Search Results: Titles starting with P from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1893. First English edition. 8vo. 6 plates (4 chromolithographs by Nicolet after Lavern and 2 heliotypes by Racle), each with leaf of descriptive text. xii, 197, [1] pp. Publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; ex-library with faint stamps (St. Mary's Hospital) on title and p. 1, small shelfmark sticker to spine, endpapers foxed, book-plate Laveran's discovery of the malaria parasite, Volume CXLVI of The New Sydenham Society series.REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 5236

London: Gale and Fenner, 1815. First edition. 8vo. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette portrait of Napoleon 2 hand-colored engraved plates. v, [1], 165, [3, ads] pp. Full red polished calf, spine gilt, morocco spine labels, t.e.g., others uncut, by Brentano's, spine slightly darkened, some offsetting to front cover, scattered light foxing Paris in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and the second restoration of Louis XVII.

London: Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, [1795 or 1796]. Folio (17-1/2 x 10-3/8 inches) printed broadside in two columns, engraved vignette at head; never folded, minor edgewear Broadside Cheap Repository tract by Moore, a reactionary poem to reinforce the notion that the working class should be content with its poverty and lowly social status. This state listing J. Marshall before S. Hazard in the imprint.REFERENCE: ESTC T43772; Spinney 30

London: Butterworth & Co, 1950. Second edition. 8vo. Numerous illustrations to text. xiii, [1], 491, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth; offsetting to pp. 180-1, book-plate

London: David Bogue, 1850. Second edition. George Cruikshank. 8vo. Hand-colored etchings illustrating 12 tales on 6 plates by George Cruikshank. xvi, [iv], 404 pp., with half-title. Full tan mottled calf gilt, red morocco spine label; some rubbing to joints, a.e.g., by R. Wallis Second edition, and the first with Cruikshank's plates in color — "some of his finest plates in the fairy vein" (Patten, Life II, p. 272). John Edward Taylor was assisted in his translation by Gabriele Rossetti. REFERENCE: Cohn 60

London: H. Trapp, 1788-1789. 2 vols. 8vo. 448; 416, [8, errata and index] pp. Modern dark green quarter morocco and marbled boards; toned, occasional staining and foxing, a few small paper repairs, vol. II A1, B2-3 silked, A1 repaired with some loss to text on verso. In custom slipcases [Vol. II bound with:] WINCHESTER, Elhanan. A Selection of Sermons, Some Original, and Others Never Before Published in Europe.... The First Volume. London: Printed for the Author. Sold by T. Scollick, 1789. 60 pp. Not in ESTC or OCLC.Rare complete run of The Philadelphian Magazine, all 22 numbers published in London, February 1788-November 1789, by the American Universalist clergyman Elhanan Winchester (1751–1797), bound with an unrecorded collection of his sermons. "Winchester was a remarkable orator, an early antislavery advocate, and a prominent pastor during the years of the American Revolution. He should be remembered as one of the most influential contributors to early American Universalism and as a man who… Read More

Lewiston, Maine, ca. 1880. 4to (8 x 10 inches). Albumen print on beveled mount with studio imprint in silver. Foxing Studio photograph of men gathered around a table playing cards, drinking and smoking cigars

France, Belgium & Luxembourg, 1917-1919. 129 vintage silver prints, comprising 1 panorama (5-3/4 x 21 inches), 27 larger format prints (6 x 8 & 8 x 10 inches) and 103 smaller format prints (various sizes, generally 2-1/2 x 4-1/4 & 3-3/4 x 4-3/4 inches), many prints docketed on the verso by Fineberg, a few with alphanumeric code that corresponds to the Catalogue of Official A.E.F. Photographs, 1919. Occasional creasing and wear, small chip from corner of panorama, generally in very good condition Archive of photographs from the Western Front of World War I by the American photographer Sergeant First Class Morris Fineberg, 79th Division, Photographic Unit of the American Expeditionary Forces Signal Corps. These are Fineberg's own retained copies, many with his docketing and captioning on the rear. Images include a three-panel panorama (“Looking towards Woevre Plain between St. Michel & Verdun”), aerial reconnaissance images, captured German munitions, battlefields with casualties, Fineberg with other… Read More

London: Printed by C. Barnes ... for G. Virtue, 1830. First edition. Robert Cuikshank. 8vo. 36 hand-colored aquatints and 7 woodcuts to text by Robert Cruikshank. xvi, 368 pp. Full red morocco gilt, t.e.g., by Riviere & Son First edition of the last of Egan's popular "Life in London" series; the first issue with woodcuts on pp. 7, 40 and 42 and engraved title dated 1829.REFERENCE: Abbey Life 284; Tooley 197

Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1843. 4to. 3 engraved plates in no. 2 (plates to nos. 1 & 3 in facsimile). 1-48; [49]-96; [97]-144 pp. Later 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards, no. 1 rear wrapper and no. 2 wrappers bound-in (upper portion of no. 2 front wrapper filled in, no. 1 front wrapper in facsimile); covers lightly rubbed and faded, a few small tape repairs, light staining to margins of no. 2, foxing and toning to no. 3. The complete run of this short-lived periodical edited by James Russell Lowell with contributions by Poe in each volume, including the first printings of "The Tell-Tale Heart" (no. 1, pp. 29-31) and "Notes Upon English Verse" (no. 3, p. 102-112). Other contributions include short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne ("The Hall of Fantasy" and "The Birthmark") and poems by Jones Very, John Greenleaf Whittier, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and James Russell Lowell. "The Tell-Tale Heart" was first rejected by the Boston Miscellany with the editor's request that "if Mr. Poe would… Read More

