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First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 6 pages followed by unnumbered blank pages. Subjects; Animals. Woodcuts. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 6 pages followed by unnumbered blank pages. Subjects; Animals. Woodcuts. 1 Kg. …

Marbled Bds & 1/4 Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No Additional Printings. Marbled Bds & 1/4 Leather. Good/No Jacket. No Additional Printings. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 379 pages; an errata page; four full-page maps, tracing the route; the author, accompanied by a friend, left London in July 1916 to tour France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. He emphasizes in a preface that his habit was to quickly record his impressions at every stage of the tour in order give an accurate account. Book condition: Binding is quarter green leather with green leather wings at the corners, and green-white marbeled boards; cover corners and spine ends have some wear, bottom corners show a little board; front hinge is cracked and cover is off , rear hinge is cracked circa 1.5 inches at the top and is firm; spine has a horizontal crack at the 1.5 inch level previously mentioned, and spine title and decor is in gold; edges are dyed green; the text has foxing around and on the four route maps, rest of the text is either free of foxing or has some spotting. A label, 1.5 x 2.5 inches, ' Minster Acres Library', is inside the front cover. No other marks. Smith, J. - Maps Engraver (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. First Edition. Hard cover, 12mo, Chapbook finely bound by "Bartlett of Boston" (stamp signed to verso of marbled endpaper, ) in full blue morocco, double ruled in gilt to boards with small corner rosettes. The spine's five raised bands enclose compartments tooled with gilt decorations and two burgundy onlaid labels gilt with title and the illustrator's name., "R. Cruikshank." Top edge gilt, board edges with double rules. Silk bookmark intact. Inside, the publisher's original illustrated yellow paper chapbook wraps, with advertising to rear of wrap, are bound-in. Illustrations feature the wood-engraved plates in two states, with 6 black and white full page, and total of 8 hand-colored, including 6 full page, and vignettes to title page and one footer. Printer "C. Whittingham, 21 Tooks Court, Chancery Lane." [5], 36, [5]. CONDITION: Very Good. Some minor scuffs to boards. Outer joints are cracked but holding firm. Font hinge may have been re-glued in past, rear hinge is in order. Text block remains clean and bright. **British Caricaturist and ARTIST (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856) was the older brother of the arguably more famous George Cruikshank; both were sons to London engraver and printmaker Isaac Cruikshank. Robert, as he was known professionally, served in the merchant marine during the Napoleonic Wars, later returning to his artistic career. (Nat. Portrait Gallery). His satiric illustrations in this work are well-matched to the barbed political satire of the prose.**** "The Devil's Visit" is a sequel in the style of Robert Southey's popular satirical poem, "The Devil's Walk" (1827), which in turn was an expanded version of "The Devil's Thoughts" (1799) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Despite this literary heritage, the author of "The Devil's Visit" is unknown. Generally, however, the subject of witchcraft folklore, demonology and prophecy were common themes seen from the seventeenth century onward in English chapbooks. (Weiss, pp. 104-107). These works are all satirical poems imagining what the devil would think of London if he came to visit, and touched upon many topical political and economic issues of the day. The devil's first encounter in London is an officer of the "New Police" in London, as the Metropolitan Police had just been established in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel. The poem goes on to criticize the church for taking money from the poor, the law for killing a man for poaching, and mocks the government's crippled finances. Gin palaces, and the expense of the upcoming coronation of King William IV were also targets for the poet.**This volume represents a brief highpoint of the high quality chapbook production of the 1830's, utilizing higher quality paper stock and hand coloring. Priced originally at one shilling, the work was aimed at a newly literate middle class reader. (Weiss, p. 7)** PUBLISHER William Kidd, specialized in chapbooks and often used illustrators like Cruikshank for his publications. REFS: B. Maidment, "Thief of the name of Kidd: "Unscrupulous Opportunism and Cheap Print in Late Regency London." Victorian Popular Fictions, Vol. 3.2 (Autumn 2021): pp. 21-44. For a fuller description of these satirical poems and their publication, see: R. W. Rix, "Fugitive Text: Robert Southey and S. T. Coleridge's Ballad of the Devil," in Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, Vol. 24 (Winter 2021). H. Weiss, A Book About Chapbooks, (Hatboro, Penn. : Folklore Assoc. 1969) OCLC #2756199. (AMJ). Robert Cruikshank; George Bonner (illustrators); Byfield (engraver) (illustrator). Book.…

First Edition. [War of the Spanish Succession] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), unpaginated. Containing 22 engraved maps, plans, facsimile letters, and armorial bearings. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Turquoise endpapers. Internally crisp and clean, with a touch of light spotting and toning. Heavy wear to binding extremities, with loss to head and tail caps, and split joints. Tapes mostly holding, but very weak. Good.…

Full Calf. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition of this uncommon satirical depiction of various Regency-era character types and memes, in verse. Crown 8vo: viii,158,[2]pp, with eight delicately hand-colored aquatints, including the frontispiece. Complete with half-title and two pages of publisher's advertisements. (In every copy we've seen, plate no. 5, often described as bound out of sequence, is placed between plates nos. 7 and 8, and according to the text, that is where it belongs.) Later full tan calf, covers framed with French fillet and gilt sunburst ornament to corners, richly gilt spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. From the collection of bibliophile Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his characteristic manuscript ex-libris and tidy bibliographic notes ("collated perfect," "only blemish is a slight mark on the half title"). Gration-Maxfield library was dispersed in a series of sales by Sotheby's in the early 1980s. An excellent, wide-margined, hand-colored example, mild offsetting from plates, a few stray spots, else contents clean, bright, and handsomely bound. Very scarce in commerce and uncommon in institutional collections, with OCLC listing only 10 holdings worlwide. Not in Hardie, Abbey, or Tooley, and only J. Clark (but not this title) mentioned in Prideaux. This anonymous volume of humorous poetry collects 22 works satirizing English eccentrics, among them, the "bounce" (a bullying braggart), the country physician, the slave to fashion, the scholar of dead languages, and old maids and young lovers. The engraver, John Heaviside Clark, was a Scottish painter of seascapes and landscapes active in the first third of the nineteenth century. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).…

Condition: Good. Engraving on laid paper. Mounted on support sheet. 15.8 x 12 cm (plate). Very Good. Trimmed to the plate mark. Minor soiling.

Condition: Good. Engraving on laid paper. Mounted on support sheet. 15.5 x 11 cm (plate). Very Good. Trimmed to the plate mark. Minor soiling.

Condition: Good. Engraving on laid paper. Mounted on support sheet. 15.3 x 11.3 cm (plate). Very Good. Trimmed to the plate mark. Minor soiling.

Condition: Good. Engraving on laid paper. Mounted on support sheet. 15.4 x 11.2 cm (sheet). Very Good. Sheet trimmed to the plate mark. Top right and left sheet corners trimmed. Minor soiling.

Condition: Good. Engraving on laid paper. Mounted on support sheet. 14.5 x 10.1 cm (plate). Very Good. Trimmed to the plate mark. Paper loss with text at sheet bottom. Minor soiling.

Etching and aquatint from: 'Choix des Monuments, Edifices et Maisons les plus remarquables du Royaume des Pays-Bas', by P.J. Goetghebuer. Printed: A.B. Steven, Ghant, 1827. Contains 120 plates of buildings in the North- and South-Netherlands.Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Pierre-Jacques Goetghebuer'. Etching and aquatint, 320 x 510 mm, image size: 190 x 300 mm. Severe foxing on the whole paper.…

Condition: Good. Engraving on laid paper. 8.5 x 6.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, sheet trimmed to the plate mark.

A medieval messenger, a herald, holds a roll with an inscription. At bottom some coat of arms.Inscription top right: 'I. Volume Fol: 372.' Inscription at the top right on the scroll: 'Name rolle der Graaven van Holland.' On the roll, 38 names of the successive Dutch counts, stating the year of death and reign and from which house they came. Of the last 2 mentioned, Phiips IV and Philips V, the portraits are not included in the series within the publication this print is frontispiece of.At the bottom row of coats of arms with accompanying captions, from left to right: 'Alamanien'; 'Walschland'; 'Holland'; 'Hainaut'; 'Gouda'; 'Haarlem'; 'Delft'; 'Leiden'.Originating from: François Halma, Tooneel der Vereenigde Nederlanden [.], published in Leeuwarden in 1725, in 2 vols.With a different background, this herald was copied by Taco Hajo Jelgersma and Hendrik Spilman as frontispiece to the Graaven van Holland. Etching on laid paper with wide margins; total: 390 x 248 mm; despite some rubbing and yellowing on the external margins, in good condition. Van Someren 102.…