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No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', London Books Fairs, Denys Watkins-Pitchford - 'BB', VS Pritchett tribute, Victorian lady travellers, Daisy Ashford, Leslie Charteris's ' The Saint', index and letters and classified..
No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes London Books Fairs, Dorothy L Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey, Forrest Reid, Kenneth Baker interview, Patricia Lynch - Irish children's author, Bob Hoe, HE Bates, index and letters and classified..
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes Beatrix Potter, cricket novels & stories, Elizabeth Bowen, Lindsey Davis crime novels, legendary gunfighters, London Book Fair, Anne Bronte and index, letters and classified..
8vo, 127 pages, illustrated throughout. Inscription of a previous owner on the inside front cover. eng
Edge wear and fraying to dark blue cloth cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 258 pages. 7 1/8"w x 9 3/8"h. Previous owner's name inside.
pp. 47, (1) + Ten etched plates. Top edge gold gilt. Half morocco leather over marbled boards binding. Front board recently detached. 8vo. Apparently the second part of two., with 10 of the twenty etched plates. A famous Victorian satirical work, illustrated by Cruikshank. First Edition. Cohn 176. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a humorist of the school of Hogarth, and is considered by some to be one of the best that Britain has produced. He was the son of a Scottish painter, Isaac Cruikshank, and apparently his talent was such that he could draw as soon as he could write. From the beginning he was concerned with satire. At a young age he achieved public notice by painting theatre backdrops (the first was for Drury Lane Theatre, London). In the early 1820s he made etchings for the pamphleteer William Hone, but his political caricature work was soon overtaken by his work as a book illustrator. Life in London (1821) was followed by Tales of Irish Life (1824), and then a series of further books at an ever increasing rate. His best known work was for Charles Dickens, starting with Sketches by Boz and reaching its zenith, perhaps, with Oliver Twist. Among his large number of other illustrated books were a Grimm's Fairy Tales (1827), a Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, and seven novels by Harrison Ainsworth. Despite his large oeuvre, more than 15,000 drawings in his lifetime, Cruikshank was never well off. He required financial assistance from friends in 1866 (led by Ruskin), and late in life relied on a modest pension from the civil list and a Turner annuity from the Academy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED SW3
Large and elaborate coloured engraved plan measuring approx. 1270mm x 1010mm (50.0 ins x 39.75 ins), folding in 20 panels to approx. 320mm x 210mm (12.5 ins x 8.0 ins); housed in original printed cartridge envelope with self-sealing flap (short tear in flap), A REMARKABLY CLEAN, NEAR FINE COPY. This is an engraved and coloured plan of the Crystal Palace prepared for the intended sale at auction of the buildings and grounds in 1911 (see below). The retaining envelope is printed 'PLAN OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE 1851-1911. Solicitors: Messrs Janson Cobb, Pearson & Company, 22 College Hill, E.C.; Receiver and Manager: Mr. Ernest I Husey (Messrs Jackson, Pixley & Co., Chartered Accountants, 58 Coleman Street, E.C; Auctioneers: Mr. Howard Frank (Messrs Knight, Frank & Rutley), 20 Hanover Sq, London W; and Mr. John Roy Lancaster (Messrs Horne & Co), 85 Gresham Street, E.C.' The plan in well executed and colour-coded to indicate the various leases and tenancies involved. It shows the scale and local context of the magnificent building, together with its world-famous gardens and grounds, including the tiered sculptural terraces, the patios, and the renowned lakes and fountains. Key features such as the Flying Machine, the Maze, Brunel's Polygonal Water Towers, the Lower Lake area housing Waterhouse Hawkins' recreations of dinosaurs (still present today) and the Sports Grounds are clearly highlighted. HISTORICAL CONTEXT. After the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was re-erected in a considerably enlarged form in 1854 at Sydenham in South London. During the next half century it continued as a major metropolitan tourist attraction attracting visitors from all over the world to marvel at the building, its contents and gardens, and to witness a wide variety of entertainment including music, acrobatics, circuses and fireworks. By the turn of the century, however, the novelty was wearing thin and the number of visitors declined to the point where in 1911 the Palace was declared bankrupt and placed in the hands of a receiver. 