London: James Ridgway, 1823. A New Edition. 8vo. [6], 171, [1] pp. Contemporary tan straight-grained morocco gilt, bluemorocco spine label, by J. Helston E. Edwards, Camborne (ticket on front pastedown); front joint cracked, lower blank portion of dedication leaf excised The Abbey copy of the poems of the Cornwall poet and politician William Peter in an attractive provincial binding by the Camborne binder J. Helston E. Edwards.REFERENCE: Ramsden, p. 68PROVENANCE: J.R. Abbey (bookplate)

London: T. Payne and Son, 1777. First edition, second state of c4. 8vo. Engraved facsimile manuscript plate by Strutt at p. 288. xxvii, [1], 307, [1] pp. Contemporary calf, red morocco spine label; front hinge tender, extremities rubbed, small shelf-mark ticket at foot of spine The Advertisement leaf, c4 is cancelled, with the text "and were probably composed by him" omitted.REFERENCE: Ashley X, p. 75; Hayward 188; Rothschild 589

London: Humphrey Milford, 1930. Second edition, no. 47 of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper. 8vo. Two photogravure portraits, two facsimiles of Hopkins’s manuscripts, and a drawing by Hopkins used as a headpiece. [20], 159, [1] pp. Publisher's half parchment and patterned boards; small nick and some soiling to spine, small dealer description affixed to colophon page Hopkins’ poems were not published until 1918, nearly thirty years after his death, gathered and edited by his friend Robert Bridges. This second edition, limited to 250 copies (there was also a trade edition), contains sixteen additional poems not included in the first edition.“Hopkins’ poetry with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his ‘dark night of the soul’ would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance—like Rimbaud’s in France—had they but known of him” (Connolly)REFERENCE: Connolly 100, no. 33 (first ed.); Dunne A73

London: John Murray, 1879. A new edition. 6 vols. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt, a.e.g.; light scuffing to spines

New York: M. & W. Ward, 1811. Tall 12mo. Engraved frontispiece by Corbould after Leney. 72 pp. Contemporary stained calf, spine gilt, red morocco spine label; toned, top margin of title-page trimmed, tear from last leaf with loss to text

London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. Second edition. Folio. Engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertue after Isaac Whood, 41 engraved plates (4 folding) and 17 engraved tailpieces by L.P. Boitard. vi, 361, [1] pp. Contemporary diced russia, spine gilt; joints cracked; some offsetting from plates, dampstain outer top corner affecting plates 16-20 and 24-31 and some text leaves The second edition, corrected by the author. Attacks Spenser, Dryden etc.

London: Harding and Lepard, 1835. 12 vols. 4to. 240 engraved portrait plates with accompanying biographical essays, tissue guards, picked impressions of the plates. Near contemporary full pebbled red morocco, gilt, a.e.g.; occasional rubbing or scuffing to extremities, very infrequent and minimal foxing to plates, small dampstain to lower corner of portion of vol. IX textblock

Boston: Published by the Author, R.P. & C. Williams and Annin & Smith, 1830. First edition. 4to. 64 copperplate engravings. viii, [9]-119, [1] pp. Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; binding scuffed, front cover holding by one cord, heavy toning to front matter, front and rear free endpapers loose, usual foxing and browning The first edition of Benjamin’s “fourth and most popular work” (Hitchcock, who lists 17 editions from 1830 to c. 1856). The title may be an homage or borrowing from British architect William Pain’s 1789 work of the same name, a book that Benjamin consulted early in his career and used as a model for the plates in his first book, The Country Builder’s Assistant. The Practical House Carpenter marks Asher’s adoption of the Greek over the Roman school in reaction to the emerging Greek revival trend. “Since my last publication, the Roman school of architecture has been entirely changed for the Grecian” (Preface). Many of the plates illustrating the orders are derived… Read More

Boston: Published by the Author, and Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833. First edition. 4to. 60 engraved plates (plate 55 bound out-of-order). vii, [1], [9]-116 pp. Contemporary speckled sheep, red morocco spine label; spine darkened, foxing throughout as usual First edition of Asher Benjamin's fifth book, after his full embrace of the Greek Revival. The plates illustrate the Greek orders in close detail, as well as frontispieces, porticoes, door, windows, cornices, stairs and various elements of carpentry and construction, and concludes with a complete plan of a church. Plate VII illustrates an order of Benjamin's invention that does not conform to any existing classical model, reasoning that "more than one half of all the columns and entablatures erected in country situations, for either internal or external finishings, belong neither to the Grecian nor Roman system." PROVENANCE: Wm. C. Taber, New Bedford (bookseller's ticket); William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 135

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Third edition. 8vo. 1181, [1], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's green cloth, rebacked, ex-library with spine marking crudely effaced; book-plate Presentation copy, inscribed "A.J. Nellis with kind regards of Wm Osler. 5.25.00.""Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time" (Garrison-Morton). “This book went through sixteen editions in its fifty-five years in print and gained and maintained a place in English, American, and even continental practice only comparable with that held by the treatise of Sir Thomas Watson (1843) in the preceding decades. The clear, concise, attractive presentation and the many citations from history and the classics gave it a unique place among scientific books with an essentially literary flavor” (Golden & Roland, p. 136) For a discussion of the third edition, see Richard Golden, A History of William Osler's The Principles and Practice of Medicine (Montreal, 2004), pp. 68-71. REFERENCE: Bibliotheca Osleriana… Read More