‎English‎

‎George Cruikshank (1792-1878), English graphic artist:‎

‎Cruikshank Autograph Draft of Letter to his publishers Messrs Petter & Galpin George William Petter and Thomas Dixon Galpin associates of John Cassell.‎

‎Without date or place. 12mo 18 x 11 cm: 1 p. 15 lines of text. On aged paper with one light stain at centre. Corner on reverse tipped in onto card mount. No signature. Introducing 'Miss Napier who has just returned from the Cape of Good Hope - She has one or two M.SS which she wishes to submit to your notice . you will kindly assist the lady in her literary efforts'. Miss Napier's address is given as '4 Beech View Villas South Penge Park Penge Surrey SE.' It is perhaps significant that Sir George Thomas Napier 1784-1855 was Governor of the Cape of Good Hope from 1837 to 1843. He had two daughters: Sarah later Mrs Clarke and Cecilia later Mrs Bunbury. From the collection of the Chancery Lane auctioneer Sidney Hodgson 1864-1973 who has written on the mount 'My Father lived at 7 Beech View Villas South Penge Park when first married October 4 1865 his Fathers birthday'. Without date or place. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 9971

‎[Henry Labouchere [Henry Du Pre Labouchere] (1831-1912), English politician, writer and theatre owner, proprietor of the satiric‎

‎'Truth' Victorian satirical magazine edited by Horace Voules and owned by Henry Labouchère. Spoof share prospectus for the flotation of 'The British Empire Unlimited' with 'Memorandum of Association'.‎

‎'Supplement to "Truth" Christmas Number December 25 1898.' Printed by Love & Wyman Ltd. Great Queen Street London W.C. 4pp. folio. Originally on a bifolium but now with the two leaves separated and attached to a white stub from an album. In good condition on aged and lightly-spotted paper and trimmed at the head. Laid out in the conventional manner With the reverse of the final leaf printed in landscape so that the item can be folded into the customary package. The same page carries the 'Memorandum of Association' in small print including 24 lettered 'objects for which the Company is established' including 'v To acquire the right to levy taxes on Bicycles Piano-Organs Musical-Evenings Wagners "Ring" Flashing Street Advertisements Motor-Cars Lord Mayor's Shows Public Statues Matinee Hats Minor Poets "Bloomers" Light Tenors Professional Beauties Golfers Drawing-room Receiters and Money-lenders.' The document begins with an Iinitial list of directors and other company officers followed by the 'Prospectus' proper beginning: 'THIS Company has been formed to acquire as a going concern the old-established business of the BRITISH EMPIRE which deals in Colonies Armies Ironclads Law Making Treaty Ports Coaling Stations Post Offices Telegraphs Telephones Public Education Criminal Prosecutions Pioneering Fighting Massacring Civilising Concession Granting Prospecting Mission Founding &c. &c. and is believed to be the largest of its kind in the World.' The prospectus continues in the same vein with a list of the 'principal Foreign Agencies of the business' from Aden to Zanzibar adding: 'In addition to the properties enumerated above the Company will acquire from the Vendors "spheres of influence" in all parts of the world.' References follow to 'the important asset known as the Suzerainty of the South African Republic' 'the "Open Door" situate in the Chinese Empire' 'prospecting expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic Regions' and other international affairs. There is also a description of the state of the books by 'Messrs. Olde Turk & Co.' C. R. Harrison in his 'House of Harrison' 1914 explains the context of the satire: 'The twenty-second Christmas number of Truth devoted itself to a clever political satire entitled "The British Empire Unlimited." Truth is before all things Liberal in its politics and the aim of the satire was to poke fun and ridicule at the then Conservative Government the author especially attacking the Marquis of Salisbury who was Prime Minister on the ground of his wide Imperial Policy and satirizing his well-known ability for administration and attention to detail. The story represents Lord Salisbury bringing out a gigantic Commercial Company entitled "The British Empire Unlimited" to run the affairs of the nation on a commercial basis; he being Promoter and Director and the other members of the Government and celebrities of the day each having his allotted post. The prospectus like that of other commercial undertakings was full of bold advertisement and was prepared confidentially with a view to bursting on the public attention as a surprise.' 'Supplement to "Truth" Christmas Number, December 25, 1898.' Printed by Love & Wyman, Ltd., Great Queen Street, London, W.C. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 13777

