Search Results: Authors starting with T from Voewood Rare Books

London: Secker and Warburg 1975, 1975. First Edition. Large 4to. pp. 272. Portrait frontispiece. 232 colour illustrations, 450 b&w. Introduced by Christopher Tadgell. Preface by Bernard Smith. Bright blue cloth with white lettering on spine. Illustrated dust jacket, cream with black lettering. A fine copy. Bookplate of Denis Thomas on front paste-down. Thomas was an art critic who was a friend of Boyd. On the title page is written in pencil "A present from Arthur Boyd, August 1989". This appears to have been written by Thomas. Included with the book is loose original MS of 'Merric Boyd: A centenary monograph' edited for publication by Denis Thomas.

Milano: Studio Marconi Gennaio 1970, 1970. Oblong 12mo. pp. 10. Five black and white illustrations (rectos only). Original spiral-bound card covers, edges faded. Included with six slides of the artists work in a plastic slide wallet.

Bombay: Government Central Book Depot 1870, 1870. Third edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo. 190x115mm. pp. viii, 488. Full sheep, red morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. In excellent condition. Internally very good. Front free endpaper has ownership inscription I.S.White. Marathi is the language spoken in the state of Maharashtra of which Bombay/Mumbai is the capital. An attractive book, published for the Educational Department.

London Horace Cox 1881, 1881. 4to. pp, iv, 142, 10 pp of advertisements. Engraved frontis & 12 further full-page engravings, smaller figures to text, tail-piece vignettes to some chapters and decorative initials. All edges gilt. Some spotting to verso of frontis and title page. Slight separation of binding between pp 96/97. In bottle-green, bevelled cloth with a gilt-ruled border containing a black-stamped foliate border and a central gilt cock pheasant. Border blind-stamped to lower board, gilt titles to spine. Some bumping to extremities with some loss of cloth at the bottom front corner and splits to the head and tail of the backstrip. The second, and much enlarged, edition of this classic work on game-birds

New York: Lehmann Maupin 2001, 2001. Large 4to, 64pp, 72 colour plates (inc 2 gatefolds). Fine in cream cloth with black and caramel stamps in grey card slipcase. The first, and only, edition of this legendary and much-cited photography book. It is Teller's record of the 1999 Miss World competition where he photographed each contestant. The portraits are all close-ups and are reproduced here in a highly polished and glossy form. The atmosphere of brittle unreality which hangs over beauty contests and where we see only a heavily worked artificiality is cleverly captured in these celebrated images. Lots of hair and teeth. A signed and numbered edition of 500 - this is 300/500. � Fine

London: Arnold Fairbairns & Co. Ltd 1908, 1908. First Edition, one of 300 copies for sale. 4to. pp. xii, 137. 59 b/w plates, with captioned tissue guards. Head pieces to chapters. Gilt top edge, side and bottom edges roughly cut. Red cloth binding, gilt design and lettering to upper cover and spine. Buff dust-jacket, black design and lettering. A fine copy in a fine dust-jacket, which has been in storage since the day it was printed.

Verona: Officina Bodoni. 1971, 1971. First Bodoni edition, one of ten copies for printed "ad personam", this copy with the presentation: "This copy has been printed for David Earl of Crawford". A further 160 numbered copies were also issued. Folio, 345x250mm. pp. 121, [1bl], 1 colophon. Original quarter vellum, spine lettered in gilt with the Bodoni device in gilt on upper cover. With plastic wrapper, housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel after Albrecht Dürer. A fine copy. David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975), served as chairman of the National Trust from 1945 to 1965, alongside serving as trustee of the Tate and National Galleries, the British Museum, and the National Library of Scotland. Dürer's illustrations for Andria were made in Basel around 1492 for a planned edition of Terence, but the woodblocks were never cut. For this Bodoni edition, the original drawings were copied onto new… Read More

Salzburg: In Commission der Mayr'schen Buchhandlung 1850, 1850. First edition. 8vo. 220x140mm. pp. viii, 191, five folding tables. Text in German and Latin. Uncut in original pale brown paper paper wrappers, rebacked, title reprinted within wide decorative border on upper cover, imprint within same border on lower cover. Wrappers rather soiled and chipped, tears to upper cover at the joints, light browning and spotting. But overall a good copy considering that it is a fragile publication. Rare first edition of this historical survey of Salzburg charitable institutions and hospitals. Tettinek is described in the title as "Bürger un Magistrats-Secretär in Salzburg". Worldcat locates only three copies, at BNUS in Strasbourg, and at Harvard and Stanford.

