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1893WRCLIT77690Joliet IL 1893. One and one-half pages in ink on recto and verso of quarto sheet of pictorial letterhead of THE LITERARY NORTHWEST with return address and printed portion crossed through. Tiny filing spindle hole; partial splitting at center mailing fold with no loss scrawled pencil docket and light soiling; about very good. Carpenter writes "To Mr. Herbert S. Stone" of the Chicago publishing firm of Stone & Kimball reporting that "All the drawings for the set of books you are getting out for Mr. Garland have been turned in & have proofs of all with the exception of the last two or three . They seem to have Mr. Garland's approval . I have tried to do good work on them and I think they will come out very strong and black. I have made many more than I had expected to but I am of course anxious to make a good showing from purely a selfish reason." Carpenter continues: "I should be very glad indeed to have you give me a chance when opportunity presents itself to do some artistic and decorative work quaint initials and the like or illustrating of any kind. While I have been very glad to have the opportunity of doing some realistic illustrating I think I would make a creditable showing in other directions. I mentioned to Mr. Garland the other day the payment of the $100 . I should very much appreciate the remittance if convenient as this season's experience has not left me in good financial shape." Horace Thompson Carpenter 1857-1947 was an American illustrator artist and art writer and served as Manager of THE LITERARY NORTHWEST AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE which was published briefly in St. Paul by the D.D. Merrill Company from March 1892 until July 1893 -- no doubt its demise was among the causes of Carpenter's financial concerns. He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. "Hamlin Garland's books were the rock on which the firm of Stone & Kimball was securely founded . . . The firm published Garland's PRAIRIE SONGS the essays CRUMBLING IDOLS and the novel ROSE OF DUTCHER'S COOLLY. Another volume of stories PRAIRIE FOLKS was published by Stone & Kimball in 1895 from the types of an earlier edition. The author was extravagantly pleased with the appearance of these books; especially with the designs of H.T. Carpenter for MAIN TRAVELLED ROADS reprinted by Stone & Kimball and PRAIRIE SONGS and with the symbolic design of three cornstalks the publishers gave their bindings. Great pains were taken in the production of these books." KRAMER pp.17-18. unknown books
1897262561London: Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry 1897. 23p. stapled wraps 5x7.25 inches wraps lightly foxed bottom edge of front wrap browned staple rusted pp8-17 evenly browned rear wrap lightly silverfished along two edges. Reprinted from "Freedom." On the mistreatment of anarchist political prisoners. Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry unknown books
1897262648London: Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry 1897. 23p. stapled wraps 5x7.25 inches wraps lightly foxed staple rusted else good condition. Reprinted from "Freedom." On the mistreatment of anarchist political prisoners. Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry unknown books
1817WUV1219London: Longman. 1817. Original marbled boards backed by brown calf gilt with leather tips somewhat bumped. Vol. 1 missing several blank endpapers. Bookticket on front pastedown. Signature of pps. 119-122 is loose. Some old mould evident. P. 581 is a nice mathematical plate. Previous owner signatures in each volume. Vol. 2 has tears in last free endpaper but is present. Seven plates present in Vol. 2. Second Edition. Half-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Longman. Hardcover books
1812M9053New York:: printed by C. S. Van Winkle 1812. 1812. Small 8vo. 11 pp. Later quarter red cloth; early minor ink notation and rubber stamp on title institutional bookplate. Very good. First edition. Pamphlet showing lists of members theses and dissertations relating to the society. printed by C. S. Van Winkle, 1812. hardcover books
1850289813New York: Baker and Scribner 1850. Hard Cover. Good binding. The First Edition of the only book of poetry by Marcus T. Carpenter of Jackson Miss. and native of New York. Scattered spots of soiling to the text; lacking the front endpaper. Wear to the edges of the binding and loss to the head of the spine. Embossed black leather with gilt decorations. All edges gilt. OCLC notes two institutional holdings. Good binding. Baker and Scribner unknown books
188361880Boston: Roberts Brothers. Very Good. 1883. Hardcover. 117pp. ads. 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" brown cloth covers with black printing. Hinges cracked covers are slightly scuffed and soiled with a sunned spine. Spine ends and cover corners are scuffed and rubbed. Contents are bright and complete. A Good copy for reading or reference. . Roberts Brothers hardcover books
188239128Albany: Weed Parsons 1882. 8vo 23 cm 9.25". 1 f. ii 108 pp. plans. <br><br>County by country report of hospitals for the insane and mentally incapacitated with a few plans of buildings. Includes details of diets clothing activities treatment.<br>Â Â Â Â Carpenter served in various important capacities in the mental health community of New York state including as the Commissioner for the Second Judicial District. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Wrappers starting to detach some chipping. A good copy. Weed, Parsons hardcover books
