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ANNOTATED IN THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books by Mr John Milton — John Milton [Richard Blundell] — 1710
Compellingly annotated and interleaved early 18th century edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost which shows the deep influence exerted by Joseph Addison’s mass circulation writing about English literature. This single volume of Milton’s Paradise Lost (Books I-VI) has been interleaved throughout, seemingly by ‘Richard Blundell’ who signed the book at the back in an italic hand (probably the lawyer, 1656-1754, Exeter School, Tiverton; Sidney Sussex, Cambridge; Inner Temple) with his annotation to the…… Read more
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MANUSCRIPT OF AN EARLY LANCASHIRE COTTON MAGNATE: ‘Richard Cardwell’s Annual Statement of his Effects: From the Year 1783’ — Richard Cardwell — 1784
Altogether remarkable private and autobiographical manuscript record compiled by Richard Cardwell (1749-1811) a hugely successful Lancastrian cotton magnate from the first phase of the industrial revolution. In his two mini-memoirs that bookend this manuscript Cardwell attempts to make sense of the industrial transformation that he has witnessed in his lifetime and what it means to him. He contrasts his father’s early life as ‘apprentice to a fustian manufacturer, or Weaver, in West Houghton’ wi…… Read more
The History of the Isle of Wight; Military, Ecclesiastical, Civil & Natural — Rev. Richard Warner — 1795
First Edition in very good condition. Half calf binding over marbled boards a little scuffed to top of spine; vellum corners; spine panel very good, gilt ruled and titled in gilt over red morocco label. A very sound and square copy. Endpapers clean other than ‘6/6’ in a contemporary hand to front pastedown; text block remarkably fresh and unmarked. A fold out integral map to the front in very good condition is titled ‘A New and Accurate Map of the Isle of Wight’, printed and sold by T Baker Sout…… Read more
EXTRA ILLUSTRATED: A Topographical and Historical Description of the Counties of South Wales — Thomas Rees — 1812
Uncommon 3 volume 1812 edition which has been beautifully extra illustrated throughout, blending the descriptive text of the early 19th century topographical survey with a much broader, customised collection of visual imagery. The numerous additions totalling c.200 engravings throughout the three volumes, probably reflect the personal tastes and efforts of an individual collector making these 3 grangerised volumes unique. In very good condition, the set is bound in later half crimson morocco an…… Read more
A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: describing the strata and fossils occurring between the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York. — George Young, John Bird — 1822
First edition folio, small folio in good condition bound in later red cloth, titled in gilt over black to spine. Later endpapers clean. Original front flyleaf records historical ownership information, ‘M Sanderson [Arundel Place] Whitby 1859’ and a pencil note reading ‘Sold by auction June 13th 1895’. Engraved frontispiece depicting a view very age spotted to margins and recto. Text block square and sound; age toned as expected; printed on heavy slightly textured paper. Bound in between p.132 an…… Read more
The Mysteries of Udolpho; The Italian and The Romance of the Forest — Ann Radcliffe — 1824
Limbird’s illustrated edition of Ann Radcliffe containing 3 of her novels including the Gothic classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho, noted as an inspiration for Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Half calf over marbled paper boards in good condition; bumped to corners; moderately rubbed to edges. Both volumes titled ‘British Novelist’ in gilt on a red morocco label; text blocks age toned; a few leaves displaying minor burn marks and slight discolouration; endpapers a little age spotted; both volumes b…… Read more
Man Hunt, Trial, Execution, Gibbeting & Body-Theft of William Jobling: 13 Broadsides — [Nicholas Fairles, William Jobling, Ralph Armstrong, John Bell] — 1832
Remarkable collection of Newcastle broadsides, about half of them unrecorded, which tells the story of the notorious trial and execution of William Jobling who became the penultimate man to be gibbeted in Britain before the practice was outlawed. As recorded in these broadsides Jobling’s body was then stolen from the gibbet on Jarrow Slake (probably by his friends) and never recovered - a replica of Jobling on the gibbet appears in South Shields Museum. These broadsides were preserved by the pri…… Read more
150 Scottish Chapbook Songs Spread across 59 Glaswegian Chapbooks — Anonymous Authors — c1840
