Search Results: Titles starting with C from Voewood Rare Books

London: Printed for A. Millar 1748, 1748. First edition. 4to (255x195mm). pp. [i], 81, [1]. The advertisement final leaf is present which also gives a list and explanation of the obsolete words used in the poem. Book label of George Rylands. Rebound in 20th century by Gray of Cambridge in grey paper covered boards, with an attractive printed paper label on upper cover. Final leaf of poem has upper corner torn, with loss to heading and a tear on the title page has been repaired with tape to its verso. Title-page and final page soiled, otherwise a very good copy. James Thomson is best known now for The Seasons but this poem, published in the last year of his life, which sought to praise the virtues of hard work over the "false luxury" of indolence, revivified the Spenserian stanza form and influenced the Romantic poets of the early 19th century.

Paris: Chez Leviez 1770, 1770. Complete set of six crayon manner engravings made from designs from Jean Pillement and engraved by Louis Gautier-Dagoty (two signed plates) and Arnaud-Eloi Gautier-Dagoty (four unsigned plates). Printed in black and red with an additional suite in the variant state printed in black, the set comprises a total of twelve plates including the two title pages (250x180mm). The engravings are trimmed close to the plate mark and pasted onto blank leaves (292x225mm). Slightly soiled in places and some staining to the monochrome prints but this is a lovely set, in very good condition, of a scarce collection of Rococo designs by one of the leading artists and designers working in the style. Worldcat records no copies. We have located only two complete sets at the Getty and the Ackland Museum at the UNC, Chapel Hill. Nineteenth century mottled calf, gilt borders to covers, spine with five raised bands and gilt decoration in the compartments with red morocco label lettered in… Read More

Tokyo: Pacific Press Service 1982, 1982. First edition. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 112. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by W. Eugene Smith. Bound in card, upper and lower cover illustrated. Illustrated paper slipcase with some tears but rare in any condition. The book is in superb condition. It is a catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Pacific Press Service whose founder was Robert Kirschenbaum. Kirschenbaum organised this retrospective of Eugene Smith's work in 1982, four years after Smith's death. The photographs, which are very nicely reproduced, cover a thirty year span and all aspects of Eugene Smith's work. This book is a presentation copy from Smith's widow, Ailen to the legendary photo editor John G. Morris. It is inscribed "To John, In memory of Shinjuku, Odakyu, March 21 1982, Best, Ailen M. Smith. Morris is Eugene Smith's executor and so this exhibition was organised with Morris's permission, co-operation and insight. This is a… Read More

London: C and J Ollier 1821. Second edition. pp. xvii (but xv), 104. Lacking half title. The original book has been disbound and the pages cut, very neatly and expertly and then carefully pasted at the hinge edge on a leaf of plain white paper so that the leaves of text are interleaved with the plain leaves. This is one way in which prompt books were made, allowing for notes and directions to be written on the plain leaves without disturbing the text. The leaves of text are cut to measure 151x95mm and the plain paper is 235x190mm. Bound in contemporary tan half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Rebacked with spine lettered in gilt. The centre of the upper and lower covers has a circular morocco label stamped in gilt with a coat of arms around which, in a circular band is stamped in gilt in gothic lettering, Johannes Ludovicus Gautier. Apart from some scuffing to the boards and bumping to the corners, the binding is in very good condition. Internally it is in fine condition with a little marking to… Read More

Paris: Images Obliques 1979, 1979. First edition. 218x141mm. pp. 112. Original black cloth lettered in black to upper cover and spine, in fine condition. The contents consist of a seven page introductory essay by Pierre Bourgeade entitled "La clé est chez le concierge" followed by Molinier's unsettling and challenging erotic imagery which owes much to his links to the surrealist movement. A very good copy in fine condition. Cent photographies erotique is the fourth of the collection "Images Obliques" produced by Roger Borderie and Michel Camus.

[London] Privately published by Reza Aramesh and Tina Spear [2003], 2003. The first issue of Centrefold Scrapbook. Limited edition, 37 of 60. 365x275mm. Unpaginated, [pp.32]. Centrefold is a limited edition publication in scrapbook format. This first issue is a standard child's scrapbook with bright yellow card wrappers and coloured pages stapled at the spine. The front cover has the title stencilled in black. Below it is a five pointed star cut out from a pizza takeaway leaflet. The lower cover is pasted with similar pizza leaflets out of which a five pointed star has been cut to show the yellow card underneath. It is protected by a plastic wrapper and is in very good condition throughout. Each page (or in some cases double page) is devoted to the work of an artist (there are seventeen credited) who is invited to create their own personal scrapbook out of that page. The ideas, proposals and concepts of the artists are then edited and curated by Reza Amaresh to create the book that we see. Among… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co 1802, 1802. Second Bewick edition. 8vo. 235x160mm. pp. xxiii, [i bl]; 105 [1bl]. Illustrated with thirteen wood engravings, twelve by Thomas Bewick from designs by his brother John and the final one by Bewick's pupil Charlton Nesbit. Bound in navy blue morocco, decorated in gilt and blind. Turn ins decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Corners a little worn, some marking and scuffing to boards and rubbing to upper joint but overall a handsome binding in good condition. Some foxing and spotting but otherwise internally very good. A nice copy of this popular poetical work on hunting charmingly illustrated.

