Search Results: Authors starting with J from Voewood Rare Books

London: Crosby Lockwood & Son 1924, 1924. First edition, 4to. xi, 32pp text, 140 plates & plans, 6 fold-out plans, with a 52pp appendix. Chocolate brown and cafe-au-lait cloth in the original near fine dust-wrapper. Some light creasing to rear. In mylar wraps. Cracking to joints just before the appendix. A crucial work for anyone interested in the development of suburbia or metro-land. The book gives full details of the types of houses then springing up around all of England's major cites in the post-WWI effort to create 'homes fit for heroes'. Of particular interest is the fully costed appendix on houses in Welwyn Garden City, giving an insight into the development of the garden cities and New Towns.

London: Printed for J. Newbery 1760, 1760. First edition. 8vo (200x120mm). pp. [2], vi, 264. Contemporary calf with double fillet borders in gilt to upper and lower covers, five raised bands to spine, compartments simply decorated with gilt borders. The binding is worn in places with scuffing, particularly to the foot of the upper cover at the joint and on the lower cover near the joint where there is cracking. Corners bumped and rubbed. But overall this is a handsome, simple and tight binding. The contents are in excellent condition, bright and fresh with only a little foxing. The corner of K1 has been lost in opening but this does not affect the text. Edges sprinkled red. The dedication, although declared to be James is by Samuel Johnson who was a school friend of James's from Lichfield. This highly readable book contains a series of case studies showing the horrific results of dogs biting people. The resulting "hydrophobia" or rabies is described with some relish by James who then offers a number… Read More

London: Printed for J Jenkins by L Harrison n.d. [1828]. First edition. 387x290mm. viii, [2bl]. Unpaginated, signatures erratic as usual. Dedication to the Earl of St Vincent. Fifty-five hand coloured aquatint plates and one uncoloured plate containing two etchings showing battle plans for the Bombardment of Algiers an the Battle of Trafalgar. The original paintings were done by Thomas Whitcombe (c1760-1824) who was one of the finest marine painters of the time. The hand-coloured plates were done by Sutherland, Bailey and Jeakes and are of the highest quality and are in superb condition in this copy. The paper is watermarked 1827 which provides a clue as to the date of this copy. All the tissue guards are present. The title page vignette of Britannia standing on the English shore while Neptune, kneeling before her, invites her to conquer the broad oceans has been hand coloured. The text describes the battles or other scenes (mainly the capture of French or Spanish ships) in the prints and, in some… Read More

London: Art Yard Limited 2019 , 2019. Signed limited, lettered Edition (one of twenty six copies) with a set of four giclée prints. 280x220mm. pp. 344. Illustrated throughout with 306 photographs. Printed on 150gsm Garda Matt Ultra FSC (Italian paper stock). Pale blue cloth hardback with metal foiling and laminate print to both covers, lettered in gilt to spine. Lower cover has a poem from Sun Ra printed in gilt. With publisher's belly band. Housed in a printed cardboard box. Unopened, new and in immaculate condition. The giclée prints, measuring 270x210mm are titled "A Certain Darkness Is Needed To See The Stars". They feature the actress Jodie Turner-Smith. The images are all by the photographer Gerald Jenkins and the text includes work from Sun Ra, Darius James (the author of Negrophobia), Little Annie Bandez (Annie Anxiety), the poet Norman Douglas and the handwritten lyrics by Kain The Poet (Gylan Kain) to his seminal work Black Satin Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby.… Read More

Chelmsford: Clachar, Frost, and Gray 1783 [but 1788], 1783. Small 8vo. 153x95mm. pp. xvii [i], 115 [1]; Part X, An endeavour to prove that reason is alone sufficient to the firm establishment of religion [1785]: 31 [1]; An Appendix to the Tenth Part: 64; A Physical Enquiry into the Powers and Properties of Spirit..., 1787, vi, 82; A Postscript to the Physical Enquiry..., 1787; 6, [4], 7-34; Part XI and XII: [141] -178; A Free Enquiry into the Enormous Increase of Attornies..., 1785 iv, 68. Modern half calf, marbled paper covered boards, original red roan label on spine, lettered in gilt. Ex-library (Leyton Public Library) with a few old ink stamps and some underlinings in blue pencil. Some slight foxing and browning in places but overall a very good copy of a eccentric and eclectic set of essays by an even more eccentric figure. Given the confusing pagination, some bibliographical help might be required. The book is in the twelve parts set out in the table of contents. The first 115 pages are parts… Read More

Wm Blackwood and Sons 1883, 1883. 4to, pp ix, 260, 3pp prospectus for the Hunt Servants' Benefit Society. Frontis & 4 additional photogravure portraits. Near-fine with an ink presentation inscription to the half-title page. In bevelled red cloth with gilt-stamped titles and a large gilt-stamped central design of hunting horns and bridles.

