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18725210London. E. Moxon Son and Company. 1872. Bound in elaborate pictorial gilt decorated buckram.a.e.g. Thick 4to. Illustrated with full page plate engravings after drawings by Birket Foster. A sumptuous gilt decorated High Victorian binding encases as collection of Foster's wonderfully subdued engravings. Nostalgic and beautiful. A prime example of mid 18th century book design. Some mild darkening to covers some scattered light foxing else Very good. A sensational jewel. E. Moxon, Son and Company. hardcover books
188860294Lowell Mass: C.I. Hood & Co. Props. of Hood's Sarsaparilla 1888. Illustrated pink paperwraps. 11 cm. 16 pp. Illustrated. The author of the title poem "The Water Mill" is Sarah Doudney. Interspersed are promotional materials and testimonials for Hood's Sarsaparilla "Purifies the Blood" "Makes the Weak Strong." Included is a second poem a version of the first "Der Vater-Mill" by Charles Follen Adams. Some edgewear and creasing to wrappers faint old tidelines to a few leaves else very good. Nine listings on OCLC: Univ. of Rochester Med. Ctr. Univ. of CT Hagley Mus. & Lib. Missouri Hist. Mus. Penn State Brown Univ. SMU Univ. of TX-Austin and Univ. of Guelph. <br/><br/> C.I. Hood & Co., Props. of Hood's Sarsaparilla paperback books
189036568Lowell MA: C.I. Hood & Co. ca. 1890. 16mo 10.5 cm 4.2". 16 pp.; illus. <br><br>Shape book in the form of pansies gold and purple: A promotion of Hood's Sarsaparilla following one page dedicated to tips on growing pansies. The sales spiel is illustrated with => steel-engraved views and vignettes printed in dark blue and dark green. A tipped-in slip advertises B.F. Taylor's general merchandise store in Wheelock VT. Publisher's half-tone color-printed paper wrappers as above with a river scene glowing in the "eye" of one of the pansies; spine rubbed one tiny spot of staining or fading near front upper edge. Pages gently age-toned. => A patent medicine give-away not originally meant to be much less ephemeral than the little flower it celebrates. C.I. Hood & Co. unknown books
188832853Lowell Mass: Published by C. I. Hood & Co 1888. 1st printing Cagle 969; Wheaton & Kelly 2939. Blue & yellow printed paper wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Some wear & soiling. A VG copy. 16 pp. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by C. I. Hood & Co unknown books
1829246398London: Charles Tilt 1829. First edition. Illustrated with 6 illustrations on wood by Branston and Wright Bonner Slader and T. Williams; After the Designs of George Cruikshank. 29 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full polished brown calf with single gilt fillet borders spine gilt with urns t.e.g. by Morrell successors to Hayday. Cruikshank George. First edition. Illustrated with 6 illustrations on wood by Branston and Wright Bonner Slader and T. Williams; After the Designs of George Cruikshank. 29 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine 'Epping Hunt'. Interesting note from binders. Cohn 406; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 193-94 Charles Tilt 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
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
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
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
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
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
18974207Lowell MA: C.I. Hood & Co 1897. Duodecimo 351 pages. First edition of this small Victorian guide for the home cook issued by the makers of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Each chapter carries a decorated letter and the book is well indexed. In publisher's grey-green printed boards which are rubbed and soiled. Less than very good but sound and complete. Bitting 563; not in Cagle. C.I. Hood & Co hardcover books
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
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
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
1857808841857. HOOD P. THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF SCARLET FEVER: ALSO OBSERVATIONS ON THE PATHOLOGY & TREATMENT OF CROWING INSPIRATION IN INFANTS. London: John Churchill 1857. iv 2 200 pp. 2 pp. publisher's catalogue. Ex-library with usual markings. Fair to good backstrip detached chipped laid in. Slight thumbing to a few pages. A few pages have been roughly opened at the fore-edge. Text complete. Indexed. unknown books
1842239544London: Henry Colburn 1842. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Jo Leech. Previous owner's name written on ffep. No pencil or ink markings in text. Red embossed cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations. Light to moderate edge wear to extremities. Archival repair to top of spine. Rear hinge re-inforced. Text block edges are gilded. Very Good binding. Henry Colburn 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
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
1873D2349London: E. Moxon Son & Company 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes the first and second series. Lovely gilt-ruled bright blue calf gilt-stamped ornament on compartmented spine 5 raised bands gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label all edges marbled. Illustrated throughout. Both volumes: Spine a bit sunned; light edgewear scuffing along joints at spine tips corners and along edges of boards. Rear board detached from the second volume. A nice set internally bright and clean. Richly illustrated. <br/><br/> E. Moxon, Son, & Company hardcover books
1873184384London: Moxon 1873. Hardcover. VG/G covers and spine have moderate wear corners bumped. Ridges have worn down and spine is faded - still has shelf appeal. Pages are clean and tight. Leather 5-ridge spine corner tabs; marble covers. Marbled text block. 2 volumes illustrations portrait. Vol. 1: viii 568 pages illustrations frontispiece. First series "New edition."/ Second series without imprint date. Moxon hardcover books