Search Results: Titles starting with H from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Methuen & Co, London, 1898 xv, [1], 667, [1], printed pages; 24 plates. Marbled endpapers. Signature of Matlbys handtooled in gilt at the foot of the front paste-down endpaper. All edges marbled (slightly faded). Preliminary pages maginally browned. 15 x 22 cm. Rebound by Matlbys of Oxford in sumptuos brown half morocco. Spine in six compartments with gilt lettering & date, and raised bands with double blind rules. Matching brown buckram over the boards. This first edition had a profound influence on Lawrence of Arabia. In what became his trademark style, the young T.E.Lawrence was not afraid to take on an opposing viewpoint, even if it meant going against Sir Charles Oman, the Oxford academic expert on Crusader castles at the time, whose own stance was that East had influenced West, not vice-versa. Lawrence, not without basis, was confident he could out-research Oman and convince his examiners that the Crusaders took their own architecture to the Holy Land. This interest in the Middle East… Read More

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street., 1891 Two volumes. viii, 420, 40 page index and 64 pages publisher's adverts at the end; 4, 423-703, and 60 pages publishers' adverts at the end. One large folding map in pocket in the rear of volume 2, 18 folding maps, and 4 text maps or plans. Small neat contemporary ownership signature on title page of volume one. Publisher's blue advert endpapers. Red silk bookmarks (one in each volume). This set is published over the period 1891-1892. Inner front hinges slightly split but bindings still solid. 12 x 17 cm. Proprietary red cloth bindings with gilt lettering. Spine slightly age-toned and very slightly worn at the top and bottom. Boards in good condition despite minor historic handling blemishes. Corners a little rubbed.. Hardcover. Good.

Kinematograph Weekly., 1913 Profusely illustrated throughout.Withdrawn from the British Film Institute Library, with 7 library stamps & 3 library plates at the front and back. The title leaf to part two is detached and has frayed edges. Rebound in brown library buckram.. 220x152mm. Hardcover. Good.

Paris, Treuttel et Würtz., 1819 Large hand-coloured copper engraving of 1819. Measurement of the engraved part 45.3 x 72 cm. Very mild marginal foxing. A short & barely noticeable crease on the left side. Mounted, glazed and framed in attractive, period style frame (104 x 75 cm); the frame has some very slight age wear that does not detract from its overall very good presentation. Extracted from Antoine Ignace MELLING s Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore , [Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1819] with a vertical crease where it was originally folded into the folio volume. Stunning hand-coloured delineation of the Hippodrome Square of Istanbul, the city's skyline, a train of camels, and nearly 200 members of Ottoman society in the foreground (in the background the Obelisks of the Byzantine Emperors Theodosius II and Constantine VII & on the left the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I). Melling (1763-1831), having studied architecture, painting and mathematics, went to Italy and Egypt at the… Read More

John Murray, 1898 8 plates, title page foxed, contemporary 3/4 green morocco, spine faded. This is an especially attractive copy, beautifully bound about 1920 by Eric Wilfred Dickens, bookbinder, (born 24/9/1888) of 46 Mordaunt St. Stockwell, London. The spine has a leather label and five raised bands & is densely tooled in gilt. This copy was used as a sample of Mr Dickens bookbinding skill & was purchased by us directly from the bookbinders grandson in its original book cabinet.. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, 1837 7 Unnumbered leaves, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; some slight foxing. All edges gilt. Original yellow endpapers. 36 x 28 cm. Bound in beautifully embossed turquoise cloth of lavish intertwining foliage, a double blind ruled border, an inner oval border with ornate gilt corner designs and gilt lettering within a classical rococco surround with a grotesque and acanthus leaves. Head and tail of spine very slightly worn. Some extremely mild signs of handling but in overall unusually fine condition. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (née Power;1789 1849), was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess. She edited Heath's Book of Beauty and wrote several novels in the silver-fork style (Two Friends, Victims of Society & The Magic Lantern) with a sentimental approach to describing women that the Brontes, who pored over and copied their own versions of the engraved female images, in pencil sketches,… Read More

Religious Tract Society., 1837 [2], 252 printed pages. All edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Silk place-marker. Lacks half-title "Hebrew lyrics" and front free endpaper. Various ink ownership inscriptions on front paste-down endpaper. Printed by R. Clay in 5-point. 57 x 72 mm. Contemporary green calf (very lightly rubbed); spine with three raised bands and compartments with gilt floral cornerpieces within triple gilt fillet borders and pointille horizontal rules around gilt titling. Poems include works by C.Wesley, Mrs.Hemans, H.Rogers, Jane Taylor, Hogg, Moore, J.Montgomery, Mrs.Barbauld, Doddridge, Ragg, Edmeston, Tappan, Miss Jewsbury et al. Bondy, 128. Spielmann, 194. Welsh, 3270. WorldCat locates nine copies in institutional libraries. A fine green calf binding.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Museum of Modern Art New York / Thames & Hudson, London, 2010 376 pages. 25.8 x 4.1 x 31.4 cm. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is perhaps the greatest photographer of the twentieth century. In a career spanning over sixty years, he has used his camera as an impassive and neutral third eye to capture the vagaries of human behaviour and to produce some of the most memorable and compelling photographs ever published.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

