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1889S4224London:: Harrison & Sons 1889. 1889. 297 x 233 mm. 4to. Pages 491-546. Tables. Dis-bound. This work appeared early in the career of Augustus Love when he was a fellow at St. John's Cambridge. Later Love wrote A treatise on the mathematical theory of elasticity 1892-1893 which gives the general theory of stress and strain; conditions of equilibrium and stability of elastic plates shells and solids; of torsion of rods and the bending and vibrations of beams; and the transmission of force. In 1898 Love was elected to the Sedleian chair of natural philosophy at Oxford. DNB 1931-1940 pp. 545-546; DSB VIII p. 516. Harrison & Sons, 1889. unknown books
183631036Washington D.C. 1836. Folio broadside 7.75" x 125". Completely in manuscript docketed on verso as being received February 11 1836. Light toning old folds two fold splits repaired on verso with archival tape. Else Very Good. <br/><br/> An early example of enforcement of the law requiring fathers to support their children born out of wedlock. John D. Clark was a Notary Public and Justice of the Peace in Washington D.C. William W. Bannerman was an engraver and copper printer in Baltimore. unknown books
189128181London: J. M. Dent & Co 1891. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies on large paper 8vo pp. 192; decorative title-p. printed in red and black engraved frontispiece woodcut ornaments throughout; original beige buckram gilt-lettered direct on spine; spine a little darkened else near fine. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent & Co hardcover books
1837122465London: Richard Bentley 1837. Hardcover. VG- Some wear to extremities; Front hinge cracked. Color marbled paper over boards; Brown leather at corners and spine; 402 pp.; 2 bw illustrations. Includes the following stories by English satirist Thomas Love Peacock: Headlong Hall Nightmare Abbey Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle. Richard Bentley hardcover books
183815577London: Pr. by Chapman 1838. 8vo. 32 pp. <br><br>The list of committee members bears contemporary inked manuscript additions. WorldCat shows only one holding of this printing in the U.K. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Goldsmiths'-Kress 30654 for Taylor & Walton printing of the same year; not in NSTC CD version. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner; title-page reverse with inked additions as described above. Pr. by Chapman unknown books
186856447Philadelphia: Stuckley printer 624 Weaver street 1868. Broadside approx. 8½" x 5½"; previous folds light toning; very good. An advertisement for the convention with participating members listed including Lucretia Mott Henry C. Wright and Levi K. Joslin. The Universal Peace Society also called the Universal Peace Union was formed by former members of the American Peace Society and was dedicated to the abolition of war. In their ad they declare "Disarm and arbitrate -- Christianize our civilization." Not found in OCLC. <br/><br/> Stuckley, printer, 624 Weaver street unknown books
1861220588London: Parker Son & Bourn 1861. First. hardcover. poor. 8vo green pebbled cloth extremities of spine chipped; corners rubbed cocked; some signatures loose. London: Parker Son & Bourn 1861. First Edition.<br/><br/> Worn copy of an uncommon first edition Peacock's first work of fiction after a hiatus of 30 years.<br/><br/> Parker, Son & Bourn unknown books
1894292328London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Limited. hardcover. very good. Edited with Notes by Edmund Gosse. 8vo vellum backed cloth spine darkened with 1 inch vertical stain. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> One of only 25 large paper copies. Armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Thomas.<br/><br/> Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books
186134556London: Parker Son and Bourne 1861. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter red morocco and marbled boards and edges. Lower joint starting spine a little darkened; lacking final two leaves of ads. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Peacock's final novel. Wolff 5479 Parker, Son, and Bourne unknown books
185759421Mexico City: Imprenta de Vicete G Torres Calle de San Juan de Letran num. 3 1857. Second edition first published Mexico 1847 but first with the Villa-Amor contribution. 12mo. 35 pp. Originally published at the end of Santa-Anna's participation in the Mexican American War after he had failed to defend his country from invasion; the second part was updated to include a brief history of his last disastrous two-year reign as the head of the Mexican government 1853-1855. Sabin 76747. Very good. Original printed tan wrappers a little chipped around the edges.#7551. <br/><br/> Imprenta de Vicete G Torres, Calle de San Juan de Letran num. 3 unknown books
1875862521875. PEACOCK Thomas Love ed. Henry COLE. THE WORKS OF THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 3 VOLUMES. London: Richard Bentley and Son 1875. Preface by Right Lord Houghton. Biographical notice by Edith Nicolls his granddaughter. var pp. 8vo. 3/4 navy blue morocco binding by Bartlett. A little rubbing but a lovely set. Fine internally. Scarce. unknown books
