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175627951London: Printed by Malachi for Edith Bates Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates and sold by W. Owen 1756 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block The English Novel page 140. Hinges rubbed and starting but sound; light damp-staining to the endpapers; very good copy. 12mo contemporary sprinkled calf gilt rules. One page of publisher's terminal advertisements. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In the 1770s Mrs. Piozzi wrote to Dr. Johnson that she had found a copy of this "strange book about Corporal Bates which I bought and read . . . and found to be the very novel from which Sterne took his first idea . . . even the name Tristram itself seems to be borrowed from this stupid history of Corporal Bates forsooth." See Helen Sard Hughes "A Precursor of Tristram Shandy" in the Journal of English and German Philology vol. 17 no. 2 who concludes that the story of Corporal Bates "was but one of many minor novels which in halting fashion prepare the way for the more perfect works of masters coming after . . ." Contemporary ink signature of Robert Parsons on the front paste-down. London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756 unknown
1866358n.p. Preston: Harkness J. 1866. About very good with some creasing and toning. A drinking song!<br /> <br /> Broadside Ballads Online Bod12297. Scarce with one copy on OCLC as of March 2024. [Harkness, J.] unknown
18691277New York: McLoughlin Bros. Publisher 30 Beekman Street 1869. Wraps. Very good. 12mo; 7pp; yellow pictorial wrapper relief printed in red and navy rear wrapper publisher's ads for Paper Dolls-Book Form and Paper Furniture; publisher's string binding; ownership in pencil on verso front wrapper; color pictorial title page; color illustrations with verse each page; light overall soiling 2" split at foot of wrapper fold; very good. The date of publication is estimated for McLoughlin Brothers' address on Beekman Street in New York. The life and death of the Little Old Woman is told in ironic rhyming verse and while she may have been pitied for her age and infirmity she was wealthy and lacked in no physical comforts. "This Little Old Woman The story so goes Had nothing to wear but Abundance of clothes. And oh! Let me weep At the dismal news She would have been barefooted But for her shoes.". McLoughlin Bros. Publisher, 30 Beekman [Street] unknown
62420London: Dean's Rag Book Co. no date circa 1910s. Rag Book ORIGINAL RAG BOOK. Octavo 21 x 17cm unpaginated. Five double-sided illustrated cloth sheets showing various exotic animals in cloth covers sewn to spine. Strong sewing but for some fraying to head of spine. All colours except the red on the covers quite heavily washed-out or otherwise faded. A very good example of a rare item. London: Dean's Rag Book Co., no date [circa 1910s] unknown
185125752London: William Pickering 1851 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies Harvard State Library of South Australia Queensland BL Cambridge and National Library of Scotland. Edges rubbed; very good copy. 8vo original blind-stamped brown cloth gilt lettering on the upper board. Errata slip inserted at page eight. Four pages of publisher's terminal ads. An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To / Professor F. W. Newman / from the Author as a / slight acknowledgement of / both pleasure and profit derived / from his lectures. Feb 2nd 1854." Francis William Newman 1805-1897 was a philosopher and brother of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Bookplate of collector Simon Nowell-Smith on the front paste-down. London: William Pickering, 1851 unknown
13026London: Printed for the Author and Sold by M. Mechell. . . and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country 1748-1749. . 2 vols. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece repeated in Vol. II showing a rather dissolute young man in a large library. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf; spines expertly restored with new gilt labels. Bookplate of Walter Jerrold 1865-1929 author and newspaper editor in both volumes. First and apparently only edition although Vol. II has a statement "Second Edition" on the title which seems to be explained by the author’s preface noting an abandoned attempt at serial publication. The work is a series of short tales on subjects such as talking parrots faithful dogs "An Old Woman basted with Butter" and many naval stories including one on the triumphs of a Quaker trader named Obadiah Mousetrap and another on the fate of the tyrannical Captain Bounce. The second volume has more of the same including a few on Irish subjects as well as a racy poem "The Amorous Parson traped." The publisher M. Mechell seems to have succeeded her husband in the printing business around 1747 or 1748. ESTC and OCLC locate two copies at the British Library and Folger with the Folger cataloguer suggesting the publication date. London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by M. Mechell. . . and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country, [1748-1749]. unknown