59 individual chapbooks printed in Glasgow ‘for the Booksellers’ and bound together as one at a later date. The volume contains a single sequence of Popular, Favourite, Sentimental and Excellent songs and ballads, many featuring home grown Scottish content, satire, and local characters, printed either in groups of 3, 5, 7 or 9 songs or as individuals. These are numbered, 3,4, 10, 159, 16, 19, 21-36, 39-60, 63-71, 77-80, 90 and the final chapbook is an Aberdeen printing by James Clark titled ‘Sir…… Read more
SCOTTISH HERBARIUM ‘Wild Flowers of Bolton [East Lothian] - September 30th 1851’ — Jenny Kettlee — 1851
Mid 19th century Scottish, folio-sized herbarium and sea-weed album gathered in the village of Bolton, about 20 miles east of Edinburgh - the village where Robert Burns’ mother and brother lived later in life. Bound in vellum over boards. Manuscript title page following some stubs. Opposite is a reference to ‘Passages in the life of Jenny Kettlee’(?) in a 19th century hand. The individual botanical specimens are held in position with gummed paper strips; most annotated in English and Latin, occa…… Read more
Ballads and Old Scottish Songs: 35 Glaswegian Chapbooks — Various Authors — c1850s
35 Scottish chapbooks bound together in one volume in very good condition. An interesting white paper over boards binding titled decoratively by hand to upper ‘BALLADS... COPIES’; age toned; sound and square. Marbled endpapers very good; red text block edges; a list of contents written in pencil to verso of front free; signature in a contemporary hand to front free reads ‘ Jane Walker’. In very good condition throughout. 1. The Celebrated Song of Tullochgorum to which are added Roy’s Wife and Br…… Read more
R S SURTEES’ COPY The Life of Beau Brummell — Captain Jesse — 1854
Novelist R S Surtees’ copy: the New Edition, bound in half red leather over red cloth, titled in gilt to spine within a red marbled slipcase. Front pastedown reveals the library bookplate of celebrated Victorian novelist Robert Smith Surtees of Hamsterley Hall. Original 1884 volume bound within in very good condition, with wrappers, a little age spotted and age toned. Ownership inscription to top of title page reads ‘R. S. Surtees, Sept 14/54’. Printed by William Tyler. Rebound by Period Binders…… Read more
The Vocalist’s Companion. A Choice Collection of Popular Songs & 3 Other Scots Song Collections — Various — 1856
Four collections of printed songs owned by the Glasgow bibliophile David Murray (1842-1928) much of whose collection went to Glasgow University. A handsome early 20th c binding in very good condition in half brown calf over marbled boards, titled in gilt over black ground to an attractively tooled spine; ‘Glasgow 1865’ in gilt to spine tail. The ex libris of ‘David Murray’ is pasted to the marbled endpapers and an ownership inscription to free endpaper recto reads ‘David Murray Glasgow’. Bound i…… Read more
Spice Islands Passed in the Sea of Reading. Seventy Three Selections from the Poets of Yorkshire — Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte — 1859
A lovely clean copy of this uncommon Yorkshire-published poetry anthology which contains two poems each by Anne and Emily Bronte, and a single poem by Charlotte Bronte. Publisher’s red- stamped cloth with gilt decoration and black roan spine. Bookplate of the Lancashire collector Robert Hayhurst, with several additional poems from 19th century imprints tipped onto early leaves. The book which runs to 96 pages is made up of six separate imprints, each with its own title page, Bronte contributions…… Read more
13 SCOTTISH SONGSTERS: The National Songbook [&] Scottish Comic Songster etc — Various — c1854 - 1860
A collection of 13 Scottish popular songster volumes - pocket-sized, cheap anthologies of song texts - that played a role in 19th-century Scotland by democratizing music access, preserving traditional repertoire, and reinforcing Scottish cultural identity This small, sturdy volume contains 12 Glasgow and 1 Edinburgh songsters, bound in red cloth titled in gilt to spine. Binding square and sound. Endpapers clean and fresh. Pleasingly each songster is in its original wrapper. Unmarked throughout.…… Read more
Treatises on Various British and Foreign Coal and Iron Mines and Mining - 11 Separate Imprints — Thomas Y Hall — 1861
Eleven separate publications bound together and presented by the prolific and influential Newcastle mining engineer and pit owner Thomas Young Hall. This volume covers the gamut of Hall’s professional activities, with papers on safety measures to deal with dangerous gases, a paper deriving from his American experiences in Virginia’s coal mines and assessments of the potential of coal reserves in Austria and his beloved north east England. This volume comes closest to OCLC 11822347 but has one ad…… Read more
Diaries of a Young Artist of the ‘Norwich School’ — Frederick George Cotman — 1867
