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1803ref. 373879Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for Thomas & Andrews and Manning & Loring 1803. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. Contemporary calf covers with gilt roll tool border flat spine gilt in six compartments marbled endpapers gilt roll tool along the turn-ins minor wear and rubbing. Minor browning staining and offsetting. Bookbinder's ticket on front pastedown T. H. Burnton Exeter NH. 333 1; 287 1pp. Titles within ornamental border. 8vo. A lovely early American binding by T. H. Burnton in which the ornamental border of the title is likely used as inspiration for the tooling on the covers. According to Papantonio and Spawn & Kinsella the binder T.H. Burnton was active in New York from 1800-6 and later removed to Providence RI; neither note a sojourn in Exeter NH. Shaw 3814. On Burnton see Papantonio 40 and Spawn & Kinsella 316 Printed by Manning & Loring, for Thomas & Andrews, and Manning & Loring unknown books
1791ref. 373866Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf panelled in gilt and blind spine with raised bands in six compartments tooled in gilt on either side of each band red and black morocco labels expert repairs. Moderate to heavy foxing repaired tears to text leaves and plates. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution" Wright. Dubbed "the Baskerville of America" by Benjamin Franklin Isaiah Thomas issued a folio and a quarto Bible almost simultaneously. Published immediately after the ratification of the Bill of Rights the folio edition arguably his magnum opus opens with a note from Thomas situating it as an important accompaniment to this national development: "The civil authority hath set an example of moderation and candor to all Christians by securing equal privileges to all; and it must be their ardent and united wish independently of foreign aid to be supplied with copies of the sacred Scriptures the foundation of their Religion - a religion which furnishes motives to the faithful performance of every patriotic civil and social duty." In preparing the work Thomas compared the language of "not less than eight" significant English Bibles most but not all of which were printings of the King James translation and then had every page of the present edition examined by "the Clergymen of Worcester and . other capable persons." In keeping with his patriotism all the plates are by American engravers an expensive undertaking: the majority by Joseph Seymour with others by John Norman Samuel Hill and Amos Doolittle. It is unusual to find complete copies with all fifty plates. The plate list often lacking is present in this copy. The work was issued either in one volume or in two volumes as here the latter including an additional general title page for the second volume bound in as a cancel. A celebrated American Bible from one of the young country's most important printers. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497; Sabin 5172; Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88 Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1924ref. 371052London: Nonesuch Press 1924. Deluxe edition one of 75 copies on Arnold unbleached rag paper no. XXXIV. First vol. printed ad hominem for H. Malcom Hubbard with ink note below "Transferred to Ion Buchanan Pritchard F. Meynell. Each volume with an engraved title page head piece and tail piece by Stephen Gooden. 5 vols. Folio. Full brown crushed niger by Best with gilt rule borders and spine relatively unadorned raised bands a.e.g. on the rough. Book ticket of Philip Duschnes. Ex-library with labels from General Theological Seminary Rare Book Room to front paste-downs of each volume. Faintest traces of rubbing to board edges spines of vols. I & 3 slightly darkened from smoke interior fine. GOODEN Stephen. Deluxe edition one of 75 copies on Arnold unbleached rag paper no. XXXIV. First vol. printed ad hominem for H. Malcom Hubbard with ink note below "Transferred to Ion Buchanan Pritchard F. Meynell". Each volume with an engraved title page head piece and tail piece by Stephen Gooden. 5 vols. Folio. One of the great early books of the Nonesuch Press and Stephen Gooden's second book commission after the Nonesuch Anacreon of 1923. The copies on fine paper were offered at 5 guineas bound in full niger or full vellum. The name of the subscriber was printed in the first volume; this copy printed for railway magnate H. Malcolm Hubbard bears a note from Francis Meynell recording the transfer to Ion Buchanan Pritchard another railway executive. Uncommon and attractive. Dreyfus 21 and 20. The Nonesuch Century 21 and 20. Ransom Selective Check Lists pp. 163-164 nos. 20 and 21. Rumball-Petre 125 "a beautiful work of a famous press". Tomkinson p. 136 nos. 19 and 19a Nonesuch Press unknown books
