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ref. 44690With all his introductions notes various readings and notes by J. G. Lockhart Esq. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood after J. M. W. Turner Birket Foster & John Gilbert. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black North Bridge 1857. Thick royal octavo 250 x 175 mm original red morocco richly gilt fine; all edges gilt; engraved frontispiece additional engraved title title leaf 1 Editor's Notice 1 blank; pp. iv 2 823; binding firm foxing to first and last few leaves and at the margins of most plates otherwise internally clean and sound. unknown
1928ref. 59105London: Cresset Press 1928. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. viii 175; viii 163pp. Folio 37 cm Full black parchment vellum with gold spine lettering and raised bands. Top edges gilt. Light wear to covers; corners lightly worn; spines spotted; spines a bit chipped at the foot. No slipcase. Printed in an edition limited to 195 numbered copies printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. This copy is numbered 66. The text for volume I from the 11th edition published 1688 which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition published 1687. Beautiful wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. The text for Vol. I from the 11th edition published 1688 which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition published 1687. Cresset Press hardcover books
ref. 197131Cassell Petter and Galpin c. 1865. 4to 10 x 7¼ ins. Original elaborately gilt tooled bevelled-edged morocco all edges gilt marbled endpapers recently re-backed with spine neatly re-laid - bright VG. Pp. xvi 399 with b&w illus throughout previous owner's neat inscription on front prelim. Cassell Petter and Galpin, c. 1865 unknown
1928ref. 59105London: Cresset Press 1928. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. viii 175; viii 163pp. Folio 37 cm Full black parchment vellum with gold spine lettering and raised bands. Top edges gilt. Light wear to covers; corners lightly worn; spines spotted; spines a bit chipped at the foot. No slipcase. Printed in an edition limited to 195 numbered copies printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. This copy is numbered 66. The text for volume I from the 11th edition published 1688 which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition published 1687. Beautiful wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. The text for Vol. I from the 11th edition published 1688 which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition published 1687. Cresset Press hardcover
1891ref. 055798London : Chatto & Windus 1891. First Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. Iillustrations by Rudolf Blind Peter Macnab Hume Nisbet etc. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1891. Hardback. Frontispiece and ten other full-page plates. Original black cloth; printed paper label. Black end-papers. Untrimmed edges as issued. No owner name or internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Label chipped with loss. Minor wear one neat repair to page tear. GOOD. viii 200 pages. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. 8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . SCARCE Chatto & Windus hardcover
1888ref. 469689Boston Mass: L. Prang & Co 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Harriet D. Andrews and Mary K. Talcott. Quarto. 9 leaves printed on rectos only: title page and 8 color lithographic plates designed by Andrews and Talcott six of which are printed in multiple colors including gold and silver. Publisher’s brown padded silk over boards with color pictorial design on front cover floral gold-illuminated endpapers. The silk boards have a few patches of modest staining on the outer margins of the front cover and fore-edge of back cover rubbing and some fraying at the edges of the boards spine ends and corners else a very good copy with the interior plates fine and bright. A beautiful edition of Cooke’s poem with six plates of floral and botanical themes printed in vibrant color by L. Prang. L. Prang & Co hardcover books
1888ref. 469689Boston Mass: L. Prang & Co 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Harriet D. Andrews and Mary K. Talcott. Quarto. 9 leaves printed on rectos only: title page and 8 color lithographic plates designed by Andrews and Talcott six of which are printed in multiple colors including gold and silver. Publisher’s brown padded silk over boards with color pictorial design on front cover floral gold-illuminated endpapers. The silk boards have a few patches of modest staining on the outer margins of the front cover and fore-edge of back cover rubbing and some fraying at the edges of the boards spine ends and corners else a very good copy with the interior plates fine and bright. A beautiful edition of Cooke’s poem with six plates of floral and botanical themes printed in vibrant color by L. Prang. L. Prang & Co hardcover
