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CANADIAN & AMERICAN TRAVELS
first edition small 8vo. [4],iv, 126pp., 1 text illustration, original pink grained cloth, printed paper title label on front cover, old water stain at lower gutter corner of front cover and adjacent area of spine, cloth generally slightly dusty, small piece chipped from upper edge of title label, else generally very good. Uncommon.
Inscribed on front pastedown endpaper "E. Farrington/ Southampton/ 1863".
Library Hub (formerly COPAC) locates in B.L., Cambridge, Oxford, N.L.S. & T.C.D.. Oxford give the anonymous author as T. D. Landon but on what basis we do not know. T. D. L. had published "Narrative of a Journey through India" in London in 1857, with the pseudonym again in some cases identified as Landon.Describes the voyage from Liverpool to Halifax and journey thereafter through parts of modern Canada (p.9- 90) and then parts of New York and Pennsylvania states in U.S.A.

PARTICULARLY BRIGHT COPY first (English) edition 8vo. xiv, 322pp., 24 photo plates., original deep pink cloth attractively blocked in gilt on front cover and spine, very nice bright copy with a neat first owner's name on end paper. Uncommon, and rare in this condition. A blunt account of his two month sojourn in the London dockland 'underground' during the summer of 1902 where "the starvation and lack of shelter [that he] encountered constituted a chronic condition of misery" [preface].

ONE OF A MAXIMUM OF 140 COPIES THUS - LOVELY COPY IN ITS ORIGINAL BOARDS
first editions, joint reissue small 8vo. [2 (half title)], viii, 9-59, [1 (printer's device &c.)]; [4 (blank)], (iii)-viii, 51, [1 (printer's device &c.)], [2 (reviews)], [6 (Elkin Mathews advts.)], [2 (blank)]pp., original brown boards, front cover and spine gilt lettered, edges untrimmed, most of front free-endpaper excised (possibly as sold), couple of pinhole worm holes at lower margin of first few leaves, spine just a shade faded and with a few light and trivial marks, else a fine fresh copy and virtually as new. Rare in this condition.
Gallup Bibliography Pound, 3b-4b. Both first editions, second issue. One of a maximum of 140 copies.Personae and Exultations had first been issued by Elkin Mathews in April and October 1909 respectively. This joint reissue of "not more than 500 copies ... consists of the first-edition sheets of the two books with their original title-leaves excised ... and new half-title leaf for the volume… Read More

first edition (apparently bound from the parts) tall 8vo. xiv, [2 (errata leaf)], 624pp., 40 etched plates including additional engraved title page, contemporary half tan calf, smooth spine gilt decorated and with a dark maroon title label gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled sides, tiny pale mark at extreme head of spine, marbled sides a little rubbed, plates foxed as usual (some heavily), else very good.
An early issue with all first issue errors apart from ''screamed'' for ''screwed'' on page 132 (present in earliest copies only): Chapter XXVII on page 282 and not page 283 as listed on the contents page; p. 16, line 1 and p. 225, line 22 - ''recal'' instead of ''recall''; p. 19, 12 lines from the bottom - ''cha pter ;ut''; p. 387, 6 lines from the bottom - ''coroboration'' instead of ''corroboration''; p. 472, 13 lines from the bottom - no closing of the quotation marks; ''1850'' under the publishers' imprint on the engraved title-page

These volumes comprise:
The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the end of the Year 1720. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the end of the Year 1720. Abridged ... In Five Volumes. By John Lawthorp .. and Henry Jones. ... Fourth Edition.London: Printed for J. and J. Knapton, D. Midwinter [etc.]: 1731-1732 5 vols. 4to. [here Vols. 1, 2 & 5 only, lacking vols. 3 & 4] Vol.1: [12], iv, [64], 620pp. & 7 plates; Vol.2: [4], 915pp. & 14 plates; Vol. 5: [8], 435, [1 (blank)], 268, [12 (index)] & 14 plates ... [with]The Philosophical Transactions (from the Year 1720, to the Year 1732) abridged and disposed under General Heads. By Mr. Reid and John Gray ... Vol. VI. containing Part I. The Mathematical Papers. Part II. The Physiological Papers. Part III. The Anatomical and Medical Papers. Part IV. The Philological and Miscellaneous Papers London: Printed for William Innys and Richard Manby, Printers to the Royal Society: 1733 first edition 4to. [here Vol.6, Part I only] Part 1: [30],… Read More

