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179154524London J. & J. Boydell 1791 1791 a. 1798. Beautifully bound in 3 contemp. straight grained full morocco. On covers 4-double gilt line fillets with 4 large gilt floral cornerpieces. All compartments richly gilt with lines and small floral-like stamps. Titles with gilt lettering. Inside gilt borders. Edges of covers gilt. Edges gilt. All volumes with the printed paperlabel of the bookbinder "Bound by C. Smith 108 Strand". All volumes with the gilt exlibris in leather of Dudley Coutts Majoribanks 1st Baron Tweedmouth. 2 engraved frontispieces. 3 engraved title-pages vol. 3 with both engraved and printed title-page. 6CXXII311;2311- 6074;XXIII3801 errata pp. and with 136 engravings on plates and engraved vignettes. With the engraved dedication-plate. A clean fine copy printed on good paper with occassionally a bit of offsettings from the plates. Bindings in near mint condition. <br/><br/><em>First edition in an exquisite copy. </em> hardcover
179215107London: T. & J. Egerton 1792. 4to 25 cm 9.8". 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p. xvi 209 3 pp.; 1 map 27 plts. illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p. viii incl. t.-p. 258 4 pp.; 1 map 25 plts. illus. <br><br>First edition of Ireland's guidebook to the architectural botanical artistic and historical pleasures to be found along the Thames featuring assorted poetical digressions as well as descriptions of the splendor of Blenheim Castle and other castles and manors the disrepair of London Bridge and paintings by Rubens and Holbein. The two volumes are copiously illustrated with 52 aquatint plates engraved by C. Apostool after drawings by Ireland 2 maps and a number of in-text cuts. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T2691; Abbey Scenery 430. Period-style quarter calf over marbled papercovered sides spines with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Versos only of half-titles title-pages and a few other leaves stamped by a now-defunct institution. Plates lightly to moderately spotted with some instances of light offsetting to pages around plates. Pages faintly age-toned with edges untrimmed; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away not touching text. This supplies both handsome interesting pictures and good now quaint reading. T. & J. Egerton hardcover books
171134488Dublin: Printed by Andrew Crooke 1711. Folio 29 cm; 11.5". 4 8 2 916 2 1720 2 228 2 2938 1 3941 2 4245 2 4554 i.e. 53 1 blank pp. <br><br>A scarce assemblage of acts including granting the Queen "additional duty on beer ale strong waters" and other things. Other legislation seeks to curb frauds "committed by tennants"; prevent "ingrossing forestalling and regrating of coals imported into this kingdom"; better prevent "excessive and deceitful gaming"; suppress lotteries; and regulate sheriffs and sheriffs' clerks.<br>Â Â Â Â Printed largely in black letter and each act preceded by its own title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T193918. Near-contemporary brown calf rebacked in caramel-colored calf with a red leather gilt title-label; modestly tooled in gilt on covers with a double-rule and a center rope rectangle with flower corner devices gilt rolls on board edges. Some cockling of paper and discoloration of endpapers from the tannin of the turn-ins and occasional marginal thumb- or other soil from use. Printed by Andrew Crooke hardcover books
1949131899Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Samuel Fuller with the cast and crew of the 1949 film dated Nov. 24 1948. One of what could only be a few copies ever struck and the only one we have ever seen.<br /> <br /> Fuller's auspicious directorial debut one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment the film based on the life of Robert Ford displays many of the hallmarks of the iconoclastic director's subsequent career. <br /> <br /> 20 x 15 inches. Very Good plus with a couple of small closed tears to the bottom edge. <br /> <br /> Criterion Eclipse 5. Lippert Pictures unknown
2004DADAX1856074293Columba Press 2004-12-31. hardcover. New. 5.00x1.00x8.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Columba Press hardcover
BAY_24_SH_060015UNKNO. Collectible - Very Good. Signed inscribed by author on title page. Binding is unblemished text block is clean boards straight without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing to dust wrapper edges. Very clean nearly like new. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped. UNKNO hardcover
