Search Results: Authors starting with B from Rickaro Books Ltd

Pall Mall London: Charles Knight, 1832. Book. Good. Hardback. Second Edition Enlarged. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good copy of this important enlarged second edition with three additional chapters, these are significant additions to the work. In original cloth, professionally re-spined with original cloth laid on, replacement endpapers. The engraved title page is foxed the rest of the volume clean and tight. xxivpp + 387pp +1p advertisement to rear. Has the booksellers "Reply to Mr Babbage between ppxii and xiii. Bibliographically interesting. Indeed this volume discusses at length excess profit within bookselling. This single sheet is tipped in and the booksellers dispute Babbage's claim that they would not stock his book, an indignant retort! This is regarded as the earliest paper on the scientific management of factories and of course was influential in the industrial activities of the period. Babbage is now considered to be the "father of computers", and… Read More

London: J. Johnson etcl, 1807. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good copy bound in full calf, four raised bands to spine. Gilt ruling to edges, some wear, aeg. Some minor foxing to frontispiece and title page. A selection of essays by Bacon. Portrait frontispiece of Francis Bacon, with other engraved plates. 216pp.

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of this scholarly new study. 278pp + plates in colour..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A new copy of this collection of scholarly essays. 274pp + plates. A significant collection of essays relating to tomb monuments..

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2021. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. T. E. Lawrence's dispatches during the Arab Revolt have been published before, but only in an edited and incomplete form, as they were printed for a strictly limited wartime readership in the Arab Bulletin. Now, in this scholarly edition, they are published in full for the first time. They give us a direct inside view of his dealings with the Arab leaders and show us how he presented them to his superiors in Cairo. These wartime writings reveal vividly his impressions of the periods he spent in the desert and the conditions he found there, and they record how the Arab uprising developed and how he became increasingly involved in it. They make fascinating reading for, in his sometimes outspoken way, he reported on the military potential of the Arab fighters and recommended how they should be supported in their struggle against the Ottoman empire. This new… Read More

Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The first volume in this highly significant series of court roll publications. An invaluable source for the historian. Bound in original brown decorative cloth, binding loosening. From the library of local historian George Redmonds with his decorative bookplate to fep.

Sidcot: The Gruffyground Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy limited to just 450 copies..

London: Benn Brothers Ltd, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A good copy, in original boards with paste paper design to boards anf black cloth spine. Some loss to paper at top edge of front board and wear to paper spine label. 157pp illustrated throughout with photographs. A good copy from the library of Sir C. H. St. John Hornby with his attractive and distinctive two colour bookplate showing a printing press, to inside of front board..

London: Allen Lane, 2024. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy nicely flat signed by the autor. Following long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment, each of Baker's subjects is invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home; slowly, they embark on new experiments in form, in feeling and in living that would resonate throughout the rest of their lives. In the country, each woman finds her path: to convalescence and recovery; to sexual and political awakening; and, above all, to personal freedom and creative flourishing. In graceful, fluid prose, Baker vividly recreates these overlooked episodes, revealing how 'rural hours' defined the lives of three pioneering writers. 368pp..

London: Doubleday & Co, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by the Author. First Edition First Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine unread copy of the first edition first impression with "1" on the reverse of the title page. Flat signed on the title page "With very best wishes from J".  An imagined below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants taking centre stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs..

Manchester: Co-operative Wholesale Society, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in maroon decorative cloth 255pp packed with photographs of the personel and the shops around Huddersfield..

Paris: Jean Guinard, 1658. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A good copy bound in a contemporary limp white vellum with title to spine in black ink. Small section where written name cut from title page. 452pp + Index, pages 405-443 are "Discours a la Reyne Regente, with its own title page, 1651..

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Third Impression. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy with presentation inscription from the author to title page. A dramatised story of the Brontes and their life in Yorkshire. 374pp..

Wakefield: B.W. Allen and Fielding and McInnes, 1871. Book. Very Good+. Hardback. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. This delightful account of the area around Wakefield. Bound in the original decorative green cloth in vg condition. Still complete with map and plates, included is an original photograph of the author and his obituary laid in at the rear. A very attractive. little volume binding bright and sound, 608pp. A must for those interested in the area around Wakefield this being still one of the best historical guides to the area and a compact and useful volume. See Boyne Appendix, XLIII, where he states; This is an admirable specimen of country printing; if all would do as well, there would be no need to come to London"..

Wakefield: B.W. Allen and Fielding and McInnes, 1871. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A delightful account of the area around Wakefield. Bound in the original decorative green cloth. 608pp. A must for those interested in the area around Wakefield, this being still one of the best historical guides to the area and a compact and useful volume. .

Parrish, 1965. Ex-Library. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A biography of TE for younger readers. 96pp. This copy belonged to biographer Jeremy Wilson and bears his signature to fep. O'Brien E289..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardback. Fist Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Large-format hardback, bound in cloth with colour d/w; 208 pp printed in colour throughout. This book contains the papers from a weekend conference held at Rewley House in Oxford in 2016 in honour of Professor Malcolm Airs who taught there from 1975 to 2006, and whose scholarship centred on the domestic architecture of the Tudor and Stuart period, particularly on building processes and craftsmen. It was a period in which Gothic elements continued to be used, but mixed with details inspired by a Classical antiquity. This was the English Renaissance, but the systematic study of Classical models and the publication of handbooks of Classical architecture, and the profession of architecture, were all in their infancy. The blend of styles is unique to England; while it used to be dismissed as backward it is today celebrated for its inventiveness and pioneering achievements. In these papers Professor… Read More

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2016. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Large-format book of 208 pages, heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs, cloth-bound with a colour dustwrapper. This is the first in a chronological series of volumes based on weekend conferences at Rewley House in Oxford, concerning places of worship in Britain and Ireland from the late Roman period to the present. The book is heavily illustrated.

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine new copy. A scholarly biography of this architect. 256pp. illustrated throughout..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2021. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A fine new copy. This book is the seventh in a series on Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, which will ultimately extend from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. The period covered by this volume extends from the final act of Catholic emancipation in 1829 to the failure of the reform of the English Book of Common Prayer and the creation of the modern Church of Scotland a century later. It is one of extraordinary expansion in church and chapel building, driven by unprecedented population growth, changes in the pattern of settlement, and a huge increase in religious plurality partly caused by the arrival of refugees from religious persecution elsewhere in Europe. In many places the number of places of worship was also increased by competitive building, each denomination seeking to make itself visible in an attempt to preserve or enhance its following.The contents are: prelims (i-vi); William Whyte, 'A Church-Building… Read More