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18293530London: Printed for Samuel Bagster No. 15 Paternoster Row By Knight and Bagster 14 Bartholomew Close 1829. Full morocco. Very Good. Miniature edition. 48mo 8.7 x 5.7cm pp. 168 incl. engraved final tailpiece lacks pp. 3-4 half-title. Full black morocco with metal clasp five raised bands title stamped in gilt to one spine compartment others stamped in blind triple blind ruled border with floriate corner decorations to boards in blind gilt roll-tool decorations to turn-ins. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers ivory ribbon marker. Gently rubbed and scored corners bruised and gently worn. Pencil POI by Phillida Gili to ffep plus earlier POIs in brown ink to fep and first blank: L Maline Sibella 1837 and "William Stephens from Mary Cobb" Margate 1829 respectively endpapers a little dusty with offsetting from clasp pins. Else clean and bright. Very good. JiscLHD locates no copies of this Bagster miniature edition of the Psalms of David. An exquisite copy of Samuel Bagster's miniature edition of The Psalms of David c.1829 finely bound in full black morocco with a metal clasp from the libraries of Valentine Ackland and British artist Phillida Gili. VA and Sylvia Townsend Warner likely met Gili through her parents Reynolds Stone and Janet Woods who themselves became friends through VA's antiques business which sheran from the long sun-parlour of their Frome Vauchurch home in the 1950s. VA whose shop "was especially popular with collectors of dolls' houses and miniature objects" Bingham 2021 evidently also appreciated miniature books herself. One of a collection of four miniature books from VA's library that we have handled with yet another featuring a gift inscription from the first period of her affair with Elizabeth Wade White: "V.A from E.W.W 1:1:39" these items suggest perhaps that miniature books were a lover's currency of sorts between the two women. They certainly travel compactly and can be packaged easily a consideration for such a long-standing transatlantic affair. In an odd parallel with VA EWW also went on to trade in antiquarian and collectable objects running White & Holahan Books with her lover Evelyn Holahan from their Connecticut home the Patch from the 1940s. Upon her death in November 1969 VA whose success as an antiques dealer had derived in part from her "sense of objects as individual things relics of people and containers of their love" ibid bequeathed many of her own books to friends hence Phillida Gili's inscription: "left to me by Valentine Ackland December 1969". Frances Bingham 2021 Valentine Ackland: A transgressive life Bath: Handheld Press Printed for Samuel Bagster, No. 15, Paternoster Row, By Knight and Bagster, 14, Bartholomew Close unknown
16362103Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young 1636. First edition. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. Small folio. Signatures: aa - kk in 8s. Edges ragged. Disbound. With the third state of 2H3 "he" at the end of the first line of the verso. 2K6 has the catchword "Certaine" and 2K7 and 2K8 are canceled as normal. See ESTCS113851 ESTCS101893. A very good reading copy of this first edition of Psalter accompanying the Scottish Book of Common Prayer printed the same year. Printed by Robert Young unknown
1967List2885Sheffield United Kingdom 1967. 20 x 30 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Some staining and scuffing pinholes and some tears at edges fine contrast; overall excellent. A poster advertising Stevie Wonder at Sheffield’s Mojo Club in October 1967. Wonder would have been just seventeen at the time though he had already dropped “Little†from his stage name. The Mojo Club in working-class Sheffield was the project of brothers Peter and Geoff Stringfellow; the pair had previously worked as promoters and were preternaturally talented having booked the Beatles for April of 1962 shortly before the release of “Love Me Doâ€.1 Stevie Wonder would be the last live act at the Mojo as it was shut down by the city three days later on October 10.<br /> <br /> 1 Steve Walker “The King Mojo Club†2020 https://www.kingmojostory.com. unknown
56483This unused albeit lightly foxed advertising postcard captioned '"I always use Waterman's" J.B. Hobbs' features a portrait of a late-vintage Jack Hobbs complete with blazer cigarette and Waterman's pen busily signing autographs for a couple of young lads. This example has been signed prominently in dark blue ink by Hobbs and the lad who received it has written - almost unnoticed in dark ink in the dark bottom margin - 'Jack Hobb's sic autograph'. unknown
