Search Results: Titles starting with E from John Price Antiquarian Books

Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz 1861 [actually 1863],. 3 volumes. 8vo, 150 x 108 mms., pp. [iv], 342 [345 colophon, 346 blank]; [vi], 330 [331 colophon, 332 blank]; [iv], 323 [324 colophon], half buckram, gilt spines,marbled boards. A very good set, with the autograph "E. S. Spices" (I thnk) on teh top margin of the front past-down end-paper of each volume, and "Edith Saumerly" on the top margin of the series title-page. Mrs. Henry Wood (née Price [no relation], 1814–1887) was the author of a number of novels, but this one, designated a "sensation novel" was a best seller, frequently reprinted, made into movies, etc. It was was originally serialised in The New Monthly Magazine between January 1860 and September 1861, being issued as a three-volume novel on 19 September 1861. A contemporary reviewer, Samuel Lucas, in The Times for 25 January 1862, despite some misgivings about the absurd plot, ended his review, asserting that the novel satisfies "the… Read More

Oxford: Printed by T. Combe...; Sold by J. G. and J. Rivington...[inter alia], 1840. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 205 x 133 mms., pp. 144, contemporary boards, later reback; binding slightly worn, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox on the front paste-down end-paper, and an ink inscription on the recto of the front free end-paper, "Ex libris/ P. H. Bossier/ Coll: Exon:/ Oct 19th/ 1843." Hawker (1803 - 1875) was an Anglican priest, noted for his determination to give Christian burials to seaman who died in shipwrecks. He had two interesting marriages: at the age of 19, he married Charlotte Eliza I'ans, who was 41. She died in 1863, and in the following year he married Pauline Kuczynski, aged 20, by whom he had three daughters, Morwenna Pauline Hawker, Rosalind Hawker and Juliot Hawker. Ecclesia was noticed in The Churchman's Monthly Review for 1841: "This very handsome volume is merely a specimen, and that perhaps a favourable one, of the… Read More

[Bath]: Printed for Private Distribution among Friends. [W. & F. Dawson, Printers, Market Place, Bath. 1868. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 110 mms., pp [vi], 75 [76 blank], original maroon cloth, blocked in gilt on front cover, gilt spine. A very good to fine copy. These are the rare and surprisingly fine verse translations of Virgil's eclogues by Henry Duncan Skrine (1815-1901) of Warleigh Manor, Somerset. Skrine was educated at Wadham College in the University of Oxford, and an impressive number of his progeny became Oxonians themselves in due course: five are named in Alumni Oxonienses. It may say something of the quality of a nineteenth-century Oxonian education in classical language and literature that Skrine graduated B.A. in 1837, and published these dextrous translations of Virgil more than three decades later. Skrine's Eclogues of Virgil is such a rare book that COPAC finds no copies beyond BL and Oxbridge. OCLC adds UC Berkeley, Yale, Library of Congress, and… Read More

Bristol [Printed at The Mercury Press], August 1813. 8vo, pp. xx, 43 [44 blank], including half-title, original boards, uncut; corner cut from blank leaf before half-title, spine defective with most of paper missing. Armstrong (1709 - 1779) published The Oeconomy of Love in 1736, and it was frequently reprinted thereafter, though he did not include it in his collected works. He revised and shortened the work for an edition published in 1768, in which he toned down some of the more lubricious passages. The text of the poem here is 617 lines long. The anonymous editor has supplied an introduction of some 15 pages, in which he makes much of the mention in the poem of Gaspar Tagliacozzi (1545 - 1599), who also has a place in Tristram Shandy, in a discourse about the surgical repair of noses.

Edinburgh: Printed for W. Gordon, T. Brown, N. R. Cheyne, & Silvester Doig, Edinburgh; W. Coke, Leith; J. Gillies, Glasgow; & G. Milln & W. Brown, Dundee, 1792. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 175 x 105 mms., pp. [ii], x [xi - xii blank], 359 [360 adverts], engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette on title-page, engraved music throughout text, stout library buckram; ex-library with library stamp in blind on title-page, autograph "J. Johnston" on top margin of title-page. The first song in this volume is "To Anacreon in Heaven," to which the American national anthem owes some musical debt. "Rule, Britannia" appears somewhat later. An American theme returns with "The Celebrated Death-Song of the Cherokee Indian, An Original Indian Air." A second volume was published in 1793.

Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for John Fairbairn (Successor to Mr Creech), 1815. 8vo, pp. [xl], 372, 4 pages adverts at end, engraved portrait of Creech as frontispiece, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, marbled boards; joints cracked, spine rubbed and starting to split on lower portion. Creech (1745 - 1815) published this first in 1791 under the pseudonym Theophrastus, and this expanded version includes new essays.

London: Longmans, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 176, original cloth, fine copy in very slightly soiled dust-jacket.

Oslo: Akademisk Forlag; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 176, original cloth, fine copy in slightly faded dust-jacket.

London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1966. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 161, original cloth, fine copy in fine dust-jacket.

Gwrecsam: Aegraphwyd gan J. Painter, 1801. FIRST WELSH TRANSLATION. 8vo, pp. xxxiii [xxxiv blank, xxxv errata, xxxvi blank], 257 [258 blank], contemporary sheepskin; joints repaired. This is a translation by Walter Davies, also known as Cynddelw and Gwallter Mechain, of Gisborne's Familiar Survey of the Christian Religion (1799).

Philadelphia: J. P. Skelly & Co..., 1868. ?FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 166 x 113 mms., pp. 232, steel-engraved frontispiece, one other illustration at page 202, original cloth; in very poor condition. Miss Connell appears to be an American author, and she is described on the title-page as the author of Carl's Home. WorldCat also describes her as the author of The Little Ladies of Ellenwood and their Hidden Treasure, Bessie at Stony Lonesome, or, Charlie's Mission, and Margarethe and Waldemar, the little Swedes, locating only one copy of each of these. I found no copy of Carl's Home. The only copy of Eleanor's Lesson that I have located is in the BL.

London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1797. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, 158 x 95 mms., pp. [vii], iv - xii [xiii - xvi Contents], 106 [107 - 108 adverts];, including half-title; [xvi -list of subscribers],xv [xvi blank, xvii - xx Contents], 117 [118 blank, 119 adverts, 120 blank], with 5 engraved plates in volume 1, engraved portrait of Smith and 4 engraved plates in volume 2, contemporary calf, gilt spines; fragment of one label on volume 2, front joint volume 1 cracked (but firm), slight other wear to bindings. Charlotte Smith (née Turner, 1749 - 1806) is better-known for her Elegiac Sonnets than for any of her other writings. Wordsworth said of her that she was, "a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered...."

London, Printed for Robert Horsfield...Sold by R. and J. Dodsley..., 1763. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [ii], 22, final blank leaf; lacks half-title, disbound, ex-library with library stamp in blind on title-page and shelf marks on verso of title-page. The three elegies are "To a Young Nobleman," "In the Garden of a Friend," and "On the Death of a Lady," the last being the Countess of Coventry, noted for her beauty. The young nobleman was Lord John Cavendish, the friend's garden is that of John Wood, whom Mason knew at Cambridge. Gaskell 7.

[Poughnill, near Ludlow, Shropshire, England: George Nicholson, 1807. Small 12mo (in 6s), 134 x 83 mms., pp. 61 [62 Contents], engraved title-page (soiled and browned); lacking pages 7 – 10. This was one of the first books the printer/publisher/vegetarian George Nicholson (1760-1825) published when he moved to Stourport in 1807. Not traced in Copac, WorldCat, or OCLC.

A Paris, Chez. Ph. D. Pierres..., 1774. 8vo, pp. xii, 530 [531 - 532 errata], 16 folding engraved plates at end, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, morocco label; plates a little frayed at edges and some worming of margins, slight water-staining of lower portion of first 20 leaves of text, corners worn, with lower front cover damaged.

