Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Harrison-Hiett Rare Books

Bristol: Joseph Lansdown & John Mills, 1808. A lovely example of an English Emblem book. Second Lansdown and Mills edition, following the first of 1806. Two works bound as one. Simple half blue leather with dark cloth boards and gilt titles to the spine. The binding is neat, and clean with a couple of marks only. Owner's name and date to the end paper of each title. Emblems moral and divine has a frontis portrait of Quarles, an engraved title, and 79 engraved emblems. Following this (and still part of the the first book) the Heiroglyphics contains 14 plates. Book two - The School of the Heart, has a frontis (the same portrait) engraved title, and 48 plates. Both books are complete. A total of 143 engraved plates + 2 engraved titles. The binding is slightly weak in parts (holding well, but with slight cracking). The first frontis is slightly separating, and the front end paper has been supported with archival tape. A few light marks to pages, and general darkening of the pages, but overall a very… Read More

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1899. First edition. Red cloth cover with gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. The story of a Cornish childhood. Cloth on spine is slightly sun faded. Foxing throughout. 312 pp. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. First thus of this trade edition. Lovely covers, in brown cloth / faux leather with gilt titles and decoration. 30 plates mounted onto card leaves. tissue guards. There is a touch of edgewear to the binding. Some foxing to end papers. One gather is detached and another rather loose, and the front board is cracking to the paper and a little weak. Nevertheless a decent copy of this Dulac classic. Includes. "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard", "Cinderella," and "Beauty and the Beast." Text in English, translated from the French. [16], 129, [3] pages. 280 by 220mm (11 by 8¾ inches).

Nice: EDQ, 1973. First edition. Hardback in red cloth, inside original unclipped dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are both in very good / fine condition. 285 x 225 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches). With an introduction by Samuel Beckett, this fascinating collection of Edward Quinn's mostly b/w photography uses the same reportage style as Joyce himself often adopted. Rambling around Dublin from dawn to dusk Quinn found himself collecting what Joyce referred to as epiphanies. Not the literary kind, but photographic incidents of daily life and atmospheric places in Ireland's capital city.