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189427806London: Printed for The Society of English Bibliophilists 1894. 1st edition. Leather. Near Fine. 1st edition. 5 volume set complete. A Near Fine set. 8vos. In period Fine binding of half light blue leather and cloth over boards. Six compartment spine with title volume and design in gilt. t.e.g. A handsome set. A collection of 72 short stories written by Marguerite de Navarre published posthumously in 1558. It was originally intended to contain 100 stories but Marguerite's untimely death cut it at the second story of the eighth day. Printed for The Society of English Bibliophilists unknown
195936103Durham North Carolina: Duke University Press 1959. 2nd printing. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Mixed printings Vol.1 2 3 -2nd printings 1959; Vol.4 5 6 7 printed in '57 '62 '61 '64 respectively. A Very Good set in Poor Fair & Good dust jackets. 8vos. each volume approximately 650 pages. illustrated with b&w wood engravings and frontispieces. Uniformly bound in tan cloth with tan dust jackets. The dust jackets have browned spines with most of the volumes having missing/detached areas on the spine. Several volumes are detached along the spine and now held in place with the mylar sleeve. Duke University Press unknown
19869138Wakefield West Yorkshire: Fleece Press 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. 8 16 8 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 200 copies. As issued in publisher's boards with printed paper labels on the front cover and spine. Spine a trifle sunned and the tail of the spine is slightly bumped else a near fine copy. A beautifully printed book with five engravings in-text by Lydbury. Fleece Press unknown
38463London: printed for Thomas Tegg; Simpkin and Marshall; R. Griffin & Co. Glasgow; J. Cumming Dublin 1824. . Second edition two volumes 8vo. pp.xxvii408;vii453 quarter leather gilt-lettered labels marbled boards complete with 9 plates; a very good fresh set in neat modern bindings. London: printed for Thomas Tegg; Simpkin and Marshall; R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1824. hardcover
18298060London: Jones 1829. Hardcover. Fine. Rebound in maroon cloth with black paper spine labels stamped in gilt. Fine condition. Minor foxing otherwise fine condition. 70 pages of text and 38 pages of steel engravings two illustrations per page in the first title. 52 pages of descriptive text and 40 pages of steel engravings two illustrations per page in the second title. Altogether 156 steel engravings on 78 pages. <br/><br/> Jones hardcover
1841008974London: Longman Orme Brown Green and Longman 1841. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in contemporary fine binding two volumes in polished calf the backs with black and red morocco labels and intricate gilt tooling marbled end papers and edges the bookplates of Walmer Castle and a later 20th c. owner front end papers prior owner inscriptions in pencil and ink concerning Walmer Castle and Cattermole's engravings "considered to be some of his finest". Very Good the calf rubbed and soiled. Both volumes with frontis engravings and engraved title pages Vol. I with 7 engravings in text Vol. II with 13 in text. The title pages call for 15 in Vol. I and 13 in Vol. II leaving the possibility of 4 missing engravings however no evidence of removal. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Hardcover
194533330952Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Webb Clifford. One of 500 copies folio size pp. The Golden Cockerel Press came together in autumn of 1920 at a time when post-World War I society was ushering in a renaissance of creative minds including another renaissance of the printing press as the artist's tool similar to that of William Morris and the arts and crafts printers of the previous century. The press worked with many notable artists including Eric Gill Blair Hughes-Stanton Robert Gibbings and the artist for this work Clifford Webb. <br /> <br /> Clifford Cyril Webb 1895-1972 studied art and is best known today for his wood engravings. He was a founder-member of the Society of Wood Engravers and "was a prominent figure in the group of engravers whobrought about the revival of wood engraving in the 1920s and benefited from the encouragement of Robert Gibbings and the Golden Cockerel Press" n.b. quote from Webb's entry in Horne "The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators" p. 