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John, W.D.and Jacqueline Simcox
English Decorated Trays 1550-1850
This is a very good hardcover copy in green polished boards with gilt titles to the front cover and spine. Very clean inside, just a bit of oxidizing to the front half-title page and rear endpapers, and a touch of stain to the bottom corner of the last few pages. Fine study on the various kinds of English decorated trays produced between 1550 and 1850. Sections on each type (gold, silver-gilt, silver, Sheffield Plate, Japanned, papier-mache, pottery and porcelain, wood and parquetry, and Turnbridge Ware trays). 455 illustrations including 6 in color. Large folio, 12.5" high X 10" wide, 213 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Rosenberg, Louis Conrad
Cottages Farmhouses and Other Minor Buildings in England of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket, with only light soil and wear. Small repaired chip to top of dust jacket. This survey of English architecture from the 15th through the 18th centuries, focusses on the background architecture, the smaller houses and farm buildings that were built by carpenters and local people. In particular Rosenberg looks at the Cotswold district and what is known as the "Cotswold type" of building, which dates from 1570 to 1700. Several examples also from Surrey, Sussex and Kent. Cotswold builders used limestone, the other counties used the material they had to hand, which was timber. So these styles involved extensive timber and plaster-work. Illustrated with black & white photos, line drawings and sketches. No text, just a brief foreword and notes to the plates, identifying location and materials. Folio, 13" high X 10" wide, 102 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Surtees, R.S.
Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities
This is a very good hardcover copy in red cloth with gilt titles and front cover device still bright. Spine faded, and a short closed split to the outside of the spine. Generally clean inside, but endpapers browned. Illustrated with 15 color plates by Henry Alken. 11" high X 8" wide, 180 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Hurrell, John Weymouth
Measured Drawings of Old Oak English Furniture
A 2 page preface and a short index to the subjects of the plates, and then 110 plates of careful drawings of not only old oak furniture, but also architectural woodwork, plasterwork, metalwork and glazing. Each plate identifies the subject of the drawing, for example:Old Oak Chest at Little Moreton Hall, or Pew framing in aisle west of nave at Astbury Church, Cheshire, and so forth. A good rebacked cloth copy with gilded titles, still bright, and nice bevelled green cloth boards, inside many plates are soiled, mostly in the margins, there are a few handstamps inside the front and back covers. The stamps are from "Schmeig & Kotzian", the famous furniture makers in New York in the first half of the 20th century, so this copy probably came from their studio. Large folio, 15" high X 11" wide. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Greenaway, Kate
Marigold Garden. Pictures and Rhymes
This is a very good hardcover copy of an early edition of this Kate Greenaway classic. With just light edge-wear to the olive green pictorial paper-covered boards, corners rubbed. Dark green cloth spine with title in dark letters. Very clean inside, no marks of any kind to text or plates. The paper is just lightly toned around the edges as usual with the earlier editions. Printed by Edmund Evans in London. 10" high X 7" wide, 56 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Robinson, Charles N.
Old Naval Prints: Their Artists and Engravers
This is a very good hardcover copy in dark blue cloth with gilt titles and front cover device and bevelled edges. Minimal scuffing to the covers. Inside is fresh and clean. 36 text pages + 96 illustrations including a number of tipped-in color plates. Almost the whole dust jacket is laid-in at the rear (in 2 pieces, the front panel & rear panel). Folio, 12" high X 10" wide.
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Poems. The Siddal Edition
These are two volumes from the Siddal Edition, volumes 2 & 3, handsomely bound in limp vellum covers, with titles in gilt, and exposed green silk bands. The volumes are very clean inside and just light soil outside. Both volumes with a small neat signature dated 1901 and also the owners' small elegant bookplate to the inside front cover of both volumes. 6" high X 5" wide, 135 & 140 pages. Engraved frontispieces by Arthur Ellis and prefaces by W.M.Rossetti in both volumes. Volume 2 published in 1900. Volume 3 published in 1901. Thess books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Fairholt, F.W.
