Search Results: Authors starting with T from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Strahan & Co., 1872-1873. 6 vols. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary blue morocco and marbled boards; some scuffing to spines and rubbing to joints

London: Chapman & Hall, [1847]-1855. Thackeray. 5 vols. Small 4to and 8vo. Uniform late 19th-century crushed green morocco, original glazed paper covers to each volume backed and bound-in, t.e.g., by Matthews; spines faded, light wear to extremities Mrs Perkins's Ball. London: Chapman and Hall, [1847]. Pictorial title and 21 plates (1 folding), all hand-colored, after Thackeray. [2], 46, [2] pp., with half-title. First edition. Our Street. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 14 engraved plates, all hand-colored, after Thackeray. 54, [2] pp. First edition.Doctor Birch & His Young Friends. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 14 engraved plates by Thackeray. [iv], 49, [1], [2, ads] pp. First edition, later issue with plates uncolored.The Kickleburys on the Rhine. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1851. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 13 engraved plates, all hand-colored, by Thackeray. [iv], xv, [1], 87, [1], [2, ads] pp., with half-title.… Read More

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849-50. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Engraved titles, 62 steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcuts to text by Thackeray. viii, 384; xii, 372 pp. Full calf gilt, red morocco spine labels, a.e.g., by Riviere & Son; one bruised spot on rear cover of vol. I, joints lightly rubbed REFERENCE: Van Duzer 166

Np: Privately Printed, 2021. 100 copies signed and numbered, with an additional 26 signed and lettered copies reserved for the author. 8vo. Tipped-in frontispiece after photograph by Theroux, title-page, initial line and colophon printed in color. 19, [1] pp. Sewn stiff wrappers, plain dust-jacket with printed title label. A letterpress printed, signed and limited edition of Paul Theroux's autobiographical essay, in the tradition of Henry Miller's On Turning Eighty and V.S. Pritchett's The Turn of the Years. Written on the North Shore of Oahu with Ka'ena Point in the distance, Theroux's essay explores "the foliage of my life that I have not elaborated in my books."One of 100 copies, each numbered and signed by Theroux. An additional 26 lettered copies were produced for the author's use. Designed, letterpress printed and bound by Jesse Marsolais at The Marsolais Press in Harwich, Massachusetts, in July 2021.

London: Richard Phillips, 1810. First edition. Bewick. 4to. Wood-engraved illustrations throughout by Thomas Bewick. xvi, 901, [1, ad, affixed to rear blank] pp. Contemporary calf, covers with outer border of gilt double-fillet and scallop roll in blind, diamond centerpiece device stamped in blind, flat spine gilt in compartments with black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; light wear to joints, ink splatter to front cover and small portion of textblock fore-edge and margins of index at rear, contents leaves toned, else internally clean First edition of the Thornton's reference on the medicinal uses of plants, with copious illustrations by Thomas Bewick.PROVENANCE: Willoughby C. Newton (armorial book-plate, initials to verso of ffep)

Southend-on-Sea: Young & Marten, Ltd, ca. 1924. Tall 8vo. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w, 2 tinted and 4 color wallpapers samples and 32 color paint sample swatches tipped in. 524 pp. on various paper stocks. Publisher's purple cloth, front cover titled and decorated in gilt, spine faded Attractive trade catalogue by this well known firm featuring a wide selection of home construction products including light fittings, fireplaces, bathroom fittings, leaded lights, door and window furniture, paint, wallpapers, etc.

London: Printed for the Author, 1791. First edition. Bewick. 12mo. Over 130 woodcut illustrations by John Bewick. [4], iii, v, 264 pp. Modern calf, covers with blind tooled panel of intersection diagonal fillets; light dampstaining to opening leaves, contemporary signature on half-title ("Alex C. Grant") First edition of this textbook on general knowledge for young readers, inspired by the Orbis Pictus of Comenius and illustrated with woodcuts by John Bewick.REFERENCE: Hugo 59 ("marvellously clever cuts")