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SET OF 14 ALMANACKS, 1883 - 1895 (COMPLETE RUN) AND 1897 ALMANACK & DIARY
London: George Routledge and Sons; J. M. Dent & Co, 1883 - 1897. First editions, one variant! (1894)
A very good, complete set of Greenaway works which embody the spirit of illustration for children. The Almanacks appeal also lay in each new year's choice of decorations for the seasons. Although the Almanacks popularity was a bit more erratic than her major works, in America they had sales of almost twice the British market; the 1883 was the best-selling year, with more than 90,000 sold. The Greenaway craze inspired imitations and spin offs and even a line of clothing based on the clothing shown in her illustrations. Ultimately, Greenaway's works constitute one of the primary influences on children's illustration and children's publishing.
The first set consist of 14, 24mo volumes, 1883, 1884 in stiff printed pictorial wrappers.
1885, 1886, 1887 oblong 24mo, 1888,1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 with original postal wrapper, 1894,… Read More

Full calf. Bound in recent full calf, small loss of corner to last leaf not affecting the text. Old inscription to old front fly leaf left in after the new endpapers as part of the books original provenance.New edition corrected and greatly improved by Thomas Keith, 1809. William Hawney (flourished 1730) was an English schoolmaster. He wrote several texts on mathematics. His Hawney's Complete Measurer was first published in the early part of the 18th century. It was extremely popular and went through at least eighteen English language editions, the fifth being in 1745. The mathematician Thomas Keith (1759-1824) revised and corrected the extended work. 1809. good.

Siberia and the Exile System
Kennan, George
The Century Co., New York (1891)
SIBERIA AND THE EXILE SYSTEM. Kennan. George. The Century Co., New York. (1891). Two thick and heavy octavo-sized hardcover books; [xv + 409] + [x + 575] pages of text with numerous illustrations and maps. Very good conditions: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; top page edges gilt, other page edges untrimmed and uncut; signature on front-free endpaper. Original hardcover bindings, with some wear, fraying to corners and fading to spines. A set of two solid and attractive books.
George Kennan's travels to Siberia resulted in his two first, and best, travel books: Tent Life in Siberia (1870) established his reputation as a travel writer; and his work, on the exile system, provided the most detailed exposé yet of the atrocities and injustice of the czarist method for punishing political prisoner Item.

London. 1898. xiv,332pp. plus plates. Original red publisher's cloth, gilt. A bright clean book with very miner bumping to the lower corners and no wear to head or tail. Internally clean. With 8 photographic plates including the frontice piece Very good. Bookplate on front pastedown of Society of Writers to Her Majesty s Signet Solicitors in Scotland were previously known as "writers"; Writers to the Signet were the solicitors entitled to supervise use of the King's Signet, the private seal of the early Kings of Scots. Records of that use date back to 1369. In 1532, the Writers to the Signet were included as Members in the newly established College of Justice, along with the Faculty of Advocates and the Clerks of the Court of Session. The Society was established in 1594, when the King's Secretary, as Keeper of the Signet, gave commissions to a Deputy Keeper and 18 other writers. In civil actions in the Court of Session, a pursuer is required to have his writ stamped with the Signet to give him… Read More