190345441London: John Lane. The Bodley Head 1903. 1903. First edition. Very good in original blue pictorial cloth with folding map as frontispiece. Small embossed stamp of "W. H. Smith & Son London" at top of front free flyleaf minor wear to the extremities page fore-edges lightly spotted. An historical novel set in the 17th century in the marshes of Lincolnshire around the "Isle of Axholme". A celebrated real-life mystery the manuscript of the novel having been left in a red box at the publisher's office anonymously. John Lane. The Bodley Head, 1903. hardcover
1903GEN3-A-1London; Paris; New York; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Limited 1903. Cloth. Very Good. 15" by 11". Various. A lavishly illustrated two volume set with bright and vibrant colour plates throughout. Volumes III and IV of a four volume set. Lacking volume I and II. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain. Each plate is accompanied by a page of description. Anonymously published. Collated incomplete. Lacking 3 plates. In a full green cloth binding with gilt lettering and tipped in plates. Externally generally smart with mild wear to the extremities including bumping and some rubbing. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good Cassell and Company, Limited hardcover
1918605308New York: Funk and Wagnalls 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second Authorized edition. New preface by the author. Octavo. 256pp. 13 plates. About fine in near fine dust jacket with some light splitting at the flap folds. Impressions of Middle Eastern and Eastern countries including Turkey Romania Serbia and Bulgaria before WWI. Scarce in jacket. Funk and Wagnalls hardcover
18751561New York: McLoughlin Bro's 1875. Wraps. Very good. 4to; 8pp; 4 chromolithographed plates; pictorial wrapper printed in yellow red black and green; front wrapper features a decorative border of leaves surrounding a vignette of a girl playing with dolls and a pet cat looking on publisher's ad on rear; publisher's string binding; light staining and hand soiling some offsetting of color illustrations 1" split to foot of spine; very good. Included in this title are seven stories five told in rhyming verse many with moralistic or religious overtones. A charming poem titled "Visiting" begins with "'Good morning Monday! / Tell me how is Tuesday' / 'Very well Dame Wednesday. / Please to tell Miss Thursday / To bring Master Friday / Also little Saturday / To call on Mister Sunday.'" Four bright chromolithographed plates illustrate the stories.<br /> <br /> Probably a pirated edition of a title published by Frederick Warne. AAS 393070. McLoughlin Bro's unknown
178627710London: Printed for J. Bell 1786 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. Title page a little spotted and browned; very good copy. 8vo modern brown quarter calf period style marbled paper boards red morocco label gilt rules and lettering. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie with music by James Hook 1746-1827. A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook the wife of James Hook. She is the acknowledged anonymous author of two other plays James Hook was involved with The Double Disguise and the Irish Lad both 1784. London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786 unknown
1930726London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited 1930. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good. First edition thus. 8vo; 30pp; quarter-bound red cloth with color pictorial glazed paper over board; color and b&w illustrations every page with titles; pumping to cover corners with loss scuffing to edges light soiling a few closed tears to pages; very good minus. In 4 WorldCat libraries. Part of the Rainbow Picture Books series. Printed by LTA Robinson Ltd. The Botolph Printing Works London. Illustrators include popular contemporary British cartoonists and artists: Cha Charles Crombie Norman Keene W. William Luker Guy Lipscombe Thomas Maybank Will Owen James Allen Shuffrey Laurie Tayler Harry Wolley and unidentified artists who signed their work as: GES Shuffers and Lendon. Illustrations also contributed by Crossley Motors Ltd. And Wolseley Motors Ltd. as well as Central Press Fox photos and Pacific and Atlantic. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited unknown
39829London: 1705. 38.5 x 24 cm sheet size. Uncoloured. Two engraved plans of Beijing on one sheet one larger and more detailed than the other. The smaller plan below showing the 5 temples in "ye new City" flanked by two columns being "An Explanation of the Plane of the City of Pekim". Very good condition. Published in the 1705 edition of John Harris' Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. [London: 1705] unknown
