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194811111112222233547<p>The First UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press London in 1948. Number '36' of only 80 specially bound copies signed by both the author and artist to the limitation page. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. Full brown morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with five raised bands gilt spine titling and large gilt designs by the artist on the upper and lower covers. Gilt ruled turn-ins. top edge gilt and others uncut. 3 maps by Mina Greenhill and 10 wood engravings by Clifford Webb 8 full page. Some discolouration and light marking to the outer fore edge of the front board and some light fading to the outer fore edge of the rear cover with a neat previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. The book is protected in loose Mylar archival cover. Loosely inserted is the 4 page publisher's prospectus. A very handsome production - 'Clifford Webb's wood engravings seemed to me the finest yet produced by this master of black and white.' COCKALORUM 181. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
19569700New York: Hammer Creek Press 1956. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. 12mo. 24 4 blank1 pp. illus. Limited edition to approximately 100 copies. As issued in marbled paper wrappers of stiff covers with printed paper title label on the front cover. Quite a nice copy with little in the way of shelf-rubbing to the cover; Reynolds Stone-designed bookplate of noted collector Norman Sondheim inside the front cover. <br /> <br /> Short introduction by Fass about the history and aim of the press. Includes 43 described books announcements and ephemera from the press. As this present work is the 43rd item in Fass's list and only 35th in Cohen's checklist there are apparently inclusions here not noted in Cohen. Several examples of pressmarks by DePol Angelo and Carnes. Two by Valenti Angelo are done in multiple colors with gilding. <br /> <br /> The Hammer Creek Press began when in 1950 when Fass purchased from Valenti Angelo a small Hughes & Kimber cast iron press previously owned by Bruce Rogers who had sold it to Angelo the year before. It was on this press of significant provenance that the bulk of the Hammer Creek Press editions were printed including this present book. Opening this work is an engraving by John DePol of the storied press with a page of "Data" by Fass. One of the mores substantial works issued by the Press as well as one of the more uncommon titles despite the larger-than-usual limitation. As more than 30 institutions are reporting ownership according to OCLC it means this is increasingly rare in commerce. A lovely example of Fass's work. Cohen 35. Hammer Creek Press unknown
88035o.J. Motiv 25 cm (Durchmesser/in diameter) auf 41,5 x 27,5 cm (Bogenmaß).
1809Flo541<p>Very good copy of the first edition of this classic of equestrian humour</p><p>With 26 of 29 handcoloured copperplate engravings by Thomas Rowlandson after illustrations by George Moutard Woodward and Henry Bunbury unsigned</p><p>The illustrations show Regency gents falling off horses ladies falling off horses gamblers pursued by officers of the debtors' prisons raggedy dogs yokel fashions and furniture famous beauties etc.</p><p>The 26 plates include: portrait of <em>Caleb Quizem Esq. title page vignette with courtier falling from Pegasus The Maid of Mim; Costume of Hogs Norton: Morning dress</em>; <em>Game Wigs</em> 2 plates;<em> Hounds</em> 2 plates; <em>Mathematical Horsemanship</em> 6 plates; <em>The True Method of Sitting on a Horse Mathematically Delineated; How to Vault from the Saddle; Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton</em> 2 plates; and <em>The Bailiffs Hunt</em> 8 plates.