185831752Great Britain 1858. Leather bound. Good . 12mo. Black leather binding with gilt borders and blind stamped designs on the covers. Album stamped in gilt letters on the spine. All edges gilt. Leather on spine is chipped upper front joint and at the head of the spine. <br /> <br /> Content consists of 50 pages of inscriptions tipped in and pasted down illustrations and hand drawn sketches. Inside are 5 black and white pencil sketches one black and white and color sketch one color sketch and one small color illustration. Several cut out illustrations are tipped inside the album and several loose cuttings laid inside. A couple of small petals also laid inside. Several blank leaves. Two of the pencil art sketches are signed "E. Hawthornthwaite." <br /> <br /> Ellen's sister's wrote the dedication inscription on the yellow right front flyleaf - "Ellen Hodgson The Gift of her affectionate Sister Marianne Hodgson. Jan. 20th. 1837." Most of the hand written inscriptions with dates were written in the early 1840's. Towards the back of the album is a pasted down inscription dated 1858. Also in the back of the album is an inscription difficult to transcribe - "These drawings the work of many a long laborious hour and the result of our united talent and perseverance are respectfully presented to Ellen Hodgson by the name not transcribed Artists first name spelling and Prim. Salkfeld Hall Jan. 20th." Salkfeld Hall is located in the village of Little Salkfeld Cumbria England. It was constructed in the 16th century. Robert Hodgson purchased the site in 1836 and made several improvements. Source: wikipedia. unknown
1670ABC_45696London 1670. Small 4to. in the Savoy printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker = Thomas Newcombe printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty Sewn. With a woodcut factotum and decorative bands built up from typographic ornaments the crowned rose harp leak - depicted by a fleur-de-lis - and thistle representing England Ireland Wales and Scotland. 1 1 blank 11 1 pp. English translation of the Treaty of Madrid dated 1670 also called the Godolphin Treaty between England and Spain. Adopted in July 1670 and ratified on 28 September it officially ended the so-called Anglo-Spanish War 1654-1660 in the Caribbean. The open warfare between England and Spain caused by commercial rivalry had already ended in 1660 after six years of attacking each others commercial and colonial interests but the tension in the Caribbean caused conflict for ten more years. The war officially ended with two peace treaties signed at Madrid: the first dated 1667 and the present second dated 1670. The name Godolphin Treaty derives from William Godolphin 1635-1696 an English diplomat for Charles II and a member of Parliament. The negociations for this treaty between him and the Spanish representative Gaspar de Bracamonte Guzmán ca. 1595 - 1676 a Spanish statesman and count of Peñaranda who also played an important role in the famous Peace of Münster 1648 between France and the Holy Roman Empire started in the autumn of 1669. We can find those names at the end of the treaty.The present treaty was reprinted alone in 1698 printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceasd printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty ESTC R223888.Lacking A1 the title-page verso blank and the final blank leaf but otherwise complete so with no loss in the text of the treaty. Paper a little frayed around the edges first and last page a little dust-soiled but otherwise in good condition. The rare first edition of an important treaty for American history.l Chalmers A collection of treaties between Great Britain and other powers II 1790 pp. 34-40 naming an 1686 imprint; ESTC R35944; Sabin 96528 cf. 96527 for a Spanish edition; Wing C3616A; for Newcombe and the Kings printing office: C. William Miller In the Savoy: a study in post-Reformation imprints in: Papers of the Bibliogr. Soc. 1 1948/49 pp. 39-46 at pp. 42-43. unknown
1680ABC_46098Cologne recté: Amsterdam 1680. 4to. Pierre Marteau" 19th-century brown paper wrappers. With the woodcut English royal arms on the title-page. 8 pp. Extremely rare pamphlet with the text - in French - of the Anglo-Dutch defensive alliance of 3 March 1678. In May 1672 French forces had invaded the Dutch Republic and initially seemed to have achieved an overwhelming victory the so-called Rampjaar 1672. England supported France in what became the Second Anglo-Dutch maritime war 1672-1674. By late July 1672 however the Dutch position had stabilized thanks to the new Stadholder Willem III. Concern about French gains led to the August 1673 Treaty of the Hague between the Republic Brandenburg-Prussia the Emperor Leopold and King Charles II of Spain; in early 1674 England and the Dutch made peace in the Treaty of Westminster. In November 1677 Willem III married his cousin Mary niece of King Charles II of England. In the meantime peace talks had begun in 1676 in Nijmegen resulting in an Anglo-Dutch defensive alliance concluded on the 3rd of March 1678 almost a half year before the treaty was signed in August. But English troops arrived in significant numbers only in late May allowing King Louis XIV to improve his negotiating position by capturing Ghent on the same day the alliance was concluded on 3 March.Untrimmed and with bolts unopened. In good condition.l Muller 7609; STCN 160843154 2 copies; not in Knuttel; VD17. unknown