437. <br /> <br /> Per the bibliographical entry for this work "it is surprising that no complete translation of this unique eye-witness account of the First Crusade had ever been published in England before. What the pilgrims did in their fervour of blind fanaticism 'to the glory of God' makes astonishing reading!" <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half vellum with orange buckram boards gilt vignette on the front board of crusaders on horseback by Clifford Webb top edge gilt frontis one of five full-page wood-engravings bound in throughout small title page wood-engraving also of crusaders on horseback wood-engraving of a cockerel holding a crusader pennant in its beak on p. 9; Poliphilus type on hand-made paper folio size 12 3/8" by 7 3/8" pagination: 1-4 5-92 1 colophon. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: A solid very good copy with clean boards the vellum smooth and without wear a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a small mark on the vellum on the back board light overall edgewear the corners bumped but not rubbed. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: Cockalorum 168. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
27099London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; J. Murray 1816. . Folio pp.viii174 attractive twentieth-century quarter calf with five raised bands gilt marbled boards new endpapers 20 engraved plates including additional pictorial title and one in the text; light foxing to pictorial title lower corner of rear board a little bumped otherwise a very good copy indeed. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; J. Murray, 1816. hardcover
1839052209London: William S. Orr & Co. 1839. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xxiii 356 Pp. First Printing 1839. Full Morocco Gilt And Stamped In Blind Yellow Endpapers All Edges Gilt. Plates Tissue Guards With Subject Titles. Slight Usage Tiny Repairs To Corners Furbished. Captions Printed On The Tissue Guards. Binding Is Early Or Original Wear But Nicely Refurbished New Morocco Spine Label Hinges Intact And Solid. Contents Very Clean Light Foxing To A Few Plates But Almost All Are Entirely Clean And With Clean Intact Tissue Guards. Wordsworth Was The Youngest Son Of The Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth Master Of Trinity And A Nephew Of The Poet William Wordsworth. He Was The Younger Brother Of The Classical Scholar John Wordsworth And Charles Wordsworth Bishop Of Saint Andrews Dunkeld And Dunblane. He Was Educated At Winchester And Trinity Cambridge. Like His Brother Charles He Was Distinguished As An Athlete As Well As For Scholarship. He Won The Chancellor's Gold Medal For Poetry In 1827 And 1828. He Became Senior Classic And Was Elected A Fellow And Tutor Of Trinity In 1830; Shortly Afterwards He Took Holy Orders. He Went For A Tour In Greece In 1832-1833 And Published Various Works On Its Topography And Archaeology The Most Famous Of Which Is "Wordsworth's" Greece 1839. In 1836 He Became Public Orator At Cambridge And In The Same Year Was Appointed Headmaster Of Harrow A Post He Resigned In 1844. In 1844 Sir Robert Peel Appointed Him As A Canon Of Westminster 1844-1869. He Was Vicar Of Stanford In The Vale Berkshire 1850-1869 And Archdeacon Of Westminster 1864-1869. In 1869 Benjamin Disraeli Appointed Him Bishop Of Lincoln Which He Retained Until His Death In 1885. <br/> <br/> William S. Orr & Co. hardcover
185843455London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder 1858. Newly revised and much enlarged edition the 3rd printing to include "Foreign and Jewish Cookery." Late 19th Century Cloth Binding 12mo; xlvii 643 32 pages 714 total 8 leaves of plates all present. 18 cm. <br> Early printing following the addition in 1855 three years earlier of a new section on "Foreign and Jewish Cookery;" That was also the first edition issued under the now-famous title Modern Cookery for Private Families.<br> Includes index and 32-page publisher's catalogue after text.<br> <br> Famously Lady Judith Montefiore published the first English-language Kosher cookbook The Jewish Manual in 1846 primarily for other Jewish housewives and meal planners. <br> Less than a decade later however leading British cookbook author Eliza Acton took Lady Montefiore's Jewish cooking tips one step further celebrating and normalizing them for cooks of all backgrounds across the Commonwealth through a new expanded edition of her best-selling cookbook Modern Cookery.