183024113London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Eleven pamphlets plus the Supplement bound in contemporary green sheep-backed marbled boards. Spine defective edges rubbed some light spotting or browning of leaves else very good copies of these. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Stamp Duty Challenged. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." The pamphlets contained are "An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830; "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England" 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; "A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830; "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830; "A Political Miscllany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830; "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. with an 8 page supplement printed at the Published of the Office of the Political Letters 18 Dec. 1830; "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830; "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830; "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown books
183849663London: W. Marshall 24 Tavistock Street Covent Garden 1838. 1st printing presumed. Early but probably not original plain brown paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Disbound. General wear & soiling to wrappers. Occasional soil & foxing. About Very Good. 12 36 pp. Publisher advert p. 4 advising all that "Marshall's Pocket-Book Business is Removed from 1 Holborn Bars." Contains 11 additional sketches: The Dilemma anonymous 2 pp A Day at Epping anonymous 2 pp We Must Go to Margate This Season anonymous 2 pp My Maiden Speech Carpenter 2 pp Good Shots Attree 2 pp Balloning anonymous 1 pp A Tale of Mystery anonymous 2 pp I'll Have a Gala Night by the author of 'Love for Light Hearts &c' 2 pp Our Festival Day by the author of 'Random Rhymes &c' 2 pp A Progeny of a Punster Harcourt 1 p. Frontis. T.p. vignette. 12 other illustrations 11 full page with contributions by at least 2 other unidentified artists. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Date of printing determined from the dated advert p. 4. <br /> <br />"Boz the Younger" signs in type the first two sketches: "Old Weller's Chapter of Fat and Sam's Visit to see the Goswell Street Cattle Show"; "Sam Weller's Description of the Proclamation of Victoria I." Each one page in length. Given at the time of this publication Dickens was immersed in Oliver Twist & Nicholas Nickleby we feel confident in saying this booklet was an effort to captialize on his burgeoning fame as Boz. <br /> <br />A rather rare early 19th C. illustrated publication; at the time of cataloguing not found in any of the standard Dickens references not found on COPAC with OCLC listing just 3 institutional holdings of only 12 pages. W. Marshall, 24, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden unknown books
189229454Paris: Choudens Fils PN A.C. 8922 1892. Large octavo. Quarter grey cloth with marbled boards manuscript titling to spine. 1f. recto decorative title verso blank 1f. recto dedication verso blank 1f. recto cast list and list of acts verso blank xi libretto i blank 1f. recto notes on first performances named cast lists and contents verso blank 147 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Named cast for the Conservatoire National performance includes Tarquini d'Or Cossira Grimaud and Wyns and for the Théâtre National performance Fiérens Vaguet Renaud and Héglon.<br/><br/>Binding worn rubbed stained and shaken; hinges split. Occasional light foxing; some signatures split; title soiled and mostly detached; handstamps throughout; old plastic tape to inner margin of two leaves. First Edition. <br/><br/>First performed in Paris at the Conservatoire National on May 18 1892 and at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra on June 17 1892. <br/><br/>"Charpentier carried his spirit of revolt to the Villa Medici and like Debussy before him escaped from Rome to Paris on several occasions. He managed however to write the nucleus of his life's work there: the orchestral suite Impressions d'Italie the symphonie-drame La vie du poète a latterday Lélio and most of the libretto and the first act of his most famous work Louise. Charpentier's growing success in the 1890s with La vie du poète and open-air extravaganzas like the Sérénade à Watteau and La couronnement de la muse coupled with the expected scandal attached to the opera's promiscuous theme and the excitement of the Paris Exhibition led to a box-office triumph in February 1900 though the composer had nearly starved during the previous year. The vociferous young left wing hailed him as the saviour of French music though it was undoubtedly the sociological ideals of this first opera of women's liberation rather than its music which appealed." Robert Orledge in Grove Music Online. Choudens Fils [PN A.C. 8922] unknown books
1896248London The Studio Magazine 1896. Embossed lithograph in colors. Contained within the bound edition of THE STUDIO AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF FINE AND APPLIED ART. 1894189618971898 and 1899 with their blind stamp lower right. 5 ¼ x 8 7/8 188mm x 226mm. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt letters on the cover and spine. In good condition. The Studio Magazine was an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine founded in Britain in 1893 which exerted a major influence on the development of the Art Nouveau movement. The earlier editions usually had original lithographs and etchings bound into the publication as it is here. Charles Holme Editor. In the later 20th century the annuals gave increasing prominence to architecture and interior design and in the mid-1960s it was retitled Decorative Art in Modern Interiors. The annual ceased publication in 1980. THE STUDIO, AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF FINE AND APPLIED ART books
