Search Results: Titles starting with H from Fine Editions Ltd

London: For the Proprietor by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho, 1825. First Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine+. Oblong 4to (195 x 263mm): [52]pp, with 24 hand-colored plates (23 aquatints and one engraving) and blank interleaves, each plate preceded by two-page letterpress description. Plate VIII, Sand Rock near Niton, often found plain (as in Abbey copy), here colored. Plates xxii and xxiii signed: C. Rosenberg sculpt. Contemporary half crimson straight-grained roan over drab paper-covered boards, red roan title label lettered and bordered in gilt to upper cover. A handsome copy (binding lightly rubbed, occasional offsetting and spotting), tightly bound and generally clean throughout with vividly colored plates. Abbey (Scenery) 349. Tooley 394. Prideaux, p. 349. Includes views of Carisbrooke Castle, the needles from Chale Bay, Black Gang Chine, St. Laurence's Church, Bonn Church, Ventnor Cove, Culver Cliffs, and Cowes Castle. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, writers and… Read More

Bath: Printed by Gye and Son, Market-Place, 1813. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. First (and only) Edition of this satirical account, signed on title page by the author's second wife, Mary. Crown 8vo (189 x 104 mm): [2],125,[1]pp, with hand-colored folding frontispiece, one further folding plate (of bourgeois British couple), and woodcut of the dance of death. Recent period-style drab paper-covered boards, contrasting cream-colored spine with paper title label printed in black, all edges gilt, title page in red and black. A superb example, with brilliant association, tightly bound and clean throughout (virtually pristine), with gorgeous hand-coloring. Rare, with COPAC noting only three copies: BL, Cambridge, and Trinity College (Dublin). Scarce in commerce as well, with ABPC listing only one copy (1987), and RBH one other (1992) since 1950. Bibliotheca Somersetensis, p. 334. NSTC M979. Mangin's Huguenot ancestors settled in Dublin during the second half of the eighteenth century. Edward, the eldest son,… Read More

London: Stereotyped and printed by Davies and Michael, 19, Poppins' Court, Fleet Street; for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1815. Original Boards. Fine. A superb survival, untrimmed in original boards, of the first book to describe and widely influence installation of gas lighting in London and other metropolises. Royal 8vo (252 x 149mm): xvii,[1],194,6pp, with folding hand-colored frontispiece and 6 hand-colored plates (one folding) of machinery and various light fixtures and chandeliers. Original drab paper-covered boards, paper title label printed in black to spine. Engraved armorial book plate to front paste-down. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound, with virtually pristine pages and plates. Abbey (Life) 436. Second Edition (so stated), issued the same year as the first. In 1810, when the London Chartered Gaslight and Coke Company was formed, Accum was nominated one of… Read More

Paris: Auguste Udron, rue du Battoir, no. 20, 1827. Quarter-Calf. Near Fine+. Rare First Edition of Martin's charming melon lover's manual. 12mo (129 x 75mm): [4],iv,156pp, with delicately four hand-colored lithographs depicting nine varieties of melon (in section and whole) and a Piquet à Thermomètre de Regnier. Contemporary black quarter-calf lettered, ruled, and decorated with Empire motifs in gilt over deep blue textured paper-covered boards, marbled end-papers, brown silk page marker. Tide line at foot of first three leaves (barely perceptible to following seventeen), occasional light scattered spotting (plates unaffected), but a well-preserved example of this rare horticultural title. Vicaire 568. Carteret, III, p. 401 ("charmant petit livre"). Cagle 310. Maggs no. 645 (Food and Drink) 414. Seventeen chapters cover a wide range of topics on melons, including their cultivation on trellises and in rows, care, varieties, and gastonomic appeal, ending with a ten-page bibliography. Martin… Read More

In Venezia [Venice]: Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia, 1783. Original Wraps. Fine. Second Venice Edition of Antonio Pillori's translation of Robertson's standard work, on the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Demy 8vo (202 x 136mm): xxiv,240pp, with frontispiece portrait of Columbus and large folding map of Gulf of Mexico showing Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and farther Caribbean islands; [2],5-328pp, with frontispiece portrait of Bartolomé de las Casas and folding map of South America; [2],3-359 [p. 181 misnumbered "281"; p. 304, "204"],[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Cortés and folding map of Mexico; [4],295,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Pizarro and large folding map of Middle America. Original paper-case bindings with yapped edges, manuscript titles and volume numbers to spines, text block sewn on tawed tongs (vol. iv with modern replacements). Worming to upper cover, portrait, title page, and map margins of vol. iv now… Read More