</p><p>Lacks the folding plate <em>The Bucephalus Riding Academy for Grown Gentlemen</em> and two other plates <em>Costume of Hogs Norton: A Back Front View of Miss Dickinson's new Dress</em> and <em>How a Man may Shoot his own Wig.</em></p><p>George Murgatroyd Woodward 1765–1809 more commonly known as George "Moutard" or "Mustard" Woodward was an English caricaturist and humourist. He was a friend collaborator and drinking companion of Thomas Rowlandson who engraved many of his prints.</p><p>Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827 was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian and Regency eras noted for his ribald satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker his most famous works include <em>The Miseries of Human Life </em>1808 <em>The Tours of Dr. Syntax</em> 1812-21 <em>Microcosm of London</em> 1810 <em>The English Dance of Death</em> 1815 <em>Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome</em> 1815 <em>History of Johnny Quae Genus</em> 1822 <em>The English Spy</em> 1826 etc.</p><p>The pseudonym Caleb Quizem is often attributed to the artist George Moutard Woodward. The portrait however links the author to Geoffrey Gambado i.e. Francis Grose. In the picture a corpulent man sits in an armchair looking at the viewer through a monocle. Two books Gambado's <em>Annals of Horsemanship </em>a popular book attributed to Grose reissued with Rowlandson's engravings in 1809 and Laurence Sterne's <em>Tristam Shandy</em> are on the table next to him and a portrait of Gambado with gouty foot and crutch hangs on the wall.</p><p>Quite scarce copies held by the British Library and Oxford University.</p><p>Bound in full red morocco leather spine with five raised bands gilt title and decoration to compartments front board with 2cm scratch to leather TEG marbled endpapers book block solid. Interior clean and bright all copperplates under tissue guards with vivid handcolour.</p><p>Engraved armorial bookplate of Herman Le Roy Edgar a New York real-estate broker amateur photographer and book collector 1865-1938.</p><p>Very good copy of this rare classic of horsey fun.</p> Thomas Tegg hardcover
1949001610Angoulême Jean Emery, Editions d'art, Collection "L'Heptameron" 1949
17679225Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstrée et Merkus, 1767 ; huit tomes, grand in-12 ; plein veau havane à grandes marbrures, dos à nerfs décorés et dorés, pièces de titre grenat et de tomaison vert-sapin, triple filet doré d'encadrement des plats, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque) ; (4) à chaque volume, LX, 343 ; IV, 358 ; II, 352 ; II, 418 ; IV, 396 ; XII, 392 ; XII, 351 (mal chiffrée 451) ; XV, (1), 364 pp et un portrait de Pope gravé par Kornlein, 1 frontispice par Delanonce, gravé par Kornlein, 23 figures hors-texte dont 7 signées de N.V. Frankendaal, même fleuron de titre aux six premiers tomes et second fleuron de titre aux deux derniers.
1638193614to. Cont. marbled boards somewhat worn. Engraved title with text on verso. 2 engraved allegorical titles with portrait of Drexel with the years 1638 and 1645. Having 50 of 54 allegorical and symbolical engravings numbered 1-54 nos. 172932 a. 41 lacks. Interfoliert. Some traces of use. A few tears repaired. At the title: FL = Johan F. Lindencrone. hardcover
1638193614to. Cont. marbled boards, somewhat worn. Engraved title with text on verso. 2 engraved allegorical titles with portrait of Drexel with the years 1638 and 1645. Having 50 (of 54) allegorical and symbolical engravings, numbered 1-54 (nos. 17,29,32 a. 41 lacks). Interfoliert. Some traces of use. A few tears repaired. At the title: FL = Johan F. Lindencrone.
Folio (480 x 310 mm), engraved dedication portrait frontispiece, 44 ENGRAVINGS OF 46 (LACKING PLATES 9 & 10), 22 of which are double-page, the plates and the text pages are paginated continuously from 1 to 52, faint staining to blank upper margins, some light browning, nineteenth-century half calf, covers detached. Berlin Catatalogue, 1864.