<br> Journalist Rita Ehrlich notes that between these two works "The first Jewish recipes published in English reveal the place of accomplished Jewish women in 19th Century high society.<br> Among the welter of cookbooks published in 19th century England Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families stands out for its clarity its practicality its occasional humour and its inclusion of Jewish food.<br> First published in 1845.The 1855 edition included a section on Foreign and Jewish Cookery and among the recipes was one for Jewish Almond Pudding. It was one of the few recipes Acton had not tested herself. 'We have tasted the puddings . more than once and have received the exact directions for them from the Jewish lady at whose house they were made.'<br> A Jewish lady - presumably the same one - provided her and thereby the readers with the address of a Jewish butcher in the London suburb of Aldgate from whom one could procure smoked beef and a chorissa sausage. Acton noted that 'all meat supplied by Jew butchers is sure to be of first-rate quality as they are forbidden by the Mosaic Law to convert into food any animal which is not perfectly free from all 'spot or blemish''. She also noted that the Jewish dietary laws which forbade the mixing of dairy and meat were 'not very rigidly observed' by most English Jews.<br> The date of that book is striking. Jews were part of English society by 1855 with a Jewish Lord Mayor of London Sir David Salomons a leader in the campaign to allow Jews to sit in Parliament. Lionel de Rothschild took his seat in Parliament in 1858 the year of this copy's publication following the passing of the Jews Relief Act. He had been elected a number of times; the sticking point had been the need to swear the oath 'upon the true Faith of a Christian'.<br> Even if we did not know about the number of wealthy highly regarded and influential Jews in London at that time the fact that an author would include specifically Jewish recipes and shopping advice in a bestselling cookbook that also recommended Jewish butchers for the quality of the meat suggests strongly that there was companionable social exchange.<br> The almond pudding recipe appeared in an earlier book published in 1846 called The Jewish Manual edited by A Lady no doubt the same lady who had entertained Eliza Acton. She was almost certainly Lady Judith Montefiore wife of the influential philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore and the book was the first Jewish cookbook in the English language" Rita Ehrlich When 'A Lady' taught the English to cook kugel and Jews to be English 2022. <br> thejewishindependent.com.au/when-a-lady-taught-the-english-to-cook-kugel-and-jews-to-be-english.<br> <br> Eliza Acton 1799-1859 "was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader Modern Cookery for Private Families this work. The book introduced the now-universal practice of listing ingredients and giving suggested cooking times for each recipe. It included the first recipes in English for Brussels sprouts and for spaghetti.Some time after Modern Cookery was published Acton moved from Tonbridge to Hampstead north west London. She became the cookery correspondent for the weekly magazines The Ladies' Companion and Household Words and began writing.a new edition of Modern Cookery. This was published in 1855 and renamed as Modern Cookery for Private Families the name by which it is best known. This version contains an additional chapter named 'Foreign and Jewish Cookery'; the Jewish recipes are from Ashkenazi cuisine" Wikipedia.<br> Indeed Eliza Acton's "Modern Cookery. "is considered the first practical cookbook specifically geared toward the everyday cook. The schoolteacher poet and cookery writer Eliza Acton 1799-1859 published a number of poems as a young woman and 'in 1837 . her publishers Longmans suggested she should write something more practical than poetry so for the next few years she applied herself to meticulous research for the work by which she is best known: Modern Cookery for Private Families first published in 1845. The book was well received on its first appearance; critics thought it the best cookery book they had seen combining as it did clarity of instructions with excellent organisation. <br> The book was a lasting success running into several editions and was the standard work on the subject until the end of the century establishing Eliza Acton as the first of the modern cookery writers. She wrote with great charm and clarity but what marked the book as innovative was her original plan of listing very exactly the ingredients the time taken and pitfalls for the inexperienced cook. This was a completely new format all other books on the subject being far less exact in their instructions. <br> This became the standard way of writing cookery books."Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. <br> <br> Modern food journalists Sue Dyson and Roger McShane suggest that Acton's Modern Cookery "is an absolutely essential part of any serious cookbook collection" https://foodtourist.com/modern-cookery-for-private-families-by-eliza-acton. <br> <br> Contents:- Introductory Chapters. Trussing; Carving -- Soups -- Fish -- Dishes of Shell-Fish -- Gravies -- Sauces -- Cold Sauces Salads Etc. -- Store Sauces -- Forcemeats -- Boiling Roasting Etc. -- Beef -- Veal -- Mutton and Lamb -- Pork -- Poultry -- Game -- Curries Potted Meats Etc. -- Vegetables -- Pastry -- Soufflés Omlets Etc. -- Boiled Puddings -- Baked Puddings -- Eggs and Milk -- Sweet Dishes or Entremets -- Preserves -- Pickles -- Cakes -- Confectionary -- Dessert Dishes -- Syrups Liqueurs Etc. -- Coffee Chocolate Etc. -- Bread -- Foreign and Jewish Cookery.<br> <br> For more on Acton and this book's impact on modern food culture see for example Sheila Hardy's The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton The History Press 2011; Sophie Hill's Keeping up Appearances: Economy vs. Extravagance in Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery <br> https://recipes.hypotheses.org/tag/eliza-acton; and the Wikipedia page dedicated to this groundbreaking cookbook <br> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Cookery_for_Private_Families. <br> <br> SUBJECTS: Cooking English. Cuisine anglaise. Cookbooks. Publishers' catalogs.<br> The University of West Virginia keeps their copy in their Rare Book Room. <br> OCLC: 2613184 for 1859 printing. <br> Front inside hinge just starting light wear to crown of spine Good Condition. Important B Food-1-1-'!yyox. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder unknown
18453466<p> Original publisher's binding of brown cloth with decorative gilt Romulus/Remus motif to front cover blindstamped to rear board Front cover detatched; Lacking spine covering. Complete with 30 plates 29th plate "Piazza Barberini" as frontispiece. Infrequent foxing throughout some markings to page edges. A nice copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; viii 216 pages;</p> David Bogue hardcover
1977066307Whiltshire England: Compton Press 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to. Includes slipcase. Limited Edition of 100 numbered copies. This is copy 69. Includes 10 signed and numbered tipped-in artists proofs. Marbled boards with green leather spine gilt lettering along spine. Minor shelfwear moderate spine fade. Tight binding no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Heavy fading and tanning on slipcase with some scuffing. Slipcase is in Very Good-minus condition. Compton Press Hardcover
19291349922Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1929. Limited edition no. 3 of 500. Hardcover. Octavo; VG Hardcover; Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and red paper-covered boards; Light rubbing to head and tail of spine; Bookplate of Robert Mackenzie Waggaman to front pastedown; Text block lightly age-toned; Illustrated with numerous engravings by Eric Ravilious; v 156 pages. 1349922. FP New Rockville Stock. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1929518Paris: Éditions du Scarabée 1929. First Edition. Near fine. Large 8vo 11 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches 302 x 250 mm; 45 pp. with 4 etchings by Gio Colucci. Edition limited to 115 numbered copies on white Arches paper with Jenson type of which this is copy no. 50 as printed on the limitation page. Loose as issued in portfolio with original paper cover with flaps printed in red and black with beautiful typography and with its original glassine wrapper. There is some toning and slight wear to the glassine and cover and offset to pages facing the etchings but the portfolio is in excellent condition and the impressions strong and powerful.<br /> Inscribed and dated in pencil by artist on the half title. <br /> BNF31506565. This play by François Turpin was created on the stage of the Atelier in Paris by the Athéna theater on February 1 1928 <br /> <br /> Gio COLUCCI 1892-1974 Painter sculptor ceramist was born in Florence. Éditions du Scarabée unknown