1746WRCLIT52106Dublin: Printed by A. Reilly for the Author and . sold by Edward and John Exshaw 1746. xvi8225-3806pp. plus terminal blank. Equipped with a large folding map and five folding plates one a large city plan. Octavo. Recent quarter calf and marbled boards. Old stamps of a defunct mercantile library occasional dust soiling and mild spotting the folding map and plan have some careful and professional tissue repairs at some edges and folds not extensive; generally a good sound copy. First edition. In 1744 Smith published the full version of his THE ANTIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN which the DNB describes as "the first Irish county history on a large scale ever written." In the same year he was instrumental in founding the Physico-Historical Society at Dublin the purpose of which was to support the research toward and publication of a series of county histories. In addition to this work and its predecessor an important history of Cork appeared under the Society's auspices and a history of Kerry followed though the Society had by then broken up. All "form a valuable contribution to Irish topography of which Smith may be regarded as the pioneer" - DNB. Bradshaw had the second edition of 1774 but not the first edition. In this copy the index is bound at the end rather than inserted after p.376 and before the appendix. BRADSHAW 1560 2nd ed. ESTC T97660. Printed by A. Reilly for the Author and ... sold by Edward and John Exshaw hardcover books
1792228732London. T. and J. Egerton Whitehall 1792. 1792. First edition. Large 8vo. 54 engraved aquatint plates in text and 2 engraved aquatint pictorial title pages by the author; 2 engraved maps folding. Half titles. Full early 19th century dark red morocco gilt stamped spines with raised bands and ruled compartments covers single gilt ruled brown endpapers a.e.g. light rubbing; occasional light offsetting and foxing to plates. Very good. 2 volumes complete. Errata leaf in Vol. I and Vol. 2; 1 page of advertisements in Vol. 2. Enclosed in a later black cloth slipcase. No signatures or bookplates. Spine title: Ireland's Tour of the Thames. Fine illustrated travel books by the noted English author and engraver died 1800 and father of the notorious Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland. Abbey - Scenery 430. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London. T. and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1792. hardcover books
182715612London: J. L. Cox Printer to the Royal Asiatic Society . for Parbury Allen & Co Publishers to the Society. To be had also at Messrs. Dondey Dupre and Son's Paris Booksellers to the Society on the Continent 1827. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 4 vii-x 2 vii-xxiii 1-534 537-540 537-540 541-548 537t-548t 549-640 pages. BOUND WITH 1824 Membership listing London: G. Schulze 10 11-32 pages. BOUND WITH 1827 Membership listing London: J. L. Cox 32 pages. BOUND WITH "Regulations for the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.1827" London: J.L. Cox 12 pages. 4to 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. All bound in leather boards expertly rebacked saving the spine labels original boards and endpapers. Ex-library Ames Library of South Asia properly deaccessioned. Previous owner bookplate of Richard Strachey of Ashwick Grove. Bright and clean internally with occasional library markings. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Boards. The first of only three volumes issued under this title from 1827-1834. The Royal Asiatic Society separately published the "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland" beginning in 1834 and continuing to this day.<br /> <br /> In addition to the scientific articles offered in this volume bound in are two membership directories 1824 and 1827 and the regulations of the society from 1827 providing an excellent snapshot into the beginnings of the Society. All plates called for are present.<br /> <br /> "The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society has been published by the Society since 1834 and is distinguished not only by its longevity but also by its consistency in providing a forum for scholarly articles of the highest quality on South Asia the Middle East together with North Africa and Ethiopia Central Asia East Asia and South-East Asia. It publishes articles on history archaeology literature language religion and art and reviews of books in these fields." Official statement on journal site. J. L. Cox, Printer to the Royal Asiatic Society, ... for Parbury, Allen & Co, Publishers to the Society,. To be had also at Mess unknown
