Search Results: Authors starting with C from John Price Antiquarian Books

Mayn: B. Schotte, Söhne..., 1824. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 215 x 135 mms, pp. 112, 35 [36 blank], engraved portrait of Georg Vogler before text, folding engraved leaf of music between pages 58 and 59, original printed wrappers (frayed and a bit soiled). This is the first issue of a music periodical that was to be published three or four times a year and which ceased publication in 1848.

No place no publisher 1862. An unrecorded broadside, 224 x 180 mms., printed on recto only, on laid paper, dated 11 October 1862; a watermark design is partly visible, with geometrical and curvilinear lines, but no watermark year. Inner edge uneven, two small holes in top margin. The poem is about the statue of the inventor Samuel Crompton (1753 - 1827), inventor of the spinning mule, in Bolton, Lancashire, which was created by the Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall (1813-1894). The statue was unveiled in September 1862. From the date printed in the lower left corner, it would seem this poem was either written or published or both just days after the unveiling of the statue, on October 11, 1862. The poem reads much as if it were written by the creator of the statue of Samuel Crompton in Nelson Square in Bolton. In other words, as if written by William Calder Marshall. It is a poem of pride -- and humility -- plus bitterness, bitterness apparently against a "grandchild" of… Read More

London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. ix [x adverts], 299 [300 printer's imprint]; [ii], vii [viii blank], 394, contemporary half calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels; numbering label on volume 2 chipped, covers detached on volume 1.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Mathews...; M. Priestly...; Calcott, Oxford; Marlin, Aylesbury; Stratton, Risborough; and Eades, High Wycombe, 1796. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xvi, 119 [120], adverts, including half-title and list of subscribers, disbound. Brodbelt (fl. 1796 - 1800) published some sermons and seems to have been active in the Missionary Society. The rhetoric of these sermons is certainly cast in the missionary mould. He notes in the Preface that he has been in the ministry thirteen years, and pointedly concludes by saying "The book was not intended to be embellished with quotations from the works of other men, therefore few such occur. The Essays are, in general, what the title-page declares them to be, Original." Approximately 400 people subscribed for the work. ESTC on-line locates three copies: L, Lmh; KU-S.

University of Glasgow, 1969. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 26, original stiff paper boards.

Windsor: Published for C. Knight...and sold by Mess. Robinson...and Mr. Debrett..., 1788. 8vo, 203 x 118 mms., pp. xv [xvi Names of the Authors], [3] - 451 [452 errata], additional engraved title-page preceding printed title-page, recently rebound in quarter calf, black morocco label, gilt spine, marbled boards; slight water-staining to title-page, but a good copy. The first 40 numbers of The Microcosm were published at Eton, 6 November 1786 - 30 July 1787. Among the subjects discussed one finds language, genius, poetics, novels, affectation, translation, imitation, government, genius, etc.

Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani adn Cie..., 1836. . 8vo, 211 x 130 mms., pp. [iv], 134; 52. BOUND WITH: BULWER (E. L. [i. e. Edward Bulwer-Lytton]: The Student, A Series of Papers. Paris, Baudrey's European Library...Sold also by Amyot..,1835. 8vo, 211 x 130 mms., pp. 245 [246 blank]. contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, gilt spine (faded and rubbed), with blind stamp "Jerna & Hörningshom" on two front free end-papers; joints a little worn and rubbed, lower front joint cracked, lacks label, second item foxed, but a fair to good copy with the armorial bookpalge of Horace Marryat, the author's brother, on the front paste-down end-paper. Copac locates only a single copy of Marryat's book in the BL, but OCLC adds copies in Arizona, Yale, Johns Hopkins; Bibliotheque Nationale. Bulwer-Lytton's work is found in 25 libraries.

Romae, Ex Typographia Jo: Francisci Buagni, 1694. 2 volumes. Large folio, 427 x 308 mms., pp. [xxxii], 489, [28] with continuous pagination through both volumes, but with errors in pagination, e. g., pages 205-206 and 343-344 repeated in the numbering.and plates sometimes included, collating [a]² p² b6 c-d4 A-2B4 2C6 2D² 2E-3A4 3B6 3C-3F4 3G1 3H1 3I1 3K1 3L-3V4 3X6, 79 plates, many folding, bound in later18th century calf, black morocco labels; spines wormed and tender, but holding firm. A reasonable set, with spectacular plates and complete. The Italian architect Carlo Fontana (1634 or 1638–1714) "mainly worked in Rome, assisted by his nephews Girolamo and Francesco Fontana (1668–1708), but he sent a model for the cathedral of Fulda, and others to Vienna for the royal stables. Among his other foreign works were the designs for a Jesuit complex in Azpeitia, Spain, in the village of Loyola where Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order was born.… Read More