1910ref. 31601Edinburgh and London: Ballantyne Hanson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Twenty six numbered volumes plus 2 volume set of life and works plus 2 volume set of Our Mutual Friend all in matching publisher's bindings. Bound in full olive green cloth boards with paper title labels to spines. Minor wear to edges of boards and spine ends of all volumes. Wear / chipping / browning to title labels. Minor dampstaining to corners of boards of some volumes; although interior pages seem to be free from staining. Some volumes have minor soiling and/or discoloration to covers. Each volume contains illustrations - most in black and white with a few in color. Occasional smudge marks occasional tear to a page in the margin from opening the pages and sporadic spots of foxing - but overall very clean and bright interiors. Rippling to some of the illustrations which are printed on a different paper stock. Signature of previous owner in pen to front free endpapers of most volumes. All bindings remain strong. This set will require an extra shipping fee. LIT/010318. Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co hardcover books
ref. 114258London J. M. Dent & Co. 1904 . Mixed editions printed between 1904-1907; 10 volumes small 8vo 180 x 120 mm; patterned endpapers half titles copyright page to verso full-page colour frontispieces and plates illustrated by C.E & H.M Brock all plates divided by tissue guards no gift inscriptions notable for the virtual absence of spotting and foxing; publisher's green cloth decorated in blue and gilt top edges gilt others uncut mild shelf wear and soiling to boards a few bumped corners faded pictorial covers to Mansfield Park vol II otherwise attractive and desirable set in very good condition. Over sixty illustrations of exceptional quality are spread through ten volumes of novels by Jane Austen. Charles E. Brock illustrated Sense and Sensibility Persuasion and Emma whilst Henry M. Brock was in charge of Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1904 hardcover
1910ref. 31601Edinburgh and London: Ballantyne Hanson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Twenty six numbered volumes plus 2 volume set of life and works plus 2 volume set of Our Mutual Friend all in matching publisher's bindings. Bound in full olive green cloth boards with paper title labels to spines. Minor wear to edges of boards and spine ends of all volumes. Wear / chipping / browning to title labels. Minor dampstaining to corners of boards of some volumes; although interior pages seem to be free from staining. Some volumes have minor soiling and/or discoloration to covers. Each volume contains illustrations - most in black and white with a few in color. Occasional smudge marks occasional tear to a page in the margin from opening the pages and sporadic spots of foxing - but overall very clean and bright interiors. Rippling to some of the illustrations which are printed on a different paper stock. Signature of previous owner in pen to front free endpapers of most volumes. All bindings remain strong. This set will require an extra shipping fee. LIT/010318. Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co hardcover
ref. 72764Skopje: Etnoloski Muzej The Ethnological Museum 1963. Traditional Costume FINE COLOUR PLATES. Folio portfolio 49 x 34cm pp.xiv; 42. Complete with 46 colour illustrated plates showing a wide range of traditional Macedonian costumes. Text in Macedonian English and French. In the publisher's colour-illustrated chemise case. Some creasing to left edge of the title page otherwise internally crisp and clean. Chemise case shows some toning and moderate general wear including a ring-mark to upper. Very good. Skopje: Etnoloski Muzej [The Ethnological Museum], 1963 unknown
ref. 75952London: A Longbow Children's Book from W.H. Allen 1978. Children's illustrated FIRST EDITION. Octavo 25 x 16cm pp.8 119 1. With 35 black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by the Grahame Johnstones priced at £3.25 to front flap. Light toning to text otherwise internally clean. Mild shelfwear. Very good. Twins staying with their grandmother in the country realise that a group of mysterious kittens comes to their orchard every midnight. They're determined to find out more. London: A Longbow Children's Book from W.H. Allen, 1978 unknown