17844180Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers 1784. 12mo pp. vi 100 2. Contemporary sheep. Leaves a little foxed and tanned stitching beginning to loosen. Binding somewhat scratched and rubbed small loss along foot of spine and front board flyleaf loose. A scarce and unsophisticated Glasgow printing of this entertaining guide to money and what might now be termed ‘hustling’ in pursuit thereof often reprinted but now scarce in any form. The earliest surviving edition is London 1684 attributed to ‘N.H.’ though it contains extracts of Henry Peacham 1546-1634 and later editions attribute the work to Alexander Montgomery 1660-1729 the 9th Earl of Eglinton and a Scottish peer. This anonymous Glasgow printing is located by ESTC in just half a dozen locations two of them Harvard Business School. ESTC T206934. Printed for the booksellers unknown
12084London: Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row circa 1750. . 2 vols. 12mo. Title-leaves which may well be cancels browned at edges from the binding turn-ins with that of Vol. II very slightly chipped at the extreme lower edge otherwise a fine fresh copy. Contemporary calf; recently rebacked with gilt spines and the lower cover to the second volume replaced. Two early ownership inscriptions on front pastedowns S. Warren and S. Skinner along with an early and small printed label showing a sheep or possibly a dog surmounted by a crown and printed "Case F. Shelf 1." On the facing free endpapers is the modern blindstamp "Brewster Rogerson." Apparently one of three issues of what seems to be the same work a series of essays and poems collected by topic e.g. friendship love taste "luxury in eating and drinking" - "A great man loves Champagne and hates Port. . ." Vol. II begins with "Eliza: a Novel" and continues with subjects like"Commerce" "Modern Education" and "Moral Characters." One of the three issues was printed in Birmingham for R. Aris with the title dated 1749 and another in London with the title dated 1751 and the publisher given as "R. Baldwin jun." The online resources give the title for both of these as "The Polite Companion: containing Essays on Various Subjects. Illustrated with Passages from the most excellent Poets Orators Philosophers and Historians." The present issue with the more elaborate title and "R. Baldwin" imprint could have appeared at the same time as Aris’s or perhaps a little later but one would expect the 1751 "R. Baldwin Jun." issue to be subsequent to that for "R. Baldwin" presumably the senior. I hasten to add however that these two Richard Baldwins are hard to distinguish as it is not clear exactly when the senior retired. It also appears that at some point in the early 1750s the junior dropped "jun." from his imprint. All three issues are rare with ESTC OCLC and COPAC locating two copies of this one William and Mary and Yale both conjecturing 1751 as the imprint date. Brewster Rogerson was an eighteenth-century scholar and horticulturalist who died in 2015 at the age of 94. London: Printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row, [circa 1750]. unknown
51519Maidstone: J. Smith 1835. Kent Voting Register RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo 22 x 15cm pp.4 192 2. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail of spine. Label quite rubbed and dog-eared to one side. Spotting to some leaves at rear. Very good. A table of those eligible to vote in West Kent in 1835 with their residences listed and a record of which candidate they voted for if any. Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835 unknown
57397London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office January 1868. Military Regulations ORIGINAL HANDBOOK. Octavo 25 x 16cm pp.viii; 395 1. Interleaved with blank leaves for notes and with an errata slip. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind titles and decoration to upper. Advertisements to pink endpapers. Repairs to weak hinges. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf title page and first blank. Frequent MS notes in black ink to interleaved blanks. Lower corner of leaves from p.379 to end torn with some loss to text and an additional vertical slash near the left margin from p.391 to end. Generally quite a crisp clean copy. Moderate wear to cloth; spine rubbed and toned. Joints just starting in places; some pulling to head and tail of spine. Very good. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1868 unknown
13638<p>Paris: Published by Truchy French and English Library 18 Boulevart des Italiens 1838. . 15 1pp. oblong 16mo 4½ x 6 inches. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and seven plates; the text leaves a little spotted from being printed on inferior paper. Still an excellent copy in the original dark blue cloth-backed glazed boards a green label with printed title on the upper cover. First edition of this attractive version adapted from John Harris's work of the same title published in the late 1820s. Mentioned in Moon John Harris 708: "an oblong book of 15pp. containing Harris's text and 8 of his coloured plates slightly altered to fit the shape." Gumuchian Les Livres de l'Enfance 4334; five copies Morgan Lilly Princeton Alexander Turnbull and University of Washington in OCLC.</p> Paris: Published by Truchy, French and English Library, 18, Boulevart des Italiens, 1838. hardcover