‎Primary English Teaching Association‎

‎Special Places: Writing and Art By Children of the Murray - Darling Basin‎

‎Canberra A.C.T Australia: Murray - Darling Basin Commission 1993 The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. The last few pages have a small margin of water damage. 116 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Paperback. Very Good. Murray - Darling Basin Commission paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 176960 ISBN : 1875622071 9781875622078

‎Professor of English Shelton Waldrep‎

‎The Space of Sex: The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera the human body undergoes a metamorphosis becoming both landscape and building part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening <i>The Space of Sex</i> Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body looking and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole. <i>The Space of Sex</i>’s second half focuses on how sex gender and sexuality are represented in several recent films including Paul Schrader’s <i>The Canyons</i> 2013 Oliver Stone’s <i>Savages </i>2012 Steven Soderbergh’s <i>Magic Mike</i> 2012 Lars Von Trier’s <i>Nymphomaniac </i>2013 and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s <i>Don Jon </i>2013. Each of these mainstream or independent movies and several more are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography if not the pornography industry specifically into their plot. According to Waldrep the utopian elements of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as both a utopian impulse—the desire to have sex on the screen to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in shame—with a mixed feeling about pornography itself with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words sex in our contemporary world still does not come without compromise. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781501377365 ISBN : 1501377361 9781501377365

‎Associate Professor of English John Lowe‎

‎Medical missions‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9783741169144 ISBN : 3741169145 9783741169144

‎Arthur English‎

‎A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law: Vol 1‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781587980664 ISBN : 1587980665 9781587980664

‎Oliver Spurgeon English‎

‎Fathers Are Parents Too: A Constructive Guide to Successful Fatherhood‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781258256203 ISBN : 1258256207 9781258256203

‎English Bradshaw‎

‎The King's Shadow‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781456415341 ISBN : 1456415344 9781456415341

‎Cambridge English Language Assessment (Author)‎

‎Cambridge English Advanced 1 for Revised Exam from 2015 Student's Book with Answers: Authentic Examination Papers from Cambridge English Language Assessment CAE Practice Tests Not Available‎

‎<p>New. Never used book</p>‎

Bookseller reference : 1107653517 ISBN : 1107653517 9781107653511

‎(HERBALS, ENGLISH). HILL, SIR JOHN‎

‎THE FAMILY HERBAL‎

‎Bungay: C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersley 1812. Sixth Edition. 215 x 133 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4". viii xl 376 pp. <br/> Sympathetic light speckled half calf over marbled paper boards raised bands red and black morocco labels. With 54 hand-colored plates including frontispiece illustrating plants discussed in the text. A couple of ink corrections in a contemporary hand. Johnston 760. â—†Variable foxing with perhaps a fourth of the text noticeably foxed but the plates almost entirely unaffected a few stains to the gutter from pressed flowers now absent other trivial defects but a perfectly readable copy with quite attractive plates in a pleasing virtually unworn retrospective binding.<br/> <br/> First published as "The Useful Family Herbal" in 1764 this popular work provides a description of British plants helpful for at-home remedies. The highlight of the volume is the well-drawn and richly colored plates which Nissen tells us were drawn by the important natural history illustrator Sydenham Edwards 1769-1819 whose work DNB describes as "among the best scientific illustrations of the day." Hill 1716-75 was a perplexingly self-destructive personality who nevertheless managed to produce useful books. He was a surgeon an unsuccessful actor and an apothecary who made considerable money selling quack medicines; he published several books including some botanical works of substantial value like the present one and a steady series of usually abusive periodicals; he was constantly scheming to make money and to raise his reputation above its rightful altitude; and he was always embroiled in controversies because of his ungovernable proclivity toward impertinence and derision as well as his overweening vanity. This last quality together with Hill's direct attacks on Garrick and his friends prompted the latter's memorable epigram reflecting the doctor/actor's reputation among his detractors: "For physic and farces his equal there scarce is:/ His farces are physic his physic a farce is." After publishing some not insignificant scientific writings including a supplement to Chambers' "Dictionary" Hill tried to obtain admission to the Royal Society but his unprincipled character blocked any hope of membership. Despite his reputation "The Family Herbal" offered here in its sixth edition was obviously viewed as serious and significant enough to be reprinted a half century and later after its first appearance. C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersley unknown‎

