Search Results: Titles starting with I from McNaughtan's Bookshop

Edinburgh: For the Author, Oliver & Boyd, 1960. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 64. Original quarter canvas, patterned paper boards, printed label to front board, tissue dustjacket. Dustjacket a little chipped at edges. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf for one of the book’s printers ‘For Ian Wilson, with the author’s warm gratitude for a magnificent job, David Cleghorn Thomson, January 1961’.

Perugia: Nella Stamperia di Piergiovanni Costantini, 1764. 5 vols., 4to, pp. xlviii, 431, [1] + frontispiece and 1 other plate; [iv], 447, [1]; [iv], 495, [1]; [iv], 471, [1]; [iv], 460. Hundreds of engravings contained within text. Untrimmed in original carta rustica, manuscript paper labels to spines. Foxed and spotted, a few gatherings showing signs of damp or marginal worming (from when the book was in sheets), one or two edge tears. Bindings soiled and stitching loosening, spine of vol. 1 partially defective, several flyleaves excised. Index in each vol. supplemented with numerous additional entries (and sometimess sections) in a neat contemporary hand. One of the fullest editions of this important emblem book, first published (without illustrations) in 1593 and much expanded by the author and subsequent editors thereafter. This edition, featuring over 370 engravings, was produced by the writer and historian Cesare Orlandi (1734-1779).

London: Printed for F. Wingrave, 1814. 12mo, pp. 262, [2, ads]. Contemporary sheep, boards dyed black, spine divided by gilt rules, red morocco label, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. A touch toned, one leaf with an internal tear touching text without loss. A little rubbed, head of spine defective. Ownership inscription of H. Musgrave to flyleaf dated Oct. 1833. A rare reprint of Chambaud’s phrasebook, aimed at the expatriate French market, and first published in 1751. All editions are institutionally scarce, with this 1814 printing being recorded in Worldcat in the State Library of South Australia only.

London: Printed for the booksellers, 1791. 2 vols., 12mo, pp. [iv], 219, [1]; [iv], 243, [1]. Original grey boards. Some light soiling. Boards rubbed and marked, rebacked with buff paper, spines lettered in black, hinges relined and front flyleaves renewed. Bookseller's label of William Whyte, Edinburgh, to vol. 1, a few pencil notes to rear endpapers. A rare and perhaps pirated printing of the essays mostly by Johnson, initially published between 1758 and 1760. The 'additional essays' (three in number, two of them on epitaphs) go back as far as the 1767 third edition. ESTC locates just two copies with this anonymous imprint, in Aberdeen and Cornell. ESTC T204761.

London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons [et al], 1790. 12mo, pp. [iii]-viii, 235, [1]iv, 267, [1, ads] + frontispieces. Half-title to vol. 1 discarded. Contemporary calf, boards bordered with a gilt rule, spines divided by gilt rolls, red and black morocco labels, edges sprinkled blue. A little spotting. Bindings rubbed. Purchase inscription to front endpapers of vol. 2: ‘Anne Dickinson. Bought with Uncle Mansell’s Legacy. Jan 4. 1795.’ ESTC N16879.

London: Printed for E. Curll, 1713. [ii], iv, 60, 105, [3], [4, ads] + frontispiece. Bound without the portrait of Creech found in some copies. Contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf, red morocco label. Lightly toned, some soiling. Extremities rubbed, a few scrapes, joints cracking at head of spine. The first edition of Creech’s translation of Theocritus by the famously unscrupulous publisher Edmund Curll, following its 1684 Oxford first appearance. Curll’s edition was reissued in 1721 with a cancel title-page, suggesting that it did not sell as well as Curll may have hoped. The BL copy has two engraved portraits, one of Creech and one of Theocritus, but the copies in Leeds and Oxford appear to have only one, so it may have been issued thus. ESTC T138189.

