Sprake A (8 results)

Original Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown buckram, lettered in gilt. Spine panel slightly sunned, light shelf wear, typical toning to text block edges. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's signature on upper front pastedown (inside front cover). 380 pp., illus. w/ 75 plates, 41 illus. in text. Undated, ca. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages plus indexes (complete). A passive copy. The boards are grubby. They retain a weary elegance. There handling and storage marks and wear all about. They are sure. The contents are very clean, clear, benign, confident, authoritative. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, vii, 156 pp, plates, ills. Contents: pt. 1. The mounted silk woven pictures and portraits, by Austin Sprake.-pt. 2. The silk woven bookmarkers, by Michael Darby. From the introduction: "The weaving of fancy silk ribbons began in Coventry around 1700 and almost came to an abrupt end in 1860 when the industry suffered a disastrous slump .Thomas Stevens had already been working in the silk weaving trade all his life, and in 1854 he had set up his own business. He was experimenting with new ideas and improved techniques before the slump, and when this came he accepted the challenge it presented. He succeeded in adapting the Jacquard loom to produce small multi-coloured silk pictures of infinite variety, and, in 1863, when most other Coventry weavers had packed up, he sold his first silk woven bookmarkers. These were an immediate success and soon afterwards he developed the idea of selling similar things made up in the form of Christmas and birthday greeting cards, Valentine cards, calendars, sashes and badges. In no time Stevens had created for himself an entirely new market, with sales through booksellers and stationers, as opposed to selling to the drapery trade, for which market all Coventry brocades and ribbons had previously been produced. The bookmarkers depicted contemporary scenes, portraits of royalty and notables, illuminated texts from the Bible, poems, seasonal and birthday greetings. In 1879 Stevens produced his gay little pictures in yet another form. He fitted them into simple cardboard mounts all ready for framing and hanging in the home. The striking three-dimensional effect of these mounted silk pictures helped to give them instant success, and over the ensuing thirty years thousands upon thousands were sold." Copy No. 496. A few pencil annotations to contents, top edge duststained and fore-edge fingersoiled, otherwise Good in used, somewhat torn and marked dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black boards, illustrated dust jacket in plastic sleeve, unclipped, 156pp, b&w illustrations of silk pictures, portraits and silk woven bookmarks, ex library book with stamps and remnants of library plate to ffepp, head and foot of spine is worn, it would be difficult to remove the dust jacket without damaging it, top edge foxed, pages are clean and the binding is tight. A good ex lib copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 380 pp. Light foxing of the fore-edges and also a smattering in the prelims. Mostly clean. A tight and handsome copy.

Pictorial Laminated Boards. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 222pp incl index and numerous b&w photos, document facsimiles and maps. No. 755 in a limited first edition printing of 1950 copies. 1892-1992 marks the Centenary of Bayley and Ford's famous gold discovery at Coolgardie. This book is presented in commemoration of that memorable event in Australian history, and describes in great detail by far the most spectacular and renowned of all subsequent finds. Pages lightly age-tanned. Small prev owner name to top of front free end-paper.…

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, vii, 156 pp, plates, ills. Contents: pt. 1. The mounted silk woven pictures and portraits, by Austin Sprake.-pt. 2. The silk woven bookmarkers, by Michael Darby. From the introduction: "The weaving of fancy silk ribbons began in Coventry around 1700 and almost came to an abrupt end in 1860 when the industry suffered a disastrous slump .Thomas Stevens had already been working in the silk weaving trade all his life, and in 1854 he had set up his own business. He was experimenting with new ideas and improved techniques before the slump, and when this came he accepted the challenge it presented. He succeeded in adapting the Jacquard loom to produce small multi-coloured silk pictures of infinite variety, and, in 1863, when most other Coventry weavers had packed up, he sold his first silk woven bookmarkers. These were an immediate success and soon afterwards he developed the idea of selling similar things made up in the form of Christmas and birthday greeting cards, Valentine cards, calendars, sashes and badges. In no time Stevens had created for himself an entirely new market, with sales through booksellers and stationers, as opposed to selling to the drapery trade, for which market all Coventry brocades and ribbons had previously been produced. The bookmarkers depicted contemporary scenes, portraits of royalty and notables, illuminated texts from the Bible, poems, seasonal and birthday greetings. In 1879 Stevens produced his gay little pictures in yet another form. He fitted them into simple cardboard mounts all ready for framing and hanging in the home. The striking three-dimensional effect of these mounted silk pictures helped to give them instant success, and over the ensuing thirty years thousands upon thousands were sold." Copy No. 435. Very Good in duststained, used and slightly torn dustwrapper.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. This richly illustrated guide to modern shooting, the third volume in the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes series published by Seeley, Service & Co. The third volume in the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes series published by Seeley, Service & Co.Undated, however per the printers' information to the final page of the text, published 1947.With more than one hundred monochrome illustrations appearing throughout the text. These are 75 plate photographs, including a frontispiece of Lord Lonsdale shooting at Lowther Castle, and forty one vignettes, including several diagrams and a map of the Dunwich marshes.This copy with the bookplate of Christopher Perkins to the recto of the second page of publisher's advertisements to the front of the work.This is a thorough guide to the modern shooting methods suitable for the moor, field, and shore. Endowed with the collective knowledge of fifteen contributors including Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, and J. C. M. Nichols, it contains specific chapters on the shooting and preservation of various birds, hare drives, punt gunning, and the legal aspect of shooting. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with slight discolouration of the cloth and some minor handling marks. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Front hinge strained. Bookplate to the recto of the second page of publisher's advertisements to the front of the work resulting in paste action, visible to its verso. Internally, binding is a touch strained at the centre. Pages are a trifle age toned however generally bright and clean with mild spotting to the outer leaves. Very Good Indeed. Multiple plate photographs including by Oliver G. Pike, Seton Gordon, and W. A. Rouch. (illustrator). book. …