Nashville, Tennessee Athens Music Company 1967, 1967. First Edition. pp. [8], (54). Original blue cloth, no dust jacket as issued. Spine lettered in gold. Title and portrait of Atkins blocked in gold on front cover. Signed by Chet Atkins' in black ink on title page. Some loosening to the spine but the contents are fine. Illustrated on every page with photographs from Atkins' life. Fine/very good Atkins revolutionised and popularised country music, creating what became known as the Nashville sound. He played on hundreds of hit songs, including those of Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers. His own albums sold more than 75 million copies. When asked how he felt about being a globally celebrated guitarist, he deftly replied: "it beats working". Atkins' signature is uncommon.

1971, 1971. Eight telegrams from Curt Claudio in America to John Lennon at Tittenhurst Park, Ascot. The telegrams are pasted as a group onto red card and framed. Most are in good condition although two are water stained and two others have some staining to the edges but all eight are clear and legible. They are part of a strange and fascinating story. � In May 1971, a young man from California was found in the grounds of John Lennon's house, Tittenhurst Park, Ascot. His name was Curt Claudio and he had been sleeping in the garden for a few days. Before flying to England, he had sent numerous letters and telegrams to Lennon. He felt that he had a special connection to Lennon and the Beatles and that Lennon's songs were intentionally directed at him. He was obsessed with Lennon. These telegrams sent in the weeks and months before Claudio's appearance in Ascot are addressed variously to Tittenhurst, Tippenhurst and Pittenhurst and Claudio's address is given as 300 Coelho St,… Read More

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge n.d. [1897], 1897. First edition. 170x115mm. pp. 92, 4 (publications of the SPCK). Original black cloth illustrated with two ghostly white figures - a woman mourning over a prostrate dead man. Some creasing to the cloth. Internally very good with some light soiling in places. Front free endpaper has a Sunday School prize inscription dated October 10th 1897. Attractive head and tail pieces. A very good copy of a rare book telling of the Christmas-time haunting of the White Room at Colston Grange.

Rome: Typis Hæredum Corbelletti 1650, 1650. First edition. 4to. 237x180mm. ff. [40]. Engraved title page and nineteen engraved portraits. Contemporary limp vellum, small hole to bottom edge of upper cover and a very small hole to foot of spine and some slight soiling but otherwise in very good condition. Front pastedown has the bookplate of Sloley Hall in Norfolk. Internally, there is some staining, quite heavy in places but overall a very attractive copy of a rare book: a nice example of an attractively printed Italian seventeenth century book with particularly good and striking illustrations. The engravings are unattributed and we have been unable to discover the artist. The British Museum, which has copies of these engravings from a later edition, simply state that the artist is anonymous. A pity as they are fine portraits. USTC records only thirteen copies of which ten are in Italy. Rare in commerce, we have been unable to trace any copies appearing at auction records. Ferdinando Ughelli… Read More

Verona: Officina Bodoni. 1971, 1971. First Bodoni edition, one of ten copies for printed "ad personam", this copy with the presentation: "This copy has been printed for David Earl of Crawford". A further 160 numbered copies were also issued. Folio, 345x250mm. pp. 121, [1bl], 1 colophon. Original quarter vellum, spine lettered in gilt with the Bodoni device in gilt on upper cover. With plastic wrapper, housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel after Albrecht Dürer. A fine copy. David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975), served as chairman of the National Trust from 1945 to 1965, alongside serving as trustee of the Tate and National Galleries, the British Museum, and the National Library of Scotland. Dürer's illustrations for Andria were made in Basel around 1492 for a planned edition of Terence, but the woodblocks were never cut. For this Bodoni edition, the original drawings were copied onto new… Read More