184911347London: M. A. Nattali 1849. First Thus. Three-quarter leather over marbled paper boards. Good. J. M. W. Turner W. Collins William Westall S. Prout P. Dewint and others. 4to. Pp. viii 202 plus six pages of advertisements. Frontis. black & white engraving. Illustrated throughout with engravings of artwork by J. M. W. Turner W. Collins William Westall S. Prout P. Dewint and others. Index. Marbled endpapers. Bound in 19th-c. three quarter leather over marbled paper boards with gilt lettering stamped on spine gilt tooling to spine along with raised bands. Edge-wear wear to boards; light age-toning and minor foxing throughout. Bucolic and seaside views of Ramsgate Dover Hastings Folkstone the Isle of Wight and other points on the south coast. Many of the views were first published in Turner's two-vol. set 1826 but this edition with the substantial addition of engravings coupled with the thoroughly revised text create a fresh edition unto itself. M. A. Nattali unknown
191138955New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1911. Tall 8vo. xiv 427 1 pp. Frntsp. numerous plates text illusts. & historiated initials in pen & ink. Decorated & illust. white cloth blk & yellow fleur-de-lis & rose patterns on frnt cvr & spine cover art plate of the two princes in the Tower gilt lettrng t.e.g. mnr shlfwr slght rubbng still a VG bright copy w/ bkplate of young girl in pinafore reading w/ heart motif Frances Wilson Sept. 1914. First edition of this scarce and fascinating historical fiction work which recounts the bittersweet imprisonment and fates of the many Royal personages during the British Middle Ages including Henry V the murdered princes in the Tower Lady Jane Grey Llewellyn ap Griffith Elizabeth Mary Tudor Mary Stuart and others. Of interest are the reconstructed historical details and the author’s presentation from the children’s viewpoint. In addition the pen & ink text illustrations historiated initials and plates are very nicely executed by Arthur George Walker 1861-1939 best known for his scupture of Florence Nightingale. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover
186441261Boston: Little Brown and Company 1864. 1. Bemis George: PRECEDENTS OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY IN REPLY TO THE SPEECH OF SIR ROUNDELL PALMER ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ENGLAND IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MAY 13 1864. Boston: Little Brown. 1864. viii 83 1 blank pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. Clean text. Good. <br /> <br /> England's reception and fitting out of Confederate privateers is inconsistent with its professed neutrality. The U.S. a neutral in earlier European wars prohibited such collaboration in American ports. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 4626. Bartlett 394. II DAB 174. Not in Harv. Law Cat. Marke.<br /> <br /> 2. Cordner Rev. John: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: AN ADDRESS ON THE AMERICAN CONFLICT DELIVERED AT MONTREAL ON THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 22 1864. Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers spine wear. ix 1 blank 30 pp. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> Published by the antislavery Union and Emancipation Society the pamphlet demonstrates that "the supposed hostile designs of the United States upon Canada" is merely an attempt to turn British sentiment against the Union. The rear wrapper is a two-column list of the officers of the Society including a two-column list of more than one hundred fifty Vice Presidents.<br /> Sabin 16762 Montreal printing only. Not in Bartlett.<br /> <br /> 3. Free Man's Aid Society: THE FRIENDS OF THE FREED-MEN. London: 1864. 7 1 pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> This rare pamphlet was written by John Curwen Secretary to the Free Man's Aid Society. He lauds the abolitionists- - British and American-- who aid the Union cause recognizing "instinctively that this must become an anti-slavery war." They have enlisted in fighting regiments organized the education of freedmen at Port Royal. The pamphlet describes the freedmen's schools the freed children's eagerness to learn and the observations of the teachers some of whom were women. <br /> OCLC 644153331 1- U Manchester as of August 2025.<br /> <br /> 4. Massie James W.: THE CASE STATED: THE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN SLAVE. Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society. 1863. 8pp. Disbound. Good.