. The majority of the plays have been disbound and many retain remnants of leather spines. Approximately 150 volumes all 8vo all disbound except for 30 in bound volumes. ¶ A fine representative collection of published plays from the London stage 1750 to 1800 including works by several playwrights who remain well known and others who have been relegated by time and fashion to theatrical by-paths viz: Miles Peters Andrews John Burgoyne Susannah Cibber the two George Colmans Henry Seymour Conway Hannah Cowley Richard Cumberland Charles Dibdin Thomas Dibdin Samuel Foote David Garrick Elizabeth Griffith Thomas Holcroft Elizabeth Inchbald Charles Kemble Edward Moore Arthur Murphy Frederick Reynolds Frances Sheridan George Alexander Stevens et al. A complete list with bibliographical details is available via pdf on our website www.brickrow.com on the catalogues page. <br/><br/> Mostly London, various imprints and dates, 1750-1800 hardcover books
17944016Leeds 1794. Large 4to 308 x 240 mm. 12 leaves text comprising 3 printed titles each with a 6-page description of the items in the catalogue in German French and English and 45 engraved plates of which one folding containing 186 designs numbered 1-152 with an additional 34 numbered and lettered designs for "tea-ware" tea- and coffee-ware in the French and English descriptions. Paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lys and shield with capital letters L V G below Lubertus van Gerrevink. Some light scattered foxing and offsetting plate 20 with closed tear to top margin just entering plate area without loss folding plate 26 torn across and repaired. Modern retrospective calf gilt edges red-stained extremities very lightly rubbed. Provenance: contemporary notes in Portuguese on the blank verso of the last plate; Duncan Grant Warrand loosely inserted ex-libris; Martin Woolf Orskey bookseller 1925-2018 signature at end with purchase date 1972. A multi-lingual catalogue of pottery produced by Hartley Greens and Co. for the use of traveling salesmen. Founded circa 1756 at Hunslet south of Leeds the company gained a reputation for its elegant cream-colored earthenware in the classical style known as creamware a type of earthenware made from white Cornish clay combined with a translucent glaze to produce a characteristic pale cream color. Hartley Greens and Co. so dominated the market that their products came to be referred to as Leedsware or Leeds pottery. Although some of the pieces in this catalogue are for display or special use Leeds pottery was generally a more everyday pottery than that of Wedgewood their principal rival and hence its survival rate is low. The earlier pieces before around 1775 were furthermore unmarked making attribution uncertain thus rendering the firm's printed catalogues all the more important. The present catalogue was "one of the earliest pattern books published in England by pottery manufacturers for the use of their travellers with illustrations of all the articles produced by the firm" Solon. It shows the creamware as issued from the studios before jobbers and importers added colored glazes. Shown are terrines sauce boats salts jugs egg cups covered terrines and bowls cake plates cruet stands candlesticks urns tea services and a remarkable tulip vase among other useful objects of the table many with ornaments some in the characteristic openwork or perforated style. All 186 designs are numbered and identified in the accompanying plate lists. The variety is impressive. Copies of the Leeds catalogues were often cut up by jobbers who relied on the illustrations to transmit orders accurately rather than trusting to written descriptions of the forms. Their consequent rarity makes the publishing history of the catalogues difficult to unravel. The earliest catalogue appeared in 1783 with the text in English only and 41 plates. The Danish National Library has a copy with the text in English and French and the English title dated 1786. Another copy of the present 1794 edition is held by the V&A but it has only 41 plates. Meanwhile there are also copies of a 1794 edition at Yale and RISD with the English text only but with 71 plates. The plates were reissued in 1795 and 1814 or 1815 these undated issues are identified by the watermarked dates of the paper they are printed on. Most of the variously dated copies seem to be reissues of the same plates. Most of the variously dated copies seem to be reissues of the same plates. A comparison of this copy to the Winterthur copy from 1814 which is digitized shows that the same plates were used with the addition of an engraved oval label " Leeds Pottery" on each plate up to and including plate 38 a compotier from which emerges a large cross after which the designs diverge. The editions or issues after 1795 do not have the very useful text with gives the name function and size of each piece: "As the price lists and the general title had been printed independently from the plates and not in sufficient quality to accompany the sets of engravings these late copies are generally found without the title and the printed description of the objects. These price lists now very rare were printed in English French German and Spanish. As the prices were subject to constant revision prices are added with pen and ink" Solon. Our copy is unpriced. Altogether OCLC locates fewer than a dozen copies some incomplete of various issues or editions of the Leeds pottery catalogue. Cf. M.-L. Solon Ceramic Literature 1910 p. 196. unknown books