London: Printed for T. Longman et al. 1794, 1794. Four volumes. 8vo. 200x120mm. pp. iv, 3-4, 436; v, [1], 431, [1bl]; [4], 409, [1bl], [1p adverts for recently published works by Johnson]; [4], 452. Full tree calf, spine decorated in gilt and with three red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Wear to corners. Internally very good. A nice set.

London: Printed for J. Brett., 1739. First edition. 8vo in 4s. 200x125mm. Pp. [5], 6-55, [1bl]. Bound with: SMITH. W. The Freemason's Pocket Companion. London: Printed for John Torbuck. 1736. Pp. [6], 116. With engraved frontispiece. And: [CLARKE, Alured]. An Essay Towards the Character of Her late Majesty Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain. Second edition. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton. 1738. Pp. [4], 46. Three works in one volume. Original blue-grey paper covered boards, backed in tan calf, spine lettered in gilt "Tract Var". Spine a little rubbed and a tear and two small worm holes to foot of spine. Internally very good although with some staining to half-title of Marmor Norfolciense and some foxing and marking elsewhere. Front pastedown has the armorial book plate of John Ward whose initials are on the preliminary leaves of each work. Housed in a modern cloth covered box. An excellent copy of this "exceedingly scarce" satirical attack on the Walpolean-Hannoverian hegemony. Written… Read More

Marburg: Marburger Tapetenfabrik J.B. Schaefer & Co, 1972 1972, 1972. Roll of wallpaper comprising 14½ identical, repeated coloured screenprint on silver metallic paper, with full margins. Approx. 8220 x 535 mm (323 ½ x 21 in). This image (also known as Right Hand Woman) was designed by Jones in 1970. It was made as a roll of wallpaper in 1972 by one of the oldest wallpaper factories in Germany in the series X Art Wall Collection. Other artists participating in this extraordinary project included Jean Tinguely, Otmar Alt and Eric Stanton. A single panel sold at Christies in 2008 for £525 and a complete roll would appear to be a scarce item. On its own, this is a striking image. Multiplied fourteen times, it is the stuff of nightmares or dreams. It is impossible to deny that this print is controversial, politically incorrect and sexist. But, whether we like it or not, that is the point for Jones. "It's collateral damage", he said, "I wanted to offend the canons of accepted worth in art. I found the… Read More

Malmaison n.p. 1813. Letter signed "Josephine", addressed to the "Directeur Général des Postes," Malmaison, 12 February 1813. Text in French. One page, 226 x 185mm (mild creases). Seventy-seven words. In a nice example of patronage Josephine uses this letter to the Directeur Général des Postes to recommend a young man called Gaulthier for a job within the Post service. She says that if he can agree to this, then it will make two people happy as a job will assist Gaulthier in his marriage to the daughter of a woman in service to Josephine and whose father is "valet de chambre" of the Viceroi. We have been unable to discover if M. Gaulthier was given a job but he had an in with the right person. Josephine, who by this point was no longer married to Napoleon although he had made her the Duchess of Navarre, was the aunt of the wife of the Directeur Général des Postes, Antoine-Marie Chamans, comte de Lavalette so perfectly placed. Sadly, Josephine died of pneumonia the following year so this might… Read More

Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929, 1929. First edition. Number 38 of 100 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by the author. 4to. 212x168mm. [8], XV, [1], 55, [3]. Original cream paper wrappers lettered in black and red to upper cover and spine and with 'black sun' motif on the lower cover. Original glassine wrapper. Slight chipping to head of spine and there are some tears to the glassine wrapper at the spine and to the front wrapper but overall in very good condition. Internally excellent with only very minor marking in a few places. Housed in the cardboard slipcase covered with green paper and edged in silver paper to which there is some slight marking and wear to the edges. Signed on the half title by James Joyce in black ink and illustrated with Constantin Brancusi's etching Symbole de Joyce, intended by the artist to capture Joyce's "sens du pousser" and described as "a portrait as abstract as the author's text". With a preface by C.K.Ogden who, in the same… Read More