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Colour in Advertising.
London: The Studio Limited, 1934. First edition. 4to. 29, (3). Publisher's black boards lettered and illustrated in red and blue, dust jacket designed along the same lines. 24 tipped in colour plates, including two each with two illustrations, each plate accompanied by a leaf of text, further illustrations set within..... More
Elegy to John Donne, and other poems. Selected, translated and with an introduction by Nicholas Bethell.
(London): Longmans, (1967). First English edition, 8vo, 76, (2) pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, lower wrapper a little browned and soiled. More
Less Than One. Selected Essays.
Harmondsworth: Viking, 1986. First British edition. 8vo. (viii), 501, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth backed grey boards, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Very good. More
'Twixt Land and Sea Tales.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1912. "Copyright Edition". Small 8vo. Contemporary patterned boards, gilt lettered maroon spine label. Very good. More
Nouveau Dictionnaire de Poche, Français-Italien... Nuovo Dizionario Portatile, Italiano-Francese... [Revised by] M. Santagnello...
[London]: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, [c.1850]. Fourth edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo. (ii), xx, 431, (1); (ii), xxvii, (i), 371, (1) pp. Owner's ink stamp to title pages and front blanks, piece torn from one fly leaf. Contemporary calf, gilt spines with brown and green labels, one lacking, slight..... More
Rhymes in the West of England Dialect. By Agrikler. Also Rhymes by Outis.
Bristol: Leech and Taylor, 1872. Second edition, 8vo, (iv), viii, (ii), 94 pp. Foxing at the beginning and end. Later cloth, mild rubbing to extremities. More
Scepsis Scientifica: or, Contest Ignorance, the way to Science; In an Essay of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion. With a Reply to the Exceptions Of the Learned Thomas Albius.
London: Printed by E. Cotes, for Henry Eversden, 1665. Sole edition, 8vo, (xxx), 184, (16), 92, (4) pp, lacking the half title, and with two leaves of the preliminaries (imprimatur and advertisement) bound at the end. Engraved coat of arms of the Royal Society, title and subsequent leaf with some..... More
A Fourth Book of Things Made by Members of the Guild of St. Joseph & St. Dominic.
(Ditchling Common): [The Guild, c. 1936]. 8vo. 16 pp. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, staple bound as issued, illustration to the upper cover and a map showing the location of the guild to the rear. Black and white photographs illustrating two of the workshops plus examples of the guild's output including..... More
The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works Of that Incomparable Prelate... With some specialities of divine providence in his life. Noted by his own hand. Together with his Hard Measure: Written also by himself.
London: Printed by J. Cadwel for J. Crooke, 1660. First edition, small 4to, (xvi), 64, 112, 121-168, 179-195, 188-189, 198-199, 192-193, 202-209, 230-438 pp, with considerable mispagination as called for. Lacking the portrait frontispiece. Contemporary calf, rebacked with red and green labels, corners restored. Hall was Bishop of Norwich as..... More
The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine. Conducted by... Gardener to the Right Hon. Lord Wharncliffe, Wortley Hall. March to December, 1833. Volume I. [to] January to December, 1837. Volume V.
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. and G. Ridge [earlier] Whittaker & Co. [later], 1833-37. Five volumes. 8vo. Contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and with a gilt leaf device to the others, ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Pilkington dated..... More
The Wine and Spirit Merchant's Companion, and Complete Instructor to the Wholesale and Retail Trade... with an Essay on Distillation and Tables of the Weights of Spirits.
London: Simpkin Marshall, and Co., 1843. Second edition, reissue, small 8vo, (ii), ii, 228 pp. Contemporary inscription on fly leaf. Original cloth, rubbed with some marks, spine browned, remains of a label to the upper cover. Including detailed instructions on preparing a range of drinks, from raspberry wine to porter..... More
Toothed Gearing. A Practical Handbook for Offices and Workshops. By a Foreman Pattern Worker.
London: Crosby Lockwood and Sons, 1892. First edition. 8vo. viii, 208, 40, 16 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine with black detailing to the upper board. Some light wear to the extremities, else a decent copy. More
Stapeliarum In Hortis Vindobonensibus Cultarum.
(Sandton): Constantia Classics, (1982). Limited edition, no. 225 of 850 copies, folio. 64 colour plates. Full green morocco, a fine copy held in the original slipcase, some scuffing to the top and bottom ends of this. Originally published 1809-1816. More
Judging by Appearance. Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2006. 4to. 238, (2) pp. Publisher's printed card covers with flaps, inscribed by Johnson on the half title to the late art dealer William Drummond - "For dear Bill, All respect and best wishes..." Illustrated in colour throughout. Very good. Representing 100 master drawings..... More
Historical Notes of the Leeds Old Pottery, with a Description of its Wares: together with brief accounts of contemporary potteries in the immediate vicinity, hitherto unnoticed.
Leeds: J.R. Kidson, 1892. Limited edition, no. 147 of 250 copies, 4to, 161, (3) pp, 21 plates and a plan, signature to front blank, frontispiece foxed, large armorial bookplate, original cloth, spine ends rubbed. More
Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries. With a Foreword by John J.N. Mackman.
London: Virtue and Company Limited, 1936. First edition. 4to. xvi, 308, (8) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt title panel to the spine and with a circular gilt and blindstamped panel to the upper board. Photographic portrait of the author plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout and 20 colour plates..... More
Plan of an Intended Railway from the Town of Lancaster to the Town of Preston in the County Palatine of Lancaster. [with] Enlarged Plans [of Twenty Four Sites on the Route plus a Plan of] Part of Preston.
Birmingham: Lithographed by Binns & Clifford (Surveyors &c.), 1836. Overall dimensions (1) 41.5 x 230 cm and (2) 41.5 x 96.5 cm. A very long folding map on a scale of approximately 4½ inches to one mile with a cross section of the landscape on route running underneath on a...... More
Etchers and Etching. Chapters in the history of the art together with technical explanations of modern artistic methods by...
London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1920). Limited edition, no. 100 of 105 copies signed by the author, folio, (xx), 367, (1) pp. 45 illustrations, including an original etching, "The Old City Hall", by Pennell. Original gilt titled boards, rebacked in plainly lettered morocco. More
The Best of Redouté's Roses. Selected and Introduced by Eva Mannering.
London: The Ariel Press, 1959. Limited edition, no. 93 of 1,000 copies. Folio. xvi pp. Publisher's card covers, dust jacket with glassine wrapper. 29 colour plates. Some wear with a few small losses to the glassine, else very good. More
Remarks, Critical and Illustrative, on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakspeare. [bound with] The Quip Modest; A few words by way of Supplements to Remarks... occasioned by a republication of that edition...
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1783, 88. Two works bound in one volume, both first edition, 8vo, viii, 240, (2), (viii), 32 pp. Armorial bookplate, placed over an earlier one. Contemporary diced calf with a gilt border, rebacked retaining the original spine, and although some of the latter has since..... More