193235365Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press 1932. Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Lynton Lamb. Limited edition of 500 with this being hand numbered 245 1932. A Very Good book. SIGNED by Walpole on dedication page. 8vo. 73 pp. bound in publishers red leather backed patterned cloth boards top edge gilt. Spine is lightly faded. Very minor rubbing to tips and edges. Very small spot at top of FFEP that fades through to dedication page. Text is clean and unmarked engravings are crisp. A SCARCE title. "This is a fabulous account of Hugh Walpole's early life and a must read if you are a fan of his work." review. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
169243176Trajecti ad Rhenum Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halmam 1692. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Octavo 8 1/4 x 6 1/4". 28 859 49pp Index. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Additional engraved title by Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver Joseph Mulder 1658-1742 after a painting by Dutch Baroque era painter Gerard Hoet 1648-1733. Title vignette. Decorative initials and tailpieces. <br /> <br /> Scarce first edition of Hermann Witsius' compendium of religious works illustrated with eight full-page engravings by Jan van den Aveelen including four double-page. Six of these appear in the text on Jewish law and ritual "de Tabernaculi Levitici mysteriis" and one includes an overflap showing the Ark of the Covenant.<br /> <br /> Age-toning to binding. Ex-library sticker at head of spine and stamp on free front endpaper. Previous owner's gift inscription dated 1830 on fly leaf. Clear water-staining along fore-edge of the first two leaves of Dedication then sporadically along fore-edge of a few pages throughout 9not affecting lettering. Both hinges slightly starting. Sporadic foxing and age-toning throughout. Text in Latin with some Hebrew and Greek. Binding in overall good- to good interior in good- to very good condition. About the author: Hermann Witsius 1636-1708 was "Professor of Divinity in the Universities of Franeker Utrecht and Leyden. A brilliant and devout student he was fluent in Latin Greek and Hebrew by the age of 15 when he entered the University of Utrecht. He was ordained at 21 and served in several pastorates filling both the pulpit and the academic chair over the course of his life" Encyclopedia Britannica. Apud Franciscum Halmam hardcover
1814D6857London: Printed for William Daniell. by Thomas Davison 1814. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern half morocco and marbled paper; folio large paper copy 13 x 17 inches; pp. 2 title-p. blank 99 1 plus 17 mounted India Proofs engraved by William Daniell after paintings by Robert Smirke. Spine tips and corners lightl bumped; faint damp-stain in upper right corner of text block just touching images on the first 6 plates; a bit foxed throughout. <br/><br/> Printed for William Daniell... by Thomas Davison hardcover
D1121Paris: L. Baschet. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original wraps bound in gilt-ruled red morocco and marbled paper boards gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine 5 raised bands. N.d. but circa late-1800s. Number 4 from a limited edition of 50 copies on China paper with a suite of hors-texte illustrations. Corners bumped; a few tiny scuff marks at spine tips; some light foxing in margins not infringing upon text or illustrations. A tight pretty copy. <br/><br/> L. Baschet hardcover