179728174Birmingham England 1797. Oblong quarto. 7 1/2 x 11 inches. 143 engraved plates 13 folding on laid paper priced throughout in manuscript. Period calf-backed marbled paper covered boards<br/> <br/>Provenance: W. G. & Co. inscription on front endpaper<br/> <br/>A rarely encountered pattern book or trade catalogue of 18th century English furniture hardware including drawer pulls keyholes hinges locks castors bolts watch stands and more.<br/> <br/>By 1770 over thirty different brass foundries operated in Birmingham England making it the epicenter of furniture hardware design in the last quarter of the 18th century. At roughly the same period trade catalogues like the present began to be issued by both furniture and hardware makers alike. Although most of the brass foundry trade catalogues of this early period have no indication of the foundry the present pattern book is inscribed W. G. & Co. on the front pastedown. In all nearly 1000 designs are shown on the 143 plates from rather simple hinges and hooks to incredibly ornate pulls knockers watchstands etc. Although no engravers's names are identified it has been suggested that the foundries themselves produced such plates utilizing the talents of their own craftsmen who by their very occupation would have been highly skilled at etching on metal. Such pattern books "illustrate the beginning of what was then a new movement in the conditions of the crafts namely the growth of the organised factory as a means of production and distribution as compared with the earlier limitation of these functions to the efforts of individuals" Young.<br/> <br/>Cf. Hummel Charles F. "Samuel Rowland Fishers Catalogue of English Hardware." Winterthur Portfolio Vol 1 1964: 188-197; cf. Symonds R. W. "An Eighteenth-Century English Brassfounders Catalogue." Magazine Antiques Feb. 1931: 102-105; Young W. A. comp. Old English pattern books of the metal trades: a descriptive catalogue of the collection in the V&A Museum. London: HMSO 1913. unknown books
176369256Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; BASKERVILLE John. BASKERVILLE John. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville 1763.<br> <br> First edition with the list of subscribers in the third state ending with "The Hon. Charles York Esq; Attorney General." Two large folio volumes in one 19 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 480 x 311 mm. Complete with 573 leaves. Text ends on leaf 13E1 and is followed by an Index and Tables a-e f1. List of subscribers bound in after title-page and dedication. Text in double columns.<br> <br> Beautifully bound in early 19th-century full diced tan calf. Boards elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt and blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Front board lettered in gilt reading "John Miles/ West End/ Hampstead." Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Gilt dentelles. Back board with some very mild scuffing and a tiny bit of worming to head of board and at top and bottom of outer hinge. Some light foxing to first title-page and preliminary leaves but text is very clean. With the dates of births and deaths of the Miles family in old ink manuscript on the front free endpaper. Overall a very good clean copy.<br> <br> Originally priced four guineas in sheets for subscribers "the edition consisted of 1250 copies of which 556 were remaindered in 1768 and bought by the London bookseller R. Baldwin at 36s. each.Baldwin was offering copies at three guineas in sheets in 1771" Gaskell.<br> <br> "One of the most beautifully printed books in the world" Dibdin. This edition "has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen" T.B. Reed A History of the Old English Letter Foundries p. 279. Gaskell declared that the title-page to the New Testament is "a perfect page of fine printing."<br> <br> Although the Baskerville Bible is now recognized as one of the greatest Bibles of all time it was initially a financial failure. Costing £2000 to print the remaining stock about half of the edition was remaindered five years after publication to a London bookseller. It was Baskerville's last great book.<br> <br> "Aesthetically the highest point in English Bible printing so far was John Baskerville's folio printed at Cambridge in 1763. To achieve his ambition to print a folio Bible Baskerville had to become University Printer on not very advantageous terms. The Bible uses his types paper and ink and shows his characteristic 'machine-made' finish: very smooth and even in colour and impression with glossy black ink on smooth paper. The design is traditional but the quality of material and workmanship is so high and the conventions are so delicately modified and consistently applied that the result is extremely impressive" The Cambridge History of the Bible: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day p. 464.<br> <br> Darlow & Moule 857. ESTC T93106. Gaskell Baskerville 26. Herbert 1146. Huntington Library Great Books in Great Editions 6.<br> <br> HBS 69256.<br> <br> $15000. Printed by John Baskerville unknown