<br /> <br /> England's Union and Emancipation Society was committed to the abolition of Slavery. "What darker or more dreary calamity could threaten any nation or people on earth than the successful establishment of a Republic whose corner-stone shall be 'that the negro is not equal to the white man and that slavery- subordination to the superior race- is his natural and normal condition'."<br /> Bartlett 3040. Sabin 46186 note. Not in LCP or Dumond.<br /> <br /> 5. Owls-Glass pseud.: REBEL BRAG AND BRITISH BLUSTER; A RECORD OF UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES BAFFLED SCHEMES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES WITH ECHOES OF VERY INSIGNIFICANT THUNDER VERY PLEASANT TO READ AND INSTRUCTIVE TO ALL WHO ARE CAPABLE OF LEARNING. New York: American News Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers the rear wrapper advertising 'The Martyr's Monument.' vi 7-111 1 blank pp. Clean text. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> Sabin and the Library Company suggest Richard Grant White as the author. The book "a curious study" of British elite opinion is a commentary on articles from British intellectuals which had supported the Confederacy. The author's close examination of British public opinion is a scathing condemnation of British turpitude. <br /> These were "undeniably able and dextrous writers and politicians who to please the public for whom they wrote and spoke opposed ridiculed and contemned our people and our government during the tremendous struggle for the worthy and honorable existence of our country. It would not be very easy for us to forget these efforts of our inimical kinsfolk or indeed desirable that we should lose sight of so instructive a warning. . ." <br /> Sabin 68317. LCP 11149. Bartlett 4012.<br /> <br /> 6. Potter Thomas Bayley: UNION AND EMANCIPATION SOCIETY. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT A CONVERSAZIONE HELD IN THE MANCHESTER ATHENAEUM ON MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 1 1864 TO RECEIVE THE REPORT OF THE REV. DR. MASSIE RESPECTING HIS ANTI-SLAVERY MISSION TO THE AMERICAN CLERGY AND CHURCHES. Manchester: Alexander Ireland. 1864. 33 3 pp. Disbound without wraps Clean text. Good.<br /> <br /> Potter was the President of the Society a British organization based in Manchester and supporting the North in its war against Slavery. The pamphlet reports on "a very interesting conversazione" concerning Dr. Massie's trip to America. <br /> He met with President Lincoln "a man of integrity whose word is to be believed whenever he speaks. I came away with the conviction that he is the friend of the negro and the man of colour and that he has a firm resolution that whatever power he has shall be constitutionally exerted for the emancipation of every slave in the United States." Massie also met with Seward "again and again" and with Chase and other civil and military leaders all of whom favorably impressed him.<br /> "The day is not far off when the coloured regiments of America will be the safeguard of her negro freedom and the security for all the freedom that belongs to men of whatever colour" <br /> Not in LCP Bartlett Dumond Monaghan or Sabin. OCLC notes about fifteen institutional holdings.<br /> <br /> 7. Siemms F. D.: AMERICA. THE WAR: PAST PRESENT AND PROBABLE FUTURE. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE CONCERT HALL LIVERPOOL. BY F. D. SIEMMS A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL WHO SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES TO A VERY RECENT PERIOD BEING AN EMBODIMENT OF HIS EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS DURING A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS AS AN OFFICER OF ARTILLERY. Liverpool 1864. 24pp. Disbound with wrapper remnants along spine. Good.<br /> <br /> Siemms says "Without any previous intention of being a soldier either in the army of the North or South yet I found myself one fine day an officer in the army of the Southern Confederacy." He gives some details of his unit's movements and briefly discusses different engagements while noting his frustration at the North's exaggeration in reporting its successes. His war experience was brief: "My military life ended" when he was taken prisoner "at Bull's run" and held as a prisoner until the British flag brought his release. <br /> Presenting himself as something of an expert he says "the negroes are far better off than a certain class of poor people in many European countries." He says 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is filled with exaggeration and "downright untruths." He exposes "the false pretence that the North was fighting for liberty" and says the press has greatly exaggerated the North's progress in the field.