A Lyon, Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset..., 1766. 8vo, 207 x 130 mms., pp. [iv], xxxvi, 236 [237 - 240 Approbation and Privilege], including half-title, ten folding engraved plates at end, title-page in red and black, fore-edges uncut, recent rebound in half calf, gilt spine, marbled boards. A very good copy. D'Alembert's first exposure to music theory was in 1749 when he was called upon to review a Mémoire submitted to the Académie by Jean-Philippe Rameau. This article, written in conjunction with Diderot, would later form the basis of Rameau's 1750 treatise Démonstration du principe de l'harmonie. D'Alembert wrote a glowing review praising the author's deductive character as an ideal scientific model. He saw in Rameau's music theories support for his own scientific ideas, a fully systematic method with a strongly deductive synthetic structure. Two years later, in 1752, d'Alembert attempted a fully comprehensive survey of Rameau's works in his… Read More

Edinburgi, Venales Prostant apud Gordon et Murray. 1780. 8vo (in 4s), 211 x 121 mms., pp. [iv], 418 [419 - 445, 446 blank], contemporary calf, red leather label; end-papers affected by camp, but a good copy with the armorial bookplate of Cuninghame of Lainshaw on the front paste-down end-paper, and the autograph and date "Tho Cuninghame 1780" on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper. The provenance is probably that of Thomas Cuninghame, eldest son of the eccentric William Cuninghame, the "Tobacco Lord," who made a fortune in the American colonies between 1748 and 1762, but who was disinherited by his father. Heineccius (1681 - 1741) was one of the most important philosophical jurists of his time, and he treated law as if it were one of the sciences. The first edition of this work was published in Amsterdam in 1731 ESTC N9119 locates copies in Aberdeen, NLS (3), and Dublin Honourable Society of King's Inn in these islands; Library and Archives,… Read More

Londini: Typis Caroli Ackers.... Prostant apud R. Knapton..., & C. Crownfiedl & G. AThurlbourn..., 1730. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], vi [vii - viii Index], 103 [104 Errata], contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (rubbed), raised bands on spine, red morocco label. A very good copy, with additions to the errata in a contemporary hand and the authograph "Thos. Wickins/ Oxon" on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper. The Dutch Orientalist scholar Thomas van Erpe (1584 - 1624), aka Thomas Erpenius, having learned several languages, became professor of Arabic in Holland in 1612 and was the first European to publish an accurate book of Arabic grammar. His Rudimenta linguae Arabicae was published in 1620. Leonard Chappelow (16902 - 1768) was a sizar to St. John's College, Cambridge, and, having completed his M. A. in 1716 was ordained deacon at Ely. He was appointed professor of Arabic in1720 and devoted himself to editing and translating.… Read More

London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton..., 1746. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 120 mms., pp. [vi], 324. [12 - Index], 25 folding engraved plates, which are numbered 1-3, then lettered A-Y (minus J and V), contemporary calf, rebacked in morocco, dark red label on spine; generally a good copy, with clear impressions of the plates. The autograph of the unbiquitiusly-promiscuious nomenclature "John Smith" on the top margin of the title-page, the Caldecott bookplate on the front paste-down end- paper, and on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, "John Yerbury Dent/ 1918" and below that and ex-libris stamp, "J. R. Kirkup." "John Kirkup, MD, MA, FRCS, Dip Hist Med studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London, qualifying in 1952. After service in the Royal Navy he worked as an orthopedic surgeon for the Bath Clinical Area, Somerset, introducing ankle joint replacement to the United Kingdom in 1976. Always intrigued by the… Read More

London: Printed for T. Pay and Son..., 1784. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 214 x 127 mms., pp. xxvi [xxvii note, xxviii blank], 372 [373 - 375 Addenda, 376 blank, 377 - 416 Index], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; front joint cracked, rear joint slightly cracked, corners slightly worn, binding a little rubbed, but a good copy. The philologist and clergyman Robert Nares (1753–1829) was one of the most innovative of the scholars in the late 18th century interested in the structure of language, and ODNB notes, "It was one of a number of works published during the last quarter of the eighteenth century (and later) which aimed to provide speakers, especially the linguistically insecure and those aspiring to middle-class status, with clear guidance on how certain words were to be pronounced. He drew particular attention to words in which the stress pattern was susceptible of variation, designating this area of vocabulary 'the most unstable part of… Read More