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18932469London: Macmillan and Co 1893. First edition thus. First edition thus. 4to. Lavish Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Binding. . Bound in full red rich crushed morocco with gilt scrollwork devices around edges of both covers and extending toward center gilt rules and stippling including outside edges ornate gilt dentelles and superb silk moirÈ endpapers. With Zaehnsdorf's gilt exhibition binding circular gilt stamped device on rear silk moirÈ endsheet. One of 250 unnumbered copies of the Large Paper edition. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. Minor rubbing to spine tips and joints bookplate with remnant of additional bookplate and adhesive residue on first blank; top edges gilt morocco edged slipcase extremities rubbed. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co unknown books
1860FF2484London:: Edward Moxon 1860. 1860. Small 8vo. viii 310 pp. Original full reddish-brown blind-stamped morocco with gilt spine title all edges gilt; slightly rubbed. The added thumb-holed brown cloth slip-case is made by Frost at the time of his painting. Very good. DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING WITH EROTIC SCENES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST: With a double fore-edge painting showing bawdy "and athletic" erotic scenes painted by Martin Frost signed with both his initials and containing his handwritten colophon at rear dated 1999. Frost has painted two side-by-side fore-edges giving four vignettes in all: "Four scenes of athletic and ingenious lust" The first side shows a copulating man and woman on either a horse or on a carriage drawn by a horse after Thomas Rowlandson's works. Frost's initials are found on the lower right of this side. The reverse side shows two vertical vignettes depicting coitus on a bike rather an imaginary wheeled chair with parasol note the erect penis statue in the background and a stage scene with a partially nude woman lifting her skirt high to give a view of her genitals and a happy pot-bellied man with a huge erect penis that balances a bowl and 3 goblets he is talented! his costume of the British stage his genitals showing as if being the star of the show. An audience whoops it up in the gallies. Both characters sportingly wear a feather in their hair or cap. Edward Moxon, 1860. hardcover books
1867002987London: George Routledge and Sons 1867. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. With handwritten letter from Griset to Edward Whymper the renowned mountaineer dated November 22 1881 mounted onto preliminary leaf. Whymper besides being the first to scale the Matterhorn was a wood engraver and illustrator. In this letter Griset thanks Whymper for a cheque and speaks of a desire to make the acquaintance of Whymper soon afterward. As to the book: 4to. 6151 5 pp. With publisher's cloth front cover and spine bound in. The hundred Griset drawings are all hand-colored in this copy. The full calf binding has considerable wear chips and scuffing around the edges and joints. Rebacked with original spine labels laid on. Foxing in prelim pages but overall clean and tight. <br/><br/> George Routledge and Sons unknown books
187937334New Orleans: Lilienthal's. 121 Canal Street Touro Building 1879. Cabinet Card oblong 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" depicting Hood's family with portraits of the late General and his wife. Copyright information in white script at bottom of the photo; "Lilienthal Artist" at lower blank margin. Very Good. Title explanatory text and Lilienthal's prominent logo on verso. <br/><br/> "In 1867 a German-born Jewish photographer Theodore Lilienthal 1829-1894 advertised the city's post-Civil War recovery through photographs presented at the Paris Exposition as well as to Napoleon III. Lilienthal also promoted New Orleans to northern investors in 1873 through a book of photographs. Lilienthal considered one of New Orleans's most successful photographers later involved himself in spreading the truth about anti-Semitism in the photography field by offering to distribute for free an article criticizing that practice" Pollack Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South Chapter 3. "Part of the first generation of photographers in New Orleans Theodore Lilienthal was the city's most successful nineteenth-century photographic entrepreneur. At the height of his commercial success from 1875 to 1885 he operated one of the largest studios in the South and was recognized as a pioneer of new photographic processes. His work as a portraitist and view maker was unsurpassed in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras" web site of 64parishes article on Lilienthal. <br/> Confederate General John Bell Hood-- known for his wild bravery his several serious wounds and his disastrous defeats at Atlanta and Franklin-Nashville-- married Anna Marie Hennen after the War. After producing eleven children in ten years including three sets of twins the General his wife and their oldest daughter contracted yellow fever and died. <br/> New Orleans and particularly veterans of Hood's Texas Brigade created the "Hood Relief Committee." In the photograph the ten orphans pose near portraits of their mother and father with a seat at far left open for their deceased sister Lydia. Printed caption on verso notes "Every Picture Sold adds to the Permanent Fund for the Education and maintenance of these 'Wards of the South.' Lilienthal's. 121 Canal Street Touro Building unknown books
183746829London: Whittaker & Co 1837. First edition. 8vo. viii 216 pp. OCLC locates 13 copies New York Botanical Garden U.S. Military Academy Trinity Delaware Chicago Indiana Purdue Boston Athenaeum Harvard National Library of Medicine New Hampshire College of Physicians of Philadelphia Cambridge. Somewhat later half-calf and cloth very soiled and discolored all edges sprinkled red lacking spine label; some insect damage to rear endpaper but a good solid copy. <br/><br/> Whittaker & Co 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
