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18155119London: Unpublished Letter 1815. No Binding. Good. Good 1815 Unpublished Letter unknown
189609794R.H. Russell & Son 1896-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. The white boards with blue decoration are soiled and spotted with age spine darkened. Pen name half title page paper edges are foxed. First edition 1896. All orders packed with care most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve independent bookseller since 2011 R.H. Russell & Son hardcover
189377995New York: Printed for the General Convention at the Theodore De Vinne Press 1893. Canonical Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 37 x 26.5 cm. Folio. 28 566 2 pp. Bound into full vellum over boards decorated with gilt botanical design ornate brass clasps. Printed on American hand-made paper. TEG others deckled. Text printed in black and red. With elaborate foliated borders designed by D. B. Updike throughout the work. <br /> <br /> It was printed for the General Convention of the Episcopal Church of 1892. This convention decided on the second major American edition of the prayer book being the first major revision since the edition of 1789. Three different versions of this work were issued. This is one of only 75 copies of the "canonical edition" which were distributed to Episcopal dioceses. On the verso of the title page it is signed by 13 of the people involved in the revision approved by the Convention of 1892. This includes financier and banker J. P. Morgan. Morgan supported the Protestant Episcopal Church throughout his life and commissioned this work. Other signers include William Croswell Doane Henry Cadman Potter Samuel C. Hart Joseph Packard Jr Samuel Eliot and others. The title page does not have a foliated border. <br /> <br /> There was a similar "subscriber's edition" done limited to 500 copies which reproduces the signatures in facsimile and its title page has foliated decorations. Another edition in a smaller format edition distributed to attendees of the 1892 Convention.<br /> The Plan of Symbolism and method of decoration were arranged by Daniel Berkeley Updike founder of the Merrymount Press. The preparatory studies of plants were made by William Wells Bosworth. The floral designs for the borders and cover were by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and the final drawings for reproduction were by Joseph Eliot Hill. <br /> Closed ~7 cm tear at top of front cover hinge. There is some damp staining to the foredge as well as to the edges of some of the pages. This is most noticeable on the last dozen or so pages but at no point do the stains reach the text. This also affects the edges of the front and back cover. References: Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1893:6. Printed for the [General] Convention at the Theodore De Vinne Press hardcover
1893174802New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press for the Committee 1893. The flowering of American Arts and Crafts sensibilities First Updike edition deluxe limited issue one of 500 large copies on handmade paper. Planned by the distinguished printer Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 this issue features pages framed with garlands of various plants each appropriate to the text it adorns. The deluxe binding is similarly gilt with thistles and Tudor roses alluding to the British origins of the Episcopal church. Updike's rationale for the decoration is elucidated in the loosely inserted pamphlet which accompanies this copy. While his initial intention was to emulate medieval devotional volumes he was limited by the typography common to the entire first edition which would not allow for the introduction of ornate initials. Since the borders could not be illuminated it was decided that the simple monochrome patterns must be elevated by the use of symbolism. This would be botanical befitting the style of the Middle Ages. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue an architect who often lent his skills to publishing created the designs for the binding and the borders. Although Updike's Merrymount Press was also founded in 1893 they were not prepared for the printing of The Book of Common Prayer and the presswork went to Theodore Low De Vinne 1828-1914 one of the founders of the Grolier Club. While Updike subsequently moved away from Kelmscott-inspired printing this early project is part of his cultivation of Arts and Crafts book production in late 19th-century America. Folio. Elaborate foliate borders throughout text printed in red and black. Original vellum spine and front cover lettered in gilt Gothic script and elaborately decorated with gilt foliate design with Tudor roses and Scottish thistle cornerpieces twin metal clasps endpapers patterned with gilt rose and thistle design top edge gilt fore and bottom edges uncut white bookmarker. Near-contemporary bookplate recording the volume as part of J. William Smith's bequest to Syracuse Public Library. Gilt bright vellum a little soiled small puncture to foot of front board a couple of minor bumps to extremities contents clean. A very good copy. Griffiths 1893/7. hardcover
18217083Dublin: John Cumming 1821. pp 215 Blue paper covered boards strengthened to corners rebacked with a vellum spine handwritten paper spine label. Ownership inscription of Samuel Lawrence to first flyleaf; foxing to endleaves and sporadically throughout. Text block not trimmed. An attractive copy of a work credited to Bishop Berkeley but actually by Simon Berington. Very good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1821 John Cumming hardcover
1881kb918.721GB: Smith Elder 1881. Early leaves quite heavily spoptted. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1600g. . Hardback. G/No DW. Smith, Elder Hardcover
1897297284London ; New York : Edward Arnold 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy bound in half vellum over marble boards with gilt blocked leather label; edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. Series: Sportsman's Library. Physical description: xix 344 p. 14 leaves of plates : ill. some col. ; 27 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Berkeley Grantley F. Grantley Fitzhardinge - 1800-1881. Hunting. London ; New York : Edward Arnold hardcover
