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184631795Boston: Wilkins Carter & Co 1846. 1st edition American Imprints 46-3422. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Spine sun-tanned. PO pencil annotations to eps. Usual sporadic foxing. A VG copy of a book somewhat uncommon in the first edition. vii 8 - 252 6 pp. "List of works published before 1800": pp. 170 - 178. Index at rear. 3 pages of Testimonials at rear. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Wilkins Carter & Co hardcover books
36254HOOD Thomas. MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG. London: E. Moxon 1871. 4to. Publisher's decorated cloth. vi 150 2 pages. Second edition. One of the Moxon's Popular Poets series this volume with sixty illustrations Thomas S. Seccombe. A very good to fine copy. unknown books
197013696New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1970. Hardcover. VG Slipcase may be scuffed; books themselves are great. 2 vols. Cream cloth with black title blocks on spines and in black board slipcase with cream title block on spine. 644 pp. Hundreds of bw plates. A terrific two-volume set outlining these representative examples of American silver. A two-page introduction on the history of the collection by Graham Hood precedes sections covering pieces from the following states: Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire Maine Vermont New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia South Carolina Kentucky Alabama Louisiana and California. Also includes an extensive section of reproductions of marks as well as a section on unknown makers and European silver used in America. Nice! Yale University Press hardcover books
1930260715New York: Derrydale Press. Printed at The Harbor Press with typography by John S. Fass 1930. No. 258 of 490 copies. Hand-colored Illustrations from engravings after the designs of George Cruikshank. 33 unnumbered pages. 1 vols. 12mo. White parchment spine over peach colored boards spine and cover labels unopened. Fine. Half crimson morocco dropbox with leather label on upper cover. Cruikshank George. No. 258 of 490 copies. Hand-colored Illustrations from engravings after the designs of George Cruikshank. 33 unnumbered pages. 1 vols. 12mo. "A truly delightful little book." Frazier. Siegel 36; Frazier H-19-a; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 193-94 Derrydale Press. Printed at The Harbor Press with typography by John S. Fass unknown books
1863WRCAM30378Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas 1863. ix3268pp. plus folding map and twenty illustrations including nine tinted lithographs. Frontis. Half title. Contemporary brown pebbled cloth gilt-lettered spine. Slight wear to extremities half of rear cover faded and bubbled front free endpaper lacking. Minor foxing contemporary pencil annotations on list of illustrations else internally bright and clean. Very good. A charming and descriptive narrative of a tour of most of the major islands of the western Pacific including Aukland New Zealand New Caledonia Fiji Samoa Norfolk and the Isle of Pines with a lengthy segment on the Pitcairn Islands. Hood writes extensively on the habits of the numerous native peoples he encountered including thoughts on anthropology polygamy cannibalism religion child rearing and relations with whites. "An informative work with an interesting description of the Bounty mutineers' descendants at Norfolk Island. Scarce" - Angus & Robertson. FERGUSON 10528. TAYLOR pp.213261. HOLMES p.50. ANGUS & ROBERTSON INGLETON COLLECTION 6567. AUSTRALASIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY p.188. Edmonston and Douglas hardcover books
1970WN4065New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1970. Original beige grey linen cloth with silver and black lettered spine. Extensively illustrated works in outstanding condition. Black slipcase with paper label titling piece on spine. Slipcase has considerable white rubbing on lower edge from shelfwear. The contents list the Garvin and other collections in the Yale University Art Gallery. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slipcase Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Catalogue. Yale Univ. Press Hardcover books
1832613091832. Hand-colored lithograph in 20-1/4" x 16-1/2" mat. Hand-colored lithograph in 20-1/4" x 16-1/2" mat. "Give Me My Seals and Be Off!" Hood Thomas Presumed Author. Ejection & Symptoms of Rejection!. No. 4. London: Published by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly c. 1832-34. 15-1/2" x 11-1/2" hand-colored lithograph in 20-1/4" x 16-1/2" hinged matte. Light soiling to matte white areas lightly toned colors vivid. $350. Possibly the work of a Thomas Hood this print is in the style of John Doyle 1797-1868 the leading English caricaturist of the 1830s to 1850s. It is commentary on the work of the 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws which drafted the Poor Law Amendment Act. Passed in 1834 it created the system of laws and workhouses described by Dickens. unknown books
1877208955London 1877. unbound. very good. Walter Fitch Hood. Botanical print. Lithograph with hand color. Page measures 21 7/8" x 15".<br/><br/> Walter Hood Fitch 1817-1892 was born and educated in Glasgow Scotland. He moved to London to work with W. J. Hooker director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew where Fitch became the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications. This lithograph is one of a series produced for H. J. Elwes's "Monograth of the Genus Lilium." Binding stain along right edge chipping to lower left corner and edges tears to bottom edge. Minor stain to upper left corner. Please visit our gallery for more Fitch prints.<br/><br/> unknown books