Paris: Librairie G. Baranger Fils. n.d. [c.1910], 1910. First edition. Folio. 323x250mm. pp. 83 leaves of thick cream paper. 3 leaves with title page, index and contents pasted on, 80 leaves on each of which is pasted a plate illustrating seven hundred different types of lamps and lighting from early Christian examples from the first century to the nineteenth century. Blue half cloth, white vellum covered boards. Illustrated and lettered paper labels on upper cover and spine. Small tear to top edge of the label on the upper cover. Some marking to vellum and bumping to head and foot of spine but overall in very good condition and internally near fine. Loosely inserted are two double sided leaves advertising books by L. Roger-Miles on the decorative arts. And there are two booklets (one of 12pp and the other of 48pp) advertising books on art and architectural history published by Librairie G Baranger. A very nice example of an early twentieth century French reference work on the decorative arts.

n.p. n.p. n.d. c1830, 1830. An unpublished manuscript literary magazine in twelve numbers. 178x120mm. pp. [2], 256, [2]. Brown half calf notebook with marbled paper covered boards. Joints a little worn and split at the foot of the spine at the lower cover. Chipping to head and foot of spine. Paper label to spine printed with the title "The Companion". Hinges are worn and splitting in places and there is some slight soiling but overall it is in good condition. The text is very clear and although it appears to have been written by more than one hand, the exceptionally neat italic style is uniform throughout. The contributors are referred to only by their initials (R, E, J.D. and V, although one is called "Theta"). On the title page is the epigraph "The first quality in a Companion is Truth" - Sir William Temple. This is printed on a small piece of paper and pasted onto the leaf. It has almost certainly been cut out of a copy of Leigh Hunt's literary journal, also… Read More

Halle: in Berlegung des Waysenhaus 1740, 1740. Third edition. 8vo. (170x95mm). pp. [xx], 1102, [50]. Full calf, decorated in gilt. All edges gilt and gauffered. Some rubbing to the covers and bumping and wear to the corners. Rubbing to the joints with some splitting to the joint with the upper cover. The foot of the spine is rubbed and the head is worn with some loss. Internally, an excellent copy, fresh and clean with only the usual browning found in German books of this period. Engraved frontispiece with six biblical scenes. The front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of Charles Kingsley and the verso of the ffep has the inscription: "Alexander Macmillan. From the study of Eversley Rectory. In memoriam Charles Kingsley. 1882". Johann Porsts (1668-1723) was a leading member of the Pietist movement which challenged the mainstream, orthodox Lutheran Church by stressing the need for personal holiness and an internalised spirituality. It was viewed as religiously suspect and socially divisive.… Read More

Manchester and London: Hurst Chance and Co. and Hunt and Clarke n.d. [1825-1829]. Six parts bound in two volumes. 12mo in 6s (180x110mm). pp. [36], 378ll; [6], 445ll. The first two parts were printed in Manchester under a slightly different title. They were then reissued in London under the present title between 1825 and 1829. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards. Spine has four raised bands decorated in gilt, compartments decorated in blind. Contrasting lettering pieces, lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. A little rubbing at the extremities. Contents are in excellent condition with only very slight foxing in places. There is a newspaper cutting from "Willis's Current Notes" from 1857 tipped in to volume one. It is written by a friend of Dodd's, replying to an enquiry from an earlier edition of the magazine. Ownership inscription of Corbyn Barrow, Lancaster, 1849. This is a very nice set of a rare work of staggering, albeit unfulfilled, ambition. Copac locates seven copies in the UK and… Read More

Paris: Robert Laffont 2003, 2003. First Edition. Presentation copy to John Morris, legendary photo-editor of Life Magazine/New York Times, who was with Capa at the Normandy landings: "To my very good friend John, with all my great full and all my love! A.F." Folio. pp. [84 unpaginated]. Numerous illustrations. Text in French. Postface de Philippe Sollers. The first important monograph on the work of Alejandra Figueroa. Original maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated dust-jacket. Black endpapers. A fine copy in a fine dust-jacket. An oversize item: please ask shipping costs before ordering, particularly to locations outside the U.K.

London: Printed by and for Hodgson & Co 1823, 1823. First edition. 8vo. pp. 24. Folding coloured frontispiece depicting various scenes from the tale and dated July 23rd, 1823. Later grey boards preserving original spine. Occasional slight loss to upper margins of a few leaves. COPAC only lists two copies held at the BL.

New York: Privately Printed Christmas 1915, 1915. 8vo. pp. 47 [half-title/frontispiece unopened]. Frontispiece photograph by A.L. Coburn. Floral decoration to boards, black printing on white label to upper cover. Some damage/tears to corners and spine extremities. A good copy.

London: Haskins Press 1975, 1975. Limited edition. 350x270mm. Unpaginated [pp156]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A seminal book in the history of photography, fashion, design, soft-focus erotica and social history. Although Cowboy Kate is clearly a work of its time (mid 1960s) what lends it an eternal charm is the light touch humour that defines (for good or ill) the British attitude to nudity and sex.