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184017618London: Camden Society by John Bowyer and Son 1840. First edition. Hardcover. Very good in original binding. Squarish octavo standard size. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Corners bumped. Bookplate of a member of the Welsh gentry -George Montgomery Traherne - on pastedown. P. 105/6 has a small tear near hinge. 162 p. w/ index and extensive notes and introduction. Main body of the text is in Latin. 2 important documents of 13th century England covering a tumultuous period of strife between crown and nobility. <br/><br/> Camden Society by John Bowyer and Son hardcover
1841001514London: The Percy Society. Fair with no dust jacket. 1841. Cloth. Viii 76 pp. 116 pp. X 82 pp. Vii 70 pp. Xi 271 pp. Scarce collection of Percy Society reprints from 1841 1845 1842 1842 and 1841 respectively of works from the 1400s to the 1600s. All are hard to find some well nigh impossible it seems. Dark red buckram covers are worn at edges bumped at corners spine backstrip splitting at the joints and lifting spine gilt faded but legible spine tip frayed. Interior first title page is coming away at bottom gutter foxing throughout occasional light staining a very occasional pencil margin note. One or two small illustrations in Ancient Political Tracts. Binding is sturdy enough. Not beautiful but it will do especially for one this hard to find. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . The Percy Society hardcover
184216953London: Printed for the Camden Society 1842. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . The very uncommon 1842 1st edition of this original publication of "two curious documents concerning Dr. John Dee" the great 16th century occut philosopher 1527-1609 who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy divination and Hermetic philosophy. 1 "His Private Diary written in a very small illegible hand on the margins of old Almamacs discovered a few years ago by Mr. W.H. Black in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford". 2 "A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace and now preserved in the library of Trinity College Cambridge". This 1842 volume a slim octavo in its original chocolate-brown boards has held up very nicely. Solid and VG with decorative blindstamping to the panels and still-bright gilt-titling and flourishes along the spine. Just a touch of light bubbling to the rear panel small neat former owner name and 1940 date at the front free endpaper. Apart from this clean as could be with no other writing or markings of any kind internally and a strong very sturdy binding. By any measure an impressive copy of this rare mid 19th century examination through his diary and his personal library of manuscripts of the mind of Dr. John Dee. Printed for the Camden Society unknown
184216953London: Printed for the Camden Society 1842. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . The very uncommon 1842 1st edition of this original publication of "two curious documents concerning Dr. John Dee" the great 16th century occut philosopher 1527-1609 who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy divination and Hermetic philosophy. 1 "His Private Diary written in a very small illegible hand on the margins of old Almamacs discovered a few years ago by Mr. W.H. Black in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford". 2 "A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace and now preserved in the library of Trinity College Cambridge". This 1842 volume a slim octavo in its original chocolate-brown boards has held up very nicely. Solid and VG with decorative blindstamping to the panels and still-bright gilt-titling and flourishes along the spine. Just a touch of light bubbling to the rear panel small neat former owner name and 1940 date at the front free endpaper. Apart from this clean as could be with no other writing or markings of any kind internally and a strong very sturdy binding. By any measure an impressive copy of this rare mid 19th century examination through his diary and his personal library of manuscripts of the mind of Dr. John Dee. <br/><br/> Printed for the Camden Society hardcover books
1885008600London: Harrison and sons 1885 Book. Good. Hardcover. 24 pages. In the original green cloth binding. End pages are spotted some spotting to pages also. Cover title - A list fo Shakespeare rarities. Spevack cloassified bibliography 1885:2. Harrison and sons hardcover
1860007152London:: J.O. Halliwell 1860. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. VG 1st ed 1 illustration 1860. In half morocco over marbled boards corners rubbed. Spine raised bands blind tooling gilt titles minor wear at edges. Internally half title 5 6-231 pp 1 1 illustration 1 illustration within text marbled endpapers & text block edges. 185133 mm. Anderson 340. Halliwell- antiquary and literary scholar. Under his will more than 300 volumes of his literary correspondence along with other papers were left to the University of Edinburgh. His principal remaining Shakespearian collections once intended for Stratford were offered at the preferential figure of £7000 to the Birmingham corporation who declined them; in 1897 they were finally sold to Marsden J. Perry of Providence Rhode Island and in 1908 passed largely to Henry Clay Folger now remaining in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. See ODNB. <br/> <br/> J.O. Halliwell hardcover
1860000265London: Author 1860. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In contemporary green embossed cloth boards corners and edges bumped and worn. New green morocco spine gilt tooling and titles. Internally half title 5 6-231 pp 1 printed by Whittingham and Wilkin Tooks Court Chancery Llane. The Chiswick Press Swansea Training College bookplate to fpd some edge browning hinges strengthened. 191140 mm. Anderson 340. Title continues: Taken Chiefly from Rhyl Abergele Llandudno and Bangor. Halliwell- antiquary and literary scholar. Under his will more than 300 volumes of his literary correspondence along with other papers were left to the University of Edinburgh. His principal remaining Shakespearian collections once intended for Stratford were offered at the preferential figure of £7000 to the Birmingham corporation who declined them; in 1897 they were finally sold to Marsden J. Perry of Providence Rhode Island and in 1908 passed largely to Henry Clay Folger now remaining in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. See ODNB. <br/> <br/> Author hardcover