1866WRCAM52261Philadelphia 1866. 15316pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Binding worn and rubbed. Very good. An interesting carpenter's account book from 19th-century Philadelphia containing a voluminous amount of entries listing client names types of carpentry work done and the costs thereof. Internal evidence his name on pages 52 and 114 suggests that this belonged to Philadelphia carpenters John and W.H. Martin. The accounts start on July 22 1835 exactly one month after the 1835 Philadelphia general strike ended. Workers' rights and formative unions owe much to this strike in Philadelphia the first general strike by wage workers in North America. The strike helped alleviate long hours and low pay by involving some 20000 workers who demanded a ten-hour work day and increased wages. The strike was very successful ending in an almost complete victory for the workers. <br> <br> About half of the ledger deals with work done in the first five years in which it was kept 1835-1840. There are no entries from June 1847 to June 1849 and only sporadic entries from 1857 to the final entries in 1866; most of the rest of the accounts are from 1840 to 1855 except the two-year hiatus. <br> <br> The account book lists a wide assortment of different types of work accomplished by carpenters including framing putting up awnings "repairing a privey seat" hanging doors and windows putting up lightning rods making shutters mending floors and much more. In addition Martin seemed to occasionally make furniture specifically benches and tables for which there are some entries here. It also contains important information on the prices paid by tradesmen for supplies in Philadelphia at the time mostly lumber and nails in this case. <br> <br> Although there is no explicit ownership signature both internal evidence and other material purchased from the same estate suggest John Martin as the principal craftsperson and W.H. Martin as an employee or other principal of the business. The ledger offers much insight into American trade in one of its most important cities at a time of immense growth. <br> <br> A fascinating account book with much detail on the development of Philadelphia private homes in the middle of the 19th century. hardcover books
18441257969London: James Carpenter 1844. First edition. Thick large quarto in dark burgundy leather with six-band embossed spine and gold letters; VG; book slightly bowed due to shelving; moderate soiling or shelf wear; gilt edges; frontispiece page foxed; small penciled inscription on second frontispiece page; age-toned; text clean; contains 80 pages of memoir followed by extensive catalogue of etchings and papers by contemporaries of Van Dyck; shelved in Alcove # 1; please contact us for shipping costs. 1257969. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. James Carpenter unknown books
18707418baGlen Cove NY: Carpenter Family in America 1870. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Americana; genealogy; 3 pages; 20.2cm; organization constitution. Carpenter Family in America Paperback books
1830304041London: Printed and Published by William Carpenter 1830. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound. First editions. Decorated head pieces. 1 vols. 4to. Stamp Duty Challenged. RARE. From 1830 to 1831 Carpenter published an unstamped series called "The Political Letters" challenging the stamp duty law as to whether any publication containing news was subject to duty. Carpenter did not feel that these should be subject to the duty. He was prosecuted and imprisoned from where he edited the "Political Magazine." <br/> The pamphlets contained are:<br/>1. " A Report on the Trail of William Carpeter 12 pp. <br/>2.An Expostulatory Letter to the Commissioners of Stamps." 16 pp 21 October 1830;<br/>3. A Monitory Letter to ther People of England. 16pp. with an ad for Queen Mab.October 29 1830<br/>4. "A Letter to the Aristocracy of England. " 24 pp 6 Nov. 1830; <br/>5 A Second Letter to the Duke of Wellington.16pp<br/>6. Facts and Observations connected to the Present Times. 16pp. November 18 1830<br/>7. A Letter to Earl Gray.November 25 1830<br/>8."A Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 4 Dec. 1830<br/>9. "A Second Letter to Lord Althorpe" 16 pp. 7 Dec. 1830<br/>10. "A Political Miscellany on National Debt" 16 pp. 9 Dec. 1830<br/>11 "A Political Compendium on Reform" 16 pp. 18 Dec. 1830<br/>12 "A Political Digest" 16 pp. 23 Dec. 1830<br/>13. A Supplement to Carpenter's Political Compendium. 8 pp.<br/>14. "A Letter to the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton" 16 pp. 31 Dec. 1830<br/>15. "A Political Mirror" 16 pp. 7 Jan. 1831<br/>16.; "A Political Chronicle" 16 pp. 13 Jan 1831<br/>17. ; "A Political Herald" 21 Jan 1831<br/>18. A Political Register January 28 1831. 16 pp.<br/>19. A Political Letter. Feburary 4 1831. 16 pp.<br/>20. Another Political Letter Feburary 12 1831. 16 pp.<br/>21. A Letter to the Rightr Hon. The Chancellotr of the Exchequer. 16 pp.<br/>22. A Political Monitor Friday May 6 1831. 16 pp.<br/>23. A Political Censor. Saturday May 14 1831. 16 pp.<br/><br/><br/>At an early age he began working for a bookseller in Finsbury first as an errand boy and then as an apprentice.<br/><br/>In 1830 he issued a series of Political Letters with which he attempted to defy the stamp duty on newspapers but in May 1831 he was tried and convicted of evading the law and was imprisoned. While in prison he edited a political magazine which was republished as Carpenter's Monthly Political Magazine in 1832. NCBEL 3:1818 Printed and Published by William Carpenter unknown books
