Nineteenth Century from Zetetic Books

London: John Harding, 1820. [3], vi-xxiv, [1], 2-280pp, plates. Slightly later half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth back divided into six panels by gilt double rules, leather title label to second panel. Spine slightly faded, rubbed to extremities, fore edge of upper cover worn. Front inner hinge cracked but holding well, portrait frontispiece damaged with old repairs to… Read more about this item

London: F. J. Mason, 1834. [7], 2-394pp, plates. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, remaining panels with central flower device in gilt. Spine slightly faded, lightly rubbed to extremities. Internally the pages are lightly browned and occasionally lightly foxed, and often slightly chipped, with several pages (B10, C8-10,… Read more about this item

London: Day & Son [Printer], 1864. Single sided colour lithograph ticket on thin card, approximately 170mm x 125mm in size. A hint of foxing, but generally in a good state. A central text panel within a large ornate scrollwork border, with titling at head and foot, 'Stratford-Upon-Avon Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Shakespeare April 1864'. One of several events… Read more about this item

[Guildford]: No Publisher, 1853. Single sided, printed and part manuscript broadside, approximately 230mm x 275mm in size. Slightly creased, chipped to edges, a couple of closed tears to edges, lightly browned, but clean. The dates are added by hand, with the signatures of the Overseers. This is presumably the file copy, with 'Duplicate posted Nov 26/53' and a signature to… Read more about this item

No Place: No Publisher [4]p, final leaf blank, n.d. c.1815? Very lightly browned, otherwise fairly clean. A manuscript copy of several complaints made about the adulteration of bread in Leicestershire. The examples include a visit to a Thomas Fielding, a baker from Castle Donington, "to examine his bread and to search for any unlawful ingredients in the making thereof". The… Read more about this item

Loughborough: [Alpheus] Buck Single sided printed broadside, approximately 135mm x 310mm in size, n.d. c1815? Occasional spot of foxing, slightly worn to edges, a couple of creases from old folds, but generally fairly bright and clean. The printer was Alpheus Buck, who is not listed in the BBTI. The adulteration of bread was common, even after the 1757 Making of… Read more about this item

London: J. Davy & Sons, Dryden Press, 1886. [3], 4-12pp. Lightly browned generally, covers unevenly and more heavily browned, otherwise fairly clean. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to. Pamphlet.

London: Thomas Hurst, 1837. [7], viii-xxxvi, [1], 2-432pp, plates. Publisher's full morocco by Remnant and Edmonds, smooth back with author and title within a decorative frame to head, and three roundels within frames beneath, covers with central ring of flowers surrounded by a triple fillet frame, a.e.g. Spine browned, running around on to covers, chipped to spine ends with a… Read more about this item

Oxford: W. Baxter for Law and Whittaker, 1816. [3], vi-xiv, [3], 2-205pp, [1]. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth back divided into six panels by black calf onlays, second panel lettered directly with title, panels one, four, and six with drawer handle style tools, and the remaining panels with small drawer handle tools and two palmettes, with… Read more about this item

London: J. Bailey, 1808. [3], 4-36pp, date from the BL. Disbound. Browned, damp stained and foxed throughout, print slightly indistinct to central portion of page 11, but without loss of sense. With coloured frontispiece of Marat and Couteau 'assassinating and robbing a gentleman'. The printer was J.[ohn] Bailey, at his 116 Chancery Lane address, see the BBTI. The full title… Read more about this item

Leicester: No Publisher Single sided printed ticket, approximately 170mm x 125mm in size, no date (after 1850). Couple of spots to reverse where once mounted, otherwise quite bright and clean. Ticket for admittance to view Landseer's 'A Dialogue at Waterloo', made out to a Mr E. Loseby, and to be viewed at T.[homas] Chapman Browne's Bible and Crown premises in… Read more about this item

London: W. T. Sherwin [1], 2-15pp, [1], disbound. Lightly browned, lightly foxed and stained. Sherwin's reprint of Southey's disavowed poem. Southey, by the time this early poem was published, was Poet Laureate, and the anti-royal tone struck many as seditious. Hazlitt, in Leigh Hunt's 'The Examiner', excoriated Southey, contrasting his early radicalism with his current servility (see Hoadley, 'The Controversy… Read more about this item

London: J. Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; Longman and Co.; Lackington, Allen and Co.; Otridge and Son; S. Bagster; J. Black; T. Hamilton; Cradock and Joy; and R. Saunders, 1813. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [4], vii, xxiv, [1], 2-461pp, [1] and Volume Two - [3], 2-612pp. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spines in… Read more about this item

London: Edward Orme and J. Nichols, 1806. Three items relating to the death and funeral of Nelson. 1. 'Description of the Picture and Print Representing the Death of Lord Viscount Nelson, in the Battle Off Trafalgar', published by Edward Orme, and printed by J. Nichols, n.d. but probably c.1806, broadside, approximately 470mm x 295mm in size. Lightly browned and soiled,… Read more about this item

London: No Publisher, 1840. Single sided printed leaflet, approximately 225mm x 140mm in size. Small amount of loss to left hand margin, lightly browned, otherwise clean. Date is from the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian. Exhibition announcement for a model imitation of the illumination of St. Peter's in Rome during holy week, when paper lanterns were set alight simultaneously… Read more about this item

London: William Hone, 1817. [16]p, printed in double column and 'paginated' per column. Disbound from a pamphlet volume, torn to spine leaving first page just clinging on, final advertisement page detached, pages chipped to edges and lightly browned. The Spa Fields meetings had been organised by followers of Thomas Spence, the first in November 1816 had passed off peacefully, the… Read more about this item

London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son and John Rodwell, 1822. Two volumes complete (ie. all published) - Volume One, pub. 1822-1830, [5], 6-538, [3], 540-780pp; Volume Two, pub. 1836-1841, [7], 2-260, [5], 262-342pp, [2]. Contemporary half morocco and cloth over boards, raised bands, spines in six panels, title lettered directly to second panel, author and volume number to third. Rubbed… Read more about this item

London: J. And W.T. Clarke; Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy; R. Pheney; and Henry Butterworth, 1820. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-901pp, [1]. Original boards, original paper label to spine. Loss to back strip and paper label to head , with smaller amount of loss to back strip to foot, corners bumped. A few spots of foxing, but generally fairly clean. First published… Read more about this item

London: Arthur Hall Eighteen issues (complete), 12pp each (except the joint issue of numbers 2 and 3, which is 20pp), 1848-9. Later half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth back divided into five panels, 'Tracts' to second panel in gilt, remaining panels with flower device to centre. Worn to edges. Front free endpaper detached, internally browned throughout, a few… Read more about this item

London: F.C. And J. Rivington, 1819. [3], 2-94pp. Contemporary polished calf covers, later rebacked, smooth spine, title and date in gilt to spine, single fillet border to covers. Some darkening to edges where rebacked, scrape to upper cover, text lightly browned but generally clean. Work by Arthur Henry Kenney (1776/7-1855), a Church of Ireland dean. Addressed to William Wentworth, the… Read more about this item