Illustrated Instructor, First Edition (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. "For players of all skill levels"; color photos and illustrations; 368pp.

Condition: Very good. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. Internally clean and tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 53 PAGES, ILLUSTRATIONS. Very good first edition in soft covers. cOMMANDING gENERAL Army Service Forces.

448, [24] + [8] p. Frontispiece, seven engraved plates illustrating carving, four plates (two folding) showing table settings. One folding plate with old repairs, another with strip torn from the blank margin. Cagle 738 for the 1791 first edition. The final [8] p. Are Catalogue of Useful and Instructive Books Just Published . Printed by J. Stratford, . Handsome half calf binding by Period Bookbinders. Spine gilt between raised bands and with two labels. Marbled boards. Some spotting to the plates, the text block generally clean. Stratford's catalogue lists the Eleventh Edition, with no mention of Schnebbelie's additions, confirming that this is their first appearance. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Cash. No Jacket. First Edition. Oversize: Olive brown colored linen hardboards, floral borders, gold lettering face and spine. Heavy rubbing to ends and corners; some fraying, boards exposed. Front hinge loose. Unmarked pages. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

464pp, engraved frontispiece, and 11 engraved plates. 8vo. Old waterstain to inner top margin first five leaves, light browning & occasional marking. Full contemporary tree calf, gilt borders, double ruled gilt spine bands, green morocco label. An attractive copy. Worldcat records a single copy of this edition (BL). The Housekeeper's Instructor was first published c1790, and ran through seventeen editions by 1823, with ten in the 18th century. The first edition improved by Schnebbelie appears to be the 12th in 1804. The recipes are designed for middle class families, and to enable the lady of the household to 'acquit herself at the table with honour and reputation'.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. 1st edition. 1st edition. Rebound in 20th century red cloth, with gilt title on spine. 4to., 526 pp., illustrated with 112 b&w, duo-tone and color plates. All 112 plates called for are here. Top edge gilt. 4 pages (title page, 1 end paper, and 2 Table of Contents pages) have old paper repair tape on the recto side; tape now browned. Light age-toning to the text; no foxing or browning to the text or plates. Very Good with Near Fine plates. Lafever was to earn a great fame in Brooklyn with a series of superb Gothic Revival churches, of which Holy Trinity (1844-7) is the largest and most famous, the Church of the Saviour nearby (1844) the most refined and exquisite.

Quarto. (12 x 8 3/4 inches). 526 pp.; 111 lithographic plates, many of which are tinted in 2 colours. Quarter modern morocco over contemporary cloth, top edge gilt First edition, posthumously printed, of this influential manual by an esteemed Greek Revival architect - "the last of the best of the architectural vade mecums." Lafever was an influential Greek Revival architect, writing three books on Greek designs and details. This work, combines a history of architecture with a survey of a wide range of ancient and modern styles, all written in a style suited for Lafever's general readership of 19th-century Americans. As such the present work continues his goal established in earlier books, such as Beauties of Modern Architecture (1839), of reaching those who he termed the "everyday workman." illustrated with nearly 250 engravings. One historian calls The Architectural Instructor "the last of the best of the architectural vade mecums" from the tradition begun by Asher Benjamin (Holland p.71). "Lafever was to earn a great fame in Brooklyn later with a series of superb Gothic Revival churches, of which Holy Trinity (1844-7) is the largest and most famous, the Church of the Saviour nearby (1844) the most refined and exquisite. Packer Collegiate Institute with its rather prim, simple English Gothic is his, too, as are the stone tunnel and steps at the river end of Montague Street - a monument of true Greek simplicity. The Reformed Church of the Heights (1851) and the Old Brooklyn Savings Bank (1847), both recently destroyed, showed his brilliant use of the later eclectic forms that began to come in the forties; much of this work he included in his last great book, The Architectural Instructor" (Hamlin p.147) The present work, profusely illustrated, replicates ancient and modern buildings, including temples, churches, villas, monuments, and municipal halls. The main text is followed by a "Glossary of Architectural Terms." Plates 1-21 illustrate the history of architecture, 22-29 the classical orders, and plates 30-111 original designs (mostly for buildings which were built), the majority beautifully printed in tints or colors. Talbot Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America (1944); Lawrence B. Holland, Who Designs America? (1966).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original publisher's dark red blind-decorated cloth, lettered in gilt on spine panel. [Undated.] Moderate overall wear, with soiled covers and surface abrasion along portions of lower front cover. Some exposure at corners and along fore-edges, rubbed with a bit of loss at spine extremities. Lacks front and rear flyleaves. Light dampstaining evident at bottom binding corner through most of text block, nothing objectionable. Scattered internal foxing, generally light. 207 pp., illus. with engraved plates, 24-pp. publisher's catalog at rear. Overall, worn but not abused. Scarce. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Imitation Leather. Condition: Fair - Cash. No Jacket. First Edition. Oversize: Leather hardboards, gold gilt lettering face and spine; tooled decorative borders. Splits along the spine ribs, rubbing to ends and corners. Boards exposed in multiple places. Spine sun faded. Some slight soiling to pages. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.