Search Results: Authors starting with Q from John Price Antiquarian Books

Edinburgh and London William Blackwood, 1832. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 176 x 105 mms., pp. 305 [306 blank, 307 - 308 adverts], including half-title, edges uncut, early 20th century binding of half chocolate morocco, linen boards, title and author in gilt on spine; rear hinge a little opened at adverts leaf, but a very good copy, with the autograph "Archibald Megget, M D/ 1835" on the title-page. This was De Quincey's only original novel, and a Gothic novel at that. Coleridge asserted that "in purity of style and idiom it reaches an excellence to which Sir Walter Scott seems never to have aspired." Henry Crabb Robinson in 1836 took a rather more jaundiced view: "the book made no noise – perhaps because of its lumbering style and forming one small volume only..." ; and in 1845 George Gilfillan asserted that it was "a complete failure." His daughter Margaret said of the work, "He simply lived in the romances of his youth. He cared nothing for… Read More

Lipsiae Sumptibus Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii 1798, 1803, 1803, 1816. 4 volumes, Royal 8vo, 228 x 127, beautifully bound (by John Clarke, the partner of the binder Francis Bedford), with stamp in blind on lower margin of front paste-down end-paper in volume one) in contemporary full purple morocco, with the gilt emblems of the Reverend Theodore Williams (d. 1827) on each cover, spines gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, and with the bookplate of the distinguished British book collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785 - 1861) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. A clipping from either an auction house or a bookseller, probably around 1960, has this note "The best and most complete of all the editions. It was undertaken with such a quantity of valuable materials as no critic had ever possessed, and is published with unprecedented care and industry; the critical marks are so happy and the explanations so apposite that it is generally considered the chef d'oeuvre of… Read More

Parisiis, Ex officina Rob. Stephani Typographi Regii, 1542. Large 8vo, 223 x 156 mms., pp. 551 [but 669 with quite a few errors in pagination, 552 - 600 Index, 601 Colophon [Excudebat Rob. Stephanus Hebraicarum et Latinarum literarum typographus regius, Parisiis Ann. M. D. XLII. IIII. non. Mart.], 602 blank], collating A-2Y, printer's device engraved by Geoffrey Tory on title-page, late 17th century panelled calf, marbled end-papers; joints cracked and tender, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, bookseller's small label, "J. Moodie Miller, Lindsay Place, Edinburgh" on upper margin of rear paste-down end-paper. Copac notes that this is "Basically a reimpression of the Simon de Colin edition of 1541." Renouard, A. A.: Annales de l'imprimerie des Estiennes, p.53, no. 9

Lugd. Batav. et Roterodami: Ex officinâ Hackiana. 1665. 8vo, 183 x 107 mms., pp. [30], 434, engraved title-page preceding printed title-page, bound in 18th century calf, gilt borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments; lacks label, some slight wear to binding and front joint very slightly cracked. With the armorial bookplate of the Bishop of Bangor on the front paste-down end-paper, the autograph and dated "Orerry 1737" on the verso of the front free end-paper, and a shelf mark in an 18th century hand on the top margin of the recto of the second front free end-paper. A very good copy. This is a handsome 1665 edition of Quintilian once owned and inscribed by Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702). His characteristic ownership inscription in his hand, "F. S. L. A.", appears just above the imprint in this copy. The Royalist poet, translator, and military officer Sir Edward Sherburne has, as a book owner, one of the most unusual cypher inscriptions in the… Read More

Venetiis, Apud Hieronymum Scotum. M D LXXVII. 1568. 8vo, 156 x 92 mms., pp. 447 [ 448 printer's device], epographiae sex, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials, final folio with woodcut device verso, ownership stamp to title: occasional spotting and light staining, recased in contemporary limp vellum, spine repaired, lacking ties, little stained, but a very good and uncommon copy of this edition. thumbnail Property Value dbo:abs The works of the Italian poet and humanist Giovanni Francesco Conti (1484 - 1587) are catalogued and referred to under his humanistic name. He published works in several genres - poetry, expository prose, philosophy - in Italian as well as Latin and was nicknamed "Stoa" or "Rortico delle Muse." The present work was first published in 1519 and was frequently reprinted thereafter. The printer Girolamo Scotto (Hieronymus Scotus; also Gerolamo) (c.1505 – 3 September 1572) was an… Read More