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ref. 74640Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill and sold by S. Crowder and W. Jackson 1773. Common Prayer FINELY BOUND. Octavo 21 x 14cm unpaginated. Reasonable sized print over two columns. Contemporary black full calf with raised bands and gilt tooling to spine and boards. All edges gilt with comb marbled endpapers. A charming early bookseller's label to front pastedown for the George Street Stationer 60 Gracechurch Street. Black ink ownership and gift inscriptions through several generations to verso of fly-leaf and both sides of the first blank. A minor stain to the top edge of the first 20 or so leaves otherwise internally clean. Moderate general wear to attractive contemporary binding with some minor repair to head of spine. Very good. ESTC: T87274. Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, and sold by S. Crowder and W. Jackson, 1773 unknown
ref. 247867 February 1829. Dublin. Within a couple of years of his death Norbury’s nickname was given as ‘the hanging judge’ see ‘The Georgian Era’ vol.2 1833 and yet no mention is made of the fact in his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present document is 1p 4to. On the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged. The declaration in a secretarial hand reads: ‘We the undersigned have pleasure in recommending Alexander Hawthorne of Sackville Street Glover as a person worthy of being honored with the commands of their Excellencies the Most Noble The Duke & Duchess of Northumberland having known him for many years to be an honest industrious respectable tradesman & one of the best Glove Manufacturers in Dublin’. Beneath this the Bishop of Meath writes: ‘45 Great Georges Street North / Feby 7th 1829 As far as I have knowledge I believe Alexander Hawthorne of Sackville Street to be an honest Man and a good Tradesman - Nathl: Meath’. And beneath that: ‘I know the bearer & know him a respectable Glover - 9 Gardiners row Norbury’. Norbury’s signature is largely written and heavily-inked. See Image. 7 February 1829. Dublin. unknown
2005ref. SONG0521816459Cambridge University Press 2005-11-07. Illustrated. hardcover. Used: Good. 7.25x1.50x10.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1809ref. 16384Published for John Reeves; sold by G and W Nicol of Pall Mall and Scatcherd & Letterman of Ave-Maria-Lane 1809. 16mo. some light and unobtrusive age-browning; most attractively bound in black full grained calf sides with triple Oxford frame in gilt back with five flat bands tooled and ruled in gilt second compartment lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with an arabesque all edges gilt doublures ruled in gilt chocolate endpapers covers very lightly age-scuffed else a remarkably bright clean copy. Reeves was a Patentee of the Office of King's Printer. The Psalter is separately titled; both Prayers and Psalter are unpaginated. The text is occasionally cropped close at top but always without loss. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF LADY SOPHIA TOWER NEE CUST/BROWNLOW AND BEARS HER HOLOGRAPH MAIDEN SIGNATURE ON BLANK PRELIMINARY RECTO AND THE FINE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF CHRISTOPHER & LADY SOPHIA TOWER ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Lady Tower was born Sophia Cust/Brownlow on 14 April 1811 the daughter of John Cust 1st Earl Brownlow and Sophia Hume. She married Christopher Theron Tower on 10 February 1836. Lady Tower died on 21 December 1882 at the age of 71. A CHARMING EXAMPLE OF NNETEENTH CENTURY PERSONAL COMMON PRAYER WITH BOTH MAIDEN AND MARRIED OWNERSHIP MARKS. A LOVELY COPY WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE AND WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING Published for John Reeves; sold by G and W Nicol of Pall Mall, and Scatcherd & Letterman of Ave-Maria-Lane, unknown
1971ref. 512750Oxford University Press 1971. Hardcover. FINE. Fine Binding edition of the Episcopalian 'Altar Service' being the selections of the Book of Common Prayer 1928 for use in public worship. 67-269 3 35-53 7 pp. 4to Red Morocco goatskin leather gilt stamped spine lettering blind-ruled spine panels and covers all edges gilt gilt dentelle 3 red place ribbons text printed in red and black in a large clear and emminently legible font. With just some trivial rubbing to the very tips else FINE -- exceedingly clean and sharp with crisp fresh pages tight binding and no evidence of use. This 1971 printing was the final printing of an Alter Service edition of 1928 Prayer Book before the 1979 modern-English revision. Oxford University Press hardcover
1994ref. 2091202133211064Heibonsha 1994. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 books in total Heibonsha paperback
