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Bookseller reference : 18019

‎. n/a, 8 Vo. This photograph of Sir Henry Lytton dressed for the role of The Duke of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers is signed in the bottom right hand corner in ink "Yours ever, Henry Lytton". Fine/N/a. Yes.‎

Bookseller reference : 18177

Bookseller reference : 13697

Bookseller reference : 13501

‎. Full Calf Silver Mounted, 70mm x 55mm. A very attractive example of 19th Century Florentine book souvenir market. The book is cleverly mediaevalised, with a completely unlettered leather binding with exaggerated raised bands on the spine, and disproportionately large silverplated mounts on each corner of the boards, and a clasp over the foredge. The endpapers are typical 19th century Florentine floral paper. The contents are entirely unmarked apart from a date, 1890 and the name Cleopatra on one leaf, both in pencil. Fine/N/a.‎

Bookseller reference : 17959

Bookseller reference : 17588

‎This is the booklet produced by the committee of the James Joyce's Tower project.Loosely laid in is a typed letter signed from Donagh MacDonagh,the chairman of the committee,to the "Department of English Literature" at Balliol College,Oxford.The purpose of the fund raising was to establish the Martello Tower at Sandycove as a Joyce Museum,& later as a Joyce study centre.The booklet is illustrated with highly evocative monochrome photographs.Donagh MacDonagh was of course himself a distinguished literary figure in Ireland.‎

Bookseller reference : 22642

Bookseller reference : 17742

‎Dublin, [James Joyce's Tower]. 1962, 1st. (ISBN: 0297817094) Pub's Dec Wrappers, Octavo. This is the booklet produced by the committee of the James Joyce's Tower project.Loosely laid in is a typed letter signed from Donagh MacDonagh,the chairman of the committee,to the "Department of English Literature" at Balliol College,Oxford.The purpose of the fund raising was to establish the Martello Tower at Sandycove as a Joyce Museum,& later as a Joyce study centre.The booklet is illustrated with highly evocative monochrome photographs.Donagh MacDonagh was of course himself a distinguished literary figure in Ireland. Fine/N/a.‎

Bookseller reference : 22642 ISBN : 0297817094

‎A very attractive example of 19th Century Florentine book souvenir market. The book is cleverly mediaevalised, with a completely unlettered leather binding with exaggerated raised bands on the spine, and disproportionately large silverplated mounts on each corner of the boards, and a clasp over the foredge. The endpapers are typical 19th century Florentine floral paper. The contents are entirely unmarked apart from a date, 1890 and the name Cleopatra on one leaf, both in pencil.‎

Bookseller reference : 17959

‎This photograph of Sir Henry Lytton dressed for the role of The Duke of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers is signed in the bottom right hand corner in ink "Yours ever, Henry Lytton".‎

Bookseller reference : 18177

Bookseller reference : 13011

Bookseller reference : 15674

‎"Il Bacio" (Luigi Arditi)‎

‎A little light foxing in the upper left hand corner.‎

Bookseller reference : 18382

‎"Polish Tenor" (Jean De Reszke)‎

Bookseller reference : 18383

‎[Album Containing Signed Concert Programmes]‎

‎This album was carefully compiled by a music loving resident of Bath in the 1950's, and contains a quantity of signed programmes, largely of piano recitals. There are programmes signed by Vitebsky; Claudio Arrau; Denis Matthews; Dennis Brain; Rawicz and Landauer; Mierowski; Rosalyn Tureck; Moiseiwitsch; Irene Scharrer; Leff Pouishnoff; Elena Kudian; Marie Louise Castillo; Eileen Joyce; Solomon; Jose Iturbi; Millicent Silver; Leo Halle; Campoli; Peter Katin; Joseph Weingarten and Shura Cherkassky. In some cases, there are more than one programme signed by some of these artists. Additionally, there are many newspaper review clippings which are reviews and accounts of many of the concerts. The total ensemble provides a fascinating glimpse into the musical activities of a small, if alert provincial city half a century ago. For example, Claudio Arrau drew an audience of thirteen hundred people: would that many turn out for a piano recital nowadays in Bath ? The downside, if such it be, of this album is that all the programmes and newspaper clippings are lightly tipped in. It would be nice to think that the album would not be broken.‎

Bookseller reference : 18930

‎[Reproduction Photograph of Saint-Saens at the piano]‎

‎This greetings card was James Harding's Christmas card for either 1965 or 1966 and reproduces a photograph of Saint-Saens at the piano at his final concert in 1913. James Harding has written "Inevitable that this year's Christmas card should be devoted to the old man !" Harding had recently published his widely acclaimed book "Saint-Saens and His Circle". The card is disfigured by some unsightly blotches, but mercifully none of them appear on the actual image.‎

Bookseller reference : 21305

‎A Collection of Catches,Canons,Glees,Duets &c.....‎

‎Two volumes are here bound in one.Copac locates only one copy,in Glasgow,which has four volumes bound in one,& suggests a date of 1825.Volume one contains 91 items in 112 pages;Volume 2 continues from item 92 to 173,again covering 112 pages.The leather is worn,chipped & chafed.‎

Bookseller reference : 22636

‎A Collection of Songs and Madrigals By English Composers of the Close of the Fifteenth Century‎

‎London, Bernard Quarritch. 1891, 1st. Pubs Cloth, Folio. This volume was prepared for Members of The Plainsong and Mediavel Society, and was issued in 300 copies of which this is No. 154. Loosely laid in, in a wallet folder are the madrigals in the original ligatures. Corners and head of spine slightly worn, otherwise an excellent copy. Very Good/N/a.‎

Bookseller reference : 17261

‎A New Guide to the City of Gloucester....‎

‎The book is not dated,but 1817 is the latest year mentioned.The frontispiece is a folding engraving of the cathedral.The title page refers to "the new County Hall,the saline chalybeate spa",coach & waggon times,Post Office regulations & routes through the county.There is heavy foxing to one gathering,but otherwise the book is clean internally.‎

Bookseller reference : 21835

‎A Short History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry: Its Formation and Services 1702-1938‎

‎Plymouth, Underhill. 1939, 1. Publisher's Cloth, 12mo. Fine.‎

Bookseller reference : 14018

‎A Short History of the Organs of Wells Cathedral‎

Bookseller reference : 17031

‎A Tour of Wiltshire Churches‎

‎Dorchester, Longmans (Dorchester). 1. Pub's Dec Wraps, 4to. Vg/N/a.‎

Bookseller reference : 19096

‎An Engagement Book for 1960‎

‎A rather charming promotional offering,with twelve full page coloured illustrations,& a coloured vignette at the head of each month.The art editor was John Ryder.The recipient of this little gift was Sue - who seems to have had no engagements in 1960 ! Every page is empty.‎

Bookseller reference : 21679

‎An Historical Account Of The Curiosities Of London And Westminster, in Three Parts‎

‎The book contains a general title, which mentions each of the three parts, and then each of the three parts has its own title page, the Tower of London section is dated 1755, and the other two sections, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral, are both dated 1753. Internally, the book is in very good condition, with some occasional light spotting, and with the upper corner broken on the last leaf, but with no loss of text. The upper joint is entirely broken, and the lower joint and hinge are tender. A previous owner has stabilised the damage to hinges and joints with an early version of archival tape, but the volume really needs to be recased. The head and the foot of the spine are chipped with loss.‎

Bookseller reference : 19180