Cassell's Household Guide. Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy, and forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life
London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, [circa 1870s]. [2 items]. More
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Histoire de France, représentée par figures accompagnées de discours
Paris, Chez l'auteur, F.A. David, 1787 to 1796. The 140 plates, illustrating scenes from French history to 1768, are engraved by François-Anne David after designs by Nicolas Lejeune. The 'Gazette nationale ou le Moniteur universel' for 5 November 1794 contains a lengthy advertisement for David's series of illustrated histories, indicating..... More
Histoire d'Angleterre, représentée par figures, accompagnées de discours
Paris, Chez l'auteur, F.A. David, 1784, 1784, and 1800. The 111 plates, illustrating scenes from English history from Roman times to the American War of Independence, are engraved by François-Anne David after designs by Nicolas Lejeune, Monet, and Gios. (The third volume, published after a hiatus of 16 years, has..... More
L'Éducation sentimentale. Histoire d'un jeune homme
Paris, Georges Crès et Cie, 1924 (first thus). Number 1014 of a total edition of 1961 sets, this being one of 1850 on Rives paper (numbered 112-1961). The 140th title in the Maitres du Livre series. [2 items]. More
Thaïs
Paris, F. Ferroud [for the] Librairie des Amateurs, 1909 [first thus]. Number 816 of a total edition of 1200 copies, this being one of 1050 copies on vélin d'Arches' paper, initialled 'F.F.' by the publisher François Ferroud, who had succeeded his better-known uncle André Ferroud as head of the firm..... More
The Memoirs of Count Gozzi. Translated into English by John Addington Symonds. With Essays on Italian Impromptu Comedy, Gozzi's Life, the Dramatic Fables, and Pietro Longhi by the Translator
London, John C. Nimmo, 1890. Number 135 of only 520 sets printed for England (with a further 260 sets for America). 'I flatter myself that readers will be found to appreciate the brilliant, though prolix and desultry, portraiture of life in Venice during the last century which these "useless memoirs"..... More
A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To which are prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar
London, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and numerous others], 1799 ('eighth edition, corrected and revised')/ 1755. Courtney and Smith: 'A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson', page 58. [2 items]. More
Moralités Légendaires de Jules Laforgue. Contenant: Hamlet ou les suites de la piété filiale; Le miracle des roses; Lohengrin fils de Parsifal, Salomé; Pan et la Syrinx; Persée et Andromède
Paris, Éditions de la Banderole, 1922 [first thus]. Number 165 of a total edition of 700 copies, this being one of 594 copies on vélin d'Arches' paper (numbered 107-700). More
Paintings in Oil ... With Essays by Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay
Sydney, The Shepherd Press, [1945]. Number 376 of 1000 copies with the artist's signature in facsimile at the foot of the limitation page. The essays are 'The Flesh and the Spirit' (7 pages) by Douglas Stewart, and 'Paint and Primitivism' (14 pages) by Norman Lindsay. This copy is inscribed 'Because..... More
The Far East
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1905. Archibald Little was an English merchant and longtime resident of China. This account, one of the 'Regions of the World' series, covers the geography, geology, and history of the Chinese Empire and its dependancies, with additional chapters on former dependencies in Southeast Asia and..... More
Aphrodite. Illustrations en couleurs de Paul-Émile Bécat
Paris, L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1937 (first thus). Number 941 of a total edition of 3200 copies, this being one of 2870 copies on 'beau vélin' paper (numbered 330-3200). More
Le Travailleur Étrange et Autres Récits
[Paris], Éditions du Sablier, 1921. Number 372 of a total edition of 512 copies, this being one of 445 copies on 'hollande van Gelder' paper (numbered 1-445, the last 20 hors-de-commerce). This is the 17th volume in the Le Sablier series. More
Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of Both Testaments
London, Printed for J. Harris, late Newbery, & for Darton & Harvey ('E. Hemsted, Printer, Great-New-street, London'), [circa 1790]. Spielmann 18 (recording a minor variant printed by 'Darton & Harvey, Gracechurch-Street, London', with 15 plates): 'Very similar to the Newbery Bible [1780], but with some alterations. The preface, for example..... More
![Item #118553 The Reproof of Brutus [a Poem]. John Minter MORGAN](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118553_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1589953786)
The Reproof of Brutus [a Poem]
London, Printed for Hurst, Chance, and Co.... and Effington Wilson, 1830. Fortunately, the first paragraph of the lengthy preface to this very lengthy poetical work (replete with numerous footnotes) provides the context: 'Intending to compose a few lines to prefix a work* ["Hampden in the Nineteenth Century, or Colloquies on..... More