1800173564London: printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley 1800. The grandest Bible ever printed in Britain First Macklin edition of the Bible handsomely bound. "The most ambitious edition produced in Britain often pirated but never rivalled" ODNB this Bible is a masterpiece of book art published at the apogee of British copperplate engraving and involving some of the best artists of its day. The Bible dedicated to the king was published serially between 1791 and 1800 in 70 parts each at £1. 1s. Thomas Macklin 1752-1800 began work on the project in the year following the opening of his famous Poets' Gallery in Pall Mall. The prospectus issued in 1789 explained that he was planning to add scripture pictures to his exhibition to be then reproduced in a "magnificent Bible". The paintings were realised by several artists including Hamilton Fuseli and Loutherbourg and exhibited at the Poets' Gallery between 1790 and 1796. Initially promising 60 plates the project eventually included 71 some of which never appeared in Macklin's exhibitions. Most of the headpiece and tailpiece vignettes were designed by Loutherbourg the type was cut by Joseph Jackson and his apprentice Vincent Figgins and the paper made by Whatman. The Bible took 11 years to complete and the publication costs exceeding £30000 almost bankrupted Macklin. Though the final engraving was finished five days before his death the last of the vignettes was not completed for another six weeks and he consequently never saw the finished work. Some copies of the Bible were bound in a fine neoclassical style by contemporary London binders particularly Staggemeier and Welcher. This set is unsigned but the treatment of the spine appears closer to the work of Kalthoeber see Maggs Cat. 1212 II no. 164. This set is bound in six volumes as recommended in the instructions to the binder vol. I. However sets are sometimes found bound in seven. 6 vols large folio 458 x 370 mm. With 71 copper engraved plates after Fuseli and others 113 wood engraved vignette head- and tailpieces. Contemporary diced russia spines with raised bands compartments lettered and tooled in gilt elaborate gilt frames to covers incorporating foliate and flower tools board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt leather inner hinges marbled endpapers edges gilt silk bookmarkers. Bound with half-titles. A few trivial marks and light scuffs to covers small cosmetic repair to rear cover of vol. I superficial splits to a couple of joints subsequently retouched and now firm occasional foxing to contents and offsetting from plates else clean and bright. A very good set. ESTC T123175; Herbert 1441; Lowndes I p. 192. Maggs Bros Ltd Bookbinding in the British Isles Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century Cat. 1212 Part II 1996. hardcover
1789101717Philadelphia: William Young 1790 i.e. 1789. First edition thus. 12mo. 816 pp. with separate New Testament title-page. Collation: A-2L¹². Contemporary sheep; covers worn with some loss to leather exposing boards front joint split and holding by one cord rear joint with old sewed repair contents toned and dust-soiled a few gatherings worn at fore-edge touching text U1 "Song of Solomon" torn and damaged with loss to text and old paper repairs FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND ENGLISH BIBLE PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES and the first English Bible printed after the adoption of the Constitution. It follows Robert Aitken's Bible published in Philadelphia 1781-2. Printing of Young's 12mo Bible which Hills states was advertised for use in schools was already underway when Aitken's 1789 application to Congress for an exclusive right to publish Bibles in America was rejected. Evans notes that "this edition was published in 1789 although dated 1790" and quotes from the publisher's advertisement: "this edition has two strong recommendations to preference it is cheaper than any imported edition; and it is composed entirely of American manufacture." Young followed with a 24mo edition with metrical psalms in 1790.Rare: ESTC locates three copiestwo at AAS NYPL. Complete and in its original binding.PROVENANCE: contemporary birth records on verso of New Testament title-page for Vannosdoll family; Catherine Pellar early ownership inscription on title-page REFERENCE: ESTC W4491; Evans 22345; Herbert 1348; Hills 25 24mo issue; Rumball-Petre America's First Bibles Appendix no. 13 "Second Protestant Bible in English"; Sabin 5168; not in Darlow and Moule William Young hardcover
