Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Antiquates Ltd

Derby: Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830s] 12pp. Original publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dust-soiled. A remarkably rare survival, in original state, of a provincially published juvenile chapbook primer to a selection of native British quadrupeds, including the horse, the cow, the ass, and, more curiously and specifically, the mastiff and the springer spaniel. COPAC records a single copy (Trinity College, Dublin); OCLC adds no further. . 12mo.

New York printed: London reprinted: James Phillips & Son, 1798. [2], xiii, [1], 293pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, some surface loss to spine, corners bumped. Pencil trials and worm tracks to endpapers, scattered foxing. An early English edition, printed in the year after the American first, of a biography of Job Scott (1751-1793), eminent traveling minister in the Religious Society of Friends and a prominent American quietist. Later interpretations of Scott's atypical doctrinal philosophy would contribute to the 1827 Hicksite-Orthodox split, the first schism within Quakerism. ESTC T76782.. New edition. 12mo.

London: Printed by M. J. for J. Morphew, 1709. [6], 51pp, [1]. Without half-title. Later half-vellum, marbled boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Bookseller's ticket of T. Connolly of Dublin to FEP, three horizontal closed tears to title page, naive paper repair to verso, occasional spotting/damp-staining. The sole edition of an anonymous serious opera in verse. Although Alarbas seemingly never reached the stage, the printed text calls for a great deal of music, and this, combined with numerous directions for the use of machine effects, make it a prime example of English dramatic opera of first decade of the eighteenth-century - a form soon to become unfashionable. In the preface, the author laments that his work 'being some time since drawn according to the Model of English Dramatick Opera's, any Person that is the least acquainted with the late Performances, will easily account for its appearing in this manner before it had pass'd the Stage, if they will… Read More

Cheltenham: Printed for G. A. Williams, 1822. 95pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's blue printed paper wrappers, some chipping to extremities, marking to wrappers. Internally clean and crisp. A treatise on the popular trick-taking card game Quadrille, a variant of the Spanish game of Ombre. Popular in the eighteenth-century it is played by two paired teams, the pastime is referenced on four occasions in Pride and Prejudice (with mastery of the somewhat complicated rules used as a tool of social distinction by Lady Catherine de Bourgh), and is frequently mentioned in James Woodforde’s The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802. . First edition. 16mo in 8s.

London: Printed for D. Midwinter et al., 1736. [8], 375pp, [1]. With an engraved half-title and 93 engravings in the text. Bound by Charles Goodall of Leeds in early twentieth-century navy half-calf, buckram boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbing to joints and edges, marking to boards, pen trials to recto and verso of engraved half-title, slight loss to lower corners of C2-3, browned throughout, occasional spots of dust-soiling. First printed in 1635, the aptly named Emblems, by English renaissance poet Francis Quarles (1592-1644), consists of divine and moral poetry, illustrated throughout with allegorical baroque designs, promoting the uncontroversial characteristics typically identified with good Christian living. The work, which proved the most successful Quarles produced, was dedicated to Edward Benlowes, who had provided inspiration in presenting the poet with copies of two highly esteemed seventeenth-century Jesuit continental emblem books; Pia Desideria (1624) and Typus Mundi (1627).… Read More

London: Printed for R. Sare et al., 1697. [16], 131pp, [1]. Leaf A8 a blank. ESTC R5377, Wing Q188. [Bound with:] QUEVEDO, Francisco de. The visions of dom francisco de quevedo villegas, Knight of the Order of St. James. Made English by Sir robert l'estrange, Knt. London. Printed by W. B. for Richard Sare, 1708. Tenth edition, corrected. [4], 282pp, [2]. With a terminal publisher's advertisement leaf. ESTC T88976. 8vo. Contemporary calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, splitting to upper joint. Contemporary bookplate of C. Sharp, Frame Maker in St. John's Lane, Cambridge to FEP, very occasional chipping to margins, slight shaving to head of title-page of second bound work, horizontal tears to text of leaves N1-4, small worm-trail to text of final five gatherings, leaves toned, some spotting. Two prose satires by Spanish Baroque writer Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), with apparent early Cambridge ownership. The first English translation of his La Hora de Todos y la… Read More

