Search Results: Titles starting with P from Paul Haynes Rare Books

The Studio of Design and Illustration. London. nd. [c.1898] Oblong quarto. 203pp. Pictorial title page signed C. Hentschel. 99 full page illustrations. All pages with a red-ruled border. Red historiated initials. Original publisher's green pictorial cloth, gilt, coloured flag. All edges gilt. Slightly bumped and rubbed to extremities. Minor spotting/toning.
Includes the "Cigarette Race". "Life on board a P&O steamer is one continual round of pictures kaleidoscopic in its quick change and variety of colour".
CARL HENTSCHEL (1864-1930) Engraving pioneer who invented the Colortype Process. Jerome K. Jerome used him as the character Harris in "Three Men in a Boat".
HARRY FURNISS (1854-1925) Anglo Irish caricaturist and illustrator.
Keywords: Peninsular and Steam Navigation Company, Ocean Travel, Smoking in Art, Caricature and Cartoons.

Hutchinson. London. 1929. First edition. Large 8vo. 288pp. Photo frontis., 63 further plates, text illus., folding map. Original red cloth, sunned to spine, corners bumped. Some minor spotting/foxing. "With the Publisher’s Compliments" lightly stamped to title page.

Owen Rutter (1889-1944) FRGS, FRAI, Member of the Athenaeum Club, travel writer, North Borneo Civil Service, editor of the Balkan News, partner in the Golden Cockerel Press.

Toto Bunka. Tokyo. 1952-54. Six volumes. Folio. Paintings I, Paintings II, Sculpture, Ceramics and Metalwork, Textiles & Lacquer, Architecture and Gardens. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth, with some sunning, in original dust wrappers, some tears and chipping. Lower corner bumped to Vol. I.(Due to the weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply overseas)

Third revised edition by Vera Mendes and Fernando Mascarenhas. Quetzal Editores & Antique Collector's Club. New York & Woodbridge. 1995. Quarto. 142pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. A lovely copy in the original blue cloth, embossed to spine. Decorative endpapers. In the original dust wrapper, with small chip and delamination to top left hand edge. With the bookplate of Clare Tutton McLaren of Coughton to ffep.

Third edition. Lee and Shepard. Boston. [1875]. Octavo. (2), 310pp. 4 engraved plates. Original decorative cloth, gilt and black . Upper hinge starting. Corners rubbed, wear to tips of spine and edges. Provenance: Henry Sotheran Limited receipt for this copy dated 21 November 2011 loosely inserted. (£295.00 paid)

A New Edition, in Two Volumes, greatly enlarged from the Author's manuscript notes. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1818. 2 volumes. Quarto. xvii, 583pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of White Kennet, 3 further plates, two of which are folding; 526pp + indices [3X-4F2] + glossary [A-N], 6 folding engraved plates. (10 engraved plates in total, or which 8 are folding). All edges red. Contemporary full calf, spines in six compartments with gilt tooling and faded leather labels. Upper joints and hinges cracked. Upper hinges repaired with cloth tape. Boards scuffed with some surface loss. Rubbed to extremities and spines. Light foxing to the frontispiece. Internally the text and plates are formly bound, crisp, bright and clean with occasional spotting and light offsetting.
White Kennett (1660 - 1728) Vicar of Ambroseden, later Bishop of Peterborough. Antiquarian and author. "His reputation as a topographer and philologist was enhanced by his 'Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden,… Read More

Morizot. Paris. nd [c.1856]. 12mo. 668pp. Half title, Engraved frontispiece., colour lithographic title, Title page, three further engraved plates with tissue guards. Original tooled morocco. Spine in five compartments with raised bands. Gilt gothic cross ermine motifs to spine, and upper and lower boards. Inner gilt foliar swags. Gothic cross clasps. All edges red with gilt gothic cross ermine motifs to match the tooling on the binding. Marbled endpapers. Silk book mark. Joints cracked but firm, and corners a little rubbed. Light damp stain to base margin of a few pages.

A historically important photograph archive, together with the Peshawar HQ Logbook, being the collection of Major-General Sir Dauncy Batho Dashwood, Commander of the Peshawar HQ, North Western Frontier during the Waziristan Campaign. The British Frontier Headquarters at Peshawar at the eastern end of the historic Khyber Pass, close to the border with Afghanistan, midway between Kabul and Islamabad. The Peshawar District Command covered Chitral, Landi Kotal, Char Bagh, Shagai, Ali Masjid, Nowshera, Bara Fort, Jhansi Post, Fort Milward, Fort Salop, Malakand, Dargai, Chakdara, Shabkadr-Aberzai, Cherat, Risalpur, Mardan.
The photographs record terrain reconnaissance, troops, tribesmen, forts, roads, Khyber Pass, tunnels, camel trains, railways, aircraft, border posts, Military Camps etc etc. The Visitor's Book records the dated signatures of the military personnel commanding the Waziristan campaign of 1936–1939 against the guerrilla forces of the Pashtun nationalist ميرزاعلي خان وزیر‎… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1912. 8vo. xiii, 191pp. Tissue guarded colour frontis., 70 further plates, 8 maps. Original publisher's pictorial cloth in green, white, tan and black. Gilt lettering to spine. Very bright. Some browning to endpapers and occasional foxing. The motoring Grand Tour pioneer.

