Search Results: Titles starting with I from E C Books

London : Herbert Jenkins Limited A near fine copy of the 1st edition, 7th printing, in good dustwrapper. The wrapper titles include Quick Service, suggesting that the book was issued circa 1940. The wrapper was designed by Heath Robinson. It has a lighter, sunned, spine with nibbling to the top and bottom of the spine with slight loss. There is a small hole at the front flap fold and some repaired small edge tears. The jacket is in a removable protective wrap. The orange cloth binding is in bright near fine condition with just a little rippling at the bottom of the spine. Contents near fine - with light toning to pages. 8 pp adverts at the rear.

London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1828 A good copy of Mandibulata Vol I of this 12 volume work. Complete with 9 hand coloured plates by Curtis and Westwood as called for. Stephens (1792-1852) was a leading entomologist and founder member of the Royal Entomological Society of London. The contemporary binding is green half leather with marbled boards. Spine with gilt titles and gilt lines. Page edges are untrimmed. The binding is sound but with scuffing and wear to edges and corners. There is an ink signature to the fep. Contents: title page 1828; introduction 2pp; text pp 1-184; index 2pp; plate index; errata. With 9 plates. There is some offsetting to the text, a little pencil annotation and a couple of ink underlinings. Occasional spotting. A scarce work

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913 A good copy of the 1st trade edition of 'In Powder and Crinoline' with 24 tipped in colour plates and numerous designs by Kay Nielsen. Undated but 1913. This was Kay Nielsen's first published book illustration and his reputation was such that Arthur Quiller-Couch was commissioned to find and rewrite the fairy tales to the title chosen by Nielsen. His illustrations are unique and unforgettable. This copy is in the publisher's quarter cloth binding with grey card boards. The spine has gilt titles and designs and the front board has red titles and grey illustration. The binding is sound but with the usual wear: pulling to the top and bottom of the spine and edge wear to the boards with some browning and marking. The decorative endpapers are present with some light browning and there is some repair to the front endpaper joint. Contents are complete including half title; frontispiece with tissue guard; title page on thick grey paper with red lettering;… Read More

LONDON : Willis and Sotheran, 1856 In very clean and undamaged red cloth library binding with gilt titles to spine. Originally owned by Nottingham City Public Library - there is a library stamp to the front endpaper and small oval stamps to the title page and each page of plates (usually at the bottom and not over the plate itself). Contents extremely bright and clean. The book looks unread. Some of the pages have been printed more lightly than others. Sylvanus revised Wood's work - changing the system of classification from that of Linneus to that of Lamarck. With 46 coloured plates of shells.

London: T Becket , 1774 A fair copy of the 3rd edition of this scarce work, in contemporary binding with folding frontispiece. Holwell (1711-1798) was an employee of the East India Company and a surgeon. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767 and was temporary Governor of Bengal. He survived the incident known as the 'Black Hole of Calcutta' and this work contains an account of his experiences together with other works. With folding frontispiece 'representing the Monument erected at Calcutta, in Memory of Sufferers in the Black-Hole Prison'; title page; dedication pp i-vii; half title and text 432pp. The full leather binding is complete but the front board is detached and the title label to the spine is damaged. There is some edge wear and scuffing but the binding could be easily repaired. The stitching is sound. The frontispiece is complete - with a small repaired tear where it is attached to the book. The text is complete and in good condition. There is general light brown… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd A near fine copy of the 15th printing, circa 1950, in a near fine wrapper. The binding is red cloth with black titles. It is very bright and clean with some spots to the foredge. The wrap is complete, bright and clean and priced at 6/- on the spine. There is very light edge nibbling and a little scuffing/wear at the folds. The latest title on the back flap is Nothing Serious.

London: J M Dent & Co, 1907 A good to very good copy of this classic work with 24 colour plates, 12 tinted plates and numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 1st edition thus. Rackham first illustrated Ingoldsby Legends in 1898 using a smaller format and without tipped in colour plates. He revisited the work in 1907 adding plates and redrawing some of the other illustrations. The subject matter, including as it does witches, spectres, knights and monks (and a finally repentant Jackdaw), is well suited to Rackham's style. The decorative binding is in clean and tight condition with slight pulling to the spine and a very small bump to the bottom corner of the back board. There is some light ink marking, more prevalent on the back board but with a few spots to the front. Top page edges gilted; remainder untrimmed. Internally the dark green decorative endpapers are present without mark. There is an inscription to the half title. Contents are complete, clean and in very good condition. There is a small… Read More

LONDON: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940 A near fine copy of the 11th printing of the first edition in bright orange cloth binding with a black silhouette of Jeeves chasing Harold the page boy on the front board. This book contains the immortal story of Bertie Wooster's stay at Twing and the attempts to place bets on entrants to the Vicar's Fete. This printing is circa 1940 and the book is with a slightly later wrap - probably 1949 - in fair condition. The binding is very bright and clean with slight pulling to spine ends and light wear to corners. There is some spotting at the top page edges (not visible internally) and a few spots to the foredge. Contents are very clean with some light foxing spots at the endpapers and a slight pale mark in the gutter at p 224. The paper is lightly toned. The wrap has general edge nibbles with loss at the top and bottom of the spine, and the flap folds. There is some marking to the front panel and some spotting, visible at the edges, and more predominant on the inside… Read More

