Search Results: Titles starting with V from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1929. Near fine with top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, many pages unopened, slight bowing to boards, publisher's slip case wanting.. Limited edition, #25 of 525 hand-numbered copies for England, signed by Rackham, in publisher's full vellum with gilt title and spine. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 11 color plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. 4to. [iv], 5-232pp. Latimore & Haskell, p. 65.

London: Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press (for the Employment of Women), 1861. London: , 1861. First edition, the first book published by Faithfull at the woman-owned and -run Victoria Press, which was established in 1861, and which was the "high point of all printing done at the Victoria Press." Fredeman, pg. 153. The Victoria Press "was a venture in mid-Victorian feminism. . . offered new opportunities for the remunerative employment of women and girls. . ." Sadlier, pg. 214. This work "a splendid example[] of the capabilities of the women compositors, and [] The Victoria Regia must be represented in any collection of Victorian book production" Fredeman, pg. 157. Large 8vo. x, 349pp., [1]. Sadleir, Trollope 213 (violet issue, all with same priority). Fredeman, Emily Faithfull and the Victoria Press: an Experiment in Sociological Bibliography, The Library, 1974. King 379. Very good in publisher's heavily gilted beveled violet morocco cloth, all edges gilt, with some rubbing to corners and… Read More

Boston: William S. Damrell, 1842. Fair in publisher's worn black cloth, hinges separating, foxing, several open tears to pages, substantial loss to rear endpaper, prior child owner inscriptions in ink to endpapers, and a few woodcuts with crude red coloring. Nevertheless, a scarce volume in any condition.. Scarce temperance work for children. Part 1 of Damrell's three "Picnic Tale" of temperance. Features 16 woodcuts, a few charming, one much more disturbing. 12vo. [viii], 112pp.

Oxford and London: Printed for R. Clements, 1753. Very good in period polished calf, hinges reinforced, wear to edges, Rugby School and prior owner bookplates to front pastedown.. Hall boldly and incorrectly claimed, when the book was first issued in 1597, that he was the first English satirist (writing in the Latin tradition), "I first adventure, follow me who list; And be the second English satirist." At the time, the Archbishop of Canterbury directed that Virgidemiarum be burned for licentiousness, but later relented. Alexander Pope declared the Virgidemiarum to be the "best poetry and truest satire in the English language." (Dibdin, Bibliomania, pg. 506, 1811). 12mo. ix, [7], 13-108 pp. ESTC T140513.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1859. First Edition. Overall, very good in original yellow wrappers, the wrappers of part 1 rubbed, stained, and repaired, a few spines worn and/or repaired, most of the plates browned, some have ownership signatures of noted hymn writer John Reynall Wreford, though most parts appear unread. Held in good morocco boxes, of which the upper halves of cases are wanting the rear portion, an old auction lot sticker to one case (lot 186, Sotheby's, 1976), other light wear. Laid in is the invoice from Sotheby Parke-Bernet from 1976.. First edition in the original 24 parts as issued. First issue, with "actresses" for "ancestresses" on p. 207, No. 7, line 15 from the bottom, in part 12, chapters XLVII-XLVIII misnumbered XLVIII-XLIX, and including the explanatory slip in part 20. While generally well received at publication, time has not necessarily treated it kindly, with a modern commentator stating "[t]he Virginians is a bad book - dissatisfying in the reading, acknowledged as… Read More

New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1855. First Edition. Poor with heavy foxing, front board present by detached and spine strip falling off. Nevertheless, a desirable copy given the scarce signature of the second Governor of Arizona Territory.. First Edition. Signed by McCormick on the front free endpaper. 12mo. 212pp., [4, ads]; with half-title and 9 tinted lithographed plates (incl. 2 double-page & folding frontis. map).