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1894réf. 868P39London: Elliot Stock 1894. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A scarce study on St. Paul's Cathedral by a Sub-Dean William Sparrow Simpson an interesting illustrated history. The first edition of this scarce work.Written by the Sub-Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral this work explores the history of the Cathedral and its surrounding areas. An interesting look at both the civil and religious life of the Cathedral from the 13th to 16th century.Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates.This work was published as the finale of a trilogy following 'History of Old S. Paul's' and 'Gleaning from Old S. Paul's'.Collated complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Only a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Spots to the endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto and verso of the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Elliot Stock hardcover
1926réf. 874M29London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1926. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Thomas Weaver; T. Woodward; Wildrake; et al. A profusely illustrated collection of anecdotes concerning hunting with maps and colour plates. An illustrated work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with six colour plates sixteen plates in half-tone eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations. Collated complete. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Britain comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow who also provided an introduction for this volume. Illustrated throughout after James Seymour by Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fairly smart with fading to the spine and small marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spot and some offsetting to the end papers. Very Good John Lane: The Bodley Head hardcover
1924réf. 838J31London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1924. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 9". Not Stated. The first edition of this copiously illustrated work on the history of art and advertising in Great Britain written by Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating work on the relationship between art and advertising in British history with chapters on varieties of advertising advertising reform designers the history of British advertising posters including sporting posters hotels the seaside architecture etc. and more. The first edition of this work. Written by Welsh writer Walter Shaw Sparrow an expert on art and architecture. Illustrated with thirty-six prints in colour and one-hundred and twenty-one half-tone prints. Collated and complete. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Cloth has darkened slightly. Internally firmly bound. A few spots to the endpapers though pages are otherwise bright and clean. Very Good John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
1926réf. 839M21London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 7". None. A limited edition collection of poetry by the leading seventeenth century poet Abraham Cowley. A limited edition of this work published by Nonesuch Press 311 of 1050 printed on Dutch rag paper in the publisher's original cloth binding. Abraham Cowley was a seventeenth-century English poet one of the most popular and influential of his era. Cowley showed poetical promise from a young age publishing his first collection 'Poetical Blossoms' in 1633 when he was fifteen. He went into exile as a Royalist during the Civil War during which time he wrote a history of the Civil War. This collection includes 'The Mistress' 'Friendship in Absence' 'A Dream of Elysium' 'The Vain Love' 'The Rich Rival' 'My Fate' 'Impossibilities' 'Counsel' 'Sors Virgiliana' and many more. With a portrait of Abraham Cowley to the title page drawn and engraved by John Hall from a painting from the collection of Horace Walpole. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books but had them printed by commercial printers. Books with the quality of a fine-press were produced but available to a wider audience at lower prices. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart with just some light bumping to the boards. Spine label is still bright and intact. Offsetting to the free end papers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot to the first and last few pages and to the fore edge. Very Good Indeed The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1926réf. 821B39London : John Lane The Bodley Head 1926. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 8". James Seymour Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick. . A new edition of this fascinating and richly illustrated compilation of hound hunting in Great Britain. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Great Britain comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited and with an introduction by Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six colour plates sixteen plates in half-tone eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations. Collate complete. With illustrations credited to James Seymour Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally generally smart. The spine is faded and a little bumped and the boards are a little faded. There is a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound and with bright and clean pages with the occasional spot throughout. Good John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
1925réf. 819A31London: The Nonesuch Press 1925. Hardback. Very Good. 10.5" by 7" . None . A limited edition of the collected poems of Henry King. Henry King was an English poet and Bishop of Chichester in the seventeenth century author of numerous elegies on royal people and on his close friends who included John Donne and Ben Johnson. The present volume contains his collected poems edited by John Sparrow published in a large paper limited edition of nine-hundred copies this number three-hundred and forty. The typography has been designed by Francis Meynell. In the original publisher's full paper vellum binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear light soiling to boards and spine darkening to spine and minor chipping to extremities. Boards warped. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Occasional leaf unopened. Very Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
