Search Results: Authors starting with A from Sky Duthie Rare Books

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett., 1745. First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 747-758. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning and slight wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An Act published in Public General Acts 1744-1745, regarding provision for the poor in Bristol, including a law compelling ships bound for Ireland "to take in one Vagrant for every seven Tuns" carried.

London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan., 1778. First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 1007-1012. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning, slight separation and minor wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An act restoring Ireland's ability to export goods directly to the colonies in the Americas and Africa, issued in the context of the American Revolutionary War, and amending what became known as the Navigation Acts. Restricting the freedoms of Britain's colonies with regard to the import and export of goods, the Navigation Acts had been a significant factor in fermenting rebellious discontent in America - requiring all of a colony's imports to be either bought from Britain or resold by British merchants in Britain, regardless of the price obtainable elsewhere. The acts were also resented in Ireland and damaged its economy, as they… Read More

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett., 1745. First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 639-643. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning and slight wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An Act published in Public General Acts 1744-1745, enacting an amnesty for those who have engaged in the activity of smuggling and laying out punishments for those who continue to partake in the crime (transportation or death). The statutes of 1745 are considered to be the leading statutes for smuggling law in eighteenth-century England, as they made the greatest effort to convict offenders and to sentence those convicted to death. These statutes, part of the 'Bloody Code', further extended the means by which a person could be convicted for smuggling and put to death without benefit of clergy, although other lesser penalties, most notably transportation, remained the… Read More

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett., 1744. First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 251-286. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning and slight wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An Act published in Public General Acts 1744-1745, regarding the punishment of mutineers and deserters in the context of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748).

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett., 1745. First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 719-723. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with a little separation between pp.720-21, minor toning, and slight wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An Act published in Public General Acts 1744-1745, regarding naval discipline in the context of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748).

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett., 1744. First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 363-382. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, woodcut floriated initial to the first text page, text in black letter. Final leaf slightly separated (top third). A very good copy with just a little toning and slight wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An Act published in Public General Acts 1744-1745, regarding the recruitment of troops during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748).

Firenze [Florence]: G. Barbèra., 1884. Octavo. Beautifully bound in white parchment-covered boards with hand-painted Florentine red lily emblem to the upper board; elaborate gilt borders and spine decoration; and red morocco title label lettered in gilt. All edges red. Decorative floral endpapers. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece and two plates (one folding). Contemporary previous owner's inscription in pencil and ink to the half-title page: "Susan Ballard", "a birthday present from her aunt Susan / Florence", "Mabel Scott Moncrieff / from S.M.[?] / October 1892". Photographic postcard depicting soldiers in the trenches sent from the front by Charles Kenneth Moncrieff to his father, with message dated 20.10.14 in pencil, loosely laid in. A very good copy, the binding square and secure with some cracking to the joints. The contents with some light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. An attractive edition of Dante's Divine… Read More

London: Headley Bros., [1917]. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrappers, bound with yellow string and with original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in colour plates, 2 tipped-in monochrome plates, 5 full-page sepia drawings and several head and tailpieces, all by Daphne Allen. 32pp. A very good copy, the binding firm and bright with some minor wear to the extremities. The contents with some scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order. The scarce glassine wrapper with some chips and tears. An uncommon work by the Edwardian child artist Daphne Allen (1899-1985), published when she was 18 years old, in which she beautifully illustrates poems by Robert Herrick and other seventeenth-century authors.Born in Stamford Hill, London, Allen was taught painting from an early age by her father, the artist Hugh Allen (son of the publisher George Allen), and also took life-classes in Chelsea. She began showing her work at the age of 12, holding her first… Read More

London: Headley Bros., [1916]. First edition. Octavo. Re-bound in early twentieth-century textured brown paper-covered boards with small watercolour paper onlay depicting oranges to the upper board. Illustrated with 3 tipped-in colour plates, 2 tipped-in monochrome plates, 4 full-page sepia drawings and several headers and tailpieces. 32pp. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a couple of small splash marks to the edges of the upper board and a little wear to the spine ends and corners. The contents with the occasional spot of light foxing and a little creasing to the corner of a couple of the tipped-in plates are otherwise in very good order. An uncommon work by the Edwardian child artist Daphne Allen (1899-1985), published when she was 17 years old, in which she beautifully illustrates the religious poetry of John Oxenham (pen name of William Arthur Dunkerley). As the publisher's note declares: "In this little booklet [Allen] has found an ideal subject for her art, and in Mr. John… Read More