1897000570London: Edward Arnold 1897. Boards in poor condition c/e uncut PP clean and clear. Half Leather Marbled Boards. Poor Plus/No Jacket. 8vo Thick. Edward Arnold Hardcover
1897796F3London and New York: Edward Arnold 1897. Hardback. Good. 9" by 6.5". John Leech; G. H. Jalland. A charming account of a life spent hunting from a controversial British MP illustrated throughout and featuring colour plates of hunting scenes. A fascinating collection of anecdotes about a life spent hunting from British politician writer and sportsman Grantley Berkeley. This is the second edition of this work retaining the four original illustrations commissioned from John Leech for the first edition and with the addition of ten further plates from G. H. Jalland. With six colour plates and eight further plates. Collated complete.A controversial figure Berkeley is perhaps best known for assaulting magazine publisher James Fraser over a poor review of Berkeley's publication on Berkeley Castle resulting in a duel with the review's author in which three rounds were shot though no one injured. In the publisher's original half paper vellum binding with paper covered boards. Discolouration to paper vellum with rubbing to centre of morocco spine label. Front and rear joints starting with boards holding firm. Internally generally firmly bound though somewhat strained towards centre of text block. Pages generally clean and bright with the odd spot. Good Edward Arnold hardcover
186011410London: Lovell Reeve. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1860. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The top of the spine is rubbed as are the bottom corners and one small spot on the back hinge. Very tight & clean inside. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Lovell Reeve hardcover
1860B3-F15267Lovell Reeve London 1860. Hardcover. Good. Volume 1 contains coloured plates. Volume 2 Supplement Lovell, Reeve, London hardcover
189173666Cambridge: Riverside Press 1891. First edition of Updike's first book. Tall octavo. 154 1 colophon 1 pp. Complete with both fold-out charts. Publisher's half black morocco over marbled boards expertly rebacked to style gilt spine lettering marbled endpapers. Minor foxing to first three and last three leaves mainly blanks. Armorial bookplate. An untrimmed and very handsome copy of this scarce title. According the RBH the last copy to appear at auction was in 1940.The first book designed by Mr. Updike printed under his supervision at the Riverside Press. “Before he began work on his own account Updike had made one book and only one in which he had had entirely his own way. It is a simple volume with little that is distinctive or decorative about it except that there is nothing wrong; the proportions of page and margins title size of types and composition tone of paper and quality of press work offer nothing for obvious criticism. The book is ‘An Inquiry into the Naming of Churches in the United States’ compiled by two laymen of the Diocese of Rhode Island that is Mr. Updike and his closest friend Harold Brown of Newport. . . .â€---G. P. Winship The Merrymount Press of Boston. Riverside Press hardcover
1891071993Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. 10" x 7.5" x 1. Rebacked this copy is bound in half brown leather and brown cloth boards. Gilt trims the seams along the cover. Hubbed spine bears four raised bands with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Deckled foredge and foot. Teal endpapers. Leaves are a laid cotton rag paper. Title page bears small black and white engraving also present on the last page. Two large fold-out data tables are present in beautiful condition printed on vellum. Other printed data tables throughout. Includes seven appendices. x 154 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Very good. Cover shows wear and spine repair is solid. Reinforced inner hinges with a dark teal publisher's cloth. Leaves have lightly toned with light foxing throughout. Text is very bold and bright. Occasional small tears on page edges. Unmarked except for previous owner's name written within the front endpapers and notation about the book's contents in pencil on a front flyleaf. A solid handsome copy. Full refund if not satisfied. <br><br>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 was an American printer and historian of typography. In 1880 he joined the publishers Houghton Mifflin & Company of Boston as an errand boy. He worked for the firm's Riverside Press and trained as a printer but soon moved to typographic design. In 1896 he founded the Merrymount Press. . Updike was greatly interested in the history of printing types and in 1922 published Printing Types: Their History Forms and Use. An extensively revised second edition was published in 1937. He was involved in the Anglo-American 'Typographical Renaissance' of the time together with Frederic Goudy Stanley Morison Bruce Rogers and Theodore Low De Vinne." Wikipedia. Printed at the Riverside Press hardcover
18931709050049University of California Press 1893. Hardcover. Good. Vol. 4 Parts 1-4. Bound in 3/4 red leather over marbled boards. Front board detached. Original covers bound in at rear. In 1893 25 years after the university's founding the University of California press formed. This journal was one of the first publications of UC press. Additionally contains a postcard with a 1 cent Benjamin Franklin stamp from 1898 scott 279 from the Library of the University of California J. D. Layman Asst. Lib. stating there is no index for this volume. <br> Shinn UC Berkley 1880 was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California and the eleventh individual awarded a Ph.D. at the university. She worked with her brother's newborn Ruth to develop a scientific consideration of infant development. "Her dissertation Notes on the Development of a Child was published in 3 installments between 1893 and 1899. In 1900 she also published a popular version of her findings called The Biography of a Baby. Her works received widespread acclaim and for years her Notes was considered the foundational text for developmental psychology classes. Even Wilhelm Preyer her only predecessor in such a comprehensive record was impressed and called for the work to be translated into German" Rodkey E. 2010 Milicent Shinn - Psychology's Feminist Voices. University of California Press hardcover
