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ref. 6510571Cambridge University Press CUP . Papeback. New. pp. 164 Cambridge University Press CUP unknown
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ref. SONG0876041454Brand: A.R.E. Press 0000-00-00. Revised. paperback. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: A.R.E. Press paperback
1994ref. SONG0275947807Bloomsbury Academic 1994-02-07. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.00x0.62x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Bloomsbury Academic hardcover
ref. SONG1855324385Osprey Pub Co 0000-00-00. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good. 8.00x0.25x8.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Osprey Pub Co paperback
1927ref. 73881London: Williams & Norgate 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Eight Plates in Colour and Sixty-four Subjects in Half-tone. Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook. Neat contemporary owner name on the front fly small stain and a little soiling to the boards a very good plus copy in an attractive very good plus example of the dustwrapper with a modest stain near the crown and slight sunning and very minor loss to the spine. A handsome copy. Williams & Norgate hardcover
1925ref. 1003H41London: The Nonesuch Press 1925 . Hardback. Good. 10.5" by 7". None. A limited Nonesuch Press edition of the poetry of Bishop Henry King with a contemporary presentation inscription from the celebrated modernist poster designer E. McKnight Kauffer to the front free endpaper. In the original publisher's full paper Vellum binding.A limited edition being number four hundred and eighteen of nine hundred copies printed the typography designed by Francis Meynell and printed at the Cambridge University Press by Walter Lewis.A finely printed edition of the poems of Henry King 1592-1669 the English metaphysical poet and Bishop of Chichester. Among his most celebrated works is The Exequy an elegy written on the death of his wife.Notably this copy bears a presentation inscription to the front free endpaper dated 1925 from the American-born graphic designer and poster artist Edward McKnight Kauffer 1890-1954 reading: "To Eric G. Underwood from his friend E. McKnight Kauffer. 1925." Kauffer is particularly well known for his modernist posters for London Underground Shell Oil and the Great Western Railway among other commercial clients In the original publisher's full paper Vellum binding. Bookplate of Eric G. Underwood to front paste down. With a contemporary presentation from the celebrated graphic designer E. McKnight Kauffer to front free endpaper. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Boards slightly splayed. Front joint cracked with slight lifting and loss to vellum paper heavier to head and tail of spine. Spotting marking and slight discolouration to perimeters of paper vellum boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned with one or two spots to rough cut fore edge. Slight cockling to fore edge. Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1967ref. 982Y23Cambridge : Brooke Crutchley at the University Printing House 1967. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 6". None. An excellent limited edition anthology of inscriptions compiled by John Sparrow. Limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. "Printed by the University Printer for His Friends at Christmas Cambridge 1967". In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. With the original matching slipcase.This epigraphical study describes a series of forty-six inscriptions including those found on monuments tombs and tablets.Compiled by John Sparrow an English academic barrister and book-collector. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. With the original matching slipcase. Externally excellent with only minor shelf wear. Small ex libris bookplate of one John Lewis to the front pastedown. Slipcase is very smart indeed with a couple spots to the boards and minor shelf wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot to the endpapers. Near Fine Brooke Crutchley at the University Printing House hardcover
1979ref. 982W11London: Duckworth 1979. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 10" by 7". None. A very smart first edition of this anthology in original blue cloth with original dust wrapper. A lovely first edition of this 'superb selection' of Latin poetry. Perosa and Sparrow present an uninterrupted and varied selection of writings that span the 14th to the 16th Century and across Europe. This title was published in 1979 the year of death of Richard William Hunt whose bookplate can be found to the front pastedown. Hunt was a medieval scholar paleographer and author who was employed in the Bodleian Library as Keeper of the Western Manuscripts and shared this book's investment in the preservation of ancient and historical languages. Still in its original dust wrapper clipped with minor shelf wear. Bound in blue cloth with original clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart. Bookplate to front paste down. Clipped dust wrapper mild shelf wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages consistently bright and clean. Very slight spotting to top edge. Fine Duckworth hardcover
ref. DADAX0691600406Princeton University Press 2014-07-14. paperback. New. 5.75x0.84x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Princeton University Press paperback
ref. DADAX0691630348Princeton University Press 2016-04-19. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.88x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Princeton University Press hardcover
ref. DADAX012802822XAcademic Press 2015-11-11. 1. hardcover. New. 6.10x1.10x9.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Academic Press hardcover
