Search Results: Authors starting with H from McNaughtan's Bookshop

Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1831. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. x. [ii], 222, [2]. Partially unopened in original pale green boards backed in olive paper, printed paper label to spine. A touch of spotting. Somewhat soiled, joints cracking, some wear to extremities. A scarce history of the palace at Holyrood written by the bailie of the abbey and librarian of The Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1915. FIRST EDITION, publisher’s presentation copy, 8vo, pp. 84. Original black cloth, front board bordered by double white rules and lettered direct in white. Some spotting and marking, mainly to half-title and flyleaves. Binding rubbed and soiled, front board slightly bowed and cloth a little rippled from damp, white decoration rubbed away in places, evidence of recolouring it to head of spine. Ownership inscription dated May 1916 of ‘H. Henderson “Bard o’Reay” and “the poet of the north”’, ‘presentation copy’ embossment to title-page. An unpleasant copy, but the scarce first edition of Radclyffe Hall’s (1880-1943) sixth book of poetry. This copy belonged to Scottish poet Henry Morrison Henderson (1873-1957) and may have been presented to him by the publisher. While WorldCat cites many copies in North America, there are fewer than a dozen in the UK, and… Read More

London: Published by R. Cocks and Co., 1835. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. viii, 64, 40, 6 [ads]. Original patterned brown cloth, printed paper label to front board, edges sprinkled red. Some scattered toning. Boards stained, worn to extremities, particularly foot of spine, stitching strained in places, label soiled. Contemporary ownership inscription of E. Stich and pencil inscription dated 6-1-83 to pastedown, modern bookplate to flyleaf. Not a lovely copy, but the first edition in its original binding of this primer for composers, that was revised and expanded several times throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a 17th printing and third edition by 1842. Library Hub records 4 copies of this first, with some of them having a larger catalogue of ads to the rear, although this example is complete as issued.

Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1836. 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 72 + frontispiece and 4 plates, all with onlaid coloured triangles. Original green textured cloth, printed paper label to front board. Some of the coloured triangles partly oxidised. Cloth somewhat faded and rubbed, label marked. Gift inscription to flyleaf: ‘Alexander Lauder from Mr Patrik, Dec. 1927’. The chief work of David Ramsay Hay (1798-1866), whose artistic leanings were turned towards house-painting by the advice of Sir Walter Scott, for whom he did much work at Abbotsford. He developed his own unique theory of colour harmony, outlined in this work with demonstrations and arguments from (pseudo-)science, and it proved popular and influential: the first edition of 1818 was followed by five more, each expanded and edited.

Stratford-Upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1925. NO. 10 OF 55 COPIES, small 4to, pp. [viii], 15, [1]. Printed on Batchelor’s hand-made paper. Original limp vellum, front board and spine lettered direct in gilt, bronze silk ties. A fine copy. Manuscript limitation statement and numbering to verso of title-page. An attractive example of the numbered, deluxe version of the Shakespeare Head’s printing of an early modern ballad, which was also issued in a trade edition.

London: Faber and Faber, 1998. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xiii, [i], 478. Original green boards, spine lettered in orange, colour-printed dustjacket. Dustjacket just a touch bumped, spine panel lightly sunned. The scarcer hardback issue of Heaney’s collected poems. Brandes & Durkan A70a.

London: Faber and Faber, 1979. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 64. Original brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, dustjacket printed in brown and orange. Dustjacket sunned to spine panel and edges of rear panel. Heaney’s fifth collection, the Poetry Book Society choice for Autumn 1979. Brandes & Durkan A20a.

London: Faber and Faber, 1988. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [i], 172. Original red cloth, spine lettered in white, dustjacket printed in red and black. Small dampmark to dustjacket spine panel at inside foot.

