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London: Printed for Js. Jenkins... by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, [1814-15]. An Amazing Large-Paper Copy with the Majority of the Plates in Three States [JENKINS, James]. [HEATH, William, artist]. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; From 1799 to 1815. London: Printed for Js. Jenkins... by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, [1814-1815]. First Edition, Large Paper Copy with the majority of the plates in three states. Large quarto (13 1/8 x 11 inches; 335 x 277 mm.). Engraved (uncolored) vignette title-page (verso blank); engraved dedication leaf to the Duke of Wellington in two states, uncolored and colored; dedication to Duke of Wellington 2 pp., Description of vignette title (verso blank), Introduction 4 pp., Contents (list of plates) 2 pp., 60 unnumbered leaves of text, List of subscribers 4 pp. Extra 'colored' copy of plate 35 "Siege of St. Sebastian" used as an additional frontispiece and fifty-two hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece (described as vignette title),… Read More

London: Printed for J. Jenkins... by L. Harrison, 1817. First Edition, First Issue With Pre Publication Watermarks Fifty-Five Superb Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793 to 1817. London: Printed for J. Jenkins... by L. Harrison, [1817]. First edition, First Issue With Pre-Publication Watermarks Large quarto (13 7/8 x 11 5/16 inches; 352 x 287 mm.). xii, pp. (including dedication, introduction, list of plates and list of subscribers) and [74] leaves of descriptive text. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette and fifty-five hand-colored aquatint plates by T. Sutherland, J. Baily, and J. Jeakes after T. Whitcombe and Pocock. One uncolored plate with plan of the Bombardment of Algiers and plan of the Battle of Trafalgar. Text watermarked J. Whatman 1812; twelve plates watermarked J. Whatman 1811 and two plates watermarked J. Whatman 1816. Bound without the list of subscribers. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards.… Read More

London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton..., 1755. The Most Amazing, Enduring and Endearing One-Man Feat in the Field of Lexicography" JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton..., 1755. First edition of "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Two large folio volumes (16 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 422 x 251 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces. Title-pages with light staining, first title-page (A1) with an early faded ink inscription at foot of page and small expert repairs to the fore and lower edge and top left-hand corner with no loss of text. Expertly repaired… Read More

London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. Fitzgerald on Hill's Johnson [JOHNSON, Samuel]. FITZGERALD, Percy. A Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. The first edition of this celebrated instance of the pot calling the kettle black. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 258 x 191 mm.). [8], 86, [2, advertisements] pp. Original gray printed wrappers. A fine copy.

London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. Fitzgerald on Hill's Johnson [JOHNSON, Samuel]. FITZGERALD, Percy. A Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. The first edition of this celebrated instance of the pot calling the kettle black. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 258 x 191 mm.). [8], 86, [2, advertisements] pp. Original gray printed wrappers. A fine copy.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1981. An Onlaid Binding on a Book about Bookbinding JOHNSON, Arthur W. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding with 270 illustrations, in colour and black and white. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981. Octavo ( 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 242 x 159 mm.). 224 pp. Full light blue morocco, both covers decorated in gilt with various colored morocco onlays depicting a person reading a book, smooth spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained blue, cockerel endpapers. Housed in an ivory morocco backed, black cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. Although the binding is unsigned it was certainly done by a skilled student of the art of bookbinding. A perfect gift for a student of bookbinding.

London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. Fitzgerald on Hill's Johnson [JOHNSON, Samuel]. FITZGERALD, Percy. A Critical Examination of Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's "Johnsonian" Editions Issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. London: Bliss, Sands & Co., 1898. The first edition of this celebrated instance of the pot calling the kettle black. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 258 x 191 mm.). [8], 86, [2, advertisements] pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Unopened. A fine copy.

Paris: Martinet, 1822. Exceptionally Rare Series of Sixty Hand-Colored Engraved Plates Depicting the "Cries of Paris" JOLY, Adrien Jean-Baptiste (Muffat). Les Petits Acteurs du Grand Theatre ou Recueil de divers Cris de Paris. Paris: Chez Martinet, 1822. Fourth edition, the rarest of all, and a Large Paper copy. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 13/16 inches; 298 x 220 mm.). engraved title-page, 8 pp text. Sixty superb hand colored engraved plates. Plate no. 45 with repaired tear in fore-margin, not touching image, and three other plates (numbers 6, 12 & 54) with small 1/2 inch fore-margin repairs' Mid twentieth century quarter green paper over black boards. Smooth spine ruled in gilt, maroon morocco label lettered in gilt. A spectacular copy. Of the genre that began with Cryes of London (1689), here presenting the little actors in the grand theater of Paris, i.e. the vendors of various products and services who colorfully plied their wares and talents on the streets of the French capital, selling geese,… Read More