Search Results: Titles starting with C from Wykeham Books

St. James Press Ltd, Chicago, first general edition, 1968. Cloth, 4to,. 42 pp, ills. Provides descriptions of Day-Lewis' s major works, covering books and pamphlets, contributions to books, and the detective stories published under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. An ex-library copy with labels on the front endpapers and stamps and marks to the prelims, otherwise Good.

Yale University Press, New Haven, first edition, 1985. Cloth, 4to, 28 cm,. 499 pp, numerous ills (some in colour). From the blurb: "Charles Robert Ashbee - architect, designer, social reformer, and a major force behind the Arts and Crafts Movement - was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life at the turn of the century. Inspired by the Romantic antiindustrialism of John Ruskin and William Morris, Ashbee started a small craft workshop in the East End of London in 1888 called the Guild of Handicraft. He not only made it a place where work could be satisfying and creative but, in 1902, in the boldest gesture of his career, he moved the Guild's workshops out to the idyllic Cotswold town of Chipping Campden. Utilizing the often vivid journals kept by Ashbee and his wife Janet, Alan Crawford documents Ashbee's life and work, the story of the Guild, and the part Ashbee played in reform movements that ranged from the conservation of historic buildings to early… Read More

Kent State University Press, first edition, n.d. but circa 1974. Cloth, 8vo,. xiii, 390 pp. From the introduction: "This checklist is an attempt to assist readers and students of Lewis in finding secondary source material...it includes everything significant we found which evaluates or analyzes Lewis as scholar, religious writer and thinker, novelist, and poet. The list of reviews contains approximately half of the reviews, but the more important half. Our cutoff date for inclusion was June 1972." The Serif series: bibliographies and checklists, no. 30. Top edge of textblock smokestained, otherwise Near Very Good.

HarperCollins, London, first edition, 1996. Cloth-backed boards, 8vo,. xvi, 940 pp. Includes as pp 799-883 the best bibliography of Lewis, with approximately 400 entries. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Librairie A. Claudin. Paris, auction catalogue for the sale held from 31st May 1882- 6th June 1882. Contemporary cloth, spine with gilt device and year, leather spine-label, original printed wrappers bound in, 12mo,. xxiii, 454, [2] pp. 841 lots. An interesting catalogue, with prefaces by Alphonse Pauly and Anatole Claudin which paid tribute to Rochebilière's bibliographic skills, noting that he would buy multiple copies of books and minutely examine them "C'est ainsi qu'il a pu indiquer neuf états différents de la première édition française des Maximes de La Rochefoucauld, portant tous la date de 1665.". "Nous ne craignons pas de dire que cette vente fera sensation parmi les bibliophiles." Rochebilière had been head of the Bibliothèque Saint-Geneviève in Paris. The catalogue cover highlighted: Montaigne, Saint François de Sales, Corneille, Descartes, Pascal, La Fontaine, Bossuet, Molière,… Read More

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Amsterdam, first edition thus, 1970. Cloth, gilt cover-device, folio, 43 cm,. unpaginated, [134] pp including 9 double-page charts and 1 folding chart, ills. With an introduction in English by C.Koeman. From the blurb: "A rutter [mariner's handbook of sailing directions] for the Mediterranean, with Dutch text, compiled by the famous Arctic explorer, and derived from an Italian original. It is the first rutter for the Mediterranean with printed charts, which were all engraved by Jodocus Hondius the Elder. Near Fine in slightly fingersoiled dustwrapper with 2 short closed tears to top edge.

Great Britain. Record Commission, [London], first edition, 1832. Moire-patterned cloth, printed paper spine-label, folio, 44 cm,. [6], 398 pp. This Volume contains a Calendar stating the names of the Plaintiffs and Defendants, the object of each lawuit, and the name and situation of the lands or tenements in dispute, with a short account of the nature of the Claims in the Proceedings in the Court of Chancery during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558 to 1603, alphabetically arranged under the names of the Plaintiffs. This Calendar is useful to topographical writers: it affords much genealogical information ; and îs of considerable value for legal purposes. Presentation label on front pastedown endpaper from H.M. Treasury. Boards rubbed and stained along most of fore-edges, spine lacking a 3 inch piece at the top and torn with some loss near the foot, contents Good.

John Pryse, Llanidloes, first edition, 1869. Blind-decorated cloth, all edges marbled , 8vo,. xxxii, 762 pp. With an additional titlepage in Welsh. Pages. Xxx-xxxi of the introduction in this edition are misnumbered xxi-xxii. Slight wear to spine-ends, otherwise Good.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1999. Cloth, 8vo,. xxiv, 743 pp, 33 pp of plates. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996 reprint of 1989 first edition. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo,. xiv, 297 pp. From the preface - "This book, as its title suggests, is intended to provide friendly and helpful company for any student of Milton. .What follows.. is not a series of homogeneous encyclopaedia articles but eighteen original essays by eighteen different human beings who care about Milton, who would (and do) disagree with each other about innumerable issues, and who seek in an informative, responsible, often argumentative way to say something important about a subject they love. Unfortunately, this book does not include discussion of all of Milton's works, nor does it exemplify every major critical approach; such are the limitations of a single volume. But each contributor has been asked to try to do in a modest way what Milton himself so consistently does: by means of a particular style, angle of vision, or argument to encourage critical thought, further study, and a… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm,. [2], 231 pp, ills (some colour). From the introduction: "This book is a celebration of some of the collections [of the Cambridge University Library]. It seeks to give a flavour of those collections, not just as artistic, literary or scientific treasures in their own right but as sources for the research and teaching which are central to the University's purpose. ..In selecting topics for inclusion, the editorial committee have attempted to provide an impression of the range of the Library's collections: in terms of period, from the fifth-century Codex Bezae to the archive of the living writer Stefan Heym, which is still being created; in terms of geographical spread, from the British Isles, through continental Europe to the Middle East and on to Japan, with the Royal Commonwealth Society adding the global perspective of the Empire 'on which the sun never set'; in terms of subject matter, with history… Read More

