Search Results: Authors starting with E from John Price Antiquarian Books

London: Sheed and Ward, 1935. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxix [xxx blank], 424, original cloth, fine copy in slightly worn dust-wrapper.

A Paris Chez De Hansy..., 1771. Large 12mo, 168 x 98 mms., pp. 624, attractively bound in full red crushed morocco, elaborate gilt border to a floral motif on each each cover, spine ornately gilt in compartments, also to a floral motif, green morocco label, all edges gilt. A very good copy and example of common style of binding for a devotional book.

London: Printed for J. Walter..., 1796. 8vo, pp. [3] - 41 [42 blank, disbound; title-page detached at inner margin.

Philadelphia: J. P. Skelly & Co..., 1872. 12mo, 150 x 90 mms.,, pp. 85 [86 - 90 blank], one steel-engraved plate at page 72, publisher's original blue embossed cloth, with the initials of the firm within a lozenge on the front cover, gilt spine; lower portion of spine snagged and slightly defective but a very good copy, with inscriptions and ownership markings: "Arthur J. Fellows" in stamp and "From Mr. Chase" on recto of front free end-paper, and "Master Arthur Fellows" in pencil on the upper margin of the recto of the following leaf. Little Joe and his friend Tim, both of whom work in the mill, find a new home with a Mrs. Brett, thanks to their fragarian skills. The work was first published in London in 1867 by Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday (copy in V&A), followed by another edition or reprint in 1868 (BL). No copy of this 1872 Philadelphia imprint located, though there is a copy dated 1873 in Millersville University Library. The 1867 imprint lists… Read More

A Paris, Chez Francois Le Breton..., 1725. 3 volumes. 12mo, 165 x 100 mms., pp. [xxxviii], 324; [ii], 50, [16], 75 [76 Privilege], [x], 70, [8], 91 [92 Privilege], [6], 64, 4, 385 - 391[ 392 blank]; [ii], 86, [6], 99 - 138, [20], 100, [12], 99 [100 blank], finely bound in contemporary French mottled calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; very slight loss of gilt on spines, corners slightly worn, but an attractive set. Boursault (1638 - 1701) seems to have had more success with his two tragedies, Germanicus and Marie Stuart than with his other works. The latter work may be an instance of the so-called "auld alliance" between France and Scotland. Mary Stewart (1542 - 1587), Queen of Scots, spent 14 years in France, and her attempt to gain the throne of England, with all its permutations and her eventual execution, generated a vast quantity of literary and other artistic representations. Boursault's play was first performed in 1684, but it is unlikely to have… Read More

London: Printed by J. Nichols, Printer to the Society, 1785. 4to, 258 x 200 mms., pp. [ii], 5 [6 blank], folding engraved plate, 450 x 320 mms., recently recased in quarter calf, marbled boards. A very good copy. The antiquary Edmond Turnor (1755?-1829), was born into a family with a large estate in Lincolnshire, which enabled him to pursue his interests in antiquities, publishing an account of sculptures and paintings in Guildhall in London, even before he went to university. After finishing a B. A. and an M. S. at Trinity College, Cambridge, he embarked upon the "Grand Tour," when he saw, among other ruins, the castle at Rouen, called Le Château du Vieux Palais. After presenting this paper at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries in 1784, He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1786 and continued for the rest of his life to indulge his passion for antiquarian pursuits. ESTC T109986 locates copies in BL and Ripley Castle Library. OCLC adds a copy in NLS. I was… Read More

London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1778. 8vo, pp. 32, disbound. Todd 29b.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1790. 8vo, pp. iv, 356, contemporary calf, red morocco label; rear joint cracked, binding a little dried, ex-library. Todd 53e.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1780. 8vo, pp. [iv], 95 [96 blank], including half-title, disbound. Todd 33e.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley..., 1780. 8vo, pp. [ii], 76, disbound; lacks half-title Todd 33c.

Paris, Printed, Dublin reprinted by William Porter, For Burnet [and 18 others], 1791. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [iv], 60, including half-title; fore-margin of half-title slightly frayed and with short tear, slight browning. Todd 54i.

London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1777. 4to, pp. 40, including half-title, engraved vignette (by Isaac Taylor) on frontispiece, recently rebound rather heavily in half calf, marbled boards, morocco label. Cartwright published three editions of this work in 1771, and, according to W. Zachs in his biography of John Murray, "two thousand copies of the poem were printed, making it one of Murray's better selling publications." Zachs, The First John Murray, no. 147.