First edition. Printed for the Author. Sold by George Stewart, at the Book and Angel in the Parliament Close. 1716. Folio. Title page in red and black. vii,[1], 46, *46, **46,47-48,51-54,53-182,181-286,283-286,291-462, *462, **462,463-502, iii pp. Collation complete, as called for, complying with ESTC T144899. Includes the subscribers' list. Preface with engraved historiated headpiece, initials, tailpiece. Final engraved tailpiece. Modern quarter calf, spine in seven compartments with raised banding and red leather label, gilt lettering. Cloth boards. Endpapers renewed. Slight lower corner loss to title page; gutter stain to prelims. Short closed tear to margin 191/192, resulting from a paper fault. Occasional small marginal tears, corner dogears. Small hole to 347-348. Darkening to edges. Occasional minor spots, toning and stains. A handsome, bright and crisp, well bound copy of the first publication on the Peerage of Scotland. Provenance:Signature of Marjoribanks to the title page.Neat historic… Read More

First edition. Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West End of St Paul's; and T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon between the Temple-Gates, in Fleet-Street. London. 1739. Octavo. Half title; imprim. Hans Sloane Pr. Reg. Soc. dated March 29, 1739; Title; xxx, (1) errata; 163; engraved plate; (6) index; (2) printer's catalogue. Recent half calf, marbled boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label, gilt lettering. Renewed endpapers. Light marginal spotting to title page. Smudge to p66 (a blank page). Faint signature James Walford to upper margin of dedication. A crisp, handsome and bright copy.
Stephen Hales (1677-1761) FRS, Royal Academy of Sciences. Dedicated to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Two volumes bound in one. William Heinemann Ltd., in Association with Chatto and Windus, Cassell & Company Ltd., and Longmans, Green and Company. London. nd. Small octavo. Title pages in red and black. xx, (1), 240pp; xviii, 266pp. Woodcut text illustrations, musical notation. Bound in full calf by Bumpus of Oxford Street. Spine in six compartments with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. Gilt rule bordering to upper and lower boards. Gilt rules to edges and double rule bordering to inner edges. All edges gilt. Slight offsetting from binding overlay to endpapers. A couple of small nicks to spine. Slight shelf wear to edges. Bumpus binder's stamp to fep margin.
Volume I: A Child's Garden of Verses; Underwoods; Songs of Travel; Moral Emblems
Volume II: Ballads; New Poems

Longman Green & Co. London. 1890. Octavo. (2), 424pp. Handsome full contemporary morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. Blind triple bordering rules to boards. Inner gilt curlicues. All edges gilt. Triple banded silk bookmark. Some slight shelfwear. Appears unread. Eton prize binding with bookplate to fep (Edmund Warre).
John Conington (1825 - 1869) Classical scholar. Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 till his death.

First UK edition. John Camden Hotten. London. 1868. Small octavo. xii, 403pp. Half title, Frontispiece portrait. Title. Later full blue calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt rules and lettering. Lightly toned. Spine slightly darkened. Signature of Raisley Moorsom in pencil to ffep.
The first edition of Whitman published in the UK, the only time Whitman (reluctantly) allowed his writings and his portrait photograph to be censored.

Frederick Warne & Co. London. nd. The Albion Edition. viii, 758pp. Contemporary fin de siècle full tree calf, with elaborate gilt tooling to borders, inner gilt tooling. Gilt lettering to spine. All edges richly gilded. Marbled endpapers. Negligible shelf wear. A lovely volume.

First edition thus. Routledge, Warne and Routledge. London. 1864. Small Octavo. x, 610pp. Engraved frontispiece, and 7 further tissue guarded engraved plates. Full green morocco, spine in five compartments with raised bands and gilt double boxing, dotted rules and foliar embellishment. Gilt rules and embossing to covers, inner gilt curlicues. Corners slightly rubbed.. All edges gilt. Endpapers lightly toned. Charles Thurnam and Sons Carlisle bookseller plate to verso ffep.

Inscribed "Second Music Prize Presented to Miss Browne by H. E. Ford Abbey Street Xmas 1865." [Miss Harriet Emma Ford, of Abbey Street School in Carlisle.] Emma Browne of Tallantire Hall, later Mrs Emma Moorsom, wife of James Marshall Moorsom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) poet. First published edition in the UK to include Tales of a Wayside Inn and Birds of Passage.

Octavo. Henry Frowde. Oxford University Press. London. 1912. viii, 886pp. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait. Original full calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling. Leather label with gilt lettering. Decorative gilt bordering and gilt edge tooling. Blind inner tooling. Oxford Binders signature to fep. Marbled endpapers, matching marbled edges. Inscription to ffep "Muriel February 2nd 1914".

William Blackwood. Edinburgh and London. 1906. Second edition (same year as the first). 8vo. xiv, 511pp. Frontis., 23 plates, 4 maps and plans, two folding in rear pocket. Original cloth, gilt. Faded and rubbed to spine. Hinges tender. Toned, with some spotting. Endpapers browned. Neat inscription to ffep.
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (1881 - 1931) War correspondent. "I joined the Third Army at the commencement of August 1904, just before the first assault, remained attached to General Nogis headquarters until January 17, 1905, and entered the fortress with the victorious Japanese - one of my chief objects to place on record the obsolete method of fighting which characterised the siege - how men meet in masses to settle the disputes of their governments with bayonet, clubbed rifle and hand-grenade".
August 4, 1904 - January 2, 1905, the siege of Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsular of Manchuria was the longest battle of the Russo-Japanese War.

Limited edition. Number 974/1100. Antony Atha Publishers and The Game Conservancy. Rugby. 1979. Quarto. 252pp. 12 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations. Original quarter green morocco, gilt. In original green cloth slipcase. A lovely copy.

Limited Edition. Number 282 of 500 produced by Thomas and Sons of Haverfordwest in memory of the author, E. Morton Nance. A reprint of the 1942 edition of B T Batsford. London & Malvern Wells. 1985. Quarto. xviii, 579pp. Errata slip. Frontispiece, CXCV (195) plates. Original cloth, gilt to spine, a nice copy in the original dust wrapper. Some rubbing and edge wear to the dust wrapper which is now in a protective wrapper.