Lightly illustrated, entertainingly written teenage diaries by the precociously accomplished future British landscape and portrait painter, and nephew of the renowned ‘Norwich School’ artist John Sell Cotman. The first and more extensive volume from 1867 (Cotman was then 17) covers his final months of intense study with William Thomson Griffiths, head of Ipswich School of Art, and his delight at winning a place at the Royal Academy and a move to London. Frederick George Cotman (1850-1920) was bo…… Read more
IRISH NATIONALISM - Guilty or Not Guilty? Speeches From the Dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part 1; The Dock and the Scaffold: The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell; The ‘Wearing of the Green’ or The Prosecuted Funeral Procession. — Timothy D Sullivan; Alexander M Sullivan; Denis B Sullivan [Theobald, Wolfe Tone] — 1868
Decorative Irish binding commemorating the political trials of Irish nationalist, with a six panelled spine and a decorative Irish harp in the top compartment. In very good condition, half bound in green and brown roan; endpapers age toned and inscribed in a contemporary hand ‘W[illia]m Burns’ to front pastedown. All 3 sections of this second edition which are compiled as one are in very good condition, published by AM Sullivan, Dublin in 1868. OCLC locates only Kansas, Michigan, NLI and Manches…… Read more
Germinal; or, Master and Man. A Realistic Novel — Emile Zola — 1885
First edition in the splendidly illustrated publisher’s cloth binding and with adverts dating to May 1885. Germinal is widely considered ‘the most important single contribution Zola made to literature’ (Harold Bloom) and its story of the struggle for social change continues to thrill and inspire subsequent generations. It is an uncommon first edition in this, it’s most attractive first edition format. DESCRIPTION: Octavo in brown textured cloth, blocked in gilt; a little shelf lean and bumping t…… Read more
The Simplon Tunnel — Francis Fox M. Inst. C.E. ; edited by J H T Tudsbery — 1907
In very good condition. A pamphlet produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers containing Paper No 3651 ‘The Simplon Tunnel’ by Francis Fox M. Inst. C.E.A followed by a discussion on Mr Francis Fox’s Paper and a section of ‘Correspondence’. An extensive fold out plate measuring 70 cm x 22 cm containing 17 individual figures is bound in to the rear. 55 pp. collated and complete. The front wrapper is inscribed ‘With the author’s compliments. Francis Fox. July 1907’. The Simplon Tunnel opened on…… Read more
PRESENTATION COPY TO CLARE CONSUELO SHERIDAN : The Friends of England - Lectures to Members of the British Legion — Sir Ian Hamilton — 1923
First edition inscribed in November 1923, ‘For Clare Sheridan from Ian Hamilton who wishes very much he had been able to hear her in Russia, Germany and America before he wrote about these lands’. Clare Sheridan (1885–1970) was an English sculptor, journalist and writer, known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters and keeping travel diaries. She moved in the same elite British social and political circles as Sir Ian Hamilton, particularly through their mutual close connection to Winsto…… Read more
EARLY TOLKIEN POETRY - Leeds University Verse 1914-1924 [&] A Northern Venture -Flyer — J R R Tolkien, Sydney Matthewman, Storm Jameson, Geoffrey Wolledge, Lascelles Abercrombie, Herbert Read, E V Gordon etc — 1924
Rare early poetry publications from Tolkien’s Leeds years in a volume containing three of his earliest published poems: An Evening in Tavrobel, The Lonely Isle and The Princess Ni, a precursor to a poem included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Laid into the volume is the publisher’s flyer for the second edition of A Northern Venture from the previous year which also offered three poems by J R R Tolkien, being reprinted a month after first publication in July 1923 - this flyer possibly a uniqu…… Read more
Blackface Entertainment: A Fan-Created Archive — [George Henry Elliott, Eugene Stratton] Bertram Abbott — 1928
Small archive, extraordinarily offensive to modern eyes, which reveals the avid consumption of racialised performances in 20th century Britain and America. Created by a committed fan of the blackface minstrel, George Henry Elliott and an American blackface performer from an earlier generation, Eugene Stratton, this collection contains a Bertram Abbott’s handmade booklet with its sewn card binding and 8 photographs of Elliott, an inscription from the performer and a long cutting from the Empire N…… Read more
INSCRIBED TO DENYS THOMPSON: Fiction and the Reading Public — Q D ‘Queenie’ Leavis — 1932
An excellent Leavisite association copy in Queenie Leavis’s best regarded work, inscribed to the couple’s long term collaborator and friend, Denys Thompson. First edition in blue cloth, externally nearly very good; cracking along the inner hinges, upper and lower; gatherings a little shaken; spine lean. Queenie Leavis has inscribed the flyleaf: ‘A.D.H. Thompson April 1932 from Q.D. Leavis.’ Occasional pencil marginalia throughout, probably not in Thompson’s hand. Jacket is good only, spine brown…… Read more
