SMITH (James)
First edition, 8vo, vii, [5], 191, [1] + 4pp., of adverts, coloured lithographic frontispiece and 3 further coloured plates, woodcuts in the text, orig. publishers green cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
HANCOCK (Thomas)
First Edition, vii,[i]pp., 283,[1]pp., 11 engraved plates showing such goods as hose pipes, carriage wheel tire, air proof cushions, beds, swimming belts, Yachting boats, mud boots, tents, fishing trousers, cricket bat, -leg protector, -gloves, foot balls, etc., orig. embossed cloth, small tear to head and foot of spine. "Hancock, Thomas (17861865), rubber manufacturer and inventor. Hancock took out sixteen patents in all relating to rubber between 1820 and 1847. He displayed remarkable ingenuity in suggesting uses for what was practically a new material, and the specifications of his patents cover the entire field of rubber manufactures, though many of his ideas were not carried out at the time."(Oxford DNB).
LITHOGRAPHY.
First edition, 8vo, [4], 355, [1], xxxiv, [2]pp., 8 lithographed plates (of 14), some light browning and staining to plates, cont. calf calf, rubbed. This journal was created to examine new materials and processes affecting lithographic production as well addressing economic and technical issues confronting printers. The founding members included an elite group, the preliminary leaf listing such names as: the master-printers Joseph Lemercier, Eugene Kaeppelin and Godefroy Engelmann; the professors of Chemistry and members of the Academie de medicine, Chevallier and Gaulthierde Claubry; and members of the Institut de France, Jomard and the Count de Lasteyrie, amongst others. The 38 page appendix is devoted to a list of the lithographic printers in the Departments, in Paris, and abroad. The first volume of this rare and important Journal relating to lithography, it culminated with the issue of the sixth volume, which was issued in 1848. Not in Ulrich & Kup.
MOTHERBY (George)
Third edition, revised and corrected, with considerable additions by George Wallis, folio x, 738, [8, index]pp., printed in double columns, 26 engraved plates including 2 engraved tables, without the four additional plates that were issued with some copies, marginal water-staining, one or two short marginal tears, one or two with old repair, occasional spotting, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners. A popular work which ran to four editions in the eighteenth-century. It contains a number of fine anatomical plates.
BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD.
Small 4to, 2 vols., in one, [4], 576; 576pp., 20 plates, text printed in two columns, some light spotting, nicely rebound in half calf, spine leather label lettered in gilt, a nice copy.
NORWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Large thick 8vo (212 x 135 mm), 4 parts bound in one, [4], xxxvi, 655, [1]; 79, [1]; 42; 10pp., a very good ex-library copy with perforation stamp to title of first item and bookplate to front paste-down with deaccessions stamp, orig. cloth, printed paper label to spine. Provenance: Ownership inscription to front endpaper 'Mrs John Ettling, Stanninghall, April 25th 1863'; City of Norwich Public Library bookplate.
FOX HUNTING.
12mo, all in verse, [2], 24 pp., original Phillipps boards, lacking most of back-strip, uncut and unopened, a good copy. Printed at the Middle Hill Press for Sir Thomas Phillipps. The three poems are by Edward Goulburn, Martin Hawke, and Sir Thomas Phillipps, respectively. Holzenberg, 466; Schwerdt 1, p.214.
HULL (John)
First edition, 2 vols., 8vo (195 x 115 mm), lx, 302; [4], ii, 409, [1]pp., 16 engraved plates (of which one is a fold "Genealogico-geographical Map of the Affinities of Plants"), nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine leather labels, a little rubbed with small nick to head of volume two. Freeman, 1819.
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS (Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861)
First edition, 10 volumes, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), portrait frontispiece to each volume, text very clean, bound in half green crushed morocco by Hatchards, spines evenly faded, a couple of heads of spines a little rubbed, corners bumped, all edges gilt, a nice set. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Laurence Currie (1867-1934), insurance broker and railroad executive, he added to a collection of books and art begun by his grandfather Raikes Currie and father Bertram Wodehouse Currie; bookplate of J. R. D. Cowell.
GROSE (Francis)
New edition, 3 parts in 2 vols., large 4to (338 x 230 mm), [2], vi, [2], 393, [1]; [2], iii, [1], 367, [1], [xviii]pp., vol. I: illustrated with 52 engraved plates, including engraved frontispiece and vignette to title page, vol. II: illustrated with 86 engraved plates, including engraved frontispiece and vignette to title page, some foxing and browning, cont. calf, spines gilt, covers detached.
GUILFORD (Everard L.)
First Edition, half-title, frontispiece, 16 plates, folding pedigree of Smith Family at end, xiii, [1], 131, [1] pp., original cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, a good copy. Armorial bookplate of F. Arthur Wadsworth. Dobbin, 358.
HAMILTON (James Alexander)
First edition, 12mo, ix, [1], 74, 48, [4]pp., faint blind stamp on blank margin of title, 48pp. of musical notation, original cloth, frayed at head of spine, hinges shaken, printed paper label on upper cover.
GRAY (Robert)
First edition, 8vo, [4], 156pp., half-title, coloured frontispiece, 6 coloured plates with tissue guards, contemporary calf, hinges slightly rubbed, small piece missing from head of spine, school prize binding with the gilt arms of the Forest School, Essex, on both covers. "The tour occupied a period of three months, and included visits to Swellendam, Knysna, George, and many other districts. The account of the visit of Tristan D'Acunha is very interesting, but the inhabitants seem to have been in poor circumstances, and most of them were desirous of leaving; only a small proportion of the island was habitable, and even in this small area the ground had already become impoverished." - Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn, p.628.
DUNCAN (Alexander)
6 Vols., 12mo (173 x 102 mm), 42 (of fifty?) plates, some folding, directions to binder in volume IV suggest a number of plates were not bound in, but there is one extra plate, some occasional browning and foxing, uniformly bound in original half green calf, marbled boards, rubbed. A very good set of a publication rarely found in all six volumes, probably originally issued in parts and bound up on demand. The first work of its kind, often used as source of material for compilers of similar titles of later years. The plates illustrating with dramatic force the often tragic tales of horror upon the high seas.