1791ref. 373974Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition. 2 engraved plates complete. 1310pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT accomplished by Thomas and Lydia Newton Bond. Royal quarto. Contemporary calf spine with raised bands ruled in gilt on either side of each band. Foxing and toning front endpaper detached. First Edition. 2 engraved plates complete. 1310pp. Separate OT and NT titles. The family register between the Apocrypha and NT accomplished by Thomas and Lydia Newton Bond. Royal quarto. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution" Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88. Thomas' quarto bible was published in three distinct issues: with 2 copperplates only i.e. frontispieces to the Old and New Testaments as here; with two copperplates and John Brown's 89-page concordance in the rear; and the rarest and most deluxe form with 48 copperplates and the concordance. A very difficult edition to find in a contemporary unsophisticated binding. Evans 23185; Hills 30; ESTC W4496 Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1790ref. 374001New York: Hugh Gaine 1790. 336pp. Text printed in two columns printer's device on the title. 12mo. Contemporary sheep minor wear. Tear to front endpaper else very good. 336pp. Text printed in two columns printer's device on the title. 12mo. The second NT printed in New York preceded only by the prior edition by Gaine dated 1789 known in but one extant example at NYPL and evidently from the same setting of type as this edition. The complete Bible was not published in New York until 1792. Evans 22359; Hills 27; ESTC W4679 Hugh Gaine unknown books
1585ref. 372230London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1585. Text in black letter in two columns. General title and calendar printed in red and black titles within woodblock frames woodcut map on leaf following NT NT-O3 woodcut initials. 17 536 137pp. New Testament title page present. Lacks preliminary blank lacks the general title with a 1588 title supplied in its place lacks NT leaf V1 Titus 2:12 through Hebrews 1:10 preliminaries bound out of order. Folio 15-5/8x10-1/2 inches. Nineteenth century dark purple morocco covers blocked in blind marbled endpapers red edges. Repairs to voids in preliminaries and several leaves in the beginning of Genesis general title supplied and mounted restoration to the terminal five leaves with some losses else scattered minor staining and edge tears. Scattered early marginalia including an early female ownership signature on page 536. Bookseller's label on front endpaper J. Whereat Weston Super Mare. Text in black letter in two columns. General title and calendar printed in red and black titles within woodblock frames woodcut map on leaf following NT NT-O3 woodcut initials. 17 536 137pp. New Testament title page present. Lacks preliminary blank lacks the general title with a 1588 title supplied in its place lacks NT leaf V1 Titus 2:12 through Hebrews 1:10 preliminaries bound out of order. Folio 15-5/8x10-1/2 inches. The Bishops' version the translation overseen by Matthew Parker. ESTC S156; Herbert 188; STC 2143. Provenance: General Theological Seminary bookplates Deputies of Christopher Barker unknown books
1638ref. 371824Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 1638. Large paper copy. Ruled in red throughout. Roman letter in two columns. Engraved title page within architectural border featuring Biblical characters a vignette of the 'Last supper' and printer's device. 12 642 151 3 202pp. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Book of Common Prayer. 104pp. And with following the Bible: Whole Book of Psalmes. 8 1 2-90 10 pp. Folio 17 x 11 inches. Contemporary black morocco gilt covers panelled with roll tool borders and central arabesque design in gilt flat spine gilt with marching morocco labels gilt edges minor wear at joints lower corners bumped. Provenance:Webb early inscription on the front pastedown; Maggs Brothers item 827 in unidentified mid-20th century catalogue clipping laid in; General Theological Seminary bookplate. Large paper copy. Ruled in red throughout. Roman letter in two columns. Engraved title page within architectural border featuring Biblical characters a vignette of the 'Last supper' and printer's device. 12 642 151 3 202pp. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Book of Common Prayer. 104pp. And with following the Bible: Whole Book of Psalmes. 8 1 2-90 10 pp. Folio 17 x 11 inches. This edition contains the first major revisions of the King James version standardising the use of italics and altering several readings. "This remained the standard text until the publication of Dr. Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762" Herbert. A lovely example bound in contemporary English black morocco and measuring 430x280mm is considerably larger than the dimensions cited by Darlow & Moole 402 375x234 mm and Darlow & Moole 403 for a "large thick paper" copy 397x270 mm. Bible: Herbert 520; Darlow & Moule 402 and 403; ESTC S123371; STC 2nd ed 2331. Common Prayer: Griffiths 1638:2; STC 2nd ed. 16410; ESTC S902. Psalms: STC 2nd ed. 2682; ESTC S122380 Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel unknown books
1915ref. 370851Denver: Privately printed 1915. First edition. 19 photographic illustrations in text including title-page vignette of Wyoming Sagebrush. 76pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green wrappers stapled. Some chips to wrappers spine perished. Bookplate on the inside front wrapper. First edition. 19 photographic illustrations in text including title-page vignette of Wyoming Sagebrush. 76pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An interesting narrative of the author's childhood memories of life among the Indians of Wyoming mainly at Fort Washakie. Well illustrated with photographic illustrations of Shoshone and Flat Head Indians Chief Washakie scenes on the prairies etc. Mrs. English's father was an army officer in the 7th Cavalry and so most of her childhood was spent at remote western military posts. Huntington 292; Graff 1251; Kaplan 1817 Privately printed unknown books