réf. A9781409437246Paperback / softback. New. Provides the theory and practice to connect employee engagement to long-term performance. In this book the author shares the insight of her research and experience into how companies are creating an engaged workforce. It explores how to enable the manager-as-engager. paperback
1931réf. 801J7London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1931. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 9". Various. A smart first edition copy of this colourfully illustrated work on sporting and hunting painters written by Welsh writer and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists.Copiously illustrated throughout with fifteen colour plates and ninety-three plates in black-and-white. Collated and complete. Also including a folding plate of the Alken Family Tree bound in opposite page 128 not usually included in this work. A Book of Sporting Painters acts as a companion work to Sparrow's earlier works British Sporting Artists From Barlow to Herring and Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries. This work also includes references to a variety of artists including the noted artist George Stubbs best known for his work on horses.Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper.Also containing a tipped-in detached plate from a previous owner with the name 'Mr William Molyneux Cohan' on it. In the publisher's original green cloth pictorial binding. Externally very smart with just some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and a small mark to the front board. Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper. Internally front hinge is just slightly tender but remaining firm. Remainder of binding is firm throughout. A small closed tear to page 240. Besides the odd spot throughout pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
1926réf. 800J27London: John Lane the Bodley Head 1926. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 8". Various. A heavily illustrated twentieth-century compilation on hound hunting in Great Britain edited by Welsh hunting and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating compiled work on hound hunting in Great Britain including various stories and reminiscences of hound hunters through the eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Edited by Welsh sporting and hunting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six plates in colour sixteen plates in half tone eight hunting maps and twenty-one other in-text illustrations. Collated and complete. Illustration contributions are credited to the works of James Seymour Thomas Weaver T. Woodward Wildrake H. Alken R.B. Davis Hancock W.P. Hodges J. Ramsay Thomas Phillips F.C. Turner John Doyle and Thomas Bewick. Containing previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally fading to the spine joints and extremities. Some shelf wear to the boards and a small amount of loss to the tail of the front board. Previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. Internally front hinge is tender but firm. Binding is firm throughout. Pages are bright and clean. Good John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
1905réf. 804J49London: Hodder and Stoughton 1905. Cloth. Very Good. 16.5" by 11.5". Not Stated. A smart heavily illustrated work on the life and career of French draughtsman and artist Jean-Dominique Ingres. Originally written by Arsène Alexandre and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating biographical work on the life and career of French draughtsman and artist Jean-Dominique Ingres. Jean-Dominique Ingres was a French neoclassical painter during the early nineteenth century whose portraits are often recognised as his best works. Written by Arsène Alexandre and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Including twenty-four tipped-in plates in Rembrandt photogravure and monograph. Collated and complete. Previously housed at the St. Augustine's Abbey Library with the bookplate to the front pastedown and the stamp to the front free-endpaper and title page. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart with some general shelf wear to the boards and rubbing to the joints. Some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. St. Augustine's Abbey bookplate to the front pastedown and stamp to the front free-endpaper and title page. Internally firmly bound. Pages contain the odd instance of scattered spots particularly to the tissue guards. Very Good Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1926réf. 789F25London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11"by 9.5". Various. A first edition history of British etching illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work from Welsh writer on art and architecture Walter Shaw Sparrow.Illustrated throughout this volume contains one hundred and fifty six etchings across seventy six plates. Collated complete.Documenting the fascinating history of British etching from Francis Barlowe to Francis Seymour Haden Sparrow's work is divided into two parts. The first titled 'Nationality and Works of Art: Foreign Etchers working in Britain' concerns the influences of foreign arts containing illustrations from Hollar Van Dyck Paul Renouard and others and the second 'The British Schools' looking at the first pioneers of etching in England; George Stubbs Paul Sandby Edwin Landseer Rowlandson Girtin and many others.With ten pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to head and tail of back strip. Internally firmly bound. Spotting to first few leaves. Pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
2013réf. DADAX073918198XLexington Books 2013-06-10. hardcover. New. 6.24x1.16x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Lexington Books hardcover