Miscellanea Graphica: Representations of Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Remains in the Possession of Lord Londesborough
This is a very good hardcover copy in red and black marbled paper-covered boards and a brown cloth spine and corners. Recently de-accessioned from a small public library (non-circulating), and bearing a few of their marks including a painted label on the spine, bookplates inside the covers, handstamps and a perforation stamp to the title pages. Occasional handstamps to the plate description pages facing the plates. Plates clean. There are 30 monochrome plates and 12 chromolithographs including the title-page. The plates are quite beautiful and show objects like royal jewelry and old church artifacts, some armament and some antiquities like small public statuary and memorials. 13" high X 10" wide, 84 page text + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Jones-Davies, M.T.
Un Peintre De La Vie Londonienne Thomas Dekker
This is a very good softcover edition of the two volume set, with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. Just one tiny hole to the front endpaper of volume two, the result of a price sticker removal. Text in French. Extensive bibliography. Fold-out map, and several black & white plates. 10" high X 6" wide, 415 & 478 pages.
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Whistler, Laurence
Engraved Glass 1952-1958
This is a very good hardcover copy in an about very good dust jacket with light wear. The jacket is price-clipped and a bit worn at the spine tips. The book is made of polished white cloth boards with a gilt ruled design on the front cover, also a tipped-on black & white photo of one of the glasses. Black cloth spine gilt title. Very clean inside and out. Top page-edge gilt. 38 text pages + 88 full-page black & white plates of engraved glasses. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Larwood, Jacob
The Story of London Parks. Volume 2: St.James Park, The Green Park
This is a very good hardcover copy in blue marbled paper-covered boards and brown leather ruled in gilt. Spine with fine gilt title and decorations. Very clean inside and out. This is volume 2 only of this two volume set. No date but ca. 1870's. This volume is about St.James Park and the Green Park. With several hand-colored plates and many black & white figures in the text. 8" high X 5" wide, 272 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Taylor, Basil
The Prints of George Stubbs
This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear at the corners. Very clean outside and completely clean inside. Spine not creased, binding tight. This catalog documents 19 of Stubbs' prints, all illustrated in black & white + 13 black & white figures in the text. Text by Taylor. 8.5" high X 9.5" wide, 60 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Oreste Vaccari and Mrs. Enko Elisa Vaccari
A. B. C. Japanese-English Dictionary
This is a very good two volume hardcover set in the original publisher's red leather and red cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Volume 2 has its' dust jacket (complete but one chip), volume 1 doesn't. Very clean inside and out. A little light staining at the edges of the last few pages of volume 1. Some wear to edges and corners. Two pamphlets, one titled 'A.B.C. Kanji Alphabet and Radicals' and the other 'Latest Abbreviations of Kanji' laid in. Volume 1 is thumb indexed. This is the 2nd edition revised and enlarged. 10" high X 8" wide, 1812 pages + numerous related appendices and publisher's ads for other books on the Japanese language. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Honour, Hugh and Nelly Schargo Hoyt
Cabinet Makers and Furniture Designers
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This general survey covers European and American cabinet makers from the 16th century to the mid 20th century. From Jacques Androuet de Cerceau to Charles Eames. 32 color plates + 230 black & white illustrations. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 320 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Read, Herbert
Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings
This is a very good hardcover copy in a gray cloth binding. No dust jacket. Title page has been slightly cut down and re-attached to it's original position. Introduction by Herbert Read. The whole book was designed by Nicholson. 203 plates in color and black & white. Bibliography. Biographical note. Summary of text in French. Large 4to, 11 1/2" high X 9" wide, 32 pages of text + plate section.
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Jekyll's Ltd.
Second Exhibition of 16th-19th Century Oriental Carpets and Rugs
This is a very good softcover copy in the original printed wrappers with a color plate tipped on to the front cover. This is an English trade catalog (with prices) from the late 1920's. There are 436 catalogued Oriental carpets and rugs. Also Spanish rugs, Aubusson, Peru loom embroidered fabrics, etc. 3 full-page color plates tipped in + many black & white photographs of carpets. Maps. 11" high X 9" wide, 79 pages.This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.
