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1869007788Melbourne Australia: George Robertson 1869. New Edition containing prefaces to First and Second Editions xliii 255 pp with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules five raised bands with gilt lettering decorative end pages all edges gilt wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Bearing the small bookplate of Alfred Sutro English author dramatist and translator of the works of Maurice Maeterlinck. Near Fine original cloth covers bound in front and rear moderate toning to end pages and first few pages two small rubs to morocco at rear joint prior owner name half-title page. . New Edition. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George Robertson Hardcover books
5674518 lines on folded self envelope with cancelled stamp signed "GeoCruikshank" Cruikshank writes that at an "elocution class" at the Southwark Literary & Scientific Institution" he had intimated a friendship with MacKay and that the class entreated him to get McKay to address the asembly. Cruikshank writes this letter enclosed with an invitation not included. Small piece missing from the bottom of the leaf not affecting any of the holograph. from Wikipedia: Cruikshank George 1792-1878 English caricaturist illustrator and etcher; younger son of Isaac Cruikshank 1756-1810 caricaturist. Self-taught George early gained a reputation for his humorous drawings and political and social satires. He succeeded James Gillray as the most popular caricaturist of his day. Cruikshank illustrated more than 850 books and contributed to such publications as the Meteor the Scourge and the Satirist. Among the best of his many illustrations are the famous Life in London in collaboration with his brother; his masterly etchings for Grimm's German Popular Stories; and the 12 etchings in Richard Bentley's miscellany which include the notable illustrations of Oliver Twist. In his later years Cruikshank made many drawings depicting the evils of intemperance such as The Drunkard's Children The Bottle and The Gin Trap. Collections of his works are in the British and the Victoria and Albert museums. Charles Mackay 27 March 1814 - 24 December 1889 was a Scottish poet journalist author anthologist novelist and songwriter remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. unknown books
18952222200<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Illustrated in red and black by Will H. Bradley. Original tan linen over blue pictorial boards with an art nouveau designs in black and red on front and rear covers t.e.g. No dust jacket. No foxing. Very good corners worn; end of spine frayed; few stains. 129 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>One of 600 copies on handmade paper watermarked Ruisdall.</p><p>Bambace A9.</p><p>Printed by John Wilson and Son. University Press.</p><p>Art nouveau masterpiece in school of William Morris.</p> The Burrows Brothers Company hardcover books
19341674<p>BAYNTUN-RIVIERE BINDING FIRST EDITION FINE.</p> HEINEMANN hardcover books
1934500556<p>London January 13 1934 drawn on the Westminster Bank in the amount of L2-10-0 . Philip M. Johnston. 3 1/4" x 8" cancellation stamps and red ink marks slightly affecting signature portion.</p> unknown books
18197970New York: American Bible Society stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw 1819. 8vo 24.2 cm 9.5". 705 1 215 lacking 1/2 1 blank pp. <br><br>Early American Bible Society Bible following its first which appeared in 1816. This stereotyped New York Bible was done from the same plates as Fanshaw's 1818 Long Primer Octavo and this 1819 example is seen institutionally far more often in microform copies than in genuine holdings.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front cover with blind-stamped logo of the American Bible Society; title-page with inked inscription reading "Mary Ann Lanings word obscured August 24 1823." . <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 47213; Hills 375. Contemporary sheep double-panelled in blind spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title label; binding rubbed and unevenly faded leather cracking over spine. Foxing ranging from mild to severe; last few leaves waterstained; some dog-earing. One worm track to upper outer margin of a few leaves. New Testament lacking title.<br>Â Â Â Â Well used but not abused; an evocative copy. American Bible Society (stereotyped by E. & J. White; pr. by D. Fanshaw) hardcover books
1794215352London: Debrett; Longman; Debrett; Debrett 1794. All but the last title first editions. 80; 6 42; 4 61 3; 4 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarters blue polished calf gilt spine t.e.g. Upper cover detached. All but the last title first editions. 80; 6 42; 4 61 3; 4 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Debrett; Longman; Debrett; Debrett unknown books