Cambridge University Press, cheap edition, 1932. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. viii, 414 pp. Spine faded, otherwise Good.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1940-1957 first edition. 5 vols, cloth, 8vo,. xxxviii, [2] , 912 + xviii, [2], 1003 + xix, [3], 1098 + 287 pp + xiv,710 pp. Approximately 152,500 entries. The "CBEL" set comprises Volumes: I : 600-1660; II : 1660-1800; III : 1800-1900; IV : Index; V : Supplement 600-1900, which was edited by F.W. Bateson (Vols I -IV) and G. Watson (Vol V). The aim of CBEL is "to record, as far as possible in chronological order, the authors, titles and editions, with relevant critical matter, of all the writings in book-form (whether in English or in Latin) that can still be said to possess some literary interest, by natives of what is now the British empire, up to the year 1900". It includes sections on political and social background and Commonwealth literature dropped from the later New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The blurb relating to the four main =volume spublishe din 1940 stated "The four volumes of this Bibliography contain… Read More

Cambridge University Library, [Cambridge], first separate edition, 1975. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo,. 23, [3] pp, plates facs. (some coloured),. [Reprinted with minor alterations from the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science vol. 4 pp 50-70] From the text: "The earliest specific references to a library of the University at Cambridge are to be found in the wills (both proved in March 1416) of William Hunden and William Loring, the former bequeathing to it three volumes "to remain forever in the new library at Cambridge for the use of graduates and scholars in residence," and the latter all his books of civil law "to remain forever in the common library of the scholars of the University." There are, of course, earlier references to books in the possession of the university. Richard de Lyng, three times Chancellor of the University, who died in 1355, is included as the donor of a chest of books.. Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front inside… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1984. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xvii, 343 pp. From the blurb : In 1984 the Press celebrated four hundred years of continuous printing and publishing, and this history gives a readable and not-too-formal introduction to that unique record. It is the story of the development of the printing and publishing arm of the University of Cambridge, from the medieval system of resident stationers who dealt in manuscripts to the present large printing and publishing house which produces computer software and audio cassette tapes as well as books (mostly now computer-set). The narrative is given its proper setting in the development of the University, which has inevitably determined the history of the Press itself; in the history of the book trade as a whole; and in the intellectual and political history of England. which has at times affected the fortunes of the Press. The story has unique elements: a royal charter on which the University's right to print and… Read More

Oleander Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1978. Printed illustrated boards, 8vo,. 64 pp, many ills. Good.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1966. 2 vols, cloth, 4to, 28 cm,. xv, 432 +ix, 381 pp, ills, 8 plates (incl. 4 colour diagrams.) facs, tables. Vol 1 : Organization and policy of the Cambridge University Press. -Vol. 2 : 1st Minute book, accounts and vouchers. From the blurb: "Professor McKenzie's study of the Cambridge University Press in the time of Queen Anne gives a detailed picture of the Press in this period. As the first study in depth of a hand-press house, it provides an essential basis for much bibliographical and textual work in early printed books. The Press records on which the work is based form, in their detail and comprehensiveness, a unique collection of printing-house documentation. The entries in the Curator's Minute Book provide the fullest extant account of printing charges in these years; the Annual Press Accounts show clearly the kind of expenditure which a small printing-house incurred; and many of the Vouchers reveal the week-by-week… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1940 first edition. 4 vols, cloth, 8vo,. xxxviii, [2] , 912 + xviii, [2], 1003 + xix, [3], 1098 + 287 pp. Approximately 152,500 entries. Volumes: I : 600-1660; II : 1660-1800; III : 1800-1900; IV : Index. The aim of CBEL is "to record, as far as possible in chronological order, the authors, titles and editions, with relevant critical matter, of all the writings in book-form (whether in English or in Latin) that can still be said to possess some literary interest, by natives of what is now the British empire, up to the year 1900". It includes sections on political and social background and Commonwealth literature dropped from the later New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. A supplement (not included here) was published in 1957. From the blurb: "The four volumes of this Bibliography contain particulars of every writer and every book worthy of inclusion in a record of English Literature from the earliest times to the beginning of this… Read More

Basil Blackwell, Oxford, first edition, 1952. Cloth, 4to,. ix, 133 pages illustrations (part colour) 29 cm, pp. Illustrated by Muirhead Bone. Covers a little rubbed, endpapers foxed, otherwise Good in the remains of a badly torn dustwrapper.

M. & M. Baldwin; Shepperton, first edition, 1984. Illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 21 cm,. 98 pp, ills. Includes sections on Cruising & Cruising Guides; Histories and Engineering; Boats and Traffic; Official Publications; Waterways in Europe; Other Foreign Waterways; Fiction; Ephemera, Postcards and other bits and pieces; A note on the finding, selection and care of books; How to find out more. rear wrapper yellowed, otherwise Very Good.