Search Results: Authors starting with E from Voewood Rare Books

New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1955, 1955. 4to. 270x195mm. pp. [xviii], 95 double page plates of men, 85 double page plates of men and 14 double page plates of children. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Tear of c1cm to top of hinge on upper cover and lacking dust jacket but otherwise a very good copy. Introductory essay by Professor Robert Taft. This copy of the Dover Edition of Muybridge's celebrated and exhaustive study of the movement of the human body was owned by Francis Bacon. Like many artists, Bacon was hugely influenced by Muybridge's detailed images of the human figure as it moves and changes its positions while walking, running, jumping or just sitting. Attached by paperclip to the front free endpaper is a note with the address, written in Bacon's hand, "Chez Peppiatt, 14 Rue de Birague, Tel. 887-35-37". Michael Peppiatt was one of Bacon's best friends and he had bought this flat in Paris for Bacon to use as a studio. This book was given by Bacon to… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1866, 1866. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo (222x135mm). pp. [4], 303 [1bl]; [4], 290; [4], 283 [1bl], 4pp. publisher's adverts and 20pp. publisher's catalogue. Original brick red blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spines, pale yellow endpapers. Binding is Carter variant A. Very slight bumping to corners and bottom edges. Internally very good. A nice set in excellent condition. The first volume has the ownership inscription of Mrs George Holgate Foster (repeated as Mrs G.H. Foster on the front pastedowns of the other two volumes). Records show a George Holgate Foster and his family living at The Holme, Inner Circle, Regent's Park. He was the Chairman of the London Joint-Stock Bank. His job and his house (one of the grandest private residences in London) mark Foster out as the very antithesis of the idealistic and downwardly mobile Felix Holt. Whether Foster's wife, whose copy this was, absorbed Eliot's radical political… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1866, 1866. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo (222x135mm). pp. 303; 290; 284 + 4pp. publisher's adverts. Original tan blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spines. Vol. 1. Spine darkened and frayed at head. Vol. 2. rubbed on joints, biro mark on upper cover. Vol. 3. Rubbed on joints and nicks at head of spine, neatly repaired. Overall, a good clean copy. Vol. 1. 'Dadie' Rylands annotations on front pastedown endpaper. Book-plate of Justin McCarthy. Stamp on title-page. A very good copy. Rylands annotations refer to a different catalogue entry for this book which has been attached to the front free endpaper with a paper clip. It states that the blue binding is more rare. He also has noted details about Justin McCarthy who was an Irish writer and politician and an MP from 1879-1900.

London: Faber & Faber 1952, 1952. First edition. 8vo. pp. pp. 126, 40, 8. Coloured frontispiece and 5 coloured plates. 48 monochrome illustrations taken from photographs, 1-40 are by Angus McBean, the following 8 illustrations of small stills are enlargements from the negatives of the actual film. Further illustrations in the text. The book presents the original text of the play, together with new scenes written specially for the film by Eliot, together with illustrations of sets, details of costume and architectural decoration, and is very much the definitive document of Eliot's important historical play set in the twelfth century. Original blue cloth, maroon blocked and silver and blue lettered spine. Grey and pink pictorial dust-jacket lettered in black and pink, small tape repair to upper rear cover.

. of a Poem by Queen Margaret of Navarre, made in 1544 by Princess Elizabeth (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth then 11 years of age. Edited by Percy W. Ames. London, Asher, 1897. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. iv, + 45 followed by Elizabeth's 1544 poem reproduced in facsimile (124 pages on hand-made paper). Frontis. portrait of Princess Elizabeth and reproduction of the embroidered cover of the original manuscript. Half-calf, marbled endpapers, with the coat of arms of the Royal Society of Literature stamped in gilt on the front cover. Some heavy foxing to the blanks and spotting to the uncut foredges, a very good copy. Percy Ames was the librarian and Secretary of The Royal Society of Literature and this copy is inscribed by him to Victor Leuliette Esq.

Watford: The University Press 1897 and 1900, 1897. Two volumes. 8vo. Volume I. Sexual Inversion. 1897. pp. xviii, 204. Volume II. The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Eroticism. 1900. pp. [viii], viii, [1], 314. Eleven plates of diagrams. Original navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Slight bumping to head and foot of spine, rubbing to corners but overall in very good condition. Contents are in excellent condition. A very good example of this rare and important two volume work on sexual psychology. The publishing history is slightly complex as one would expect for, what was then, a controversial subject. Volume I being offered here is the November 1897 reissue (under the title Studies in the Psychology of Sex) of Sexual Inversion, co-authored with John Addington Symonds. This first edition was almost immediately withdrawn and the November 1897 edtion was published under Ellis's sole name but with the October 1897 preface. Volume II, dated 1900, is the true… Read More

Berlin Pergamon-Verlag . Ernst Schertel (1884 - 1958) was a German writer and journalist, antiquarian and religious scholars, pioneer of naturism and specialist in occultism and remote areas of sexuality, with special emphasis on sadomasochism. Some wear to the cover. Profusely illustrated throughout.

London George Routledge & Sons 1941, 1941. 1st ed, 4to. pp 8, 48 B&W plates on semi-glossy stock. Very Good with spotting to endpapers. In oatmeal buckram with chocolate brown-stamped titles and artist's signature to the upper board and spine. In a Very Good original photographic DJ in plastic wraps with light chipping to extremeties and light overall toning. Evereard's sixth book of nude studies - this time with a Gallic theme.

London Chapman & Hall 1936, 1936. 1st ed, 4to. pp 48, illustrated with 48 B&W plates on semi-glossy stock. Near fine in pale grey flecked buckram with blue-stamped titles and artist's signature. In a Very Good original photographic DJ with toning to the spine, mild chipping and scuffing to edges and an old tape repair to a one inch closed tear to the rear bottom edge.