1727ref. 6131Oxford Printed by John Baskett 1727. 1727 12mo. Unpaginated. Red ruled throughout. BOUND WITH Sternhold & Hopkins The Whole Book of Psalms . London Printed by Tho. Wood for the Company of Stationers 1730. 16cm. Bound in black shagreen panelled with two blind lines. Four silver corner mountsa and a central silver filigree rose ornament on each board. One of two silver clasps in place. Signature of Elixabeth Sprange Tunbridge Wells on the front endpaper. Joints starting to split at the foot of the spine otherwise in very good condition. Oxford, Printed by John Baskett, unknown
1854ref. 255549Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co 1854. Chromolithograph frontispiece and additional chromolithograph title page. xxxii 552; 252 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in full black velvet covers with borders of golden wire in filigree spine lettered with gold metal in gothic script velvet endsheets edges gilt golden metallic clasp. Fine. Gift inscription to institution on flyleaf; bookplate on front free endpaper. Chromolithograph frontispiece and additional chromolithograph title page. xxxii 552; 252 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Griffiths 1854: 39 Lippincott, Grambo & Co unknown
1920ref. 256949n.p. 1920. 11.25x16 inch broadside horizontal fold minor toning; "Marcus Graham group 1920" penciled in bottom margin couple of old paper tape repairs on blank verso. The date is confirmed by its citation in a Congressional report "Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer On Charges Made Against Department Of Justice By Louis F. Post And Others." "We have on many occasions issued to you calls for action. We have told you that protest meetings will not help to free the thousands of social war prisoners but only by real action through the starting of the general strike throughout the entire country will they be freed. You did not listen to us who urged action. You chose the easier road. You listened instead to politicians who asked you to beg of the exploiters of America to be so kind as to release those whom they imprisoned. We remind you of the mistakes that you have made and how you have been fooled and betrayed." Warns that those who participate in May Day parades sponsored by the National Security League "will be traitors to our class" calling on readers to mark May Day instead by forming anarchist groups to begin a general strike. "When we march or hold our meetings we must never forget to be armed to repel those misguided soldiers or policemen who will dare to attack us as they have done until now! . The First of May should be the signal for the start of the social revolution in this country." The author whose original name was Shmuel Marcus went by many pseudonyms the best-known of which was Marcus Graham; he claimed to be a native of Montreal but when the United States attempted to deport him to Canada Canada refused on the grounds that there was no actual evidence of his Canadian citizenship. Other attempts to deport him to Mexico and the Soviet Union were similarly rebuffed. The author went on to edit the newspaper Man! one of the most important American anarchist publications of the 1930s. unknown
1807ref. 67390London: John Reeves Esq. 1807. Large 8vo. Unpaginated; psalms followed by 64 pp. of orders of services. Handsome contemporary dark green morocco with gilt borders and decoration with raised bands gilt lettering a decoration to spine; all edges gilt. Large paper copy - 24.5cm tall - printed by Charles Whittingham four years before he founded the Chiswick Press. Engraved armourial bookplate of Egerton Leigh prominent Tory politician on front pastedown and 19th century ink owner's name on ffep. A little rubbing to extremities and front joint; front hinge repaired neatly. The most minimal foxing to endpapers but otherwise internally very clean. A very attractive old prayer book. . Very Good. Full Morocco. 1807. John Reeves Esq. 1807 unknown
1729ref. 1910Printed by the Assigns of His Majesty's Printer and by Henry Hills deceas'd 1729. 1729 Additional engraved title page 48 engraved plates. Early 19th century calf. Trimmed close by the binder just shaving a few pages. Two sections moved forward but tight. Occasional marginal tears and light fingering of corners from use. 19th century signature of Jane Muggeridge inside the front board. A sound copy. Printed by the Assigns of His Majesty's Printer, and by Henry Hills, deceas'd, unknown
1863ref. 4016Bickers and Bush 1863. 1863 8vo. 732 p. Title printed in red and black. Title and text all printed within delightful wood engraved borders based on designs by Durer. Bound in heavily grained black morocco over bevelled boards embossed and gilt. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Bickers and Bush, hardcover
