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183222148London: Thos McLean 1832. Color lithograph. Brown wood frame. Near fine. Hand colored lithograph 10.5 x 14.8 inches within border frame in matted glass fronted frame wired for hanging. Artist is John Doyle DB with his circular embossed seal in lower left corner. Doyle experienced great success with his political cartoons using the new medium of lithography. His caricatures were mostly faithful likenesses of his subjects. His sons included the illustrator James William Edmund Doyle and painter/illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle. Caption reads "I beg gentleman you will not laugh to loud lest you disturb the slumbers of our honourable chairman." A scene during the debate in Committee on the third Reform Bill Sir Charles Wetherell member of Parliament speaks of Bernal asleep the Chairman of The Committee. His omment produced a general roar of laughter which raised him from his slumber. On the Ministerial front bench are left to right Sir. J. Graham Althorp member in wig and a smiling Lord J. Russell. Slight rubbing to vertical portions of the picture frame. Thos McLean unknown books
183122147London: Thos McLean 1831. Color lithograph. Brown wood frame. Near fine. Hand colored lithograph 10.5 x 14.8 inches within border frame in matted glass fronted frame wired for hanging. Artist is John Doyle DB with his circular embossed seal in lower left corner. Doyle experienced great success with his political cartoons using the new medium of lithography. His caricatures were mostly faithful likenesses of his subjects. His sons included the illustrator James William Edmund Doyle and painter/illustrator Richard Dicky Doyle. Satire on the debate of the Reform Bill in the House of Commons. Edward Stanley thumps the dispatch box glaring at John Croker who leans forward hand to his ear. Stanley says "I felt such indignation that I had the greatest difficulty to restrains myself from calling on the Right Honorable Gentleman to retract his words." Lord J. Russell tugs at his coat-tails while Sir James Graham arms folded and legs stretched smiles sardonically. Stanley and the whigs supported the Reform Bill the Tories were opposed. Slight rubbing to vertical portions of the picture frame. Thos McLean unknown books
181821989London: Thomas. M'Lean 1818. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. straight-grained maroon morocco broad gilt cover panels with decorative Greek-key border in blind. Very good. Folio 36.7 x 26.2 cm. Half-title engraved portrait frontispiece hand-colored aquatint additional title Grand Vizier plate and 29 hand colored aquatint plates with several watermarked "JWhatman Turkey Mill/1822." Unobtrusive blind stamp to a few leaves small repair plate on verso of image with no affect to latter. Plates fresh very bright and clean with slight offsetting to text leaves. ABBEY TRAVEL 373 Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale. Raised bands spine panels richly gilt in arabesque motifs. Thomas. M'Lean unknown books
19532238London: The Antique Porcelain Co 1953. Hardcover. Near fine. The Antique Porcelain Co hardcover books
182722538London: S.W. Fores 1827. Pictorial Boards. Mat and illustration. Near fine. Hand colored engraving 10 x 14 inches in mat 15 x 17 inches. Wellington flourishing a document inscribed "Corn Bill" leads Whig blocks against the Ministry represented by Canning and Goderich who stand on the left. The Duke kicks at his opponents stating the Corn Bill must be carried. The two tilted blocks toward Wellington represent Lansdowne and Grey. Goderich pointing to Wellington says "This Opposition is mot appalling -- your squibs will not even singe their whiskers. You'd better make Field-marshals of them. - I oppose the third reading." Canning with a mocking smile. says: "That's a good and rich idea; they'll make excellent Marshals - their head will need little protection." A few small spots at right margin. S.W. Fores unknown books
180222054London: S.W. Fores 1802. Stiff Wraps. Orig. full color lithograph. Near fine. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching with publisher note at bottom right "Folios of Caricatures lent out for the Evening." Dido arms raised rails "Ah me a luckless Maid thus crossed in hope & expectation so quite lost in both attempts the one for ever gone the other too Cold to feel the genial warmth of mine and Mother Love. I'll take to my Weeds & shew the World the ne'er was Love like mine." Slight blemish on papers lying at lower right margin. S.W. Fores unknown books