182715612London: J. L. Cox Printer to the Royal Asiatic Society . for Parbury Allen & Co Publishers to the Society. To be had also at Messrs. Dondey Dupre and Son's Paris Booksellers to the Society on the Continent 1827. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 4 vii-x 2 vii-xxiii 1-534 537-540 537-540 541-548 537t-548t 549-640 pages. BOUND WITH 1824 Membership listing London: G. Schulze 10 11-32 pages. BOUND WITH 1827 Membership listing London: J. L. Cox 32 pages. BOUND WITH "Regulations for the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.1827" London: J.L. Cox 12 pages. 4to 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. All bound in leather boards expertly rebacked saving the spine labels original boards and endpapers. Ex-library Ames Library of South Asia properly deaccessioned. Previous owner bookplate of Richard Strachey of Ashwick Grove. Bright and clean internally with occasional library markings. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Boards. The first of only three volumes issued under this title from 1827-1834. The Royal Asiatic Society separately published the "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland" beginning in 1834 and continuing to this day.<br/><br/>In addition to the scientific articles offered in this volume bound in are two membership directories 1824 and 1827 and the regulations of the society from 1827 providing an excellent snapshot into the beginnings of the Society. All plates called for are present.<br/><br/>"The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society has been published by the Society since 1834 and is distinguished not only by its longevity but also by its consistency in providing a forum for scholarly articles of the highest quality on South Asia the Middle East together with North Africa and Ethiopia Central Asia East Asia and South-East Asia. It publishes articles on history archaeology literature language religion and art and reviews of books in these fields." Official statement on journal site. J. L. Cox, Printer to the Royal Asiatic Society, ... for Parbury, Allen & Co, Publishers to the Society,. To be had also at Mess unknown books
1805048519London: Printed by Ellerton and Byworth Johnson's Court Fleet Street for Thomas Goddard Corner of Pall Mall and the Haymarket 1805. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rare original state. Bound in publisher's plain tan quarter-leather over drab boards with patina untrimmed page edges cheap paper pastedowns: a binding not meant to survive but this has. Mirrored printing offset to rear pastedown evidently an Edinburgh advertisement for Jeffery's West-India Atlas recycled Minor foxing to the frontispiece as usual; some staining to the top edge showing in the top margins throughout not affecting text; occasional marginal pencil lines. Hairline cracks to the leather joints but the boards are firmly attached sewing strong corners are rubbed with some little chipping to the board edges. Book label of an early perhaps contemporary owner to the front pastedown sadly rubbed out leaving the bordered edges. Complete. Illustrated with two plates: frontispiece of the Quintain Seal and plate of Shakespeare signatures. 7 317 pp 17 index. A good untrimmed copy in plain boards. # 503 Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva. The young William Henry Ireland 1775-1835 son of a Shakespeare-adoring antiquary committed a series of deceptions forging documents and so forth which he passed off as long-lost Shakespeare originals. His spurious lost-Shakespeare-play 'Vortigern and Rowena' made it to a disastrous first night in 1796. The Confessions on offer here is a first edition of the culmination of the controversy. Photos available upon request. . Printed by Ellerton and Byworth, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, for Thomas Goddard, Corner of Pall Mall and the Haymarket Hardcover
169316116(No place, no date(1693)). Very large engraved seechart, measuring 60 x 86,5 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the Northern part of England from Lancaster to Banf, of Ireland from Blackrock to Carlingford and all the Islands to the north: Shetland, Orkney, Faroe etc. etc. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center.
169316116No place no date1693. Very large engraved seechart measuring 60 x 865 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the Northern part of England from Lancaster to Banf of Ireland from Blackrock to Carlingford and all the Islands to the north: Shetland Orkney Faroe etc. etc. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later impression but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:9. </em> unknown
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1716008435St. James's Palace London 1716. Document. This original 15 June 1716 document signed by Britains King George I authorizes reimbursement for care given to prisoners in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1715 which asserted the right of the Stuarts to the throne over the Hanoverians of which King George I was the first. <br /> <br />The document is a single sheet of laid watermarked paper measuring 15.75 x 12.75 inches folded to form four 7.875 x 12.75 inches panels. The first panel features the Kings order prominently signed by him George R at the head of the document. The document is further signed at the foot By His Majestys Command by Wm Pulteney the future 1st Earl of Bath who was then serving as Secretary of War. The document is addressed at the lower left to Henry Earl of Lincoln Pay Master Generall of Our Guards Garrisons & Land Forces in Great Britain and Forces abroad. The document orders the Earl of Lincoln to Pay unto John Mulcaster Agent and Sollicitor for transacting the Affairs of the Rebell Prisons the sum of Six hundred Ninety Two Pounds Three Shillings and Five Pence to be paid over to Lt. Col. Solomon Rapin in satisfaction of the like Summ disbursd by him in Nurses Medicines and other necessary Contingencys for the use of the Rebell Prisoners at the several Places they are kept from the 14th of Nov. 1715 to the 30th of Aprill 1716. The inconclusive Battle of Sheriffmuir had taken place on 13 November 1715. The document was executed at Our Court at St. Jamess this 15. Day of June 1716. In the Second Year of Our Reign. <br /> <br />The document bears three horizontal folds ostensibly where it was folded and sealed for original transmittal to Henry Earl of Lincoln. On the second panel is written the name John Mulcaster. The first and second sections of the upper fourth panel were obviously from the soiling and writing thereon the outer folded portions of the document when it was transmitted. Horizontally on the second section of the upper fourth panel is written: Warrant for. 692.3.5. to Mr. John Mulcaster in satisfaction of the like Summ Disbursd by Lt. Col. Sol. Rapin in Nurses Medicines sec. for the Rebell Prisoners from 14th. Nov. 1715. To 30th. Aprill 1716. all above the date June 16th. 1716. <br /> <br />Condition is very good overall. The document is all but complete with only fractional loss to the lower right corner two tiny holes at the intersection of vertical and horizontal folds and a short closed tear and minor associated loss at the upper right corner of the rear panel. The document shows light overall soiling and spotting the soiling heavy only on the upper rear panel which served as the outer faces when the document was originally folded for transmittal. <br /> <br />The future King George I was born Georg Ludwig in Hanover perhaps not an obvious route to the British throne. However the death in July 1700 of the duke of Gloucester reopened the question of the English succession That successor had to be a Protestantno Roman Catholic would have been consideredand of Stuart descent a combination which automatically excluded over fifty claimants with a closer hereditary claim. The person who united these qualifications was Georgs mother Sophia 1630-1714 youngest daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate Winter King of Bohemia and of Elizabeth daughter of James I of England. <br /> <br />When he signed this document King George I 16601727 had only recently assumed the throne of Great Britain and Ireland ten months earlier in August 1715. The Jacobite cause pressed unsuccessfully upon his enthronement would be pressed with rebellious force of arms again in 1745 also to no avail. The Hanoverian period was remarkably stable not least because of the longevity of its monarchs. From 1714 through to 1901 there were only six monarchs one of whom George III remains the longest reigning king in British History. Queen Victoria then surpassed her grandfather in both age and length of reign. The period was also one of political stability and the development of constitutional monarchy. <br /> <br />Sources: ODNB; royal.uk <br/><br/> unknown
