Search Results: Titles starting with G from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Prined by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, And sld by Robson..., 1805. Large 8vo, 225 x 122 mms., pp/ [3] - 146 [147 Note, 148 blank], including half-title, four full-page engraved places facing each of the four cantos, engraved tail-pieces, contemporary calf, gilt borders on covers, neatly rebackd with darker calf, gilt spine, black leather labels. A very good copy. Maria H. Motolieu published this translation of Jacques De Lille's poems in 1798, with attractive plates by Bartolezzi, which are also reproduced in this volume, She established herself as an able translator, and her The Enchanted Plants. Fables in Verse (1800) and The Festival of the Rose (1802) proved to be very popular.

London: Printed for J. Brambles, A. Meggitt, and J. Waters, by H. Mozley, Market-Place Gainsborough, 1805. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [vi], 202, woodcut image of Gay on title-page, and 66 other woodcuts, one for each fable, contemporary quarter roan, marbled boards; tear in lower margin of C1 (pp. 13 - 14), with slight loss of text in lower margin of verso, some headlines closely shaved with partial loss of numbers, binding very shabby, with partial loss of leather on spine, but text clean. Illustrations of Gay's Fables from this period are hardly uncommon, and I am reasonably sure that the woodcuts derive from those by Thomas Berwick. Uncommon: copies located in BL; Kansas and Harvard in the USA; King's College in Nova Scotia

London: Printed for the Author, By W. Day, 17, Goswell Streeet; Sold by G. Ford..., 1826,. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo,, 160 x 96 mms., pp. [v] vi - xi [xii blank], [9] 10 - 188, including half-title, engraved portrait (by J. Shurry after J. Palmen) as frontispiece, last two leaves printed as doubleton, contemporary half red morocco, gray boards, silver label on spine. A very good to fine copy, with ms. corrections which might be in Carrington's hand; the ones on pages 18 - 21 annotating Byron, are those stanzas 178 to 184 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and appear to be reversing printer's errors rather than being authorial substantive variants. How's this for a diffident opening to a preface: "The author of this Volume, has not much to say on this occasion." True to his word, the preface is less than two pages, affirming the principle enunciated in the title, "It is the peculiar property of Poetry to do good by stealth; to hid the thorny paths of instruction by… Read More

London: Printed by C. Clarke, 1794. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [3] - 43 [44 blank], library buckram; ex-library. This is one of a series of works on the agriculture of various Scottish counties that Donaldson wrote for the board of agriculture.

London: Printed for T. Payne and Son..., 1776. FIRST EDITION. 5 volumes bound in 10. 4to (235 x 195 mms.), pp. [x], lxxxiv, 259, 251 - 465 [466 blank]; [ii], 250, 251 - 544; [ii], 234, 235 - 535 [536 blank]; [ii], 254, 255 - 548; [ii], 258, 259 - 483 [483 - 511 Index, 512 Errata], engraved frontispiece (off-setting onto title-page), engraved portrait of Hawkins and 5 other engraved plates in volume 1, numerous musical illustrations and engravings as part of registration throughout all 5 volumes, contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, red and black morocco labels, marbled boards (slightly rubbed); some slight wear to bindings, but generally a very good and attractive set, somewhat curiously bound and with less than generous margins (a large-paper copy is 280 x 255 mms.). From the Easton Neston Library, with library label for shelf mark and the armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., Rufford Hall Lancashire on the front paste-down end-paper. Sir John Hawkins (1719 - 1789) was… Read More

London: Printed for G. Nicol...and sold by Messrs Robinson..., J. Sewell..., Cadell and Davies...., William Creech, Edinburgh; and John Archer, Dublin, 1796. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv - xvi Preface], 206 [207 Errata, 208 blank], including half-title, folding engraved coloured map before title-page, folding chart between pp. 126 and 127, 2 full-page engraved plates, original wrappers, uncut; ex-library, with library stamp in blind on front free end-paper, half-title, and title-page, library shelf marks in pencil and ink on verso of title-page, with ink slightly showing through to recto, spine reinforced, covers a little soiled. Boys (1749 - 1824) was a farmer in Kent and one of the commissioners for sewers for east Kent. He wrote this book at the request of the board of agriculture. The first edition of this book was published in Brentford in 1794. Goldsmiths 16572.

London, Printed for the Author: And sold by Payne and Son..., 1789, 1782, 1789, 1789. FIRST EDITION of volumes 2, 3, and 4. 4 volumes. 4to, pp. v [vi blank, vii - viii Contents], xviii, 501 [502 blank, 503 - 511 Index, 512 blank]; [iv], 597 [598 blank, 599 "Corrections and Errata," 600 blank, 601 - 610 Index]; xi [xii blank], 622 [623 - 633 Index, 634 Errata]; [iv], 1- 68, 67 - 70, 69 - 118, 117 - 128, 127 - 688 [689 - 700 Index, 701 Errata, 702 blank], engraved music throughout text, folding woodcut of "Egyptian Musical Instrument," folding plate of music in volume 1, one engraved plate in volume 2, recent quarter calf, buckram boards, new end-papers; lacks the portrait of Burney in volume 1, the frontispieces for volumes 2, 3, and 4, and 6 plates in volume 1. The first volume of Burney's History was out of print within a few weeks of publication, and Burney had decided by April of 1776 to prepare a second edition of the volume. The second edition of volume 1 takes… Read More

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson..., 1790. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo, 211 x 126 mms., pp. [v][, vi - xx, 410, including half-title, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed); rebacked, with new spine and new end-papers, red leather label; a very good copy. Jean-Pierre Catteau-Calleville (1759 - 1819) published Tableau général de la Suède in French in 1790, and it was translated into English the same year. In a notice of the French edition, the reviewer for The Monthly Review for 1790 remarked that it was an "agreeable and useful work," adding that the author "seems to have bestowed much pains in gaining his information, though sometimes his knowledge appears rather superficial and popular rather than clear and discriminating: on subjects, too, which require plainness and precision, his language is, occasionally, too flowery; but if it is light, it is always pretty, and if he fails to instruct he is sure to amuse."

