private press by author (27 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Muttled brown cloth binding with gold print on spine andsmall pine cone design on front, Tight, sound and unmarked. 70 pages.Dust jacket has vertical crease on front fold flap . In mylar and no pricing present.

12pp, small 8vo, original card covers. Limited to 110 copies. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. in this form. 18.5 x 12.0 cms. Limited ed. of 200 copies. Pp. 21. woodcut tailpiece, paper covers. (ac12).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1982, Limited Edition #16/250 copies, Near Fine/no dj, small volume: 16mo., 172pp., tan boards hardcover, brown cloth backstrip, binding tight, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. * THIS BOOK IS IN REASONABLE CONDITION FOR ITS AGE * THE COLOURED BOARDS HAVE FADED SOMEWHAT, SO THE PRINTING IS VERY FAINT AND WITH SLIGHT RUBBING TO THE CORNERS * SOME FOXING IS EVIDENT TO THE ENDPAGES AND A NEATLY PRINTED NAME TO THE FEP, JUST ABOUT ROUNDS THIS ITEM OFF *.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. A slim nicely printed collection of poems. A very good copy in string tied wrappers with some minor creasing to the corners and from Will Ransom's library with his small plate to the verso of the rear cover. Scarce.

Condizione: Good. Bampton: Printed at the author's private press, 1848. 2nd edition. 8vo hardcover. 178pp. Frontispiece. Good book. (Bampton Proper, England, History) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Published by the author in 1857, this is the condensed edition of the authors biography, bound in the original cloth with later replacement cloth spine, 9 inches tall approx., 204 pages, plus illustrations. The books cover is rubbed and marked, and is ex-Shropshire Library with their catalogue number to the spine, library plate to front endpaper, stamp to reverse of title page, (pictured) small hole to one page just touching the text, browning and foxing on an off throughout, else in good acceptable condition. Charles Hulbert (18 February 1778 - 9 October 1857) was an English businessman and writer. The son of Thomas Hulbert of Hulbert Green, near Cheadle, Cheshire, he was born in Manchester on 18 February 1778, and educated at the grammar school of Halton, Cheshire. After learning cotton-weaving he became manager, at the age of twenty-two, of a large print works at Middleton, near Manchester, and subsequently began business with his elder brother at Swinton, also near Manchester. In 1803, he moved to Shrewsbury, and in conjunction with others leased some large factories at Coleham on the outskirts of the town. He applied, but unsuccessfully, for ordination in the Church of England. He entered Sunday school and other religious work, carrying on classes and services at the factory. He became acquainted with the Shropshire Methodist Circuit and guest-preached at Wellington, Madeley and Coalbrookdale. He assisted Joseph Lancaster in building one of his Lancasterian schools in Shrewsbury. At the request of William Wilberforce and Henry Grey Bennet (who was then Shrewsbury's local Member of Parliament) in 1808 he drew up a report on the management of factories, as an answer to a claim made in parliament that manufactories were hotbeds of vice. Soon afterwards he declined an offer to move to St. Petersburg, made to him, it is said, by an agent of the emperor of Russia. In 1813, his business as a cotton manufacturer having fallen off, he opened a bookshop and printing-office at Shrewsbury, where he published the Salopian Magazine (1815-17), and printed many small books, most of them written by himself. He also traded as an auctioneer. In 1825 he gave up the lease of the factory, returning it to its builder John Carline. In 1827 he built a house at Hadnall, near Shrewsbury, which he called 'Providence Grove,' and here he continued to print and publish his writings. His house burned down, and his large library was destroyed, on 7 January 1839; but he was able by a public subscription and a grant from the Royal Literary Fund, to rebuild his residence and to purchase an annuity. He died there after a stroke on 7 October 1857 aged 79, and was buried at the parish church in Hadnall, where his epitaph speaks of "a diversified and uesful life".

