Search Results: Authors starting with L from Wykeham Books

W. Heinemann, Ltd., London, first editions, 1924 -1925. Limited editions of 165 numbered copies, signed by the author, of which 150 were for sale. 2 vols, quarter vellum and boards, 23 cm,. viii, 89 + viii, 88 pp. The first editions of the rhyming translations of Edward Marsh, sometime private secretary to Winston Churchill. His version of the fables attracted considerable acclaim and Heinemann also published a successful trade edition and later an edition illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Copy nos 72 and 81, signed by Edward Marsh. Armorial Bookplate of Frederick John Hancock Lloyd on front pastedown endpaper of second volume. Boards with a little browning and minor marks, first volume slightly pulled at one opening (pp 48-49) exposing lower 6 cms of gutter, partial browning to half-titles and final text page of second volume, some foxing to rear endpapers, otherwise Good in darkened dustwrappers with heavily browned spine-panels, the dustwrappers being edgeworn with minor loss.

Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, 1998 reprint of first edition. Limited edition facsimile of original. Cloth, spine label, 8vo,. 413 pp. 1200 lots. Auction catalogue consisting of 1200 lots (sale held in Paris, beginning 3 March 1873). Includes index Originally published: Paris: Adolphe Labitte, 1873; original title: 'Catalogue des livres rares et precieux composant la bibliotheque de M. E.-F.-D. Ruggieri: sacres des rois et des empereurs entrees triomphales, mariages, tournois, joutes, carrousels fetes populaires et feux d'artifice.' Near Fine.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, first editions, 1965-1993. 9 books, cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxviii, 492 + xii, 493-963 + xvii, 257 + xxiii, 392 + xii, 395-764 + xliii, 597, xlv-lxxvi + xxix, 601-1110, xxx-lvii + xxix, 1111-1561, xxxi-liii + xxix, 1563-2077, xxxi-cxii pp, several hundred plates and ills, maps. The first three volumes (in 9 books) of this vast scholarly exploration of how European knowledge of Asia influenced the history of Europe from 1500 to 1800. A lifetime's work by Lach went into these volumes, which bear comparison for their sweep, breadth and vision with the histories of Arnold Toynbee and Joseph Needham. Invaluable for serious students in any number of disciplines, these volumes include an enormous amount of material of especial interest to anyone concerned with the European publication history of early works concerning Asia. For example, to quote a review article by M. N. Pearson on just one aspect: "Volume 3 is close to two-thousand pages and, for example,… Read More

B. de Graaf, Nieuwkoop, 1963 reprint of the 1907 first edition. Cloth, gilt cover- and spine-titles, 8vo,. lxxxiv, 438, [1] pp. Contents include: Introduction; Ateliers Parisiens; Ateliers Provinciaux (Besançon, Douai, Goupillières, Limoges, Lyon, Marseille, Poitiers, Rennes, Rouen, Tours, Troyes); Ateliers Étrangers (Alsace-Lorraine: Kirchheim, Metz; Angleterre: Londres; Italie: Cortemaggiore, Ferrare, Naples, Venise; Pays-Bas: Anvers, Delft; Origines indéterminées); Additions et Corrections, Table des Collections Auxquelles ont été puisés les Éléments du Catalogue, Table Alphabétique. This volume has suffered suffered water damage and the covers are distorted and waterstained, soiling to top edges and some staining to upper margins, nevertheless a usable reference copy, Fair.

Paulin, Paris, first edition, 1849. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 64 pp. An important contribution to the battle of the pamphlets provoked by the prosecution of Guglielmo Libri. "The most impressive of the works in Libri's defence came from the pen of Paul Lacroix. In the autumn of 1849 he published his Lettres à M. Hatton, ... They were the 'statements in which I present myself as witness for the defence' which Hatton had not allowed him to give orally. He presented the accused as a generous donor to - and publicist of - libraries, two roles incompatible with that of a thief; as a collector whose bulk buying was sure to have contained some books once in public libraries (perhaps sold by them as duplicates); as someone whose exchange of a book with Carpentras was perfectly regular, and whose private sale to Ashburnham was justified. In 1848 the revolution had unchained his enemies and 'Mr Libri was turned over to his enemies bound hands and feet: his residence invaded by them;… Read More

