The Book Encompassed. Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
Leeds, Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1971. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1845 (third edition)/ 1836 (first thus). Mounted on the front pastedown of each volume is a bookplate stating that 'This book was given by the Associates of the late Rev. Dr. Bray, to the Clerical Lending Library of Adelaide ... Australia ... 1846' (the last three..... More
Oxford, H. Daniel, 1894 [first thus]. The first separate edition; the story was first published in 1878 in Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 38. Number 174 of only 250 copies, hand-set and hand-printed on laid paper at the Daniel Press. Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with..... More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1964. Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. More
London, T.N. Foulis, 1914. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. More
New York, Cornell Maritime Press, 1944. With the pictorial bookplate of the University of Durham, King's College, James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation Welding Library. More
London, Printed for W. Dickinson, S. Hooper, J. Archer, and R. White, 1791. The ownership signature 'Normanton' and an (earlier) armorial bookplate with the name scratched out are on the front pastedown. William Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), amateur artist and caricaturist; his designs 'must be admitted to be inferior in humour..... More
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1914. Provenance: Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (1885-1947, the influential motor-body builder whose business became a household name), with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. An excess of glue was applied when it was first mounted in the book; the free endpaper adhered to it and..... More
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. A note (dated January 1879) in pencil on the flyleaf gives some details of the anonymous author, a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor. Ferguson 10643 (recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'). 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1863. 'On 16 July, 1863, the Crown annexed to South Australia "until We think fit to make other disposition thereof the Territory now known as the Northern Territory"'. Responsibility was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911. The book reprints the Letters Patent and..... More
London, J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert, 1843. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore (and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank). Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly, the lithographs are by George French Angas from..... More
London, The Author, 1839 (third edition, considerably enlarged)/ 1837. With the armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Downshire, most probably Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire (1812-1868). The preferred edition, being more than twice as large as its predecessors of 1837 and 1838. Ferguson 2725..... More
London, William Darton, [circa 1825]. Provenance: James Hurtle Fisher, with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown and his signature in ink at the head of the engraved title page. Sir James Hurtle Fisher (1790-1875) 'was one of the most important pioneers of South Australia' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). He commenced..... More
London, W & R Chambers, 1897. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling. More
London, Smith, Elder, 1839 [second edition]/ 1839. Apart from dropping the original title ('on the ground [sic] of vagueness and liability to misconstruction') and outing himself as author, only the title page and two-page preface distinguish the first and second edition texts. More
London, Folio Society, 1977 (fifth impression)/ 1969. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
London, Nelson, 1953 [eighth impression]/ 1938 [revised edition]/ 1930. With the bookplate of [Dr] J. Mark Bonnin. '200 plates in full colours from drawings by leading bird artists. Concise descriptions of appearance, range, habitats, nests, eggs, food, song, etc.'. More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. Number 83 of the deluxe edition, limited to only 150 copies signed by Charles Simpson and 'printed on Arnold & Foster hand-made paper, with two extra illustrations in colour'. With the Adrian Feint-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor. More
London, Nimmo, 1890. A 'brilliant, though prolix and desultry, portraiture of life in Venice' during the eighteenth century. Number 135 of only 520 sets printed for England (with a further 260 sets for America). This set has an Adrian Feint-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor in each volume. [2 items]..... More
[1] A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland.... Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park (5 volumes; London, printed for John Scott, 1806). [2] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third.... Edited, with notes, by Sir Denis Le Marchant..... More
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, 1868. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995, Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide), with his bookplate. More
Adelaide, Wigg and Melbourne, Mullen, 1884. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1976 (facsimile edition)/ 1886. With the armorial bookplate of Dr Roger Angove. With an eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory (plus extra material in the appendix). Peade A200: only 518 copies. More
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963. Signed by the author on the title page. Also with the armorial bookplate and ownership signature of Thomas Thornton Reed ('Thomas Adelaide'), sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More