London: Printed by Thomas Tegg, No. 111, Cheapside, 1816. First Edition of this ferocious satire of British colonial rule in India. Royal 8vo (244 x 150mm): iii-x,252pp, with folding frontispiece, illustrated title, and 25 full-page plates (all tissue-guarded hand-colored aquatints) and one sepia engraving. C8 (pp. 31-32) is a cancel ("frequently missing," according to Tooley), with p. 30 text reproduced on p. 32; pp. 73-74 folios repeated but no duplication of text. Wanting the errata slip (as often). Slightly later polished calf, covers framed in gilt, gilt dentelles, spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands, two red morocco lettering pieces gilt; top edge gilt, others untrimmed, French blue end papers. Tall wide-margined copy, securely bound (perhaps rebacked) and clean throughout with good impressions of the plates. Franklin, pp 68-71. Grolier (Rowlandson) 34. Tooley 412. Abbey (Travel) 437. Hardie, pp. 171, 317. Sometimes ascribed to William Combe, though Hamilton (Doctor… Read More

London: B. B. King, Monument Yard, near London Bridge, 1840. Full Calf. Fine. Preferred Edition, revised and "considerably enlarged, with descriptions of the tints made use of in each subject," of this important manual on the use of colour in landscape painting. Royal 8vo (291 x 222mm): 12pp, with hand-colored vignette title page ("Stormy Weather at Sea"), seven full-page aquatints (five of which hand-colored), and hand-colored chromatic wheel and scale. Contemporary gilt-tooled green calf, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, upper cover framed in gilt and blind with gilt vignette of Cheltenham College, marbled end papers and edges. Manuscript prize inscription of Cheltenham College to front fly-leaf. Damp stain to top third of back board, but an excellent copy, tightly bound and clean throughout, with lovely hand-coloring. Abbey (Life) 167. Martin-Hardie, p. 124. Prideaux, p.206 ("highly attractive"). Birren Collection 521. Third Edition (originally published in 1833), with added vignette title page… Read More

London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1821. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition in book format of this lively look at life and travel on the eve of the French Revolution. Royal 8vo (247 x 155mm): [2],[ii],291,[5]pp, with 18 hand-coloured aquatints (including frontispiece) drawn by Rowlandson (1757-1827). Original cinnamon cloth, covers stamped in blind with borders and large central device, flat spine in five compartments decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, pale yellow end papers, fore-edge untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket to front paste-down of R. R. Bellamy, Bridge Street, Burton on Trent. Light offsetting from plates, leading edges of front end sheets stained, else fresh and bright, a wide-margined copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Abbey (Travel) 89. Tooley 415 ("The advertisements at end are usually missing," but are present in our copy). Prideaux, p. 350. A translation by Combe of the best known work of the German satirist August Moritz von Thummel… Read More

London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell Street; For John Carr, 56, Paternoster-Row, 1814. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. First Edition of this uncommon satirical depiction of various Regency-era character types and memes, in verse. Crown 8vo: viii,158,[2]pp, with eight delicately hand-colored aquatints, including the frontispiece. Complete with half-title and two pages of publisher's advertisements. (In every copy we've seen, plate no. 5, often described as bound out of sequence, is placed between plates nos. 7 and 8, and according to the text, that is where it belongs.) Later full tan calf, covers framed with French fillet and gilt sunburst ornament to corners, richly gilt spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. From the collection of bibliophile Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his characteristic manuscript ex-libris and tidy bibliographic notes ("collated perfect," "only blemish is a slight mark… Read More

