Search Results: Authors starting with H from Sky Duthie Rare Books

[Original manuscript]., [c.1825-1830].. 23.5 x 19.5cm. Handsomely bound in contemporary half dark green morocco over green cloth boards, the spine with four raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. The book composed of varying plain and coloured pages (including yellow, pink, green, blue, and purple), 52 of which contain various black and white engravings (19 pages, one page embellished with classical cameos), botanical watercolours (2), manuscript verse (30, including "Byron's latest verses, 1824"), and a rather splendid coloured engraving of a cat (the remainder blank, c.240pp.). A little sparse but nevertheless most attractive. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper; "Marie Antonie Harknell / to Mary Ann Turner". Additional pencil inscription to the front free endpaper: "Wilson Harknell / 1831". Condition is very good, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the spine ends, board edges and corners and some marking to the boards. The spine remains… Read More

Preston: John Harkness., [c.1841].. Broadside ballad on thin paper with wood-engraved headpiece depicting the pirate's bride. 95 x 255mm. There is a small chip to the blank bottom-left corner, a minor hole to the blank upper margin, a faint spot of toning to the left-hand side at the centre, and a little light creasing to the top-left corner, otherwise condition is very good. A nice example of a scarce, delicate, ephemeral production. A ballad forming the parting song of a pirate as he leaves his bride for the "Isle Hydra". As the text indicates, the pirate is a "corsair" en route to the Greek island of Hydra, implying that he is perhaps a Barbary pirate. These "Barbary corsairs", many of whom were Muslim, operated from the North African coast, predominantly seeking to capture slaves (of many ethnicities and religions) for the Barbary slave trade. The ballad also mentions the corsair's "blood red flag", a nautical sign used by pirates to indicate that "no quarter would be given" to their target if… Read More

[Original unpublished manuscripts]., 1890-1896.. Three original manuscripts in ink, the first two embellished with numerous bizarre and fantastical watercolour and gouache illustrations:1. 'The Family Encylopaedia of Nonsense'. Small quarto (21.5 x 17.5cm). Contemporary half green cloth over patterned paper boards, manuscript title label to the upper board. Frankfurt bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Illustrated manuscript title page, followed by 28pp. of manuscript ink text, incorporating 16 colourful watercolour and gouache illustrations (including two tipped-in full-page images), plus a watercolour landscape. Additional page of manuscript notes to the rear regarding a journey through Egypt by Harris. The remainder blank. Dedication to the author's sister Muriel, dated August 14th 1890 to the verso of the title page. Later ink inscription from Muriel to her niece to the front free endpaper. The backstrip detached and with some cracking to the front hinge, although remaining secure. Rubbing… Read More

Sorrento, Victoria: Arden Press., 1994. First edition. Octvao. Turquoise cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white and with several colour plates. Colour illustration cut from the original card wrappers loosely laid in. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents remain clean and crisp throughout.

London: Dean & Son., [1893].. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original paper-covered boards with illustration of a bicycle and titles in red and black to the upper board, titles in black to the spine, and advertisement in black to the lower board. 103pp. + 39pp. of cycling records and illustrated advertisements at the front and rear. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some wear to the paper covering the spine, as well as to the spine ends, corners and extremities. The contents with the publication date added in ink to the foot of the title page are otherwise in very good order throughout. An uncommon late nineteenth-century guide to cycling by the racing cyclist and pioneer of British cycling George Lacy Hillier (1856-1941) and champion tricyclist W. G. H. Bramson. Chapters include: the birth of the cycle; how to ride a cycle; dress; the racing path; touring; hints on training; cycling for ladies; juvenile cycling; and tyres, along with some wonderfully illustrated contemporary… Read More

Manchester: Manchester University Press., 1959.. First edition, first printing. Association copy, originally purchased in the year of publication by Francis Haskell, art historian and former pupil of Hobsbawm. Octavo. Publisher's original red-brown boards with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. 208pp. Original bookseller's label for Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge to the front pastedown and with original receipt for the book dated 6/5/59 made out to F. Haskell of King's College loosely laid in. Italian journal article by Hobsbawm titled "Per lo studio delle classi subalterne" (1960, 14pp.) loosely laid in. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some faint spotting to the boards. The contents with some faint toning to the endpapers, a light crease to the front free endpaper, and foxing to the top edge of the textblock, are otherwise clean and crisp throughout. The dustwrapper is in very good order with some dust-soiling and light spotting and a couple of small nicks to the head of the… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.. First edition. Large octavo. Handsomely bound by Mudie in contemporary brown morocco with elaborate gilt decoration to the boards incorporating dark-red morocco onlays and titles in gilt to the upper board; the spine with five raised bands, compartments richly decorated in gilt, incorporating the same morocco onlays, and titles in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 46 sepia and black and white plates (the plates which reproduce paintings with captioned tissue-guards) and 7 in-text illustrations. xx + 459pp. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a touch of cracking to the front hinge, rubbing to the joints and spine ends, a few minor scuffs to the boards and a little wear to the corners. The contents with some light scattered foxing, a clipped corner to one tissue-guard, and another tissue-guard standing slightly proud of the textblock, are otherwise in very good order - the plates remaining clean and sharp.… Read More

London: Paul Jerrard., [1858].. First edition. 28 x 19cm. Publisher's original deluxe pink enamel binding elaborately decorated in gilt, green and blue, with cream leather spine. Signed "Paul Jerrard's Patent Binding" in gilt to the foot of the upper board. All edges gilt. Pink watered silk endpapers with floral design in gilt. The contents comprising a hand-coloured title page and presentation page, followed by 8 (of 9) richly hand-coloured full-page lithographic plates, 13 (of 14) text pages printed in pink and gilt, and one page of publisher's advertisements printed in gilt. NOTE: The work is lacking one leaf, comprising one text page recto with one plate verso (plate no. 2). Two publisher's leaflets advertising the work loosely laid in. Disbound, with the text separated from the binding, now comprising single leaves. The binding with some chipping to the leather spine ends is otherwise in good order, the upper board remaining bold and bright. The contents with a little offsetting and the… Read More