173642844Amsterdam: J. Wetstein; G. Smith 1736. First French-language edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto 10 1/4 x 8". 14 lxxv 1 696pp; 4 848pp. Modern half brown calf over light green cloth with gold lettering and tooling to spines retaining the original gilt-lettered leather titles. All paper edges red. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and engraved portrait of Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II by George Vertue. Title vignettes. Title pages in red and black lettering. <br /> <br /> This work was originally published in London in 1619 by Paolo Sarpi 1552-1623 an Italian historian prelate scientist canon lawyer and statesman active on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period of its successful defiance of the papal interdict 1605-1607 and its war 1615-1617 with Austria over the Uskok pirates. The author published it under the name of Pietro Soave Polano an anagram of Paolo Sarpi Veneto plus o. <br /> <br /> The book's emphasis was on the role of the Papal Curia and its slant on the Curia hostile. Sarpi's work attained such fame that the Vatican opened its archives to Cardinal Pietro Sforza Pallavicino whom it commissioned to write a three volume rebuttal entitled the "Istoria del Concilio di Trento scritta dal P. Sforza Pallavicino della Comp. di Giesù ove insieme rifiutasi con auterevoli testimonianze un Istoria falsa divolgata nello stesso argomento sotto nome di Petro Soave Polano" "The History of the Council of Trent written by P. Sforza Pallavicino of the Company of Jesus in which a false history upon the same argument put forth under the name of Petro Soave Polano is refuted by means of authoritative testimony" 1656-1657.<br /> <br /> Sporadic foxing and offsetting throughout. Bindings in overall very good interior in good to very good condition. J. Wetstein; G. Smith hardcover
19281409751Reading: Golden Cockerel Press 1928. Limited Edition #285/500. Hardcover. Octavo 151 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine red with black lettering. Bound in publisher's red fabric. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Top edge of text block gilt. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket small closed tears on spine. Three spots of discoloration on front dust jacket. Mild wear and rubbing front and back boards. Shelved in Case 9. Golden Cockerel Press is a curated private press started in 1920 in the Caxtonian tradition of editor-printer-publishers. 1409751. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
188834259Stuttgart: J Engelhorn Circa 1888. Presumed from the unlettered series of plates celebrating German engravers. Very fine large engravings reproducing Italian paintings by the engravers Ludwig Kuhn Peter Halm Karl von Siegl Jakob Groh Wilhelm Krauskopf and Doris Raab. 43.3 x 30.4 cm plates heavy wove paper with wide margins each plate with a tissue guard captioned in red. Six folio plates. In very good condition some of the plates and tissues have a little edgewear or minor light soiling in no case effecting the printed images. A VERY HANDSOME COLLECTION OF GERMAN ENGRAVINGS BASED ON ITALIAN RELIGIOUS ART OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. The six plates included are:<br><br>1. Doris Raab 1851-1899—a fascinating female German engraver. The Christ with the Four Evangelists†aka “The Resurrection of Our Lord†after the painting in the collection of the Galleria Palatina Palazzo Pitti Florence executed in 1516 by Fra Bartolommeo.<br><br>2. Peter Halm 1854-1923. Madonna Enthroned aka Madonna and Child after a circa 1505 painting by Giovanni Bellini.<br><br>3. Ludwig Kuhn 1859-1936 Madonna of the Pesaro Family after the painting in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice executed by Titian circa 1519.<br><br>4. Jakob Groh 1855-1917 Madonna and Child aka "Pitti Tondo" by Michael Angelo Buonarroti reproduced from the marble bas-relief at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence executed sometime around 1504.<br><br>5. Wilhelm Krauskopf 1847-1921 Descent From the Cross "Espagnolet" reproduced from the original in the Museo Nazionale di San Martino in Naples by Jusepe de Ribera in circa 1588<br><br>6. Karl von Siegl 1842-1900 Adoration of the Three Kings Magi after the bas-relief by Venetian Baroque sculptor Giovanni Bonazza 1654–1736 located in the Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo Venice. [J Engelhorn] unknown