190028014London: Various publishers 1900. First Editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 brown polished calf t.e.g. by Bickers & Son London. With the bookplate of R.D. Jackson. First Editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Various publishers unknown books
198410222NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1984. First US edition. Limited issue of 350 numbered copies signed by Heaney on the limitation page. Copy #169. Green full-cloth with embossed decoration on front board. Illustrated by Barrie Cooke. Introduction by Heaney. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Fine condition in a Fine slipcase with the publisher's original shipping carton. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
30466English Mid-19th century. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. Fine. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. 19th Century English Sporting Scene. A small painting of great charm showing a sleeping dog gun game bag and several dispatched pheasants in a woodland setting. unknown books
30467English Mid-19th century. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. Fine. 1 vols. Image 3-1/2 x 5 inches attractively matted and framed to 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches overall. 19th Century English Sporting scene. A charming small study of two spaniels chasing a snipe or woodcock in a woodland setting. unknown books
1902304678<p>First edition. Octavo. Original red cloth stamped in gilt spine slightly darkened; light rubbing. Very good. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Enclosed in a 1/2 red morocco slipcase. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Chapman & Hall, Ltd. hardcover books
179429828London: Anthy. Milteno 1794. St. Caecilia is seated at an organ with an open music book above the keyboard; two cherubs sing from a music book to her right. <br/><br/>The model for the painting was the singer/actress Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan née Elizabeth Ann Linley 1754-1792 daughter of the composer and conductor Thomas Linley 1733-1795. <br/><br/>370 x 280 mm. Printed on wove paper.<br/><br/>Some wear; minor chips tears and soiling to edges with remnants of former mount to upper right edge; some creasing; old paper repairs to verso; trimmed to just within plate impression. Anthy. Milteno unknown books
19302221649<p>"J.M. Barrie" in black ink on his Adelphi Terrace House Strand W. C. 2 London letterhead December 1 1930. Overall size 9" x 5 1/4". 1 page recto only inlaid to a slightly large sheet. Very good.</p><p>"In answer to your letter I enclose.purpose giving tomorrow night at the Guils Hall about the Children's Hospital. Yours sincerely. A. C. Grey by Press Associations."</p><p>Letter answering an inquiry about a children's hospital probably The Great Ormond Street Hospital to which he gave copyright of "Peter Pan" in 1929.</p><p>Barrie 1860-1937 born May 9 1860 Kirriemuir Angus Scotland; died June 19 1937 London England; Scottish author creator of Peter Pan."</p> unknown books
1879999<p>First edition. Octavo. Author's preface. Bibliographical references. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and black bevelled edges uncut. Very good clean and tight copy. 384 pages. Scarce. Johnsonian bookplate of A.E. Newton and Vincent Lloyd Russell. Publisher' name on spine: Longmans & Co. Comparative theories of natural selection and teleological progression examined by the famous author 1835 1902 of "Erewhon" and "The Way of All Flesh."</p> Hardwicke and Bogue hardcover books
18318254Boston: Pr. by Stephen Forster at the Boston Press Francis Jenks proprietor for Gray & Bowen 1831. 4to 27.7 cm 10.875". In 2 vols. I: lacking frontis. 2 ff. 915 1 blank pp. II: lacking frontis. 2 ff. 804 1 blank pp. 1 blank f. <br><br>Handsomely and plainly printed in two columns of large type without notes this two-volume Bible is as remarkable for the becoming simplicity of its layout as it is for its handsome binding of red leather gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Boston binding Straight-grained red morocco amply gilt in the Regency style: Front corners with a wide gilt-stamped foliate frame enclosing a narrow blind-ruled frame. Spine with raised bands a broad foliate gilt roll on each band second and fourth compartments gilt-lettered within rest with gilt frames. Gilt inner dentelles and board edges. Red and white silk head bands. Marbled endpapers in a stone pattern. All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Presentation inscription on front fly-leaves: Preston S. and Francis M. Lincoln to their grandmother Hannah Shepard 1835. Small booklabel of Michael Zinman on front pastedown. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Hills 733; O'Callaghan 208. Binding as above edges and joints with minor rubbing front joint of vol. II opening from foot bindings showing a few light or small abrasions; overall clean and attractive. Lacking frontispiece for vol. I and possibly a frontispiece for vol. II: O'Callaghan gives this edition as having a frontispiece for each volume while Hills cites two copies one this size with a frontispiece for vol. I only and a large paper copy with a frontispiece for each volume. A few closed tears into text without loss; some pages especially towards the end of vol. I shallowly chipped without loss of impression; light foxing throughout with occasional darker browning or staining. Inked ownership inscription on the recto of the first fly-leaf of each volume. [Pr. by Stephen Forster at the Boston Press, Francis Jenks, proprietor, for] Gray & Bowen hardcover books
1712WRCAM53913Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson 1712. 23pp. 12mo. Dbd. Small closed tear from top edge of titlepage. Trimmed close at top edge occasionally affecting pagination. About very good. One of four printings of this satirical pamphlet variously attributed to John Arbuthnot or Jonathan Swift. The work poses as a prospectus for a treatise on political lying; an actual full length treatise was never published. This Edinburgh printing is scare with ESTC locating only four copies at the National Library of Scotland the Folger Shakespeare Library the University of Illinois and Princeton. ESTC T171029. Printed by James Watson unknown books
182542274New York: Printed and Published by T. Kinnersley 1825. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in full polished mottled calf with the name "Fanny Beecher 1836" stamped on the upper cover loss at bottom edges. Zion Library Label. Illustrated. 1 vols. Folio. Beecher Family Bible. Printed and Published by T. Kinnersley unknown books
199990337London: Faber and Faber 1999. First edition first prnt. Translation with Introduction by Heaney. Signed by Heaney on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Faber and Faber Hardcover books
18993392Denver: Privately Printed 1899. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. 215 x 139 mm. 76 pp. photographic text illustrations some full-page. Original green printed wrappers slightly soiled worn and chipped at head and tail pencil inscription on back wrapper SEE IMAGES internally unmarked and unspoiled. NOT ex-library! A remarkable account of an itinerant teenage girl in the the far west very well written and informative. This slender privately published volume has received far too little attention by historians.<br/><br/>The author was a genuine early western "army brat" who except for two years in the East at boarding school grew up "on an Indian pony" in remote Western army posts where her father served as a major in the 7th Cavalry. Mary's high-spirited account commences in Rawlins Wyoming with her arrival by train from the East and boarding school with her mother and a female servant. A grizzled peg-legged stage driver meets the ladies with an army ambulance photo included to drive them overland 150 miles to join Mary's father at Fort Washakie. It does not take very long for Mary to flee the confined ambulance and her female companions and grab the reins from the driver. Their stops along the route are Sheep's Ranch inhabited by a lone coyote; Lost Soldier Ranch "a small pile of low adobe buildings unsightly and gray with dust; not a tree or green thing in sight"; Sweetwater Ranch "much of the land being fenced off with the deadly barbed wire allow no herds of antelope and deer as found in my girlhood"; and Wind River Ranch dangerous ascent down steep Beaver Hill imperiled further by a rattlesnake that spooked the mules. <br/><br/>In an amusing but instructive anecdote Mary tells of their overnight sojourn at the rough headquarters of Lost Soldier Ranch whose owner Tom proudly relates how he bought the ranch with savings from working as a cowpuncher. The ranch had two large rooms one for sleeping and the other a bar-kitchen that reeked of beer "Think of it! Beer for breakfast beer for luncheon beer for dinner". The sleeping quarters contained four enormous beds each large enough to hold six men. Tom had thoughtfully partitioned off one bed for the ladies making a privacy screen with five-foot paper-thin boards for security there was a big glittery bowie knife under the bed and light consisted of a candle in a broken beer bottle. Mary's mother and the servant were so horrified at the immodesty of the sleeping arrangement that Tom in a gesture of true ranching hospitality graciously agreed that he and his cowboys would sleep in the other room on the floor.<br/><br/>From the Dorothy Sloan Collection of Women in the West. <br/><br/>Graff 1251. Howes 1954 3323. Huntington 292: "An interesting narrative of life and adventures in the far west containing details on the Shoshones Arapahoes etc.". [Privately Printed] unknown books