2003ref. 203281New York: Steidl / Whitney Museum 2003. First edition thus. Hardcover. 163 pages. A reissue edition of her classic first book. Features text by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English. Includes 78 black and white images and an audio cd that features an interview with Meiselas in 1977. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Meiselas on the title page and dated in 2004. A lovely copy. Steidl / Whitney Museum unknown books
1754ref. 95186Erlangen 1754. Hardcover. Poor. This volume only of 3. 74 of 76 plates and maps plus 2 unnumbered facsimiles. Old full leather. 25 cm. Backstrip almost entirely detached along rear joint. Lacks 2 plates numbers I and XXXIII. Old ownership stamp Marie Steiger Zamoyska and a couple of others covered up. German text. Pococke did put a nose on his illustration of the Sphinx and had some other inaccuracies. Despite such errors Pococke's book is generally regarded as one of the best early accounts of travel in the Middle East. This is not the finest of copies but it is an inexpensive and serviceable copy of the 1754 German edition of the Pococke's Egyptian volume. hardcover books
1755ref. 95187Erlangen 1755. Hardcover. Poor. This volume only of 3. 63 of 67 plates and maps numbered XXXVII-CIII. Old full leather. 25 cm. General wear. Cover almost entirely detached at front hinge. Lacks 4 plates or maps numbers XLIII LIX LXII and LXIII. Old ownership stamp Marie Steiger Zamoyska and a smaller hard to deciper circular stamp. German text. Pococke did put a nose on his illustration of the Sphinx in the Egyptian volume and had some other inaccuracies. Despite such errors this is generally regarded as one of the best early accounts of travel in the Middle East. While this is not the finest of copies it is an inexpensive and serviceable copy of the 1755 German edition of the Pococke's volume on travel in Ottoman-controlled 18th century Greece including Thrace and elsewhere in Europe. hardcover books
1915ref. 90590New York London Boston: G. Schirmer 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation no later printing information. Paperback. Very Good. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31cm. Vover illustration scuffed with some crease marks. Backstrip chipped at bottom and appears to have been reglued for four or five centimeters above above the chipping. Tape mark next to bottom of backstrip on both sides. Contents sound and clean. Johnson had great success as a lyricist early in the century but found chamged tastes when he attempted a return to song-writing in 1914. He did successfully translate the libretto for this opera which the Metropolitan Opera performed in 1916. Granados the Spanish Romantic composer of the piano pieces from which this opera was adapted attended the premiere but drowned in the English channel upon his return to Europe when a German submarine torpedoed the boat on which Granados was travelling. The libretto appears throughout the music in this edition with Granados's Spanish text immediately above Johnson's English translation. The libretto was also published separately by Schirmer in 1915 as a smaller-format 42-page pamphlet in their series of opera-librettos with Granados's Spanish text and Johnson's English translation appearing side by side in separate columns. We don't know whether either version has publishing priority but both are quite uncommon. G. Schirmer paperback books
1992ref. 95018Istanbul: Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture snd General Directorate of Fine Arts 1992. Second edition of 1000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Slipcased set containing two separately titled volumes. color illustrations 359 408p. Original hardcover bindings. djs. 30 cm. Original matching slipcase. Jackets have tears at ends of backstrips. Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture snd General Directorate of Fine Arts hardcover books
ref. 249263N.p. n.d. 3 stanzas with a 5 line refrain to each quatrain of verse. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Some soiling. 3 stanzas with a 5 line refrain to each quatrain of verse. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Thomas Dunn English 1819-1902 was a proilific author of poems ballads and novels; he also server two terms in the U.S. Congrress as a Representative from New Jersey; but his fame as a writer rests on the ballad in wrote in 1843 "Ben Bolt." English is also remembered as the bitter foe of his former friend Edgar Allan Poe. The two had a falling out which resulted in a fist fight as well as a long running literary feud. unknown books
1791ref. 345231Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. Folio. Contemporary calf red morocco lettering piece. Expert repairs at top and bottom of spine. Housed in a morocco backed box. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. Folio. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution"--Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497 Isaiah Thomas unknown books
