1st ed., 8vo, original decorated green cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. 41 [2] i-xxxiii. Tipped in photographic frontispiece of “Wordsworth’s Glen.” [See note below] A talk about the Quantock Hills area of southwest England, where Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote Lyrical Ballads, which Nichols writes about the landscape as well as some of the other "Quantock Poets," including Charles Lamb, Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Charles Lloyd. Gift inscription on FFEP “with the writer’s compliments” to Welsh mathematician, photographer, and painter Rev. Calvert R. Jones, [1804-1877]. We believe Jones m... View More...
Full title: Sunday in London, Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts, by George Cruikshank, a Few Words by a Friend of His; with a Copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill. With frontispiece, engraved title, nine full-page woodcuts and three vignettes. 1st ed., 12mo, full polished tan calf, gilt rules and lettering, t.e.g. [iv] 105 pp. [24 publisher’s catalog] A satire on the English Sabbatarians and their leader Sir Andrew Agnew. Condition: Fair. The interior clean and bright overall with few pages darkened or spotted; one page of the catalog with a small closed tear. The major defect is the back board is det... View More...
Full title: Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE, in two parts. The first describing the wars in the years 1644, 45, 46. The 2nd part containing an account of Montrose's Negotiations abroad and the state of affairs in Scotland from the year 1647, to the year 1650 inclusive. The 2d part being never before published, is now done into English from the Latin of the right Reverend father in God, Doctor George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, With an appendix containing 1st a Description of Montrose's pompous Funerals in the year 1661. 2dly, A character of King Charles the 1st... View More...
Publisher:
NY/East Aurora, The Roycroft Shop : 1899
Seller ID: 17092207
12mo, handmade paper, gray-green limp suede covers with gilt titles, red satin paste-downs and tie. #557/950 copies, signed by Elbert Hubbard. Fine; backstrip lightly faded and light fade line across top of upper cover. [Livingston suppl. p. 137] View More...
8vo, black cloth, t.e.g., gilt emblem on front, paper labels. First American edition.The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sources, Kipling undertook this regimental history following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos. A classic work. 9 maps. Fine, as-new copies; vol. 1 in nicked d/w; d/w lacking on Vol 2. [Livingston 483, Richards A341] View More...
1st ed. 4to, red cloth with gilt decorations and titles, 156 pp. Illustrated with wood enravings and ornamentation. 3 volumes in one. Original publisher’s catalog entry clipped and pasted to front flyleaf. CONDITION: Good; rubbed at corners and spine ends, front hinge lightly cracked. Light foxing to bottom of first several pages and occasional page edges; otherwise a clean copy with very good-near fine appearance internally. View More...
London: Ackermann & Co, , (1853). 1st ed., 4to approx.. 12-3/4” x 9-3/4”. Green cloth with large pictorial paper paste-on. 64 pages. Each page illustrated with elaborate b/w etchings An alphabet book, including the proper phonetics for the English language. Poor; internally sound but substantially shaken; occasional light foxing. Binding split with spine lacking, corners rubbed and bumped. View More...
Large contemporary scrapbook containing 292 autographs of members of Britain's House of Lords; clipped from franked envelopes and correspondence. 14”x17” leather covers with embossed onset label, a.e.g. Approximately 80 leaves, each with one to six clipped signatures. Penciled headings indicate Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, Marquesas’ galore.
Note: Given the format and vintage, we presume all signatures are genuine. About 30 clipped signatures were removed before we obtained this; we do not know when this happened or who was removed -- it is being sold as is, as we obtained it.
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1948 Souvenir Theater Program for a charity production of “Oedipus” and “The Critic” signed by Lawrence Olivier and eight other members of the cast. 8.5x11”, stitched wrappers. 16 pp.
A special production in aid of King George’s Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses, Theatre Festival Week, April 10, 1948, with H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth in attendance. Signed inside the front cover by Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, George Relph, Miles Malleson, Nicholas Hannen, Margaret Leighton, and one unidentified. Gorgeous cover by portrait artist and illustrator Anna Zinkeisen who, wi... View More...
First edition in book form. 1st state. 8vo, three-quarter crushed black morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine with raised bands. viii, 526 pp. t.e.g.
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First Issue, with engraved half-title/frontispiece which is often missing. Other points: p.526 l.18 having the words 'reeledbefore' run together and all plates following p.120 with publisher's imprint at bottom. Publisher’s address reading '186, Strand'. A fresh, tight, textually clean copy. Cohn, 234; Eckel 15-22; Gimbel A7; Hatton & Cleaver, p.103; Jerrold, p.364.
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Condition: Good. Condition: Covers Fair/Text Block Good. Cov... View More...