Search Results: Authors starting with D from Bull's Head Rare Books

Villeneuve-les-Avignon: Poésie 41, (1941). No. 210 of 400 copies on vélin (of 471 total). 8vo. Ten woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Publisher's red printed wrappers, glassine jacket; fine Printed Christmas Day 1941, "sur un monde qui paraît voué à la fureur de Dieu"

Nancy: J.B. Hiacinthe Leclerc; Paris: J. Merlin, 1768. First edition. 8vo. [10], xvi, 500, [10] pp., half-title. Contemporary half speckled calf and boards, citron morocco spine label; tips bumbed, offsetting to half-title, an attractive copy First edition of this history of and argument for inoculation by Gandoger de Foigny (1732-1770), professor of anatomy and surgery at the Collège des Médecines in Nancy.PROVENANCE: 19th-century book-ticket (Bessinge, Science medicales); Librairie Alain Brieux (book-label)

Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706. First edition. Folio. [10], 60 pp. COLLATION: 2 ¶2 2¶1 A-P2. Modern three-quarter red morocco, arms of the Earl of Perth stamped in gilt on front cover; near fine, with a small piece from the lower corner of the title-page, not affecting the text First edition of Defoe's lengthy poem in praise of Scotland, written to promote union when Defoe was chief propagandist and agent in Scotland for Northern Secretary Robert Harley. "[Defoe’s] Caledonia, a sixty-page poem published in 1706 with a grant from the Scottish privy council, celebrates Scottish history and a number of its most illustrious and historically important families" (ODNB). The poem is addressed to Scotland's landed gentry, of whom 84 were subscribers to the first edition; the present copy was in the possession of the Earls of Perth, Stobhall.Foxon notes copies with paper watermarked with French arms (D90) or, as in the present copy, Amsterdam arms and fool's cap… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1837-39. George Cruikshank. 5 vols. 8vo. Numerous plates by George Cruikshank, Phiz, and others. Modern half navy morocco and marbled boards; plates browned and foxed, some toning and occasional staingin or spotting to text, vol. V ffep loose and old paper repairs to fore-margin of contents leaf and first plate, previous owner's ink stamp to title-pages Consecutive run of the first five volumes of Bentley's Miscellany, which Charles Dickens edited from its inception through January 1839 (his Prefaces to vols. I & II are here signed "Boz"). Contains the first print appearance of Oliver Twist, serialized February 1837 to March 1839, and illustrated with 24 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Plate 19 is in its first state, reading "Dolter" for "Holter" (see Hatton and Cleaver p. 216).REFERENCE: Smith I:4, p. 36-37.

New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First edition. 8vo. 11 engraved plates (1 in color) and 69 illustrations to text. [4, ads], [iv], 187, [1], [4, ads] pp. Publisher's plum cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; spine faded, endpapers discolored, previous owner's signature to ffep First edition of Downing's influential second book, which presents 10 designs for cottages ("ornamental farm," "English rural gothic," "Italian," "old English," etc.), with elevation, floor plans, illustrations of construction details, estimate of cost, and a suggested layout of the grounds and gardens. It is "arguably the first of the new genre of house pattern books, which depicted the home in its landscaped setting, plans of the grounds, and ornamental details, along with an explanatory text to assist the reader in choosing a residence appropriate to his or her circumstances. Unlike the larger houses Downing used to illustrate in the Treatise, most of the designs in Cottage Residences were smaller and more… Read More

New York: George Dearborn, 1835. First edition. 8vo. [6], 84 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title-page. Publisher's deluxe binding, black morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled, gilt lyre and cherub centerpiece (as in cloth trade binding) gilt board edges and turn-ins, glazed endpapers, a.e.g., in custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and chemise; light rubbing to extremities, endpapers discolored, frontispiece offset to engraved title. First edition of the first collection of Drake's poetry, published 15 years after his early death from consumption, here in the publisher's deluxe morocco gilt binding. Drake (1795-1920) was a physician and pharmacist and an early member of the Knickerbocker Group. His only lifetime publications were "The Croaker Papers," anonymous political satires written in collaboration with Fitz-Green Halleck. Drake requested that his poetry manuscripts be destroyed following his death; they were instead preserved by his wife and eventually shepherded to print by his… Read More