SHL-12A Paris, Chez l'auteur, Boudet, Valleyre, Vve Duchesne, Saugrain, Ruault, 1776, in-8, demi-basane brune et papier à la colle, dos lisse à faux-nerfs filetés dorés, titre doré. Faux-titre, frontispice gravé par A. L. Romanet d’après C. P. Marillier « Mercure conduit par l'Amour, ou Invention du Langage et de l'Ecriture. », Page de titre, 400 pp, 1 tableau dépliant « Alphabet Primitif, fig. 1& 2 » et 1 Planche dépliante colorée « relative aux organes de la voix, en cinq figures…dessinées d’après nature et gravées en couleurs par M. GAUTHIER DAGOTY Père», signature gravée dans la planche. Reliure avec défauts d’usage, frottements, dos légèrement passé, en partie recollé en tête, mors supérieur fendu, coiffes et coins en bon état. Corps de l’ouvrage en très bel état : belles marges, peu ou pas de rousseurs, petites salissures dans la marge sup. du frontispice, les deux planches dépliantes en parfait état & notamment la planche colorée de M. Gautier-Dagoty aux teintes éclatantes. Edition séparée, du troisième volume « Du Monde Primitif (1773- 82, 9 vol. in-4) », augmentée de la planche colorée de Gautier-Dagoty, dont l’Explication des figures fut rédigée par M. Dessault, chirurgien à Paris. Elle est considérée comme originale car elle reparue en 1816, à Paris chez Plancher, sous le nouveau titre « Histoire naturelle de la parole, ou grammaire universelle, à l'usage des jeunes gens. Nouv. édit., avec un Discours préliminaire et des Notes par M. le comte Lanjuinais.» BRUNET II-1516 ; QUERARD II-316
1790236120No place 1790. 34 leaves containing about 225 plates one hand-colored. 1 vols. Folio. Quarter calf over flowered paper covered boards. Worn but most of the plates are still in very good condition within some trimming only occasionally affecting any text under the plate. In all an interesting collection of engravings. 34 leaves containing about 225 plates one hand-colored. 1 vols. Folio. unknown books
1837STLL0043München, M. Lindauer [1837]. 16° (82 x 50 mm). 32 nn. Bll. Text, 12 Tafeln, 5 Bll. vakat; mit 12 Leerblättern durchschossen. Rotes OLdr. mit Blind- u. Goldpräg. sowie Voll-Goldschnitt. Mit Lasche, Schlaufe u. lederner Bleistiftschlaufe. Gering berieben. Fehlt bei Köhring. Die 12 altkolorierten Kupfertafeln zeigen die Kalendermonate mittels kindlicher Darsteller. Der 'Münchener Sackkalender' erschien von 1832-1865. Nach Genealogie u. Kalendarium (mit Wetterprognosen) enthält der vorliegende Jahrgang zwei lyrische Beiträge König Ludwigs, Charaden, Rätsel, ein detailliertes Verzeichnis der Briefpost- und Wagen-Verbindungen in Bayern, zuletzt sogar eine Übersicht über die wöchentliche Floßverbindung von München über Passau nach Wien. Mit einigen zeitrgen. Bleistift-Notizen auf den letzten Leerblättern.
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1946, 33 x 27 cm., ejemplar en rama con sus cubiertas originales en cartoné y estuche en cartoné (la tapa superior que cierra el estuche está desprendida), 2 h. + 315 págs. con grabados intercaldos + (Suite des eaux-fortes aux deux états de Pierre Watrin:) 59 láminas. (Ejemplar de la tirada de 60 ejemplares numerados en papel de hilo Velin, de una tirada total de 400 ejemplares).