, , [first edition, 1864Jules Gay, Paris, first edition, 1864. Limited edition of 260 numbered copies, this being one of 250 on papier vergé. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt arms of the distinguished bibliophile Guillaume-Gabriel Pavée, baron of Vendeuvre, on both boards within blind triple-filet border, spine with red and black leather labels and gilt decoration, all edges marbled, 12mo, 18 cm,. [3], 364 pp. Contents include: A M. Félix Delhasse de Bruxelles; I. La Farce de Pathelin et ses suites; II. La Prenostication de maistre Albert Songecreux Bisscain; III. Une Lettre fausse de Rabelais; IV. Un Poëte savoyard à la suite de la Pléiade; V. Le Véritable auteur du 'Moyen de parvenir'; VI. Le Comte de Permission (I. Recueil de ses Oeuvres; II. Ses Dernières Oeuvres); VII. 'L'Occasion perdue recouverte' est-elle de Pierre Corneille?; VIII. Les Manuscrits de l'abbé de Choisy; IX. Les Biographes de Molière; X.… Read More

Chapman and Hall, London, first edition, 1874. Decorated cloth, 8vo,. xviii, 554 pp, 15 chromolithograph plates and over 400 wood-engraved text ills. Spine-ends worn with slight loss, frontispiece detached, last leaf and rear endpapers foxed, contents otherwise Good with slight age-toning.

Bickers and Son, London, first edition, 1878. Cloth, large 8vo, 27 cm,. xvii, 552 pp, several hundred ills, 13 chromolithographic plates. Head of spine worn with loss of 2 mm, top fore-edge corner bumped and bruised, otherwise Good.

Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, undated reprint (c. 1990?) of 1969 first edition. Stated to be a limited edition reprint of 200 copies. Cloth, 4to,. vii, 567 pp. Over 160 entries. A valuable bibliography especially as it includes facsimiles of title pages of all books described, together with detailed description of pagination and collation, and analyses of the contents, and English translation of Russian titles.. This range of subjects covered is wide, including "descriptions of travels of discovery and the settlement of Alaska, books of a religious character for the natives newly converted to the Russian Orthodox Church, works on botany and zoology, geographical atlases and single maps, and so forth". The bibliography covers "publications in all major languages, but - with a few exceptions [including near-contemporaneous translations, if rare]- only first editions, in the language in which they originally appeared...An occasional variant of the first edition is also noted and… Read More

Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 4to,. xv, 184 pp, 56 pp of maps, plans, ports, plates. In their solutions to the problems posed in the alterations and remodelling carried out on the Elizabethan house the successive Revival architects -among them Lancelot Brown, Humphry Repton and John Nash - who worked at Corsham Court made a significant contribution to English architectural history. This detailed and scholarly study of the complex period from 1749 to 1849 describes and discusses both the actual construction and the theories that governed the designs, and in so doing throws considerable light upon the inter-action of patronage and taste. In this valuable book Dr Ladd considers the increasing importance attached to Gothic Revival architectural theory and the effect on it of the dual nature of the Elizabethan-Renaissance style, and discusses the reasons for the growing eclecticism of the period under review. He then goes on to analyse the implications of Nash's… Read More

H. Dunod et E. Pinat, Paris, 1914. Contemporary half-leather and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt, top edge gilt, orginal printed wrappers bound in, 8vo,. vii, 438 pp,[2], 20 pp ads, some ills, folding plan. Sunned around top of spine, otherwise a Very Good unopened copy.

Heinemann, London, edition, 1982. Laminated wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm,. xiv,178 pp. An ex-library copy with a spine number and several library stamps, contents browned, otherwise Good.

Printed at the Scolar Press for private distribution only, [Menston?], undated reprint (c. 1971) of the 1761 original edition. Printed at the Scolar Press for private distribution only. Printed wrappers, large 4to, printed paper cover label, 42 cm,. iv, 149 pp, xiv leaves of plates (1 folded). With excellent reproductions of plates showing 18th century papermaking. John Bidwell: "Lalande was an astronomer, not a paper- maker, and his treatise is based on scientific observation rather than on tradition or experience. Minor marks to wrappers which are a little edgeworn, contents Very Good.