1877208952London 1877. unbound. very good. Walter Fitch Hood. Botanical print. Lithograph with hand color. Page measures 21.75" x 15".<br/><br/> Walter Hood Fitch 1817-1892 was born and educated in Glasgow Scotland. He moved to London to work with W. J. Hooker director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew where Fitch became the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications. This lithograph is one of a series produced for H. J. Elwes's "Monograth of the Genus Lilium." Binding stain along right edge small chips to left edge lower left corner and bottom edge two small tears to bottom edge. Please visit our gallery for more Fitch prints.<br/><br/> unknown books
1877208959London 1877. unbound. very good. Walter Fitch Hood. Botanical print. Lithograph with hand color. Page measures 21 7/8" x 15".<br/><br/> Walter Hood Fitch 1817-1892 was born and educated in Glasgow Scotland. He moved to London to work with W. J. Hooker director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew where Fitch became the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications. This lithograph is one of a series produced for H. J. Elwes's "Monograth of the Genus Lilium." Binding along right edge. Two small tears at bottom left edge bottom left corner chipped. Please visit our gallery for more Fitch prints.<br/><br/> unknown books
1877208944London 1877. unbound. very good. Walter Fitch Hood. Botanical print. Lithograph with hand color. Page measures 22" x 15".<br/><br/> Walter Hood Fitch 1817-1892 was born and educated in Glasgow Scotland. He moved to London to work with W. J. Hooker director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew where Fitch became the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications. This lithograph is one of a series produced for H. J. Elwes's "Monograth of the Genus Lilium." Binding stain along right edge small chip to upper left corner. Please visit our gallery for more Fitch prints.<br/><br/> unknown books
1877208945London 1877. unbound. very good-. Walter Fitch Hood. Botanical print. Lithograph with hand color. Page measures 21.75" x 15".<br/><br/> Walter Hood Fitch 1817-1892 was born and educated in Glasgow Scotland. He moved to London to work with W. J. Hooker director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew where Fitch became the sole artist for all official and unofficial publications. This lithograph is one of a series produced for H. J. Elwes's "Monograth of the Genus Lilium." Binding stain along right edge chip to lower left corner. Tear to left edge. Please visit our gallery for more Fitch prints.<br/><br/> unknown books
1829314145London: Charles Tilt 1829. First edition with ads at end. Illustrated with 6 illustrations on wood by Branston and Wright Bonner Slader and T. Williams; After the Designs of George Cruikshank. 29 1 2 ads pp. Printed by Anne Maurice Fenchurch Street. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full mottled brown calf gilt spine a.e.g. with original printed wrappers bound in by Bayntun Binders Bath. Myer & Co booklabel. Fine. Cruikshank George. First edition with ads at end. Illustrated with 6 illustrations on wood by Branston and Wright Bonner Slader and T. Williams; After the Designs of George Cruikshank. 29 1 2 ads pp. Printed by Anne Maurice Fenchurch Street. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine 'Epping Hunt'. Cohn 406; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 193-94 Charles Tilt unknown books
1873008730New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1873. Printed and bound by Poole & MacLauchlan New York. Four volumes finely bound in two half polished blue calf over marbled boards gilt backs end papers and edges marbled. The Prose volume with 250 engravings in wood in text. Very Good Plus the spines sunned to grey light rubbing to corners period prior owner name in pencil. SCARCE in this edition and contemporary American fine binding. . People's Edition. Half Calf. Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
186216616London: Edward Moxon 1862. 7 volumes 8vo orig. blue blind-stamped pebble-grain cloth gilt lyre vignette on upper covers gilt lettering and decoration on spines; spines somewhat discolored but generally a very good sound set. With a mounted albumen frontispiece showing a portrait of Hood in the last volume. This is the first of only 2 collected editions of Hood's work. <br/><br/> Edward Moxon hardcover books
183927738London: A. H. Baily and Co. 1839; London: Edward Moxon 1861 1839. First edition of both series. NCBEL III 359; Gilmour "Some Uncollected Authors" The Book Collector vol. 4 1955 page 243. Edges a little rubbed; fine copy. 2 vols 8vo dark green half morocco by Matthews marbled paper boards gilt decorated and lettered spines t.e.g. others untrimmed. Frontis in each volume title-page vignettes and numerous illustrations in the text by the author. ¶ A fine collection of the writings of Thomas Hood 1799-1845: "A medley of prose verse and pictures from the Comic Annuals together with some new material including the important Literary Reminiscences" - Gilmour. Distinguished provenance: On the front paste-downs are the bookplates of Robert Hoe H. L. Tevis and John Francis Neylan. This copy was almost certainly bound for Hoe by Matthews. <br/><br/> London: A. H. Baily and Co., 1839; London: Edward Moxon, 1861 unknown books