<br /> Frederick David Samson Siemms 1844-1907 was born in England but it is unclear how he ended up in the United States or fighting for the Confederate Army. His military records show that he enlisted on May 13 1861 at the age of 17 years for a period of 12 months as a private with 1st Artillery Virginia Confederate with Capt. Johnson H. Sands' Company Co. B Henrico Artillery Virginia Light Artillery. His occupation was dentist and optician. Company muster rolls show he was discharged on July 20 1862. Military records of Frederick D. Siemms Fold3 website; Soldier and Sailor's Database at National Park Service website; The Commercial Gazette of London June 4 1890 Page 6. <br /> OCLC 4844821 1- U Rochester as of March 2025. Not in Bartlett or Sabin.<br /> <br /> 8. Smith Goldwin: ENGLAND AND AMERICA: A LECTURE DELIVERED BY GOLDWIN SMITH BEFORE THE BOSTON FRATERNITY DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES. . . Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. x 36 pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. "With Thomas B. Potters Complts" written on front wrapper. Good.<br /> <br /> An odd combination of sympathies Smith supported the Union opposed imperialism and woman suffrage and disliked Jews. His lecture was first published in The Atlantic and was also printed in Boston. <br /> Sabin 82678. Bartlett 4507. Little, Brown and Company unknown
190830608London: Adam & Charles Black 1908. First Edition. With 16 beautiful full-page colour illustrations by Mrs. Rawnsley. 8vo publisher's original olive green cloth lettered and pictorially decorated with floral decorations in gilt and dark-green on the spine and upper cover t.e.g. ix 166 2 pages of ads. A very pleasing and well preserved copy internally lovely the binding in quite attractive condition and showing only minimal mellowing or evidence of age. FIRST EDITION. A PICTURESQUE JOURNEY THROUGH THE COUNTRY TOWNS OF ENGLAND. The reader enjoys delightful accounts and pictures of many areas such as Surrey Rydal and Bolton Abbey.<br><br>'Buy my English posies!<br>Kent and Surrey may;<br>Violets from the undercliff<br>Wet with Channel spray;<br>Cowslips from a Devon combe;<br>Midland furze a-fire;<br>Buy my English posies-<br>And I'll sell your heart's desire!'<br><br>by Rudyard Kipling. Adam & Charles Black hardcover
14523The Oval cricket ground London 1948. A nice piece of cricket memorabilia. The match which Australia won is remembered as Bradman's last test in which he was bowled for a duck in the second innings denying him a three-figure average. On a 16 x 11 cm leaf removed from an autograph album. In very good condition on lightly-aged paper. Presented portrait-style with 'ENGLAND - OVAL - 1948' neatly written at the head. Beneath this in two irregular columns are the signatures of the players with the exception of the signature of Eric Hollies bowler of the ball which dismissed Bradman in the Australian second innings the signature of substitute Reg Simpson present instead. The signatories are in the first column: Jack Crapp John Dewes Allan Watkins Jack Young Alec Bedser Reg Simpson substitute for Eric Hollies; and in the second column: Norman Yardley Bill Edrich Denis Compton Len Hutton captain Godfrey Evans wicket-keeper. See signatures of the Australian Cricket Team 1948 #14522 above The Oval cricket ground, London, 1948. unknown
181933323London: Printed for J. Mawman in Ludgate Street; Printed for Baldwin and Cradock Paternoster-Row and Joseph Booker New Bond Street 1819 - 1830. 8 volumes. Rare First Edition Complete. A copy with fine provenance coming from the library of the Duke of Westminster with his coat of arms to the book plates and dating to 1884. Quarto contemporary polished and paneled calf the spines with raised bands gilt ruled separating the compartments two red morocco lettering labels gilt remaining compartments with elaborate gilt tooling the covers with triple gilt fillet rules surrounding inner and elaborate roll tooled borders in gilt and blind central panels of triple gilt fillets and corner pieces in blind marbled endleaves and marbled edges to match. A very handsome set some hinges starting the textblocks clean fresh crisp and unpressed. RARE FIRST EDITION COMPLETE OF THIS IMPORTANT HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE FIRST INVASION OF THE ROMANS PRESENTED IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS. John Lingard 5 February 1771 – 17 July 1851 was an English Roman Catholic priest and historian the author of The History of England From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII an eight-volume work published in 1819. Lingard was a teacher at the English College at Douai and at the seminary at Crook Hall and later St. Cuthbert's College. In 1811 he retired to Hornby in Lancashire to continue work on his writing. <br> The principal object of his major work The History of England is to emphasise the disastrous effects of the Reformation. The book was later expanded by the author and the title changed to reflect the period covered. As each additional volume appeared the History's reputation increased while Lingard continued to revise and improve the whole work.