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Bungay: L. & R. Childs, 1822. The Domestic Practices and Priorities of the Early 19th Century EATON, Mary. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete & Universal Dictionary. Including a System of Modern Cookery in all Its various Branches, adapted to the use of Private Families, Also a variety of Original & Valuable information, Relative to Baking, Brewing, Carving, Cleaning, Collaring, Curing, Economy of Bees, of a Dairy, Economy of Poultry, Family Medicine, Gardening, Home-made Wines, Pickling, Potting, Preserving, Rules of Health and every other subject connected with Domestic Economy... Bungay [Suffolk, UK]: L. & R. Childs, 1822. First edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 209 x 130 mm.). v-xxxvi, (including frontispiece & title-page), 495, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Eaton (included in pagination, and four engraved plates. Title-page stained, the four plates foxed. Bound without the half-title and additional title [dated 1823]. Full contemporary sheep, rebacked with the… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. Quarto-Millenary. The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club. A Critique. A Conspectus. A Bibliography. Indexes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Limited to 2250 numbered copies, this being copy no. 1180. Large quarto. xiii, [2], 295, [3] pp. Publisher's quarter black Niger morocco over red cloth on beveled boards with central black medallion. A fine copy. Housed in the publisher's slipcase, lightly stressed at spine foot.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928. The Large-Paper Edition DeLuxe - Signed by Lionel Edwards EDWARDS, Lionel. My Hunting Sketch Book [and] My Hunting Sketch Book Volume Two. Written and Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, R.I. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928-1930. Large-Paper Copies. Limited to 255 and copies and 185 copies signed by Lionel Edwards (these being copies #155 and 90 respectively). The mounted color frontispiece in volume one is also signed by Lionel Edwards. Two folio volumes (12 7/16 x 10 1/8 inches: 315 x 258 mm.). xiv, 28, [1, blank], [1, colophon], 2, blank] pp., with fifteen mounted color plates; xvi, 40, [1, blank], [1, colophon], 2, blank] pp., with twelve mounted color and nine black and white plates. Publishers quarter vellum over red cloth boards, front covers titled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Slight rubbing to corners, otherwise a fine set. Volume one with the Sporting Gallery exhibition announcement dated November 1928 for the original… Read More

London: Printed for C.S. Arnold, 1825. Acting is the Perfect Idiot's Profession" (Katherine Hepburn). "The Art of Acting Consists in Keeping People from Coughing" (Benjamin Franklin). EGAN, Pierce. LANE, Theodore, illustrator. The Life of an Actor... Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Twenty-Seven Characteristic Scenes, Etched by Theodore Lane. Enriched also With Several Original Designs on Wood, Executed by Mr. Thompson. London: Printed for C.S. Arnold, 1825. First edition. Royal octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/8 in; 247 x 158 mm.). xvi, 272 pp. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, woodcut vignette title-page, twenty-six fine hand-colored aquatint plates and eight woodcuts in the text. Bound ca. 1920 by Mercier Sr. de Cuzin (stamp signed on verso of front free endpaper) in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A spectacularly clean and… Read More

London: Printed for Knight & Lacey...and Pierce Egan, 1827. The 19th Century's Wide World of Sports: The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Defeat Scarce In Original Boards This Copy Can't Be Beat EGAN, Pierce. LANE, Theodore, illustrator. Pierce Egan's Anecdotes (Original and Selected) of The Turf, The Chase, The Ring, and the Stage; The Whole Forming a Complete Panorama of the Sporting World; Uniting with it a Book of Reference and Entertaining Companion to the Lovers of British Sports. Embellished with Thirteen coloured Plates, designed from Nature, and etched by Theodore Lane.London: Printed for Knight & Lacey...and Pierce Egan, 1827. First edition. Quarto (10 1/16 x 6 1/4 inches; 256 x 159 mm). viii, 304 pp [A-Z4, 2A-2Q4]. Thirteen hand colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece. The plates other than the frontispiece are all bound after the "Directions to the Binder". Eighteen text wood-engravings. Four-page advertisement for Works Published by Thomas Tegg" bound in to front. Original… Read More

London: Published for the Proprietor, by Rowney & Forster, 1824. The Misadventures of a Regency Free-Loader Told in Six Beautifully Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates [EGERTON, Michael]. [A Day's Journal of a Sponge. By Peter Pasquin. London: Published for the Proprietor, by Rowney & Forster, 1824]. First edition. Oblong folio (10 3/8 x 14 inches; 264 x 351 mm.). Six bright and beautifully hand-colored aquatint plates with interleaves. The plates are unsigned, with imprint: London, Published by W. Egerton, 1824. Bound without the lithographed title. Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1826. Bound by Rivière and Son in later red half crushed morocco over red cloth boards. Raised bands. Gilt-lettered compartments. Expertly rebacked with the original spine laid down. An excellent copy. A work of profound rarity with or without the title; OCLC notes only four copies in institutional holdings. Abbey's copy, as this one, also lacked the titlepage. These satiric plates with their lengthy droll and witty… Read More