London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1979. FIRST BRITISH EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. 141, [3, ads]. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, dustjacket printed in red and black. Just a touch of soiling to rear panel of dustjacket, else fine. Inscribed to flyleaf: ‘June 22nd 82, London, Des Hogan’. A signed copy of the first British edition of Irish writer Desmond Hogan’s first book, preceded only by the Irish edition 2 years prior. Hogan was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1977.

London: Printed, and Sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1738. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. 304, 205-212, 313-628 (text continuous despite pagination) + frontispiece and 26 plates. Contemporary mottled calf, boards bordered with a gilt roll. Some scattered toning and spotting, one gathering browned. Sometime rebacked in paler speckled calf, red morocco label, new endpapers, boards pitted from mottling, scratched and worn. Hooper’s lavish history of the English civil war was reissued in two smaller-format volumes in 1745, but without the impressive plates that adorn this edition. ESTC T73385.

London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. 61, [3, ads]. Original green boards printed in black to a design by Vanessa Bell. Browned at spine and board edges, spine ends chipped. Scarce: ‘Woolmer says 1,000 copies were printed of which 400 were pulpled’ (H&W). Higginson & Williams A22; Woolmer 93.

Dayton, Ohio: Press of U.B. Publishing House, The Otterbein Press, 1911. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo, pp. 75, [1] + frontispiece. original green textured cloth, front board lettered and blocked in gilt. A little rubbing at extremities, spine ends bruised. Presentation inscription to flyleaf: ‘Compliments of the author J. Morton Howell.’ A rare travelogue by Dr Joseph Morton Howell (1864-1937) covering a wide swath of Europe, North Africa and The Levant, in a series of letters originally written for publication in the Dayton Herald newspaper. Leaving New York in February 1911, Howell’s trip took in Athens, Constantinople, Damascus and Jerusalem, then a whistle-stop tour of Europe passing through several capitals and visiting the houses of parliament and the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Howell would later return the the Mediterranean in his diplomatic career as American ambassador to Egypt from 1921-1927, in which capacity he was present at the opening of… Read More

London: Printed for W. Wood, 1828. 8vo, pp. xxii, [ii], 212 + 38 engraved plates. Early twentieth century half black morocco for Henry Sotheran, green cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Some spotting and foxing. Spine faded to brown. Bookseller’s label and ink ownership inscription of Spencer Ewart to front pastedown. Though named the second, this is the third edition of conchologist and bookseller William Wood’s (1774-1857) most influential work, with the first edition printed in 1818, and a second following in 1825. A supplement was printed separately in 1828 as well. Having initially adhered to the Linnean system, Wood here first acknowledges the changing tide towards the French Lamarckian system, providing a table comparing the two. In the preface, Wood states that the first six plates were engraved by James Sowerby, but that the rest were ‘executed under the immediate inspection of the Author’, though the ODNB… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1980. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 276. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. Just a touch of sunning to spine panel, else fine. Printed price to dustjacket flap struck through in pen. A sharp copy of James’ non-series psychological crime thriller. The spine of this copy is much less sunned than is normally found.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xvi, 200. Contemporary calf, boards bordered with a double gilt rule. A bit of light toning and soiling. Rubbed, extremities a touch worn, label lost from spine. Ownership inscriptions of Hamish Miles (20th-century) and Sarah Wortheston (contemporary) to flyleaf. The first work of the Irish-born critic Daniel Webb (c.1719-1798), which saw some success including translations into German and French. ESTC T131072.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875. 8vo, pp. 368. Black and white illustrations within pagination. Original blue cloth, front board and spine elaborately blocked in gilt and black, rear board blocked in blind, all edges gilt. Some spotting. Binding rubbed to extremities, spine dulled, ends bumped, front hinge cracked. Printed prize bookplate awarded to a Miss Lizzie McMillan in 1883. The first English translation of the second collaborative work between Jules Michelet (1798-1874) and his second wife, Athénaïs Michelet (1826-1899), who is credited with inspiring and encouraging her husband’s interest in natural history. Though only his name is printed, in their first collaborative work ‘The Bird’ Michelet acknowledges his wife’s integral role: ‘The book which I now publish may be described as the offspring of the domestic circle and the home fireside... of the two souls to which it owes its existence, one was the more powerfully… Read More