ref. DADAX1137002328MACMILLAN 2014-11-12. 2015. hardcover. New. 6.00x1.00x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. MACMILLAN hardcover
1924ref. 989G37London : Arthur H. Stockwell 1924 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A very scarce illustrated first edition of this collection of poems and prose with 12 plates. The very scarce first edition of the work. In publisher's original red cloth binding.Illustrated with twelve scenery photographic plates. Collated complete.Written by Stuart F. Sparrow this volume contains a collection of poems and prose alongside scenic photography including works such as Stars To The Moon Destiny Hayfields A Moorland Evening Picture and many more. In publishers original cloth binding. Externally smart. Tide mark along foredge of boards. Shelf wear to extremities. Fading to spine. Ink inscription to front paste down. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Arthur H. Stockwell hardcover
1925ref. 960H15London: The Nonesuch Press 1925 . Hardback. Very Good. 10.5" by 7". None. An understated limited edition collection of the poems of Henry King by The Nonesuch Press edited by John Sparrow. In the original publisher's full paper Vellum binding. This volume is a limited edition being copy number seventy four of nine hundred. This is a quietly elegant Nonesuch Press revival of Bishop Henry King's 17th-century verse contemplating themes of love loss and mortality his verses provide a bridge between the sacred and the secular. Henry King 1592 - 1669 was an English poet who served as Bishop of Chichester. He was a close friend of John Donne who made him one of his executors. He was also well acquainted with Ben Jonson George Sandys Sir Henry Blount and James Howell. His friendship with Izaak Walton began about 1634 and was lifelong. In the original publisher's full paper vellum binding. Externally generally smart. Slight spotting to boards heavier to rear board. Boards slightly cocked. Spine age toned typical of this binding. Offsetting and spotting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot heavier to rough cut fore edge. Minor cockling towards fore edge. Very Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1926ref. 958H4London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 6.5". None. A limited edition of 'The Mistress with Other Select Poems of Abraham Cowley 1619-1667' edited by John Sparrow for the Nonesuch Press. A limited edition of this work being copy seven hundred and four of one thousand and fifty copies. This edition has been made in Scotland by R. & R. Clark and printed on Dutch rag paper in Monotype Bodoni for The Nonesuch Press. Original brown cloth binding. 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. Tucked within the between the rear endpaper and rear board is a cutting of an article from The Sunday Times published October 31st 1926 by Edmund Gosse. This cutting lends additional insight to "accomplished and highly conscientious verse of Cowley". Original brown cloth binding. Externally generally smart but with damp staining to spine and front board with minor damp staining to rear board. Slight loss to spine label. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with slight spotting throughout and to front paste down heavier to the fore edge with dusting on rough cut fore edge. Very Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1915ref. 971Y32London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1915. First edition. Cloth. Good. 10" by 8". Frank Brangwyn. The first edition of this charming study of bridges copiously illustrated with colour plates by Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn. First edition. In the original cloth binding. Copiously illustrated throughout by Frank Brangwyn including thirty-six colour plates and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Collated complete. This well-versed work on bridges includes chapters on Roman constructions the evolution of unfortified bridges the significance of natural bridges and more. Written by Walter Shaw Sparrow a Welsh writer on art architecture and furniture. In the original cloth binding. Externally with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With a small split to the head of the back strip and a few minor marks to the cloth. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spots throughout. Plate borders are blind-stamped with previous owner's address not to the illustrations themselves. Good John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
1936ref. 935Y49Bromsgrove : Bromsgrove School 1936. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7". None. A limited work of five hundred copies being a series of recollections about English poet and scholar A. E. Housman. A limited edition of five hundred copies. Published at Bromsgrove School which is where Housman attended.In the publisher's original green cloth binding. A charming series of eight recollections concerning English poet and classical scholar A. E. Housman offering biographical sketches of him as a student and later as one of the greatest classical scholars known today. Each written by different authors such as English bibliographer Alfred W. Pollard and fellow academics John Sparrow and R. W. Chambers. Illustrated with six plates. Collated complete. In the original green cloth binding. Externally with fading to the spine and marks to the boards. With minor shelf wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few leaves. Very Good Bromsgrove School hardcover