London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Excessively Rare Egerton Title A Colorful Country Life in Comparison to an Exhausting Urban Life EGERTON, Daniel Thomas. Country versus Town, Twelve Plates, Designed and Etched by D.T. Egerton. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1823. First edition. Oblong quarto (9 1/4 x 14 inches; 235 X 356 mm.). Printed title-page and twelve interleaved hand-colored aquatint plates. The plates watermarked "J. Whatman 1823. Title-page 1/4 short at lower edge (not affecting print area) Bound ca. 1900 by Tout of London. Three quarter red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine with two raised bands lettered horizontally in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Ink name and address on verso of front free endpaper. A excellent example of a very rare book. One of Egerton's rarest satires, the twelve plates depict a colorful country life in comparison to an exhausting urban life. Daniel Thomas Egerton (1797-1842) was a British landscape painter and engraver.… Read More

London: Published for the Proprietor, by Rowney & Forster, 1824. The Profoundly Rare Misadventures of a Free-Loader Told in Six Beautifully Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates [EGERTON, Michael]. A Day's Journal of a Sponge. By Peter Pasquin. London: Published for the Proprietor, by Rowney and Forster, 51, Rathbone Place. 1824. First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches; 267 x 369 mm.). Printed title-page and six bright and beautifully hand-colored aquatint plates. The plates are unsigned, with imprint: London, Published by W. Egerton, 1824, and do not possess watermarks, as noted by Abbey. Of extraordinary significance and scarcity is the presence of the title page, lacking in the copy Abbey examined, and, as a result, Abbey notes the title simply as Sponge. The title page is missing from the precious few that we have had the opportunity to examine over the last forty years. Houfe notes this volume but under the title Sponge as well. Original printed drab wrappers. Three inch split to spine… Read More

London: Geo: Hunt, 1825. A Regency Excursion to The Low Countries of Europe with Twenty-Four Magnificent Hand-Colored Plates E[GERTON], M[ichael]. Here and There Over the Water: Being Cullings in a Trip to the Netherlands. By Omnium Gatherum. Drawn and Written by M.E. Esq. Engraved by Geo: Hunt. London: Geo: Hunt, 1825. First edition. Large quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 267 x 215 mm.). [2, title-page], 34 pp. Twenty-four hand-colored aquatint plates and four uncolored aquatint plates of Waterloo memorials. Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper) in three quarter red crushed levant morocco over red cloth boards, covers ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Lower portion of front joint slightly cracked but still sound. Plate no. 4 with two small and insignificant fox marks, some very minor offsetting from the plates to the text. A fine and large copy… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. George Eliot's First Full-Length Novel and her Earliest Popular Success ELIOT, George. Adam Bede. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 181 x 114 mm.). [iii-viii], 325, [1, blank]; [iii-viii], 374; [iii-vi], 333, [1, blank] pp. Bound ca. 1865 in three quarter dark blue pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, matching marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Bound without the half-titles. Some light foxing and staining throughout, moderate on preliminary leaves. A very good set in an attractive and near contemporary binding. George Eliot's first full-length novel and her earliest popular success. Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though… Read More

London: Smith, Elder and Co.,, 1863. George Eliot's Historical Novel set in Fifteenth Century Florence ELIOT, George. Romola. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 184 x 117 mm.). iv, 336; iv, 333, [1, imprint]; iv, 292, pp. Bound ca. 1865 in three quarter dark blue pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, matching marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Blank end-leaves foxed and some light foxing to preliminaries. A very good set in an attractive and near contemporary binding. Romola is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". It first appeared in fourteen parts published in Cornhill Magazine from July 1862 (vol. 6, no. 31) to August 1863 (vol. 8, no. 44). The story takes… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First Edition, In the Original Cloth Binding ELIOT, George. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 197 x 122 mm.). [6], 364 pp. plus 16 pp. publisher's advertisements, [4,unnumbered ads for the third edition of "Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle"] pp. Original cinnamon diagonal ripple-grain cloth (Carter A, no priority established) with covers decoratively paneled in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge rough-trimmed, fore and bottom edges trimmed. Original cream-colored endpapers. Booksellers ticket "Gilbert Brothers, Gracechurch St, London" on front paste-down. Neat ink presentation dated 1861 on front free-endpaper. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Rear inner hinge just starting, some light foxing. An excellent copy. Chemised in a quarter red morocco slip-case. The advertisements are in placing "b" (eight plus… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. Domestic Realism, Pathos, and Humor George Eliot's First Works of Fiction ELIOT, George. Scenes of Clerical Life. In Two Volumes. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. First edition in book form of George Eliot's first works of fiction. Two octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 187 x 117 mm.). [4], 366; [2], 381, [1, blank] pp. Bound without the half-title in Volume I and without the half-title and fly-title in Volume II. Bound ca. 1858 in half dark green hard-grain morocco, ruled in blind, over marbled boards. Spines ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled edges and endpapers. Scattered light foxing and soiling. Marginal paper-flaw to leaf H6 (pp. 123/124) of volume 1 (not affecting text). An excellent set of this rather scarce title. Scenes of Clerical Life is the title under which George Eliot's first published fictional work, a collection of three short stories "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton," "Mr Gilfil's… Read More

Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1790. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden A Superb Fore-Edge Painting by the 'Double-Line Painter' FORE-EDGE PAINTING. DOUBLE-LINE PAINTER, artist. BIBLE IN ENGLISH. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David... Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, 1790. With a very fine early twentieth century fore-edge painting by the "Double-Line Painter" depicting the Expulsion of Adam & Eve from the Garden of Eden. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches; 292 x 231 mm.). 206 un-numbered leaves (including title-page). Some occasional and very minor toning, otherwise near fine. Full contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers panelled in gilt with gilt corner fleurons. Smooth spine elaborately ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt… Read More