1794302622Boston: Printed at Boston by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns For J. Boyle B. Larkin J. White Thomas and Andrews D. West E. Larkin W.P. Blake and J. West. Sold by them at their respective book-Stores 1794. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Recent half calf. Small hole in top of title page margin not affecting text title leaf with tissue repair at gutter and fore edge margin 4 other leaves with small repairs to margins. Very good. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. This rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston for a consortium of booksellers aimed to provide a distinctly American printed Bible as an alternative to the British printings being imported and thus included the Great Seal of the United States prominently displayed on the title page. Thus suggesting that even at the dawn of the American republic certain clauses of the Bill of Rights were subject to fluid interpretation. This is an early appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and is the only instance where it was used in conjunction with a patently religious work. Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. Evans 26664; Hills English Bible in America 48; ESTC W4683 AAS Duke Printed at Boston, by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, For J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larki unknown
1794302622Boston: Printed at Boston by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns For J. Boyle B. Larkin J. White Thomas and Andrews D. West E. Larkin W.P. Blake and J. West. Sold by them at their respective book-Stores 1794. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Recent half calf. Small hole in top of title page margin not affecting text title leaf with tissue repair at gutter and fore edge margin 4 other leaves with small repairs to margins. Very good. A-U6 W6 X-Z6 Z6 verso blank. Text printed in two columns. 1 vols. 12mo. Rare American Bible with the Great Seal of the U.S. on the Title. This rare edition of the New Testament printed in 1794 at Boston for a consortium of booksellers aimed to provide a distinctly American printed Bible as an alternative to the British printings being imported and thus included the Great Seal of the United States prominently displayed on the title page. Thus suggesting that even at the dawn of the American republic certain clauses of the Bill of Rights were subject to fluid interpretation. This is an early appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and is the only instance where it was used in conjunction with a patently religious work. Copies are recorded at AAS and Duke. Evans 26664; Hills English Bible in America 48; ESTC W4683 AAS Duke Printed at Boston, by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, For J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larki unknown books
1763300386Birmingham: John Baskerville Printer to the University 1763. The third variant of the Subscriber's list with the most names ending with that of the Hon. Charles York Esq Attorney General. Unpaginated 1146 pages A2 B-13D2 13E1 a-e2 f1. With A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God 4pp. Eyre and Spottiswoode: London 1859 and 2 pp. of manuscript prayers laid-in. 1 vols. Folio 18-3/4 x 12-3/8 in. Contemporary dark blue morocco covers gilt with wide roll borders surrounding central gilt cross built up from small tools. Some light scuffing and wear to joints and corners very slight staining to outer margin of first few leaves in all a very clean and handsome copy. Provenance: Richard Bellamy b. 1741 Manuscript birth and wedding register on rear free end paper for Richard Bellamy and his wife Elizabeth née Griffiths married in 1760 and their 7 children; John William Burns Kilmahew bookplate. The third variant of the Subscriber's list with the most names ending with that of the Hon. Charles York Esq Attorney General. Unpaginated 1146 pages A2 B-13D2 13E1 a-e2 f1. With A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God 4pp. Eyre and Spottiswoode: London 1859 and 2 pp. of manuscript prayers laid-in. 1 vols. Folio 18-3/4 x 12-3/8 in. Baskerville's Masterpiece. The 1763 edition of Baskerville's Bible has always been recognized as his masterpiece and is one of the high-points in the history of printing in Britain. This copy in a beautiful contemporary binding in the style of the leading Cambridge binder of the day Edwin Moor with multiple border rolls and a central lozenge here a cross made up of small tools all typical of Moor's style. Nixon p. 184; Gaskell Bibliography of John Baskerville 26; Ramsden p. 135 John Baskerville, Printer to the University unknown books
1785173867Bath: printed by R. Cruttwell; and sold by Rivingtons' Dilly Robson & Robinsons' 1785. With three Biblical fore edge paintings An imposing Bible handsomely bound by Edwards of Halifax in their celebrated "Etruscan" style. The set is unusual in featuring motifs relevant to the contents on all three fore-edges - scenes from the Old and New Testaments - as opposed to the more typical landscapes. Edwards famously almost never signed their bindings and their style was very frequently reproduced by others. This set is cited by Weber in his Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Paintings as "a notable Bible from the Edwards bindery" Weber 2010 p. 118-9 and it is used as an example in a chapter devoted to distinguishing genuine Edwards bindings and paintings from imitations. The technique of concealing a painting under the gilt fore edge of books was revived in England by William Edwards about 1780. "The Edwards family not only carried on the art but enlarged it from the mainly floral and heraldic early efforts with occasional religious scenes and royal portraits to embrace views of well-known country houses set in landscapes" Marks p. 194. They