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Un-paginated (8 printed pages interleaved with blanks), fine condition in card covers and paper wrapper, title label on front cover. One of 150 copies, signed by Donald Weeks on the colophon and inscribed to Stanley (Scott) who has bound the pamphlet into card with a decorated front cover. The portion of the original posting envelope, addressed by Weeks, has been bound in. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Black and White illustrations. Very Good (+) in Very Good Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. No owner's markings.

Sm.folio, (292x202mm), [14],61p. 2 illustrations (1 an engraved bookplate), internally a very good copy printed in black and red on hand-made paper, in original quarter art vellum, marbled paper sides, backstrip faded and edges rubbed, author's letter-paper with presentation inscription tipped on to the front pastedown endleaf. In effect a bibliographical catalogue of Crisp's privately-printed books (published and proposed) on various genealogical matters, including parish registers from places in several English counties, visitations of England, Wales and Ireland, the family of Crispe, and fragmenta genealogica. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if necessary the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No dustwrapper. Original brown blind-decorated cloth, slightly worn at ends and spine. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. Pencil inscription. Some browning near plate edges. The 2nd edition has "much additional information " (preface). Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 2nd Revised Edition. Pencil inscription. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: 194pp., 8 plates. Pencil inscription.

[Family History] LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.xx; 113 [3]. With 32 black and white plates, including a photogravure frontispiece. One of just 50 copies printed. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to spine and light blue paper over boards. All edges untrimmed. A clean copy, largely unopened. Moderate wear to boards, with toning to spine. Very good.

First edition. 4to. Binder's cloth. Cloth worn and soiled, endpapers foxed, hinge cracked between free endpaper and first blank and cracking at rear endpaper, but a good sound copy.

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Privately published in an edition of about 300 copies (it was published the later the same year by Sagamore Press in New York and in 1958 by Secker and Warburg, both editions in with a very much larger number of copies made). Octavo size (8vo) in red cloth. 66pp. Purcell's famous burlesque on Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes . [CONDITION: A well preserved VERY GOOD+ clean and tight copy (smallspot ink spot to rear cover, pages very slightly tanned) ] . __To see more of our Poetry books type DbbPOETRY in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 11 pages, fine condition in sewn card covers and paper wrapper, one of an edition of 300 copies. Presentation inscription on the front free end-paper from the publisher to the booksellers Eric and joan Stevens ("To Eric and Joan/with love/ Max/Christmas 1963").

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. One of 250 copies on wove paper. Sewn into plain card covers. Grey Ingres paper dust-jacket printed with a typographical two-colour design using Bodoni braces. A fine copy. (Lambert & Ratcliffe 17).

, vii, 144 pages, black and white photographic frontispiece, 30 pages of photographic plates and line illutsrations complete as list, 2 fold out pedigrees. First Edition , spine ends slightly rubbed, a little sunned on front cover, small nick to bottom edge of front board, light foxing, binding firm, good condition , brown cloth with gilt crest and gilt title on front cover. Quarto Hardback ISBN:

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Scarborough: Printed by the Author at His Private Press, 1894. First edition [1894]. Scarce history of the Whig Party and William Sacheverell, written and privately printed by the author and reportedly limited to 53 copies. Includes numerous illustrations, with depictions of the Green Ribbon Club and a pope-burning. Tan cloth with leather spine, gilt spine lettering, xvi, 225p. One page prospectus tipped onto front free endpaper describing the book as "An account of the political career of William Sacheverell, the first Whig leader of the House of Commons". The prospectus anticipated publication in June, 1891, but the book was not published until 1894. Some wear and chipping to the spine ends, spine leather dried but archivally stabilized, corners bumped and frayed. Internally much better, with good hinges, firm binding, age-toned endpapers, tiny round stamp of Bodleian Library on reverse side of title page, pages lightly age-toned but clean and free from names or other markings. Chapters arranged chronologically: The Country Party; The Popish Plot; The Impeachment of Danby; The Bill of Exclusion; The Green Ribbon Club; Electioneering Methods of the Whigs; The Later History of Pope-Burning; The Tory Reaction; Life in the Country; and The Revolution; with Appendices: Titus Oates and the Tory Party; The Members of the Green Ribbon Club; Index of Sacheverell's Speeches; and Index of Authorities Referred to in the Text. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo (23.5 cm x 15.5 cm).