Bookseller reference : ST19567-094

‎By M. Rollin. Done into English from French byR. Lynam AM. A. M.‎

‎Encyclopaedia of Great Ancient Civilisations. Set in 15 Volumes‎

‎IMPACT Global Publishing Inc. USA. Hardcover. New. IMPACT Global Publishing Inc. USA hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : Cosmo-9781619520066 ISBN : 1619520060 9781619520066

‎Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874), English poet writing under pseudonym 'Barry Cornwall':‎

‎Bryan Waller Procter poet as Bary Cornwall Autograph Letter signed 'B. W. Proctor' to 'Mr C Schofield'.‎

‎'32 Weymouth Street 16 August 1863'. One page 12mo. Very good. Docketed in pencil at head. 'I have no knowledge of Mr Tupper presumably the poetaster Martin Farquhar Tupper 1810-89 or of his address. I was in hopes that the madness of collecting autographs had subsided - but I am sorry to perceive from your letter that this is not yet the Case.' '32 Weymouth Street | 16 August 1863'. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5240

‎Countess Clara Gigliucci [nee Clara Novello] (1818-1908), English soprano, daughter of Ivor Novello:‎

‎Countess Clara Gigliucci nee Clara Novello 1818-1908 English soprano Autograph Note Signed 'Clara Gigliucci nata Novello' 'To - Wright Esqre.' With Times obituary and another.‎

‎'Fermo. Marche August 24th. 1863.'. One page octavo. Very good on lightly aged paper with embossed blue ink monogram at head. 'Dear Sir My Sister Isabella just arrived tells me you desire my autograph I have great pleasure in complying with your flattering request. .' The blank second leaf of the bifolium is carefully attached to a larger piece of neatly-docketed paper and has the two newspaper cuttings partially laid down on it. The short Times obituary dated 17 March 1908 states that 'She must surely have been the last person alive to whom Charles Lamb addressed a poem'. The other obituary equally short is unattributed. 'Fermo. Marche | August 24th. 1863.' unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5641

‎Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960), English novelist and dramatist:‎

‎Eden Phillpotts 1862-1960 English novelist and dramatist Autograph Note Signed to unnamed male correspondent.‎

‎25 May 1904; on letterhead 'ELTHAM TORQUAY.'. One page 12mo. On aged ruckled paper with traces of previous mount adhering to reverse. Reads 'Dear Sir it is a pleasure to grant your request. Very faithfully yours Eden Phillpotts.' Four-line biographical newspaper cutting in bottom left-hand corner. 25 May 1904; on letterhead 'ELTHAM, TORQUAY.' unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5250

‎Katharine Sarah Macquoid nee Gadsden 1824 1917 voluminous English novelist:‎

‎Katharine Sarah Macquoid novelist Autograph Letter Signed 'Katharine S. Macquoid' to Seymour C. J. Freeman-Matthews.‎

‎28 April 1900; on letterhead 'The Edge Tooting Common.'. One page 12mo. Very good. 'I see that to-day is mail day for the Cape I therefore send you at once the signature for which you ask. I wonder how you discovered my address.' Accompanied by biographical cutting. 28 April 1900; on letterhead 'The Edge, Tooting Common.' unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5275

‎William Agnew (1825-1910), English art dealer, director of the magazine 'Punch' from 1872:‎

‎William Agnew 1825-1910 English art dealer Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Chapman about Autographs.‎

‎8 October 1865; on monogrammed letterhead. Three pages 12mo. Very good on lightly aged paper with slightest trace of previous mount adhering to blank verso of second leaf of bifolium. He has 'looked out' and is sending 'a few interesting Autographs' and would have sent them before had he not been 'a great invalid all summer'. 'I will get Miss Chapman a good collection of the autographs of literary men. I am now very closely connected with Punch & other publications and shall have frequent opportunities.' Agnew's family as partners in Bradbury & Agnew were for many years the publishers of 'Punch'. 8 October 1865; on monogrammed letterhead. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5303