New Turkish Original color photograph on positive paper. In original cover with its cartoon frame. Size: (all 50x60 cm - photograph 30x20 cm). Positive paper is a light-sensitive paper on which the image taken on the negative film was created in accordance with the original image. A short biography on verso. Signed by the photographer. 400 copies were printed. All copies were numbered. This is no. 196. Ara Güler was an Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers". In 1958, the American magazine company Time-Life opened a branch in Turkey, and Güler became its first correspondent for the Near East. Soon he received commissions from Paris Match, Stern, and The Sunday Times in London. After completing his military service in 1961, Güler was employed by the Turkish magazine Hayat as head of its photographic department. About this time, he met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud, who recruited him for the Magnum Photos agency, which he joined (though later withdrew from). He was presented in the British 1961 Photography Yearbook. Also in that year, he was accepted as the only Turkish member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) (today called the American Society of Media Photographers). The Swiss magazine Camera honored him with a special issue. In the 1960s, Güler's photographs were used to illustrate books by notable authors and were displayed at various exhibitions throughout the world. His works were exhibited in 1968 in 10 Masters of Color Photography at the New York Museum of Modern Art and at Photokina Fair in Cologne, Germany. His book Türkei was published in Germany in 1970. His photos on art and art history were used in Time, Life, Horizon, and Newsweek and publications of Skira of Switzerland. Güler traveled on assignment to Iran, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Kenya, New Guinea, Borneo, as well as all parts of Turkey. In the 1970s he photographed politicians and artists such as Indira Gandhi, Maria Callas, John Berger, Bertrand Russell, Willy Brandt, Alfred Hitchcock, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, and Pablo Picasso. Some critics consider his most renowned photographs to be his melancholic black and white pictures taken mostly with a Leica camera in Istanbul, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. He has exhibited frequently since then, and also had his work published in special supplements. International publishers have featured his photographs.
185515126Paris, Garnier-Frères, 1855 ; grand in-8 ; demi-veau glacé rouge sang, dos à faux-nerfs plats noirs à froid, caissons décorés et dorés aux petits fers dans un encadrement de filet doré, titre doré, plats de papier gauffré rouge (reliure de l'époque) ; VII, 528 pp., 18 planches hors-texte finement gravées sur acier d'après Allom, Beutley, Salmon et Leitch, très grande carte dépliante par L. Berthe, lithographiée et coloriée à la main.
198020836Newcastle: David Esslemont 1980; 1981; 1997. Limited editions. Paperback. Fine. 3 volumes. First vol.: xiv 1 24 pp. includes 22 numbered sheets with engravings printed on rectos only; second vol: xiv 1 32 pp. includes 28 numbered sheets with engravings printed on rectos only; third volume: 8 pp. pamphlet in blue printed wrappers accompanying 17 numbered loose sheets with engravings printed on rectos. All volumes unbound each in separate folder of natural linen and marbled boards housed together in matching slipcase with letterpress label. <br/><br/>Impressions from the original blocks of Thomas and John Bewick and Bewick apprentice Luke Clennell. Printed by hand on a Columbian press on BFK Rives Velin Cuve paper by David Esslemont. Limited editions: "John Bewick" No. 104/140; "Luke Clennell" No. 99/100; "Thomas Bewick Birds" one of 100 unnumbered copies. David Esslemont paperback
1807Flo543<p>Very good copy of two scarce Thomas Rowlandson titles bound together</p><p>With 14 of 16 copperplate engravings by Thomas Rowlandson in the first book and seven handcoloured copperplate engravings by Thomas Rowlandson in the second book</p><p><em><strong>Advice to Sportsmen</strong> Rural or Metropolitan Noviciates or Grown Persons with Anecdotes of the Most Renowned Shorts of the Day </em>bound with<em> <strong>The Pleasures of Human Life</strong> Investigated Cheerfully Elucidated Satirically Promulgated Explicity and Discussed Philosophically in a Dozen Dissertations on Male Female and Neuter Pleasures</em></p><p><em>Advice to Sportsmen </em>Thomas Tegg London 1809 by Marmaduke Markwell pseudonym b/w copperplate engravings drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson</p><p><em>The Pleasures of Human Life</em> Longman Hurst Rees and Orme London 1807 by Hilaris Benevolus pseudonym of John Britton English antiquary topographer author and editor 1771-1857 two handcoloured engraved title-page vignettes by W. Bond after illustrations by William Satchwell and Sir Charles Bell and five handcoloured copperplates drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson</p><p>Thomas Rowlandson 1757-1827 was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian and Regency eras noted for his ribald satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker his most famous works include <em>The Miseries of Human Life </em>1808 <em>The Tours of Dr. Syntax</em> 1812-21 <em>Microcosm of London</em> 1810 <em>The English Dance of Death</em> 1815 <em>Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome</em> 1815 <em>History of Johnny Quae Genus</em> 1822 <em>The English Spy</em> 1826 etc.