193015121Washington D.C.: Judd & Detweiler 1930. Edition ltd. to 475 copies tall 8vo pp. 2 158; many illus. throughout; orig. cream linen stamped in gilt a little soiled else very good in publisher's slipcase. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas. This copy marked "designer's copy" on the colophon and with Douglas's bookplate designed by Bruce Rogers and with a 23-line autograph note to Douglas signed by Bruce Rogers "B.R." concerning the design of this book modern art architecture design etc. with orig. envelope tipped to a blank flyleaf; also at the back in a separate pocket are the printed comments of among others Carl Purington Rollins and William Kittridge apparently from Douglas's own newsletter. From Rogers' note: "I like . your modernistic book . better as a remembrance than as a book - but I admire all you youngsters' efforts to put "modernism" on the map - and you have almost done so - but not for long. It's getting passe already." <br/><br/> Judd & Detweiler unknown books
176242105Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett Printer to the University 1762. With the New Testament title page bearing the name of "Mark Baskett." Herbert says M. only. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary full crimson morocco gilt panelled spines a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of Isabella Hildebrand and ownership inscriptions of Charlotte Milles 1767 Margaret Brutoon Isabelle Hildebrand 1912 and Sir Hector Livingston Duff 1936. With the New Testament title page bearing the name of "Mark Baskett." Herbert says M. only. 2 vols. 12mo. Herbert 1145 Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the University unknown books
166153527Cambridge: Printed by John Field Printer to ye Universitie 1661. Old Testament only. With Apocrypha in separate volume. With elaborate engraved title page by Vaughan. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary black calf in the 'somber" mode. Bookplate of Daniel M. Friedenberg. Old Testament only. With Apocrypha in separate volume. With elaborate engraved title page by Vaughan. 2 vols. 8vo. Herbert 674 Printed by John Field Printer to ye Universitie unknown books
1769254985Cambridge: John Archdeacon Printer to the University 1769. 2 vols. 12mo. Bound in contemporary green morocco covers with outer dog-tooth roll border surrounding floral roll border spines in five compartments with raised bands a.e.g comb-marbled endleaves light rubbing to extremities binder's blanks removed from both volumes. 2 vols. 12mo. Archdeacon was University Printer from 1766 to 1793. Darlow & Moule 889; t95018. Provenance: Mary Carlton contemporary bookplate; Nancy Barr gift inscription "given her by her aunt Mary Carlton" John Archdeacon, Printer to the University unknown books
179426207New Haven: Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin 1794. 4to 26.3 cm 10.4". 1168 pp. lacking frontis. portrait pp. 12128. <br><br>First American edition following the British first of 170003 of this successful and remarkably often reprinted New Testament with commentary by Anglican clergyman William Burkitt one online database erroneously describes a few holdings of this edition as having been printed in 1793. The Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne called it a "deservedly popular work" with much "practical utility"; Spurgeon admired it too and useful in its way it still is.<br>Â Â Â Â The Biblical verses with interspersed exegesis are printed in double columns. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC W32224; Evans 26668; Hills English Bible in America 47; O'Callaghan 49; Trumbull Connecticut 423; Horne Introduction to the Critical Study & Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures III 54. Contemporary mottled sheep rebacked with speckled calf spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations; original leather rubbed edges and corners refurbished. First few leaves institutionally pressure-stamped. Title-page with edges browned and chipped margins repaired with tiny losses to two letters carefully supplied by hand; dedication leaf with repaired tear; last leaf with repaired tear. Pages age-toned with intermittent offsetting and foxing some corners bumped a few edge chips. Frontispiece and pp. 12128 early parts of Mark lacking. A sturdy handsome Bible for family use. Pr. by Abel Morse for the Rev. David Austin hardcover books