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1845. 12mo, pp. vii, [i], 288, 4 (ads). Original brown textured cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards blocked in blind. A little light dustiness in places. Spine ends a touch worn, gutter cracking in a few places but all gatherings firmly held. True to his name, Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), later clerk of the Privy Council, took up social issues in the 1840s and 1850s, with among his efforts this ‘paternalist essay on the relations between master and man’, first published 1844. This second edition is attractively printed by Charles Whittingham and was also issued by William Pickering.

Paris: Chez Durand... et se vend A Francfort, Chez Jean George Eslinger, 1768. 3 vols, 8vo, pp. 381, [1]; 340; 252, [28]. Contemporary tree calf, spines divided by gilt rules, red and green morocco labels to spines. Poor-quality paper a little toned and spotted. Rubbed, a few small stains, spine heads slightly chipped. Armorial bookplates of Edward, Earl of Powis to front pastedowns, old stickers to head of spines numbered in ink. An early reprint of this scandalous enlightenment philosophy text, first published in 1758. De L’Esprit was condemned by the church, denounced as heretical and publicly burned in Paris for its atheism, as Helvetius argues that concepts of good and evil are taught rather than innate. The resulting furore ensured its success and it was translated into English the following year, where it later proved influential on the work of John Stuart Mill. This edition (possibly with a false Paris imprint?) is scarce outside of Germany, with single copies in France and Belgium… Read More

London: Routledge, 1943. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 56. Original white boards backed in black paper, grey dustjacket printed in orange. boards and dustjacket a little soiled, spine panel rubbed and sunned with small tear to top edge. The second collection from Scottish New Apocalyptic poet J. F. Hendry (1912-1986).

London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1771. 8vo, pp. xxiv, [iv], 432, 2 + 2 plates, 1 of which folding. Modern biscuit calf, boards bordered with blind rules, spine divided by raised bands, green morocco label, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt. A touch of spotting. Just slightly marked. The author of The Complete English Farmer was, in fact, a Scottish farmer, the Aberdonian David Henry (1709-1792). Away from his Lewisham farm Henry was a publisher, most notably of ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine.’ ESTC T127999.

Goettingae [Gottingen]: Apud Ioh. Christ. Dieterich, 1782. 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 293, [1]. Later quarter roan, textured paper boards, corners tipped in parchment, spine divided by wide blind rules, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, others blocked with gilt frames, marbled endpapers. Toned and spotted. Spine and extremities rubbed, boards a touch scuffed. Ownership inscription dated [19]22 to title-page, gift inscription dated 1946 to verso of flyleaf. The allegorical defence of Homer against charges of immorality by the first-century AD grammarian Heraclitus, sometimes known as 'Homeric Problems' or 'Homeric Allegories'. This edition, by the Danish scholar Niels Schouw (and dedicated to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, then cabinet secretary and de-facto prime minister of Denmark), includes Conrad Gessner's 1544 Latin translation and notes by Schouw (1754-1830).

[Ipswich]: Printed for W.S. Cowell Ltd, 1962. 8vo, pp. [16] including original colour-printed card wrappers. Edges of oversized wrappers somewhat bumped. A full-colour promotional booklet designed for Guinness by advertising agency S. H. Benson to extoll the virtues of their stout; this one (they were issued yearly) consisting of humorous doggerel by novelist and MP, A. P. Herbert and illustrated by Michael ffolkes.

Edinburgh: Printed by Neill & Company, 1835. 8vo, pp. 4, 90. Contemporary brown pebbled cloth. Scattered light foxing, some gatherings a little marked. Some marks to boards, spine-ends a little worn. AP monogram to title-page. A scarce edition of the will of goldsmith and philanthropist George Heriot (1563-1624), together with the statutes of the charitable school he endowed. Library Hub records just 3 copies: at NLS, St Andrews and BL.