REAL-LIFE BIBLIO-MYSTERY Joy Go with you or Lady Chatterley’s Double — Frieda Lawrence; Paul Johnston — 1935
Unpublished authorial typescript - containing an original letter from Frieda Lawrence - about Johnston’s bibliographical pursuit of a disguised edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover which had been designed to evade US customs after the book was banned. We can find no record of this essay ever being published. In the essay Johnston, a distinguished American printer (1899-1977, papers at the NYPL), reconstructs the chronology of Lady Chatterley’s publication and the furore around importation into the…… Read more
Winston Churchill: Signed by the photographer, Walter Stoneman — Walter Stoneman — c. 1942
This framed, iconic 1942 photograph of Winston Churchill taken during WW2 is mounted on card and signed ‘Walter Stoneman’. In excellent condition, measures 19 cm x 15 cm, protected within contemporary frame. Paper backing age toned with label reading ‘William’s Artists Supplies, King St, Lancaster’. Walter Stoneman is celebrated for taking photographs for the National Portrait Gallery in London including those of politicians, aristocracy, members of high society and royalty including Queen Victo…… Read more
Four Quartets - ROGER SENHOUSE’S ANNOTATED COPY — T.S. Eliot — 1944
Four great poems, owned and annotated by the writer and Bloomsbury group member, Roger Senhouse who has noted on the flyleaf: ‘Roger Senhouse Review Copy Jan ‘45’ - a puzzling inscription since the book was published the previous autumn. Senhouse’s annotations are mostly explanatory, so he has translated Eliot’s two epigraphs opposite the first page of Burnt Norton; he has given a date to each poem and inserted glosses for Eliot’s more abstruse vocabulary - ‘appetency’ - ‘the state of desire - n…… Read more
A Child of Our Time - INSCRIBED 'from the composer' — Michael Tippett — 1944
Inscribed by the composer to the singer and vocal coach Hilda Beal who took part in the premier: ‘In memory of the v. first performance of this work, from the composer. Michael Tippett’. Born in 1922 Beal fled her native Germany in 1939, studying music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before singing professionally in concerts and opera, and teaching at Morley College whose choir took part in the premier of Tippett’s masterpiece, A Child of Our Time. Tippett’s inscription is in black bi…… Read more
Foundational Documents of the NHS: ‘Ministry of Health Circulars’ — NHS, Brockhall Hospital — 1948
A bound collection of circulars - 81 documents dated 1948/49 - which comprise the new guidance and policies which drove the transition towards and practical implementation NHS, setting out how the UK managed one of the most radical social reform in its history. The collection appears to have been compiled by Brockhall Hospital in Langho, Blackburn, Lancs. The bulk of the typed confidential papers have been issued from the Ministry of Health, Whitehall with a few additional from Manchester Region…… Read more
Log Book and Ephemera charting trips around Anglesey on board the small cabin cruiser ‘Bonito’ throughout 1957 - 1962 — Dr. K K Wood — 1957 - 1962
A Weymouth Log Book absolutely bursting with meticulous detail which charts ‘Bonito’s’ journey to Wales and its daily runs from its moorings in Moel y Don on Anglesey throughout the years 1957 - 1962. The vessel, a Vedette Mk II is owned by Dr K. K. Wood of Bury who has paid scrupulous attention to charting every twist and turn, adding many items of ephemera tipped in between the leaves. Annual trips on board to Puffin Island, Redwarf Bay, Britannia Bridge, Llandwyn Island and Caernarfon fill th…… Read more
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT Love on a Branch Line — John Hadfield — 1959
Full length autograph working manuscript spread over 22 exercise books, paginated by Hadfield to page 1162. Textually distinct from the published version, Hadfield writes with a blue fountain pen, double-spaced, correcting extensively as he worked with frequent swirling crossings-out. There are two quite distinct openings to the novel, the earlier one discarded at the beginning of the booklet that Hadfield then reused for Chapter III. At this point in the compositional process the hero who would…… Read more
THE FIRST SCULPTURE PARK Photographs of Some Modern Sculptures in the Parish of Kirkpatrick Irongray — A.F. Gray — 1966
Illustrated manuscript booklet with original photographs of the modernist sculptures shown at the pioneering outdoor sculpture park assembled by Sir William ‘Tony’ Keswick. Begun in the 1950s, Henry Moore directly credited the park for informing his own lifelong preference for placing his works in the natural outdoor environment. ‘A F Gray’ has assembled the photographs and descriptions of 6 renowned sculptures by Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein and Auguste Rodin which were placed in the rugged and n…… Read more