London St.Barnabas Press 2002, 2002. Small 4to. pp 126, illustrated throughout. Fine copy in patterned cloth with black-stamped titles to spine. In a dove-grey card slipcase with slight marking.

London: T. Cautley Newby 1868., 1868. 8vo. (182x120mm) pp. [6], 144. Original blue cloth with gilt borders, decoration and lettering to upper cover and borders in blind to lower cover. Slight wear to corners and to head and foot of spine. All edges gilt. Internally very good with a little foxing in places. A pretty little collection of gentle and genteel Victorian verse.

n.p. n.p. 1849, 1841. Four sheets of vellum with fine 19th century law copyist's italic handwriting. 715x570mm. The sheets are bound together at the foot of each sheet with green ribbon and thread. The seal of the South Staffordshire Company (on red wax) is rather cracked while that of the LNWR is on red seal paper. The final page of the document is a plan. The whole is lovely condition, clean, fresh and clear. This is an agreement between The London and North Western Railway Company and The South Staffordshire Railway Company. The LNWR had been formed in 1846 out of the merger of various smaller railway companies. The 1830s and early 1840s had been a chaotic time in the creation of the rail industry as many different companies were vying for new lines and the huge profits they could bring. The present agreement is to enable the South Staffordshire Railway to run its traffic over over line owned by the LNWR between Walsall Junction and Birmingham and to use LNWR buildings at Vauxhall near… Read More

New York: Clover Hill Editions and Chilmark Press 1971, 1971. Limited edition. XXI of 135 copies numbered I-CXXXV, signed by Anthony Gross and containing a set of signed prints in final state. 330x240mm. pp. xv, [3], 54, [2]. Illustrated with eight etchings by Anthony Gross. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lion's Press, Cambridge. Brown quarter morocco, beige cloth. Line drawing of a bull's head in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Issued loose in a separate box is another, signed set of these etchings. Box is brown quarter morocco with marbled paper. Both volumes are housed in a slipcase covered with brown paper and head and foot with brown buckram. The whole is in superb condition throughout. Loosely inserted is the Clover Hill Prospectus for The Story of Cupid and Psyche and a manuscript letter from Douglas Cleverdon to the previous owner of this copy of the Theocritus. Cleverdon established Clover Hill Editions with Will Carter.… Read More

London: Printed for the author 1737. First edition. 4to. 248x195mm. pp. vi, 124; 222 (Account of the Bishops of Worcester); 8, 210 (Appendix, Chartae Originales and index). Engraved folding frontispiece and twenty five engraved plates and numerous engravings in the text and a folding plan of the cathedral. Contemporary full calf, rebacked with corners repaired. Front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Carolus Gandolphus Hornyold and, on the verso of the front free endpaper, the plate of John Vincent Hornyold and a handwritten note on the title page "Charles Gandolfi Hornyold bought at Worcester 1869". The Hornyolds are an old Catholic family with estates in Worcestershire. A nice copy of a splendid example of eighteenth century antiquarianism. William Thomas was the grandson of a Bishop of Worcester. A fine scholar and poet, Thomas worked on a book about Chaucer begun by John Urry and edited the second edition of Dugdale Antiquities of Warwickshire. This survey of Worcester Cathedral is his best and… Read More

Various Various Various, 1999. An archive of material relating to the Stuckists, including originals of the various manifestos, a signed copy of Remodernism, advertisements and invitations to various Stuckist exhibitions and events, including leaflets and programmes for events organised by the Maidstone Poets, some of whom founded the Stuckists. A fascinating collection which traces the history and ideas of this radical, provocative and counter-cultural "anti-movement". The Stuckists were founded by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish on 4th August 1999 with the publication of the Stuckist Manifesto in which they declared themselves to be "Against conceptualism, hedonism and the cult of the ego-artist". Their name refers to a comment by Tracey Emin (an ex-girlfriend of Childish) whose "My Bed" had been shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999: "Your paintings", she accused Childish, "are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!". Emin, together with Damien Hurst bore the brunt of much Stuckist… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1881, 1881. First edition. 4to. 278x215mm. pp. 100. Text from p.45-100 following twenty-one monotone Woodburytypes printed from Thomson's original glass plates. Each image is framed with a red line border and the title printed in red. The text (which follows the photographs) consists of a commentary and description of the images. Original green pictorial cloth with gilt title and decoration in blind with two figures in gilt. Floral endpapers (lacking front free endpaper). Hinges cracked but holding, corners a little worn, bumping and slight creasing to head and foot of spine. Browning to title page and occasional marks not affecting the photographs which are very well preserved. The margins of two of the plates have handwritten notes in pencil identifying the location of the image. A nice copy of an important book. Street Incidents is a pioneering work of photojournalism which brought into the public eye many of London's marginal and… Read More