<br> Lingard himself argued that one of his chief duties as an historian was: "to weigh with care the value of the authorities on which I rely and to watch with jealousy the secret workings of my own personal feelings and prepossessions. Such vigilance is a matter of necessity to every writer of history . Otherwise he will be continually tempted to make an unfair use of the privilege of the historian; he will sacrifice the interests of truth to the interests of party national or religious or political." J. Lingard "History of England" vol 1 6th edition London: Charles Dolman 1854 p. 6.<br> Lingard adopted a non-controversial and sober approach to history with the emphasis on incontrovertible fact and using primary rather than secondary sources. Lingard's History is also an apt demonstration of the advantages a Catholic historian of the time may have had in terms of impartiality. Lingard's religion had to a large extent isolated him from the mainstream nationalism which surrounded Protestant historians as well as from the growing "providentialist" concept of history. Lingard's strength of argument however continued to be popular and the influence of Protestant animosity for Catholic apologetic also led him to develop a keen critical judgment. He was devoted to absolute accuracy and detail and the History was a groundbreaking work in its use of primary sources. Lingard made extensive use of Vatican archives and French Italian Spanish and English dispatches document collections and state papers – the first British historian to do so. The peripheral nature of English Catholicism put him in a position of "outside observer" to much of English intellectual culture and this is reflected in his historical works. Despite this distancing effect however Lingard maintained an active interest in politics all his life and was a noted pamphleteer. <br> History of England is a substantial scholarly work which gave full treatment to the history of England. From 1811 until his death in 1851 Lingard spent most of his life in the village of Hornby near Lancaster where he devoted himself to his study and writing. A quiet gentle man he was well liked by the residents. Lingard's popularity as an historian had its day but his contribution to historical method came at a critical point in British intellectual history. Printed for J. Mawman in Ludgate Street; Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-Row and Joseph Booker, New Bond Street hardcover
190632940London: Chapmand & Hall Limited 1906. 2 volumes. First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout both volumes with many full-page plates and a plethora of illustrations within the text. 8vo publisher's original red cloth the spines lettered and decorated in gilt the upper covers lettered and decorated pictorially in black top edges gilt. xv 1 327; xi 1 316 pp. A fine set very well preserved the bindings strong and tight the text-blocks clean and bright a lovely set with only minimal evidence of age. FIRST EDITION AND A VERY PLEASING SET ESPECIALLY WELL PRESERVED. The author notes that this is the first book to be produced which addresses itself to the Old Inns and their story. The author took great delight in planning the work and executing it over a ten year period. He addresses himself to the last of the London Inns most of which were long gone by the time the work was published. The journey seems to have been delightful for the author the mapping out of England into tours with inns strung like beads upon the itinerary and after five thousand miles of travel two volumes written and published into being. A very pleasing and fascinating look at a world partially gone by. Chapmand & Hall, Limited hardcover
1937201961937. Very good condition. Vintage cross stitched sampler commemorating the coronation of George VI May 12 1937. Embellished with four flags of the British dominions including Australia and New Zealand and the branches of the military. The military branches illustrated include the Royal Navy the Yeoman Warders Beefeaters Royal Scots Guards and Royal Air Force. With the initials GR VI at the center of the sampler flanked by crests. The background cross stitched in tan inside a border of flowers. Approximately 11 x 15" in a frame 18 x 20 1/2". Framed in a brown and gilt serviceable wood frame. Will not ship with glass. unknown
