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8vo., with 2 full-page plans; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 8 plates, 13 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and a large folding map; original pictorial cloth gilt, upper board blocked and ruled in blind, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a few small marks on lower board else a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION, INCORPRATING A COUPLET FROM BYRON, ON HALF-TITLE. With the nineteenth-century engraved pictorial bookplate of Mary Alice Crawley on front paste-down. This scarce work in the first dedicated history of one of London's most fashionable squares.
2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and 41 fine plates and facsimiles, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original red buckram, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, backstrips mildly sunned (but all gilt legible), coves very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The standard reference; the author was honorary consulting surgeon to the institution. Scarce in this condition.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces and 5 engraved plates, some minimal spotting and staining; mid-nineteenth century half calf, backs gilt extra with double roan labels, speckled edges, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed else a most attractive and very clean copy. Pargellis and Medley, 3299.
8vo., First Edition; original cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded and age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Extremely scarce
First edition, 8vo (200 x 125 mm), viii, 246, [6]pp., frontispiece and 8 plates (one foxed), a very good ex-library copy with stamps, cont. half calf, marbled boards, joint cracked, red morocco spine label, uncut. A rare topographical work.
4 Vols., 4to, over 2740pp., orig. cloth. Reproduces the catalogue cards of the ca. 16,000 items in this very important collection. Some of the many subjects include: incunabula, curiosities of bookmaking (such as chained books), modern fine printing, history of paper, type specimen books, printing manuals, graphic design, trade catalogues, binding, and much more.
4 Vols., 4to, over 2740pp., orig. cloth. Reproduces the catalogue cards of the ca. 16,000 items in this very important collection. Some of the many subjects include: incunabula, curiosities of bookmaking (such as chained books), modern fine printing, history of paper, type specimen books, printing manuals, graphic design, trade catalogues, binding, and much more.
First edition, [2], viii, 218, [2], 103, [1]pp., with additional engraved title page, 5 engraved plates, folding plan of the castle and a folding facsimile of a MS in the British Museum, cont. calf, spine tooled in gilt and blind, some minor rubbing otherwise a very nice copy. Dobbin, 466.
Second edition, small 8vo, vii, [1], 152pp., engraved frontispiece, rebound in later cloth, leather spine label, uncut.
First edition, small 8vo, iv, 151, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece, rebound in later cloth, spine labels, uncut.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 219, [1]pp., with list of subscribers, lithographed frontispiece, cont. half calf, marbled boards, calf spine label lettered in gilt.
Roy. 8vo., on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 19 plates; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a fine copy. This privately printed work remains the definitive history
4to, 15pp., printed in double columns, original printed wrappers (detached), spine worn.
First edition, 8vo, viii, [2], 223, [11]pp., engraved frontispiece and 3 further engraved plates, orig. boards, spine a little worn, uncut.
8vo., First Edition, with a copper-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, and 3 copper-engraved plates, some very light age-staining; original marbled paper boards, roan back with 7 elaborate flat bands ruled and tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with a pastoral scene displaying tree, plants and urn, red sprinkled edges, boards lightly bruised at corners and fore-edges, joints rubbed (but binding entirely sound), a most attractive, crisp copy in wholly unrestored period binding. With dedication to Lady Monson. Nice copy of a very scarce work. Anderson, p.171; Short 614; Upcott, p.640* I.
8vo., Fifth Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 folding maps (a few short tears); black cloth, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy. Substantially updated version of the original edition of 1848. Enser, p.34.
Two volumes bound in one, paginated consecutively. Thick royal quarto 35x24 cm. Pp. (x), lii, 392, (3); (ii), 393-612, 11. Plus numerous folding engraved plates to each volume. Two title-pages printed in red and black, the first is preceded by a preliminary illustrated title-page incorporating woodcut and letterpress. Imprimatur, dedication to the King. Hardcover, recently bound in pristine full calf antique style, spine with large raised bands between compartments, crimson morocco lettering-piece in gilt in second compartment, blind decoration to each of the remainders, sides ruled in blind; small hole at inner blank margin of title-page neatly repaired. In fine condition. Imposing, most attractive tome. ~ Photomechanical reproduction of the 1727 edition. Printed in a limited edition of 150 copies, this is copy no. 26. Kaempfer (1651-1716), a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company, arrived in Japan in 1690 at Nagasaki and stayed there for almost 4 years. His account of that stay, first published in Britain in 1727, has long been recognized as the most authoritative guide to virtually all aspects of Japan and the Japanese at that time. From the private collection of Ing. P. L. W. Arts with his bookplate.
8vo., Revised Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a good, firm copy. First published in 1955.
2 vols., 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, titles in red and black, with 2 frontispieces (one coloured), 117 plates and facsimiles on 114, 38 illustrations in the text and a folding map, neat inked initials on half-title of first volume; decorative buckram gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, upper hinge of first volume crudely reinforced with adhesive tape at title else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1,107 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE FIRST VOLUME. One of the outstanding town histories of the early twentieth century. The blocks for the illustrations were prepared by Emery Walker and the work is complete with list of subscribers, addenda and corrigenda, an extensive bibliography and indexes of persons and places.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, covers mildly worn and age-marked else a good, clean copy. With the list of subscribers. SCARCE.
First edition, 4to, [2],90pp., lithographed throughout wove paper watermarked "Whatman 1820", inscribed "E. H. Grimston from his affectionate aunt Harriot Grimston Oct 13th 1840", Edward H. Grimston was the second son of the author, and Harriot her sister-in-law, lithographed portrait frontispiece of the author on india-proof paper, title within decorative border, 9 lithographed plates and plans, one etched plate, 11 lithographed armorials in the margins, some light spotting, contemporary half morocco,upper joint split. "Probably the earliest [British] topographical book with its text lithographed... the most striking feature of the book is the discrepancy between the assurance of the writing of the main text and the naivety of the drawings..."?Twyman, Early Lithographed Books, pp. 179-180. Twyman suggests that Charlotte Grimston (wife of the first earl of Verulam who owned Gorhambury) was responsible for the views and plans, but employed a professional lithographic writer for the text. Martin, Privately Printed Books, pp.342-43.
8vo., First Edition; mid-nineteenth century calf, neatly rebacked in modern calf with five raised bands, two morocco labels gilt and new endpapers, small ink-stain on fore-edge (not affecting text or margins), a very good, clean copy. The errata leaf, sometimes missing, is present with this copy. Brockett, 50560.
8vo., First Edition, title lightly spotted; attractively bound in mid-nineteenth century half calf, pebble-grain cloth boards, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green endpapers, a notably fresh, clean copy. The errata leaf, sometimes missing, is present with this copy. With the fine engraved nineteenth century armorial bookplate of George Bridgewater on front paste-down. THIS COPY WAS LATELY IN THE LIBRARY OF JACK SIMMONS, SOMETIME EMINENT PROFESSOR OF LOCAL HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, AND BEARS HIS NEAT SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Brockett, 50560.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, maps and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
