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Ulverston: James Atkinson, 1894 larger 8vo cloth pp394 bw plates/drawings fold-out plan subscribers list index VG- Local history work, mainly considering the Medieval era and after, with reference to prehistory and modern industry. Subscribers list shows a Mrs Dryden of Putney, and 'F. S. Dryden Putney' is written in old fashioned ink style inside front. All plates and fold-out abbey plan present. Front blank endpaper pasted to binding, and small adhesive label tear and mark over old pricing. Minor general wear, a scarce subscriber copy. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ]
Bookcloth 1823-1980: A study of early use and the rise of manufacture, Winterbottom's dominance of the trade in Britain and America, production ... the identification of qualities and designs by Tomlinson, William and Richard Masters - 1996
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Bookcloth 1823-1980: A study of early use and the rise of manufacture, Winterbottom's dominance of the trade in Britain and America, production ... the identification of qualities and designs
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Fine in a Fine slipcase minimal handling. Printed and bound by Smith Settle, Otley, England; 1500 copies. Bound in deep red T grain Victorian Bookcloth. Fine in a Fine slipcase minimal handling. 10.25 inches tall (slipcase); xvi, 143 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations, portraits (some color), color samples; cloth samples. Appendices.. Comprehensive study of the science and history of manufacturing bookcloth; focusing on the development and use of starch-filled bookcloth in particular, from building factories to the formation of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company in 1891, which dominated the industry for almost a century.
The real treasure of this book is the section at the end containing 36 tipped-in samples of the qualities and 30 examples of designs, which bring the processes and treatments described in the text to life in a way that words alone simply cannot.
Includes bibliography and extensive notes and appendices. Color portrait frontispiece of Archibald Winterbottom (1814-1884) and color portrait of George Harold Winterbottom (1860-1934), the founders of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company (1891-1980).
Appendices: Distributors; Early history of bleaching in Britain; Making paper/cotton calendar bowls; Interlaken's competitors in the United States; Early histories of three British leathercloth companies References. Sample section ; Feeler samples of Victorian-type and other bookcloths; Designs - pages A to E; Qualities - pages F to K.
Fine in a Fine slipcase minimal handling. Printed and bound by Smith Settle, Otley, England; 1500 copies. Bound in deep red T grain Victorian Bookcloth. Fine in a Fine slipcase minimal handling. 10.25 inches tall (slipcase); xvi, 143 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations, portraits (some color), color samples; cloth samples. Appendices.. Comprehensive study of the science and history of manufacturing bookcloth; focusing on the development and use of starch-filled bookcloth in particular, from building factories to the formation of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company in 1891, which dominated the industry for almost a century.
The real treasure of this book is the section at the end containing 36 tipped-in samples of the qualities and 30 examples of designs, which bring the processes and treatments described in the text to life in a way that words alone simply cannot.
Includes bibliography and extensive notes and appendices. Color portrait frontispiece of Archibald Winterbottom (1814-1884) and color portrait of George Harold Winterbottom (1860-1934), the founders of the Winterbottom Book Cloth Company (1891-1980).
Appendices: Distributors; Early history of bleaching in Britain; Making paper/cotton calendar bowls; Interlaken's competitors in the United States; Early histories of three British leathercloth companies References. Sample section ; Feeler samples of Victorian-type and other bookcloths; Designs - pages A to E; Qualities - pages F to K.
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Jefferies' Land: A History of Swindon and Its Environs by the late Richard Jefferies; edited with notes by Grace Toplis
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London: Simplin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good +. Imprint includes: Wells, Somerset: Arthur Young. xvi, 207, [1] p., 13 leaves of plates (including 1 folded map; 19 cm. Dark blue rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; bevelled edges. Top page edges gilt. Includes bibliographical references (p. [xv]-xvi) and index. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Wm. A. MacFarlane-Grieve [William Alwyn MacFarlane Grieve]. First edition. This is one of a limited edition of 350 copies. Publisher's advertisement for Jefferies' The History of Malmesbury Abbey on p. [i] with the limitation note for this volume on the verso; additional publisher advertisements on final, unpaginated page. The illustrations are from drawings by Agnes Taylor, mostly from phohtographs taken by Charles Andrew, Swindon. This history of Swindon, England, was written by Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) as a young man while working for the North Wilts Herald in 1867. It contains…
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[Crimean War] Recollections of a Zouave Before Sebastopol
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London and New York: Hayes & Zell, 1856. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. First American Edition. 12mo; 7.125 inches; 300 pages plus a four-page advertising catalog in rear dated July 1, 1856. Publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, Spine Titles and front decoration of soldier in gilt. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning; foxing to the pastedowns and preliminaries. Moderate shelf handling wear. . Personal memoir recounts the experience of a Zouave trumpeter in the Crimean War. In addition to descriptions of camp-life and combat, the narrative includes short discussions of Florence Nightingale and the Sisters of Charity, as well as more information about medical services and hospitals in general. The Zouaves were a class of light infantry regiments of the French Army linked to French North Africa. The Zouaves, along with the indigenous Tirailleurs Algeriens, were among the most decorated units of the French Army.