19427131J. B. Lippincott. Very Good. 1942. Paperback. Facsimile reprint of an early edition. Stringbound. Blue printed wrappers have light edgewear. ; 2-5/8" x 4-1/4"; 32 pages . J. B. Lippincott paperback
1942u3123Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1942. Scarce facsimile of a children's book from 1792 published by Lippincott in commemoration of their 150th anniversary. The original was published by Cornhill in Boston as they could not find a copy of a similar book known to have been published in Philadelphia that same year. The book itself features an illustrated alphabet "B Was a Blockhead and ne'er learn'd his Book." combined with an inspirational story about a well-behaved foundling with a final page about the history of the book and how the reprint came about. Paperback heavy blue wraps printed in black sewn binding with external knot. Light edgewear with a little creasing & short tears; text unmarked. 30 2 pages; wood engraved illustrations decently printed by offset litho. Later Printing. Pamphlet. Very Good. 2½" by 4¼". [J. B. Lippincott] Paperback
73493London: G. Routledge and Co. 1858. Children's Literature FIRST EDITION. Octavo 16 x 12cm pp.4 200 4. With an engraved frontispiece. Publisher's textured red cloth decorated in blind to boards. With gilt titles to upper board and spine. Pale yellow endpapers. Advertisements to rear. Mostly internally clean a bit of infrequent spotting/marking throughout including a red ink mark to bottom of pp.7. Large previous ownership inscriptions in black ink to front flyleaf. Front hinge split and delicate. Some splashing to rear endpaper and small binder's label to rear pastedown. Splashing to fore edge. Large spot of splashing to top of lower board which continues onto upper. Spine toned. Edgewear mostly to spine extremities. Good. London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858 unknown
62610London: T. Nelson and Sons 1852. Natural History FINELY BOUND. Octavo 17 x 12cm pp.4 416 2. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page by T. Brown. Contemporary dark brown full morocco with gilt titles and decorations to spine and decoration in gilt and blind to boards. All edges gilt. Ownership inscriptions in blue and black ink to front free endpaper. A light stain to frontispiece and vignette title page else internally clean. A little light wear to binding. Very good. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852 unknown
2827York Penn.: P. Hardt and to be Had of Shaefer and Maund Baltimore 1849. . 12mo in half sheets marbled boards worn; brown leather spine lacking top half inch; ballpoint notation on front free endpaper A.I. 49395; Cohen 8144 York, Penn.: P. Hardt and to be Had of Shaefer and Maund, Baltimore, 1849. hardcover
1981CNJL2615University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Second printing two volumes complete small quarto size approx. 850 pp. "The Song of Roland" is "one of the earliest and most famous chansons de geste based on the 8th-century Battle of Roncevaux Pass where Charlemagne's rearguard was ambushed" n.b. quote from Wiki. The earliest known version dates back to around CE 1040 with changes being made through around 1115; the final version of the epic poem is approximately 4000 lines. <br /> <br /> This work is based on the "Oxford Text" the single extant manuscription held at the Bodleian. Volume II presents the Oxford Text with a modern English translation while Volume I contains the Introduction and Commentary with a section at the rear of black-and-white reproductions of artwork statues etc.<br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full rust-coloured cloth over boards copper lettering stamped onto the spines bindings small quarto size 9 1/4" by 6 1/8" Volume I with 574 pp. and Volume II with 282 pp. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Fine the boards clean straight corners without rubbing strong square text blocks with solid hinges the interiors clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean and as new. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover
18079931London: Deans and Dunne. London Deans and Dunne 1807. First Edition. First Impression. Paperback. A good copy. Uncommon. Only one copy located at the V&A. Translated from the German from Folktales of the Germans published first in the 1780s. 24pp rebound in a simple paper wrapper. Presumably the chapbook was originally offered without a cover of sorts the price is on the title page so therefore I assume the booklet's complete. Qutie a bit of wear to the leaves some tanning and short tears. An interesting book. 9931 Hyraxia Books. . Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 1807. Deans and Dunne paperback