J. C. Gieben, Amsterdam, 1970 reprint of the 1803 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. viii, 966 pp. Approximately 5.000 entries. Arranged in chronological order (starting with ancient Greek texts), with formats and page counts provided for most books. And with author and subject indexes. Still a major reference The great works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo ; asd Cassini are all included. The bibliography occupies the first 660 pages and on pages [661]-880 is a brief history of astronomy from 1781 to 1802. As New.

Oxford University Press, London ; first edition, 1962. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. xviii, 211 pp, 23 plates , 66 text ills. . From the introduction: "This is not a history of illustration or a survey of what illustrators are now doing. It is a statement of the illustrator's main problems and of how he can tackle them in his essential dealings with authors, publishers, block- makers, and printers. Past and present practice is only touched on where it is relevant to these aims. Many of the illustrations are my own…This book brings under one cover the theoretical, contractual, and technical aspects of drawing for illustration. Both the illustrator and those who use his work will find what each needs from the other. Art editors who have not acquired their technical knowledge in the workshop may also find the later chapters useful in commissioning work for print. Front hinge slightly pulled, front free endpaper browned, otherwise Good.

Matador, Leicester, first edition, 2010. Cloth, small 4to, 26 cm,. xviii, 611 pp, ills. From the blurb - "The intriguing story and turbulent history of a paper Charles Dickens praised for its 'range of information and profundity of knowledge’, and which Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, simply endorsed with the remark: ‘Of course I read The Sporting Life'. It was the Queen Mother’s love of horseracing that made her such an avid reader of the Life and coverage of that sport forms the core of this book, but there is so much more to fascinate the reader including eyewitness accounts of the first fight for the heavyweight championship of the world and Captain Webb's heroic Channel swim of 1875. Highlights in the history of cricket, football and rugby are also featured, while chapters on coursing and greyhound racing rank alongside surreal reports on . ratting contests and songbird singing competitions. And for 30 years Tommy Wisdom made his motoring reports unique by… Read More

Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, [first] edition, 1980. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. xxi, 455 pp, [16] pp of plates. From the blurb: "British painters have always excelled in the art of watercolour; indeed, the tradition in this field is second to none in Europe. It is the medium which above all has recorded exactly the colours and textures of the British landscape. The National Collection of Watercolours, housed in the Department of Paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, embraces the British achievement in this field from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. Both works by little known and unrecorded artists and examples by every major British watercolourist combine to make this national collection truly comprehensive. The purpose of this book is two-fold: to present a thorough catalogue listing and give basic information on over 5,600 works by some 1,600 artiste, and also to serve as a visual dictionary of the British watercolour tradition. Each artist is discussed in a brief biographical… Read More

Richard Gill, Manchester, first edition, 1897. Cloth, gilt cover-title and device, 8vo,. 260, [1], 16, 18, 46 pp. plates, plan, map. Bound with reports and Index at end. Covers slightly rubbed, contents agetoned at edges, otherwise Good.

Luigi di Giacomo Pirola Milano, first edition, 1836. Later half-cloth and marbled boards. 8vo,. [6], l [=50], 449, [1] pp. Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front pastedown endpaper, slightly rubbed, otherwise Near Very Good.

Ernst Heimeran, München, first edition, 1954. Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. Leather spine and patterned boards with cover device, oblong 8vo,. 215, [8] pp, plus 160 pp of plates. From the introduction: "Uas Gebiet der Almanache, Kalender und Taschenbücher, diese Fundgrube für Literatur-, Kunst- und Musikgeschichte, ist bis heute noch recht stiefmütter- lich behandelt worden. .. Es ist weder als Bibliographie gedacht, noch kann es vollständig sein. Dafür will es aber die Spielarten des Gebietes und deren wichtigste Erscheinungen umso sinnfälliger machen. Library stamp on title-page and last text page, head of spine chipped and frayed, otherwise Good.