Lyons Sir William (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Second Print. Hardback copy in pictorial boards, no dustjacket. 155pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, ink inscription to front pastedown and ffep, light fading to spine edge. (28/4).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition. 3rd ed ; 2nd printing ; 191 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portrait s ; 29 cm ; ISBN 9780854299621, 0854299629 ; OCLC 34409474 ; Previous edition: 1990 ; This new edition describes nearly every model the company has ever produced. It descibes the behind-the-scenes activities involved in the sad, but realistic takeover by Ford and how the company's fortunes have been turned around by the new management. ; black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Forward by Sir William Lyons -- The Swallow -- The SS Marque -- The SS Jaguar -- The War and after -- The XK engine -- The XK evolves -- Jaguar in colour -- The E arrives -- The XJ Range -- The Legend Revived -- Into the nineties -- Jaguar competes -- Styling themes -- Afterword by Nick Scheele ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 40pp, colour photographs throughout text and full page, plastic comb binding, padded maroon boards with gilt title on the front, in very good condition with a small pen inscription on inside cover binding, and very minor fault at the bottom of 5 pages. A book describing and illustrating Daimler buses and their history, with text accommpanied by a multitude of colour photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Thick octavo, bound in three quarter dark blue levant morocco, raised bands, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Early printing of the trade edition, without date in Roman numerals on copyright page. A stunning copy of a classic of American literature, awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously ----- Extra illustrated edition -- Inserted within the text are approximately 80 portrait engravings and 50 documents signed by Henry Adams's circle of associates, including: (page i) Henry Adams, 4-page autograph letter signed (ALS) to C.W. Ernst, April 24, 1894, critiquing HA's "History of the United States"; (viii) Henry Cabot Lodge (HA's close friend), affixed signature; (5) James K. Polk, 1-page document signed; August 7, 1845, regarding a land transaction; (10) Louisa Catherine Adams (HA's grandmother), 1-page ALS, July 8, 1845, regarding a fire at the Adams home; (19) Joshua Johnson (HA's great-grandfather), 3-page document signed, July 1, 1799, regarding a dispute between neighbors; (20) William P. Hunt (JQA's pastor), 1-page ALS to N. Hale, May 9, 1842, regarding a possible story publication; (22) John Quincy Adams II (HA's brother), 1-page ALS to President Andrew Johnson, November 2, 1867, requesting assistance for a friend; (26) Charles Francis Adams (HA's father), 1-page ALS to R. B. Clark, July 10, 1856, demanding payment for services rendered; (34) Horace Mann (HA's hero ), 21-page ALS to G. B. Upton, December 20, 1844, regarding a visit to a school; (41) Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (HA's brother), 2-page ALS, no date (nd), declining a speaking engagement; (50) Caleb Cushing (CFA s diplomatic colleague), 1-page ALS, nd, regarding a lecture; (60) Louis Agassiz (HA's Harvard teacher), 1-page ALS to Franklin B. Sanborn, nd, requesting assistance; (72) Charles Dickens (English novelist whom HA admired), 1-page document signed, June 12, 1866, check; (86) Clarence King (HA's close friend), 1-page ALS, nd, defending a friend against slanderous charges; (90) Giuseppe Garibaldi (HA's hero ), 1-page ALS to George N. Sanders, April 11, 1854, regarding the destiny of Italy and his role; (100) Henry Winter Davis (CFA's political colleague), 1 ½ page ALS, nd, regarding his home, along with a sketch of his garden; (104) Richard Hildreth (CFA's colleague), 1 ½ page ALS to his publisher, March 9, 1855, regarding his "History of the United States"; (108) Horace Gray (HA's law mentor), 1-page ALS, nd, accepting a dinner invitation; (124) Richard Monckton Milnes (HA's English political friend), 1-page ALS, nd, regarding poetry; (136) Benjamin F. Butler (Massachusetts politician disliked by the Adams family), 1-page TLS to O. D. Barrett, August 12, 1887, regarding a weekend visit; (148) William M. Evarts, (secretary of state and HA's friend), 2-page ALS, April 11, 1862, discussing a recent court case; (158) Lord Lyons (British minister to US and CFA's colleague), 3-page ALS to J. Carlisle, March 1961, regarding patents and citizenship; (164) Benjamin F. Butler (Massachusetts politician), 1-page ALS to O. D. Barrett, January 24, 1884, regarding litigation of a paving company; (184) James Mason (Confederate Trent commissioner; CFA's adversary), 1-page ALS, August 29, 1848, regarding a financial settlement; (192) George Grote (Classical historian whom HA admired), 1-page ALS, August 6, 1831, regarding life insurance; (200) Samuel Wilberforce (English bishop with whom HA socialized), 2-page ALS, October 25, 1845, regarding sales of his "History of the Protestant Episcopal Church"; (206) George Canning (British statesman included in HA's "History of the United States"), 2-page ALS; January 6, 1853, regarding a misunderstanding; (210) Francis Barlow (Lawyer-politician in HA's circle), 2-page ALS, nd, regarding a book; (214) Thomas Woolner (HA's English sculptor friend), 1-page ALS to William Gladstone, June 4, 1864, regarding a statue at his studio; (244) (Continued at # ABE-12664270773.). Signed by Author(s).

First edition, from the Knowsley library of Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851). A politician and a naturalist, Stanley became one of the figureheads of the science of zoological classification, and was president of the Linnean Society of London from 1828 to 1834, as well as being president of the Zoological Society of London for twenty years. Stanley not only encouraged the reading of accounts of new species by chairing meetings of the two societies, but contributed many scientific papers himself to the proceedings of the Zoological Society and donated many specimens to its collections. His own collection in the Knowsley Museum is estimated to have included 20,000 mammals, birds, and lower vertebrates. This copy contains his armorial bookplate, and the shelf mark of the Back Library at Knowsley noted on the front free endpaper verso. It is also annotated at the head of the half-title "from Boone April 15th 1849", a reference to the London booksellers and publishers T. & W. Boone. The illustrator Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) was described by Sir Joseph Hooker, the son of the author, as an "incomparable botanical artist" (Blunt, p. 224). "Fitch remains the most outstanding botanical artist of his day in Europe. He was the first draughtsman to produce really satisfactory drawings from dried herbarium specimens, and for this alone botanists in England would remain forever in his debt. He was always his own lithographer, and became a skilled exponent of the art" (Blunt, p. 226). Great Flower Books, p. 60, Nissen 918, and Pritzel 4230 (all erroneously dating this edition to 1846); not in Plesch. Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration: an illustrated history, 1950. Folio (300 x 233 mm). With 100 hand-coloured lithograph plates, tissue guards. Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, compartments lettered and richly decorated in gilt, double ruled gilt and blind border to sides, gilt roll on board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk bookmarker. Binding lightly scuffed, touch of wear to corners, contents clean and bright, plates vibrant: a very good copy.