186040229London: Historical:: Biographical:: Military. Good with no dust jacket. 1860. Second Edition. Leather. 640 pages; The ; or History of the Bonaparte Family. By the Berkeley Men and Another. With 22 portraits engraved on wood.3/4 black leather over red speckled boards. Contents good with occasional circular ink library stamps. Binding firm. ; Signed by All Authors . Historical:: Biographical:: Military hardcover
186549535London: Hurst and Blackett 1865. Two volumes. 8vo. xii 383 1; xii 358 2 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered red and black labels endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece portrait to volume I. Some wear to the covers foxing to the front and rear leaves only. The author was an author politician and sportsman. London: Hurst and Blackett unknown
18653986191Hurst And Blackett 1865. Volumes 1 and 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Both volumes: 8vo. Purple cloth. Faded backstrip. Gilt lettering on the backstrip. Light exterior wear. Untrimmed. Foxing. Volume 1 has frontispiece and tissue guard. Volume 1 has several cracks in the binding with several loose pages. Volume 2 is clean and tightly bound. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1850grams ISBN: Hurst And Blackett hardcover
1865001235London: Hurst and Blackett. A very nice four volume set expertly bound in half calf brown leather. Marbled boards endpapers and edges. Approximately 1400 pages each vol. having engraved frontis portrait. Aristocratic reminiscences with sport and particularly fox hunting having a large part to play.Some very minor foxing mostly to end papers. Lovely original condition black title labels with bright gilt lettering and raised bands to spine. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1865. Hurst and Blackett hardcover
186532925London: Hurst and Blackett 1865. hardcover. near fine. Colored frontispiece portraits completely extra-illustrated with about 40 mezzotints lithographs steel engravings of landscapes portraits and sporting subjects a few in color. 2 vols. 8vo red 1/2 morocco. London 1865. Near Fine.<br/> <br/> Memoirs of the eminent 19th century sportsman and gallant.<br/> <br/> Hurst and Blackett unknown
1857368895London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1857. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 286 pages. Hardcover with marbled covers and page block decoration gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Previous owner's name on title page. Ex-Library with usual stamping and embossed seal on preliminary pages. Record # 368895 Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts hardcover
1826240826003London: Henry Colburn 1826. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. <br /> OVERALL CONDITION: VERY GOOD<br /> <br /> BOOK INFO<br /> <br /> Published in 1826 by Henry Colburn in London. First edition first printing. In mid-nineteenth century 1/2 black morocco over marbled paper fine Riviere binding: Five raised spine bands compartments with gilt emblems or lettering; top edges gilt marbled endpapers bordering in gilt. Octavo 9"x 6" VIII 430 pp.; VII 406 pp. Each volume with a frontispiece. Two volumes complete. <br /> <br /> This first edition of this autobiographical work from socialite author and playwright Elizabeth Princess Berkeley sometimes styled Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Published only two years prior to the author's death. She was an author and playwright perhaps best known for her travelogues. Early in her literary career she wrote a number of light farces pantomimes and fables some of which were performed in London. She knew Samuel Johnson and James Boswell and became a close friend of Horace Walpole who published her early works.<br /> <br /> CONDITION REPORT<br /> <br /> The books are in VERY GOOD antiquarian condition for 160-year-old binding. Square spines with firm hinges and joints. One gutter between flyleaves cracked. Rubbed extremities and joints. Corners bumped. Some pencil writing and partially erased pencil writing to blank flyleaves in volume I. Pages are quite clean and bright with the exception of some foxing to endpapers and frontispieces and an occasional spot or two of light foxing elsewhere.<br /> <br /> ABOUT THE BINDERY <br /> <br /> This lovely set was bound by hand by world-famous bindery Rivi re now Bayntun-Riviere of Bath England the last remaining private bindery in England that still uses the same antique tools and refined craftsmanship that it has since this book was bound by hand over 160 years ago. This 2-volume set was published between 1840 and 1860 as it is signed simply "Riviere" on the bottom of the first blank flyleaf. Henry Colburn hardcover
1871486806Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1871. Hardcover in acceptable condition. No jacket. First edition. Ex-library. Xviii 672 pages with 12 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Boards and spine are stained sunned and worn. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped and torn. One centimetre tears on front upper edge and spine ends. Page block and rough-cut pages are tanned and marked. Label on front pastedown. Front pastedown hinge is split but binding remains intact. Minor pen on half title page. Creases throughout pages. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Hardcover. Acceptable. Used. The Clarendon Press Hardcover
186343729Lovell Reeve London 1863. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Publisher's navy cloth gilt title Owner's dated signatures on ffep and tp. Slight fraying to extremities of spine and front and rear hinges. Lovell Reeve, London hardcover
186344011Lovell Reeve London 1863. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Half leather binding A sound copy; owner's discreet signature. Lovell Reeve, London hardcover
186358667Lovell Reeve & Co. 1863. 1st. Ed. pp.xxxvi 324 with 23 hand-coloured plates 1 b/w. plate all with letterpress plus 16-page Reeve catalogue not dated. 8vo. Hardback. Neat inscription. Very minor spotting at ends o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth binding spine expertly relaid so well undertaken it is barely noticable all in excellent nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Lovell Reeve & Co. hardcover