Londini: Ex officina typographica Thom. Cotes, 1634 A fair copy of the first printing of Insectorum Theatrum, classed as 'fair' because the title page and final plate page are in facsimile. The title page is that of the 3rd issue with a single printer named, but the book itself is 1st issue with page numbering at p 48 corrected in manuscript. This work was the first book on entomology to be published in Britain, and, although credited largely to Thomas Moffet (1553-1604), began as part of Conrad Gesner's researches in the mid 1500's. Thomas Penny and Caspar Wolf continued the work after Gesner's death, and Moffet, who was a neighbour and friend of Penny's, rescued the manuscript after Penny's death. It was finally published after Moffet's death by Theodore Mayerne (cf Lisney - Bibliography of British Lepidoptera). This copy has contemporary boards, rebacked with a newer spine and title label. The binding is in very good clean condition: there is wear to the boards but… Read More

London : J Johnson, 1795 A very good copy of this scarce title, with 46 superb hand coloured plates. William Lewin (1747-1795) intended this work to be the first volume of 'The Insects of Great Britain' series. However he died in 1795 with only this volume completed. This is the rare first issue which has the series title page and ends 'End of Volume I'. The second issue amends the title to the 'Papilios of Great Britain' making it stand-alone. This copy is a later half vellum binding with blind stamped decoration to the buckram boards. Page edges have light marbling and the endpapers are marbled. The binding is in very good condition. There is corner wear particularly to the bottom corners, which are bumped with leather loss. Contents: title pages in French and English; half title page 'The insects of Great Britain'; text in French and English with 46 hand coloured plates; index 3pp. There are 2 mispaginations: plate 6 with text is placed after plates 7 and 8; and… Read More

Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1642 An extremely scarce 1st edition copy of Francis Potter's work. Potter (1594-1678) was a clergyman with a wide range of other interests. He was an early member of the Royal Society (admitted in 1663), experimenting with bees, theorising about blood transfusion and making instruments including a sundial. He developed a theory that the approximate square root of 666 - 25 - had a strong connection with catholic institutions. His first attempt to set this out in 1637 was described as a 'wonderful discovery' by Joseph Mede, whose 'judgement' is included in the work. This copy has been rebacked, relaying as much as possible of the spine, which has raised bands, red title label and the date at the base. The corners have been rebuilt. The boards are marbled with a stain on the rear board. Edges are scuffed. Internally there is the armorial bookplate of William Legge to the front pastedown endpaper. The endpaper joints have been repaired. Page edges are red. Contents:… Read More

EDINBURGH: W H Lizars, S Highley et al, 1840 A very good copy of the first edition in the original publisher's cloth binding, which has been rebacked relaying the spine. With volume listing; half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Baron de Geer; hand coloured vignette title page of insects; 2 further title pages; publisher's advert (unopened); contents listing; Memoir of Swammerdam; Memoir of De Geer; text with black and white illustrations; and 36 plates bound at the rear of which 32 are hand coloured. The plates are numbered to 35, but there is a plate 12*. The binding is sound and tight and the rebacked spine has bright gilt titles. The boards are very faded at the edges. Corners with light wear. The original green endpapers are present with professional repair at the joints. The text paper is toned with the occasional light mark or spot. Some text is unopened. The plates are tissue-guarded and are very clean and well coloured. There is some offsetting to guards.

LONDON : John and Arthur Arch, 1815 A good copy of the 1st edition of this extremely rare work, with 11 plates, 9 of which are hand coloured. Brookes set out to write for those who wanted to understand Conchology, but who might not have a grounding in natural history. He took care to use english rather than latin names where possible, and to give readers a clear framework for their study. This copy is in a later speckled calf binding with gilt lining and blind stamped decoration to the board edges. The spine has raised bands with gilt lining and gilt stamped decoration. There is a leather title. It is in near fine condition. Page edges are marbled. There is an inked owners name to a preliminary - J Reid Moir. 3rd November 1919 - possibly the Reid Moir who authored 'Antiquity of Man in East Anglia'. The title page has browning and some spotting and an ink mark. The text pages vary between very clean and bright (the majority) to occasional foxing and spotting, to quite heavy foxing in the… Read More

London, Paris and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1898 A very good copy of the 3rd printing of the 1893 1st edition, in contemporary half leather binding with marbled boards and matching endpapers. Top page edges gilt. Binding is in very good clean condition with light wear to corners and edges including spine joints. Contents: half title; frontispiece with tissue guard; title; colour map; text with 26 further black and white plates 277pp. Contents in very good clean condition.

Lerwick: Johnson & Greig, 1938 A good copy of the 1st edition with photographic frontispiece and 13 f and urther photographic plates. In the original red cloth binding with gilt titles to spine. The binding has a cocked spine which is faded and pulled. The front board has gilt titles and is bright and clean. Back board with some lighter spotting, bumped corners and a light corner crease. Internally there is a signature to the front pastedown which has offset slightly to the free endpaper. Contents with half title, frontispiece, title, contents and foreward pp viii; text pp 1-256 with appendix and 13 plates. Contents in very good clean condition with the occasional light spot.