19549407Lexington KY: Gravesend Press 1954. Vellum Binding. Near Fine binding. 18mo. 10 48 4 pp. illus. Limited edition number 9 of 200 copies. As issued in vellum-backed patterned-paper over boards. Lacking the slipcase. A handsome copy with only light toning to the perimeters of the boards; contents clean. This copy with 4-page prospectus. <br /> <br /> This work was the first book issued by the Gravesend Press that was actually printed using the Graves' press in their stable by Graves and Jacob Hammer. Kredel's charming engraved pressmark of a sleeping pressman graces the final page. Graves writes about this in his Bibliographical Confession the donkey in the window was their family pet Patience. Graves operated the press as a sideline from about 1949 through to the end of his life in 1960 issuing scarcely more than half a dozen books. While less known that some of his contemporaries he took his place amidst a vibrant mid-century printing and illustrating scene—friends with Victor Hammer Carolyn Reading Fritz Kredel John DePol John Fass and others. H. Richard Archer in a history of the Graves and his press published in The Kentucky Review Spring 1987 summarizes Graves's work thus: "All of the books whether pamphlets or bound books reflect the taste and high standards of a true amateur craftsman and as such they certainly qualify as choice examples from one of this generation's most distinguished private presses." Press historian Roderick Cave notes that this was "probably the most successful Gravesend book" p. 263. Cave The Private Press 2nd edition; Graves The Gravesend Press: A Bibliographical Confession p. 11-13. Gravesend Press unknown
1814177240Printed for William Daniell by Thomas Davison. 1814. 17 uncoloured aquatint plates mounted on India paper tissue-guards textblock complete but front and rear boards are disbound and only a fragment of the spine remains with the stamp of the library of the University of Pennsylvania on the front paste-down and blind stamped throughout but not affecting the plates. Marbled endpapers all edges gilt slight water stains to some pages edges browned but the plates are clean. 42.5 x 33.5cm. A very good example of Orientalist art. Robert Smirk 1752. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786 became an associate in 1792 and in the same year an academician. Most of his paintings are small.Those for the story of the Hunch-back engraved by Daniell were in his happiest manner. He died in London 1845. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers - London 1927. . Printed for William Daniell by Thomas Davison hardcover
1839030612London: William S. Orr & Co. 1839. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xxiii 356 Pp. First Printing 1839. Quarter Calf Calf Tips Over Marbled Boards Marbled Endpapers And With Matching Marbling To Edges Of Page Block. Captions Printed On The Tissue Guards. Binding Is Early Or Original Wear But Nicely Refurbished New Morocco Spine Label Hinges Intact And Solid. Contents Very Clean Light Foxing To A Few Plates But Almost All Are Entirely Clean And With Clean Intact Tissue Guards. Wordsworth Was The Youngest Son Of The Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth Master Of Trinity And A Nephew Of The Poet William Wordsworth. He Was The Younger Brother Of The Classical Scholar John Wordsworth And Charles Wordsworth Bishop Of Saint Andrews Dunkeld And Dunblane. He Was Educated At Winchester And Trinity Cambridge. Like His Brother Charles He Was Distinguished As An Athlete As Well As For Scholarship. He Won The Chancellor's Gold Medal For Poetry In 1827 And 1828. He Became Senior Classic And Was Elected A Fellow And Tutor Of Trinity In 1830; Shortly Afterwards He Took Holy Orders. He Went For A Tour In Greece In 1832-1833 And Published Various Works On Its Topography And Archaeology The Most Famous Of Which Is "Wordsworth's" Greece 1839. In 1836 He Became Public Orator At Cambridge And In The Same Year Was Appointed Headmaster Of Harrow A Post He Resigned In 1844. In 1844 Sir Robert Peel Appointed Him As A Canon Of Westminster 1844-1869. He Was Vicar Of Stanford In The Vale Berkshire 1850-1869 And Archdeacon Of Westminster 1864-1869. In 1869 Benjamin Disraeli Appointed Him Bishop Of Lincoln Which He Retained Until His Death In 1885. <br/> <br/> William S. Orr & Co. hardcover
17823348London: Printed for J. Buckland 1782. Hardcover in marbled leather boards with spine printed in red and gilt. Very clean intact copy. Foxing spots on title page only all 14 engravings none missing are Very Good with offsetting to adjacent papes. Cover is cleanly detached spine cracked and loose at pp 50-51 bumped corners spine chipped at top & bottom. Overall a nice unmarked copy with clean boards bright legible spine tho cracked and excellent engravings including 4 by Stothard/William Blake others by Bertolozzi Hall Heath Taylor Watts Page Godfrey Heath Woolette. 341 pp on laid paper 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 14 b/w engravings. <br/><br/> Printed for J. Buckland hardcover