ref. BN91736Narrow gauge common carrier railways of the former Soviet Union Hardcover Narrow gauge common carrier railways of the former Soviet Union Hardcover Narrow gauge common carrier railways of the former Soviet Union Hardcover hardcover
1997ref. DADAX1880892820STL Distributors 1997-01-01. paperback. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. STL Distributors paperback
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ref. 22802Bath: 'taken and made' on 26 and 27 March 1841. 11pp folio. In good condition lightly aged and worn. Folded twice into the conventional packet. Ten-page inventory followed by full page valuation neatly written out on six leaves which are stitched together with the reverse of the last leaf carrying the title written lengthwise in conventional style for the outside of the packet: 'Inventory & Valuation of the several effects of the late Thos. Harward Gardiner Esq deceased at No. 14 Brock Street Bath Amount £574. 8. 6' along with the word 'Copy' in red. Also on this page in pencil in an early twentieth century hand: ' Gainsborough painter relation' this suggestion seemingly based on the first entry in the inventory under the heading 'Plate': 'Large 2 handled Vase richly ornamented & chased originally a present from the Royal Academy to Margaret Gainsborough' this being the painter's wife 1728-1797 born Margaret Burr an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. The full title at the head of the first page reads: 'An Inventory of the Household Goods & Furniture Plate Plated Ware Linen China & Glass Books Wearing Apparel Jewels & Ornaments. of the Person Wines &c. at No. 14 Brock Street Bath late the property of Thomas Harward Gardiner Esq decd. who died Jan. 14th: 1841 It was taken and made for the purposes of Administration March 26th. & 27th. 1841 by Benjn. Bartrum Bath'. See the two men's wills in the PCC files in the National Archives: Bartrum 'Auctioneer and Upholsterer of No 5 Norfolk Crescent Bath' 18 March 1846; and Gardiner 'Common Brewer of Northgate Street Bath' 17 May 1841. An inventory of the home of a conventional middle-class tradesman in early Victorian Bath giving an interesting insight into the social history of period and place. Harward's collection of books is valued at £30 18 6d and the inventory lists on two-thirds of a page works of mostly devotional nature. In contrast the brewer's wines sherry 'Ginger Wine' and 'Bottles Various' are valued at three times as much £91 1s 6d. No paintings appear to be present. The inventory's headings begin by listing the contents of the house by room before starting half-way through to group items by type: Left Hand Back Garret; Right hand Back Garret; Right hand front Garret; Left hand front Garret; Back Attic; Front Attick sic; Drawing room Bedroom; Front Drawing Room; Stairs & Passages; Dinner Room; Front Parlour; Servants Hall & Pantry; Kitchen Scullery & Lower Offices; Plate; Plated; Linen; China; Glass; Books subdivided into 2to and Octavo; The Whole of the Wearing Apparel nothing in this section; Jewels Trinkets & Ornaments of the Person; Wines. The valuation is presented as an itemised list in nine categories with signature or copy of signature dated: 'March 26th & 27th. 1841 by Benjn. Bartrum Appraiser Bath'. The list is preceded by this note: 'The foregoing Articles were valued at the Sum of Five Hundred and Seventy four Pounds Eight Shillings & 6d. of which the following are particulars viz.' Not quite the Bath of Jane Austen but not too far off. Bath: 'taken and made' on 26 and 27 March 1841. unknown
1820ref. 31678Clarendon Press Cooke & Collingwood Oxford 1820. 8vo. text unpaginated text partly in double-column terracotta endpapers; handsomely bound in contemporary full roan sides most elaborately framed and blocked in gilt back with flat bands tooled in gilt second compartment lettered in gilt all other compartments richly tooled in gilt gilt edges gilt doublures terracotta endpapers expertly recased a remarkably elegant clean crisp copy. With the engraved nineteenth century bookplate of Edmund Williams Gilbert mounted on front paste-down. The primary text is presented in a bold large-fount type ideal for audience address. The 'Companion' is printed by Kaygill for Scatcherd & Letterman to match the edition of Prayer. The Psalter by Brady and Tate is also printed by Cooke & Collingwood and dated separately 1819. THIS EDITION IS NOT COMMONLY FOUND IN THIS BINDING AND CONDITION. Clarendon Press [Cooke & Collingwood], Oxford, unknown
