Search Results: Authors starting with S from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Printed by T. Badger for Matthew Wallbanck, 1642. First edition. 8vo. [vi], 167, [1] pp., lacking A1 (blank). Modern speckled calf, red morocco spine label, by Bayntun; title-page browned and chipped, small shallow gouge to fore-margin of textblock, previous ownership inscription dated 1828 on title-page First book edition of Selden's report on the privileges of the Lords, first compiled in 1621 when Selden was employed as a legal historian by the House of Lords. "[Selden] used historical evidence to establish such 'speciall rights' as proxies, freedom from lawsuits during the sitting of parliament, and the power of judicature, and such 'private' privileges as trial by peers and giving evidence by a protestation upon honour instead of upon oath (fols. 2v, 98r). Although the treatise vested judicature in the Lords, Selden was imprisoned, ironically, on suspicion of vesting it in the Commons" (ODNB).REFERENCE: ESTC R10915; Wing S2434

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841. Later edition. Robert Seymour. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo. 86 etched plates by Robert Seymour. Full red straight-grained morocco gilt, a.e.g.

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., nd [ca. 1880]. 13 volumes in 5. 12mo. Contemporary crushed red morocco, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., silk markers; rebacked preserving original gilt spine titling, tips rubbed PROVENANCE: Dame Jane Strachey, 1840-1928, English suffragist and writer, mother of Lytton Strachey (book-plate in each volume)

[Livorno], Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1819. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 104 pp. Full green crushed morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; bound without first blank, fine save for occasional pencil marks to margins First edition, one of 250 copies. Based on real events, the tragic story of Beatrice, "La Cenci," a Roman noblewoman executed in 1599 for the murder of her tyrannical and abusive father. Shelley was inspired to write the play after seeing Guido's portrait from life of the imprisoned Beatrice; he claims in the Preface that he learned the details of the case from a manuscript copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace. With its theme of the corruption and cruelty of the aristocracy, Shelley intended the work to appeal to the masses, and consciously avoided poetic language: "I have avoided with great care in writing this play the introduction of what is commonly called mere poetry, and I imagine there will scarcely be found a detached simile or a single isolated description"… Read More

London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. 8vo. viii, 109, [1], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth; small tear to head of spine, some toning and spotting to covers, endpapers foxed, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown First edition of Sir George Sitwell's classic celebration of the gardens of Tuscany, Rome and the Italian lake district more philosophical treatise than manual of plant care and practical garden design. Before the final overthrow of the Picturesque in the twentieth century, English Romantics looked once more to Italy, perceiving in its decayed villa gardens a certain kind of landscape poetry. Perhaps the most Romantic analysis of Italian villa gardens was by the early-twentieth-century English aesthete Sir George Sitwell (1860-1943), who devoted an entire chapter to its analysis in On the Making of Gardens (Rogers, et al, Romantic Gardens, p. 30)

1940-1945. 6 vols. 677 pp total. Vol. I: 1940; Vol. II: 1941; Vol. III: 1942 (31 December 1941 to 19 January 1943); Vol. IV: 1943 (12 January to 30 December); Vol. V: 17 February to 23 June 1945; Vol. VI: 24 June to 29 October 1945. Approximately 1/2 linear foot total. “I am at this stage of my obscure existence, sixteen years old ….”A remarkable and vivid self-portrait of the development of a deeply thoughtful, intelligent and talented young Jewish girl in wartime Liverpool and London. Written between the ages of 14 and 20 while Froma is living first at the family home in Liverpool (5 Sefton Park Rd) and attending Aigburth Vale High School for Girls, whose loathed headmistress is Miss E.M. Curry. Later, Froma is stationed in London while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). We see Froma grappling with her Jewish identity and sexuality (including strong attraction to several older women), experiencing frequent trouble with authority at school and home (her father appears to have… Read More

London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. Second edition. Folio. Engraved portrait frontispiece by G. Vertue after Isaac Whood, 41 engraved plates (4 folding) and 17 engraved tailpieces by L.P. Boitard. vi, 361, [1] pp. Contemporary diced russia, spine gilt; joints cracked; some offsetting from plates, dampstain outer top corner affecting plates 16-20 and 24-31 and some text leaves The second edition, corrected by the author. Attacks Spenser, Dryden etc.

York: Printed for the Author, by G. Peacock, 1793. First edition. 4to. 3 folding engraved plates, each with letterpress explanatory leaf. Half-title, list of subscribers, with additional leaf of subscribers and author's apology for errors, errata leaf at end of first part. Later nineteenth-century half calf, red morocco spine label; rebacked with spine laid-down, some foxing to plates, second plate trimmed with some loss to lower margin and legend, occasional marginal spotting or toning, mostly to explanatory leaves opposite plates Describes many of the exotic plants cultivated in England. Of particular note are plants from Australia collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander during Cook's Endeavour voyage. PROVENANCE: John Ireland Blackburne, Esq. (etched bookplate); D. Shirley (signature on pastedown)REFERENCE: ESTC T82581; Henrey 1384

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, nd. New Edition, with Additions. 4 vols. 8vo. Gift binding of full crushed green morocco, cover stamped in gilt with "Miss Spence's School" and Latin motto, t.e.g., by G.P. Putnam's; spines toned. Presentation inscription to Virginia Stewart Kellog on flyleaf from her aunt upon graduation, May 26, 1926. Attractively bound collection of Stephen's biographical and literary essays