London, Printed by J. Heptinstall for E. Smith..., 1716. 8vo, 190 X 110, pp. [xxii], 584, contemporary panelled calf; front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, other general wear to binding; a fair copy. William Darrell (1651–1721) "entered the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1671. He entered the novice college at Watten in November 1672, and studied philosophy at the English College, Liège, from 1673 to 1675" (ODNB). He was a bit of a polemical author, but his most popular and enduring work, The Genleman Instructed, first published in 1702, was perfectly in tune with the climate of opinion and the received mores of the early 18th century. It is in this work when the student of 18th century literature will encounter the assertion that it was Hobbes's wit which contributed to his "atheism," and in the present work it is young Theomachus who "once intoxicated with Atheistical Wit...was soon bewitch'd with Atheisical Arguments." Small… Read More

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By Nichols and Son...And Sold by George Greenhill..., 1806. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: The Ladies' Diary: Or Woman's Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1806. Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, and Many Entertaining Particulars designed for the Use and Diversion of the Fair Sex. The Hundred-&-third Almanack published of this Kind. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, by J. Adlard...And sold by G. Greenhill..., [1806]. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48, with woodcut image of a lady on the title-page. BOUND WITH: Vox Stellarum: Or a Loyal Almanack For the Year of Human Redemption 1806. Being the Second after Leap Year. And the 46th of the Reign of his present Majesty. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as A Table of Terms and their Return..... A remrkable Chronology; the Eclipses, And other Matters both profitable and curious. Observations on the Weather and Weather Glasses,… Read More

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By Nichols and Son...And Sold by George Greenhil..., 1808. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: The Ladies' Diary: Or Woman's Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1808. Being the Bixxestile, or Leap Year. Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, and Many Entertaining Particulars designed for the Use and Diversion of the Fir Sex. The Hundred-&-fifth Almanack published of this Kind London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, by J. Adlard...And sold by G. Greenhill..., [1808]. 12mo160 x 98 mms., pp. 48, with woodcut image of a lady on the title-page. BOUND WITH: Vox Stellarum: Or a Loyal Almanack For the Year of Human Redemption 1808. Being the Bissextile or Leap Year. And the 48th of the Reign of his present Majesty. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as A Table of Terms and their Return..... A remarkable Chronology; the Eclipses, And other Matters both profitable and curious. Observations on… Read More

Norwich: Printed by and for Stevenson and Matchett, and J. Scatcherd..., [no date]. [c. 1800]. Square 12mo (in 6s), 122 x 112 mms., pp. 144 [145 -148 adverts], including half-title, contempoary sheepskin; front cover very slightly wormed, but a very good copy with the ownership inscription on the half-title, "Thomas Watson/ 1801." Also signed by Cullyer on page 7 with date of 27 July 1800. Cullyer published this work in 1795, and a second edition appeared in 1798. It continued to be reprinted and presumably used by and useful to gentlemen and farmers, as it was still in print as late as 1872. Early copies are uncommon: ESTC locates two copies (BL, Rutgers) of the 1795 first edition, eight of the second (BL Bodleian, Cambridge, Glasgow, London, Southampton, St. Andrews; Auckland Public); with this third edition located in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Rothamsted Experimental Station Library; The Czartoryski Library.

York: Printed by A. Ward, for J. Dodsley..., 1777. 8vo, pp. [iv], 530 [531 - 534 Index, 535 adverts, 536 blank], uncut, recently recased in rather nasty quarter cloth, marbled boards, paper label. Hunter (1729 - 1800), a native of Edinburgh, practiced medicine in York from 1763 until his death. He published these essays in four volumes in 1770 - 1772, but this later edition adds essays not available in those volumes. Most of the essays are by Hunter, but other contributors include Adam Dickson, Robert Peirson, Thomas Percival, Richard Townley, and William Speechley.

Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis, Excudbat Jacobus Mundell...; Edinburghi: Prostant apud J. Dickson..., 1797. 12mo (in 6s), 139 x 83 mms, pp. xiv, 234, contemporary sheepskin; binding a bit worn. The Latin scholar and historian George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) began translating or paraphrasing the Psalms as early as 1650, and an edition was published in 1568. Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757) published an edition of Buchanan's works, and an edition of the psalms appeared separately in 1716.

London: Peter Davis, 1932. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 182, frontispiece, original cloth; tear in blank rear end-paper, cloth a little faded and very slightly worn.

London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1936. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 282, portrait frontispiece, original cloth (front cover slightly marked).

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. Small 8vo, pp. vi, 192, original cloth.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, pp. 144, numerous illustrations, original cloth, fine copy in dust-jacket.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. cxvii [cxviii blank], 261 [262 blank], original publisher's cloth (slightly faded and soiled), newspaper cuttings loosely inserted.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1961. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 268, 12 illustrations, original cloth, fine copy in very slightly worn dust-jacket.