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London, William Heinemann Limited., 1926 LIMITED EDITION 52/280 (only 250 for sale). 4to. Signed "Max Beerbohm" on the limitation page. Colour frontispiece and 51 b & w plates plus additional colour plate, School for Those About to Become Cartoonists, signed "Max", in pocket at rear. All edges gilt. Tissue guards evenly toned and a few very slightly creased. 28.5 x 22 cm. Original fern green buckram. A very good copy. Retains front panel of original dustwrapper, torn at edges, creased and incomplete. First published 1925, this the edition de luxe, with the signed plate and signed on limitation page. Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist.. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor.

Bath: Binns and Goodwin., 1846 8vo, iv, 146, (2, ads. and errata slip "Since the Specimen Pages were printed, it has been found desirable to substitute ulva latissima, broad green laver, for ulva linza") printed pages. With a frontispiece (printed in sepia with a basket of mounted seaweed fronds) and 38 leaves of mounted specimens of seaweeds, zoophytes, corallines, etc. (a few with minor breakages or loss, frontispiece and title page damp stained). Occasional light spotting and offsetting from specimens to facing text leaf. All edges gilt. Original front free endpaper incorrectly bound facing page 24. 15 x 23 cm. Original blue silk stamped in gold, rebacked with new endpapers, cover blocked in gold with a central vignette of shells, seaweed, and foliage; the spine is decorated similarly -a remarkably good copy of this fragile and rare book. Duggins (2017) states of this work "such gift-books were ultimately commodities, hybrid creations that combined mounted naturalia with… Read More

E. Harding, London, 1798 1-22 1-120 pages, numerous head and tail pieces, signed engravings after Sylvester Harding and dated 1795. Contemporary ink inscription across title page "Matthew Thomas West, Cork. Matthew Thomas West H.M. Ship Miniotaur off the start, March 21st 1808. At anchor in a calm 1/2 past 5 during quarters". Pencil inscription on front paste down endpaper "Eliza M. West". Gathering G loosened but still attached. On pages 5 and 21, the leaves have been excised, not affecting the text. Thumbing, toning, offsetting, foxing and mild handling marks throughout. 11.5 x19 cm. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper covered boards (rear hinge split but firm, head and tail of spine with some loss, corners worn, rubbed ). First published in 1751 this was a poular book of maxims. West was a Lieutenant in the British Navy. At the time he inscribed this book in 1808, West was serving on the Minotaur. His Majesty's Ship Minotaur, of 74 guns, was ordered by Admiral Sir… Read More

Chatto & Windus, London., 1908 xix, 137 pages. Engraved frontispiece and six engraved plates. Engraved title page designed by Blanche C. Hunter. Edges of endpapers oxidised. Scattered mild foxing and ofsetting. 12.5 x 16.5 cm. Original full brown pigskin with brass bands and clasps. Spine in five compartments with raised bands, blind rules and blind titling. Upper cover with Cathedral interior blind stamp central motif, blind medieval style lettering, historiated initial and scrolling foliate decoration. Patinated leather very slightly rubbed, producing a rich chestnut bloom. Clasps unpolished and with a genuine antique tarnish (one missing tiny tin nail replaced). A less common volume in Chatto & Windus's New Medieval Library series, in a collectable binding. WorldCat locates a copy in the British Library and three others worldwide. OCLC Number:562861377. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: : Printed for the Society, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-row; and sold by J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, and the rest of the booksellers to the Society., 1809 iv, 376, [4, index] printed pages; 8vo. All edges speckled. Marbled endpapers. Uncommon, contemporary commercial label on front paste-down endpaper of L. Wickham, Bookseller & Binder Heck Street, Maidstone "Magazines & Reviews &c.". Original silk ribbon place-marker. Some sporadic foxing. 14 x 22 cm. Contemporary half calf. Spine in compartments with hand-tooled, gilt rules and decorative centerpieces (slightly rubbed and worn at the head). Hinges cracked but still reasonably firm. Boards with marbled paper covers and calf corners with gilt rules (bumped and slightly worn). Compilation of reports on specific schools, industry schools, Sunday schools and endowed schools, together with a long essay on the "general education of the poor" by Thomas Bernard, and reports on the education of the poor in Ireland and in… Read More

