Search Results: Authors starting with W from Voewood Rare Books

Strawberry Hill Printed by Thomas Farmer 1762, 1762. Five volumes. With a supplementary sixth volume The Works of Jonathan Richardson. 4to in half sheets. 228x175mm. pp. Vol. I: xiv, 168, [21, 1bl]. Engraved frontispiece and 15 further engraved plates. Vol II. [2], 158, [58]. 25 engraved plates (the plate of Henry Giles incorrectly bound in volume IV). Vol. III: [2], 155, [12, 1bl]. 37 engraved plates. Vol. IV: x, [2], 151, [9]; 12, 4. 26 engraved plates (including the portrait of Henry Giles). Vol. V: [4], 128; 14, 20, [10]. 9 illustrations. Vol. 6: vi, [2], 5-287 [1bl]. 11 illustrations. Handsomely bound in red full morocco, upper and lower covers with gilt borders constructed of fillets, a dotted line and and wave and tendril roll. Spine with raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt with green onlays decorated in gilt and a green label lettered in gilt. Turn-ins decorated in gilt with a greek key design. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A loosely note reads "Binding - ? by… Read More

London: Cassell. A Michael Dempsey Book, 1975. First UK edition. 215x132mm. pp. [14], 241 [1bl]. Inscribed "Robert F. with love Andy Warhol" and accompanied by a drawing in black felt tip pen of a Campbell Pea Soup tin. Original cream coloured cloth, spine stamped in black. Original dust jacket with black and white photograph of Warhol. Dust jacket with light damp-staining to head of spine and along top edge of lower cover, some slight creasing at edges and small nicks to corners but overall in very good condition and internally excellent. "Robert F" is Robert Fraser, Warhol's London art dealer. Fraser was known as "Groovy Bob" for his connections to the rock aristocracy, especially Paul McCartney who described him as "one of the most influential people of the London Sixties scene". It was at his Mayfair flat ("one of the coolest sixties pads in London"), that McCartney started to take a serious interest in modern art, meeting and talking with Peter Blake, Claes Oldenburg and Warhol. Guided and… Read More

London: Printed for C&J Rivington. 1826-1828, 1826. First edition. Volume I published by C&J Rivington, the other two volumes by John Murray. 8vo. 212x130mm. pp. Vol. I: xvii, [3], 498 (lacking half-title); Vol. II: [vi], 534, errata leaf; Vol. III: [x], [2], 541. Half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Maroon morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Some slight rubbing to edges and to small areas one the spines (particularly to the foot of volume II) but overall in very good condition. Internally fine. A very nice set. This first edition of volume I is rare, no copy being recorded at the BL. Warton was, in fact, William Wood, a High Anglican Priest from Fulham. Although the work is presented as advice for a parish priest on how to administer to the dying and support the bereaved, it is written in a such a direct and personal way that it can be read as a sort of novel.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980. First, signed limited edition. Number 82 of 475 (out of a total of 501, the first 26, hors commerce, being lettered) and signed by Wasson at the colophon. Printed on special paper made by Cartiera di Sarego and with design and printing by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Folio. 305x210mm. pp, xxvi, 248, [2]. Handsomely bound in green quarter morocco, beige cloth with decorated covers, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. With original cloth slipcase. Very slight fading to spine but otherwise in excellent condition. Internally fine with extensive illustrations. A beautiful copy of this important book which takes as its starting point Wasson's encounter in 1955 with Maria Sabina, a Mazatec Shamaness. The series of sessions which followed changed Wasson's life and the article he wrote about the experience for Life magazine in 1957 was arguably the starting point for America's psychedelic revolution. The Wondrous Mushroom appeared at the end of Wasson's life - he… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd 1953, 1953. Two bound volumes. Volume 171 (January 3 1953 to June 27 1953) and Volume 172 (July 4 1953 to December 22 1953). Bound in maroon (vol. 171) and brick-red (vol. 172) cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Front pastedown has the bookplate of Worthing Public Library and title page of volume 172 (and verso of volume 171) has a small round Worthing Public Library stamp. The papers are as follows: 1. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, by J.D.Watson and F.H.C. Crick. Nature, Volume 171, No. 4356. April 25 1953. pp737-738. 2. Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids, by M.H.F. Wilkins, A.R.Stokes and H.R.Wilson Nature, Volume 171, No. 4356. April 25 1953. pp738-740. 3. Molecular configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate by Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G.Gosling. Nature, Volume 171, No. 4356. April 25 1953. pp740-741. 4. Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid by… Read More

