Search Results: Titles starting with S from Ken Spelman Books Ltd

Oswestry: Woodall, 1878. Original Wraps. Very Good. SNOWDONIAN SKETCHES. Views of Llanberis, Beddgelert, Capel Curig, Conway, Bettws-y-Coed, &c. A concertina of 8 lithograph views, with adverts on the inner covers. A very good copy in original linen backed red printed covers. One of the adverts is dated 1878. Scarce, unrecorded in WorldCat. small oblong 4to. Oswestry, Woodall & Venables. c1878.

1775. Hard Cover. Very Good. SURVEY OF THE MANOR OF EGGINGTON, 1775. Contents Leaf, with Names of the Proprietors, and Folios where found. Sir John Every, Sir Henry Harpur, E.S. Pole, Abraham Hoskins, John Handford, William Kirkham, Jos. Burrows, Mary Astill, Robert Shorthose, Michael Downs, Henry Newton, John Beardsley, Mr Rawson, James Philips, John Bradbury, Joseph Swift, Revd Mr Burslem, William Badkin. 41 leaves written one-side, with columns for reference number, proprietors, tenants, names of pieces, contents (value). Mounted on the inner front board is a large multi-folding estate plan (or field map), with index numbers linking it to the manuscript survey. The contemporary calf binding is worn with the upper board nearly detached. The vellum plan is rather mellowed and has some dustiness, but the text pages are clean. Loosely inserted is a hand-written note relating to a forthcoming application "for inclosing and dividing the common and open fields, common meadows, common pastures, common and… Read More

Penguin, 1951. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A very good clean copy in original wrappers. Number 88 in the series. Oblong format, colour and b/w lithographed illustrations. No names or inscriptions.

Ashton, 2000. Soft Cover. Very Good. A very good paperback copy.

Northwich: F. Carnes, 1865. Unbound. Very Good. EARTHENWARE & CHINA MANUFACTORY, Longton, Staffordshire. The original folio sheet announcement for the sale by auction of George Townsend's St Gregory's Pottery on 26th June 1865. Folio sheet folded, with docket title on the rear panel. Printed on light blue tinted paper, and in very good condition. Unrecorded. folio. F. Carnes, printer, Northwich. 1865. ~ St. Gregory Pottery Works on the north side of High Street, Longton was established by George Barnes in 1794, and it was still in his hands c.1800. It was then owned by Chesworth and Blood in 1824; Wood and Blood by 1827, and by Beardmore and Birks from 1830 or 1831 until 1843. It seems then to have passed to Sampson Beardmore who in 1850 was succeeded by George Townsend. Tams and Lowe took over the works in 1864 and were still in possession in 1874. "The goods produced comprise all the usual varieties of articles in useful ordinary earthenware, and in china of an average quality. In the former,… Read More

Tate Publishing, 2002. Trade Paperback. Very Good. LUCAS, Sarah. By Matthew Collings. First edition, first printing. 125pp, illustrated in colour throughout. A very good copy in original card covers. 4to. Tate Publishing. 2002.

1785. Unbound. Very Good. Satire - The Reclaimed Prostitute. c1785. 155mm x 97mm (image size).

1785. Unbound. Very Good. Satire - Parisian Courtezan - Prudent Black Legs This is a book illustration. 110mm x 180mm (image size) [c1785].

University of California Press, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good hardback copy in dust-wrapper.

Malton, 1920. Unbound. Very Good. Laveracks's (Malton) Violet Powder, Label sheet. c140mm x 120mm. c1920?

Brill, 2020. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland. The Library of the Revd James Nairn (1629-1678). Library of the Written Word, Volume: 82. By Murray C.T. Simpson. 2020. Published price c£120. The wide scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through this in-depth study of the library of James Nairn (1629-1678), a Scottish parish minister. Nairn's collection demonstrates a remarkable receptivity to new intellectual ideas. At some two thousand titles Nairn's is the biggest library formed in this period for which we have detailed and accurate records. The collection is analysed by subject. In addition, there is a biographical study and chapters investigating aspects of the Scottish book market and comparing other contemporary Scottish clerical libraries. A short-title catalogue of the collection, giving references to relevant online bibliographies and catalogues, a select provenance index and a subject index… Read More

Simpkin, 1867. Hard Cover. Very Good. Specially designed for the use of schools. Second edition. xiv, [2], 79, [1], 24pp adverts., preliminary advert leaf., frontispiece, 40 plates and 24 diagrams in the text. A very good copy in original gilt lettered green cloth, some slight foxing. 8vo. Simpkin, Marshall and Co. [c1867].

L B Seeley, 1819. Hard Cover. Good. A Scripture Help designed To Assist In Reading The Bible profitably. By Edward Bickersteth. Fifth edition. London, L B Seeley. 1819. viii, 270pp., frontispiece, and four folding maps. Original half leather, marbled boards. Binding rubbed but sound, and some foxing to the endpapers, and old stain at head of the frontispiece.

Royal Academy, 1985. Trade Paperback. Very Good. FRINK, Elisabeth. Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984. The exhibition curated by Sarah Kent. 62pp., 85 illustrations. A very good soft-bound copy. 8vo. Royal Academy. 1985.

Gerald Howe, 1927. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. First edition. One of 1250 (1305) copies printed in the Fell types on Antique laid paper. 162pp., woodcut frontispiece, decorative title-page border, 12 vignettes & 5 full-page illustrations. A very good copy in original blind stamped and gilt lettered brown cloth. 8vo. Gerald Howe. 1927.

Henry Clements, 1709. Unbound. Very Good. ADAMS, J. A Sermon Preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St Paul, before the Right Honourable Sir Samuel Garrard...Lord Mayor of the City of London. [2], 13, [1]p. A very good copy, disbound. 8vo. printed for Henry Clements. 1709.

Dublin: The Cadenus Press, 1976. Hard Cover. Very Good. A very good copy in original leather backed marbled boards. 107 of 200 copies.

Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co, 1878. Unbound. Good. A Sermon preached at the Commemoration Of Benefactors, University Church Cambridge. By Rev G E Browne. Cambridge, 1878. 20 pages, printed wrappers, at some time extracted from larger collection of pamphlets.

1870. Unbound. Very Good. original coloured lithograph 134mm x 186mm (image size) - with borders. c1870. good condition.

1933. Unbound. Very Good. The author Frank Swinnerton thanks bookseller W. H Lawson for sending him books. July 5th 1933.