RARE & WIDE-RANGING WORK ON SOCIAL HISTORYfirst edition 3 vols. tall 8vo. [2 (half-title)], vi, 258, [2 (advts.)], (259)-286 (index to vol.I); [4 (half-title & title)], [2 (corrigenda)], 463; [4 (half-title & title)], [2 (corrigenda)], 315pp., handsome contemporary tree calf, smooth spines richly decorated in gilt in panels and with red and green morocco labels gilt, edges dyed yellow, some slight foxing but a very nice and most handsome copy. Rare and attractive copy.Contemporary neat signature of Marcus Wright on endpapers and slightly later decorative small printed label of 'M. G. v. Fock'.ESTC t125368 - locating copies in the British Isles only in B.L., N.L.S, Oxford, John Soane's House and John Rylands, with 2 in Europe, 13 in North America & 1 in Australia. The index to vol.I was apparently prepared as something of an afterthought so that the advertisement leaf appears at the end of the main text and not at the end of the book. There are no such irregularities in the other two volumes where the… Read More

AIR POLLUTION ADDRESSED - PIONEERING VENTILATION & HEATING SYSTEM first (sole) edition 8vo. (in fours) [2], ii, [43], [1 (blank)]pp., 2 folding plates, contemporary tree calf, one plate backed with archival tissue, rebacked with a new spine, black morocco label, modern end papers, very good. ESTC t6689 locating copies in Aberdeen Univ., British Architectural Libr., B.L., Cambridge, Congregational Libr., Oxford and Royal Institute of British Architects, and 7 in institutions in U.S.A.Adam Walker (Patterdale, Westmorland, 1730/31 - 1821), itinerant lecturer and writer, was largely self-taught and developed a considerable mechanical skill, constructing models of the milling machinery employed in the local mills. At fifteen he became assistant master at Ledham School, Yorkshire, and at eighteen was appointed writing master at Macclesfield free School where he studied mathematics and issued his first publication 'A System of Family Bookkeeping', 1758. From 1762 to 1766 he ran a school in Manchester… Read More

EXCELLENT SET IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING - THE FIRST DUBLIN EDITION OF JOHNSON'S EDITIONfirst Irish edition of Johnson's edition 10 vols. 12mo. Vol.I: [2 (title)], cliii (misnumbered "clii"), [1 (blank)], 251, [3 (additional notes)]; Vol.II: [2 (title)], 436; Vol.III: [4 (half-title & title)], 403, [1 (blank)]; Vol.IV: [4 (half-title & title)], 368; Vol.V: [4 (half-title & title)], 327, [1 (epilogue)]; Vol.VI: [4 (half-title & title)], 435, 1 (blank)]; Vol.VII: [2 (title)], 423, [1 (blank)]; Vol.VIII: [2 (title)], 426; Vol.IX: [4 (half-title & title)], 514; Vol.X: [2 (title)], 433, [1 (blank)], [4 (appendix)]pp., contemporary calf, spines with raised bands and deep maroon and dark blue morocco labels gilt, title labels apparently at some point renewed, without (as issued) the portrait plate included in some copies, 5 spines a trifle scuffed at headbands, some light scratches, but a nice set in its original binding. Rare, and especially so complete and in the original… Read More

RARE EARLY PUBLICATIONCONTAINING 'SOME OF HIS FINEST LYRICS'first edition tall 8vo. (22.7 x 14.5 cms.) 51, [1 (blank)]pp., wood engraving of three cherubs on title page, other type ornaments throughout, original pale blue wrappers, title page repeated in the front wrapper, edges untrimmed, upper 3 cms. of wrappers lightly toned or sunned, very tiny chip from fore-edge of front wrapper and at its top gutter corner, some minor chipping of wrapper 'spine', else very good. A very well preserved copy in its original state. Rare.McKay Bibliography Bridges, 5Most copies of Bridges' first book Poems by Robert Bridges (1873) were destroyed. With his second book of verse The Growth of Love (1876), published by Bumpus in a small edition of perhaps as few as 100 copies and in a similar format to this book, Bridges after a few copies had been distributed burned the remaining copies. This Poems (1879), his third book of verse, would also have been printed in small numbers and that in turn was followed… Read More