ref. 119876London R. Ackermann 1808-10. . First edition early issue with ALS loosely tipped to first blank; 3 vols large 4to 34 x 28 cm; letter from Augustus Welby Pugin to T. Bury dated 1839 restored and laid on linen wood-engraved titles engraved dedications 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Bluck Stadler and others after Pugin and Rowlandson watermarks 1806-1808 bookplate to pastedown; twentieth-century half crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf gilt ruled cloth boards spine lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments all edges gilt marbled endpapers a fine set. This is a splendid work with the preferred pre-publication watermarks exhibiting a depth and richness of colouring. The Microcosm offers an incomparable panorama of Regency London both high and low from sedate drawing rooms to the brawling and boozing street life of the metropolis captured in matchless hand-coloured aquatint by the inspired pairing of Pugin and Rowlandson. Most of the plates are in their first or second state with plate 12 and 39 in the rare first state. With an autograph letter by Augustus Welby Pugin 1812-1852 pioneer of the Gothic Revival architecture movement to probably Thomas Talbot Bury 1809-1877 his long time friend and collaborator dated 1839. The letter describes a drawing Pugin made of Macclesfield Church St Michael and All Angels including directions to Bury for his engraving of the image and is adorned with small sketches of the altar candles and statues. It was Augustus Welby's father Augustus Charles who produced the architectural drawings of this work and was the reason Augustus Welby and Bury were so intimate having apprenticed his son and Bury together. 'Ackermann's The Microcosm of London. is a book of major importance. The architectural drawings were by Augustus Charles Pugin a French refugee who came to London in about 1798 "driven from his country either by the horrors of the French Revolution or by private reasons connected with a duel" . His lasting fame rests on his consummate ability as an architectural draughtsman. By a stroke of genius Ackermann engaged Thomas Rowlandson to add human figures to the drawings that Pugin made for The Microcosm so that the stately accurate and dignified qualities of that artist are enlivened by the vitality and charm of Regency life as depicted by one of the most vigorous draughtsmen of all time. To turn the leaves of The Microcosm is to take a walk though London at a singularly fortunate moment observing as we never can in real life the scenes of many celebrated incidents in English literature and history: the India House of Charles Lamb the King's Bench Prison of Dickens the Foundling Hospital of Captain Coram and Hogarth the Guildhall bombed by the Luftwaffe the Newgate of Harrison Ainsworth the Carlton House of the Prince Regent and so forth.' Thomas Great Books and Book Collectors 1975 p. 155 Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7; Prideaux pp121-4. Franklin 49-54. London, R. Ackermann, [1808-10]. hardcover
1986Oblong 4to., Second Impression, with numerous fine coloured reproductions throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dudtwrapper, the latter lightly chafed along upper edge.n unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ON HALF-TITLE. Published a year after the first edition.
ref. 75833London: Longmans Green and Co. 1911. Fantasy novel FIRST EDITION first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.x; 165 3. With 12 illustrations by W.T. Horton and H.M. Brock. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black titles and decoration to upper. Offsetting to endpapers with an illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Gently toned throughout otherwise internally clean. Wear and sunning to spine with some dulling to gilt and a 5cm split to the lower joint. Good. An obscure spiritual fantasy novel published in the autumn of 1911 which sold poorly at the time due to its anti-bloodsport sentiment. Whatmore 'H. Rider Haggard: A Bibliography' London 1987 F38; Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911 unknown
1935ref. B7298London: Associated Newspapers n.d. circa 1935. Frontispiece loose. Spine sunned. . Binding: Full orange pictorial cloth boards. Notes: John Buchan 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 1875 – 1940 was a Scottish novelist historian British Army officer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada the 15th since Canadian Confederation. As a youth Buchan began writing poetry and prose fiction and non-fiction publishing his first novel in 1895 and ultimately writing over a hundred books of which the best known is The Thirty-Nine Steps. Size: 8vo. 200 x 145 mm Illustration: Very good example. Illustrated with colour plates. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Pages: 314 pp. Category: Book Literature; Associated Newspapers, hardcover
ref. 0135379024.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19292 vols. (349, 368p.), illus. Hardcover Very good condition
1900ref. 101956Harper & Bros. Very Good. 1900. Hardcover. Hardcover. Black boards with full color illustration paste down clean sharp and square general age toning. Specific edition not stated. Book is firm in binding 362 pages "nearly one hundred original drawings and decorations done from sketches made in the tropics specially for this work by THE BROTHERS LOUIS AND FREDERICK RHEAD" b&w illustrations. Free of any markings not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 362 pages . Harper & Bros. hardcover