1867002675London: George Routledge and Sons 1867. First Edition. Decorated and Blindstamped Cloth. Very Good. A quintessential work by the absurdist illustrator Ernest Griset and a copy heightened by hand-coloring. 4to. 6 151 5 pp. With 100 or so hand-colored illustrations including frontis. Note that most copies of this lack the coloring of the images. Clean and tight within with newer endpapers. Wear to spine tips and along the edges with cloth rubbed in corners. Spine tear repaired with trace of it still visible. Soil marks on the boards. The centerpiece of a gilt diaper and raised figures may have the faintest of fading but nonetheless remains bright and and eye pop. <br/><br/> George Routledge and Sons hardcover books
1893126358London: Macmillan 1893. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Brock Charles E. Preface by Alfred Ainger. With 130 line illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 236pp. Short 4to rebound in 3/4 maroon morocco; gilt-decorated spine with raised bands t.e.g. London: Macmillan 1893. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> One of 250 large paper copies.<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
186267198New York: George P. Putnam 1862. Hardcover. Very good. Hood 1799-1845 was an English poet journalist and humorist whose humanitarian verses such as "The Song of the Shirt" 1843 served as models for a whole school of social-protest poets not only in Britain and the United States but in Germany and Russia where he was widely translated. He also is notable as a writer of comic verse having originated several durable forms for that genre. Frontispieces engraved titles and numerous textual illustrations. Six volumes. Octavo. Period three-quarter green morocco over marbled paper bindings with four raised bands decorative gilt stamping and yellow endpapers. Shadow of a bookplate removed from each front flyleaf with the bookplate of Frederick Forrest Peabody to each rear pastedown. The spines are a touch sun faded with some wear to the corners and tips; else very good. An attractive set. George P. Putnam hardcover books
18407564London: A. H. Baily and Co 1840. First edition. Full morocco. Very Good. viii328pp. Illustrated with numerous woodcut plates and text vignettes. Cont. elaborately gilt tooled full orange morocco black calf spine labels hinges a bit rubbed. A.e.g. On the half-title is a signed presentation inscription from Hood "To Mrs. Dore with kind regards from Thomas Hood." 1936 ownership inscription on a preliminary blank. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A. H. Baily and Co unknown books
186325579Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas 1863. First edition 8vo pp. ix 3 268; folding map and 20 illustrations including 9 tinted lithographs; spine ends a bit chipped slight rubbing but generally a good copy in original brown cloth gilt. Sidney Australia and return via Aukland Samoa Feegee New Caledonia and Norfolk with a whole chapter at the end and one stunning lithograph plate on the Pitcairn Islanders. Ferguson 10528. <br/><br/> Edmonston and Douglas hardcover books
1863021528London: Edwad Moxon and Co 1863. 12mo. Sixteenth edition with a fore-edge painting depicting a scenery with a large estate people and trees. A beautiful copy bound in green pebble grained morocco paneled in gilt raised bands with compartments fully decorated in gilt all edges gilt previous owner's gift inscription dated 1911. A fine bright copy internally fresh. Edwad Moxon and Co unknown books
1865114028London: Ward Lock and Tyler 1865. Hardbound. VG. Original red beveled boards with elaborate gilt design newer spine cloth with original spine remnants expertly laid down. Contents bright and fresh. Ex art library copy. Slight ding to one lower edge a small amount of fraying beginning on lower right edge not bad. Red gilt embossed cloth. 91 pp. 24 full-page illustrations including the front piece. All edges are gilt. The date is taken from the authors' preface. A very nice copy all things considered of this scarce Dore title. The full-page plates are bright and clean. Includes the engraved bookplate of the former institutional owner created by H.W. Faulkner. Ward, Lock, and Tyler hardcover books
1872557London: E. Moxon 1872. First Thus. First Thus. Large quarto. Original publisher's heavily gilt and stamped brown cloth with border designs over blue reilef panels beveled boards. AEG. Tissue guarded woodcut illustrations throughout by Birket Foster. Expertly recased. About fine. A beautiful book. <br/><br/> E. Moxon hardcover books
188063545New Orleans LA: Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund G. T. Beauregard 1880. First edition. 8vo. 358 pp. Portrait plates of Hood and Gen. Grant maps one folding. Howes H-622. Nevins II p. 65: "Controversial sometimes bitter memoirs of a maimed Confederate general." Dornbusch II 2797. In Tall Cotton 93. Coulter 238. Nicholson p. 386. South to Posterity p. 220. Some light scattered foxing else very good. Publisher's deluxe binding: Embossed brown morocco gilt title and ornaments between raised bands on spine marbled endpapers all edges gilt. 9968. <br/><br/> Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund, G. T. Beauregard hardcover books