1858ref. 0250391858. 3/4 Leather & Marbled Paper Bd. Very Good to Fine. Octavo. We have here the original printing of this scarce and highly-prized early Maine educational Journal. Edited and published by the then Superintendant of Common Schools Mark H. Dunnell. All are bound in period light brown calf and marbled paper boards Hardcover. A small black title label adorns the rather plain spine along with a few gilt rules about VG condition. It is bound with plain end papers which have 2 owner signatures in the front and one in the rear. The index to volume I is bound after the title page. All of the first 12 issues are present and in near-Fine to Fine NF-F condition with none of the usual foxing as is often seen in very old paper. Quite scarce with only 4 possible examples at institutions in the US according to worldcat and no examples other than reprints anywhere for sale. NOTE: Educational and/or Historical institutions will naturally receive preferential treatment for ordering purposes. hardcover
1801ref. 255003London: Published for John Reeves Printed by W. Bulmer . sold by J. Wright Piccadilly 1801. First Reeves edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary black straight-grained morocco covers with gilt-rolled border and central gilt device of cross with "JHS" flat spine horizontally lined gilt lettered and decorated between the lines in gilt marbled endpapers a.e.g. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown shelfmark sticker at foot of spine and ghosts of markings on title--page; very slight rubbing to edges. Overall a very attractive cop. First Reeves edition. 1 vols. 8vo. "John Reeves was gazetted King's Printer in 1800 and held the appointment untyil his death in 1829. Between 1801 and 1815 he issued some 25 books of common prayer each printed by others on his behalf ." Griffiths. This is the first of Reeves' books of common prayer printed by Bulmer and a particularly attractive copy in contemporary binding. It is also apparently the first Book of Common Prayer to use the designation "United Church of England and Ireland.". Griffiths p. 215 Published for John Reeves, (Printed by W. Bulmer) ... sold by J. Wright, Piccadilly unknown
1655ref. 671011655. Jefferson Owned a Copy of this Digest Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas. King's Bench. Judgements as They Were Upon Solemne Arguments Given in the Upper-Bench and Common-pleas Upon the Most Difficult Points in All Manner of Actions: Together with the Terms and Number-Rolls In Which the Same are Entred. As also Other Speciall Judiciall Proceedings in Order Thereunto; Taken Out of the Records of the Same Court Very Usefull for All Clerks Attorneys And Others. With an Exact Alphabeticall Table Wherein May be Found the Principall Matters Therein Contained. London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft 1655. iv 235 240-336 339-344 22 pp. Pagination irregular text complete. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards blind fillets to spine. Moderate rubbing to boards and extremities corners bumped and somewhat worn front hinge cracked front free endpaper lacking lower section lacking from rear pastedown. Light toning to text minor worming to upper margins of final eight leaves just touching headlines. $450. Only edition. Cited as "The First Book of Judgements" this is a collection of cases digested alphabetically by topic. Unusual for this type of book it provides the term of the court and the number of the roll on which the judgement is listed a feature that facilitated the citing of precedents. Jefferson owned a copy of this book. OCLC locates 11 copies in North American law libraries. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1922. English Short-Title Catalogue R43325. unknown
ref. M88Folio ca. 32x195 cm or 12 ¾ x 7 ¾ in. 2 pp. Brown ink on blueish laid paper. Fold marks paper slightly age-toned but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand. Interesting original manuscript letter providing an insight into an early legal dispute over the confirmation of what looks like a common law marriage in the Oregon Territory. Written by a resident of Oregon City who concealed his identity under the letters “R.J.G.” the letter is addressed to “Mr. Harding” – most likely Benjamin Franklin Harding 1823-1899 a notable Oregonian attorney and politician. In 1852 Harding established the “Harding and Grover” law firm in Salem; in 1855-59 served as the Secretary of the Oregon Territory. During the American Civil War Harding took the office of the US Senator from Oregon 1862-65. In the letter the author refuses the claim of an unnamed woman to be his alleged wife apparently common-law and declares that he can prove that she is in fact the wife of another man and that he is going “to defend myself which I shall do regardless of consequences.” In the beginning of the letter the author notes that the “claimant” lived “at Judge Olney’s” who was Cyrus Olney 1815-1870 then the 6th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court 1853-58. Later Olney served as a delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention 1857 and served in the Oregon House of Representatives. Overall an interesting early original letter regarding legal disputes over the confirmation of common-law marriages