London: Thames & Hudson, 2005. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND A CONTRIBUTOR, small 4to, pp. 176. Original burnt orange boards, front board blocked in blind, spine lettered in black, colour-printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Inscribed by Antony Gormley to the half-title: ‘to Gail, Antony Gormley’, additional signature of Hugh Brody beneath. A book documenting the genesis, creation and instillation of 51 metal sculptures on the bed of Lake Ballard, in Western Australia. This copy is signed both by the artist and by anthropologist Hugh Brody, who contributes the first essay in the book.

Londini [London]: Ex Officina Sam. Palmer. Impensis J. Knapton, 1721. 8vo, pp. [viii], 380, [4, tables]. Title-page printed in red and black, wood-engraved vignettes and headers throughout text. Contemporary calf, boards stamped in blind, spine divided by raised bands and gilt rules, tan morocco label lettered in gilt. Some small ink and pencil marks to margins, marginal tear to one leaf. Boards somewhat scratched and marked, extremities a little rubbed. The third edition of this classic work on ancient calendars and time keeping systems, which details the characters and numerals used in ancient Arabic, Indian, Syrian, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Roman, and Ethiopian languages. ESTC locates nearly a dozen copies in the British Isles, with ten more copies in Europe and North America. ESTC T120712.

Londini [London]: Impensis Gul. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer; T. & J. Merrill; & R. Matthews, 1758. 8vo, pp. xxiv, [8], 520, [36]. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco label, central gilt tools in compartments, edges sprinkled red. Rubbed, a little chipping to spine ends, spine creased. Ownership inscription of Thomas Noel (Dec 2, 1763) to front pastedown, shelfmark stamp of the Ben Damph Forest library (of the Earls of Lovelace) to flyleaf. The scarce second English edition of Charles Rollin’s edition of Quintilian’s Institutes: ESTC locates copies in 9 locations, none of them in the USA. Rollin (1661-1741), a Parisian historian and educator, had first published his edition at Paris in two small volumes starting in 1715; it was first reprinted in England in 1738 and went on to become a standard edition for the UK schools market. ESTC T170517.

London: John Rodker, 1929. NO. 393 OF 875 COPIES, folio, pp. [viii], 68 + tipped-in frontispiece printed on blue paper. Original quarter black cloth, red and black patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges rough-trimmed. A touch of foxing. Tiny nick to spine, extremities a little rubbed. Pencil ownership inscription of J.B. Bury to front flyleaf, Heffers bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown.

London: Printed by and for Darton and Harvey, 1807. 12mo, pp. xii, 180 + 12 engraved plates and one folding table. Contemporary marbled calf, spine divided by gilt rolls, red morocco label, other compartments with central gilt tool. A touch of toning and spotting. Binding very slightly rubbed, joints just cracking at foot. Ink ownership inscription of Harriet McKinley dated 1812 to front flyleaf. A handsome copy of the most famous book by English writer and social reformer Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832), who began writing at the age of 43 to support her family. Formatted as letters between sisters inctructed in botany by their governess, it was among the first comprehensive botanical works written by women, and saw eleven editions in forty years, including three in the US and a French translation.

Edinburgh: Printed for and sold by Charles Herriott, 1773. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [xii], 232. Untrimmed in contemporary blue paste-paper boards. Sometime somewhat crudely rebacked in sheep, spine lettered direct in gilt, new endpapers, boards a little rubbed and soiled. Pencil ownership inscription to flyleaf dated 1967, small paper label printed with letter ‘L’ pasted to rear board. The first separate publication of Ruddiman’s introduction from his 1739 edition of Anderson’s ‘Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotiae Thesaurus’, a work which even by 1773 had become ‘a book of high price, exceeding scarce, and only to be found in the cabinets of the curious’ per the preface. Originally in Latin, it has been translated for this edition. It was popular enough to be reprinted in 1782. ESTC N7792.