J. S. Virtue & Co. Limited, London, 1890 Three volumes bound in six. All six divisions have title-pages and four pages of publisher's adverts at the end. 348; 352; 352 printed pages. Three chromolithographed title-pages with vignette illustrations (one for each volume). 43 tissue-guarded chromolithographic full-page colour plates by William Christian Symons and William Frederick Mitchell, tissue guards are foxed but most plates are clean. The final volume contains the preliminary leaves for each of the three volumes (xii; x; vii). All plates present. No date (but 1890 according to COPAC). All edges gilt. Scattered foxing and extremely mild and very marginal staining. 23 x 28.5 cm. Original publisher's pebbled navy blue buckram. Spines with gilt lettering. Upper boards with red lettering (title in "rope" stylised font), within red borders. Back covers with publisher's cypher in the centre. Lettering of final division feint. Bindings generally in very good condition, except for… Read More

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973 xvi, 696 pages. 6 plates of monochrome photographs. Inscribed and dedicated on front paste-down endpaper in ink by the author George Jones to Irene Wagner. George William Jones OBE (4 February 1938 14 April 2017) was emeritus professor of government at the London School of Economics. Jones much admired Morrison's approach to politics and government. Irene Wagner, senior Labour Party archivist, historian and former Party Chief Librarian. She helped found the International Association of Labour History Institutions. Irene was also a key supporter of the People s History Museum in Manchester. During the 2nd World War Irene worked at Woburn Abbey, in the political intelligence department of the Foreign Office, helping the Special Operations Executive distribute propaganda over Germany.This book was reissued with a foreword by Morrison's grandson, Peter Mandelson, in 2001. Impeccable provenance: from her personal library that I purchased in 2016 from her… Read More

PARIS, SAINTIN, rue de Foin-St.-Jacque, no. 11, 1813 Published c.1813 (n.d.). Copper engraved tissue guarded frontispiece, engraved title page, 603, [1], + 4 pages of publisher's adverts. Two engraved plates. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Floreate inner gilt dentelles. Some scattered foxing throughout. 8 x 12 cm. Contemporary red blind and gilt tooled goatskin. Unsigned but possibly by Vogel. Very slightly stained, & extremely lightly worn. The spine is in six compartments with gilt lettering and fillets, blind tooled central floreate motifs and elaborate gilt borders and the top and foot. Hinges very slightly rubbed. The boards have four circular blind corner pieces with fan shaped tooling radiating towards the central comparment and with blind and double gilt fillet borders. Gilt tooled board edges. The corners have complete and intact intricate floral swag brass mounts. Complete with intricate crucifix and swag decorative brass hinge and catch (marked Brevité) and engraved brass… Read More

16mo. 256 printed pages in Latin and French. Fleur-de-Lys and scrolling foliate head and tail pieces. Two decorated initials, the rest capitalized. 18 lines to each page. 7 point (smallest readable size). Linen and cotton rag laid paper as used in the 17th century. Earliest Houghton Heures de Cour is from 1682. Welsh, 3440, lists the earliest known copy as 1678. The earliest in WorldCat is a single copy dated 1677 (University of Virginia). This unrecorded copy predates all editions I can find. Very few small spots of browning. Some corners slightly creased. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt (rather worn away). Two near contemporary inscriptions on front paste-down & recto of blank preliminary facing page. Provenance: "M. St. H. H. [St. Helens or St. Helier family, possibly]" and "Samuel Salter [Master of Charterhouse, (1710-1778)], Alumnus Suttonianus Dono dedit Richardus Clarke eiusdem Scholae Alumnus 1729". A gift from Clarke to Salter, both men went to London Charterhouse (formerly owned by Thomas… Read More

Einsiedeln(Schweiz). von Eberle, Kälin & Cie. New York und Cincinnati bei Br. Pustet & Cie., 1899 480 printed pages. Frontispiece. Black and white printed Gothic typescript in German. All edges gilt. From the contemporary loosely inserted printed slips, an engagement present ("zur Belobung" translates to on your engagement ). 82 x 120 mm. Splendid original purple velvet binding, with silver metal and bone mounts with brass pins of a central carved crucifix, with architectural abstract surrounds above a floral etched silver metal cut-out ground. Brass edges and brass floral clasp, with original embossed white endpapers. Preserved in original, decorative paper lined and black, 'engine-turned', embossed paper covered box (printed segensquelle 85a on the brown paper covered bottom edge). Loosely inserted is a contemporary publisher's folding advertisement for three other religious books. 19th century, near miniature, Swiss, devotional, Prayer book, in unusual Gothic… Read More