London: Printed for T.Lowndes 1775, 1775. First edition. 4to. 265x210mm. pp. iv, 764, [10, index]. Ten engraved plates (frontispiece portrait of the author and a further nine). The verso of the second leaf of preliminaries is numbered vi. Some foxing in places but otherwise, internally very good with the plates in excellent condition. Handsomely bound in slightly later red straight-grained morocco, upper and lower covers decorated with two double fillet borders in gilt enclosing a continuous "drawer-handle" design in blind and framing a continuous swag and drop border in blind. Spine with five double raised bands, decorated in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt to the second and fifth compartment. Edges of the boards decorated in gilt. Turn-ins decorated in gilt with a wavy dotted line and ears of wheat with a flower motif in the corners. All edges gilt. The binding is of a very high standard. It is unsigned but the tooling and overall design conforms to the work of the German… Read More

n.p. n.p. 1914, 1914. A diary kept by Oberjäger W. Werkberth a Corporal in the 4th Company Garde-Jäger-Bataillon covering the period 2nd August to 9th September 1914. Handwritten in pencil in a small notebook bound in half black linen with paper covered boards. There are sixty-eight numbered leaves with Weckberth's diary entries on both sides. The first leaf (unnumbered) has the title and year with, on the verso, a list of dates and places beginning with "15.8.14 Dinant" and ending with "8.9.14. Bois Tronces. Gefangen...1.30 nachm", indicating his being taken prisoner at 1.30 in the afternoon. In total there are 138 pages of handwriting. As one would expect from a wartime diary the handwriting shows signs of haste, Weckberth clearly keen to record his experiences as speedily and freshly as possible. Helpfully, there is, in a separate small notebook, an English translation although this is an edited version as some quite long sections of the German diary do not… Read More

New York: Privately Printed Christmas 1915, 1915. 8vo. pp. 47 [half-title/frontispiece unopened]. Frontispiece photograph by A.L. Coburn. Floral decoration to boards, black printing on white label to upper cover. Some damage/tears to corners and spine extremities. A good copy.

London and Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Archibald Constable and Co. 1818, 1818. First and only collected edition. 8vo (225x135mm). pp. [viii, versos blank], vii-lxxiv, [i] bl., 439, (1) imprint. Occasional light spotting, some early leaves with light dampstain at upper inner margin. Uncut and partly unopened. Blue grey paper covered boards, backed with beige paper and with paper label on spine. ffep has the ownership inscription of G (?) Falconer, Edinburgh, 1825. A very good copy. Wells's "Two essays" contains important contributions in the fields of ophthalmology, meteorology, ventilation, and evolution. "In his "Essay upon single vision with two eyes", originally published in 1792, Wells presents a new theory of binocular vision based on the concept of visible direction and experimental evidence on the duration of impressions on the retina. Wells's theory of visible direction had a great influence on the science of spectacle making in the… Read More

London: Art Publishing Co. 1929, 1929. First edition. Quarter grey cloth over grey printed boards. Title and author printed in dark grey. This is a 1929 reproduction of Wheatley's famous collection the Cries of London ("Sweet China Oranges", "Do you want any matches?", "New Mackrel, New Mackrel"). 13 plates, plus additional three plates - half-tone variant plate of "Hot Spice Gingerbread", portrait of Mrs Francis Wheatley and half-tone portrait of Francis Wheatley. All plates with tissue guards. 16 colour plates tipped in. 16 pages of introductory text by Stanford Rayner. Fine Francis Wheatley

Album of photographs relating to the work of the South African Constabulary taken in the summer of 1902 immediately following the end of the Boer War.
South Africa, 1902. Thirty-seven black and white photographs (c95x115mm) inserted back-to-back in card mounts (145x170mm) bound in a small oblong album (155x185mm). The spine to the album is missing and there is some marginal staining to some of the mounts but the photographs are in very good condition although seven have faded but the images are still visible. Details of some of the photographs are handwritten in black ink in the margins of the mounts and the first mount has been inscribed in pencil "No. 9 Troop SAC F.H.White. E. Transvaal". An excellent, rare record of life in the Eastern Transvaal in the aftermath of the Boer War. The South African Constabulary was formed in 1900 as a paramilitary force under the control of the British Army. Recruited from British settlers in South Africa and from other colonies, its aim was to oversee and police… Read More

Derby: Bemrose & Sons Ltd. 1901. Rare trade catalogue. 282x218mm. 40pp with eighty-two items of furniture listed, described, priced and illustrated in black and white line drawings or photographs. With an additional eight colour plates with printed tissue guards. Original grey wrappers with woodcut illustration and lettering printed in black and orange to upper cover. Wrappers a little torn with some loss in a few places. Spine torn with some loss. Some marking and soiling and on the lower cover there are two architectural drawings in pencil made by a previous owner. Internally there is some soiling to the edges of the title page and the first two leaves are creased on the lower right corner. Overall though a very good copy of the delicate and scarce trade catalogue which helped cement the reputation of Baillie Scott as perhaps the leading Arts and Crafts designer of the early twentieth century. Commonly cited as one of the rarest of all Arts and Crafts publications, Worldcat locates seven copies… Read More

London and New York: George Routledge & Co. 1854, 1854. First edition. 8vo. 159x95mm. pp. xx, 172. Blue-green bubble grained cloth, tan calf backstrip lettered in gilt with a gilt double fillet border. Backstrip damaged with loss of 40mm. Slight bumping to corners. Internally very good save for staining on pp62-63. Library label of The Institution of Civil Engineers on front pastedown and front free endpaper has inscription "Science Museum" in blue biro. Library stamp on the verso of the title page and on the final page. Rare in commerce. This book is the result of the tour of the United States made by Joseph Whitworth and George Wallis in 1853. They had been appointed British Commissioners for the New York International Exhibition and were also instructed to investigate the development of industry, manufacturing and the applied arts in America. They covered 5000 miles visiting factories and schools of design. The book contains chapters on the production of all types of everything from wheels for… Read More

London: Printed for J. Scatcherd 1797, 1797. First edition. 8vo. 175x100mm. pp. xvi, 274. Folding frontispiece and twelve plates each with a monthly "Bill of Fare". Contemporary calf, recently and expertly repaired, red morocco label to spine lettered in gilt. Closed tear to E6 with no loss, some foxing but otherwise very good. An excellent copy of a rare book, ESTC recording only six copies. The Accomplished Housekeeper is an abridged version of Francis Collingwood's The Universal Cook and City and Country Housekeeper, itself a rare book, first published in 1792 with a second edition in 1797. Their purpose, as stated in the preface, was to issue a version that was cheaper, shorter and easier to use. "The Editors have had frequent occasions to deviate from the printed directions found in books of this kind, sometimes by altering, but more frequently by reducing the number of ingredients, and thereby rendering them more simple and less expensive, though equally salutary to the… Read More

London: Macdonald 1991, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 235. Basis for the film of the same name starring Dennis Hopper and Michael Massee, for which Willocks also wrote the screenplay. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gold. Original colour-pictoriial dust-jacket by David Kearney, author's photograph to rear flap. Top and bottom of spine lightly bumped, some bumping to top edge. Book-seller's stamp to recto of front free endpaper. First edition of the author's first book. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.

London: Printed for D. Ogilvy, and J. Speare et al 1793, 1793. The Second Edition With Considerable Additions. 8vo. 210x125mm. Unpaginated, collates [A4]-Z4, Aa4-Ll4, *A4-*Z4, Aa4-Dd4. Full tree calf with double fillet gilt border inside which is a further gilt border in a Greek key design. Spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, maroon morocco label, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers, front pastedown has armorial bookplate of Matthew Wilson and the front free endpaper has the bookplate of his grand-daughter Frances Mary Richardson Currer. A little wear to extremities and joints and some fading to spine but otherwise in very good condition. Some browning but generally excellent internally. Overall a very nice copy, with an excellent provenance, of the expanded second edition dedicated to Samuel Johnson who had written to thank Wilson for the copy of the first edition. Johnson's letter is reprinted here. The Reverend Thomas Wilson (1747-1813) was the headmaster of… Read More

n.p. n.d. [c1780], 1780. A manuscript poem on one side of a single leaf. Five verses of four lines each written in a neat italic hand. It has been folded in three for posting (there is the mark of a seal and, on the verso, the name of the addressee, Chas Blatchley Esq, Bury. A strip has been torn on the left edge no doubt when the letter was opened but there is no loss of text. Otherwise it is in very good condition with nice clear text. This poem by Sir Wilful Wiseacre is in praise of the recently invented Water Closet. The first patent for a flushing lavatory was given in 1775 to the Scottish watchmaker Alexander Cummings. In jaunty, amusing, mildly risqué verse, Wiseacre makes plain the advantages of this important invention: "No more her L[ad]y[shi]p shall go Trembling her Secrets to deposite Through Heat or Cold through Frost or Snow When shelter'd by our Water Closet".

Berlin: Oswald Arnold 1941, 1941. A portfolio of photographs from the Atelier Manasse in Vienna run by Aderjan and Olga von Wlassics. They were the leading photographers of nude and mildly erotic studies in the 1920s and 1930s. Bound in a beige card cover with blue tasselled string. Some slight creasing and scuffing to the cover. The contents are a two page introduction on the beauty of the female body and its influence on artists. Loosely inserted is a facsimile handwritten letter from Aderjan Wlassics. Eleven of the twelve plates are present but they are in immaculate condition. �

Philadephia: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys 1802, 1802. First American edition printed from the London Second edition. Two volumes in one. 12mo. in 6s. 160x100mm. pp. xxii, 1-5, [6], [13]-159 [1bl]; 170. Lacking final leaf of notes in volume two. Later half calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, maroon morocco label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Front pastedown with book label of Christopher Clark Geest. At the head of the first poem in volume one is inscribed "Maria Breaton". Extremities rubbed and internally there is some browning but overall a very good copy. First published in England in 1798, the second London edition of Lyrical Ballads included the Preface which is regarded as a manifesto of Romanticism. It was this second edition that made it across the Atlantic Ocean and introduced American readers to the English Romantic movement. Although Wordsworth was the driving force behind the book and… Read More

London: John Murray 1927, 1927. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 359, signed by Wren. 223x155mm. pp. [12], 579 [1bl], [4]. Twenty illustrations (four in colour) by Helen McKie. Original blue cloth, backed with red cloth, paper label lettered in blue to spine. Lacking dustjacket. Some slight soiling to covers and foxing to fore-edge but otherwise a very good copy in excellent condition. Wren's most famous book, charmingly illustrated and complete with "The Song of the Legion" used as the March Theme from film.