London: Thomas M'Lean [McLean], 1820. Early Reprint. Morocco. Near Fine+. Third Edition of this classic travelogue, the plates by J. Clark after Fellowes's romantic views of the French countryside. Crown 8vo (210 x 127mm): xii,188pp, with 12 hand-colored aquatints, 2 uncolored line engravings, and one colored etching (which in previous editions was uncolored). Early full straight-grain green morocco, covers with wide decorative border in gilt and blind, spine very richly gilt in five compartments between raised bands with title stamped to second, all edges gilt. An excellent example: spine slightly sunned, pages marginally toned with occasional spotting, plates with very good color. Abbey (Travel) 86. Tooley 212. Prideux, p. 335. Hardie, p.313. Franklin, p. 95 ("a work of the greatest charm . . . [later] edition copies seem clear and attractive as the first"). Fellowes was the second surviving son of Dr. William Fellowes of Clevedon, Somerset, a military surgeon and later Physician Extraordinary to… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. Two copies in different binding variants (one a later issue) of the poet's second collection. Crown 8vo (190 x 127mm): xi,[1],89,[1]pp, illustrated throughout. First Printing (with "first edition" and "G-B" on copyright page): Publisher's black cloth over brown and black marbled paper-covered boards, beige paper labels printed in black to front cover and spine, top edge stained copper, fore-edge rough-trimmed; neat owner's signature dated 1927 and bookseller's ticket (Post Street Book Shop, San Francisco) to paste-downs. A handsome copy (several lines neatly underlined), tightly bound and clean throughout. Later issue (with "C-C" on copyright page): Publisher's black cloth over blue and orange marbled paper-covered boards, lime-green paper label printed in black to front cover, beige paper label printed in black to spine, top edge stained orange, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed; bookseller's ticket (Whaler Book Shop, New Bedford) to front… Read More

London: printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's church, in Fleetstreet, 1731. Marbled Wrappers. Near Fine+. Scarce First Edition, written in 56 stanzas of rhyming verse, of this satirical poem. Foxson's second state (no known priority): correct catchword on p. 57 and p. 58 correctly numbered. Crown 8vo (189 x 122mm): [10],59,[1]pp, with folding engraved frontispiece and woodcut initials and ornaments. Later marbled wrappers, paper label printed in red and black to front cover, title page printed in red and black with bust vignette of Horace. A beautifully preserved copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Foxon M251. Miller was a playwright whose own works were performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and who adapted plays by Molière and other French dramatists for the London stage. He only revealed his authorship of this work in the fourth edition, of 1735. Harlequin-Horace is a "witty inversion of the Ars poetica, attacking pantomime and opera and exuberantly… Read More

London: Dean & Son, Limited / 29 King Street / W.C. 2, 1927. Early Reprint. Original Cloth. Fine. Fourth Edition (so stated), giving recipes for more than 300 cocktails, including Angel's Kiss (creme de cacao and fresh cream), Brooklyn (picon, maraschino, rye whisky, vermouth), Monkey's Gland (absinthe, grenadine, orange juice, gin—"Invented by the Author and deriving its name from Voronoff's experiments in rejuvenation," and the Morning Cocktail (curacao, maraschino, orange bitters, absinthe, brandy, vermouth). Small, slim 8vo: 109,[1]pp, including portrait frontispiece and 20 full-page advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, upper board titled and ruled in black. Fine, virtually pristine (one page edge creased) example. Covers are clean and unfaded, pages fresh and unmarked, binding square and secure. All early editions are scarce, especially in such exemplary condition. Noling, pp. 192, 269. McElhone was a Scottish-born bartender, famous for his cocktails. His compendium of recipes, arranged… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Second Printing (copyright page with I-G code) of the poet's first collection, published one month after the first, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, and signed by Hughes on title page. Slim Crown 8vo: x,[2],52pp. Publisher's black coated cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold; yellow illustrated dust jacket designed by Caroline Harris, printed in dull grayish-blue and priced $2.75. An excellent example, signed, with bright gilt and paste-downs free of usual staining from binder's glue; Near Fine or better jacket, embrowned at edges and along spine panel. Sagar & Tabor A1b. A collection of 40 poems, as in the London edition (published five days earlier) but rearranged. After their honeymoon in France and Spain, the Hughes returned to Cambridge. Plath, who considered her husband's poetry the "most rich and powerful since that of Yeats and Dylan Thomas, had typed out almost all his poems and submitted them, as The… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition. As New and Unread in a bright pictorial dust jacket with a wraparound detail from Bruegel's painting 'The Harvesters.' Signed by the poet on the half-title page (and also warmly inscribed in a neat hand by a previous owner on the FFEP). Collects sixteen new poems by Meredith, all centered on the "life and character of a fictitious painter named Hazard." (from the front flap) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