London: Longmans Green and Co. 1918, 1920. Four volumes. Royal 4to (320x265mm). Volume I. Fourth edition. pp. viii, 144. Volume II. Fourth edition. pp. vi, 72. Volume III. Third edition. pp. vi, 87. Volume IV. Third edition. pp. viii, 116. Navy blue quarter morocco with brown spines, maroon cloth with coat of arms of Kennet family in gilt to upper and lower covers. Binder's signature of "Morrell, Binder. London" Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine lettered in gilt. Some rubbing, scuffing and wear to the spines and joints. Boards are in good condition with slight shelfwear. Corners have been reinforced. Ownership inscriptions of Wayland Hilton Young and E.H. Young. Armorial bookplate of Lord Kennet of the Dene (family name, Young) loosely inserted in volume one. Volume one has handwritten pencil notes from 1920-22 listing the results of bird-watching trips in the UK, India, Holland and Tunisia. Contents are in lovely condition with all plates superbly preserved and protected by… Read More

London: Brickhill and Bateman 1865, 1865. Slightly expanded English edition following the American edition of 1863. 179x118mm. pp. 50, [i]. Lacking the original wrappers so the title page is the cover page. Tear with loss (but not to text) to the top of the front page. Tear without loss to back page. Some creasing to the corners but otherwise this fragile item is in very good condition. Illustrated with engravings. Despite the flaws in this copy, this is a good copy of a rare work which is not often found in its English edition. This is an eccentric work in pamphlet form about Charles S. Stratton, also known as General Tom Thumb (1838-1883), who was a dwarf who worked at Barnum's Circus. This biography tells of the complicated love arrangements between Stratton, his friend Commodore Nutt and Lavinia Warren. Nutt, also a dwarf loved Lavinia but she chose to marry Thumb. The wedding was a lavish ceremony masterminded by Barnum with Nutt as best man. Nutt befriended (not romantically it seems)… Read More

Evesham: Printed and Sold by John Agg and T.N.Longman 1794, 1794. First edition. 4to. 263x206mm. pp. viii, 363, [8], [1bl]. Six engraved plates (one folding) and a folding frontispiece engraving of a View of Evesham. This image has been used to create an attractive, charming fore-edge painting. Smartly bound in red morocco, spine decorated in gilt, with black morocco label lettered in gilt. Turn-ins decorated with gilt roll, marbled endpapers. Corners bumped and rubbed, spine a little rubbed and worn and some marks to covers. Some foxing and browning but overall a very good copy in a handsome binding. Front free endpaper has the armorial bookplate of Oswald Greenwaye Knapp. The front pastedown has the book label of T. Beale, M.A. and the burgundy morocco bookplate of W.A.Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey.

Moskva [Moscow] T. Ris 1868-1869. First edition. Six parts in three volumes. 8vo. 225x150mm. Vol 1. Part I. [4], 297 [1bl],146; Part II. [4], 186. Vol 2. Part III. [4], 284; Part IV. [4], 336; Vol 3. Part V. [4], 323; Part VI. [4], 290. First edition issue points are present: part III, p227 for p127 and p265 for p255 and part IV, p153 for p253. Map on p239 of part IV. Smartly bound in modern red half morocco, marbled paper covered boards, with the title in French (Guerre et Paix) to the spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing to corners. Internally very good, this is an excellent copy in superb condition of one of the cornerstones of Russian, and indeed any, literature. Described by Turgenev as "the epic, the history novel and the vast picture of the whole nation's life", War and Peace began as a serialised work called 1805 which first appeared in the magazine Russkiy Vestnik (The Russian Messenger). Parts of the novel were published in 1867 but Tolstoy was unhappy with it and set… Read More

London: Strahan & Co 1871, 1871. 8vo. pp. iv, 434. 11 full-page plates. Very crisp and clean. Recent wine red leather, marbled sides, five raised bands, gilt ruled and lettered. A very good copy.FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION. The partially illustrated edition. First published in 1871 in 3 vols. See Sadleir 376.