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1810. [3], vi-xiv, [1], 16-76pp. Without half-title. Later gilt-tooled dark green half-morocco, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece to upper board. A trifle rubbed. Leaves toned and spotted, some loss to FFEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title: 'For Miss Fletcher - from the author / (?) 14th Oct.' Later manuscript biographical and bibliographical notes in the hand of a descendent of the recipient of this copy to verso of FFEP. Occasional marginal references, in the hand of the author, to persons mentioned anonymously in the text - including Miss Fletcher (p.62). A revised and expanded edition of poet Edward Quillinan's (1791-1851) first published work, a series of verse satires affectionately lampooning Kent high society. Quillinan is perhaps best known as an avid defender of the poetry of William Wordsworth. Following Quillinan's retirement from the army and his move to the banks of the Rotha river, between Ambleside… Read More

London: Bensley and Son, 1816. 48pp, [2], 11, [1]. With seven pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Uncut in original publisher's boards, title written in manuscript on the spine, circular shelf label at base of spine. Boards slightly rubbed with moderate surface wear, small chip to top of spine. Small hole to FFEP at gutter margin, else a fresh copy. Contemporary inscription of Joseph Tasker to FFEP. The first edition of one of Edward Quillinan's (1791-1851) earlier works, The Sacrifice of Isabel is the story of a pair of doomed lovers told through recollection- Quillinan describes the epic as 'so melancholy a cast'. Dedicated to bibliographer and politician Sir Egerton Brydges, a good friend and operator of the prestigious Lee Priory Press, in whose library the poem was written. Quillinan is perhaps best known as an avid defender of the poetry of William Wordsworth. Following Quillinan's retirement from the army and his move to the banks of the Rotha river, between… Read More

London: John Calder, 1964. 168pp. Brown paper wrappers. Postage stamps dated 1 May 1964 to front wrap, evidence of glue staining, some tape remaining, losses to spine ends. A street address of a Mrs Mitchell in red pen has been crossed out. Internally bright though page block is loosening. 'H. Williamson Copy' in blue ink to the half title, possibly in the hand of Richard Calvert Williamson. Ann Quin (1936-1973) was a British writer known for her experimental and avant-garde style, publishing four novels before her death at the age of thirty-seven. After a year-long affair with Henry Williamson, then forty years her senior, she was immortalised as the character Laura Wissilcraft in his 1972 novel The Gale of the World. . Proof copy. 8vo.

London: Printed for the Author, by J. Haddon, 1817. 132pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, without front blank fly-leaf, foxed. The rare first edition (‘printed for the author’) of a lengthy devotional poem on the glories of Jerusalem by Thomas Quin, presumably the same author of several contemporary Latin grammars and sometime Master of the Classical and Commercial Academy, Maldon, Essex. A second, corrected edition appeared in 1827. Rare: COPAC locates a single copy (BL), OCLC adds no further. Jackson p.417.. First edition. 12mo.

Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796. In two volumes.[2], xxiv, 335pp, [7]; [2], 384pp, [8]. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, gilt supralibros to upper and lower boards, gilt initials 'R.O.S.' to spines. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, later bookplates of Thomas Gaisford to FEPs, volume statements on titles partially deleted to convert 'XVI' and 'XVII' to 'I' and 'II' respectively, scattered foxing. An anthology of fifteenth-century Spanish poetry, edited by philologist, translator, and literary editor Pedro Estala (1757- 1815), under the pseudonym of Ramón Fernández, originally published as volumes XVI and XVII in his Colección de poetas españoles series. Estala's monumental compilation consisted of total of twenty volumes published between 1786 and 1798. This edition of these two, self-contained volumes, is that expanded… Read More

Heidelbergae [i.e. Heidelberg]: Apud Ieronymum Comelinum, 1594. [32], 458pp, [22]. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. Extremities worn, loss to spine. Hinges exposed, without pastedowns/free-endpapers, early ownership inscriptions of George and John Risley to title page. A late sixteenth century edition, with two early English ownership inscriptions, of the Declamations, nineteen model speeches on fictitious court cases, commonly ascribed to the Roman rhetorician Quintilian, though likely composed by an unknown author or authors, perhaps in the second or third centuries A.D. These are the only extant full Latin controversiae, the practice speeches whose composition and delivery formed the mainstay of Roman higher education. Declamation therefore had a profound effect on the literature of the Empire, and also on subsequent European literature, rhetoric, and education. The present edition additionally contains excerpts from the Declamationes of Roman senator and consul of the second century Calpurnius… Read More

London: Partridge and Oakey, 1849. xxiii, [1], 141pp, [3]. Frontispiece and three further engraved plates, two vignette engravings to text. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt. Some fading to spine. Lord Dinorben's copy, with his bookplate to FEP and presentation inscription to him by the author to presentation leaf. William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben (1767-1852), Welsh businessman and philanthropist. Hughes inherited the Llysdulas estate, which included the largest copper mine in Europe. . First Edition. 12mo.