København [Copenhagen]: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel & Son), 1890. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Printing of perhaps Ibsen's "most frequently performed play in the modern theatre." (PMM) In Danish (then the literary language of both Denmark and Norway). Foolscap 8vo: [4],236pp. Publisher's green cloth (copies were also identically bound in red, brown, and grey, no known priority), front cover elaborately blocked in gilt and black, back board with blind-stamped borders and central publisher's logo, floral patterned endpapers, gilt edges. A brilliant copy, barely rubbed to spine ends. PMM 375. First trade edition, preceded by twelve copies printed in London, in Norwegian, "under a well-intentioned illusion that this was necessary for copyright protection." (PMM) Published on December 16, 1890, although the play only premiered on January 31, 1891, at the Königliches Residenz-Theater, in Munich. Together with The Lady from the Sea and Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler forms the… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition, First State, of the author's fourth (and perhaps most loved) book and one of Modern Library's 100 Best Novels. 8vo; [8], 341pp. Publisher's beige quarter-bound linen, spine lettered in orange, silver, and black, orange cloth-covered boards titled in black, top edge stained yellow; pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Bill Preston and priced $4.50, with three blurbs about "Saul Bellow as a novelist" on back panel. Fine (probably unread), about Fine jacket, minutely rubbed to head of the spine panel. Cronin & Hall 4. "Henderson begins where Jay Gastby would have ended if he could have had all that the green light across the water symbiolized." (Guttman, in The Jewish Writer in America, 1971) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly.… Read More

Amsterdam: Chez Thomas Lombrail, marchand libraire, dans le Beurs-Straat, 1707. Full Calf. Near Fine. First French-language Edition (another French language edition was printed in Orleans, but bearing a Paris imprint, the same year, with no priority definitively established), translated from the English, of the first history of the Virginia colony "and the best contemporary account of its aboriginal tribes and the life of its early settlers." (Howes) 12mo (159 x 92mm): [6],433,[16]pp, with engraved title page (featuring coat of arms of Virginia),14 finely executed numbered plates based on engravings from De Bry's Grand Voyages, and folding table (p. 433). Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt. A handsome, well-preserved copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. This edition was in Thomas Jefferson's library, at Monticello. Sabin 5116. Howe B-410. Church 821. JCB I 93. Goldsmiths'-Kress 4396. Geology Emerging 212. European… Read More

New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913. Quarter-Vellum. Near Fine+. Royal 8vo (341 x 215mm): x,226,[2]pp, with color frontispiece and 35 color and monochrome plates from Wilfred Drake's original drawings, all with descriptive tissue guards. Publisher's quarter parchment over drab paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine toned and lightly rubbed, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. First published the previous year in London. Includes bibliographies of stained-glass and catalogues of Swiss glass collections. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Doylesford, Penna: Privately Printed [for] A. Edward Newton, "Oak Knoll, 1919. Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Limited Edition reproducing Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest literary composition. Foolscap 8vo (178 x 120mm): [2],10pp, with tissue-guarded color frontispiece of Israelites Going Out of Egypt (from a childhood drawing Stevenson made to illustrate this composition for a family competition) and full-page facsimiles of Mrs. Stevenson's manuscript (the six-year-old R.L.S. dictated the story to her over six successive Sunday evenings) and of a page from his uncle's "The Happy Sunday [Reward] Book." Original blue paper wrappers printed in black, stitched (as issued) with braided blue cord. Inscribed to recto of first leaf: "With the Compliments of A. Edw. Newton this first edition of R. L. S." A Fine Copy. Wainwright 92. Most sources say Stevenson was six years old when, competing against his cousins, he won a prize from one of his Balfour uncles for this history of Moses dedicated to his mother. Newton,… Read More