Parma Dalla Stamperia Blanchon, 1812. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 8vo, 215 x 140 mms., pp. 455 [456 author's note, 457 - 458 Index], engraved portrait of Gervasoni as frontispiece, contemporary quarter calf, gilt spine marbled boards; a very good copy with a contemporary bookseller's stamp on the recto of the first two leaves. Gervasoni's new theory of music is based on the musical practice of the day, and he adds advice on learning music, and gives accounts of a number of the main figures in the contemporary music scene. Much of the work is indeed given over to short biographies of living or recently deceased composers and performers, most notably Paganini, on whom this book is a key source. The Italian music theorist, historian, organist and teacher Carlo Gervasoni (1762-1819) is best known for La Scuola della Musica (1800), which, as Grove notes, is "a basic instructional manual containing much informative material on theory and performing practices." Of the present… Read More

London: Printed by William Bulmr and Co. Shakespeare Printing Office; fro John White, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street. 1805. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 239 x 175 mms., pp. [iv], xvi [xvii - xx contents and drop-title], 149 [150 blank], including half-title and list of subscribers, with acquatint view as frontispiece, with one further acquatint plate, contemporary half calf, dull marbled boards, spine rubbed and chipped at foot, joints cracked but sound, some damp rippling to first few leaves, else a clean copy. Joseph Dacre Carlyle, some time Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and afterwards Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was born at Carlisle, June 4, 1758. In 1799 he accompanied the Earl of Elgin to Constantinople with the object of exploring the literary treasures of the public library of that city. He extended his journey into Asia Minor, and the islands and shores of the Archipelago. He died at Newcastle, April 12, 1804. A lot of the verse is pedestrian, but I ws intrigued by… Read More

Romae: Sumptibus Venantii Monaldini Bibliopolae in via Cursus, 1753. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 435 x 305 mms., 7 preliminary leaves, followed by lxxiv pages, with engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, and thirty-three engraved plates (15 folding), engraved tail-pieces, contemporary vellum; small paper flaw in one plate, but a fine copy of these superbly engraved plates. These engravings (by Carlo Cesi) of the frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese that Carracci (1560 - 1609) are the result of Carracci's being "recommended by the Duke of Parma, Ranuccio I Farnese, to his brother, the Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, who wished to decorate the piano nobile of the cavernous Roman Palazzo Farnese. In November–December of 1595, Annibale and Agostino traveled to Rome to begin decorating the Camerino with stories of Hercules, appropriate since the room housed the famous Greco-Roman antique sculpture of the hypermuscular Farnese Hercules. Annibale meanwhile developed hundreds of preparatory… Read More

Paris [apud Petrum Gaudoul], 1531. 8vo, 164 x 103 mms., foliation irregular, but no missing leaves, [28], 394 [i.e. 392] leaves, or, ff. 1-290, 293-394, a few contemporary marginal comments, portion of contemporary sheepskin binding remaining part of boards, but with later 18th century rebacked, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; lower portion (38 mms.) of imprint cut from title-page (date retained, but publisher missing) with consequent loss of text on verso, early library stamp with holy monogram, IHS, on title-page as well as Petit's printer's device, ink name obscured on title-page, wormed throughout, fairly severely in first few leaves, but almost entirely in the margins, occasional staining, front hinge cracked, top of spine chipped, corners very worn; a well-used copy. Dionysius the Carthusian (1402/03 - 1471), the Flemish or Rhenish theologian, was as industrious as he was pious, and this early commentary on the life of St. Paul is like many of his works a… Read More

Paris, Chez Ladvocat..., 1827. . 8vo, pp. [5] - 240, including half-title, large folding engraved plate of Rossini's "Chant Romain" at end, contemporary quarter green morocco with green glazed binder's cloth, gilt spine; some spotting of text, two corners worn, but an attractive copy, from the library of Prince Dietrichstein with his autograph on verso of front free end-paper. Delavigne first published a work with this title in 1818. One of the romantic poems printed here is "Trois jours de Cristophe Colomb," and the last, "Promenade au Lido," is about Venice.