180125262Paris: Chez Giguet 1801. First edition printed from the original manuscript. Depuis son origine jusqu'ê la retraite du Duc de Brunswick; Imprimés sur le manuscrit original revu et corrigé par l'auteur peu de tems avant sa mort augmenté de notes et pièces essentielles qui ne se trouvent pas dans l'édition anglaise. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf richly gilt spines with black leather labels marbled endpapers. Upper joints starting but sound corner a little rubbed else very good. First edition printed from the original manuscript. Depuis son origine jusqu'ê la retraite du Duc de Brunswick; Imprimés sur le manuscrit original revu et corrigé par l'auteur peu de tems avant sa mort augmenté de notes et pièces essentielles qui ne se trouvent pas dans l'édition anglaise. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 2 vols. 12mo. Bouillé was a French general who served in the West Indies and distinguished himself as a commander of French forces in the American Revolution; he was the cousin of La Fayette. He was also Lieutenant-General of the Royal forces in the days of the French Revolution and remained loyal to the King playing a major role in the plan for Louis XVI's escape which ended in the King's arrest at Varennes. Bouillé escaped to England where he supported the royalist cause and where he died in 1800.<br/>These Memoires were first published in London in 1794 in translation; they were then re-translated from the English into French and published there in 1798. According the publisher of this edition Bouillé's family which consigned the original manuscript to him claims that the English translation was faulty filled with errors incomplete and disavowed by Bouillé himself. Chez Giguet unknown books
1875045515London: Richard Bentley and Son 1875. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in early full green morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with inner dentelles spines edges and some of the boards gently toned to brown light rubbing to hinges. Clean and bright internally - an attractive in fine Harcourt bindings. Size: Octavo 8vo. 3-volume set complete. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry. Inventory No: 045515. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley and Son hardcover books
1831300966London: T. Hookham 1831. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Fly title present; bound without ads. iv 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full green polished calf spine gilt. Joints repaired. First edition. Page 154 numbered 54. Fly title present; bound without ads. iv 300 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1957; not in Wolff T. Hookham unknown books
1893300969London: J.M. Dent 1893. First collected edition. 10 vols. 12mo. Half brown morocco spine gilt marbled boards. Near fine textblock faintly toned. Book plates on front paste downs. First collected edition. 10 vols. 12mo. Handsome set of the writings of Peacock. Volumes are 1. Headlong Hall. 2 & 3. Melincourt 2 volumes. 4. Nightmare Abbey. 5. Maid Marian. 6. The Misfortunes of Elphin. 7. Crotchet Castle. 8 & 9. Gryll Grange 2 volumes. 10. Calidore & Miscellanea. With "Recollections of Thomas Love Peacock" by Sir Edward Strachey. <br/><br/>Previous owners include H. Walter Webb American railway entrepreneur and later his wife Leila Howard Codman. <br/><br/>Thomas Love Peacock was a satirist novelist poet and official of the East India Company. Peacock's place in literature is preeminently that of a satirist with most of his works featuring the same setting in which his characters are set a table criticizing contemporary philosophical opinions. Peacock was a very close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced one another's' works throughout their shared journeys and close lodgings. J.M. Dent unknown books
1817250494London: For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin Cradock and Joy Paternoster Row 1817. First edition. Half titles present D6 in vol. I a cancel. 3 vols. 12mo. Dark blue green textured cloth over boards printed paper spine labels minor chipping bottom edge slightly trimmed others uncut. Fine. First edition. Half titles present D6 in vol. I a cancel. 3 vols. 12mo. Rare Peacock Satire in Early Cloth Binding. "ANTHELIA MELINCOURT at the age of twenty-one was mistress of herself and of ten thousand a year and of a very ancient and venerable castle in one of the wildest valleys in Westmoreland." <br/>The opening line of Melincourt is indisputably a rejoinder to Austen's celebrated gambit in Pride and Prejudice 1813 and Peacock's sharpest satire of wealth fortune-hunting and politics recounts the fortunes of the heiress and her social climbing friends as well as the bon-vivant Sir Telegraph Paxarent his philosophical friend Mr. Forester and the career of Sir Oran Haut-ton - a "specimen of the natural and original man" and an orang-utan of high fashion "heightened by a pair of enormous whiskers and the folds of a vast cravat" - who is elected as one of the MPs for the venerable rotten borough of Onevote.<br/>A rare work that is almost invariably seen in worn half leather bindings the present copy of Melincourt is in a nicely preserved near contemporary binding of dark green cloth with printed spine labels the publication date is too early by a few years for this to to be publisher's cloth a very handsome triple-decker with good provenance. A note from Esther Potter to Marilyn Butler quotes Victor Schulderer of the British Museum who called Meyerstein 1889-1952 a "poet novelist and musician outstandingly gifted and eccentric". Sadleir 1957e; not in Wolff; Garside & Schöwerling 1817:46. Provenance: English scholar and collector E.H.W. Meyerstein his monogram and date of acquisition 1944 "from J.R.T. E-" ; bookseller and bibliographer Graham Pollard 1903-1976; given to Marilyn Butler wife of his nephew David author of Peacock Displayed 1976 For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row unknown books