Saint Edmund's Bury: Printed by and for J. Rackham..., 1804. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 170 x 100 mms., pp. [3] - 8, 311 [312 blank], 3 engraved plates, uncut, contemporary half vellum, boards very soiled); lacks half-title, spine split and defective. Gillingwater (1736 - 1813) began life as a barber, then became a bookseller; upon his marriage to a wealthy widow, he retired from business to devote himself to topography and local history.

London: Printed for James Roberts..., 1731. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 68, disbound. The BL catalogue attributes the work to Edmund Gibson, but the text makes it clear that the author is responding on behalf of Gibson, the Bishop of London, to John Jackson's work, A Plea for Human Reason.

London: Saunders and Otley..., 1835. Large 8vo, unpaginated [pp. 512], recent cloth.

London: Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn, T. Longman, and T. Woodward. 1726. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 193 x 120 mms., pp. [400], numerous illustrations in text, contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked in matching calf, gilt rules on spine, red morocco label, a very good to fine copy. With various ownership inscription and annotations: inn a 19th century hand on the front pasted-down end-paper, "Mr Kincaid/ Compliments of/ Emeline M. North"; in an 18th century hand, "Mills" on title-page and "John Mills" twice on recto of following leaf; and marginal notes in ink on leaves about the telescope. Emmeline M. North Whitcomb (d. 1925) American educator, teacher, and President of the Association of Pioneer Women of California. The self-taught mathematician Edmund Stone (1700 - 1768) also learned Latin and Greek in order to read various mathematical works. He published his New Mathematical Dictionary in 1726; this second edition was published two years before… Read More

London: Printed for W. Innys, T. Woodward, T. Longman, and M. Senex, 1743. 8vo, 202 x 123 mms., pp. xii, [524], numerous illustrations in text, contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked in matching calf, gilt rules on spine, red morocco label, a very good to fine copy. The self-taught mathematician Edmund Stone (1700 - 1768) also learned Latin and Greek in order to read various mathematical works. He published his New Mathematical Dictionary in 1726; this second edition was published two years before he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. Stone's work continued to be of interest to mathematicians throughout the 18th century and into the 19th; for literary scholars, its importance lies in its function as a source used by Dr. Johnson in compiling his Dictionary of the English Language (1755). William Prideaux Courtney and David Nichol Smith: A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson(Oxford, 1915; reprinted 1968), page 44.

A Paris, A la Librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupre Père et Fils..., 1825. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 221 x 144 mms., pp. [3] 4 -36, with several leaves containing text in Arabic script, original blue wrappers (frayed and worn). The Arab historian, historiographer, and sociologist Ibn Khaldoun (1332 - 1406) is best-known for the work about which Schulz has written his commentary, the Muqaddimah. Schulz (1799 - 1829) was one of the first scholars to uncover evidence of the Kingdom of Urartu, an area centred on Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands in ninth to sixth centuries B. C. The present work contains comments on and translations from the preface to the Muqaddimah. Copac locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, and Warburg Institute; WorldCat adds McGill, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire Strasbourg, and niversitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität.

London: Printed by John Olive: Sold by J. Buckland...andJ. Ward..., 1757. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii [viii blank], 319 [320 blank], including half-title, recent half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label. A very good copy. Mr. Barnard's title suggests a philosophical treatise, with Aristotle perhaps to the foreground. In fact, the text is mostly in verse, including two plays, The Somewhat and Edward VI in blank verse. Various sources do not give birth and death dates, only that he flourished c. 1741 - 1757. The headmaster and later provost of Eton, Edward Barnard (1717 - 1781) might seem to be a possible candidate for authorship. ODNB doesn't mention any publications by Barnard. The Prologue to Edward VI is preceded by "Disadvantages Relating to the following Entertainment," which clearly indicates that the play wasw written to be performed by "The Young." King Edward VI (1537 - 1553) effectively became King at the age of ten, when Henrv VIII died… Read More

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson..., 1760. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 181 x 110 mms., pp. [iv], xi [xii blank], 23 [24 - 26 notes], 23 [24 -26 notes], 13 [14 - 15 notes, 16 blank], 93 [94 - 101 notes, 102 blank], [6], 81 [82 - 84 notes], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, black leather label; front joint slightly cracked, upper rear joint very slightly cracked, but a good copy with the armorial bookplate of Hugo (1738-1808) master of the royal staghounds in 1770 and 1772 as well as fox-hunting, a sport that he effectively transformed, and he was unanimously hailed as the foremost fox-hunter in the kingdom. He was also MP of Quarn Hall. � Capell's edition was one of the first books printed in England to omit catchwords and to be printed on wove paper. Capell's rigorous editorial standards have more in common with modern textual criticism than the editorial attitudes of most of his contemporaries; his was the first text of Edward III to be published since… Read More