190933952London: Adam and Charles Black 1909. First Edition. With 75 exquisite colourplates reproduced from paintings by Wilfred Ball. Large thick 8vo publisher's original green cloth the upper cover lettered in gilt within gilt rules surrounding the borders and with a lovely arrangement of pink roses and leaves in the central panel the spine gilt lettered with matching flower pattern below. xi 316 pp folding map4 ads. A very fresh and attractive copy in its elaborately decorated cloth binding the textblock tight and clean and bright the colorful plates fresh and clean the cloth unfaded and clean with only the lightest of age to the tips or extremities. FIRST EDITION AND A CHARMING A. & C. BLACK ILLUSTRATED PUBLICATION. This book conjures up English country life and architecture perfectly. Wilfred Ball was one of the most respected Edwardian painters of landscape and marine subjects especially in the counties of Buckinghamshire Surrey Norfolk Sussex Wiltshire and Hampshire. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy. This and another A. & C. Black title called SUSSEX were the only two books he illustrated. They are both part of Black's "20 Shilling" series the publisher's most lavish. Adam and Charles Black hardcover
192028408London: The Gresham Publishing Company LTD. circa 1920. First Edition of the combined four titles. With 48 colourplates including 12 for each section from the paintings of Ernest W. Haslehust R.B.A. Also with pictorial headpieces at the start of each of the four sections. 8vo publisher's original white cloth lettered and decorated in an English rose motif on both upper cover and spine in dark green and red gray endpapers printed in a similar motif in dark green. 56; 56; 64; 64 pp. A fine and handsome copy the white cloth is clean with only very minimal mellowing and the text likewise with some of the occasional foxing as often the case. The fine colourplates are all in excellent condition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FOUR AND A VERY BRIGHT AND ATTRACTIVE COPY. IT IS UNUSUAL TO FIND THE BOOK IN SUCH NICE CONDITION. Four of England's most scenic districts are described by leading authors and given a full complement of 12 wonderful colourplates each. A watercolourist best known for his impressive landscapes Haslehust was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours RI Royal Society of British Artists RBA Royal West of England Academy RWA and Royal British Colonial Society of Artists RBC and exhibited regularly at many venues including the Royal Academy in London. His beautiful paintings of British towns and country-sides were featured in travel posters for both the LNER and LMS railways. The Gresham Publishing Company LTD. hardcover
193833201London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd. 1938. First Edition. Beautifully illustrated with 16 plates in colour 36 plates in monochrome and two maps all by the author. 4to publisher's original blue cloth the upper cover blocked and lettered in black the spine lettered in gilt. xviii 126 pp. An excellent copy fine clean and essentially pristine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON THE FELLS THE MOUNTAINS OF THE LAKE DISTRICT IN NORTHERN ENGLAND. A beautiful telling of the land and environs of the fells and their attraction to the climber and hiker and of experiences had over a lifetime from childhood to adulthood. The hills become linked in the mind to thoughts of freedom. One can lose oneself in astonishment at the purpose and reason behind the interplay of sky and water and rock and one can be at one with the surroundings to affirm accept and enjoy. A lovely book beautifully rendered and beautifully illustrated. Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. hardcover
168834660Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes for the Author 1688. First Edition. Complete and illustrated with all five finely engraved folio portrait plates called for of Edward armoured and in various other poses the Prince of Wales-the Black Prince and the Author Joshua Barnes finely decorated six seven and ten-line initial letters and engraved devices title-page printed in red and black. Large Folio 14" x 9" bound in contemporary paneled calf the spine with raised bands over the cords tan morocco lettering label gilt ruled and lettered. xvi 911 pp. A handsome copy the text-block and engraved plates all very clean crisp and unpressed the binding very strong and solid some expected evidence of age the corners in good order the spine panel original the hinges sometime strengthened and sophisticated. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD III WITH FINELY ENGRAVED PLATES. Edward III 1312–1377 was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His fifty-year reign is one of the longest in English history and saw vital developments in legislation and government in particular the evolution of the English Parliament as well as the ravages of the Black Death. He outlived his eldest son Edward the Black Prince and was succeeded by his grandson Richard II.