‎Jonathan Mawson Denwood (born c1853?; died c1931?), English writer in the dialect of his native Cumbria: c. 18 c. 19‎

‎Jonathan Mawson Denwood writer in dialect Autograph Note Signed to unnamed male correspondent.‎

‎72 Kirkgate Cockermouth; 8 August 1931. One page quarto. Good on lightly aged paper. Some offsetting and smudging from Denwood's folding of letter. Reads '72 Kirkgate Cockermouth Aug 8 - 1931 Jonathan. Mawson. Denwood Dear Sir I send you autograph. I cannot write further At the moment I can scarcely hold a pen.' Image on application. 72 Kirkgate, Cockermouth; 8 August 1931. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5272

‎Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (1888-1958), English writer, niece of Alfred, Lord Tennyson:‎

‎F. Tennyson Jesse Autograph Letter Signed "F. Tennyson Jesse" to unnamed female correspondent.‎

‎Undated; on letterhead '46 GORDON PLACE CAMPDEN GROVE KENSINGTON W.'. One page octavo. Good on lightly rucked paper with one line a little blurred by damp. She would have replied sooner to her correspondent's 'courtesy in enclosing a stamped envelope' but feels sure she will forgive her when she tells her that she has 'been in constant attendance at a hospital owing to my Father having met with an accident. I can't think what good my autograph will do anyone but still -'. Undated; on letterhead '46, GORDON PLACE, | CAMPDEN GROVE, | KENSINGTON, W.' unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5257

‎Charles Warner (Charles John Lickfold, 1846-1909), English actor:‎

‎Charles Warner actor Autograph Note Signed.‎

‎1902; date not stated. One page roughly four and a half inches by seven wide. Grubby and with one inch closed tear at foot caused by removal from mount traces of which and of another autograph adhere to reverse. Reads ' "How good it is to live even at the worst" "Christ in Hades" by Stephen Phillips signed Charles Warner 1902'. Small neat green circle containing number in bottom right-hand corner. 1902; date not stated. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 5247

‎George Bethune English‎

‎The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781977860224 ISBN : 1977860222 9781977860224

‎Lucy English‎

‎The Book of Hours‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. The Book of Hours is a contemporary re-imagining of a Medieval book of hours. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781911570370 ISBN : 1911570374 9781911570370

‎David English‎

‎Expat Entrepreneurs in Argentina: Ten Success Stories‎

‎Paperback. New. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : B9781492100683 ISBN : 1492100684 9781492100683

‎English Standard Version‎

‎ESV Compact Bible Exclusive Edition - Charcoal Crown‎

‎imitation_leather. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1433516071.G ISBN : 1433516071 9781433516078

‎HeubMacLean, Charles- English Editor‎

‎Zeitschrift Der Internationalen musik- Gesellschaft‎

‎Leipzig: Druck Und Verlag Von Breitkopf & Hartel. Very Good. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Top edge gilt. Spine ends and corners worn. Front hinge cracked with first page clipped. Years 1913-1914.; Octavo . Druck Und Verlag Von Breitkopf & Hartel hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : m857547ck1

‎Published in 1898, the Same Year as the First English Edition in Book Form -- The First Book by Wells Published in Russia‎

‎First Russian Edition of H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds‎

‎<b>Borba mirov The War of The Worlds</b><br /><br />Large octavo 7 x 9.5 inches 91 pages; covers worn stamp of tsarist era Tbilisi High School and other library markings on title page pages toned and brittle one leaf detached but present.<br /><br />Translation by K.K Tolstoy. Off-print from <i>Novyi Zhurnal Innostrannoi Literatury</i> where the novel was printed serially earlier in 1898. Later in 1898 this translation was published by <i>Novyi Zhurnal</i> in a smaller more conventional book format. At the end of 1898 a different translation was published in a different periodical and then in book format. WorldCat locates this translation only in the smaller format a single copy in Poland.<br /><br /><b>War of the Worlds</b> has possibly had more influence on Russian literature and culture than any other novel in the English language. At the time of the Revolution Wells was among the most popular foreign writers in Russia -- second only to Verne. Planetary invasion is a perennial theme in Russian science fiction with War of the Worlds firmly at the root. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 18941137