Search Results: Titles starting with E from Bull's Head Rare Books

Madrid: La Imprenta Real, 1797-98. 6 vols. 12mo. Engraved author portrait after J. López Enguídanos and 48 engraved plates after Antonio Rodríguez. [iii]-lix, [1], 283, [1], lxi-lxiii, [1]; 418, [2]; 365, [3]; xiii, [1], 364; 374, [2, blank], [4];392, [4] pp. Contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt roll border, spines richly gilt, red morocco spine labels; a few small scuffs, flaw in leather to rear cover of vol. 2, one plate and a few leaves in vol. 5 worn at fore-edge A beautiful copy in contemporary Spanish binding of this royal printing of Don Quixote. Rius notes this is the first Spanish edition printed in small type and has high praise for the edition in general: "La impresión, muy buena; el papel, excelente, y el gusto tipográfico que en esta edición se nota, la colocan en el lugar de las bellas." With a biography of Cervantes by Manuel Quintana and 48 engraved plates after Antonio Rodriguez.REFERENCE: Osterc, Los Quijotes de la Coleccion Franz Mayer, 75 ("entre las más bonitas de… Read More

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1843. First edition. 8vo. 28 engraved plates. viii, [9]-232 pp. Publisher's cloth rebacked in roan; covers rubbed and stained, occasional light foxing First edition of Benjamin's final work, which Hitchcock notes was his least popular work and only appeared in two editions. Perhaps for that reason it is also one of Benjamin's scarcest titles. Of note is the section on the theory of carpentry, including "36 experiments made on various kinds of American timber; experiments made in various ways of European timber by European artists; and on the strength of iron, steel, copper, brass, tin, lead, stone, bricks, cement, etc."PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label, purchased from Charles Wood)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 115

Buffalo: A. Burke, n.d. [ca. 1843]. 8vo. 432 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine titled in gilt; spine tail frayed, covers rubbed, foxed, engraved book-plate of G.E. Fisher, A.M.M.D. Based on the author's first-hand observations during a stay of several years in Paris. Includes a bibliography of French medical literature, pp, 179-209.

London: James Cawthorn, [1809]. First edition. 8vo. vi, 54 pp., with half-title. Full red morocco, gilt interlacing strapwork design on covers and spine, top edge gilt, rest uncut, original printed paper covers removed from boards, backed and bound in, green watered silk doublures endpapers, by Zaehnsdorf (stamped on front turn-in and dated 1898, exhibition blind stamp on rear doublure); rebacked with spine laid-down and some loss to lettering, paper covers spotted, old mildew spot on several margins The Frank Hogan copy of the first edition of Byron's satiric response to Henry Brougham's negative review of Hours of Idleness in the Edinburgh Review. Byron also take aim at the journal's editor, Francis Jeffrey, along with many of his contemporaries — Coleridge, Southey, Scott, and Wordsworth included. Byron later recanted some of his criticism, writing in an annotated copy of the 1811 fourth edition, "The greater part of this is satire I most sincerely wish had never been written — not only on… Read More

York: Printed for the Author, by G. Peacock, 1793. First edition. 4to. 3 folding engraved plates, each with letterpress explanatory leaf. Half-title, list of subscribers, with additional leaf of subscribers and author's apology for errors, errata leaf at end of first part. Later nineteenth-century half calf, red morocco spine label; rebacked with spine laid-down, some foxing to plates, second plate trimmed with some loss to lower margin and legend, occasional marginal spotting or toning, mostly to explanatory leaves opposite plates Describes many of the exotic plants cultivated in England. Of particular note are plants from Australia collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander during Cook's Endeavour voyage. PROVENANCE: John Ireland Blackburne, Esq. (etched bookplate); D. Shirley (signature on pastedown)REFERENCE: ESTC T82581; Henrey 1384

London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. 8vo. viii, 109, [1], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth; small tear to head of spine, some toning and spotting to covers, endpapers foxed, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown First edition of Sir George Sitwell's classic celebration of the gardens of Tuscany, Rome and the Italian lake district more philosophical treatise than manual of plant care and practical garden design. Before the final overthrow of the Picturesque in the twentieth century, English Romantics looked once more to Italy, perceiving in its decayed villa gardens a certain kind of landscape poetry. Perhaps the most Romantic analysis of Italian villa gardens was by the early-twentieth-century English aesthete Sir George Sitwell (1860-1943), who devoted an entire chapter to its analysis in On the Making of Gardens (Rogers, et al, Romantic Gardens, p. 30)

London: John Murray, 1831. First edition. 8vo. 2 engraved plates. v, [3], 52 pp. Polished calf, gilt; rubbed, pencil annotations by early owner PROVENANCE: Richard Goolden (book-plate); Seth B. Watson (gift inscription from the previous)

New York: William T. Comstock, 1889. First edition. Oblong 4to. 59 plates after drawings by Stevens, numerous illustrations in text. 40 pp. Publisher's blue-green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt; spine ends repaired, hinges reinforced and now sturdy, some repairs to endsheets, covers scuffed and extremities worn, moderate soiling and scuffing, final paragraph of Preface effaced Scarce first edition of this important treatise on the Shingle Style of architecture. Stevens (1855-1940), who supplied the plans and drawings illustrated here, was a major innovator of the Shingle Style. He was prolific, completing some 1,000 commissions, mostly along the Maine coast, including approximately 300 homes on the Portland peninsula. In 1888 he formed a partnership with Albert Winslow Cobb, who had previously worked at the Boston office of William Ralph Emerson, another major innovator of the Shingle Style. Cobb, who provides the text, argues for the Shingle Style as a necessary reform to produce a… Read More

Halleck (1790-1867) was one of the most popular American poets in the first half of the 19th century and the only American to be honored with a statue in Poet's Row in Central Park. Recent scholarship has contextualized Halleck as an early gay American poet, whose relationship with fellow poet and collaborator Joseph Rodman Drake formed the basis for Bayard Taylor's 1870 novel Joseph and his Friend cited by some as the first gay American novel. (See Hallock, The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.) Born in Guilford, Connecticut, Halleck moved to New York in 1811, and in 1813 formed an intimate relationship with Drake. In 1819 the men became literary stars when they published "The Croakers," a series of poems satirizing prominent New Yorkers; Halleck followed this up in 1819 with Fanny, a poem satirizing New York's nouveaux riches which went through several life-time editions; Alnwick Castle and other poems appeared in 1827, featuring… Read More