Search Results: Titles starting with B from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Richard Bentley, 1837-39. George Cruikshank. 5 vols. 8vo. Numerous plates by George Cruikshank, Phiz, and others. Modern half navy morocco and marbled boards; plates browned and foxed, some toning and occasional staingin or spotting to text, vol. V ffep loose and old paper repairs to fore-margin of contents leaf and first plate, previous owner's ink stamp to title-pages Consecutive run of the first five volumes of Bentley's Miscellany, which Charles Dickens edited from its inception through January 1839 (his Prefaces to vols. I & II are here signed "Boz"). Contains the first print appearance of Oliver Twist, serialized February 1837 to March 1839, and illustrated with 24 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Plate 19 is in its first state, reading "Dolter" for "Holter" (see Hatton and Cleaver p. 216).REFERENCE: Smith I:4, p. 36-37.

London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, 1809. Second edition. 12mo. Frontispiece and 23 plates, all hand-colored. [4], 136, [2], [2, ads] pp. Contemporary half red morocco; damage to tail end of spine, some discoloration to plates Published anonymously and now ascribed to Charles Lamb.REFERENCES: Gumichian 3594

London: Duckworth & Co; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. No. 388 of 500 copies. 4to. Seventy-one portraits and fifteen autographs reproduced by Edward Bierstadt, printed tissue guards. [xiv], 439, [1] pp., printed at the De Vinne Press. Publisher's limp vellum, titled in gilt on spine; near fine

London: Baldwin and Cradock, Simkin and Marshall, et al, 1825-1832. First edition. 4 vols. 8vo. Additional engraved title to each volume, vol. IV with engraved dedication to Queen Victoria, 384 hand-colored engraved figures on 96 plates by S. Watts after drawings by Mrs. Edward Bury, Miss E. Maund, Miss S. Maund, Edwin Dalton Smith and Mills. Contemporary green half calf over marbled boards; some light scuffing to spines, endpapers and engraved titles foxed and stained, plates clean and bright. First edition of the first four volumes, featuring delicate and finely hand-colored engravings with detailed notes on each flower's history and cultivation. The complete Botanic Garden eventually extended to 18 volumes including supplements. Printed at Maund's press at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.PROVENANCE: A.C. Hadland (signature on ffep); Henry Sotheran (bookticket and description laid-in, purchased £2,250)REFERENCE: Great Flower Books, p. 160; Nissen 2222

Newcastle: Edw[ard] Walker, 1825. One of 100 proof sets. 2 vols. in one. 4to. Half-titles with engraved vignette, 302 proof plates before letters, contemporary manuscript captions in ink with common and Latin names: Land Birds, 156 (of 157) wood-engraved plates; Water Birds, 146 (of 157) (83 numbered twice) wood-engraved plates. Later 19th-century full dark green morocco gilt by Tout, t.e.g.; foxing to preliminaries, repaired closed tear Water Birds half-title, occasional spotting to a few plates, faint presentation inscription from Thomas Kerrick, 1826, on each half-title One of 100 sets of proofs of Bewick's British Land Birds and Water Birds. Roscoe quotes a letter from Bewick to J.F.M. Dovaston, dated 26 November 1825: "I, last summer printed 100 Sets 4to of Birds & Quadrupeds, without Type for the sole use of Artists (& when interleaved) of Naturalists..."REFERENCE: Roscoe 43 & 44

Paris: Masson et Cie, 1903; 1904. 2 vols. 4to. [4], 900; [4], 1068 pp. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards; corners bumped and worn, pages toned