ref. 75100London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Recently bound in brown half calf with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels further gilt decoration to spines and matching cloth over boards. Tope edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
ref. 68946London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels gilt raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spines matching cloth over boards t.e.g. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. 'The Pathfinder' is a publisher's presentation copy with their blind-stamp to prelims. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
ref. 71-1416New York: Harper’s Weekly 1889. Wood engraving. 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. image; 15 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. sheet. Very Good a few tears along left sheet edge some toning to sheet edges newspaper title folded at top.Provenance: From the Collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner Jr. founder of Gale Research Detroit. New York: Harper’s Weekly, 1889. unknown
1955ref. 955Escondido CA : Christward Publications 1955. 1955. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 3rd printing ; 94 pp. ; LC: BP605.C5; Dewey: 212.5 ; OCLC: 1861172 ; blue and white cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; plates of illustrations of angelic beings ; photograph of illustration by Arthur Learned laid in ; postcard of Questhaven Retreat laid in ; printed on handmade paper ; "Newhouse claimed that she first realized she was clairvoyant when she was six riding the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor with a friend her age. Seeing a group of water sprites she pointed them out to her companion. The latter thinking this was a game of make believe responded with her own creative inventions. Flower realizing she saw a world that didn't exist for others was shocked into silence for many years.In 1924 Newhouse along with her mother and sister moved to Los Angeles where she soon became a guest speaker at a number of churches and lecture halls. Word soon spread of her unique gifts and her convincing sincerity as a speaker. Before long she was traveling regularly to Santa Barbara and San Francisco and much of Southern California. It was on one of these lecture engagements that she met her future husband Lawrence Newhouse. In 1940 Flower and Lawrence founded Questhaven Retreat and the Christward Ministry which she bequeathed to the Lord Christ forever. Here she wrote and lectured extensively on the Kingdom of Angels and the Wisdom Teachings that underlie "living the Life" and following the "Way'."--Wikipedia ; FINE/FINE Escondido, CA : Christward Publications, 1955. hardcover
ref. 70558New York NY: The Century Co. 1894; 1895. Children's Illustrated FIRST US EDITIONS first volume 18th thousand second volume first impression. Two volumes. Octavo 20 x 14cm pp.xiv; 303; 3. Pp.10; 324; 2. With 35 illustrations by Drake to volume I including a frontispiece and frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John to volume II. Publisher's green and red cloth respectively with gilt titles and decoration to spines and boards. Top edges gilt. Bookplate of the Colonial Club to front pastedown of volume I with light spotting throughout. Light general wear to cloth. Second volume has a blue ink ownership stamp to fly-leaf otherwise internally clean. Moderate wear to cloth including some loss to headcap. Very good overall. The Jungle Book and its sequel comprise a selection of short stories-the best-known being the three tales centring on the adventures of the abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli. Other popular tales include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' the story of a heroic mongoose and 'Toomai of the Elephants' the tale of a young elephant-handler. New York, NY: The Century Co., 1894; 1895 unknown
ref. 74728London: Macmillan and Co. 1908. Children's classic FIRST DETMOLD COLOUR ILLUSTRATED EDITION first impression. Octavo 22 x 14.5 cm; pp.xii 314 2 advertisements. With 16 full-page colour plates. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt top edge gilt. Contents clean a little toning to edges and endpapers binding carefully handled small pull at crown. Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Detmold were English graphic artists twins born on 21 November 1883. Due to the illness of their father they grew up in the care of their uncle Dr E B Shuldham who had acquired a notable collection of Japanese woodprints of plants and animals. This encouraged the twins to commence drawing animals and plants at a very early age and resulted in a debut aged 13 at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters with nature studies in the Japanese style. The Detmolds subsequently learned techniques of watercolour etching and of colour printing with copper plates. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908 unknown