</p><p>Both books scarce: <em>Advice to Sportsmen</em> held by the British Library and London University <em>Pleasures of Human Life</em> held held by the British Library King's College Cambridge Universities of London Manchester Nottingham Durham Southampton etc.</p><p>Bound in quarter green leather spine with raised bands gilt title on red leather label green marble boards rubbed book block solid. First book <em>Advice </em>with slight spotting and toning throughout 14 engraved plates with good dark impressions. Second book <em>Pleasures </em>in very good condition all text and seven handcoloured copperplates clean and bright with delicate and vivid colour.</p> Thomas Tegg; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme hardcover
168553234München Johann Hermann Gelder 1685. 4to. Later hcalf rebound spine worn but intact. Shaved close throughout loosing pagination number mainly at end. Some leaves with repairs some loosing text. Scattered brownspots. Traces of use. Some leaves frayed in margins. 22 pp. lacking titlepage.The first part paginated 1-1506 the second part ca. 400 pp. pagination shaved and ending abruptly. 14 engraved plates mounted and some with loss and defective. With around 70 large textengravings by Leonhard Heckenauer Jeremias Renner H.G. Bodenehr et al. <br/><br/><em>Richly illustrated by estimated Baroque-engravers such as Heckenauer Renner Bodenehr and others. </em> unknown
168553234(München, Johann Hermann Gelder, 1685). 4to. Later hcalf (rebound), spine worn but intact. Shaved close throughout, loosing pagination number mainly at end. Some leaves with repairs, some loosing text. Scattered brownspots. Traces of use. Some leaves frayed in margins. (22) pp., lacking titlepage.The first part paginated 1-1506, the second part ca. 400 pp. (pagination shaved and ending abruptly). 14 engraved plates, mounted and some with loss and defective. With around 70 large textengravings by Leonhard Heckenauer, Jeremias Renner, H.G. Bodenehr et al.
1646D6064Paris: de l'imprimerie de Louys Sevestre et chez Pierre Daret graveur ordinaire du Roy 1646. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Modern morocco gilt-stamped lettering in black and green leather spine labels; folio; two parts in one volume. Lacking the main title-p. and engraved plates introducing part 1 but otherwise complete with full-page engraved frontis. pp. 24 illustrated text poem author portrait then 103 large plates engraved on coppy by Pierre Daret accompanied by text comprising the substance of the work. Light stains and marginal browning to first 20 or so pages otherwise text is in excellent condition with nice bright plates and ornate chapter headings and illuminated initials. Incomplete and sold as is. <br/><br/> de l'imprimerie de Louys Sevestre (et) chez Pierre Daret graveur ordinaire du Roy hardcover
1948008728New York: Printed at The Spiral Press 1948. First edition. Paperback. This original Robert Frost 1948 Christmas Card features a trifecta of virtues. This is the first published appearance of this poem which had an unusual text history detailed further below. Of 2275 copies printed for 9 different names this is one of 375 printed for the poet himself. Last but certainly not least this is not only one of Frost's copies but is inscribed and signed by him. Following the first and second printed lines on the presentation page "This new poem brings Holiday Greetings from Robert Frost December 1948" Frost wrote "the Hendersons" and signed "Robert Frost". <br /> <br />Condition is near fine. The gray-green card wraps are clean bright and sharp cornered the binding staple firmly intact and uncorroded. We note only a tiny blemish above the title on the front cover and a trivial hint of wear to the spine heel. The contents are crisp and clean lightly age-toned but with no spotting or soiling. <br /> <br />With the permission of Frost and his publishers in 1929 the Spiral Press began printing an annual Robert Frost Christmas Card featuring one of his poems. The tradition continued until 1962 Frost's final Christmas. Each annual Christmas poem publication was printed with varying names on the title page to accommodate their being sent by various Frost publishers artists and important friends. This copy is one of those printed for Frost himself. <br /> <br />The 1948 Christmas poem "Closed for Good" has an unusual textual history. After it was first printed here it appeared in a number of other Frost collections including in the 1949 edition of Complete Poems and the 1954 1955 and 1963 editions of selected poems. In 1962 a revised version of Closed for Good was published as part of In the Clearing. There the poem is altered; the first