1851021024<p>Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. 300pp plus publisher's advertisements. Boards have moderate wear to edges and light soiling; spine has moderate sunning; text block has moderate foxing throughout. William W. Carpenter provides a valuable record of the state of Mexican affairs after the Mexican-American War of 1846. </p> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1845M11448Philadelphia:: Lea & Blanchard 1845. 1845. Large 12mo. 232 x 163 mm xxiii 25-643 32 ads. pp. 2 engraved plates 189 woodcut illus. index; some spotting. Original full brown calf gilt-stamped black leather spine label; two burn marks on lower edge of upper cover affecting the first few leaves also joints rubbed spine darkened headcap chipped. Bookplate of Charles Mayo Goss. Generally very good. Provenance: Dr. Charles Mayo Goss who at 78 was appointed Distinguished Professor of Anatomy at the University of South Alabama at Mobile was the editor over a period of 26 years of the last five American editions of Gray's Anatomy: the 25th in 1948 26th in 1954 27th Centennial in 1959 28th in 1966 and 29th in 1973 all published by Lea and Febiger of Philadelphia. Cordasco 40-0185; Wellcome II p. 304. Lea & Blanchard, 1845. hardcover books
187531440London: 56 Regents Park Road 1875. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. On a stub attached to a larger colored sheet some discoloration of larger sheet folds else very good. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th "which wil be rather supplemental to thatn an repetition of my Glasgow lecture. If it is well reported as I expect it will be in one of the Belfast papers would a revised Report be of any value to you" Carpenter was noted for his research in botany microscopy zoology and physiology and was a co-leader of the research team in 1868-70 on the deep sea scientific expedition aboard the "Lightning" and "Challenger." Youmans was the founder of "Popular Science Monthly' and planned the "International Scientific Series" he was a noted lecturer on science and author of several works. Provenance: From the autograph collection of W. P. Webster 56 Regents Park Road unknown books
18582286495Blanchard and Lea 1858. Revised Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. A New American Edition from the Last London Edition.' Edges rubbed ink name and pencil gift note on front endpaper. 1858 Full-Leather. Edited with additions by Francis Gurney Smith. 261 engraved illustrations including two plates. A treatise on human physiology by the examiner in physiology and comparative anatomy in the University of London who was also Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in University College and President of the Microscopical Society of London. Carpenter was a staunch advocate of temperance and wrote several works about the dangers of using and abusing alcohol in which he detailed the physiological ramifications. Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
185943703Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea 1859. 8vo. pp. xxiv 33-902 32 pub ads; 2 plates and numerous wood engraving within text front hinge cracked extremities lightly worn small section of spine label peeled away else very good in contemporary full calf with black morocco label lettered in gilt with gilt-ruled raised bands. <br/><br/> Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
187941099London 1879. <p>Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny pin-holes but fine otherwise.</p> <p>From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. </p> <p>Carpenter's letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows:</p> <p>Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. </p> <p>I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police Fête.</p> <p>This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . .</p> <p>Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter.</p> . unknown books
1866116991Philadelphia: Lea 1866. hardcover. very good. With a preface by D.F. Condie M.D. Small slim 8vo 178 pages contemporary brown cloth; spine chipped. Philadelphia: Henry Lea 1866. zzvery good.<br/><br/> An important example of the "public movements and social concern" aspect of the life and writing of this important figure. This work did much to spread a better informed opinion of the physiological dangers of alcohol among the working classes not only in England but in the United States as well.<br/><br/> Lea unknown books
1868021978London: John Churchill and Sons 1868. Small Thick Octavo. . 4th edition. half-title two engraved frontispieces 796pp. edited with additions By Francis Gurney Smith illustrated with 25 plates and 400 wood engravings. This edition enlarged with nearly 40 new pages to offer more illustrations from the smaller wood-cuts to full page illustrations some folding and new information. The author was an English physician invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He wa voted Fellow of the Royal Society for his work. His most famous work was the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease which was recognized as the first temperance book on the subject noting alcohol led to the disease of alcoholism. A very good copy bound in an earlier 20th century binding of 3/4 brown polished calf over marbled paper covered boards retaining original yellow endpapers with publisher's ads raised bands ruled in gilt lettering gilt internally free from foxing. John Churchill and Sons unknown books
18836627New York: National Temperance Society 1883. paperback. very good. 23 pages. Slim 12mo original salmon pink printed wrappers. N.Y.: National Temperance Society 1883. A very good copy.<br/><br/> National Temperance Society unknown books