WITH AN INTERESTING INSCRIPTION - AND IN THE GLASSINE DUST JACKET
first edition [4 (half-title and title)], 22pp., black cloth lettered in green on front board, fine copy in the original glassine wrapper (wrapper cracked and with some holes along its 'spine' fold).
Interesting contemporary inscription on the secrecy surrounding the book's authorship on verso of half title by Richard Valentine Williams (see below)
Siegfried Sassoon was the pseudonymous author of these parodies of Humbert Wolfe.
Richard Valentine Williams (1877-1946), Irish poet, playwright and small-press publisher who wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Rowley, was friendly with many contemporary English writers. His publisher in the 1920s was Duckworth and the Sitwells were particular friends, providing the context for his interesting note in this copy. Williams wrote: "At the time of writing S. S. was on very friendly terms with the Sitwells, between whom and H. W. existed one of those literary feuds which were the great amusement… Read More

LAST & MOST COMPLETE 17th CENTURY EDITION - NEW POEMS & MANY TEXTUAL CHANGES fifth edition (last and complete 17th. century edition) 8vo. [6], 304, 307-322, 321-336, 377-392, 353-414pp. very irregular pagination but complete but for the preliminary and final blank leaves A1 and Dd8, early nineteenth century half tan calf, smooth spine panelled by gilt fillets, dark brown morocco title label gilt, marbled sides, title page backed with plain paper apparently at an early date (or at time of binding), first few leaves lightly but evenly toned, some light spotting scattered throughout, narrow blank strip trimmed from fore-edges the 2 leaves B6 & B7 (apparently to remove a smoke mark), closed tear (no loss and with minor old repair) in C1, some light staining and minor adhesion on leaves H1-2 (the facing pages 98-99 once apparently lightly pasted together) and with a closed tear (no loss) in the latter leaf H2 repaired with archival tissue, small paper flaw in X1 causing the loss of some letters of… Read More

POPE'S EARLIEST PUBLICATION first edition 8vo. [12], 172, 177-224, 221-298, 301-632, (721)-751pp. complete, fine engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, spine panels richly gilt decorated, neatly rebacked with the original (rather heavily rubbed and chipped) spine panels relaid, corner tips neatly refurbished, new endpapers, frontispiece just shaved at lower edge. A very good copy. GRIFFITH Alexander Pope, A Bibliography, 1 Not in Rothschild ESTC t142876 Collation: pi1(frontis.); A4; B-T8; U7; X-Rr8; Ss6; Aaa-Bbb8This book exists in two states. This copy combines the changes of both and has cancel leaf Y3 with turnover, cancels Hh8 and Mm3 in position and Ss with 6 leaves only.Pope, then only twenty years old, contributed Pastorals (which has its own divisional title page) and some other poems to this final volume of Tonson's or Dryden's Miscellanies (1684-1709) as they are called. They are his earliest publication. The Pope contributions are not affected by the two issues."The… Read More

FIRST ISSUE IN A HANDSOME BINDINGfirst edition, first issue 8vo. [2 (half-title & advt.)], x, 592pp., 196 figures on text leaves, handsome modern contemporary-style half light tan calf, spine panelled by gilt-rolled raised bands, large blind tool at panel centres, red morocco label gilt, old marbled paper on sides, top edge gilt, trivial old water stain at the extreme foot of the first few leaves. A nice copy.Freeman Darwin Bibliography 1325. First issue with 2 lines of errata on page x."This was an extension of the work on climbing plants to show that the same mechanism holds good for flowering plants in general. It was another specialist book and seems to have sold fewer copies than any other, and was not reprinted in England after the year of Darwin's death until modern facsimiles appeared of the first thousand in 1966 and the second in 1969.The first edition was published on November 6, 1880, and it is recorded that 1500 copies were sold at Murray's autumn sale. It was in a standard… Read More

FOLK BELIEFS ON THE POWER OF MATERNAL IMAGINATION ON THE FOETUS CONFRONTED first edition small 8vo. [2], xi, [3], 143, [1 (errata)]pp., type ornaments and decorative initial letters, mid-nineteenth century buff cloth, spine gilt lettered, title page slightly dusty, else very good. ESTC t117265 Blondel (Paris, 1665/6–1734), physician, after a medical education at Leiden in 1700 established a practice in London and was made a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1711. "In 1727 he published an anonymous work entitled The strength of imagination in pregnant women examined; and the opinion that marks and deformities in children arise from thence, demonstrated to be a vulgar error. He later claimed to have written this work in response to Mary Toft's delusion that her unfulfilled cravings for rabbit actually caused her to give birth to a litter of rabbits. However, another member of the college, Daniel Turner, deemed Blondel's work to be an attack on a chapter, 'Spots and marks… Read More

12mo. (in sixes) xv, [1], 268pp., 2 plates, contemporary calf, rebacked with a new matching calf spine, original dark red morocco label replaced, corners refurbished, minor dustiness and a few slight marks, generally very good. ESTC t91552 locates copies only in 4 U.K., 2 U.S. and 2 Australian libraries.

