Search Results: Authors starting with M from Thomas Rare Books

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1864. 120pp, Frontis. and engraved title-page and 3 plates to the text [all un-coloured as issued]. Head and tail decorations. 4 stories in one book. Original green cloth with gilt title block enclosed in a blind stamped border with decoration. No fading or inscriptions nut a trifle handled. A nice copy.. 1st Edition. Hard Back. V.g.. 12mo.

71 Dean St., Soho, London: Preston at His Wholedale Warehouse, 1833. 4pp undated original sheet music. Thomas Preston pub. in the Strand until 1823 and then moved to Dean Street until 1837. A finely engraved half-title front page and an signature of Miss Stephenson date 1835 in faint pencil.. Original Edition. Paper. Fine. Folio. Printed Music Score, Dis-bound.

London: W. Thacker, 1891. xii, 285, 40 [pub. cat.pp. P8o illus.,pub. red cloth with gilt titles and blocks. Frontis with tissue guard.. Bevelled edges and black end-papers. A trifle toned to the spine but a lovely copy with fine illus. throughout including many full page. No inscriptions or bookplates. This revised edition is regarded as the best.. Third Edition Revised. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Oxford University Press, 1928. 197pp. 27 illustrations of which 15 are coloured. Owners name scored out on end-paper otherwise a nice copy. From Cervantes Translated from the Original by James Mabbe 1640 and newly illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss.. 1st edition. Grey Boards. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Douglas Percy Bliss. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2010. 512 pages, Illustrations throughout. No inscriptions, fading, wear, marks or clipping. Bugs are seen by humans from all aspects.. 1st edition, 1st impression. Hardback. Mint/mint. large 4to.

London, United Kingdom: Century Publishing, 1985. 192pp, colour illustrations throughout. '"The 300 Victorian flower paintings discovered in the attic at Frampton Court in Gloucestershire represent one of the earliest and most intriguing collections of amateur flower paintings found to date'. 'Between 1828 and 1851 the sisters Elizabeth, Charlotte, Catherine and Mary Anne Clifford and their aunts painted an impressive number of local plants and flowers'.. 2nd impression. Hardback. Fine/Fine, price-clipped. Small 4to.

New York & London: W.W. Norton, 2015. 437pp. Colour illus. d.j. No fading, inscriptons, wear, clipping or marks. 1st US edition, Ist impression. Hardback. Fine/Fine. large 8vo.

London: Quercus, 2007. 208pp. Full page large colour illus. from the Clifford family archive drawn between 1828 and 1851 each with a description by the English botanist and writer Richard Mabey. Large git inscription to the half-title page otherwise a fine copy. Frampton Court is in Gloucestershire.. re-issue. Hardback. Fine/Fine, price-clipped. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2005. 232pp. Colour illus. d.j. Signed by Mabey on the title-page.. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London, United Kingdom: Century Publishing, 1985. 192pp, colour illustrations throughout. '"The 300 Victorian flower paintings discovered in the attic at Frampton Court in Gloucestershire represent one of the earliest and most intriguing collections of amateur flower paintings found to date'. 'Between 1828 and 1851 the sisters Elizabeth, Charlotte, Catherine and Mary Anne Clifford and their aunts painted an impressive number of local plants and flowers'.. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine, price-clipped. Small 4to.

London, United Kingdom: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1996. 480pp, over 500 colour phpotographs. A trifle rubbed on the head of the d.j. spine. The native and naturalized wild plants of England, Scotland and Wales. 1st edition, 1st Impression. Hardback. Fine/fine a little rubbed. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Collins, 1951. 272pp, 45 coloured plates, 68 monochrome plates and 20 maps and plans. Lovely copy. New Naturalist No. 15. 1st Edition. green buckran, gilt. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1983. 99pp. Illustrated throughout. A lovely copy.. 1st edition. hard back. Fine/Fine. large 8vo.

London: Cassell, 1952. 142pp. Illustrated throughout. No fading, marks or clipping. Pictorial d.j. rubbed to edges.. hard back. Fine/V G Chipped and Foxed. 8vo.

London: Cassell, and Company, 1950. 352pp, 71 photographs, orig. brown cloth, v.g. condition, lettering a little faded. The true story of a motoring trip in Africa.. 1st edition. hardcover. V.g./No d.j.. 8vo.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1877. 210pp, illustrated throughout from the original, drawn on wood by George Scharf End papers foxed. All edges gilt, and includes ribbon book mark. Calf sunned on the spine. Front joint cracked but attached. New Edition. Decorative Calf.. V.g.. Illus. by George Scharf.. 4to - over 93/4" - 12" tall.

London: Collins, 1946. 48pp, 8 colour plates and 26 black and white illustrations. Orig. pub. 1942. Neat owners inscription and a trifle rubbed to the edges otheriwse a nice copy. Social and political life through the centuries in Britain. second impression. hard back. V.g./V G rubbed. large 8vo.

London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1875. The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete. 8 volumes complete, uniformily bound and all dated 1875. Also matching The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay dated 1875-76. 2 volumes complete. 10 volume set bound in fine polished black calf bound by Bickers and Son, London. Lovely gilt decorated spines with marbled edges and end-papers. Lacks the upper morocco label from each volumes but all have the lower volume number red morocco label present {the upper labels were thinner than the lower ones!] The bookplate of J. Cosmo Melvill [motto Ultra Aspicio'] in volume one of the Life and Letters. School ownership written to each of the volumes free end-paper. Some foxing to the preliminaries otherwise a very attractive set. Inscribed 'Library Edition' to the first volume. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.. Library edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.

London: Collins, 1961. 382pp, with 1 photograph. Edited by Constance Babington Smith. First published in October 1961. Jacket a little bumped and chipped. These letters written by R. Macaulay to Father Hamilton Johnson, an Anglican priest, show her to have been one of the great letter-writers of this century.. Second Impression.. Red Cloth. Good/V G. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall.

London: Collins, 1942. 48pp, 8 colour plates and 26 black and white illustrations. Orig. pub. 1942. Red brick pictorial boards.Social and political life through the centuries in Britain. 1st edition. hard back. Fine/No d.j.. large 8vo.