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Published in 1841, this is a very scarce example in the original wrappers of the authors account of the terrible fire at his home, Providence Grove, in Shrewsbury Shropshire, the author Charles Hulbert produced a number of books of local and international interest, all published from his private press, the book is 6.5 inches tall approx., running to 12 pages with a frontispiece and one further plate, plus an 8 page catalogue of the authors works, some darkening and foxing to covers, some mild foxing within else in good general condition. This is a lighter item, shipping costs will be reduced accordingly at checkout where possible.

Folio (340 x 225 mm). 2 parts in 1 vol. (2) (Latin title), (2) (Chinese title on blue paper), III, (1 blank), 84, XXXVI, 64, (2) pp. (index); (6), 500, (2) pp. (errata). Several gatherings (pp. 5-8, 13-16, 21-32, 317-320, 489-492) on large 8vo leaves mounted on guards; occasional slip cancels (e.g., pp. 271, 383, 467). Chinese characters throughout. Bound in contemporary marbled paper over boards, gilt lettered red spine label, with the ticket of Benjamin Duprat, Libraire, Paris, to front pastedown. First edition, folio issue, of Callery's most important sinological work, produced at his own press in Macao. - In the preface Callery explains how, with limited funds and materials, he established a small printing office, acquired a set of used types, and with six local assistants inexperienced in Western languages set the work himself. - The "Systema" presents a guide to writing Chinese characters in three styles, followed by a trilingual (Chinese-French-Latin) dictionary and a large collection of colloquial sentences; Part II includes a double page all Chinese "Tabula synoptica phoneticarum omnium". - Issued in both 8vo and folio formats. Leroux's 1876 catalogue of Callery's library priced the octavo at 60 francs, noting the folio at 100 francs and already sold out, signalling early scarcity of this larger issue. - A substantial Macao production on fragile, locally made paper, here preserved in remarkable state with wide margins and the contemporary boards, and bearing the ticket of the leading Paris Orientalist bookseller Benjamin Duprat. - Partly uncut. Occasional light marginal browning and a few spots; short closed tear at foot of Part I, pp. 81f.; endpapers browned; light wear to extremities. Overall a notably clean, partly uncut copy. - Benjamin Duprat (bookseller's ticket on pastedown); later continental ownership. - Cordier III 1597. Löwendahl II 960. Lust 1009. Zenker II 6655.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, Quarter Calf Spine Gilt Lettered, Brown Cloth Boards, Very Good, Clean, Minor Fore Edge Foxing,Light Wear At Spine Ends, PP.225, xvi, Numerous Illustrations, From the Preface "An Account of the Political Career of William Sacheverell, The First Whig Leader Of The House Of Commons" Including the Events That Led Up To The Revolution of 1688. This Copy is from the Sitwell Family Library At Weston HALL U. K. Their Family Seat for 300 Years (According to Family Records, William Sitwell never lived in or owned the house) , A Scarce History. Sacheverell Sitwell and His Wife Georgia Doble Followed Sir George at Weston Hall in 1924.