Edinburgi [Edinburgh]: E Prelo Academico, Impensis Gulielmi Laing, 1806. 7 vols., 8vo, pp. 310, [2]; 286; 289, [1]; 279, [1]; 322; 301, [1]; 175, [1], 93, [3]. Untrimmed and unopened in original pink paper boards, printed paper labels to spines. Some light spotting. Boards soiled, spines darkened and worn at ends, one label chipped. A rare survival, unopened in the original boards, of this textbook edition of the works of Herodotus printed by the Edinburgh university printer. The editor was George Dunbar (1777-1851), an industrious if not especially brilliant classical scholar who was appointed Andrew Dalzel’s successor as professor of Greek at Edinburgh the same year this edition appeared.

Basileae [Basel]: In officina Hervagiana, 1541. Folio, pp. [xx], 310. Later vellum boards, paper label with ink title to spine, all edges blue. Lightly toned, some minor spotting. Vellum lightly spotted, some discolouration to spine, label chipped, small touches of worming just to the hinges. Ownership inscriptions to title-page of Fr. Heuglin of Tübingen dated 1817, C. Barth dated 1818, and a prize inscription to J. Mästlin signed by Theodorus Cellarius and dated 1664; also an illegible inscription to flyleaf and a scattering of marginal annotations to the text. The second edition of the Greek text of Herodotus (following the Aldine first of 1502), and the first to be printed outside Italy. This copy appears to have been given to an exceptional pupil by Theodor Cellarius (1627-1677), professor of Greek at Tübingen, and remained in that city for at least another century and a half. Adams H395; Dibdin II 19.

Bungay: Printed and published by Brightly and Childs, 1816. 8vo, pp. vi, 325, [1] + frontispiece and 3 other plates. Contemporary marbled calf, spine divided by Greek key rolls gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt direct. A few minor spots, slight dampmarking to fore-edge of plates. Binding just a touch rubbed at extremities, spine lightly creased. Pencilled ownership inscription (dated 1917) to flyleaf. A nice copy of a scarce Bungay printing of the earliest writings of James Hervey (1714-1758), influential on Blake and the entire genre of Gothic literature. Worldcat locates only 3 copies in the UK (Cambridge, St Andrews, NLS), and four outside (UC Berkeley, Wesleyan, Lancaster Theological and Princeton Theological). It reprints a rather more common 1807 Bungay edition.

[Parma]: Ex regio Parmensi Typographio [Bodoni], 1785. 4to, pp. [iv], xxxv, [i], 110, [ii], 16, [ii], 248. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, boards bordered with a triple gilt rule enclosing a frame with arch corners and sides interrupted by swirl and arch tools surrounding a sunburst, spine divided by double raised bands between gilt rules and enclosing black dyed stripes with gilt rolls, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, green endpapers, edges gilt. One leaf (p1, final sequence) with an old paper flaw repaired early on, one or two other torn corners. Extremities the merest touch rubbed, a few small marks. Modern bookplate to front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Vardin, Bart. to verso of flyleaf, pencil note to facing binder’s blank attributing the binding to Bradel. An elegant binding on an elegant edition; the first paginated section contains the Greek text of Hesiod, the second a dedication to Ferdinand of Austria in a calligraphic italic type, and the… Read More

London: Printed for H. Twyford, T. Dring, J. Place, W. Palmer, 1661. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. [xvi], 168, [2], 84, [2], 85-196. A few pages misnumbered. Contemporary sheep, boards bordered with triple blind rules, spine divided by raised bands and tooled in gilt. Paper a little toned, contents leafed creased and rubbed to edges. Worn and rather marked with some small losses to spine ends, hinges split but joints holding, pastedowns lifted, flyleaves torn away, label lost. Double-sided contents leaf in contemporary hand tipped in to pastedown, a few page numbers corrected in ink. The first edition of a popular 17th-century history of the Reformation, which was reprinted twice in the following decades. An early owner has provided a lengthy and detailed contents list in a small but legible hand to a tipped-in leaf, something that the publishers also felt a need for as the 1670 second edition contains a printed and even more extensive table of contents to the rear. ESTC R6263.