british museum edition first edition (195 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition. This is a tall trade size softcover book. A few light scratches on back cover. Front cover is lightly bumped at the corners and has a small bump near bottom of fore edge. 96 pages with index and a few illustrations.

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5 plates, 145 text figures. (illustrator). Fine (=without flaw). In stiff clear archival mylar protector. Dark Green cloth, 529, 28 pp. A descriptive catalogue of the Drawings and Specimens in the Department of Botany British Museum. 145 text figures. 5 plates, 145 text figures.

Pp. 42; 8 text-figures, 6 full page maps. Publisher's original printed tan wrappers, lg 4to. No ownership marks. From the research library of the late Michael Newcomer. Small ink mark on the outer edge of a few pages; a bright and clean copy in very good condition.

Pp. 66; 1 color plate, 18 text-figures (line-drawings, maps and graphs). Original tan printed wrappers, sm 4to. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, volume 16, no. 2. Signed by the first author with note laid in at front "With compliments, George B. Corbert." Name stamp of former owner on the front wrapper. A bright and clean copy in near fine condition.

Condition: Near fine copy. Pp. 309-337; 2 full page photo-plates. Original tan printed wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology series, volume 2, no. 10. Signed on the front wrapper by Richard G. Van Gleder, Curator of Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NR FN/NR FN DJ, Stiff Wraps, 4to., 420 pgs. Signed by all 3 authors on page opposite color frontispiece. DJ has a surface blemish to UR corner of front panel but is not obtrusive. Very shallow crease to lower right corner of textblock but does not appear bumped. Very clean and crisp, tight and gatherings are sewn for long term stability. DJ in protective mylar sleeve. Signed by Author(s).

Pp. 91; 42 text-figures (mostly photographs), 7 full page maps. Publisher's original printed tan wrappers, lg 4to. No ownership marks but a few pencil annotations. From the research library of the late Michael Newcomer. Slight wear to the wrappers, a few minor tape repairs at the top of the spine with small part of the front wrapper missing; a bright and clean copy in very good condition.

Heft. Condition: Gut. 8 S. Text, 16 Illustrationen; 22cm Zustand: Kartoneinband, Fadenbindung, Kunstdruckpapier --- Inhalt: englischer Text. Über die Einbände der königlichen Bücher von King Henry VIII bis Queen Elizabeth I. KS049 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 100.

Condition: Fine (new) copy. Pp. 102; 6 full page photo- plates. Original printed blue wrappers, lg 8vo. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology, volume 23, no. 1. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 149 pp. Manuscript title added to spine, browned otherwise Good.

Cloth, 8vo, viii, 274, [1] pp. A short-title catalogue for books in the British Museum (now the British Library) which were (a) printed before 1601 within the frontiers of the Netherlands and Belgium or (b) printed before 1601 outside that area in Dutch or Flemish. Arranged alphabetically by author, with an index of printers and publishers. Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front pastedown endpaper, Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Laminated wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm, 32 pp, 24 plates, maps. Date on rear inside wrapper, otherwise Very Good.

illustrated wrappers, small 4to, viii, 58 pp, plates. Fine.

Cloth, 4to, 27 cm, xvii, 156 pp, ills. From the blurb: "Richard Doyle rapidly established himself in the public eye as an illustrator through his work for the newly-formed Punch. His early success there led to a commission, at only 20, to provide some of the illustrations for Dickens' Christmas Books. With more commissions of that sort and growing responsibilities at Punch, it was not long before he was recognised as one of England's principal illustrators. Even in their early, struggling days the Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood always set aside money to buy Punch for the sake of his work. This journal pre-dates, but also presages, his fame. Kept by Richard throughout 1840, when he was 15, it is largely a record of his daily life, but not purely - or even principally - a written record. The sketches are a crucial ingredient. Most are of quite 'ordinary', casual scenes, and interesting now for precisely that reason; a few are in rather a different key: those of Queen Victoria's wedding drive, for instance. But whatever the subject, the ability of the future illustrator for Punch, Dickens. Ruskin, and Thackeray, to name but a few, is abundantly clear. And as an informal, unselfconscious glimpse of life in early-Victorian London his Joumal, reproduced here in facsimile, is unrivalled." Introduction and notes by Christopher Wheeler. Very Good in dustwrapper.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm, 32 pp, 4 colour plates and 16 black-and-white plates. Based mainly on manuscripts located in the Dept. of Manuscripts of the British Museum. From a contemporary review: "The novice could not ask for a more succinct, lucid, authoritative introduction to English 13th-century illumination, distinguished by the work of Matthew Paris and de Brailles and by the masters of the Trinity Coll. Cambridge and Douce Apocalypses and of the Evesham and Oscott Psalters." Wrappers a little yellowed, otherwise Good.

Cloth, 8vo, viii, 274, [1] pp. A short-title catalogue for books in the British Museum (now the British Library) which were (a) printed before 1601 within the frontiers of the Netherlands and Belgium or (b) printed before 1601 outside that area in Dutch or Flemish. Arranged alphabetically by author, with an index of printers and publishers. An ex-library copy with labels on the spine and front pastedown endpaper and stamps on the front free endpaper and verso of the title-page, otherwise Near Very Good in a slightly duststained dustwrapper which has a darkened spine-panel and the shadow of a removed spine-label.