<br> Edward was crowned at age fourteen after his father was deposed. After a successful campaign in Scotland he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne starting the Hundred Years' War 1337–1453. Following some initial setbacks this first phase of the war went exceptionally well for England and would become known as the Edwardian War. Victories at Crécy and Poitiers led to the highly favourable Treaty of Brétigny 1360 in which England made territorial gains and Edward renounced his claim to the French throne. <br> Edward was temperamental and thought himself capable of feats such as healing by the royal touch as some prior English kings did. He was also capable of unusual clemency. He was in many ways a conventional medieval king whose main interest was warfare but he also had a broad range of non-military interests. Admired in his own time and for centuries after. modern historians credit him with significant achievements. <br> Complete copies of this great work on Edward are rare. Most lack all or some of the engraved plates or are rebound. Printed by John Hayes for the Author hardcover
190833189London: Adam & Charles Black 1908. First Edition. Beautifully Illustrated with 24 Full-Page Plates in Colours by W. Biscombe Gardner. 8vo publisher's original navy blue polished cloth the covers and spine beautifully and richly decorated with overall designs and decorations in gilt t.e.g. xii 182 2 ads. pp. A fine and very bright copy beautifully preserved. FIRST EDITION WITH THE FULL COUNT OF TWENTY-FOUR PLATES OF SOME OF ENGLAND'S MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE. The author and artist have joined forces to create here a fine and beautifully illustrated work on the uplands forming the High and Low Peak that southern vertebra of the rocky backbone that runs through the upper half of England with ribs stretched out along its lateral river-valleys. There are depicted here in the beautiful paintings by Mr. Biscombe Gardner the moors and tablelands and rugged ridges hollowed by deep glens the dales and cloughs which with their rich show of crag wood and torrent make its most striking scenery. Adam & Charles Black hardcover
176235410London: Mark Baskett 1762. 2 819-822 2 blank pp. Disbound persistent spotting at bottom blank corners. Else Very Good. <br /> ESTC N56739 4 locations. Mark Baskett unknown
174229879London: Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1742. Folio 7.75" x 12.25". 2 733-739 1 blank pp. Disbound else Near Fine. Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. unknown
D11629n.d.: n.p. likely early-to-mid 19th century. Ephemera. Near Fine. Collection of 20 engraved plates seeming extracted from the same source style and size is uniform though some are captioned in English some in French; 184x154mm. Small chip and/or closed tear to the top edge of two of the plates otherwise fine. Views of Hamstead Oxford Wiltshire Somersetshire Gloucester Middlesex Canterbury. <br/><br/> n.p. unknown
75496Stockholm Henricus Keyser 1661. 4:o. 47 s. Något solkigt titelblad bläckpaginering i övre hörn. Tagen ur band oskuren och insatt i senare pappersomslag. Ur Ericsbergs bibliotek. Warmholtz 8815. Latinsk-svensk parallelltext. Warmholtz påpekar att traktaten med England inte slöts den 1 oktober som titelbladet påstår utan den 21. unknown
185020642Salisbury England: Clapperton Bookseller Catherine St. Salisbury 1850. Very good condition. Striking large lithograph on India laid paper of one of the most famous monuments in England published in Salisbury around 1850. Showing visitors to the monument including a horse drawn carriage at far left visitor in top hat at center and a shepherd at the right reclining on a fallen stone his flock visible at the right. With a small oval vignette of the monument from a greater distance at the center below the large image. Below the main image "Pubd. by Clapperton Bookseller Catherine St. Salisbury Price 2s". With a caption at lower right reading "Diamr. of the outer circle of Stones 104 feet. Do. Circle formed by the ditch 312 __ Upright of the great Hexagon 20 feet_ Estimated weight of each 70 Tons."<br /> <br /> The Clapperton family established themselves in Salisbury in 1820 when the premises at Catherine Street were purchased; Kenneth Clapperton was a bookbinder bookseller printer and publisher. Walter Kenneth's son took over the business and began making fine art prints. He compiled and published the first Salisbury railway timetable and a cyclopaedia entitled 'Clapperton's register of facts and occurrences relating to literature the sciences and the arts'. A guide to Stonehenge Clapperton's Stonehenge Hand-Book Containing the Opinions of the most Eminent Writers on the Origin & Object of that Mysterious Monument of Antiquity. a map of Salisbury and a collection of 14 views of Salisbury all published by Walter Clapperton in the 1850s are at the British Library.<br /> <br /> Impression 14 3/4 x 10"; on paper 16 1/2 x 11". A bit chipped at edges two short closed tears at bottom edge. Clapperton, Bookseller, Catherine St. Salisbury unknown