stanza lines 1-6 is deleted And becomes They in line 7 and the word brush becomes spread in line 24. <br /> <br />This is clearly how Frost wanted the poem to evolve. In the Clearing was his final new collection and in 1958 Frost told Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant that he was trying out a new version of four stanzas. Nonetheless When Edward Connery Lathems edition of The Poetry of Robert Frost was published in 1969 the poem was presented in five stanzas and the two word changes restored to original. Given both Frosts manifestly deliberative use of words and the fact that the poem is a commentary on Frosts inheritance from the past and his legacy to the future the changes do not seem incidental. <br /> <br />By 1948 when this poem first appeared in his annual Christmas card and he inscribed this copy Robert Frost 1874-1963 had already entered the final decades of his life as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Half a decade had passed since he had won his still-to-this-day-unrivalled fourth Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This is all the more remarkable given that he did not publish his first volume of poetry until he was nearly 40 years old. <br /> <br />References: Crane B19; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB <br/><br/> Printed at The Spiral Press paperback
1959008606New York: Henry Holt and Company 1959. First edition first printing. Hardcover. This strikingly clean jacketed copy of the first edition first printing of Robert Frosts 1959 collection of Favorite Poems for Young Readers is signed by him "Robert Frost" on the title page just above his printed name. <br /> <br />This collection takes its title from the words repeated at the end of each stanza of this book's first poem "The Pasture" first published as the prefatory to North of Boston in 1914. Of this collection the publisher said Frost "has gathered a group of his poems to be read to and by young people. To Robert Frost a great-grandfather with a remarkable number of small friends this was a labor of love. Frost dedicated the volume to his mother Belle Moodie Frost who knew as a teacher that no poetry was good for children that wasnt equally good for their elders. Evoking Frosts famous poem Mending Wall Frosts friend Edward Hyde Cox 1914-1988 who contributes a Foreword to this volume said of Frost that he had never added a single stone to the wall that so often separates age from youth. Prevalent among the 51 poems herein is Frost's gently subversive inclination to write verse that is superficially accessible "lovely dark and deep" upon sounding. <br /> <br />This is a handsome book bound in orange-yellow linen cloth with a vignette of a bird on a fence post stamped in black on the lower right front cover corner and spine print stamped in black with a red acorn and leaf device between at the spine's center. The contents feature wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason and are bound with endpapers of heavy light gray wove paper and red and yellow head and tail bands. The dust jacket printed on beige laid paper features a wood engraving of birches spanning the lower front face spine and extending onto the rear face. The rear face prominently features Yousuf Karsh's famous portrait photograph of Frost. <br /> <br />Condition is truly fine in a truly fine dust jacket. The illustrated cloth binding is immaculately clean and bright with sharp corners and only the most trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are likewise pristine with no spotting soiling toning or previous ownership marks. "FIRST EDITION" is so stated on the title page verso. The contents retain a pleasingly stiff feel The dust jacket is crisp bright clean and entirely complete with no loss or tears and retaining the original "$3.00" upper front flap price. We note only a hint of wrinkling to the spine heel and a touch of soiling to the lower rear face. The jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. <br /> <br />Publisher's statements are often hyperbolic. In this case the dust jacket's front flap description of Robert Frost as "America's beloved poet ageless and for the ages" was and remains more accurate than advertising. Before this volume was published on 26 March 1959 Robert Frost 1874-1963 reached the age of eighty-five. His stature had risen to an apex arguably unequalled by any American poet since. Frost had long-since won all of his still-unrivaled four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry 1924 1931 1937 and 1943. He spent his final years as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration Kennedy January 1961. <br /> <br />Reference: Crane A39; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover
179946241Philadelphia: Robert Campbell 1799. First American edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Large octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". xxiii 1 297 1pp Vol. 1; 267 1 xxivpp Vol. 2. Modern brown cloth with gold lettered leather title label to spine. Engraved frontispiece to both volumes. Lacking the separately printed atlas as usual.<br /> <br /> First American edition of this official report on the British Macartney Embassy to China that took place between 1792 and 1794. It was written after the return to England by the Secretary to the mission Sir George Leonard Staunton 1st Baronet 1737-1801 based on his own observations and notes from other crewmembers including his twelve-year-old son Sir George Thomas Staunton 2nd Baronet. <br /> <br /> "The account offers rich insights into the beginnings of British Imperialism in China and thus makes it an important primary source for the historiography of Sino-Western relations. There is an academic dispute whether the account marks a sudden turning point in British-Chinese dynamics or reflects a slow and complex divergence. <br /> <br /> While the political and economic ambitions of the embassy failed the account by Staunton brought back detailed descriptions of and observations on the Chinese culture that were received with curiosity in the West and led to the commercial success of the book and the publication of several translations and subsequent writings on the Macartney Mission." From Wikipedia<br /> <br /> This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with eight stunning engravings by Samuel Seymour two in volume one six in volume two including the frontispieces as called for in the directions to the binder. The xxiv page appendix contains detailed tables and charts dealing with population and socio-economic information.<br /> <br /> Previous owner's stamp E. W. Sage at verso of first frontispiece and at upper margin of first title. Moderate and sporadic foxing / age-toning throughout. Binding in very good interior in good to very good condition. Robert Campbell hardcover
18101302843London: M. J. Godwin 1810. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes. Volume 1: xi 1 235 1 Volume 2: 4 261 3 pages. In Good Plus condition. Bound in patterned light brown cloth rebacked with brown cloth. The majority of previous spine preserved including back labels with gilt lettering. Some chipping and rubbing to boards. Includes 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces one for each tale told within some plates offset onto the facing page including the title page for volume two. Some foxing/spotting throughout. With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume one. shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book";<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels five volumes of short stories two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre children's stories and historical fiction most notably his Herries Chronicle series set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one a married policeman with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. wikipedia. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. M. J. Godwin hardcover
18101302843London: M. J. Godwin 1810. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavos 2 volumes; G; bound in patterned light brown cloth rebacked with brown cloth majority of previous spine preserved including back labels with gilt lettering; some chipping and rubbing to boards; with 20 engraved plates by Blake after drawings by Mulready including frontispieces one for each tale told within some plates offset onto the facing page including the title page for volume 2; Some foxing/spotting throughout; With the bookplate of English Novelist Hugh Walpole on front pastedowns of both volumes; small bookseller sticker to front pastedown of volume 1; Volume 1: xi 1 235 1 Volume 2: 4 261 3 pages; shelved case 0. Lamb says in his preface that he "wished to make these Tales easy reading for young children.for young ladies too it has been my intention chiefly to wrote because boys are generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are they frequently have the best of Shakespear by heart before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book";<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Hugh Walpole was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s with a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels five volumes of short stories two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre children's stories and historical fiction most notably his Herries Chronicle series set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s and played a cameo in the 1935 version of David Copperfield. As a gay man at a time when homosexual practices were illegal for men in Britain Walpole conducted a succession of intense but discreet relationships with other men and was for much of his life in search of what he saw as "the perfect friend". He eventually found one a married policeman with whom he settled in the English Lake District. Having as a young man eagerly sought the support of established authors he was in his later years a generous sponsor of many younger writers. He was a patron of the visual arts and bequeathed a substantial legacy of paintings to the Tate Gallery and other British institutions. wikipedia. 1302843. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. M. J. Godwin hardcover books