Condizione: Edges rubbed; very good copy. First edition. Small 8vo, contemporary black morocco, skillfully rebacked, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Frontis portrait of the author after a portrait by R. Reading. Bound in before the portrait is a ten-page manuscript of Monceieff's poem "An Allegory," signed and dated September 20, 1845. A collection of about 100 poems in several forms by the playwright, theatre manager, miscellaneous writer and apparently occasional printer, as well. William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857) was a self-described "hack," and a prolific one, who specialized in adapting novels for the stage and who made what little money he could in theatre and literary work of any kind. A few years after this volume was published, Moncrieff began struggling with progressive blindness. Poems contains sonnets, songs, ballads, epigrams and madrigals, mostly on the subject of unrequited love, something at which Moncrieff appears to have had a great deal of experience. At the foot of the final page of text is the imprint "W. T. Moncrieff, Typ. Saville House, Lamberth." Inscribed at the head of the title-page "To J. Miles Esqr / With the Author's best acknowledgements." The manuscript poems go into length about the aging process and loss of sight and is certainly in part autobiographical. NCBEL III, 1134; Copac records two copies (BL and Cambridge); OCLC adds Aberdeen and Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. [LIGNE, Charles-Joseph Prince de]. Préjugés militaires, par un officier autrichien. 'A Kralovelhota' (author's private press at Beloeil Castle). 2 volumes in 8vo. [4] + 224p; [2] + 148p including engraved dedication leaf, and 2 leaves of addititional index at end; with 20 engraved plates (mostly folding) showing arms and military tactics, 2 folding tables; 14 exquisitely engraved vignettes of battles by Choffard in the text. Ornamental vignettes. Half calf, marbled boards. First edition of one of the most charming 18th century illustrated book, a witty discussion of contemporary army tactics by an Austrian field marshal. The Prince de Ligne (1735-1814) first distinguished himself during the Seven-Years' War against Frederick the Great whom he greatly admired and who appears to be the only authority not questioned here. Ligne seems to have been a follower of the French tactician Guibert, who in turn had been influenced by the Prussian method. The first volume comprises general observations on cavalry and infantry, artillery, fortification, discipline etc, as well as chapters on military medicine and hospitals; it is adorned with exquisite miniature textual illustrations (48 x 73mm) of famous battles of the Seven Years' War (1756-63), engraved by Choffard after designs by the author, making it one of the most charming of 18th century books. The second volume, entitled 'Fantaisies Militaires', is devoted to battle orders, composition of army units, and general manoeuvres. This edition is also interesting as a typographical curiosity, having been printed at the author's private press at Beloeil Castle, famous for its gardens, and published with a spurious imprint. It was later reprinted at Dresden and translated into German in 1783. A few occasional insignificant light traces of usage, but a very good copy from the Liechtenstein collection with armorial bookplate on verso of front flyleaf of each volume. Barbier III, 991; Cohen-De Ricci 645. Deschamps 692. Jähns 2093. SEE ILLUSTRATION.

First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 16 plates plus numerous illustrations in the text. Original dark blue quarter morocco, t.e.g., some mild rubbing otherwise a handsome set.

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover Near Fine In two volumes. Neither bears a date of publication, but the Preface to the first volume is dated May 8, 1923, and that of the second volume, October 1935. This work is very scarce, and as few as eighty sets are claimed to have been published. In his Preface to Part II Norman Tindale says " The first part was issued in October 1933 (sic), and met with instant acceptance, the hundred copies of the edition being exhausted within a few weeks." Both volumes are bound in matching dark brown cloth, with a blindstamped border to the front cover and gilt title and volume number to the spine. Vol I marbled eps, ppi-viii and 1-176; Vol II plain eps, pp i-vi and 1-47. With the exception of minor flecking to the covers, both volumes are in fine codition, with the signatures of J.A.Angas-Johnson on the front pastedown and R.P.Tilbrook on ffep or fly. Volume II also bears the following endorsement at the head of the title page: "To dearest Dorrie from Angas with love. Very rare.".

A diary account of the 1921 tour of Canada by the British Bowls team. Presumably after Willox's account of the 1906 tour. 4to. Typed manuscript. 76pp [xxxi] pages of match results to rear. Very good condition in original slightly wrinkled and faded blue cloth board, typed title label to front. Signed by the author to front free end paper with one typed and one handwritten letters from tour members who had read the manuscript and shared other memories laid in.