Smith Carington (7 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol 92, No 1, July 1938, pp. 40-54+ 4 Photo Plts & Full-Page Map in text, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile, else VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Ann Rept for 1939, pp. 325- 340+ 4 Photo Plts, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile else VG.

Thin Card. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as published). Ii + 22 Pages, Illustrated. Unmarked And Undamaged, Minor Handling Wear. Not Ex Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. George Allen & Unwin Ltd, Museum Street, London. 1933. First edition. Cloth covered hardback in original un-clipped dust jacket. 255 including index. Book Conditon: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Boards are clean and unmarked with sharp corners and straight spine. Endpapers spotted, remainder of text lightly toned but clean and free from any kind of previous ownerżs marking. Dust Jacket is slightly darkened to edges, wholly intact, not price clipped, now in protective mylar sleeve. An very handsome, very well preserved copy of this rare work in full, original dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xx, [1], 257 p.; 19 cm. `Preface. The death of Mr. W. Whately Carington was a most grievous loss to Psychical Research; not least because he did not live to finish this book, to which I know he attached great importance. Fortunately he had written the first five chapters, more or less in their final form. I have only found it necessary to add a few footnotes and cross referneces. But with the last chapter, `Mind and Matter', which as he tells us himself, was to be `in a sense the core of this book', the position is much less satisfactory. There were only a few fragmentary pencil notes, written during his last illness. Apparently there were two alternative versions, both very brief, which I have conflated as best I could; and Ch. VI, as now printed, is the result.' (p. vii) Good edgestained orig. rose cloth in fair dj.

Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, 1949. Single sheet, folded into 4 pp octavo (old horizontal fold). A scarce catalogue listing seventeen works by the Tasmanian artist Carington Smith, with printed prices.

Condition: Good. Mezzotint . Tipped onto a blue support sheet. 35 x 25cm. Tears without loss in lower margin. Repaired tear from the dog to the printed text. The copy at the British Museum lacks the printed date in the lower margin.British Museum number 1935,0522.1.16.Description Satire; an extravagantly dressed woman catches a fashionable man by the arm as she points with her fan at a mezzotint droll in a print-shop window; a small dog looks up at her; an old gentleman with a stick standing on the right, stares at the prints and is surprised by a man with a warrant for his arrest. 1774.Inscription content: Lettered with title and "Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.Published as the Act directs 25 June 1774.Curator's comments:. The shop is Carington Bowles's own shop in St Paul's Church Yard. All the prints in the window must be his publications. The date June 25 1774 appears on another impression. For another print of the window, see BMSat.6352.Bibliographic references:. D'Oench 1999 / Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (45) BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (3758) . Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (332). Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed).