Search Results: Titles starting with F from Zetetic Books

London: Shelter [2], 55pp, [3], original paper covers, n.d. c.1969/1970. Quite bright and clean. The research team was led by Colin Crouch, and it is illustrated with photographs by Nick Hedges, Patrick Ward and John Claridge. Eight locations in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good+. 8vo. Pamphlet.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [8], ix-xv, [1], 255pp, [3]. Original buckram in DJ. Very light dust staining to top edge, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: J. Osborn, 1741. [2], iii-xiv, [3], 2-123pp, [3]; [2], 324pp, two parts in one. Modern full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, date in gilt to foot, bands with gilt double rules above and below, covers with double fillet border and fleuron corner pieces, blind rolls to edges and inner edges. Externally very good. Internally lightly browned throughout, occasional light soiling, mainly to margins, some light foxing but tolerable, small piece missing from fore edge margin of T4. Note in pen to head of title, with near contemporary previous owner's name (Alexander Riddle) to head of preface. Text in double column, with a few woodcut 'bills of fare' to text. The first part is cookery, including making English wines, the second 'medical'. The preface is signed 'Arabella Atkyns' a pseudonym, used due to "my relation to several honourable Persons, who would not be well pleased, perhaps, to see my Name in Publick, on such an… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [8], ix-xxii, 317pp, [3]. Original buckram in DJ. Corners slightly bumped, pencil lines to margins with occasional notes, otherwise quite bright. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Thomas Hurst, 1837. [7], viii-xxxvi, [1], 2-432pp, plates. Publisher's full morocco by Remnant and Edmonds, smooth back with author and title within a decorative frame to head, and three roundels within frames beneath, covers with central ring of flowers surrounded by a triple fillet frame, a.e.g. Spine browned, running around on to covers, chipped to spine ends with a closed split to head of lower joint, covers generally lightly soiled. Occasional light foxing to text, one plate with tissue guard detached but present. Complete with eleven plates, ten of which are hand-coloured with cut out overlays. Probably by Alexander Walker (1779-1852), see the ODNB. First Edition. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Wright, J.W. And Parris, E.T.. 8vo.

Kendal: Gazette Office, 1843. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 320mm x 435mm in size. Cropped tightly to text, once laid down and halved, now lifted and rejoined with Japanese tissue, slightly creased with some light ink staining and off-setting, dated October 1843 to foot in ink. Anti-Warburton broadside, pertaining to his time as an M.P. for Bridport, "at the general election of 1826 Warburton was returned to parliament for the borough of Bridport in Dorset as a radical. He made his first long speech on 30 November, on foreign goods, and was re-elected in 1830, 1831, 1833, 1835, 1837, and 1841, all of the elections after the Reform Bill of 1832 being severely contested. Even after the 1832 act, Bridport only had 500 voters; it was notoriously corrupt, as well as being dominated by the naval interest. Here Warburton's lumber experience assisted him and he topped the poll. On 8 September 1841 Warburton resigned his seat on the ground that a petition would have 'proved gross… Read More

Worcester: S. Gamidge and W. Pendrill, 1756. Single sided engraved broadside, approximately 265mm x 380mm (engraving), 335 x 450 (Frame). Lightly soiled, surface abrasion towards head on the left hand side, but not affecting image, several small worm holes, but again not affecting image or text. Vignette to head showing Penderel holding a billhook in the foreground, with the king on a horse in disguise to the background. Penderel's epitaph is recorded towards the bottom of the engraving, with an added note that George II had ordered that his monument be 'cleaned up & beautified in the year 1739'. Engraved broadside celebrating the life of Richard Penderel [Richard Pendrill], of Hobball Grange, Shropshire, who with his four brothers saved the life of Charles II after the battle of Worcester, hiding him from Cromwell's soldiers. After the Restoration, both he and his brothers were rewarded with a pension, and he was known as 'Trusty Dick' at Court. He died in 1671 while visiting London, and his… Read More

London and Salisbury: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. and Brown and Co. [3], 4-28pp, [4], original paper covers, n.d. but 1871. Covers lightly foxed, rubbed, chipped to corners with small amount of loss, some light foxing internally, but generally fairly bright and clean. Allegorical account of the Franco-Prussian war which inspired several replies. The author H.[enry] W.[illiam] Pullen was a clergyman. Wikpedia notes "Pullen found fame with a pamphlet 'The Fight at Dame Europa's School'. A parable on the European situation, it made John, the head of the school, who refuses to separate Louis and William in a fight, though he sees that Louis is beaten and that the prolongation of the fight is mere cruelty. John is reproached by Dame Europa for cowardice, is told that he has grown "a sloven and a screw", and is threatened with loss of his position. It was a runaway success, and earned Pullen £3000. A dramatised version by George T. Ferneyhough was acted on 17 March 1871 by… Read More

New Jersey: World Scientific, 2006. xvii, [1], 191pp, [1], original printed boards. Bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+/No Jacket (as Issued). 8vo.

Florida: Star Lab Press, 2002. [6], 485pp, [3], original buckram, author and title in gilt to spine and upper cover. Slightly rubbed, couple of light scrapes to upper cover, but generally bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued). 4to.

London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1839. xii, 416pp, original cloth, gilt title to spine. Recased, with inner joints strengthened, board edges bumped, corners bumped and worn, internally lightly browned, folding chart browned to top edge, but generally clean. Interesting accounts of crimes and criminal behaviour, primarily by the criminals themselves. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

London: T. Becket and J. Johnson, 1789. [2], iii-iv, [1], 2-56pp; 4p. Disbound. Title slightly soiled, with ?tea stain, final leaf also slightly soiled, text generally clean. Also included is a 4p leaflet, with a drop-head title, 'Proceedings of the Philanthropic Society, relative to Mr. Robert Young'. The Philanthropic Society was set up in 1788, seemingly at the house of Robert Young. It would "seek out in the 'Augean stable of filth, disease and iniquity which disgraces the Metropolis' and train-up to 'virtue and usefulness in life, the children of vagrants and such who are in the paths of vice and infamy'" (Whitten, 'Protection, Prevention, Reformation: a history of the Philanthropic Society, 1788-1848', page 22). However it seems that Young, who also started a variety of other schemes, 'mishandled' the funds raised, possibly diverting the money into other schemes, and by 1790 had been dismissed from the Society. The second leaflet relates to the accounts of the Society and Mr. Young's expenses… Read More

Dursley: W. Rickards [Printer], 1810. Single sided printed leaflet, approximately 175mm x 220mm in size. Lightly stained to head, especially to reverse (possibly from glue), rubbed and creased. Reverse has the details in ink of the sheep stolen, detailing four instances over a couple of months in 1809 and 1810. Hand bill offering a substantial reward for information leading to the conviction of the offenders, one of the sheep mentioned was stolen, whereas the other was killed and the carcass stolen, "leaving the head and skin". Dursley is in Gloucestershire. The printer was W.[illiam] Rickards of Long Street, who advertises hand bills, cards etc. "printed at only One Hour's Notice". The BBTI has him at Silver Street between 1830 and 1842, and his press was registered in 1831, but clearly he had been printing for some time before then. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 8vo. Leaflet.

London: R. Faulder, 1789. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [4], *v-*xii, v-xli, 530pp and Volume Two - [4], 531-1151pp, [25], contemporary calf, smooth backs divided into six panels by gilt rules, leather title label to second panel, volume number in gilt to fourth. Rubbed, chip to head of spine of volume one, some splitting to lower joint of volume two, joints of volume one repaired with Japanese paper, corners bumped and worn. Light water staining to additional engraved titles with heavier stain to bottom corner, plates and text are lightly browned and foxed, but tolerably so, Kkk7 cropped to fore-edge with loss of a couple of letters to each word, (folding) plate xxviii chipped and worn to top edge, small hole to 4B6 with loss of a couple of letters to catchword, nicks to top edge of 4B8 and 4C1, one plate bound out of sequence. With thirty-five plates (six folding) as called for. This was the "only professedly complete work on the plants of Scotland until 1821" (Henrey pg 158). A… Read More

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1869. [5], vi-xli, [4], 2-428pp. Original cloth, title, author, place and publisher in gilt to spine. Rubbed to extremities, corners worn, upper cover lightly soiled. Internally a previous owner's name to front pastedown, small chip to lower endpapers, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Colour folding map as frontispiece. Binder's ticket of W. Bone and Son to lower pastedown. From the library of the botanist David Bellamy, with his bookplate to reverse of ffep. Pritzel 9508. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.

West Cowes: Medina Press, 1849. Single sided printed broadside, approximately 225mm x 285mm in size. Lightly creased, lightly browned and dust stained. Text in double column, decorative borders. Bannard, b. c.1773, does indeed seem to have wandered, there are separately printed poems of his known from Derbyshire, Stratford Upon Avon and Shropshire amongst other places (see Goodridge, 'A Catalogue of Labouring-Class and Self-Taught Poets and Poetry c.1700-1900'). He also had a small volume of his poems published in Daventry in 1840 under the title 'The Origin and Progress of a Noble Family in the West of England and The Flower of Eydon'. The printer was John R.[ichard] Smith (fl.1844 according to BBTI, but obviously also later), with the Medina Press seemingly having been around, under a different owner, R. Tilling, since about 1806. Not located in JISC. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 4to. Broadside.

New York: Chelsea Marketing Corp., 1976. Single sided printed poster, approximately 580mm x 730mm in size. Slightly curled from being rolled, small mark to bottom left hand corner, otherwise quite bright and clean. Gerald Ford imagined as 'The Fonz' from 'Happy Days'. First Edition. Unbound. Good+. Elephant Folio. Poster.

Amersham: Avebury Publishing, 1982. vii, [1], 203pp, [1], original cloth, title and publisher in gilt to spine, title in gilt to upper cover. Endpapers lightly browned, otherwise bright and clean. From the library of W.D. Howarth (though no evidence of this), with a photograph of Barnwell receiving the book. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued?). 8vo.

Shirehouse: No Publisher, 1826. 6pp, original paper wrappers. Slightly creased, browned, especially to edges and final page, otherwise fairly clean. A report from a Committee set up to examine the Formation and Government of Friendly Societies or Institutions in Norfolk, relating to the Catton and Rockland Friendly Societies. The Committee was particularly exercised by the rules of the Societies which required meetings to be held in public houses, with "a certain sum to be expended on Liquor by every Member, whether he attends or not, and the Meetings not to separate till all the Liquor has been consumed - practices which cannot fail to be productive of the worst consequences to the community at large ... and other most injurious effects to their Members, and defeat the benevolent purposes for which they were originally formed". The current rules of Friendly Societies are then listed, with the Committee's recommended additional rules following (including "That no publican shall hold… Read More

Whitby: R. Rodgers, 1827. 16pp, disbound. Spine slightly dusty, otherwise quite bright and clean. The printer was R.[ichard] Rodgers, fl. 1823-1834 (see BBTI). Vignette by Green to title. The Society still exists. Not in COPAC. First Edition. Paper Covers. Good. 8vo. Pamphlet.