London: Brentano's Ltd., 1928. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original light-blue cloth with a vignette of a fairy and a lamb beneath a tree in silver to the upper board, and titles in silver to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 4 full-page colour plates and numerous black and white head-pieces by Daphne Allen. A very good copy, the binding firm with a touch of cracking to the rear hinge. The contents with a contemporary owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper, some occasional light foxing, a 1cm tear to the blank bottom margin of the contents page, and with one plate with a minor nick to the blank margin and standing very slightly proud of the textblock, are otherwise in very good order. Complete with the original dustwrapper, which has some chipping and loss to the spine ends and tips of the joints. Not price-clipped ("3/6 net" to the front flap). A scarce fairy story collection beautifully illustrated by the Edwardian child artist Daphne Allen (1899-1985),… Read More

[Original artwork], [c.1912-1920].. More than 100 original drawings, predominantly in pen and ink with some in pencil, on paper. A number are double-sided, six are heightened with watercolour, and two with gilt. Images range between 35 x 25cm and 4 x 4cm. Condition is very good with just the odd minor mark, tear or crease. A few of the larger drawings have been mounted, with some bearing remnants of mounts to the blank margins. The images themselves remain clean and fresh. WITH: Two copies of a Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings "A Child's Visions and Fancies" by Daphne Allen (Aged 13 years) held at the Dudley Galleries, Piccadilly, October 1912, with an introduction by Selwyn Image. Original blue card wrappers with printed titles in black, illustrated throughout. Plus another: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Water-Colours and Drawings made by Daphne Allen Between the Age of 13 & 14, held at the Dudley Galleries in October 1913, with a preface by Reginald Buckley. Original green card wrappers with… Read More

London: George Allen & Company Limited., 1913. First edition. Quarto. Publisher's original colour illustrated paper-covered boards with titles in gilt to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white full-page drawings and in-text vignettes by Daphne Allen. 95pp. A near fine copy, the binding firm and bright with just a little wear to the spine ends. The contents with a few small marks to the title page are otherwise clean and fresh throughout. Complete with the original near fine dustwrapper which has a minor mark to the upper panel and a little wear to the tips of the spine. An excellent copy. An attractive copy of the second book by the Edwardian child artist Daphne Allen (1899-1985), published when she was just 14 years old. The work comprises a collection of short stories written by Allen, along with a selection of classic poetry, all accompanied by an extensive array of whimsical fairy-esque illustrations largely… Read More

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia., 1976. Facsimile edition. Octavo. Publisher's original green rexine with titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a touch of bumping to the corners. The contents with a previous owner's inscription to the half title page and some light scattered foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise in very good order. A facsimile of the 1853 first edition of this account of the first steam navigation of the River Murray. 'Australiana Facsimiles Editions No. 202'.

London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan., 1776. First edition. Folio (32 x 20cm). Unbound. [2], 103-104. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page, decorative woodcut initial to the first text page, text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning, slight separation and minor wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An act designed to expand the crown's ability to raise additional militia forces, specifically to fight against the American revolutionaries ("it might be of great public utility, that the militia of this Kingdom should be drawn out, embodied, and employed as aforesaid, upon occasion of the present Rebellion in America, or of any Rebellion that may hereafter arise in any of the Dominions of the Crown of Great Britain"). Uncommon.[ESTC N57594].

[Original manuscript]; [Tewkesbury: Shuthonger House School]; London: Relfe Brothers., [1859]. Manuscript school calligraphy book belonging to Master W. Dee, a pupil of Shuthonger House School, Tewkesbury. Quarto. Contemporary half green morocco over blue marbled boards with printed name plate to the upper board. Marbling to page edges. Decorative printed title page. 85pp. completed in calligraphic manuscript in black and red ink (the remaining 29pp. blank), comprising 33 poetic and literary excerpts, with decorative titles to each piece, some incorporating drawings of quills. Condition is very good, the binding is firm with some chipping to the head of the spine and rubbing to the boards. The contents with a little cracking in places are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A beautifully-executed calligraphic commonplace book produced by a talented young English scholar, notable - and uncommon - for its inclusion of an early American patriotic poem - 'The American Eagle' by C. W.… Read More

[Germany]., [c.1880].. Set of twenty-five wooden cubes with six dissected chromolithographed scenes depicting the story of Snow White and Seven Dwarves to each side, 21 x 21cm when assembled. Contained within its original wooden box with hinged lid and decorated paper sides (24 x 24cm). The set with with five chromolithographed guide sheets (the sixth mounted to the lid of the box). The cubes with a little wear to the edges and occasional minor loss to the paper image. The guide sheets with chips, tears and old paper repairs verso. The box with a horizontal crack to the lid and a little wear and chipping to the paper covering. Overall, however, the set remains in a good state preservation. A nice example. An attractive and uncommon late nineteenth-century block puzzle depicting the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Printed in vibrant chromolithography, the puzzle would have been manufactured in Germany to supply the burgeoning middle-class toy market of Europe and North America.

Leipzig: Moritz Ruhl., [c.1915]. Octavo (19.5 x 12.5cm). Publisher's original pictorial paper wrappers. Two sections of text (14pp. + 16 pp.), followed by an illustrated concertina-style pull-out comprising 20 chromolithographic colour plates depicting German army uniforms and insignia. A very good copy, the binding secure with just a little wear to the extremities and a 1cm tear to the back cover. The contents with a touch of occasional foxing are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. An uncommonly good copy of this vivdly-illustrated guide to the uniforms of the German army at the commencement of the First World War.

London: William Heinemann., 1929.. Reprint. Quarto (20 x 26cm). Handsomely bound in contemporary full blue morocco with sinuous gilt borders and gilt foliate decoration incorporating red morocco onlays representing berries to the boards, the spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and with titles in gilt. Gilt dentelles incorporating red morocco onlays. Binder's signature in gilt to the bottom turn-in of the lower board: "ML 1930". All edges gilt. Attractive colour woodblock-printed floral endpapers. Binder's inscription in pencil to the front endpaper: "Bournville School of Art 1930, M. Laud[?], Oct / '30". Illustrated with 24 tipped-in colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards), 12 full-page tinted illustrations, and numerous black and white in-text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 549pp. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with fading to the spine and some minor scuffs to the raised bands. The contents remain clean and crisp throughout. An appealing copy of Arthur Rackham's… Read More

Antwerp: Arnoldo Berckmâno [Arnold Birckmann]., 1540. 1540 Early Latin edition. Quarto (160 x 222mm). Full contemporary or near-contemporary vellum over boards with titles in manuscript to the spine. Illustrated with 51 woodcuts and 5 volvelles (4 with moveable parts) to the verso of leaves X, XI (with the moveable element absent, as appears to always be the case, and seemingly as issued), XIII, and to the recto of leaves XXIX and XLV. Historiated initials throughout, globe woodcut to the title page, woodcut printer's device to the verso of the final printed leaf. Somewhat enigmatically inscribed in an early hand to the foot of the title page "Georgy dati Florentini" (George of Florence), and further inscribed to the verso of the final printed leaf. A very good copy, the binding secure, although with some cracking in places, and the spine covering with loss at the sewing supports. The contents with a minor mark to the head of the title page and some nibbling to the top-right corner of the final 13… Read More

Paris: Chalcographie du Louvre, Musées Imperiaux., [c.1850].. Set of 14 copperplate etchings printed on laid paper, each numbered within the plate, untrimmed. Each plate measuring 28.5 x 22cm (sheet measuring 43.5 x 30.5cm) and with "Chalcographie du Louvre, Musées Imperiaux" blindstamp to the lower margin. Old collector's numbers in pencil to the blank bottom-right corners of the sheets. Condition is very good with some light scattered foxing and marking to the sheet margins, occasionally to the plates themselves, some marking to the head of sheet of no. 9 and 11, a 3cm tear to the blank foot of sheet of no. 5, and a 2cm tear to the blank top-left margin of sheet of no. 14 (framing would largely solve these relatively minor issues). The impressions remain crisp and sharp. A beautiful set of etchings by the French engraver Gérard Audran (1640-1703) reproducing frescoes by Raphael, printed from the original plates by the Louvre's chalcography workshop during the mid-nineteenth century.In 1517,… Read More