179322537London: S.W. Fores 1793. Pictorial Boards. Mat and illustration. Fine. Hand colored engraving 10 x 14 inches in mat 15.5 x 20 inches. One of many prints as Fox as a Jacobin. Here the Devil offers Fox a choice of dagger pistol halter poison. His hair rises in horror as he listens to words that dart at him in the guise of flashes of lightening. A few examples: "the Sans Coulots admire thee" "The Wigs forsake thee" All true friends to their King & Constitution Abhor thee" The Poissards French fish wives who led the riots during the French Revolution Love thee etc. Bright very clean colors and text. S.W. Fores unknown books
176022532London: Samuel Clark 1760. First edition. Hardcover. Half calf and marbled boards. Very good. 275 2 pages. Folio 12 1/2" x 8". Early ink owner inscription head of title of Benjamin Grubb. Britain even today remains the most prominent grouping of Quakers in Europe. Covers the yearly meetings from Epistle I 1675 through Epistle LXXXII 1759. Many of the accounts also cover Friends in New Jersey Long-Island Virginia Maryland North-Carolina and Barbadoes. Entire interior contents clean and fresh printed on wove paper raised bands maroon leather spine label printed in gilt wear to lower corners and spine chips to backstrip extremities with some loss leather repair to lower front cover corner binding tight and firm. Samuel Clark hardcover books
178622139London: S. Fores 1786. Stiff Wraps. Orig. colored engraving. Near fine. 25 x 39 cm. Colored engraving signed WM 1786 lower left corner. King George III and his wife Charlotte riding toward Windsor; vividly colored bright and fresh. Road marker toward Slough is ignored as the King's cane points straight to Windsor Palace. S. Fores unknown books
42739357 pp. catalogue from the venerable firm fully describing over two hundred items for sale including illuminated manuscripts incunabula letters from notable people John Boswell Robert and Elizabeth Browning among others and manuscripts illustrated on plates throughout. Lg. 4to. Wrpps. covers slightly discolored ex-library copy with bookplate inside front cover and perforated identification mark on title-page. London Maggs Bros. 1928. unknown books
179222138London: Robert Dighton 1792. Stiff Wraps. Orig. colored colored engraving. Near fine. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. Colored engraving drawn and etched by R. Dighton. Signed by Stephen Kemble in red ink faint lower left corner of imprint. George Stephen Kemble 21 April 1758 - 5 June 1822 was a successful English theatre manager actor and writer and a member of the famous Kemble family. His sister Sarah Siddons a famous actress. He managed the original Theatre Royal Newcastle for fifteen years 1791-1806. Tiny nicks at head and foot outside image area. Robert Dighton's early work was issued anonymously but by the early 1790s it became increasingly well known and he began etching and publishing under his own name and his success allowed him to open a shop in Charing Cross. Bright clean print. Robert Dighton unknown books
198922716London: Karsten Schubert Ltd 1989. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. dark red stiff wrappers. Manzoni Piero. 15 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. Photograph of Manzoni and illustrations in black and white. An Italian Avant-Garde artist whose career was cut short by an untimely death at 30 years of age. Karsten Schubert Ltd unknown books
176822513London: John Evans 1768. First edition. Wraps. Orig. printed buff wrappers. Very good. 8 pages. 11 x 6.9 cm. John Evans whose publishing history included a good number of Christian religious tracts. Signed on behalf of the Brethren by Robert Hall. Printed by T. Luckman. John Evans unknown books
179622516London: John Evans and Sons 1796. First edition. Wraps. Orig. printed buff wrappers. Very good. 8 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 cm. Unopened. Blind ex-library stamp front cover of Nottingham Public Library. John Evans whose publishing history included a good number of Christian religious tracts. Woodcut illustrations page 4 and 8. John Evans and Sons unknown books
1905252106New York: Macmillan 1905. First. hardcover. very good. Hutt Henry. Illustrated by Henry Hutt & T.C. Lawrence. 8vo pictorial green ribbed cloth gilt top; corners bumped; lightly rubbed. New York: Macmillan 1905. First Edition.<br/><br/> Second printing with rubber-stamp on copyright page.<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
