Search Results: Titles starting with E from Ash Rare Books

Ashford : Hand & Flower Press, (1953). First edition. A collection of forty-one poems from the Corsican-born poet and diplomat, friend and biographer of T. S. Eliot. Includes "Enigma", "Journey under the Sea", "Let there be Peace", etc. Crown 8vo (19cm). (70),[ii]pp. Original marbled wrapperss, lettered in darker grey; slightly bruised, but still a very good copy.

London : Cecil Palmer, (1927). First edition. An anatomist brings thirty years' experience of physical anthropology to a study of the mental and physical characteristics of early Londoners and their descendants, with perhaps even the evolution of a new head form. With chapters on the Palæolithic and Neolithic; the Beaker Folk; the Coming of the Celt; Caesar and London; London under the Roman; Picts, Scots and Saxons; Saxon London; London and the Danes, etc. Demy 8vo (23cm). 240pp. Original cloth; some very minor rubbing and a couple of marks, but a very good copy - clean and sound.

London : Faber & Faber, (1983). First British edition. A dedication copy, with the publishers' compliments slip loosely inserted, and from the collection of Barry and Valerie Bloomfield, the dedicatees. Professor Mendelson had collaborated with Barry Bloomfield on the Auden bibliography. A history and interpretation of the work to 1939. Foolscap 4to (25cm). (xxiv),(408)pp. Original boards; very good in the dust-jacket - also very good - and with some related press-cuttings loosely inserted.

New York : Pierpont Morgan Library / Toronto : Oxford University Press, (1975). First edition. A lavishly produced exploration of 225 treasures from the Pierpont Morgan Library, with bibliographical notes and short discussions of each. With a preface by Charles Ryskamp and an interesting essay by the historian by J. H. Plumb on "The First Flourishing of Children's Books". Royal 4to (31cm). [2],(xxx),(266),[ii]pp. Colour plates. Over 300 monochrome illustrations. Original cloth; very good in a just lightly rubbed dust-jacket.

London : Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association, 1990. First edition. A magisterial study of the application of lithography to book production, with chapters on lithographic incunabula; military manuals; the publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps; books on accounting; music; facsimile work, etc. With a descriptive catalogue of the known examples, etc. Crown 4to (26cm). 374,[ii]pp. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Original cloth; top edge a touch dusty; small mark on fore-edge, but otherwise a very good copy.

London : Map Collectors' Circle, (1963). First edition. A cartobibliography listing and describing thirty-two maps, etc., with thirty-two plates. Map Collectors' Series No. 6. Crown 4to (26cm). (16)pp. Plates. Original stapled wrappers; a few faint signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

London : Private Libraries Association & the Bookplate Society, 1976. First edition. An impressive catalogue of the known labels, with an historical introduction, appendices of early American labels, printers' gifts, book stamps, etc. Royal 8vo (26cm). xxii,(186)pp. Facsimiles. Original cloth; very good indeed.

Leeds : Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1994. First edition. The early book trade in York, with extensive analysis of an unusually detailed stock inventory. Crown 4to (25cm). (viii),108pp. Illustrations. Map. Tables. Original pictorial wrappers; a little bruised, but otherwise a very good copy.

London : Oxford University Press, 1934. First edition. A magisterial and richly illustrated study of the background to mid nineteenth-century England, with chapters on Work and Wages (J. H. Clapham), Homes and Habits, Town Life and London (R. H. Mottram), Life in the New Towns, Country Life and Sport (Bernard Darwin), The Navy, The Army, The Mercantile Marine (Basil Lubbock), The Press, Art, Architecture (A. E. Richardson), Music, Drama (Allardyce Nicoll), Holidays and Travel, Charity, Expansion and Emigration, and the Portrait of an Age. Two volumes. Medium 8vo (24cm). [ii],(xxvi),414,[ii]; viii,558,[ii]pp. Errata slip. Numerous plates drawn from contemporary sources. Facsimiles. Original cloth gilt; some spotting of edges, one endpaper lightly tanned, but a very good set in the original dust-jackets - lightly tanned, slightly worn and a little chipped.

Frome : Hippopotamus Press, (1991). First edition : one of just ten special copies in hardback numbered and signed by Peter Dale. A collection of fifty-four poems. Demy 8vo (23cm). 72pp. Original green rexine, lettered in gilt; very slightly bruised, but otherwise very good in the original green dust-jacket - inevitably a little sunned at spine, but otherwise also very good.

London : for the Author, by Wilson & Whitworth, (1920). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author. An extensive and unusually detailed history, particularly strong on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century corporate history. Stokes, originally a house-builder and estate agent, was chairman of the public health committee in 1918 and to become mayor of East Ham in 1921. Demy 8vo (23cm). (258),[ii]pp. Illustrations. Portraits. Maps. Original cloth gilt; sprinkled edges; a little worn and faded; a touch rolled; endpapers slightly tanned, but a good and serviceable copy of a valuable account. Loosely inserted is a postcard of old East Ham Church, dated 1904 in manuscript. and addressed to Mrs (Emily) Noble of Barking.

London : East London Historical Society, 1978-1998. A good unbroken run of the now discontinued local history magazine relating to all aspects of the life and history of the East End of London - a mine of fascinating and out of the way information - issues 1-19. Nineteen issues. Demy 8vo (22cm) & (one) folio (30cm). Each issue between 40 and 52pp. Original stapled wrappers; a few minor marks and creases, but a very good run.

London : Faber & Faber, (1978). First edition : with a printed label correcting the caption of the frontispiece. A richly illustrated survey and detailed gazetteer in the usual Shell format. Crown 4to (24cm). 192pp. Coloured map. Photo illustrations throughout. Original cloth; a very good copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket.

[London : J. Cooke, 1779]. A handsome eighteenth-century engraved prospect of Birmingham - a view across the city from the fields and windmill below - originally produced for the Cooke part-work publication "The Modern Universal British Traveller" (London : 1779). Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 184 x 277mm (approx. 7-1/4" x 10-7/8"). Slight nick to upper margin, a few minor marks to outer blank margins, some faint wear and creasing in places, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

Dublin : Dedalus Press, 1992. First edition : the hardback issue. The Dublin poet's first collection - thirty-four poems, including "The Road to the Skelligs", "Geographers", "Orienteering with Elizabeth", etc - "some of the finest and most artful poems of his generation, not just here but across the globe" (Gerald Dawe). Foolscap 4to (22cm). (60),[iv]pp. Original maroon rexine, lettered in gilt; top edge faintly spotted, but otherwise very good in the Paul Barrass dust-jacket - also very good.

[London : George Virtue, 1836]. An antique print - rugged mountains, the remote pass, Macdonalds in flight from Campbells. Engraved by W. Hill (fl.1833-1838) from an original study by Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work series "Scotland Illustrated" (London : 1835-1838). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 138 x 174mm (approx. 5-3/8" x 6-7/8"). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : John G. Murdoch, [1854 (but later)]. A most attractive antique print - Edinburgh from the Firth, with vessels in the foreground - from an original drawing by the well-known Clarkson Stanfield R.A. Originally produced for John Parker Lawson's "Scotland Delineated in a Series of Views" (London : 1847-1854), but here with the later imprint of J. G. Murdoch and produced for his undated publication "Scotland, Picturesque, Historical, Descriptive". Tint lithograph on paper. Later hand colour. Printed surface 178 x 213mm (approx. 7" x 8-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : J. & F. Harwood, 1842. A most attractive antique print in vignette style - a prospect of Edinburgh from the quarries to the north, with the castle, Calton Hill, etc., on the skyline. Dated 1842 in the plate and published by John & Frederick Harwood of Fenchurch Street. Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 117 x 145mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

London : Bibliographical Society, 2017. First edition. The Elizabethan library of Edmund Geste (1514?-1577), bequeathed to Salisbury Cathedral on his death, with material on Geste as a book-collector, the earlier provenance, the annotations, the bookbinders employed, etc. With indices of publishers and printers, bindings, provenances, annotations, pastedowns, etc. Royal 8vo (26cm). (xxx),(494),[iv]pp. Illustrations, some in colour. Facsimiles. Original cloth; very good.

London : Duckworth & Co., 1902. First edition : the cloth issue. Two short stories and two novellas, all set in South America. "They are, really, studies in anthropology ... descriptive cameos - there is no word wanting, there is no word wasted - he gives us precisely the true impression as none but a master of the craft could give it" (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 30th April 1902). Crown 8vo (19cm). [viii],182,[ii]pp. Original green cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in black in Duckworth's Greenback Library format; just a touch of rubbing; a little spotting of endpapers and edges, but a very good and bright copy. With the contemporary bookplate of Robert Washington Oates (1874-1958), creator of the Gilbert White Museum at Selborne, etc. A small contemporary press portrait of Hudson has been attached to the front free endpaper. Payne 21b.