1926réf. 620P48London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 6.5". John Hall. A limited edition collection of poetry by the leading seventeenth century poet Abraham Cowley. A limited edition work published by Nonesuch Press this being copy 434 of 1050 printed on Dutch rag paper. Abraham Cowley was an English poet in the seventeenth century being one of the most popular and influential of his time. Cowley showed poetical promise from a very young age writing impressive poems as a child and publishing his first collection 'Poetical Blossoms' in 1633 when he was fifteen. He went into exile as a Royalist during the Civil War during which time he busied himself by writing a history of the Civil War. This collection includes 'The Mistress' 'Friendship in Absence' 'A Dream of Elysium' 'The Vain Love' 'The Rich Rival' 'My Fate' 'Impossibilities' 'Counsel' 'Sors Virgiliana' and many more. With a portrait of Abraham Cowley to the title page drawn and engraved by John Hall from a painting from the collection of Horace Walpole. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so books with the quality of a fine-press were produced but available to a wider audience at lower prices. In the original cloth binding. Externally smart. Light marking to the boards with very light tidemarking to the head of the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light discolouration to the spine. Spine label is lightly chips and discoloured. Discolouration to the endpapers with light tidemarking to the top edge of the pastedowns and endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1926réf. GEN9-E-2London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7". Unnamed. 'The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1619-1667' edited by John Sparrow for the Nonesuch Press. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited edition and private press. They were founded by Francis Meynell his second wife Vera Mendel and their friend David Garnett. Their aspiration was for their publications to be aligned with the same aesthetic standards as the private press movement. They were unusual as they used a small Albion press to design the books but had them printed by commercial printers. In doing so books with the quality of a fine-press were produced but available to a wider audience at lower prices. This edition consists of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper printed and made in Scotland by R. & R. Clark for the Nonesuch Press in Monotype Bodoni. This is number 462. First edition thus. Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century with fourteen printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721. In 1647 a collection of his love verses entitled 'The Mistress' was published. In a buckram binding. Externally generally smart but with slight wear to extremities and marks to boards. Internally firmly bound. Bright and generally clean throughout but with spotting to text block edges and foxing to endpapers. Pages untrimmed. Very Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1929réf. 632M17London: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1929. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 11.5" by 9". George Stubbs; Ben Marshall. A first edition copy of Walter Shaw Sparrow's fascinating study of the life and works of the renowned English sporting and animal painters George Stubbs and Ben Marshall. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. Collated complete with four plates in colour and eighty two 'subjects' in black and white. Complete with the scarce original unclipped dustwrapper. This copy was the second volume of the series 'The Sport of Our Fathers'. With an introduction by E. D. Cuming This copy contains a loosely inserted leaflet for the George Stubbs exhibition at the Tate Gallery 18 October 1984- 6 January 1985. In the publisher's original cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally minor shelfwear to extremities and head and tail of spine. Fading to spine. Dustwrapper chipped and bumped to extremities. Fading to spine of wrap and extremities of boards. Small closed tear to lower extremity of front wrap and upper extremity of rear wrap. Tear and small loss to head of front joint of wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light scattered spots to the occasional page. Very Good Cassell and Company, Ltd. hardcover
1922réf. GEN18-B-15London : John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1922. First edition. Cloth. Good. 11.5" x 9". None. A detailed work reviewing the lives and works of many artists who have studied English country life and sport mainly associated with hunting and racing. First edition. "With a Foreword by Sir Theodore Cook and Twenty-Seven Illustrations in Colour and Seventy-Six in Black & White." Covering a large time span; from Francis Barlow in the reign of Charles I and ending with J. F. Herring and the younger Wolstenholme. As the subject is Art in its relations with Sport and Sport in its patronage of Art this long period is particularly interesting because its changes and improvements mark a continuous evolution unbroken by revolutionary fashions and their reactions. Rebacked in green cloth gilt title to the spine and gilt embossed picture of a horse and rider to the front board. Externally boards are sound with only some light wear to the extremities. Rubbing to the spine with chipping and very minor loss. Internally firmly bound and bright throughout although with light background foxing throughout. Good John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd hardcover
1919réf. 20713London/New York: John Lane the Bodley Head/John Lane Company 1919. maroon cloth hard cover with gilt lettering and illustration. fore and bottom edges untrimmed. exterior wear to spine-ends with fading. front and rear hinges reinforced inside along gutters with japanese tissue sometime in past. small faded area to cover at top margin. clean. no writing or markings. no bumps. no foxing. sturdy binding. a solid used copy.; 287pp. with some unnumbered pages at either end. illustrated throughout in color and b/w. covers the artist's first 50-odd years in various mediums. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. John Lane, the Bodley Head/John Lane Company Hardcover
réf. 6468800Ashgate Publishing Company . Hardback. New. pp. vii 210 Index Ashgate Publishing Company hardcover
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