Search Results: Authors starting with F from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

[n.p.], 1914. The watercolors are in very good or better condition with some foxing to versos, the majority mounted (some no longer mounted after loss of adhesive), most with the location identified on their mount, or with place, date, and artist identified on the verso of the watercolor, the album itself is good with tears to the album leaves, in original half cloth scrapbook over textured paper-covered boards that are rubbed and worn.. A splendid album containing over 100 mounted original watercolor views of various landscapes and buildings in Britain and Europe, featuring locations, among others, of the Lake District, Kent, Scotland (including the Highlands and Warwick Castle), Lyme Regis, Cornwall, Switzerland, Italy (including Florence), and others. Also includes a few watercolors of flora. The album contains the works of at least three members of the Copleston family of England, Jane Ellen Copleston, Eliza Ann Copleston, and Miss May G. Copleston, as well as an M.R. Hart [or Harte]. Folio.… Read More

New York: A. Simpson & Co, 1867. First Edition thus. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine, Very good with some bumping to cloth boards.. Signed and inscribed by Cozzens on the flyleaf. This edition has a colorful bibliographical history. Erroneously listed in Wright II 649 for the 1868 edition under the authorship of Cozzens. BAL 4010 corrects; Halkett II, 273. The edition here precedes both Wright and BAL. Included in this copy is correspondence from the Beinecke Library politely declining to purchase this particular volume, but including a copy of correspondence between Blanck and Gallup regarding the difference between the 1867 and 1868 editions, with Gallup requesting an additional entry in BAL regarding the same. Denman's bibliography of Ferguson states that "Preface" in this edition speculates as to the identity of the author and differs significantly from the "Ante-Preface" in the 1868 edition which corrects the misattribution, as Ferguson admitted to authorship the prior year.… Read More

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Henry Gibb, Liberator Office, 1840. First Edition. Disbound with light spotting and browning but otherwise very good.. First edition. Provincially published work of poetry by a Chartist-affiliated publisher, when Fettes was 21 and a student at the University of Edinburgh, it was apparently his first work as the comparatively lengthy introduction (which spans 1/7th of the entire volume) notes it was "his first immature production." The ballad tells the tale of a knight of Richard the Lionheart who becomes enamored with Zuleika, the daughter of the Muslim emir who captured him, and as may be expected in a work of this sort, knight and daughter escape the emir and unite in Christianity. Also contains a lengthier poem entitled The Dream as well as thirteen shorter poems. Small 8vo. [i]-viii, [9]-36pp. Apparently unrecorded with no copies located on OCLC or Library Hub Discover as of March 2024.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First Edition. About very good in uniform full contemporary calf, wear to boards, both volumes rebacked and corners repaired, scattered spotting and foxing, contemporary ownership signature on both title pages and front free endpaper.. First edition. Henry wasn't the only talented writer in the family, as his sister demonstrates in David Simple. This edition precedes those later editions which were substantially revised by Henry. Sabor, ed., The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last (1998, pgs. x-xii). "Sarah Fielding's David Simple is the story of a young man's quest for a 'real friend' in a society characterised by avarice and injustice. . . For Sarah Fielding, some people are good-natured whilst most are not." Hall, The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order (1993, pg. 54). 2 vols. 12mo. x, 378pp.; [2], 322pp. ESTC T57804. Grolier, History of English Prose Fiction 54.

London: Printed for the Proprietor by John Johnson, 1817. Very good in circa early 20th-century full levant morocco ruled in gilt, spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, top edge gilt, by Riviere & Son. Spine a bit sunned, some rubbing to edges and extremities, front hinge cracked, some foxing and soiling within.. One of only 18 unnumbered copies on white Chinese paper, which is mounted on larger vellum paper with a Greek motif border, all within another border of vines and leaves. Extensively illustrated with woodcuts by Thurston. Kohlmetz, who provided a bibliography of Puckle's Club, referred to the copies on Chinese paper as a "most sumptuous and noble book." 4o. [4], x, [7], 96pp. [recto only]. Scarce as issued. Lowndes 2005 ("a neat edition with wood cuts by Thurston"); Chatto, Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical, pg. 632 (1839); Kohlmetz 15.

Oxford: Claredon Press, 1903. First Edition. Some pages unopened, pull out maps present. Another former owner's embossed stamp on the front free endpaper. Very Good in publisher's cloth.. Sir Winston Churchill's copy with his bookplate and the bookplate of his son, Randolph S. Churchill, both on the front pastedown. Letter of authenticity certifying the book as from the personal library of Winston Churchill, dated 1977, signed by Diana J. Rendell (of The Rendells, Inc., ILAB/ABA).

London: Macmillan and Co, 1870. First Edition. Sunning to spine, bumping to corners, residue of bookplate, otherwise very good.. First edition. Bright red stamped cloth. Contains a series of lectures discussing the gothic Wells Cathedral. Small 8vo. Tissue guarded frontispiece, xvi, 200pp. Bound without the 42 page catalogue.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1870. First Edition. Sunning to spine and front board, small tears to head of spine, bookplate, minor foxing, otherwise very good.. First edition. Publisher's maroon cloth. Contains a series of lectures discussing the gothic Wells Cathedral. Small 8vo. Frontispiece, xvi, 200pp. + 42 page catalogue.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First trade edition. Wear to the edges and dampstaining to the bottom portion of the spine and covers, with contemporary ownership inscription. Very Good, lacking the extremely scarce dustwrapper.. Signed and inscribed by Frost on the flyleaf. One of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer Prize.