In Spizberga [but probably Bologna], Per Ruggiero Nemesiano. 1720. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 152 x 90 mms., pp. [64], with a very curious register, and leaves a8 and b1 bound out of place after b7, but complete, with engraved frontispiece, attractively bound in later dark red sheepskin, boards with four gilt corner pieces of a bird chasing a comet, edges tooled with a leafy branch roll, spine spine gilt to a floral motif, a very good presentation copy from the Duc de Massa with his bookplate and an inscription in the hand of his secretary, Alberto Bacchi della Lega, identify the author as the Marquis Castor Montalbani (1670- 1732), a distinguished poet, astrologer, as well as military architect. The binding may also be a presentation as the tooling of the boards is similar to details on the bookplate; light tide mark to some pages, small repaired worm hole at end, and the presentation inscription slightly trimmed by the binder with the loss of a couple of letters but not the sense. There is… Read More

Liverpool: Printed and Sold by J. Sadler..., 1755. 8vo, 223 x 132 mms., pp. x, 11 - 96, uncut, recently recased in quarter calf, red morocco label, plain boards. A very good copy. This poem by Samuel Catherall (?1661 - 1723) was published in 1725, probably printed by Samuel Richardson. Little seems to be known about him, though he was probably a churchman of some sort. He published a sermon on the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Viscountess Dowager Cholmondeley in 1692 as well as a poem about the end of the world entitled, An Essay on the Conflagration in 1720. ESTC locates four copies: BL, Liverpool Central, Liverpool University, University of Otago Central Library; Copac adds several more UK libraries.

London, Printed for John and Francis Rivington. 1772. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 165 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], 198; [iv], 173 [174 blank]. BOUND WITH: [TALBOT (Catherine)]: Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week. The Ninth Edition. London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington..., 1774. 8vo, [iv], 55 [56 adverts], including half-title. 3 volumes in one, bound in contemporary calf, rather unsympathetically rebacked. Inscribed on front paste-down end-paper: "Mary Ann Kilner/ Gift of my Mother." The author and scholar Catherine Talbot (1721-1770) did not have a propitious start to life, having been born four months after her father died at the age of 29. She was, however, ably mentored by Thomas Secker, and, as Rhoda Zuk in the Oxford DNB entry observes, she "received a liberal education, learning classical, English, French, and Italian literatures, as well as history, scripture, drawing, painting, music, and astronomy, and she benefited from the intellectual preoccupations of… Read More

London [no printer or publisher], 1642. 4to, 218 x 157 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 28, later (probably 20th century) buckram; a very good copy in a utilitarian binding. Written in 1622, this tract laments the presence and influence of Roman Catholics at the King James's court and his failure to intervene in the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648). The anonymous author is alarmed at those who fail to report attempts to subvert the state. The original manuscript is in the Bodleian Library, and this 1642 imprint is addressed to Charles I. "Tom-Tell-Troth" was a frequently-used locution in various forms and guises. Another title published in 1642 was The Honest Informer or Tom-Tell-Troth's Observations upon Abuses of Government Directed to his Maisty by way of an humble Advertisement, wherein it may easily appeare that amongst other things, the chiefest cause of these Civil Combustions now at home, proceed from the neglect of making Just Warre abroad. A quick on the text of both suggests… Read More

Londini: Impensis G. Pickering..., 1824. 32mo, 85 x 49 mms., pp. [iv], 61 [62 blank], 36, 93 [94 blank], engraved frontispiece, handsomely bound in full contemporary olive calf, spine richly gilt, all edges gilt, red morocco label; front joint a little rubbed but a very attractive copy. One of Pickering's "Diamond Classics," printed by C. Corrall.

Londini: Typis J. Brindley, Sumptibus J. Murray, No. 32 Fleet Street, 1774. 12mo (in 6s), 133 x 82 mms., pp. [iv], 132; 120, entirely uncut, rather horribly bound in 20th century leatherette; text a little browned, spine defective, front joint cracked at top and bottom, with cover bowed. This edition of the poetical works of Catullus, Tiberius, and Propertius was first published by Brindley in 1749 and edited by Edward Harwood. ESTC 101092 locates 5 copies in the UK, Harvard and Newberry in North America. Zachs, The First John Murray, no. 75.

Londini Typis J. Brindley 1749. 12mo (in 6s), 120 x 72 mms., pp. [ii], 132, 120, engraved title-page before printed title-page, contemporary polished tree calf, small gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt to an urn motif, red morocco label. A fine copy, with the book label of Lt. General Adams (possibly Thomas Adams, 1730? - 1764) on the front past-down end-paper. The text was edited by Usher Gahagan (d. 1749), the Irish classical scholar. He edited a number of Brindley's classical imprints, all beautifully printed and often in fine bindings. Alas for scholarship: he was hanged on 20 February 1749, for "diminishing the coin of the realm" by filing small pieces off gold and silver coins.