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186129113London: T. Nelson & Sons 1861. 8vo. 328 96 pp. <br><br>First edition of these thoughts on Christian faith for children written by a Scottish Presbyterian minister. The volume closes with a section of "Hymns and Melodies for the Young" including both music and lyrics. Title-page in black and red with a gothic frame. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2W25551. Publisher's textured brown cloth front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title spine with plain gilt-stamped title; binding cocked extremities and joints rubbed spine slightly sunned. Exsocial club library: paper shelving label on spine call number on endpapers rubber-stamp on title-page and one other no other markings. Scattered small spots pages mostly clean. T. Nelson & Sons hardcover books
19005170n.p. n.p. ca. 1900. 1900. Thin 4to. B/w illustrations and decorations by Harold Nelson; title page printed in red and black. Original gilt stamped tan cloth over tan boards rubbing to extremities. Very good. 40 pages. Cover title reads: "Early English Prose Romances II. Robin Hood.". Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. [n.p., n.p., ca. 1900]. hardcover books
1862273619Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1862. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text is bright. Plum cloth binding sunned with light edgewear and a couple of stains. Very Good binding. American Sunday-School Union unknown books
18702298231870. Titled "Mount Hood From Tysch Prairie." 11" x 8". Very good a few spots in margin; ca. 1870. Mount Hood is the highest peak in Oregon at 11245 feet. General Report Plate IX from the famous Survey of the 47th & 49th parallels. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
180216304London: Vernor and Hood 1802. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary tree calf rebacked. Very good/Near Fine. 128 and 219 pages. 21 x 13 cm. First title with five copper-plate engravings two folding.; second has two folding plates Divisions of the Linnaean System Characters of the Genera of British Plants English-Latin Dictionary of Botanical Terms and Index to the British Genera. First part carries month by month guide for the Farmer. Scattered light foxing generally bright. Vernor and Hood unknown books
189242230London: John Hogg 1892. 16mo pp. xvi 238 2; publsher's green cloth gilt yellow glazed endpapers; edges rubbed spine ends lightly frayed; contemporary inscription on ffep bookplate on pastedown; preliminaries a bit foxed; a very good sound copy. Originally published in 1869 as "Rules of Rhyme a guide to English versification". See DNB IX. <br/><br/> John Hogg 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
1877JC9316London: John Hogg 1877. New and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine; 12mo; pp. xvi 238 2 ads. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners a little frayed; some cracks in the gutter but holding just fine. Includes a rhyming dictionary. <br/><br/> John Hogg hardcover 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
1896140938854New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1896. First Thus. Near Fine. First thus. Original green rubbed cloth with gilt decorations cream stamping to front board all edges gilt. Near Fine with wear at head tips exposed; date written on front free endpaper front hinge a little overopened. Bright gilt a very clean copy. An illustrated edition of one of the 19th century English poet's more popular poems uncommon in such nice shape. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
18781320140London: E. Moxon Son and Co. 1878. Softcover. Folio; pp 63; Fair/paperback; light brown spine without text; missing exterior layer to spine; stiff black front board; missing rear board; some scruffing wear to exterior; light tape residue to front; small chips to edges; text block has broken hinges; all edges gilt; some light foxing to most pages throughout; frontispiece with tissue guard; illustrated;. 1320140. FP New Rockville Stock. E. Moxon, Son, and Co. unknown books
189731985London: Macmillan and Co 1897. Two volumes; 12mos 18.25cm.; publisher's maroon cloth gilt-lettered spines; lxxxi1355;xii415pp.; engraved frontispieces. Spines a hint sunned light shelf wear else a Near Fine set. From the library of the late local educator and historian Garland Quarles with his ownership rubberstamps to front free endpapers. Macmillan and Co unknown books
186029130Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1860. 12mo. 2 vols. I: Frontis. xviii 310 pp. II: vii 327 pp. fold. facsimile. <br><br>First American edition the same year as the true first edition. Autobiographical account of Hood 1799-1845 the marvelous British humorist and poet drawn from various writing "collected arranged and edited by his daughter and with a preface and notes by his son." The text has several in-text copies "from his own sketches. Publisher's dark brown textured cloth stamped in blind on cover and in gilt on spine. Small paper labels at top of each spine. A few stray stains in some margins. Exsocial club library: call number on endpapers rubber-stamp on title-page no other markings. Ticknor & Fields hardcover books
185214971New York: Geo. P. Putnam 1852. 8vo. 173 1 pp.; 5 plts. <br><br>Early American printing of the second volume of Hood's lighthearted German voyages. Publisher's cloth spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth faded with back cover lightly waterstained and spine gilt dimmed. Vol. II only. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate front free endpaper with bookseller's stamp and front fly-leaf with private collector's stamp. Title-page with affixed "ex libris" slip covering an early inked ownership inscription with dangling loop from that inscription erased firmly enough to leave a small hole in the paper. Pages and plates lightly to moderately foxed. Geo. P. Putnam hardcover books
1829021033Londn: Charles Tilt 1829. First Edition. 12moin 6s. 29pp. illustrated with six full page wood engraved plates after George Cruikshank by Branston and Wright Bonner Slader and T. Williams. Bound in 3/4 tan polished calf two raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated red morocco spine lablel gilt top edge gilt gray endpapers. A poem by Thomas Hood who was a poet humorist and wrote for several magazines including Punch. A very nice copy. Charles Tilt unknown books
189748464London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1897. 1st Edition. "Presentation copy" circular blindstamp to title leaf. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Average wear. Spines a bit sunned. Bookplate of Arthur Quiller-Couch. A VG set. 2 volumes: lxxxi 1 blank 355 1 blank; xii 415 3 pp. 2 page advert at rear of Vol II. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> MacMillan and Co., Limited hardcover books
186735416Boston: Crosby & Ainsworth 1867. Blue cloth binding with gilt title lettering and decoration stamped to spine and blind design stamped to boards. AEG. Significant wear to extremities large water stain to front board. Withal an About VG copy. 480 4 blank pp. Inserted title page in color. 6-1/4" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> Crosby & Ainsworth hardcover books
1825WRCLIT18913London: Printed for Baldwin Cradock & Joy 1825. 136pp. Full tan calf gilt extra by Zaehnsdorf without half-title and ads. Upper joint quite rubbed free binder's endsheet detached at gutter otherwise very good. First edition of Thomas Hood's first book albeit a collaborative venture with Reynolds. TINKER 1231. NCBEL III:359. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy unknown 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
18554712London: Edward Moxon 1855. 8vo viii & 568pp. engraved frontis portrait and numerous engraved vignette illustrations throughout; handsome edition nicely bound in half polished tan calf gilt marbled boards endpapers and edges; fine copy. A collection of miscellaneous pieces from Hood's Comic Annual including his "Literary Reminiscences." A second series was published in 1861. <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
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
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