London. Jonathan Cape, 1955 First illustrated edition issued by Jonathan Cape (Hanneman 45c). Monochrome illustrations by C.F.Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. Bound in black cloth spine over decorated white boards, with titles in silver. Pictorial price clipped (10s 6d) dust jacket is slightly toned on the spine, with a trace of rubbing at the edges, some extremely mild spotting, soiling and light chipping, but attractive; corners slightly bumped. Raymond Sheppard (19131958) was a British artist and illustrator of books for children and adults. He wrote books on drawing techniques, but is best known for his illustrations of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and the works of Jim Corbett. Much of Tunnicliffe's work depicted birds in their natural settings and other naturalistic scenes. He illustrated Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter. The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last… Read More

Hackney, the Stourton Press, 1985 157 pp. + publisher's limitation (this is one of just 150 copies printed). James McBey (illustrator). Signed by author with inscription "Dear new and forever friends." on the front free endpaper. Red, cloth-covered boards with leather spine, gilt illustration on the front cover. Tipped-in illustration on the verso of the half-title. Pearsall [née Gross], Phyllis Isobel (19061996), map publisher, was the younger of the two surviving children of Alexander Gross (formerly Grosz; 18801958), a Hungarian immigrant from Csurog, near Budapest, at that time selling oil lamps door to door, and his wife, Isabelle (18861937), a playwright and suffragette, and daughter of Arthur Crowley, a lapsed Irish Catholic priest and dealer in second-hand pianos, of Peckham Rye, London, and his Italian wife. The artist (Imre) Anthony Sandor Gross was Phyllis's brother. Alexander had established Geographiaan initially successful map-publishing businessin 1907, but went… Read More

2 volumes. 8 pages of publisher's adverts at front, 402;350 printed pages. Engraved frontispieces portraits of Demosthenes and Philip of Macedon, with tissue guards, and engraved additional title pages in each volume. Original terracotta endpapers. All edges gilt. 58 x 95mm. Original green watered silk bindings (worn on spines), original printed black labels. Includes Aeschines' "Against Ctesiphon" and Dinarchus' "Against Demosthenes." Demosthenes was a Greek statesman & orator in ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Thomas Leland (1722 1785) was an Irish Anglican priest, a historian, translator and academic and the author of the early gothic novel Longsword, Earl of Salisbury: An Historical Romance, published in 1762. Spielmann, 267. Welsh, 2265. WorldCat locates six copies of this edition worldwide. Original worn condition, uncommon,… Read More

Lt. Col. Colby of the Royal Engineers, London, 1878 Opens to 88 x 70 cm. Linen backed, dissected, folding black & white electrotyped map with hand coloured highlights in original marbled paper covers (slightly rubbed). Includes railway lines. Owner's contemporary ink signature on marbled paper cover ("Patrick F. Evans"). Provenance:- EVANS, Patrick Fleming (1851-1902), J.P. ; LL.B. 1874 ; LL.M. 1877 ; Recorder of Newcastle-under Lyme from 1896. Publications : joint editor of 6th (1882), and sole editor of 7th (1895), edition of Bateman on Auctions; author of treatise on The Solicitors' Remuneration Act, 1881 (1883); From Peru to the Plate, 1889. His hobbies included fishing, and walking when presumably this fine map came in very useful.. Soft cover. Very Good.

Lt. Col. Colby of the Royal Engineers, London., 1879 Opens to 88 x 70 cm. Linen backed, dissected, folding black & white electrotyped map with hand coloured highlights in original marbled paper covers (slightly rubbed). Includes railway lines.. Soft cover. Very Good.