Unatributed (4 results)

Glossy Pictorial Boards. Condition: Contents Very Good. No Jacket. One Drawing Unatributed (illustrator). First Published in 1965. A book of adventures for chilrden by this very famous author. This tale is as exciting as you can get, at sea, and on an island infested by Pirates . There is some yellowing and foxing on the endpapers and page edges. Please e-mail for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed By a Paul Mason 1967 4.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Steel Engraving: Unatributed (illustrator). 1st. steel Engravng, "Byron, Southby, Scott, Coleridge, Keats & Montgomery;" (Lord Byron, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southby, Samule Taylor Coleridge & James Montgomery).One Plate as shown; Very nice, and suitable for framing Size: 6" x 9".

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. GROSE, Francis engraved by Sparrow, Dent and one unatributed (illustrator). Two copper plate prints with text engraved circa 1772. 10.25cm x 15cm (not including plate mark) and a plan of Ely House printed for S. Hooper 1775, 23cm x 17cm (not including plate mark) - over all with text 23cm x 33cm, prints engraved by Sparrow for Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales from a view taken Grose in April 1772. Very good condition. Ely Place stands on land that had been the site of Ely Palace or Ely House, the London townhouse of the Bishops of Ely from 1290 to 1772. Land in the Holborn area was bought by John de Kirkby in 1280. He was appointed Bishop of Ely in 1286 and on his death in 1290, he left the estate to the see of Ely. In medieval times, bishops of Ely frequently held high state office requiring them to live in London; Ely Palace was the bishop's official residence. References to Ely Palace grounds occur in Shakespeare's plays. It was at the house that in King Richard II, the Bard had John of Gaunt - who was living there in 1382 - says his "This royal throne of Kings, this sceptre'd isle" speech. On 17 October 1546, James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, a powerful Munster landowner who had served in the household of Cardinal Wolsey in his youth, and who had crossed the quarrelsome Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Anthony St Leger, was visiting London with his household. They were invited to dine at Ely Palace, where Ormond was poisoned along with his steward and 16 of his household, it was widely assumed, at the instructions of St Leger. The estate was granted to Sir Christopher Hatton in 1577 after a commission was set up by Queen Elizabeth I, headed by John Aylmer (Bishop of London) to investigate the claims that Sir Christopher Hatton should be granted the freehold of the land after he acquired a 21 years lease on the estate and spent a sum of the £1,887 5 shillings and 8 pence on renovations and repairs. The commission declared (June 1577) that Ely Place should stay with Bishop Cox if he could reimburse Sir Christopher Hatton in whole for the outlay but he could not. A new lease was drawn up giving Sir Christopher Hatton control of the property freehold. He gave his name to Hatton Garden which occupies part of the site. The estate was sold to the Crown in 1772. The cul-de-sac was constructed in 1772 by Robert Taylor. Edmund Keene as Bishop of Ely commissioned a new Ely House, also built by Taylor, on Dover Street, Mayfair. [For all of our prints by Francis Grose enter PRBGROSE in Key words] [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. vi 229 pages; Width: 6.75" Height: 9.5" . Bound in brown cloth with gilt-lettered red leather spine labels. The book shows minimal external wear, with slight darkening of the spine and very light soiling to the covers. The two free end papers toned. The pages are clean and without markings. Circa 1912.