178810351London: Published by Molteno & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall 1788. Etching and aquatint with hand-colour. Lovely contemporary colour. As usual text line is attached on verso of sheet. In excellent condition. Trimmed as usual and mounted on washline background. Mounting sheet is watermarked laid paper. Image size: 14 7/16 x 20 5/8 inches. A charming seaside view by Samuel Ireland the engraver and collector connected with the infamous Shakespeare forgeries.<br/> <br/>Ireland was a minor engraver and publisher who worked in London at the close of the eighteenth century. He was an avid art and manuscript collector and many of the works that he engraved and published were after pieces found in his own collection. This romantic view is after a painting by DeVlieger which was in Ireland's collection at the time. This image operates as both an example of the picturesque tradition in eighteenth century landscape prints and as an advertisement and promotion of Ireland's celebrated collection. With this image Ireland presents himself as both a serious engraver and a respected collector. Unfortunately today Ireland is better remembered for his involvement in the Shakespeare forgeries than for his evocative prints. Over a period of many years Ireland's son William Henry sold his father a series of forged manuscripts which he claimed to be written in Shakespeare's hand. Ireland who willingly trusted his son added these forgeries to his collection and presented them in an exhibition to the literary community who accepted them as genuine. The charade progressed so far that an invented play entitled 'Vortigern' which William Henry had written and presented as a missing work by Shakespeare was performed at Sheridan's Drury Lane theatre by some of the leading actors of the age. When the hoax was eventually discovered Ireland's reputation was ruined and his son was disgraced. This print is from the famed Oettingen-Wallerstein collection which was compiled over two centuries by various members of the royal household. The collection is known for its stunning impressions and the immaculate condition of its prints.<br/> <br/>Dictionary of National Biography; Lugt Les Marques de Collections Supplement 2715a. Published by Molteno & Co. No. 132, Pall Mall unknown books
02662London: T. and J. Egerton 1793. Scarce With Hand-Colored Aquatints<br/><br/>IRELAND Samuel. Picturesque Views on the River Medway from the Nore to the Vicinity of its Source in Sussex: With observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood. London: T. and J. Egerton 1793. <br/><br/>First edition the scarce hand-colored issue. Octavo 9 x 6 1/8 in; 229 x 155 mm. xii 206 1 adv. 1 pp. Extra hand-colored engraved title-page black and wite map and twenty-eight hand-colored aquatint plates. <br/><br/>Bound by Root & Son stamp-signed in full brown morocco with multiple gilt-rolled borders and gilt corner-pieces gilt-rolled turn-ins. Gilt-ruled and ornamented compartments. Top edge gilt. A fine clean and tight copy of a book generally found with plates in sepia.<br/><br/>"Samuel Ireland 17-1800 was one of the most successful artists who devoted himself to the career of topographic print-making. In the ten years between 1790 and 1800 he brought out six books of views containing in all some two hundred and eighty plates all aquatinted by himself after his own drawings. He began his artistic career as a copier of prints and a dealer in them and in 1760 gained a medal from the Society of Arts. The success of his first book A Picturesque Tour through Holland Brabant and part of France 1790 encouraged him to other work of the sort and in 1793 and 1793 appeared to other books Picturesque Views on the River Thames and Medway and later again on the Avon 1795 and Wye 1797 and posthumously the Severn 1824. His son William was the notorious Shakespeare forger.<br/><br/>The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work both on fine bindings as here and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901 and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out uprooted of their premises on Paternaster Row during the 1941 Blitz.<br/><br/>Abbey Scenery 428. Prideaux p. 341. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793 unknown books
178810357London: Published by Molteno & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall 1788. Etching and aquatint with hand-colour. Lovely contemporary colour. As usual text line is attached on verso of sheet. In excellent condition. Trimmed as usual and mounted on washline background. Mounting sheet is watermarked laid paper. Image size: 14 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches. A charming landscape by Samuel Ireland the engraver and collector connected with the infamous Shakespeare forgeries.