Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Swan's Fine Books

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. No binding. Fine. Lancaster, Osbert. Octavo size, [2] pp. Prospectus only for "The Epicure's Anthology", the prospectus without wood-engravings, but with sample title page with title in red. ___DESCRIPTION: A single sheet, announces publication "in November" at 2 Gns. for the numbered copies and 7s.6d. for the "cheap Unlimited Edition"; octavo size (8 5/8" by 5 3/8"), [2] pp., 12,000 copies printed in three different printings, this one of the last 4,000 copies printed in May of 1937. ___CONDITION: Fine overall, clean and free of edgewear, with only one faint spot of foxing to the top margin, free of creases and markings. ___CITATION: Cock-A-Hoop no. P114; volume found in Pertelote no. 114. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every item we sell.… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good +. First printing, octavo size, 756 pp. "Short, cheap pamphlets with catchy titles and crude woodcuts lured readers in early modern England. The pamphlets described notorious murders and the sometimes providential means by which the culprit was captured and condemned to the scaffold. In this extraordinary book, Peter Lake examines how various groups, protestant, puritan, and catholic, the press, and the popular stage, sought to enlist these pamphlets for their own ideological and commercial purposes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. "[This] book redraws the intellectual map of early modern England...[and] takes us not merely to the print shops, book stalls and theaters, but also to the pulpits, prisons, and public executions of post-reformation England... by exploring popular literature and the way it was used Lake analyses contemporary notions of politics, religion, gender and social order" (n.b.,… Read More