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Hackenbroch,Yvonne
English and other Needlework Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Jacket rear cover has a chip. 182 illustrations in black & white and color. Examples of English work predominate, but also French, German, Swiss and American work as well. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 81 text pages + plates + 80 pages of notes and comments. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Newton, Eric;Batts, John Stuart
The Diary of English Art Critic Eric Newton: On a North American Lecture Tour in 1937
This is a fine hardcover copy in olive green boards with gilt titles, and almost no wear. Spine title a little faded. No jacket as issued. Completely clean inside and out. This is a modern reprint of Eric Newton's previously unpublished diary, now in the collection of the Manuscript Division of Canada's National Archives. 9" high X 6" wide, 107 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.
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Royal Commission on Historical Monuments.Volume 2: London West
This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Contains the material in the Royal Commission's survey of English antiquities and monuments that are in London. Very good condition, with the printed gray cloth covers toned but clean. Volume 2: London West (Excluding Westminster Abbey). This book is complete with the large folded map in the pocket in the inside rear cover present and in very nice condition. Color plate as frontispieces. Volume 2 has 235 black & white plates. Extensive index and glossary. 11" high X 9" wide, 194 text pages + plates. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Tarn, John Nelson
Five Per Cent Philanthropy: An Account of Housing in Urban Areas between 1840 and 1914
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. The jacket has one short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. An important study of Victorian working class urban housing throughout England. Hundreds of black & white photographs, engravings, town maps, aerial views, ground plans, details, etc. 12" high X 9" wide, 211 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Montgomery,Florence
Printed Textiles. English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. Bibliography. 11" high X 8.5" wide, 379 pages, 39 color plates and 428 black & white illustrations. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Georgacas, Demetrius J.
A Modern Greek English Dictionary Volume 1.( A )
This is a good only hardcover copy with light wear, some scuffing to back cover. Very clean inside and out but small pale stain to top page edges at the end of the book, affecting about 100 page edges, not affecting text. Stain is very faint but there. Volume 1 only. This volume devoted to the letter A. This is a Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in. 12" high X 9" wide, 809 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. Review Copy
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Georgian Furniture; Catalogue of English Ecclesiastical Embroideries; English Domestic Needlework; Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery
This is a very good collection of five catalogs published in softcover, by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and later privately bound together. Completely clean inside and out. Simply bound in dark gray cloth titled and ruled in gilt on the spine. The catalogs are: 1) Georgian Furniture by Ralph Edwards, 1947; 2) Catalogue of English Ecclesiastical Embroideries of the XIII to XVI Centuries, by Eric MacLagan,1930; 3) English Domestic Needlework of the XVI, XVII and XVIII Centuries by Preston Remington, New York 1945; 4) Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries by John Nevinson, 1928 and 5) a small catalog Flowers in English Embroidery 1947. All volumes illustrated with black & white plates (photographs), also 1 color plate frontispiece in the Nevinson catalog. A miscellany of five catalogs all on English textiles, embroideries and needlework. 10" high X 7" wide, 20 & 68 & 30 & 107 text pages + plates. Not ex-library, no previous owner marks. All softcovers bound in. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Francis Cheetham
English Medieval Alabasters: with a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum
This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. 338 illustrations including 8 color plates. Bibliography. Concordance. A beautiful copy of the first edition of this classic reference work. 12" high X 9" wide, 360 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Christie's
English and Continental Furniture (including Property from Culham Court Interiors by Chester Jones)
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's London January 26, 2007. Sale code: FLUX-7386. The sale included furniture from ineriors designed by Chester Jones for Culham Court. 226 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. 11" high X 8" wide, 162 pages.
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Christie's
Omar Ramsden: Silver from the David and Vivian Campbell Collection
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear whatsoever. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. This is the sale catalog for the David and Vivian Campbell collection of silver by Omar Ramsden and Alwyn Carr. Probably the largest collection ever assembled by private collectors, the work spans Ramsden's prolific and accomplished career. From his early work with Alwyn Carr of around 1900 to his mature works of the 1920's and 30's. 85 lots all illustrated in color. Many with extensive entries and bibliography. 10 1/2" high X 8" wide, 99 pages.
