Search Results: Authors starting with E from The Bookpress, Ltd.

EAGLE, Dorothy, and Hilary Carnell (editors.) THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED LITERAR GUIDE TO GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 312, pages, 9 maps, 32 colored plates. First edition. Richly illustrated guide to British literary sites. Very good.

EAMES, Wilberforce. DESCRIPTION OF A WOOD ENGRAVING ILLUSTRATING THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS. New York: New York Public Library, 1922. 8vo. Wrappers. 7, (1) pages, 1 double-page plate. First edition. Fine in library pamphlet binder.

EARLE, Alice Morse. CHINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA. New York: Empire State Book Company, 1924. 8vo. Cloth. xii, 429 pages. Secon edition. Some cover wear; a good copy only.

EARLE, Swepson. MARYLAND'S COLONIAL EASTERN SHORE. New York: Weathervane Books, (1975). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xx, 204 pages. "Historical Sketches of Counties and of Some Notable Structures, Illustrated. Being a facsimile of the 1916 edition. Very good copy.

EARLE, Swepson. THE CHESAPEAKE BAY COUNTRY. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis, 1924. 8vo. Red cloth. Triple frontispieces, 520 pages, 1 colored folding map. Third edition. An extensively illustrated study of Virginia and Maryland homes, churches, monuments, and landscape views through the Tidewater area, and the Eastern Shore. There is also a chapter on the College of William & Mary, St. John's, and Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Front hinge internally weak but attached. Light spotting along edges, else very good.

(PHOTOGRAPHY) GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE. IMAGE, JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND MOTIO PICTURES. Thirty-six issues. Rochester: George Eastman House, 1971-1986. Square 8vo. and 4to. Wrappers. First edition. A broken run (September 1971 through 1986, Volumes 15-27) of this scholarly periodical on photography, lacking Volumes 21-23. Very good.

EASTWOOD, B. A COMPLETE MANUAL FOR THE CULTIVATION OF THE CRANBERRY. New York: C.M. Saxton, 1860. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. 120 pages, 10 plates. First published in 1856, this is the first American book on the cranberry. Personal copy owned by noted New York agriculturalist and garden author, N.O. Booth, inscribed on front blank leaf. Spine slightly sunned, else very good.

EATON, Allen H. HANDICRAFTS OF NEW ENGLAND. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece, xxi, (i), 374 pages. First edition. Dorothy Fisher introduces this discussion of early and modern handicrafts in England, with 128 illustrations. Ex-library copy, with markings, else very good.

EBERLEIN, Harold, and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. COLONIAL INTERIORS, FEDERA AND GREEK REVIVAL. New York: William Helburn, 1938. Tall 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, (xv) pages, plates. First edition. Being third in this series devoted to American domestic interiors, homes from New Jersey, Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland are photographe Inscription on inside of front board. Very faint yellowing along margins, foxing on endpapers, light coverwear.

EBERLEIN, Harold Donaldson, and Abbot McClure. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF AMERICA ANTIQUES. Garden City: Garden City Publishing, (1927). 8vo. Cloth. (iv), iv, 390 pages Second edition. With chapters on early lace by Mabel Foster Bainbridge and sandwich glass by Lenore Wheeler Williams; 257 illustrations, drawings by Abbot McClure. Mino coverwear, margins yellowed, else very good.

EBERLEIN, Harold, and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. HISTORIC HOUSES OF GEORGE-TOWN & WASHINGTON CITY. Richmond: Dietz Press, (1958). 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xiv, (ii), 480 page First edition. With a preface by Richard Hubbard Howland, the authors present notable residential buildings as reflections of their owners' personalities; illustrated with photographs. Very good.

Holloway, Edward Stratton. EBERLEIN, Harold Donaldson, and others. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF INTERIOR DECORATION. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1919). 8vo. Cloth, top edge gilt. Frontispie xx, 451 pages, 173 plates. First edition. With contributions by Abbot McClure and Edward Stratton Holoway, this is an extensive treatment of the history of interior decoration, with illustrations Very good.

EBERLEIN, Harold Donaldson. INTERIORS, FIREPLACES & FURNITURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., (1927). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket xii pages, plates. Second edition. Over 150 halftone plates from photographs. Dust jacket water stained, else v good.

EBERLEIN, Harold, and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. HISTORIC HOUSES OF GEORGE-TOWN & WASHINGTON CITY. Richmond: Dietz Press, (1958). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, xiv, (ii), 480 pages. First edition. With a preface by Richard Hubbard Howland, this book concentrates on the historical aspects of various houses and small public buildings in the nation capital. Illustrated with photographs. Very good in lightly used dust jacke.

(VITRUVIUS) EBHARDT, Bodo. DIE ZEHN BUCHER DER ARCHITECTURE DES VITRUV UND IHRE HERAUSGEBER SEIT 1484. Berlin: Grunewald, n.d. (1915?). 4to. Boards. 102 pages. Discusses Vitruvius' ten books of architecture. Includes a chronological lis of books on Vitruvius published since 1484. With some items marked in pencil and ink. Well illustrated. Pages 73-76 loose. Spine chipped and sunned, ed of cover sunned.

(SHAKESPEARE) EBISCH, Walther. A SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931. 8vo. Cloth. xviii, 294 pages. First edition. Spine torn and part missing. Internally very good.

(SHAKESPEARE) EBISCH, Walther, Ph.D. A SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY. New York: Benjamin Blom, (1968). 8vo. Cloth. xviii, 294 pages. Reissue of th 1930 first edition. Fine.

ECCLESTON, James. AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH ANTIQUITIES; INTENDED AS A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. London: Longman, Brown, and others, 1847. 8vo. Publishers cloth. xii, 485 pages. First edition. A comprehensive volume intended as a guide for the student or newly initiated into the antiquities, arts, and history of England. It contains chapters on political institutions, religion, learning and the arts, naval and military affairs, commerce and agriculture, and manners and customs, from the fifth century to the late seventeenth century. With numerous text illustrations. Some pencil notations in text. Front hinge internally strengthened.

ECKARDT, Anton. DIE KUNSTDENKMALER DER PFALZ, STADT UND BEZIRKSAMT NEUSTADT. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1979. Small 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 321, (2) pages, 16 plates. Second edition. Originally published in 1926, Eckhardt describes the architecture in Neustadt with illustrations and maps. Very good.

(DICKENS) ECKEL, John C. THE FIRST EDITIONS OF THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS. Folcroft: Richard West, 1973. 8vo. Cloth. (iv), xviii, 296 pages. Reprint of the 1913 edition. Long the definitive bibliography on Dicken's works. Very good. 36325.