Messrs James (7 results)

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 16 x 24 cms. A country residence with baronial massing and landscaped refinement, lending character to Scottish domestic architecture. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Unframed Prints : Old; PRINTS : Buildings & Places. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Wraps. Condition: Good Minus. 19pp. Crease down centre throughout, covers heavily rubbed, particularly rear which is grubby. Slightly dog eared, contents good. Size: Folio.

Original Wrappers. Softcover folio, pp., 7, [1]. Photographic frontispiece of the Hall. Folding plan of the estate tipped-in to rear, approximately 52 cm x 40 cm printed in various colours with lot numbers. Stapled printed light brown card wraps. Covers lightly creased with slight rust-marking at staples; very faint foxing to contents. A clean, near fine copy Details of the estate on the border of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, including a modern manageable residence and grounds and adjacent parkland and pasture, together with cottages and valuable building sites adjoining Hinckley and Burbage, totalling some 84 acres.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a nice old Victorian Auction poster for the sale of six cottages, number 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, and 83a on Eign Road in Hereford, Herefordshire On Wednesday July 11th 1888. printed in Hereford by S. Adams, Gas Power Printer, Lithographer, 29 High Town, Hereford. The poster measuring 22 inches by 17.5 inches approx. the poster has some edges wear with short tears, small splits else in good general condition. The poster will be posted folded along existing fold lines.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a nice old Victorian auction poster for the sale of Church Hop Farm, Weston Beggard in Herefordshire, near the villages of Hagley, Whitestone, Withington, Shucknall, Perton, Dormington, Stoke Edith, Tarrington, Lugwardine, the poster measures 22 inches by 17 inches approx., printed in Hereford by Elliott Brothers "Otto" Printing Works Some light marks and some edge wear else in good general condition The poster will be posted folded along existing fold lines. Would make a nice feature framed.

Pamphlet, 4to, 12 pp. Clear and complete. Aged and worn, with slight marking from staples. 204 lots. Full subtitle reads: 'By Order of the Executors of the late Sir Robert W. Dibdin, removed from 55, Redington Road, Hampstead: of the late James Duncan Campbell (Craignish), Esq. C.M.G., removed from 18, Clanricarde Gardens, W.2.: of the late S. Morell, Esq.; and from other sources.' Three of the early lots of books marked in pencil as sold, with a slip headed 'Robinson & Fisher' giving the total hammer price as £10 12s 0d. Lot 47 is described as 'A Woody Landscape with Figures and Cattle' by Breughel; lot 122 'A Portrait of Charles I in Armour' by Van Dyck; lot 140 'A Landscape with Cottage and Figures' by Gainsborough; lot 161 'A Portrait of a Lady in Yellow Dress and Green Scarf and A Portrait of a Man in a Ruff' by Rubens; others attibuted to Van Dyck and Breugel. Scarce: no copy of this catalogue on COPAC or WorldCat.

The connection between the two firms of London bankers Thompson Hankey & Co., and Plummer & Wilson & Co. is unclear, but after the bankruptcy of John Plummer and William Wilson of Fenchurch Street 1831, a new firm named Hankey, Plummer & Wilson was formed, Plummer & Wilson bringing to it a number of clients including Beckford. The source of Beckford's vast wealth was of course the family's sugar plantations in the West Indies, and this document dates from before the abolition of slavery. 3pp., foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. Very good, on laid paper with Britannia watermark of 'E SMITH | 1828'. Six numbered points are given, beginning with: '1o. That Messrs. Hankey & Co. shall pay over the Balance due from Wm. Beckford Esq: to the Estate of Messrs. Plummer & Wilson without any Charge for Commission; but, before such Balance is paid over, the Accounts shall be subject to the examination of Mr. Smith the accountant from the 30th. April 1825 to the close of Messrs. Plummer & Wilson's books.' The second point refers to 'the Jamaican Attornies' Bills'; the third to 'payments to the merchants in Cash'; the fourth to 'Invoices of Supplies'; the fifth to 'payments for Premiums on Policies of Insurance'; and the last to 'Securities by Bonds or otherwise & the Interest thereon'. From the Hankey banking archive.