London: Printed For J.M.Richardson., 1820 1820 EDITION. Complete in 13 volumes (8 & 5). Volumes 3 and 6 have split inner hinges, front and back respectively. xxxii, 471, [9, notes]; viii, 500, [9]; viii, 445, [14]; viii, 448, [12]; vii, 492, [32]; viii, 547, [29]; viii, 514, [14]; vii, 559; 514; 574; 548; 511; 440 printed pages, including index. 56 portrait plates engraved on copper (some offsetting). All edges gilt. Sporadic foxing. 14 x 21.5 (43- width of complete set) cm. Uniformly bound in contemporary, full, straight-grained crimson morocco. Spines in six compartments with gilt raised bands- hand tooled in gilt with visored helmets, breast plates, pairs of spurs and crossed swords from the suit of armour of a Renaissance knight and monarch. Rubbed, corners slightly bumped, edges and spines slightly worn particularly at the foot of volume one and top of volume four. Front and back covers hand-tooled in gilt with late Medieval knight on foot with plumed helmet, shield, short sword and body… Read More

Francis Boutle Publishers, 2001 Reprint of the 1881 second edition. xx, 800 printed pages. Map endpapers. Profusely illustrated. In original red cloth and with original dustwrapper.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: For Edward Jeffery by B. McMillan., 1814 Second quarto edition, preceded by another quarto edition- an exceptionally rare one in folio- and one in octavo. Limited issue, 1 of 175 copies (also published in folio in an edition of 25). vi, 381 printed pages (page v/vi bound back to front. Many leaves mainly marginally lightly stained). Profusely illustrated with 34 copper and wood engravings and lithographed plates, including John Dunstall's etchings "Lambeth House", "St Marie Ouers in Southwark", "Entrance of Westminster Hall", "St Paul's, Covent Garden" -John Seller-, "Monument", "St Paul's Cathedral", Customs House c.1690 and a contemporary view of the Cathedral Church of St Paul as it was before ye fire of LONDON [from 'A Book of the Prospects of the Remarkable Places in and about the City of London', c.1700 (engraving) by Robert Morden (fl.1682-1703) - 31 unnumbered plates with no text.No copy in BL. Only 3… Read More

For the Corporation of Preston at the Guardian Press, Fishergate, 1938 xv [1], 503 p. 290 x 230 Bound in clean blue buckram, with bright, gilt title lettering to front board and spine, this 1938 First Edition is VG in good wrapper. Top edges gilt. Heraldic design in gilt to front panel, of sheep with sword and flag, with Foreword by Alderman William Lucas, Introduction by H.E. Nutter, Preface by author, 25 Chapters, 200 illustrations, including charts and plans and Index. Bevelled boards, clean end-papers, wrapper complete and un-clipped, but with some small nicks and closed tears and overall slightly grubby from handling; front panel of wrapper has odd small red spots. Published by Corporation of Preston and priced at originally one guinea, in 1938, this is a scholarly illustrated book published to mark 100 years in which the navigation was owned by Corporation Preston 1837 Ribble Navigation Improvement Company that confined the channel of the Ribble within stone embankment and deepened the channel… Read More

Oxford University Press. London : Humphrey Milford, 1931 Original green cloth, 8vo, 23 x 16cm, xviii, 525 pp, 22 plates, 43 full page text illustrations and facsimiles. With a dedication inscription from the author to Sir Thomas Barlow, in clear ink hand on front free endpaper. As a pioneer of full time paediatrics, as the first professor in this new discipline, and as inaugural president of the British Paediatric Association, Still has been called with justice the father of British paediatrics. From Cambridge he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital in London, qualifying in 1893. Coming under the influence of Sir James Goodhart, Still studied children's diseases at Guy's and at the Hospital for Sick Children. In 1899 Kings College Hospital established a special department for the diseases of childhood (the first hospital in the United Kingdom to do so), and Still was appointed physician to take charge of it. Seven years later he was promoted honorary professor of the diseases of children,… Read More

Richard Bentley, London, 1850 xxx, 413; xix, 407; xix, 444 pp. 4 engraved plates, 2 folding maps. Plates slightly dampstained. In three volumes, volume one and two from the sixth edition and the final third volume from the fifth edition, uniformly bound in contemporary brown full morocco, spine in compartments with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. All hinges weak and cracked. Some mild wear in general. All three volumes with former owner's bookplate in the form of a family crest, the name "A.F. Cunningham" and the family motto "Fortitudine". The Cunninghams were originally a Scottish clan. A.F. Cunningham was a printer and author, in America, who flourished in 1840.. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Good.

876 printed pages on finest India paper. 28 full-page line illustrations of testament scenes reduced from designs by Charles Bell Birch, A.R.A. (1832-93) with permission of Messrs S. Bagster & Son. It contains notes on the Shakespeare family records and facsimiles of the entries in the parish register, Stratford Upon Avon, included between Old & New Testaments. 'Licence' to Nimmo Hay and Mitchell on verso title-page indicates 1919 as publication date. All edges red (very slightly marked). 36 x 50 mm. Original brown calf in the antique style, blind-stamped in imitation of 16th century binding. Holy Bible in gilt on spine. Magnifying glass in front cover pocket. Chained with original metal links to wooden Lectern, 8.5 x 15.4 cm. Paper printed label on shelf above pedestal, describes it as a facsimile of those chained bibles found in some English Cathedrals (slightly worn). This particular example is in unusually good condition, more often found rubbed or defective. It was originally sold in a red… Read More