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Published by Old Hand Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 1528709829ISBN 13: 9781528709828
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by Sigfrid Flodins förlag 1905 1905, 1905
Tredje upplagan. 140, (8) (förlagskat.) s. Häftad, ryggen skadad, bakre omslag saknas, sista bladen nästan loss. (Allmännyttigt handbibliotek, 131.).
Published by London: Printed for Sherwood Gilbert and Piper, 1830. Fifth edition, considerably Augmented, xvi,233(12)pp, frontispiece and 4 plates,, 1830
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 12mo, edges browned and some foxing, a closed tear on one page margin, contents otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, quarter-cloth, paper-covered boards rubbed, corners bumped, spine titles browned and rubbed, Good condition.
Published by London: Printed for Sherwood Gilbert and Piper, 1830
Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United Kingdom
Fifth edition, considerably augmented by the addition of several new articles, receipts, &c., 12mo, xvi, 233, [1] + 12pp., of adverts, engraved frontispiece of the cabinet maker's workshop (lightly waterstained to lower margin), 4 engraved geometrical plates, cont. cloth-backed boards, slight tear, orig. printed title label to spine. "The rapid sale of Four Editions of this work has induced the Editor to offer to the public a Fifth which, from the many important additions made, he trusts will now form a complete pocket companion for the Cabinet Maker, as well as a necessary and useful addition to his tool- chest: and though the price is somewhat enhanced, from the plates and extra matter contained in it, still that will not be found, on a comparison with the former work, to be such as will put it out of the workman's power to avail himself of the benefits a book of general reference like the present is calculated to afford." Advertisement.
Published by Gilbert and Piper, Sherwood, 1830
Cloth. Condition: Good Only. Unnamed (illustrator). A charming fifth edition copy of G. A. Siddons's guide to cabinet making. Containing detailed instructions and explanations of terms used in the trade. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four engraved plates. Featuring twelve pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, though last page is missing. In a quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed with marks to boards. Spine label rubbed and sunned. Front hinge has failed. Internally, binding is tender. Final page detached, not present. Pages are generally bright with some spotting. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown. Good Only. book.
Published by London: Published by A. R. Newman & Co. Leadenhall-Street Dean and Munday Printers Threadneedle Street, 1829
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom
First Edition
FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 175 x 104 mms., pp. [iii] - xii, 133 [134 - 140 Index], folding engraved coloured plate as frontispiece, plates 2, 3, III and IV between pages 18 and 19, plate 6 at page 23, 10 coloured engraved plates (one folding) of furniture between pages 38 and 39, complete with sixteen plates, entirely uncut, original printed boards for A. E. Newman; short tear in fore-margin of last blank leaf, spine renewed, boards a little worn, but a very good copy, with a wraparound for the covers, preserved in a quarter calf slipcase. None of the few copies that I could find on Copac and OCLC list Newman as publisher, with Dean & Munday being listed on the title-page as publishers.
Published by Printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row, and Westley and Tyrrell, London / Dublin, 1825
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
Printed paper covered boards. xii, 95 pp., [1]. 16mo. Printed by T. C. Hansard. The first known edition of this book was published in 1809, though it was then only 36 pages and the author identified as Peter Weber. A later edition, only slightly expanded, was published in 1818, and the author was identified as Thomas Howard. This new edition was greatly enlarged and published in 1825 (there was also a longer edition published in 1825 by a different publisher). The author is identified in later editions as G. A. Siddons. The edition offered here is the basis for the first American edition by Ansel Phelps published the same year as well as the source of all later editions into the 20th century. Robert Mussey, in his introduction to a reprint of the 1827 American edition, points out that this work contains the first mention of French polishing and of glass-paper (sandpaper). Hundreds of thousands of copies were printed in the fourteen known and over seventy pirated editions. "Students of furniture and finishing history should find this an invaluable source for the interpretation of our antique furniture heritage." Advertisements on back cover. Scarce. OCLC shows only 5 copies of this edition. Spine repaired with binder's tape, boards rubbed with a few chips at the edges, a few scuff marks, one affecting the word 'wood' on the front board and one affecting a few letters of the advertisements on the rear board, front endpapers soiled, fly leaf torn and split from gutter, small chips to top edge of a1 and a2 probably from opening roughly, some staining to last page of index and blank, occasional finger soiling, but overall remarkably clean, crisp, and tight, and even scarcer thus as most copies and manuals of this nature usually disintegrated from use. A new edition with considerable additions; including an appendix, containing several valuable tables.