The Golden Notebook SIGNED '23rd May 1962' — Doris Lessing — 1962
Very good first edition of Lessing's masterpiece, in black boards with bright gilt lettering, light bumps to corners and speckling to edges of text block. Lessing has signed and dated the book on the front flyleaf: ‘Doris Lessing 23rd May 1962’ - her addition of a date is often found in signed copies of The Golden Notebook from the year of publication. A good dustjacket with a small chip at the head of the spine and a chip close to the spine on the front panel of the jacket. A little speckling t…… Read more
Chess : Indian Systems - WITH HAND DRAWN DUSTJACKET — L. Pachman — 1967
A volume in the 'Chess for Modern Times' series with a splendid home-made dustjacket. From the collection of a Yorkshire engineer, chess enthusiast, amateur magician and scholar of the science of black holes. In good condition; leaves lightly age toned throughout; clean and unmarked. Boards wrapped in a securely attached, unique custom made jacket beautifully annotated and illustrated with chess pieces, drawn over a brown and red background by previous owner. Neat ownership inscription to front…… Read more
King Log — Geoffrey Hill — 1968
The first edition of Geoffrey Hill's second collection of verse, inscribed with affection to a long-standing Leeds University colleague. Original brown boards with gilt lettering; internally the book is near fine, a couple of brown spots to the paper, offsetting to title page from a piece of paper previously laid in. with no ownership signatures or significant blemishes. The jacket is complete and not price-clipped. The thick yellow paper on which it is printed is a little discoloured, a couple…… Read more
The Sea of Fertility Quartet - The Decay of the Angel; The Temple of Dawn; Spring Snow; Runaway Horses — Yukio Mishima — 1972 - 1975
First British editions of The Sea of Fertility quartet in very good conditions, in original unclipped dust jackets. 1. Spring Snow: 1972. 389 pp. Foyles bookshop label to front pastedown. Ownership inscription ‘Barbara Osborne’ neatly written to top of front free. Very good copy; sound, square, unmarked. Good plus illustrated, unclipped jacket has been covered in clear adhesive and strengthened using brown paper to insides. 2. Runaway Horses : 1973. 421 pp. Foyles bookshop label to front pastedo…… Read more
Lachrimae or Seven tears Figured in Seven Passionate Pavans - from Tenebrae — Geoffrey Hill — 1979
A group of poems which would subsequently appear in Hill’s most overtly religious collection of poetry, Tenebrae, here found photocopied from their very first publication in the journal Agenda, inscribed by Hill, and presented to a long-standing Leeds University colleague and friend. Seven octavo-sized pages, held with a staple, and inscribed at the head of the first sheet with Hill’s additional manuscript note at the tail giving publication details in Agenda. With a compliments slip. Geoffrey H…… Read more
WITH A LETTER BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGH - Life on Earth — David Attenborough — 1979
A handwritten letter dated 1979 signed by David Attenborough is laid into this 1979 hardback edition of his foundational book on natural history which changed the way people viewed and interacted with the natural world. He thanks the letter’s author for going to the trouble of writing to him to express her pleasure in the accompanying landmark TV series. Now just turning a 100 Sir David Attenborough’s life and work has fundamentally changed the world by transforming global awareness and driving…… Read more
UNKNOWN WORK BY THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE CREATOR - J.E. McConnell Man of Wolverhampton — Rev. W - Wilbert - Awdry — 1981
Unpublished, lost work by the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, the Reverend W Awdry. A devoted railway enthusiast and expert, it is well documented that Awdry began writing a biography on J.E. McConnell in the 1980s but no other copies have been located. This substantial typed manuscript is corrected throughout in Awdry’s hand and tells the story of the engineer James E. McConnell, ‘a very remarkable man, an inventive genius’, the man in charge of the Wolverhampton locomotive works in the mid…… Read more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West — Cormac McCarthy — 1989
First edition, red cloth-effect boards with unclipped dustjacket. Unmarked text, a little browning to paper stock. A very good plus copy in a near fine jacket with good colour, a little creasing at the top of the spine of the jacket where the book has been read. From the collection of a literature academic with a page of his notes laid in.
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