<br/> <br/>Ireland was a minor engraver and publisher who worked in London at the close of the eighteenth century. He was an avid art and manuscript collector and many of the works that he engraved and published were after pieces found in his own collection. This romantic continental view is after a painting by David Tenier which was in Ireland's collection at the time. This image operates as both an example of the picturesque tradition in eighteenth century landscape prints and as an advertisement and promotion of Ireland's celebrated collection. With this image Ireland presents himself as both a serious engraver and a respected collector. Unfortunately today Ireland is better remembered for his involvement in the Shakespeare forgeries than for his evocative prints. Over a period of many years Ireland's son William Henry sold his father a series of forged manuscripts which he claimed to be written in Shakespeare's hand. Ireland who willingly trusted his son added these forgeries to his collection and presented them in an exhibition to the literary community who accepted them as genuine. The charade progressed so far that an invented play entitled 'Vortigern' which William Henry had written and presented as a missing work by Shakespeare was performed at Sheridan's Drury Lane theatre by some of the leading actors of the age. When the hoax was eventually discovered Ireland's reputation was ruined and his son was disgraced. This print is from the famed Oettingen-Wallerstein collection which was compiled over two centuries by various members of the royal household. The collection is known for its stunning impressions and the immaculate condition of its prints.<br/> <br/>Dictionary of National Biography; Lugt Les Marques de Collections Supplement 2715a. Published by Molteno & Co. No. 132, Pall Mall unknown books
102993London: Printed by C. Clarke Published by T. Egerton 1801-2. 2 vols. 8vo xvi 209; iv 258 pp. recent full crimson morocco antique spines decorated and lettered in gilt covers gilt-ruled in an ivy pattern. Two engraved maps & two emblematic half-titles 52 topographic plates all aquatints printed in sepia; numerous woodcuts in text. Predictable offsetting minute puncture due to paper flaw in plate of Marlow Bridge opp. p. 195 in Vol. I; a beautiful set in a superb binding. § Third Edition; the first in 1792 and the second in 1799. The second in the fine series of pictorial tours issued by the entrepreneurial author artist and engraver who is today remembered primarily -- alas -- as the father and first victim of Shakespeare-forger William Henry Ireland. Although there are some provocative discrepancies between details of this set and the collation of the first edition in the Abbey Catalogue the only significant alteration between editions seems to have been the replacement of the “East View of Staines Old Bridge.†The gossipy text is a lot of fun. Abbey Scenery. 430. Cox III p. 180. Upcott English Topography CXLIII Vol. III pp. 768-770. Printed by C. Clarke unknown books
02662London: T. and J. Egerton 1793. Scarce With Hand-Colored Aquatints<br /> <br /> IRELAND Samuel. Picturesque Views on the River Medway from the Nore to the Vicinity of its Source in Sussex: With observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood. London: T. and J. Egerton 1793. <br /> <br /> First edition the scarce hand-colored issue. Octavo 9 x 6 1/8 in; 229 x 155 mm. xii 206 1 adv. 1 pp. Extra hand-colored engraved title-page black and white map and twenty-eight hand-colored aquatint plates. <br /> <br /> Bound by Root & Son stamp-signed in full brown morocco with multiple gilt-rolled borders and gilt corner-pieces gilt-rolled turn-ins. Gilt-ruled and ornamented compartments. Top edge gilt. A fine clean and tight copy of a book generally found with plates in sepia.<br /> <br /> A handsome and important English topographical work by Samuel Ireland recording the River Medway and its environs at a moment when picturesque travel and antiquarian interest were at their height. Ireland traces the river from its maritime mouth at the Nore through Kent and into Sussex combining scenic prospects with informed commentary on churches castles bridges estates and other works of architectural and historical interest.<br /> <br /> Although often encountered with plates printed in sepia or left uncolored copies with the full suite of plates carefully hand-colored as here are decidedly uncommon and greatly enhance the book's visual appeal. Issued by T. and J. Egerton among the leading publishers of late eighteenth-century topographical books Picturesque Views on the River Medway stands as a fine example of the genre and an especially attractive survival in a high-quality signed morocco binding.<br /> <br /> A desirable copy of a work prized by collectors of English topography aquatint illustration and finely bound travel books.<br /> <br /> "Samuel Ireland 17-1800 was one of the most successful artists who devoted himself to the career of topographic print-making. In the ten years between 1790 and 1800 he brought out six books of views containing in all some two hundred and eighty plates all aquatinted by himself after his own drawings. He began his artistic career as a copier of prints and a dealer in them and in 1760 gained a medal from the Society of Arts. The success of his first book A Picturesque Tour through Holland Brabant and part of France 1790 encouraged him to other work of the sort and in 1793 and 1793 appeared to other books Picturesque Views on the River Thames and Medway and later again on the Avon 1795 and Wye 1797 and posthumously the Severn 1824. His son William was the notorious Shakespeare forger.<br /> <br /> The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work both on fine bindings as here and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901 and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out uprooted of their premises on Paternaster Row during the 1941 Blitz.<br /> <br /> Abbey Scenery 428. Prideaux p. 341. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793 unknown