Printed boards, 8vo, 22 cm, 155 pp, 120 ills. 470 entries. From the introduction: "The Exhibition of Medals which is described in this Guide is primarily intended to illustrate the history of the period which it covers. The artistic interest of the medals is subordinate to the historical, and for this reason the medals have been grouped.chronologically under the persons, events, and movements which they illustrate. The art of casting portrait medals which was introduced in Italy by the artists of the Renaissance and developed in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and France in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was slow in finding its way to England. A few foreign medals of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries appear in this series as bearing portraits of Englishmen, such as Kendal and Schevez. The only medals earlier than the middle of the sixteenth century which are certainly of English origin are those commemorating Henry VIII's Supremacy of the Church of England in 1545 and the Coronation of Edward VI in 1547. In the second half of the sixteenth century there was sufficient artistic demand in England to draw Continental medallists to this country, and important work on English subjects was done either here or abroad by Prima vera and Stephen van Herwijck during the reign of Elizabeth. But the portrait medal never had much vogue in this country except during the first half of the seventeenth century, when van de Passe, the Warins, and the Simons were at work on portraits of Englishmen." Section I: Medals Illustrative of British History includes 345 entries; Section II Medals Illustrative of Foreign History includes 125 entries. Boards faded and somewhat marked, contents Good.

Printed wrappers, small 4to. 17 x 21 cm, 64 pp, 8 plates, 107 entries. A useful catalogue with most of the descriptions of the printed bibles done by the eminent bibliographer A.W. Pollard. Disbound from a collected volume, wrappers split down spine and detached with loss of spine-panel, Fair.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm, 11 pp, 12 pp of plates. From the preface : "This booklet is published on the occasion of the Royal Exhibition, 1957, celebrating the bicentenary of the gift of the Old Royal Library to the Nation by King George III. The plates are intended to illustrate typical specimens of the principal classes of books which contributed to the formation of the collection, but they are, of course, only a small selection of the books included in the Exhibition, and cannot provide a full picture of the riches of the Library. The text has been written by Mr. T. J. Brown, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts, with the collaboration of Mrs. Margaret Scheele, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books." Good.

Illustrated laminated wrappers, 4to, 144 pp,92 black and white and 8 colour illustrations. From the blurb: "The1860s saw a veritable explosion in British publishing and illustration. Many of the greatest Victorian artists created memorable designs for poetry, novels, children's books and religious literature, and the craft of wood-engraving reached new heights of excellence. In this fresh and revealing study, Paul Goldman reviews the work of well-known Pre-Raphaelites like Millais and Rossetti and also of unjustifiably neglected artists such as G.J.Pinwell, J. W. North and Thomas Morten. He examines the reasons for the great upsurge in illustrated books and periodicals around the 1860s, looking at the nature and readership of the publications and the influence of the publishers, editors and, crucially, engravers upon what was produced. The richness and variety of the Sixties is demonstrated in over 90 illustrations which how some well-known names in an unexpected light. George du Maurier, for example, chiefly celebrated as a comic artist for Punch, displays surprising sensitivity, and there are fascinating examples of early drawings by Burne-Jones. The work of the Idyllic School, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, contrasts with that of such High Victorians as Poynter and Leighton and with artists as diverse as Whistler and Charles Keene." Very Good.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm, 11 pp, 12 pp of plates. From the preface : "This booklet is published on the occasion of the Royal Exhibition, 1957, celebrating the bicentenary of the gift of the Old Royal Library to the Nation by King George III. The plates are intended to illustrate typical specimens of the principal classes of books which contributed to the formation of the collection, but they are, of course, only a small selection of the books included in the Exhibition, and cannot provide a full picture of the riches of the Library. The text has been written by Mr. T. J. Brown, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts, with the collaboration of Mrs. Margaret Scheele, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books." Wrappers slightly faded, otherwise Very Good.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm, 8 pp, 16 ills. Most of the earlier royal English bookbindings in the British Museum were received when the Old Royal Library (including the Royal Manuscripts) was presented by King George II in 1757. This library - originally at St. James's, but kept after 1707 with the Cotton Library in various houses in Westminster - is rich in presentation bindings made for the Tudor sovereigns from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth I. It also contains the library of Henry, Prince of Wales, mostly bound in standard gold-blocked calf with the Prince's arms, together with numerous presentation bindings for King James I and King Charles I. .The second important source of royal bindings was the library of King George III, presented to the nation by his son in 1823, and now known as the King's Library and the King's Manuscripts. When in 1680 John Evelyn visited the King's 'private library at Whitehall', he found that it contained about one thousand volumes and that 'they consisted 'chiefly of such books as had from time to time been dedicated or presented to him'. It has been conjectured that the whole of this Whitehall library was destroyed in the disastrous fire of 1698. But some of the Books were either saved from the fire or had been previously transferred to other royal palaces, for quite a number of Charles II dedication copies came to the Museum with the King's Library, This also contains bindings from the libraries of each sovereign from King James II to King George II as well as books which belonged to Queen Caroline and to Fredgryfeprince of |^lesr;/and these are present in sufficient number to suggest that King George Ill's first act when he started to form his 'Tow^ Library at Buckingham House (the future Buckingham Palace) fipgp to comb the other royal residences fof interesting books. The presence m the Slii! H 1111 important English books in stftfid<if4t%%^rle9 H1 iporocco bindings suggests that some volumes were removed from the Old Royal Library before it came to the Museum in 17^7, though these books might have migrated from the St, James's I Muuvy lie fore the beginning of the eighteenth century. Some of the finest royal bindings in the British Museum have also been acquired individually by purchase or donation or as part of the larger collections such as the Harleian Manuscripts or the Cracherode Library. Crayon initials on front wrapper, wrappers slightly marked, otherwise Good.