1925ref. 947F9London: The Nonesuch Press 1925 . Hardback. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". None. John Sparrow's limited edition of the collected poems of Henry King the Bishop of Chichester and a close friend of major literary figures of the seventeenth century. No. 606 of 900 copies of this edition produced.Edited by John Sparrow.A wonderful Nonesuch Press edition of the collected poems of Bishop of Chichester Henry King who in his day was a close friend of such figures as John Donne Ben Jonson and Izaac Walton.King wrote many elegies during his career with some being dedicated to personal friends including Jonson and Donne. In the publisher's original paper vellum binding. Back strip age toned with light shelf wear to back strip tail. Small mark to rear board. Spotting to front board perimeters with board lightly cocked. Head and tail of front joint starting with board firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Majority of leaves unopened to fore edge. Very Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1926ref. 927Y46London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 6.5". None. A limited edition poetical collection comprising the works of Abraham Cowley one of the leading English poets of the seventeenth century. A limited edition of 1050 numbered copies on Dutch rag paper. This copy is number 283. In the publisher's original cloth binding.A pleasing collection of poems from English poet and essayist Abraham Cowley. Includes his work 'The Mistress' which he completed during his twelve year in exile in France with Queen Henrietta Maria a consequence of refusing to sign the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644. With a portrait of Cowley to the title page drawn and engraved by John Hall from a painting from the collection of Horace Walpole. In the original cloth binding. Externally very smart with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With marks to the boards and a couple chips to the spine label. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with offsetting to the endpapers and the very odd spot. Very Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1923ref. 884T12London: John Lane 1923. First edition. Cloth. Good. 11.5" by 9". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this study of British art depicting angling through five centuries. First edition. Illustrated with two hundred images including thirty-nine colour plates one hundred and thirty-three black-and-white plates and twenty-eight line blocks in the text. Collated complete. A detailed work exploring the figure of the angler in British art with chapters on watercolours land and sea painting language in art as well as studies on individual artists and their sporting work. Written by Walter Shaw Sparrow a Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. With a preface by Hugh Tempest Sheringham an English writer considered one of the greatest angling writers of his generation. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities resulting in minor fraying. Fading to the spine and edges of the boards. The odd mark to the board. Residue from library sticker to the tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Library stamps to the reverse of the title page. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Good John Lane hardcover
1926ref. 864N44London: The Nonesuch Press 1926. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7". Not stated. A limited edition copy of Abraham Cowley's poetry. A limited edition copy of Abraham Cowley's poetry. The seventeenth century poet showed promise as a poet from a young age achieving fame for his collection entitled Poeticall Blossomes at just fifteen years old. As well as these early poems the volume includes The Mistress and verses on several occasions. Number 692 of 1050 copies printed on Dutch rag paper. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited editions and private press and aimed to achieve the same standards as the private press movement despite using commercial presses. With a sticker from a Birmingham branch of W. H. Smith to the recto of the rear endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart. A little bumped to the head and tail of the spine with some light rubbing to the spine label. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1925ref. 866A67London: The Nonesuch Press 1925. Hardback. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 7" . None . A limited edition of the collected poems of Henry King edited by John Sparrow. Limited edition of the poems of Henry King collected poems edited by John Sparrow published in a large paper limited to nine-hundred copies this out of series. The typography has been designed by Francis Meynell.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. In the original publisher's full paper vellum binding with yapp edges. Externally very smart with light bumping to extremities boards and spine lightly marked. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1904ref. 866A54London: Hodder & Stoughton 1904. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11.5" by 8" . Not Stated . The uncommon first edition of this architectural study of British homes. The first edition of this work an uncommon copy. Dedicated to domestic architecture and the applied arts of the twentieth century. Edited by W Shaw Sparrow Welsh writer on art architecture and furniture. With contributions by architect and authorities including James Orrock E Guy Dawber and Arnold Mitchell among others. Illustrated in text and with nine coloured plates tipped in. Collated bound with nine of ten coloured plates.Numerous leaves of period advertisements. In the original publisher's full supple cloth binding. Externally sound with light chipping and bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally firmly bound. Light spotting scattered throughout. Very Good Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
1894ref. 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
