Watson William Intro (5 results)

Ex-library, quarto hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Sotatsu (illustrator). 1st Edition. 22 pages with 12 tipped in colour plates of the art of Sotatsu. Dustwrapper has edge chips, but the soft card covers beneath with a repeated bluebird design is all clean and bright, still has the major part of its glasseline overslip, contents also very good. Ex-libris bookplate of Alex & Hazel Beaver of North Carolina, who died aged 89 in 2012, and also a signature of "D. A. Banks of Kuala Lumpur July 1959", inside front cover. Large quarto. 30 x 24 cm.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. pp 31, [3]. Booklet. Original publisher's marbled paper covers, lettered black on cover label. Limited edition of 25 numbered copies printed at the Tragara Press on Teton paper, this being no. 11. Signed presentation from Steven Halliwell on the half title page to the novelist Martyn Goff, "Martyn, with my best wishes and thanks for all the support wit the 1890's society - Steven Oct. '96." Slight foxing to front cover label, otherwise fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Facsimile Reprint. Joint between spine and front is split. Exlibrary marks. Pages tanned, clean. Paper over boards is shelf worn with design on front and gilt lettering on spine. Label at lower spine. ; Originally published in 1913. Quadricentennial Edition of the Floridiana Facsimile & Reprint Series; Ex-Library; 8.5" tall ; 747 pages.

Hard Cover. First. First printing. 41 pps. in royal blue paper covered boards printed in black; frontis photographic reproduction of a portion of the manuscript, two portraits and a reduced photographic facsimile of an 1805 summons issued by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Yorkshire. Old pencil inscription on recto of the front board: "To Brother _______/ from a few of his admiring brethren of the Royal Wharfdale Lodge No. 1108 Otley". Very scarce piece relating to Masonic antiquities and archeology, a transcription of a manuscript regarding Freemasonry written no later than 1690 and believed lost for almost two centuries. Includes commentaries on the text and its history by prominent Yorkshire Freemasons G.E.W. Begemann and William James Hugan and with appendix tables cocerning history of Freemasons in West Yorkshire. Wear to the corners of the boards as well as some scuffing, heavy offsetting to the verso of the frontispiece and some toning to the page edges.