Maker Co (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Invoice, 335 x 205 mm.

Puzzle size 8" x 6", showing people daffodil pickers on a hillside, cottages and a bay with cliffs in distance. In original box, two very small spots of rubbing on picture on box. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include CORNWALL [ Manuscripts, Maps, Ephemera, Views, etc., etc. ] ---. …

Trade advert, 170 x 105 mm.

A cultured man (an authority on numismatics), Fewster worked for the family firm of Thomas Fewster of Hull, paint, colour and varnish manufacturers. The present item is an attractive example of his professional interest in the developments in late nineteenth-century design (another is his collection of the designs of Christopher Dresser, in two albums, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London). It is a small 4to (21 x 17 cm) album of green cloth, with embossed design of birds and foliage around the words 'Scrap Album' on front cover, and printed illustrated title by Marcus Ward & Co. (The rear pastedown carries the firms ticket.) Both album and its contents are in very good condition, with light signs of age. Fewster's bookplate and library label are on front pastedown. The contents begin with four items which the context indicates are by Chas Goodall & Son. The first is a 12mo leaf carrying a full-page advertisement for 'Kiku' and 'Mume' Japanese paper, printed in silver on light blue, and with an oriental decorative border. This is followed by three leaves of white paper with oriental floral designs on one side, the first 35 x 11 cm (the first a stylised pattern printed in gold, and the second depicting small flowers on a long bough, printed in silver), and the third, 17.5 x 22.5 cm, in silver. The manuscript letter (2pp., landscape 12mo) follows, signed by 'Chas Goodall & Son'. Written in a neat, attractive hand, it begins: 'Dear Sir | We are very glad to reply to your enquiry respecting "Japanesque" stationery. As you are probably aware there is no nation which produces such an infinite variety of paper as the Japanese and they have hitherto stood alone in the use of a characteristically decorated paper for the purpose of communication one to another. The "Japanesque" stationery is based on a study of these Japanese papers many of which have a special symbolism and meaning, altogether independent of the correspondence for which they are the vehicle, and the peculiarity we have preserved, thus in the "Mume" & "Kiku" patterns congratulation and social joyousness are conveyed, hence these patterns are especially adapted for correspondence from friend to friend'. The letter continues with a discussion of the symbolism of the 'Bamboo' and 'Dead Willow' patterns. The letter is followed by an 11.5 x 8.5 cm card, laid down, with eight label designs in colour, each with birds and foliage surrounding a religious text ('BE ye followers of GOD', 'YE must be born again', 'NOW is the day of salvation' and so on). Next comes the laid-down title of 'Little Ella and the Fire King and other Fairy Tales | With Illustrations by Henry Warren' (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1861), with its beautiful design printed in colours. This is followed by fourteen leaves from 'The Sermon on the Mount' ([London:] Longman & Co, 1844), 'Illuminated by Owen Jones', with each leaf tipped-in onto a leaf of the album by a strip of tissue tape, thus enabling examination of both sides. Jones's work is one of the high points of Victorian printing, and these examples (28pp. of the book's 32pp.) are taken from the unrevised first edition. The last item in the album is an 11.5 x 7.5 cm reversed print on India paper of Durer's 1512 depiction of a peasant man and woman at market.…

Trade card, 80 x 110 mm.

London : Newton & Co., [1897]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm (mount); the black paper border has a ms. caption in white ink in right-hand margin: 'A Summer Evening / July 1894', and a printed label in the left-hand margin 'From Nansen's "Farthest North," (Copyright)'; maker's printed label partially visible at upper left; old collection number in ms. lower left; the slide is in excellent condition, with no chips, scratches or other marks. Scarce lantern slide reproducing one of the photographs taken on the first Fram expedition (1893-96) under Norwegian explorerFridtjof Nansen. Photographs on the expedition were taken by Nansen himself as well as some of the other crew members. Although they did not reach the North Pole,Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen, with a team ofSamoyed dogsand sledges, achieved a recordFarthest Northlatitude of 86°13.6?N. The set of Farthest North slides was first issued by Newton & Co. early in 1897, around the same time as Nansen's published account of the same name. The following advertisement for the set appeared in the firm's 1899 trade catalogue, Catalogue of magic lanterns, dissolving-view apparatus, and lantern slides: "499. We have obtained the sole right to re-produce as lantern slides, the pictures in Dr Nansen's 'Farthest North'.These Slides are printed from the same negatives as those used by Dr Nansen at his own lectures.Of these Slides, 'The Times' of February 9th, 1897,says: 'A series of singularly beautiful photographic illustrations of the many interesting and exciting incidents of the Expedition.'The above 52 Slides have been selected as forming a fairly comprehensive set..…

[Title from ms. caption on mount]. [London, U.K. : Newton & Co, 43 Museum Street, circa 1900]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm; black paper border with ms. caption and old collection number in white ink; slide maker's label partially obscured at top corner; in fine condition. This extraordinary image is one of a series of photographs taken by local photographer Guy Clayton Morris (1868-1918) in the Dunedin Botanic Garden in 1899, which depict a mock moa hunt. The "moa" pictured was reconstructed from a skeleton by Augustus Hamilton, registrar of Otago University. Hamilton persuaded Te Rani Hiroa (SirPeter Buck, standing at left), missionaryKoroneho Himi Papakakura (seated at right) and medical student Tutere Wirepa to pose with the recreated moa in a series of tableaux that would attempt to portray what a moa hunt may have looked like. (National Library of New Zealand).…