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Sotheby's
The Albert E. Wade Collection Parts 1 & 2
This is a very good two volume softcover set with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. These are auction catalogs for a two part sale, the Albert E. Wade Collection of 19th century, and early 20th century English art pottery. The collection includes Ruskin. Moorcroft, Martin, De Morgan, Doulton, Bernard Moore, Poole, and Minton among others. Wade began collecting in the 1960's. Part1, May 2, 2002. Sale number: W02828 "KILN", 406 lots. Part 2: November 8, 2002. Sale number: W02829 "ALBERT" 434 lots. Prices realized sheets only for Part 2. All lots illustrated in color. 8" high X 6" wide, 188 & 184 pages. Lots of explanatory material about the individual potters and firms, pottery shapes, etc. Small heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. This set will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Horne, Jonathan
A Catalogue of English Brown Stoneware from the 17th and 18th Centuries.
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. Another of Jonathan Horne's self published catalogs on English pottery. This one updates the earlier work, by Christopher Greene, on the Fulham Pottery of Kensington. Illustrated in color and black & white. 8" square, 48 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Gentle, Rupert
Brass Candlesticks
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. "This is a facsimile of a late eighteenth century English Brassfounder's Catalogue." Illustrated with 27 plates of line engravings. Modern facsimile of an 18th century English brass candlesticks trade catalog. 12" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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BUCKSTONE John Baldwin
Mischief-making. An interlude in one act printed from the acted copy, with remarks, biographical and critical to which are added a description of the costume, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage and the whole of the stage business as now performed at the Metropolitan Minor Thaetres embellished with a fine engraving
In 16 piccolo, pp. 26 con un'ill. all'antip. Qualche lieve alone alle cc. Br. rifatta. Pubblicazione di questo atto unico con interessanti indicazioni di messa in scena.
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Brockbank, J. P
Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
Former school library copy. (Studies in English Literature ; no. 6). eng
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Peacock, W (ed)
Selected English Essays
16mo, 543 pages, not illustrated, rear hinge repaired. eng
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Fry, Stephen and Hugh Laurie
3 Bits of Fry and Laurie
564 pages, illustrated, browning to page edges. eng
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Fry, Stephen and Hugh Laurie
3 Bits of Fry and Laurie
564 pages, illustrated, browning to page edges. eng
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Fry, Stephen and Hugh Laurie
3 Bits of Fry and Laurie
564 pages, illustrated. eng
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Craig, Patricia (comp. & intro)
The Penguin Book of British Comic Stories : An Anthology Humorous Stories from Kipling Wodehouse Beryl Bainbridge Julian Bar
524 pages, covers worn. eng
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Johnston, Johanna
The Life, Manners and Travels of Fanny Trollope : A Biography
271 pages, notes, bibliography, index, page edges browned. eng
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Fry; Laurie
3 Bits of Fry and Laurie
564 pages, illustrated. eng
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Austen, Jane
Northanger Abbey
Cover spine repaired. eng
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Dance, E. H.
A Constructive Note-Book of English History
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall eng
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Fisher, Stanley W.
The Decoration of English Porcelain: A Description of the Painting and Printing on English Porcelain of the Period 1750 to 1850
4to, 213 pages, illustrations. eng
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Cassell's Concise English Dictionary : Etymological and Pronouncing
12mo, 511 pages, not illustrated. Damage to the spine. Previous owner's inscription. eng
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Roget, Peter
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. Vol. 2
12mo, 371 pages, not illustrated. (Everyman's Library ; 631). eng
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Lane Fox, Robin
Variations on a Garden
8vo, 182 pages, illustrations, some in colour. eng
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Johnson, S. C.
Everybody's Pocket Dictionary of the English Language: Incorporating the Modern Words
24 mo, 256 pages, not illustrated. Covers are worn. Inscription of previous owner on front end paper dated 1955. eng
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Young, B. W. M. & P. D. R. Gardiner
Intelligent Reading
8vo, 200 pages, not illustrated. Name of a previous owner on the title page. eng
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Cox, Michael & Jack Adrian
The Oxford Book of Historical Stories
xvii + 441 pages, list of stories, notes and sources, remainder stamp on copyright page, jacket illustration by Dave Rose. eng
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Radford, Edwin; Smith, Alan
To Coin a Phrase : A Dictionary of Origins
128 pages, edited and revised by Alan Smith, ex public library with usual signs. eng
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Crossley-Holland, Kevin (ed.)
The Oxford Book of Travel Verse
xxxiv + 423 pages, notes and references, indexes. eng
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Gordon, Giles (ed.)
English Short Stories 1900 to the Present
366 pages. eng
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