Search Results: Authors starting with M from Sky Duthie Rare Books

Oxford: Oxford University Press., 1932.. Limited edition, no. 21 of 350 copies printed. Octavo. Publisher's original cream paper-covered boards with titles in black to the spine, in the original marbled-paper covered card slipcase with printed paper title label. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with black and white woodcuts. 254pp. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with some light dust-soiling to the spine and board edges. The contents with a little toning to the endpapers are otherwise wonderfully clean and crisp throughout. The slipcase with a little marking and spotting is otherwise in very good order. An account of the fourteenth-century eastern travels by (the probably fictitious) Sir John Mandeville, who journeyed across the Islamic world as far as India and China, traversing Turkey, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Chaldea, and "the land of the Amazons". Providing a highly entertaining guide for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the work… Read More

London: Printed for Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co., [1851].. First edition. Octavo. Contemporary half calf over textured foliate-patterned boards, the spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Chromolithographic additional title page and contents leaf by W. Dickes. Marbled endpapers. pp. [2], [i], ii-[vi], [7]- 230, [2]. Old pencil notes to the front free endpaper verso. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a scuff to the leather of the top corner of the upper board and some rubbing to the spine and corners. The contents with a 1cm tear to the head of the second blank and a few spots of light foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order. An uncommon work by the English novelist Anne Manning (1807-1879), best known for her numerous works of historical fiction. As with most of Manning's anonymously issued works the text is couched in antique language, designed to offer her readership a form of historical… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited., 1920. Second edition. Small octavo. Handsomely bound by J. Bumpus & Co. of Oxford Street in contemporary full green morocco with decorative gilt tooling to the upper board and five raised bands to the spine, with titles in gilt. Elaborate decorative gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece portrait. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with a little toning to the spine and minor rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a school prize plate to the front pastedown (dated 1930) and a couple of minor spots of foxing to the margins of the frontispiece are otherwise in excellent condition and remain clean and bright throughout.

Frankfurt: Joh. B. Andrea and H. Hort., 1725. Quarto. Handsomely bound in contemporary mottled calf. The boards ruled in gilt, the spine with five raised bands, compartments with decorative devices in gilt, and gilt morocco title label. Engraved title page with hand-coloured allegorical border. Illustrated with 42 full-page contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates depicting the Dance of Death, all but two with additional contemporary watercolour and wash architectural borders, and two further uncoloured engraved illustrations ("Memento Mori" and a the surreal Vexierbild). Curiously, as part of the process of the contemporary owner's embellishment, a number of the central engraved images have apparently been excised and remounted on the decorated text pages. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm with the hinges expertly repaired. The contents with some occasional pencil marking to the blank verso of a few of the plates and occasional minor marking to page margins are otherwise in very… Read More

London: Printed by Burks and Kinnebrook, Norwich, for Hunter, 72, St. Paul's Church-yard., 1822. Sixth edition. Signed and inscribed by the author's son, Edward Rigby (Jr.). Octavo. Contemporary half black calf over marbled boards; the spine with five raised bands, compartments richly decorated in gilt, and with red morocco title label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Marbling to page edges. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and tight with a little rubbing to the boards and extremities. The contents with some occasional light scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A handsome copy. Signed and inscribed by the author's son, Edward Rigby, in black ink to the front endpaper: "Mr Thomas Salt / a prize at the weekly Examination of / the Midwifery Class at St. Bartholomew's / from Edwd. Rigby MD / June 1844". The key work on obstetrics by the English physician and writer Edward Rigby (1747-1821), all editions of which are relatively scarce in commerce. This… Read More

London: Callow and Wilson., 1829. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the translator. 12mo. Contemporary half plum calf over marbled boards; the spine with four raised bands, compartments richly decorated in gilt, and with morocco title label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Marbling to page edges. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the boards and extremities. The contents with some light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A handsome copy. Signed and inscribed by Edward Rigby in black ink to the half title page: "Mr Thomas Salt, a prize at / the weekly Examination of the / Midwifery Class at St Bartholomew's / Hospital, from the Translator / June 1. 1844". The first English translation of one of the key works on obstetrics by the renowned German obstetrician Franz Karl Naegele (1778-1851). A nice association copy, presented by the translator, the leading obstetrician, medical writer, and… Read More

[Original artwork]., 1929.. Original ink and watercolour drawing on card depicting a fairy queen brushing her hair whilst looking in a mirror, surround by various fairy and pixie attendants. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist to the foot. The image measuring 31 x 19.5cm. Mounted but unframed (42.8 x 30.8cm including the mount). Condition is very good, the image remaining cleans and the colours bright and fresh. A beautiful, skilfully-executed fairy painting showing the stylistic influence of Edwardian 'Golden Age' illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, by the artist, miniaturist and calligrapher Enid Sybil Mills (1901-1985). Mills studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where her teachers included Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky. She exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Watercolour Society, and the Royal Miniature Society, of which she was elected a member in 1961.

[Original artwork]., 1937.. Original ink and watercolour drawing on card depicting Titania from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream asleep surrounded by three standing fairies, with other fairy/pixie figures looking on, set within a garden of flowers. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist to the foot. The image measuring 37 x 26cm. Mounted but unframed (50.5 x 38cm including the mount). There is a light ink splash to the centre of the image (affecting the central fairy), otherwise condition is very good. A beautiful, skilfully-executed fairy painting showing the stylistic influence of Edwardian 'Golden Age' illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, by the artist, miniaturist and calligrapher Enid Sybil Mills (1901-1985).

Mills studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where her teachers included Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky. She exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Watercolour Society, and the Royal Miniature Society, of… Read More

[Original artwork]., 1921-1933.. Five original ink and watercolour drawings, plus one ink drawing, depicting various fairy subjects, with titles including "The Wedding of the Rose", "Autumn", "The Lost Fairies", and "The Elfin Artist", four on card, two on paper. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist to the foot. All unframed, three mounted. The images measuring 37 x 22.5cm; 26.5 x 18cm; 25 x 19cm; 15.2 x 11.7cm; 23.3 x 9.6; and 28.2 x 15cm. "Autumn" with toning to the paper, some light scattered foxing to the blank margins/mounts of the others, toning and chipping to the extremities of the mount of the largest watercolour, and the ink drawing with several vertical creases and scattered foxing - otherwise the images are in very good condition. A charming group of skilfully-executed fairy paintings showing the stylistic influence of Edwardian 'Golden Age' illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, by the artist, miniaturist and calligrapher Enid Sybil Mills (née Smith, 1901-1985). Mills studied at St… Read More

London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882.. Folio. Handsomely bound in early twentieth-century quarter vellum over oak boards in the style of Douglas Cockerell, with Celtic knot decoration in the Arts and Crafts taste tooled in blind to the vellum on the upper and lower boards. The spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Original white metal clasps to the upper board and braided vellum ties to the lower board (now defective). Tooled vellum turn-ins. All edges gilt. The pages comprising the textblock have been slightly shuffled by the binder so as to create the look of being untrimmed. The contents complete, although bound somewhat idiosyncratically, beginning with the half title, contents, list of illustrations, and lxiipp. life of John Milton and introduction, prior to the first plate and the title page, which are then followed by the text itself (329pp.). The life of Milton and the introduction are misbound within themselves as i-xx, liii-lxii, xlv-lii, xxi-xliv. Four leaves of laid… Read More