1912191320New York: Macmillan 1912. Hardcover. v 232p. vi ads frontispiece illustration in b&w by Mac M. Pease inserted very good first edition as per Sisson page 62 and BAL 11936 green cloth boards with thatched roof cottage and palms at water's edge on front cover in blue black and white front titles white all very bright and clear spine illustration and titles in blue and white with titles bright but rubbing to vignette and publisher at tail. A very nice copy of a relatively uncommon title. Macmillan hardcover books
179822517London: J. Wright 1798. First edition. Wraps. Orig. printed buff wrappers front cover a bit toned. Very good. 23 pages. 9 x 5.5 cm. Patriotic tract to urge support for the Crown against the French during the current hostilities and much admonition regarding France's attempts to have America make common cause with the Republic against England. J. Wright unknown books
456466 pp. introductory material including annotated list of plates by Campbell Dodgson 12 excellent plates 4 in fine color showing early woodcuts in the London collection. Large folio. Orig. cloth-backed boards. Berlin Bruno Cassirer 1914. Graphische Gesellschaft 20. hardcover books
4411542 pp. catalogue discussing sixty-five French illuminated manuscripts dating between the 9th through 16th centuries including an introductory essay by Eric G. Millar and full descriptions of each manuscript bibliographical notes 65 plates. 4to. Text and plates loose as issued and housed in boards portfolio covers slightly stained edges rubbed. Paris Publications de la Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits a Peintures 1933. hardcover books
178622135London: S.W. Fores 1786. Boards. Orig. illustrated lithograph in a multitude of colors. Fine. 27.5 x 37 cm. Hand colored lithograph from S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse. Caption in right corner read "Man Traps & Spring Guns. Brightly colored print colors fresh and clean. S.W. Fores unknown books
17783057London: Henry Fenwick 1778. First Edition. Very Good/A very rare treasure-chest of source material on Anglo-American relations in the years leading up to and into the Revolutionary War. In this compendium of communications between the Court of Common Council and George III covering the years 1769-1778 one sees the London court's steadfast objections to trade restrictions placed on the American colonies in 1775 the court's recommendations to "suspend hostilities against our fellow-subjects in North America" and its extended position paper counseling conciliation with the rebellious colonies. The text reports correspondence from the Continental Congress signed by John Hancock and from Richard Price and includes discussion of the Quebec Act of 1774 and the Newfoundland fisheries. Reference: Sabin 451. 19cm; 151pages. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards in period style with six-panel spine decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
183522052London: C. Motte 1835. Original Wraps. Orig. laid paper. Fine. 16.5 x 27 cm. Color engraving during the First Carlist War 1833-1840 during which the British volunteered to assist Isabella II of Spain against her rival uncle the late king's brother Carlos de Borbón or Carlos V. The Carlists supported return to an absolute monarchy. The priest says "Cheer up my son recollect as fast as they compel you to make promises I can absolve you from them. C. Motte unknown books
184211063London: Charles Fox Pr. by W. Clowes & Sons 1842. 8vo. 49 1 blank pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2LON461. Disbound; early leaves separating. A good copy. Charles Fox (Pr. by W. Clowes & Sons) unknown books
20038LONDON. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART. COMMEMORATIVE CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION OF DUTCH ART.1929. London: Oxford University Press 1930. Folio. Cloth. xxx 311 1 pages 12 plates. First edition. A large exhibition catalogue of Dutch Art from 1450-1900 indexed by artist draughtsmen etchers glassworkers silversmiths etc. and owners. With th bookplates of Dumbarton Oaks else very good. unknown books
1963452London Transport Board 1963. 1st. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. A handsome copy of the 1963 1st edition. Fine in a VG to Near Fine dustjacket and with its rare original wraparound band that has printed on it Special Price 1 Pound. In addition this copy has 2 of the original London Transport Poster catalogues laid-in. 8vo. 124 color plates. <br/><br/> London Transport Board hardcover books