were the originators of the bucolic English fore-edge painting which became standard in the 19th century. Scholars believe that the paintings were made in Halifax rather than in London by artists both within and outside the family and under the supervision of Thomas Edwards. Inspiration for the images was taken from various sources often engravings appearing in other books; for landscapes the favourite artist was William Gilpin a pioneer of the "picturesque". Volume I features a moment from Genesis: Abraham welcoming three angels into his home an act of hospitality which moved the Lord to bless Abraham and his wife with a son despite she was far beyond childbearing age. On Volume II is an episode from Exodus: an Egyptian princess and her attendants discover the infant Moses in the bulrushes of the Nile. Volume III displays an animated scene from the life of St. Paul as he preaches in Rome. The "Etruscan" style binding with a border of palmettes and other classical ornaments stencilled in black on brown calf was one of the firm's most popular designs. The origin of this style is debated: some 19th-century writers attributed the invention to John Whitaker while others ascribe it to the Edwards firm. It is known that Edwards employed it from at least 1775. Provenance: a Herman Frasch Whiton probably the American sailor and Olympic champion 1904-1967 with his elaborately designed bookplate featuring his arms and a ship on the verso of an initial blank in each volume. b Randall J. Moskovitz MD American collector from Memphis Tennessee with his bookplates loosely inserted. 3 vols large quarto 306 x 238 mm. Contemporary "Etruscan" calf by Edwards of Halifax spines with raised bands compartments tooled in gilt with flower and urn centerpieces and pediment cornerpieces black morocco labels covers with gilt pentaglyph and metope border stencilled frame of palmettes central panel of tree calf enclosed by gilt Greek key roll board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt marbled endpapers each vol. with a contemporary fore-edge painting depicting a Scriptural scene edges gilt green silk bookmarkers. Spines uniformly darkened binding judiciously refurbished joints and spine ends repaired gilt retouched on spine light rubbing to palmettes design in places intermittent foxing and slight toning else clean the fore-edge paintings beautifully preserved. A handsome set. P. J. M. Marks "The Edwards of Halifax Bindery" British Library Journal vol. 24 no. 2 1998; Jeff Weber Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artists & Binders 2010. See also: G. E. Bentley The Edwardses of Halifax 2015; Carl J. Weber Fore-Edge Painting 1966. hardcover
171733327Oxford: John Baskett 1717. 2 volumes folio. 20 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches. Engraved frontispiece in vol. I engraved vignettes on general title and New Testament title engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes and engraved initials. Contemporary black panelled morocco gilt the covers with gilt roll-tooled borders around a series of concentric gilt panels with ornamental leafy sprays and corner-pieces central lozenge gilt composed of similar small tooling spines richly gilt in nine compartments morocco lettering piece in the second compartment gilt dentelles marbled endpapers and gilt edges discreet expert repairs at top and bottom of joints<br/> <br/>Provenance: Sir John Hynde Cotton armorial bookplate; William Charles Smith armorial bookplate; Maggs Bros. catalogue 1212 Bookbinding in the British Isles item 86<br/> <br/>First edition of the monumental splendidly illustrated "Vinegar Bible" -- a "magnificent edition" Darlow & Moule here ruled in red and handsomely bound.<br/> <br/>Commonly known as the "Vinegar Bible" from the misprint "the parable of the vinegar" for "vineyard" in the headline above Luke Chapter 20. While a contemporary lambasted Baskett for this and other typographical errors in the text calling it a "Baskett-ful of errors" Oxford historian of printing Harry Carter states that "only Baskerville's Bible is its equal among English Bibles for beauty of type impression and paper" The History of the Oxford University Press 1975 I p. 171 In 1709 John Baskett purchased the exclusive royal patent to print Bibles in England control of which his family retained until 1799. This magnificent edition of the Bible is among Baskett's most important works highly regarded for its large elegant type; its 60 striking copper-engraved vignette head- and tailpieces; and its many delicately engraved historiated initials. Two distinct varieties occur. This copy is Darlow & Moule's issue A with additional engraved general title page depicting Moses writing the first words of Genesis here bound as frontispiece; vignette view of Oxford on the general title page; and vignette title page for New Testament depicting the Annunciation dated 1716. The present example is noted for both its lovely contemporary black morocco gilt binding and for being ruled in red throughout. Similar bindings on this edition of the bible are noted in both the Wardington Collection and in Mirjam Foot's Studies in the History of Bookbinding p. 409.<br/> <br/>Darlow & Moule 735; Herbert 942. John Baskett unknown books