in the Oregon Territory. The text of the letter: “Mr. Harding Sir On account of your protestations of friendship I think it strange that you did not apprise me of your agency in depositing in … Office that petition. I have said that I was willing the complainant should marry that I never would distrust her that I would not lay a straw in her way. I am informed that she was so informed while living at Judge Olney’s. She has been influenced to make application for a Bill probably on account of such intelligence. Now it is a well founded belief that she would have been married last fall had I not come back when I did and that too without a Bill. She has taken the wrong step to succeed. No lawful marriage exists between us and hence she cannot obtain a Bill from me. I am certainly correct in this view. I consulted the law and lawmakers last fall in reference to this matter as I was determined to take lawful steps and found that I was free from her in every sense of the word. She wishes to marry again I am willing that she should impose upon some other man if she feels safe in so doing and can find one as foolish as I have been. The complainant is not my wife but the wife of one Mr. Walker as I shall prove to the court. Can you not see that she endangers herself you know the penalty I presume. I don’t wish her to suffer this penalty I wish her no harm whatsoever but if this affair goes to court its result may prove fatal to her happiness to her parents and to yours and family. It has proven an unfortunate affair to us all and I presume that neither party wishes any more than a quiet future and freedom from each other. She is not bound to me nor I to her. It would be for her welfare and happiness to immediately withdraw as she has the power of doing her complaint and then here or elsewhere apply for a Bill from Mr. Walker or if she prefers marry without such application. In either event I shall not disturb her. If she obtains a Bill from Walker she will be safe as there is no public record of our marriage nor were witnesses present at the solemnization. If she does not withdraw her Bill she forces me to defend myself which I shall do regardless of consequences. If I did not know that we are free from each other by virtue of the law then I should have long since applied. Take my word for it she cannot obtain a Bill from me by virtue of her relation to Mr. Walker. But if she blindly persists in her present application then I must meet her and answer for my horrid abuse! I have suggested this by advice of one of my legal friends and by virtue of my own feelings toward her. If you have any doubt of the propriety of this course call and see me and others. If the matter stops here you must act promptly for additional costs are making. Respectfully R.J.G.” unknown
1831ref. 287215Richmond: Printed by John Warrock 1831. First Edition. Half Leather. Good binding. The ordinances of the city of Richmond Virginia published in 1831. No earlier publication on Richmond city ordinances found in Haynes. Binding is soiled with scuffing to the spine. Foxing and toning throughout. Half calf over marbled paper boards with a red morocco label on the spine. 180 pp. including the index. Haynes 15584. Good binding. Printed by John Warrock unknown
1719ref. 8816The first work Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty and by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1719. The second work Printed by Tho. Wilmer 1720 1719-1720. 2 works in 1 vol. 12mo. with wood-engraved frontispiece wood-engraved and printed titles the second work with separate printed title and 47 fine wood-engraved plates neat eighteenth century signature on blank preliminary a few leaves closely cropped at margins but without loss of text; attractively bound in early nineteenth full calf sides elaborately tooled with multiple frame and decorative borders in black enclosing a decorative lozenge blocked in blind back with five raised bands second compartment lettered in gilt all other compartments blocked in black marbled endpapers doublures tooled in blind red edges very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a very good crisp clean copy. [The first work] Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, and by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb hardcover
ref. 38192Winton: Bucknell Printer High-Street c. 1800. Small folio broadside printed on one-side only 283 x 220 mm light vertical and horizontal folds a presumed ownership location added in a contemporary hand to lower blank "Kings Arms Warwick Lane Newgate Street London". The Common Stage Wagons were larger than the standard Stage Wagons and were used mainly to transport heavy wares rather than passengers. Not found on ESTC or JISC nor anything else printed by Bucknell of Winton. Winton: Bucknell, Printer, High-Street, [c. 1800] unknown