18011029931801. London: Printed by C. Clarke Published by T. Egerton 1801-2. <br /> <br /> 2 vols. 8vo xvi 209; iv 258 pp. recent full crimson morocco antique spines decorated and lettered in gilt covers gilt-ruled in an ivy pattern. Two engraved maps & two emblematic half-titles 52 topographic plates all aquatints printed in sepia; numerous woodcuts in text. Predictable offsetting minute puncture due to paper flaw in plate of Marlow Bridge opp. p. 195 in Vol. I; a beautiful set in a superb binding.<br /> <br /> § Third Edition; the first in 1792 and the second in 1799. The second in the fine series of pictorial tours issued by the entrepreneurial author artist and engraver who is today remembered primarily -- alas -- as the father and first victim of Shakespeare-forger William Henry Ireland. Although there are some provocative discrepancies between details of this set and the collation of the first edition in the Abbey Catalogue the only significant alteration between editions seems to have been the replacement of the "East View of Staines Old Bridge." The gossipy text is a lot of fun. Abbey Scenery. 430. Cox III p. 180. Upcott English Topography CXLIII Vol. III pp. 768-770. unknown
1807708151807. I Am Inclined to Give Credit to Her Assertions" Manuscript. Trial. Ireland. Account of a Rape. County Carlow Ireland June 25 1807. 11" x 7" leaf docketed on verso. Horizontal fold lines light browning and edgewear. Annotations by presiding magistrate to foot of recto and sections of verso. $1500. Made before magistrate Gilbert Fitzgerald this appears to be testimony by Margaret Janson against Myles Barin in an apparently It reads in part: "Myles Barin opened his small cloths informant asked him what he was going to do to her he answered he would ride her then extending her legs and endeavouring to force something into her body and struggled with her near an hour." Fitzgerald notes: "I did not swear Informant to this Information as she appeared to be entirely ignorant of the nature of an Oath but the facts are strongly corroborated by other evidence and I am inclined to give credit to her assertions. unknown books
1949131899Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Samuel Fuller with the cast and crew of the 1949 film dated Nov. 24 1948. <br/><br/>Fuller's auspicious directorial debut one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment the film based on the life of Robert Ford displays many of the hallmarks of the iconoclastic director's subsequent career. <br/><br/>20 x 15 inches. Very Good plus with a couple of small closed tears to the bottom edge. <br/><br/>Criterion Eclipse 5. Lippert Pictures unknown books
1806826A53London: J. N. Boydell and Co. 1806-12. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". William Hogarth. A beautiful group complete in three uniform volumes of John Ireland's illustrated study of William Hogarth's work. A sweeping study of the work of William Hogarth English painter in the eighteenth century best known for his series A Harlot's Progress a Rake's Progress and Marriage a-la-Mode. His satirical caricatures often of explicit sexual nature became widely popular and largely produced via prints in his lifetime. This set is comprised of the third edition of a study of Hogarth's paintings and engravings by John Ireland a great admirer and collector of his works. Also featuring personal anecdotes of the artist. Illustrated with additional engraved title page to each volume as well as frontispiece and forty-five further full page plates to vol. I; forty-one full page engravings to vol. II; frontispiece and forty-four prints to vol. III. Collated complete. Rebound in uniform full goatskin bindings with five raised bands gilt tooling to spine and boards renewed endpapers gilt to edges. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with minor spotting to occasional leaf particularly leaves of plates. Very Good Indeed J. N. Boydell and Co. hardcover
179227404London: T. and J. Egerton 1792. First edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. xvi 209 2; iii-viii 258 3; 2 sepia aquatint title-pp. 2 engraved maps 52 sepia aquatints after drawings by Ireland each with original tissue guards plus a number of vignette wood-engravings in the text; full contemporary diced russia neatly rebacked to style gilt spines in 6 compartments morocco labels in 2; some spotting most plates with a bit of offsetting corners worn; in all a very good set. A tour in pictures along the length of the Thames with discussion of such notable sites as Blenheim Castle Henry II's palace Christ Church and Magdalen Colleges in Oxford Windsor Castle Strawberry Hill and the sites of London including Westminster Bridge the Tower of London and Greenwich Hospital. Abbey Scenery 430. <br/><br/> T. and J. Egerton unknown books