1992ref. 61455Colorado Springs: The Press at Colorado College 1992. Edition limited to 40 numbered copies and 10 unnumbered proofs signed by the printer James Trissel this copy no. 9; folio pp. 16; original black niger morocco over gray cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. "This book is our effort to set this most curious and enigmatic work in a form which will encourage its reading. We have taken away the verse numbers and the egregiously short lines of the King James Version and we have given the new line a generous format and a modest ornamentation. The text is set in Bembo that most readable of all romans: the paper is Johannot" colophon. The binding is by Greg Campbell at Campbell-Logan Bindery Minneapolis. The Press at Colorado College unknown books
1968ref. 339326Leicester / Oxford: Fishpaste / First Series / Printed at the Pandora Press 1968. First edition; complete run of Fishpastes 1 to 22 the first 22 post card poems each in original printed envelope with title card and colophon published from January 1967 to August 1968 "under 200 copies were printed of which approximately 140 were offered for sale". All broadsides are in fine condition each card has a publisher's printed envelope envelopes are also fine. First edition; complete run of Fishpastes 1 to 22 the first 22 post card poems each in original printed envelope with title card and colophon published from January 1967 to August 1968 "under 200 copies were printed of which approximately 140 were offered for sale". Scarce with title page and colophon in original printed envelopes. Produced by Rigby Graham 1931-2015 English landscape artist and book illustrator Peter Hoy 1934-1993 and Toni Savage. It was called 'the smallest little magazine in Western Europe' with poetry by René Char Count Potocki of Montalck Alan Riddell John Cotton Anthony Conran Francis Ponge Peter Hoy Lyman Andrews John Birtwhistle Adrian Henri et al. Fishpaste / First Series / (Printed at the Pandora Press) unknown books
1973ref. 338255London: Privately Printed for Edward and Catherine Ardizzone 1973. First edition issued as a 1973 Christmas greeting card by Edward and Catherine Ardizzone. Very slightly rubbed at tips of corners with one small tan soil spot at one corner else a near fine copy. First edition issued as a 1973 Christmas greeting card by Edward and Catherine Ardizzone. Scarce no holding of this 1973 Christmas greeting card is located by OCLC. Seven examples of other Christmas cards illustrated by Ardizzone are included among the Edward Ardizzone papers housed by de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. This 1973 Christmas card pre-dates the earliest of those seven known examples the earlist of which was dated 1976. [Privately Printed for Edward and Catherine Ardizzone] unknown books
1806ref. 325183Dublin: Printed by W. Tyrrell 1806. Second edition so stated on title page. 24pp. 8vo. Disbound; spine is notched on spine where once sewn and bound with other volumes title page and final page are foxed and unevenly tanned with narrow chip 3/8 inch by one and one-half inch along lower edge of spine in blank inner margin only light foxing to text else a very good copy. Second edition so stated on title page. 24pp. 8vo. Uncommon; OCLC locates eight holdings with only two American holdings Yale Harvard University College Cork National Library of Ireland National University of Ireland Maynooth Trinity College Dublin University College Dublin and Heidelberg Germany. Uncommon; OCLC locates eight holdings with only two American holdings Yale Harvard University College Cork National Library of Ireland National University of Ireland Maynooth Trinity College Dublin University College Dublin and Heidelberg Germany Printed by W. Tyrrell unknown books
1987ref. 176708Chicago IL: N.A.M.E. Gallery 1987. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 24 through May 30 1987. Acknowledgements by Kathy Cottong. Features essays by Christopher English and Hannah Dresner. Includes numerous black and white illustrations checklist and list of previous exhibitions. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. N.A.M.E. Gallery unknown books
1915ref. 91341New York London Boston: G. Schirmer 1915. Apparent 1st ed. with Johnson translation no later printing information. Paperback. Good. 165p. Softcover in original wrapper. Illustration mounted on front. 31 cm. Ends of backstrip chipped as are lower corners of front cover. Minor creasing and corner wear. Hard to decipher circular rubber stamp on lower corner of front cover. "Distribuidores exclusivos para Colombia Casa Musical Humberto Conti Bogota .". stamped in black at bottom of title-page. Johnson had great success as a lyricist early in the century but found that tastes had changed when he attempted a return to song-writing in 1914. He translated the libretto for this opera which the Metropolitan Opera performed in 1916. Granados the Spanish Romantic composer of the piano pieces from which this opera was adapted attended the premiere but drowned in the English channel upon his return to Europe when a German submarine torpedoed the boat on which Granados was travelling. The libretto appears throughout the music in this edition with Granados's Spanish text immediately above Johnson's English translation. The libretto was also published separately by Schirmer in 1915 as a smaller-format 42-page pamphlet in their series of opera-librettos with Granados's Spanish text and Johnson's English translation appearing side by side in separate columns. We don't know whether either version has publishing priority but both are quite uncommon. G. Schirmer paperback books