SOLD AT SOTHEBY'S IN 1899 first edition, second issue 4to. xxviii, 187, [1]pp., title page printed in red and black, numerous decorative initial letters, frontispiece plate, original cream paper backed pale grey boards, paper spine very expertly renewed with paper closely matching the original, original printed white paper title label relaid on spine, edges untrimmed, some light finger marks on fore-margin of front board, else a nice copy. Penzer Burton Bibliography, p.150-153. The first issue was withdrawn and this second issue, with a corrected four pages xi-xiv, was issued in a similar binding with the spine title printed on a white paper label lettered 'Priapeia/ 1890'. The second copy recorded by Penzer in his 'Prices' section was one that made 20 shillings (1 pound) in a sale-room in Dec. 1899. This is that copy. "The Priapeia is a collection of .. ninety five anonymous short Latin poems in various meters on subjects pertaining to the phallic god Priapus. They are believed to… Read More

BRIGHTLY COLOURED & PATTERN DYED REAL CLOTH SAMPLES
tall 8vo. xx, 731pp., 13 plates (9 folding including one coloured), numerous illustrations through text, 116 brightly coloured and patterned actual dyed cloth samples pasted in as illustrations, illustrations in text, very well rebound in maroon cloth, spine lettered gilt, very good copy with clean fresh samples.
This work was first published in 1912 and this second edition is extensively revised and updated. The number of real cloth samples was increased from 84 to 118,"all new, and most of them produced on the large scale by the recipes which they are intended to illustrate. The preparation of special patterns for an edition of a book of this kind means much more work and management than meets the eye, but the authors are of the opinion that the time-honoured system of presenting specimens of the actual thing to the reader is well worth the trouble involved" [preface]. In that they were certainly correct.This expanded edition "added matter includes… Read More

GEOLOGICAL CLASSIC ATTRACTIVELY BOUND
4 vols. 12mo. xx, 462; [4], 442; [4], 447, [1]; [4]. 448pp., 11 plates (including 8 folding of which 2 are hand-coloured), 6 maps (including 4 folding and 3 hand coloured), nuerous wood-engraved text figures, contemporary Continental (probably German) half dark green morocco, flat spines with broad richly gilt tooled bands at head and foot, pink (paper?) title labels gilt placed just above centrally on the spines, remaining areas of the spines with an all-over decorative lattice pattern in blind, green morocco tips to board corners, green marbled sides, front joint of vol. 4 cracked but tight, neat pencil underlining (removable) in the early sections of vol. 1, spines a little faded, else a nice copy in an attractive and unusual binding.
Vol. 1 inscribed at upper margin of title page "Geo. F. Colley/ Paris/ 1838".
Lyell had first published his seminal Principles of Geology in 3 vols. over the years 1830 to 1833. "Besides establishing a new era in geology, the… Read More

MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED CELEBRATION OF BRITISH ENGINEERING first edition large folio (57 x 37.5 cms.) xii (including preliminary blank), 72, 32, 24, 70pp., errata slip at end, 2 engraved title pages plus 141 other engraved plates (some aquatinted) of which 4 are double-page (these 4 allocated 2 plates numbers) and 3 are folding, 6 large illustrations on text leaves (allocated plate numbers), thus in total 153 "plates" as announced on the title page, original publisher's half dark green morocco, spine panelled by raised bands, some mainly light foxing to the plates, short crack at head of front joint and minor scuffing to board corners, but an excellent copy in its original binding, Rare in this condition."One of the great illustrated books on engineering of the 19th century" [Julia Elton]. The last of the four sections, which was also issued separately, is A Scientific, Historical, and Commercial Survey of the Harbour and Port of London by James Elmes, Surveyor of the Port.