1852746851852. HALLIWELL James Orchard. A DICTIONARY OF ARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAL WORDS. Obsolete Phrases Proverbs and Ancient Customs From the Fourteenth Century. London: John Russell Smith 1852. 2 volumes. Second edition. 8vo. navy cloth title label to spine. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown and no other library marks. Pencil ownership to ffep. Spine and boards are rubbed. Spine coverings are nearly detached; 2 inch tear and loss of crown to spine of volume 1. Solid hinges; crisp and clean within. A good set. unknown books
1844305352London Printed For the Camden Society 1844. 1844. Small 4to. Original dark green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Very good-fine. 312 pages. Bookplates of John Alger Flick and Edward H. Hamilton on the front pastedown. Spine title reads: The Thornton Romances. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Printed For the Camden Society, 1844. hardcover books
185129370London: For Private Circulation Only 1851. 1st thus. Limited to 75 cc. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Pale yellow eps. Professionally rebacked with 60% of the original spine laid-down. Occasional spot of foxing. A VG copy. 8 236 pp. T.p. printed in Red & black. Facsimile t.p. for 2 editions of "Riddles". 4to. <br/><br/> For Private Circulation Only hardcover books
1841779251841. HALLIWELL James Orchard ed. THE BOKE OF CURTASYE an English Poem of the Fourteenth Century. London: Printed for the Percy Society 1841. viii34 pp. Octavo publisher's printed paper wrappers. Nineteenth-century ink library stamp on front and back cover but no other marks. General light dust-soiling to wrappers which show light edgewear and are starting at heel and crown but clean within and very good overall. unknown books
1841779261841. HALLIWELL James Orchard ed. THE MEETING OF GALLANTS AT AN ORDINARIE: OR THE WALKES IN POWLES. From an unique black-letter Copy in the Bodleian Library. London: Reprinted for the Percy Society 1841. viii40 pp. Octavo unopened in publisher's printed paper wrappers. Nineteenth-century ink library stamp on front and back covers but no other marks. Negligible light dust-soiling on wrappers else clean within and ner fine overall. unknown books
18408863London: John Russell Smith pr. by G. Norman 1840. 12mo. 24 pp. <br><br>Uncommon. Edited by Halliwell later Halliwell-Phillipps a biographer of Shakespeare and scholar of English literature these short comic fables attributed to Andrew Boorde were much reprinted in the 16th and 17th centuries. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2M24418. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. John Russell Smith (pr. by G. Norman) unknown books
184821686London: Henry Colburn 1848. Hardcover. Late 19th century three quarter calf and marbled boards matching marbled endpapers and edges. Near fine. 2 vols. 403 477 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces. Letters starts 1190 Richard I the Lion Hearted ends 1649 during the Civil Wars. Raised bands spine panels richly gilt with arabesques leather spine labels in brown and black lettered in gilt. Modest surface war. Henry Colburn hardcover books
1839106426Slim 8vo. London: J.W. Parker 1839. Slim 8vo 18 1pp. With a plate at the front. In brown papers wrappers. Extracted from a volume of pamphlets at some time. § First edition of this scarce little paper on early mathematics by the infamous Halliwell-Phillipps whose entire life was dogged by financial problems and accusations some apparently fairly well based of theft and fraud. His life was well chronicled by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.From DNB: “Phillipps James Orchard Halliwell- 1820–1889 antiquary and literary scholar was born on 21 June 1820 at 94 Sloane Street Chelsea the sixth of the seven children of Thomas Halliwell 1777–1849 a prosperous linen draper from Chorley Lancashire and his wife Charlotte Ann 1789–1849 daughter of Esau Marsh of London. He took the additional surname Phillipps in 1872 following the death of his father-in-law Sir Thomas Phillipps.†J.W. Parker unknown books
1887JHP001Brighton: Printed By John George Bishop 1887 First edition first printing. A good copy with the original front cover in the publisher's paper cloth with some smudging along the edges slight chipping on the hinge lacking the rear cover panel with a loss to the bottom corners of the first pages of text pages starting to break from the binding although the signature is still intact otherwise clean and uncut pages. A nineteenth century pamphlet containing reproduced letters between James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips a noted 19th century British Shakespearean scholar and founder of the Percy Society and members of the executive committee of Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon specifically the librarian Richard Savage. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Brighton: Printed By John George Bishop paperback books
186038010London: Printed for the editor colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins at the Chiswick Press 1860. 24mo 14.7 cm 5.75". 19 1 pp. <br><br>An "exceedingly curious early poetical dialogue" between personified summer and winter edited by noted Shakespearean scholar son-in-law to bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps and history of science collector James Halliwell-Phillipps who speculates that "some dialogue such as the present one suggested to Shakespeare the conclusion of his drama 'Love's Labour's Lost'." This is the first appearance of Halliwell-Phillipps's edition; the production was => limited to 30 copies and is neatly printed.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Pencilled signature of prominent Bostonian book collector Henry Gardner Denny on half-title margin; pencilled collation note at rear from the Quaritch firm; later rubber-stamp reading "F.S.H. Dupl." at back. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Winsor Halliwelliana 1860:14. Quarter roan in imitation of morocco with chocolate papercovered boards spine gilt-lettered; gently rubbed with some loss of leather at joints and paper at corners/edges. Provenance marks as above; light pencilling on endpapers and title-page. Printed for the editor [colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press] hardcover books