London: J. Dodsley, et al, 1793. 10 vols. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Sherwin, and 9 engraved plates after Hogarth, Rooker, Edwards, Tomkins, Benjamin West, et al., marbled paper leaf vol. II, pp. 111-12. xx, [4], 296; [4], 307, [1]; [6], 288; [8], 264; [4], 242; [12], 284; [8], 276; [8], 280; xx, 208; vii, [1], 198 pp. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, red morocco lettering pieces; spines and joints rubbed, occasional toning and foxing, bookplate in each volume Early edition of collected works, first published 1760, includes Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, sermons and letters, and Sterne's brief memoirs written for his daughter. REFERENCE: ESTC T14787

New York: William T. Comstock, 1889. First edition. Oblong 4to. 59 plates after drawings by Stevens, numerous illustrations in text. 40 pp. Publisher's blue-green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt; spine ends repaired, hinges reinforced and now sturdy, some repairs to endsheets, covers scuffed and extremities worn, moderate soiling and scuffing, final paragraph of Preface effaced Scarce first edition of this important treatise on the Shingle Style of architecture. Stevens (1855-1940), who supplied the plans and drawings illustrated here, was a major innovator of the Shingle Style. He was prolific, completing some 1,000 commissions, mostly along the Maine coast, including approximately 300 homes on the Portland peninsula. In 1888 he formed a partnership with Albert Winslow Cobb, who had previously worked at the Boston office of William Ralph Emerson, another major innovator of the Shingle Style. Cobb, who provides the text, argues for the Shingle Style as a necessary reform to produce a… Read More

Buffalo: A. Burke, n.d. [ca. 1843]. 8vo. 432 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine titled in gilt; spine tail frayed, covers rubbed, foxed, engraved book-plate of G.E. Fisher, A.M.M.D. Based on the author's first-hand observations during a stay of several years in Paris. Includes a bibliography of French medical literature, pp, 179-209.

London: John Cassell, 1852. First Cruikshank edition. George Cruikshank. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece, title-page vignette, and 27 wood-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. xxiii, [1], 391, [1, adhered to rfep] pp. Contemporary half maroon morocco and marbled boards; rubbed, repair to front joint, textblock creased and soiled with edgewear and a few tears, gutter cracked at title-page and final few leaves; a good plus copy An early English edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the first with illustrations by Cruikshank. This edition was first issued in 13 parts beginning in October 1852; BAL identifies an earlier English edition, without illustrations, published July 1852.REFERENCE: BAL 19518 (note); Cohn 777; PMM 332 (first edition); Sabin 92470

Edinburgh: John Bell and J. Murray, 1778. First edition. 4to. [iii]-xx, 433, [1], [1, errata], [1] pp., lacking half-title. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards; worn, joints cracked, front hinge reinforced, rear cover holding by cords, occasional light foxing, horizontal tear across pp. xix-xx First edition of what is "regarded as [Stuart's] most important historical work ... The concept of property, as it developed from an object of communal to private interest, formed the framework from which Stuart considered such topics as the roles of the sexes, the place of religion, and the state of manners in medieval European society. In part Stuart wrote the View of Society in opposition to the introductory volume of William Robertson's popular History of Charles V. Where Robertson emphasized the gradual improvement of society, Stuart marked out the gradual corruption of feudal institutions, pessimistically attributing this decline to man's inability to alter his destiny" (Zachs, ODNB).PROVENANCE:… Read More

London: J. Murray, 1780. First edition. 4to. Portrait frontispiece by Sherwin after Donaldson. iv, [4], 265, [1], [2, catalogue] pp. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, red leather spine label; some wear to board edges First edition, one of 750 copies printed, of Staurt's narrative history of the Scottish Reformation, notable for its Gothic-inflected prose style. "Where many contemporary historians emphasized the systematic, the rational, and the pragmatic, Stuart believed that a more sentimental, immediate, and intentional approach could better re-create historical verisimilitude" (Zachs, ODNB).REFERENCE: ESTC T96527

Edinburgh: G. Hamilton, J. Balfour and L. Hunter and A. Stalker at Glasgow, 1752. First Scots edition of the Works, volume IX ONLY. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 199, [1], [2, errata], [2, ad] pp. Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; joints cracked, binding heavily rubbed, title-page toned and soiled, with "Volume IX" designation effaced PROVENANCE: J. Nicol Jr., 1820 (inscription on ffep); George Hume, Esq. (signature on title-page)REFERENCE: Teerink 93

[Colophon:] London: Printed for A. Baldwin, [1712]. Folio. 4 pp. Unbound and uncut bifolium; creased and toned, edges worn, in cloth folding case, worn and split First edition of this "reply, in defence of Marlborough, to The Fable of the Widow and the Cat … in which Swift had a hand" (Rothschild) which has been variously, and erroneously, attributed to Prior and Swift, as well as Arthur Mainwaring.REFERENCE: Ashley IV, p. 77; ESTC T52367; Foxon W384; Rothschild 1690; Teerink 1299PROVENANCE: Jerome Kern (book-label, his sale 1 January 1929, lot 969)