The complete Folio Society edition of 20 volumes of the Aubrey-Maturin series
London, The Folio Society, 2009 to 2013 (the first volume is the second printing - the first was in 2008; all other volumes are first thus). The titles, in order of original publication, are: Master and Commander; Post Captain; HMS 'Surprise'; The Mauritius Command; Desolation Island; The Fortune of War;..... More
Phèdre et Hippolyte. Tragédie publiée sur le texte original avec un avant-propos et des anecdotes par Ad. van Bever
Paris, Georges Crès et Cie, 1919 (first thus). Number 701 of a total edition of 1700 copies, this being one of 1650 copies on 'vélin de Rives' paper (numbered 51-1700). The fifth title in the Le Théâtre d'Art series. More
Mémoires du Duc de Rohan sur les choses qui se sont passées en France depuis la mort de Henri le Grand jusqu'à la paix faite avec les réformés au mois de juin 1629, augmentés de divers discours politiques du même auteur et de son voyage en Italie, en Allemagne, dans les Païs-bas, en Angleterre et en Écosse, l'an mil six cent
Amsterdam, 'Aux dépens de la Compagnie', 1756 (first thus). This important memoir of the French Wars of Religion by Huguenot leader Henri, Duc de Rohan (1579-1638) was first published posthumously in 1644. It is supplemented in this edition by a selection of his political discourses and by his account of..... More
The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880, compiled from Official and Private Sources... Comprising Historical and Biographical Divisions, and containing a Rapid Sketch of the War, Maps illustrating the Operations and the Movements of the Forces, One Hundred and Forty Permanent Photographs of Officers who lost their Lives in the Campaigns and of Recipients of the Victoria Cross, with Memoirs prepared from Materials furnished by their Relations and Surviving Comrades, Summaries of the Movements in the Field of the Various Regiments which were engaged, and Separate Records of the Services of Every British Officer who was employed in the War. Historical Division. [Together with] ... Biographical Division
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882. Loosely inserted is an albumen silver photograph (170 × 110 mm) mounted on card (300 × 230 mm, with the inkstamp credit of the photographers T. and R. Annan of Glasgow) of the memorial tablet in Glasgow Cathedral to Major Alexander Dunlop..... More
![Item #142547 Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. [Together with] Harry...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/142547_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733110454)
Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. [Together with] Harry Coverdale's Courtship, and all that came of it
London, George Routledge and Sons, [circa 1870/ 1850 and 1855]. The English novelist Francis Edward Smedley (1818-1864) is best known for these two works. Provenance: William Godley (a Melbourne furniture maker) with his signature (1874) at the head of one title page, and his early ownership label on the front..... More
Six volumes attractively bound in three-quarter red morocco by Bumpus, comprising 'Ask Mama'; 'Handley Cross'; 'Hawbuck Grange'; 'Plain or Ringlets?'; 'Mr Romford's Hounds'; and 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour'
London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co., [undated later editions, circa 1890s]. Each volume bears the impressive armorial bookplate of English banker Frank Cyril Tiarks (1874-1952), sometime director of the Bank of England (1912-1945) and High Sheriff of Kent (1927). [6 items]. More
The Royal Magazine. Volume I, November 1898 to April 1899, to Volume XLIII, November 1919 to April 1920 [an unbroken run of 43 volumes]
London, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1898 to 1920. The six Wodehouse contributions to this periodical are itemised in 'P.G. Wodehouse. A Comprehensive Bibliography and Checklist' by Eileen McIlvaine (D126.1 to D126.6). The first one, 'The Rhyme of the Sitter-Out' appears in Volume IX, April 1903, page 571, where it is..... More
A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven titles in 28 octavo volumes
[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
The History of the Old and New Testament attempted in Verse, and adorn'd with Three Hundred & Thirty Sculptures. Written by S. Wesley, A.M. The Cuts done by J. Sturt [engraved cumulative title of a work comprising:] The History of the Old Testament in Verse, with One Hundred and Eighty Sculptures. In Two Volumes ... [Together with] The History of the New Testament, representing the Actions and Miracles of Our Blessed Saviour and His Apostles, attempted in Verse and adorn'd with CLII Sculptures
London, Printed for Charles Harper, 1704 (the first two volumes) and 1701 (all first editions). A verse paraphrase of the Bible, illustrated with over 330 charming miniature engravings by John Sturt (1658-1730). The author, Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) was father of John Wesley (theologian) and Charles Wesley (hymn writer), the founders..... More
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