Published by Ansel Phelps, Greenfield, Mass, 1825
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
108pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First American edition, reprinted from a London edition. 108pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first furniture finisher's manual published in America, with recipes and lists of requisite tools and implements. Robert D. Mussey, in his introduction to the 1987 reprint of the 1827 American edition, points out that this work contains the first mention of glass-paper (sandpaper). Uncommon and interesting. Not in American Imprints. Rink 1793 Publisher's lettered boards, with ad on lower board. Nicely rebacked and re-cornered with sheep at an early date. Pen starts and old notes on flyleaves, ownership signature of Ezra Coldham First American edition, reprinted from a London edition.
Published by [Greenfield, Mass.] : London: Printed for Knight and Lacy, Paternoster-Row. Greenfield, Mass. Re-printed by Ansel Phelps, and for sale by him, at his bookstore, --also by West & Richardson, Cummings, Hilliard & Co. Boston; and Wilder & Ca
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 16mo, original printed blue boards, title printed at spine. 108 pp. Publisher's ad on back board. Pencil notes and drawings on front and rear endpapers. Recent half green morocco and green cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy in original boards of the first printing of the first furniture finisher's manual published in the United States, reprinted from the first British edition of the same year. Described on the title-page as a "New Edition, with considerable Additions," this first American edition provides concise instructions on the application of varnish and stains, dying woods, inlaying, laquering, glue-making, japanning, polishing, etc. The work had enormous influence. According to Robert Mussey, the author of the introductory essay for the Dover reprint edition of 1987, it went through at least fourteen editions as well as more than seventy pirated editions. Mussey also observes that the actual authorship is uncertain, suggesting several possibilities. The traditional attribution to Siddons is from the title-page of an 1837 London edition. Interestingly, Greenfield was also the place of publication of Asher Benjamin's The Country Builder's Assistant (1797), the first architectural book authored by an American published in the U.S. REFERENCES: Rink 1793; not in American Imprints. CONDITION: Very good, paper cracked at hinges but holding firm, moderate wear to extremities, one leaf with a closed tear (no loss of text).
Published by Greenfield, Ma, 1825
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
108pp. Publisher's advertisements on rear board. 16mo. Original printed paper-covered boards. Moderate staining to boards, minor chipping to spine ends, minor edge wear. Moderate scattered foxing. Very good, and wholly unsophisticated. Untrimmed. The first American printing of the first American furniture finisher's manual, reprinted from the original British edition by G.A. Siddons. "A new edition, with considerable additions. Including an appendix containing several valuable tables." Clear and concise instructions are given for dying and staining woods, making glue, making and applying varnish, polishing, japanning, cleaning woods and metals, and much more. For example, to make furniture oil "Take linseed oil, put it in a glazed pipkin, with as much alkanet root as it will cover; let it boil gently, and you will find it become of a strong red color: let it cool, and it will be fit for use." Six tables in the appendix provide assistance for figuring lengths and weights, and an index follows. Western Massachusetts was obviously a place of great architectural and design innovation during the American Federal period as both the present title and Asher Benjamin's landmark architecture book, THE COUNTRY BUILDER'S ASSISTANT., were printed in Greenfield. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Highly desirable and a landmark in American crafts. RINK 1793.
Published by Oxford: printed for, and sold by the author, in London, 1688, 1688
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition of one of the earliest and certainly most attractive of the English pattern books introducing the process of japanning ("an art much admir'd by us, and all those who hold any commerce with the Inhabitants of Japan"), alongside accounts of techniques for decorating furniture and small objects, such as varnishing, burnishing, and gilding. More than technical details, the book provides influential images of an imagined orient, marking the growth of the contemporary taste for what became known as chinoiserie (Europeans showed little discrimination in distinguishing the sources of imported Asian styles). The book contains more than a hundred distinct patterns for japan-work, as well as more general designs of birds, animals, flowers, and landscapes. The book was published in at least four variants, with no known priority between them, listing either Stalker or George Parker as the author, offering it for sale in London and Oxford, as well as, contemporary advertisements make clear, Edinburgh and Dublin. Wing S5187A. Large folio (374 x 238 mm). Contemporary blind-panelled calf, later paper spine label lettered by hand. With 24 engraved plates. Bookplate of Robert Townley Parker (1793 1879) dated 1858, and two much earlier manuscript notes to front pastedown. Some repair to front board and corners, front free endpaper removed, short closed tear to foot of O2, professional repair to tear to fore edge of plate 2, a few trivial blemishes, overall a very good copy.