'On 28 November it was to be sold by auction, to be offered in one lot as a going concern. This was a fateful period in its history. There was grave danger that it would pass into the hands of the developers. Every jerry builder within striking distance was eager for the moment when he might be in a position to swoop down on the beautiful grounds and reduce them to terms of bricks and mortar. But that ultimate indignity was not to be. The Earl of Plymouth produced £230,000 to buy the Palace as a going concern; at the same time the Lord Mayor of London opened a fund to purchase the Crystal Palace for the nation, and to reimburse Lord Plymouth. This was completed in 1913 and the Crystal Palace was saved.' [A.R. Warwick: The Phoenix Suburb (1972)]. During the Great War the revitalised Palace served as a Royal Naval base (HMS VICTORY VI). At the end of hostilities it became for a short time the home of the Imperial War Museum and then reverted to tourism with exhibitions of early flying, pioneer television, dirt-track racing, music festivals, dog and cat shows, dancing and fireworks. In this way it continued until completely destroyed by the tragic fire of 30 November 1936 - the end of a great era. IT IS UNCERTAIN HOW MANY OF THESE ELABORATE PLANS WERE PRODUCED, BUT THE NUMBER CANNOT HAVE BEEN GREAT. GIVEN THAT £230,000 (VERY APPROXIMATELY £7M BY TODAY'S STANDARDS) WAS REQUIRED TO OBVIATE THE NEED FOR SALE, THE NUMBER OF INTENDING BIDDERS MUST HAVE BEEN FEW INDEED. IN ANY CASE IT IS UNLIKELY THAT MANY COPIES SURVIVE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS VIRTUALLY UNOPENED STATE COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL ENVELOPE. A DOCUMENT OF CONSIDERABLE SIGNIFICANCE IN THE HISTORY OF SOUTH LONDON, AND A VIVID REMINDER OF ONE OF LONDON'S GREATEST HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS.
New York, Haskell House Publishers, 1973, in-8, legatura editoriale in piena tela, titolo in oro al dorso, pp. 103, [1]. Ristampa dell'edizione del 1923. Ottime condizioni.
First edition, 8vo (170 x 110 mm), vi, [2], 9-149, [3]pp., with the final advert leaf and list of 40 subscribers which includes Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Bute, Daines Barrington Lettsom, and Thomas White, folding plan, orig. boards, rubbed, uncut, paper spine chipped, but still a very good copy in original state, uncut. In 1777 William Curtis (1746-1799) began to lay out a Botanic Garden at Lambeth Marsh, 'somewhat more than an acre in extent, situated to the north west of the Magdalen hospital'. This enterprise Curtis made known to the public in 1778 with the publication of his Proposals for opening by subscription, a botanic garden, to be called the "London Botanic Garden". He closed this pamphlet with the statement: 'The garden to be opened the 1st of January, 1779.' The garden was duly opened In 1783 "to members of the public at a subscription of one guinea a year and had a library for their use. To stock it Curtis received plants "from his Majesty's matchless collection of plants in the Royal Gardens at Kew," from the Chelsea Physic Garden and from the private gardens of Pitcairn, Fothergill, John Coakley Lettsom, Sir Joseph Banks and many others, and also the nurserymen L,, Gordon Malcolm, Davies, Loddiges and Grimwood."?Henrey. Curtis published this catalogue of the London Botanical Gardens and dedicated it to the two principal patrons of the undertaking. Daines Barrington (1727-1800), the noted lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist, and Thomas White (1724-97), a brother of Gilbert White of Selborne. Provenance: Contemporary ink ownership signature of G. N. Hall; presentation inscription from J. Rayner to Miss Starr, 1952. This catalogue is rare in commerce and has the leaf C2 which is often wanting; Henrey, 591.
8vo., folding map on paper, coloured in outline, measuring 30 x 25 inches (approx. 76 x 64 cms) folding in 48 panels to 6.5 x 3.5 inches (approx. 16 x 9 cms); green limp cloth wrappers lettered in red and black, radial corners, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. With the small trade ticket of H.J. Ryman of Oxford Street on front inner wrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
D. M. Low London is London. London, Chatto and Windus 1949, Copertina uso tela, con titolo dorato al dorso. Sovraccoperta cartonata con alette informative, usurata al dorso. Tagli sporchi, pagine ingiallite lievemente. Mediocre (Poor) . <br> <br> <br> 300<br>
88 pages. Features: Junichi Arai - Textile Engineer; The Art of Christine Lofaso; Sampler Art; Naomi London - private and public selves; Imagination and Sensation; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Endpapers browned. Former owner's name on front free endpaper ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 176 pages
Gilt spine lettering faded. Endpapers browned. Rear hinge started; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 176 pages
Light wear to price clipped DJ. Ink stamps and sticker to front endpaper ; 55 illustrations by Pennell; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 176 pages
xi, 176 p. front., plates. 27 cm Hardcover Good condition
xi, 176 p. front., plates. 27 cm Hardcover Good condition
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.
Maestricht & Bruxelles, A.A.M. Stols éditeur, 1929. In-8, broché, 142pp. Couverture légèrement écornée et traces. Quelques rousseurs sur les barbes.
No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny crease to lower corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 581pp. This, the third volume of this comprehensive work takes us through the fluctuating fortunes that began with the City at an all-time high, though the First World War, the depression of 1929 and ends with the 'Square Mile' ravaged by bombs, at its lowest ebb ever. We are also selling Volumes 1 & 2.
Mm 250x300 National Gallery of Art, 8 may - 5 september 1994 - Brossura originale, 231 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero e a colori. Testo in lingua inglese - english text. Libro in condizioi di nuovo - brand-new.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, many hundreds of fine photographs (many full-page), and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Oblong 4to., with frontispiece, title-vignette, many hundreds of fine photographs (the majority full-page), and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
52 pages. Features: Fantastic cover illustration of a TCA aircraft above the Rockies by Eric Aldwinckle; Gorgeous colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover shows a Cleveland, Ohio emergency mobile patrol vehicle (van); Nice full-page ad for Red Star Line and their cruises to Europe; A damning editorial of Hitler and his "Mein Kampf", quoting liberally from the book; The Woman's Place (fiction); Canada Flies - article with various Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) photos of the company's startup; All Bets As Usual (fiction); Exit Doctor's Bills - Ontario's first voluntary health insurance association provides medical care at a cost of 5 and one third cents per day - Associated Medical Services (A.M.S.); Beverley Baxter in London writes a column on the Chamberlain-Hiterl Duel; A Drug on the Market (fiction); Gordon Dunstan's Seventh Quiz; African Holiday to Kenya's Serengeti Park; Deep Waters (fiction); Secret Pool - fishing at Yuculta Rapids; Incredible Lifebuoy soap ad features photo and cartoons of a romantic couple separated by B.O. (Body Odour!); Nice full-page two-colour ad for Moffat Electric Ranges; Colour photo ad for McLaughlin-Buick on back cover shows a little girl buying flowers; and more. Page 47/48 missing. Page 47 contained recipes. Small clipping from top of page 49 appears not to have removed any meaningful content. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice vintage issue. Book
38 pages. Features: News; Theft reports; Ernest Biddle; Francoise Boucher (1703-1770); Silver Spoons - silver regains prestige; Painting exhibition "Michael D'Aguilar and Artists of Today and Tomorrow"; Bell strikers on public clocks; English buyers in Italy - about 150 years too late; Bath - the perfect place for antiques; Nice colour-photo back cover ad for Allen's Antiques of Gunmakers Lane, London; Auction news; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