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[James Valentine, Photographer] Album of 12 albumen photographic views of Scotland. c1890
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Dundee, Scotland: Valentine, James (and his studio), 1890. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Photography by Valentine, James (1815-1879). Album in red pebbled cloth, edges in gilt with hand-soiling some spotting from liquid to the cloth edges are sun-faded; some fading and minor yellowing to photographs around edges; Bindings firm. Photos are attached to cardstock on hinged leaves. 12 albumen photographs mounted on boards and bound in cloth-covered, gilt-stamped album. Photographs: 13.3 by 20.3 cm (5.25 by 8 inches); boards: 17.1 by 23 cm (6.75 by x 9 inches).. James Valentine was a Scottish photographer who, with his company Valentine's of Dundee, produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers of picture postcards. Valentine market was the national middle- and upper-class tourist market, with the production of both drawing room albums containing selections of photographs arranged geographically and individual…
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A new and complete history of the county of Warwick, illustrated by a series of views engraved on steel from original drawings [Warwickshire]
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[Crimean War] Recollections of a Zouave Before Sebastopol
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London and New York: Hayes & Zell, 1856. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/None Issued. First American Edition. 12mo; 7.125 inches; 300 pages plus a four-page advertising catalog in rear dated July 1, 1856. Publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, Spine Titles and front decoration of soldier in gilt. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning; foxing to the pastedowns and preliminaries. Moderate shelf handling wear. . Personal memoir recounts the experience of a Zouave trumpeter in the Crimean War. In addition to descriptions of camp-life and combat, the narrative includes short discussions of Florence Nightingale and the Sisters of Charity, as well as more information about medical services and hospitals in general. The Zouaves were a class of light infantry regiments of the French Army linked to French North Africa. The Zouaves, along with the indigenous Tirailleurs Algeriens, were among the most decorated units of the French Army.
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Dundee, Scotland: Valentine, James (and his studio), 1890. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Photography by Valentine, James (1815-1879). Album in red pebbled cloth, edges in gilt with hand-soiling some spotting from liquid to the cloth edges are sun-faded; some fading and minor yellowing to photographs around edges; Bindings firm. Photos are attached to cardstock on hinged leaves. 12 albumen photographs mounted on boards and bound in cloth-covered, gilt-stamped album. Photographs: 13.3 by 20.3 cm (5.25 by 8 inches); boards: 17.1 by 23 cm (6.75 by x 9 inches).. James Valentine was a Scottish photographer who, with his company Valentine's of Dundee, produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers of picture postcards. Valentine market was the national middle- and upper-class tourist market, with the production of both drawing room albums containing selections of photographs arranged geographically and individual…
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Bookcloth 1823-1980
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Cheshire UK: Dorothy Tomlinson, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth hardcover in matching slipcase. Illustrated, with a color frontispiece and reproductions of early bookcloth sample books. 66 original samples of Victorian bookcloth tipped-in, 30 of designs and 36 of qualities. The samples are a generous 1-1/2 x 3', though a few of the scarcer types are half size. Limitation of 1500 copies, owing to the supply of cloth available for samples. Clean, like new. Record # 381329
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The Edwardian Era (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s copy)
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New York: D. Appleton Century Company, 1933. First American edition. Good-. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine and front cover Scuffing and light wear at edges and particularly on spine Small tear at top edge of spine, and chipping at both ends Binding sound and tight Text has no marks or damage at all The personal bookplate of the famous actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr on the ffep André Maurois (1885 â€" 1967) was a French author of numerous novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories Douglas Fairbanks Jr, KBE, DSC (1909 â€" 2000) was an American actor, producer and decorated naval officer of World War II He is best known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939) and The Corsican Brothers (1941) He was the son of actor Douglas Fairbanks and was once married to Joan Crawford viii, 391 pp.
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This book is in fairly good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards, as well as spots on the outside back cover board. There is minimal bumping and fraying on the cover boards. The pages are yellowing and tanning, with some vertical fraying and warping, but the pages are clear of markings. A few of the pages are dog-eared and edges torn. "The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called 'The Man of Propery; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little of heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of…
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TRINITY: 450 YEARS OF AN OXFORD COLLEGE COMMUNITY
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 500. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Wrap-around pictorial dust jacket, deep blue cloth covered boards with the college insignia stamped in gilt on the top board. Includes pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, and a foreword by The Honourable Michael J. Beloff, President of Trinity College. The book is a history of the venerable college from its inception. There are black and white photographs throughout. The appendices contain; drawings of the college grounds, list ofTwentieth-century Fellows, list of member of the college in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and index. This is a near fine copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.
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The History of King Richard the First of England: With Engravings
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The History of King Alfred of England: With Engravings
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The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of King Alfred of England, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All nine B&W engravings are intact.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with wear on heel and top. Small markings on FFEP. A few pages have deckled bottom edges. Pages are age tanned and have small stains.
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Swimming with Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale; Sport, Health and Exercise in eighteenth-century England.
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Cambridge:: Lutterworth Press, 2012., 2012. 8vo. viii, [4], 297, [1] pp. Figs., index. Pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED by author to Dr. Dennis Gibbs. Near fine. ISBN: 9780718892760 "An exploration of the history of British sport, viewed through the lens of the life and work of Samuel Johnson and his friend and correspondent Hester Thrale. / In "Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale," Julia Allen takes a sideways look at sport, health and exercise in the eighteenth century, and in so doing reveals unfamiliar sides of the eponymous characters she uses as guides and commentators. Samuel Johnson does battle with the rough breakers at Brighton as energetically as he did with any of his verbal opponents; and Hester Thrale – herself 'a good waterspaniel' – provides wry observations, notably on what men decided women might decently be allowed to do in that foreign country that is the past. / Allen starts with the medical theories underpinning notions about exercise, the role of the physician and the…
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