Search Results: Authors starting with I from Voewood Rare Books

London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Murray n.d. [c.1790], 1790. Second edition, two parts in one volume. 8vo in 4s. (215x127mm). pp. xv, [i], 319 [1bl], [2]; [viii], 112, 133-176, [1]. With twenty four folding engraved plates, errata leaf at the end of each part. The second part has a separate half-title. Light browning on the last few leaves and occasional foxing but a good copy with the contemporary bookplates of John Bell and Robert Pick, leather booklabel of Robert Honeyman (1979 sale, IV, 1741). Marbled boards, with some scuffing and wear, rebacked in calf, original red gilt label replaced. From the Robert Honeyman collection of Scientific Books. An encyclopaedia of scientific information and craft secrets, covering mechanics, electricity, pneumatics, optics, clock making and astronomy in the first part: the second part covers drawing, etching, aquatint, gilding, silvering lacquering, varnishing, casting in plaster, glues, stains, microscopic slides etc. Some of the sections on… Read More

London: Printed for T.N.Longman and O.Rees 1801, 1801. Only edition. Small 8vo. pp. [6], 201, [1bl]. Contemporary calf, double fillet borders to boards, rebacked to style with gilt decoration and black morocco label lettered in gilt. Edges and corners rubbed with a little wear to the latter. All edges speckled. Internally near fine. A very nice copy of the first book published by Ireland following his exposure as a forger. Rare in commerce, only two copies appearing at auction in the last fifty years. William Henry Ireland was a type familiar in the world of letters and books - the clever but rackety fantasist. He absorbed from his father, a publisher, a fascination with Shakespeare and, perhaps more significantly, the forgers Chatterton and Macpherson. A spell working for a lawyer gave him access to old documents which he studied and copied before taking the plunge and forging a deed containing Shakespeare's signature. His father, thinking it real, was thrilled. Ireland began to produce more… Read More

[Geneva] Henricus Stephanus [Henri Estienne] 1593, 1593. First Estienne edition. Folio. 333x203mm. pp. [28], 427 [1bl];131 [1bl]; XXXIIII, [10]: 31, [19, 2bl]. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Eighteenth century speckled calf, double fillet border to covers, spine with six raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt, brown morocco label to second compartment lettered in gilt and red morocco label to sixth compartment decorated with a swan and coronet which is the crest of the Touchet family, latterly Barons Audley. Front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Shute Barrington, the Bishop of Salisbury. The Barrington arms are impaled with those of the Bishop and the coat is encircled by the Garter with its motto which the Bishop of Salisbury, as the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, was entitled to use. The crest on the coat is the Episcopal mitre. Slight bumping to the corners and repair to head and foot of spine, but overall in very good condition. Internally near fine and beautifully… Read More