1860ref. 165691860. J. B. Remarks on the Obstacles to the More General Employment of Women and on the Means of Removing Them 1860. First edition of a pamphlet advocating expanded employment opportunities for British women and identifying discriminatory hiring practices opposition from male workers and limited occupational choices as causes of female poverty. Published through the English Woman's Journal a periodical closely associated with the Langham Place circle of women's rights reformers the pamphlet appeared during an organized campaign to open professions and skilled occupations previously reserved for men. Its author directly challenges workplace resistance to female labor: "Women however cannot be employed in England in this manner because of the jealousy of their fellow workmen. If a master were to employ women in any part of the business the whole of his workmen would strike at once." The passage identifies threatened industrial action by male employees as a practical obstacle to women's economic advancement even when employers were willing to hire them. J. B. Remarks on the Obstacles to the More General Employment of Women and on the Means of Removing Them. London: Published at the Office of the English Woman's Journal Company Limited 1860. First edition. 16 pages. Original paper wrappers measuring 8¼ x 5¼ inches. Reprinted from the English Woman's Journal the pamphlet examines barriers preventing women from obtaining sufficient paid employment and proposes measures to expand their opportunities. The author connects occupational exclusion with increasing demands upon public and private charitable institutions: "Workhouses were found to be overcrowded with able-bodies females while charities were besieged with women praying to be provided either with employment or bread." These observations link women's unemployment directly to poverty relief while the discussion of male workers' resistance identifies the exclusionary practices that prevented women from entering better-paid occupations. The pamphlet was published shortly after the establishment of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women in 1859 an organization associated with Jessie Boucherett Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and other members of the Langham Place circle. The Society sought to expand women's access to commercial clerical and skilled employment through vocational training and direct engagement with employers. The pamphlet's discussion of workplace opposition and overcrowded workhouses provides contemporary evidence of the economic conditions these reformers sought to address preceding later campaigns for women's property rights and equal access to professions. Stain to upper left edge of front wrapper toning to final page and light pencil markings in margins. Very good condition. unknown books
1842ref. 317198Boston: William Crosby and Company 1842. First edition. 66 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed biscuit wrappers. Some light spotting to edges faintest soiling to wrappers. Fine copy in black morocco-backed slipcase and cloth wrapper. First edition. 66 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "It is not easy for a man to speak of his own books. I dare say that few persons have been more interested in mine than I ." An account of this dinner celebrating Dickens' appearance in New York by two reporters from The Morning Post. Dickens's speech on the occasion is given on pp. 10-15. Gimbel B112. Provenance: book label of Frederick Spiegelberg his sale Anderson Galleries 3-4 November 1937 William Crosby and Company unknown books
1814ref. 313413New York: Collins and Co 1814. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. Contemporary diced morocco marbled endpapers. Some scuffing and wear to boards leaves browned. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. This copy without the plates sometimes found in this edition. The family records between the Old and New Testaments detail the ancestors and decendents of William Hartman Woodin 1821-1886 of the Jackson & Woodin railroad manufacturing concern of Berwick Pennsylvania. His grandson of the same name was Frankling Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury in 1933. O'Callaghan p 117. Provenance: W.H. Woodin stamped in gilt on spine; genealogical records between OT & NT Collins and Co unknown books
1879ref. 2221941First edition. Octavo. With half-title page. 3/4 gilt stamped red calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands and gilt stamped devices within gilt rule compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers. Very good light rubbing. 387 pages. Heraldic bookplate of Raymond. No signatures. Smith, Elder & Company hardcover books