1841A42106Historical Society of Science 1841. xix 124 2 9 . . HB. 8vo orig. cloth blind-stamped acanthus scroll frame to boards with central gilt symbol to front board corners lightly bumped. Bookplate of Yatton Court Herefordshire. From the library of K.G.V. Smith 1929-2017 British dipterist at the Natural History Museum London and book collector. Enclosed is a post card from Paul Latcham scholar and collector of bookplates and former editor of the Bookplate Journal. He suggests that the bookplate is probably that of J.G. Rodney Ward resident at Yatton Court from the late 1860s to 1880s. An attached pencil note to Ken Smith in a different hand states that Latcham was pleased to see a previously unknown County bookplate Herefordshire. First edition. Includes 83 letters by among others Thomas Digges Tycho Brache John Dee Thomas Lydyat Charles Cavendish John Pell. 'The contents of the present volume are so very miscellaneous that it would be a difficult task to give a satisfactory analysis of them within the limits of a few pages. Perhaps it may be sufficient to state that the Editor has endevoured to form such a collection of early letters on scientific subjects as would be likely to assist any future author of a critical history of English science.' - Preface. The central design to the front board of this book is the 'Monas Hieroglyphica' an esoteric symbol invented and designed by John Dee the Court Astrologer to Elizabeth I; it is also the title of the 1564 book in which Dee expounds the meaning of his symbol. One of the letters included in this published collection is from John Dee. James Orchard Halliwell 1820-1889 was an antiquarian literary scholar and collector of English nursery rhymes. He published many books including 'Nursery Rhymes of England' 1842 and the 'Life of Shakespeare' 1848. He was accused of stealing manuscripts from Trinity College Cambridge and eloped with and married the daughter of the the famous bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps. Historical Society of Science hardcover
1841361590London: Printed for the Society by R. and J.E. Taylor 1841. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Dark blue publisher's cloth decorative pattern in blind with gilt centerpiece. Small ownership signature wear to the front joint else very good or better. Subscriber's copy Signed and dated by William Henry Black on the front free endpaper. Includes letters by Tycho Brache Thomas Lydyat Charles Cavendish John Pell and others. Also includes the by-laws of the Historical Society of Science founded by James Halliwell an antiquary and unrepentant son-in-law of the bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps. With the formation of the Society and publication of this work Halliwell advanced the history of science as an independent scholarly pursuit. William Henry Black was a prolific contributor to many journals and a member of the British Archaeological Association. A handsome copy scarce in the original boards. Printed for the Society, by R. and J.E. Taylor hardcover
1852345340Brixton Hill: Printed for Private circulation only 1852. Privately printed edition. viii 960pp. 1 vols. 4to 10-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches. Half brown contemporary calf red leather label. Very Good front hinge almost off. Privately printed edition. viii 960pp. 1 vols. 4to 10-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches. Printed for Private circulation only unknown
1850t00A.004GB: John Russell Smith 1850. Dark green cloth with white paper label printed in black on spine. Top edge green. Bookplate inscription and name at start of book in both volumes. Very good clean tight text throughout. Some undulation to pages possibly due to damp storage. Text edges are browned and roughcut. Corners and bottom of spines are bumped top of spines frayed. Covers a bit scuffed generally BUT white marks to the spine of Volume 1. Second Edition. Hardback. G/No DW. John Russell Smith Hardcover
1874008561London: John Russell Smith 1874. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Eighth edition. Full burgundy cloth. xxxvi 480 pp; 481-960 32 pp. Roughly cut edges. Rebacked with new spine printed paper spine labels new endpapers. Boards are scuffed and stained. Some rubbing and wear to extremities. Blacked out portions to copyright page with some show-through to title page and pencil notation of LOC classification and "cancelled" on top of the blackout possible ex-library no marks remain indicating which library. John Russell Smith hardcover
1855220411-MB44London: Thomas and William Boone 1855. Hardcover Two volumes complete rebound in one volume three quarter calf spine rebacked hinges repaired Third edition 1855 no markings some foxing on endpapers . Third Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. Thomas and William Boone hardcover
186740170London: Printed for Very Limited and Private Circulation. Fair with no dust jacket. 1867. Hardcover. Brown pebbled cloth/gilt. Spine cloth chipped away top 4cm. Boards and first signature loose. Bookplate. PO name. "From the Editor" written to ffep. Minor marginalia. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Printed for Very Limited and Private Circulation hardcover
184111919London: William Pickering 1841. Hardcover. Octavo brown cloth with printed title label to front cover 4 104 pp. Scarce title by the English scholar and Shakespeare critic. Spine covering lacking and replaced with binder's tape light foxing to pages damp staining to upper margin of a handful of pages staining to lower edge of covers. William Pickering hardcover