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

London: Printed and Published by J. Barker, Dramatic Repository, Great Russell-Street, Coven-Garden [no date] [1807]. 12mo, 190 x 108 mms., pp. [ii], [5] 6 - 164, engraved frontispiece, later full calf, gilt borders on covers, gilt spine, olive morocco label, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers; slight rubbing of front joint, but an attractive copy, with a curious inscription dated 1971. Joe Miller's Jests was first published in 1739, and there have probably been umpteen jillion later editions, along with facsimiles of the first edition offered for sale as a genuine first edition. Th work was compiled by Elijah Jenkins under the pseudonym of John Mottley. The comic actor and singer Josias Miller (1683/ - 1738) provided a name for the "jests," but very little of the material comes from him. OCLC locates only the copy in the BL.

London: Printed and Published by J. Barker, Dramatic Repository... [no date] [?1796}. 12mo, 184 x 111 mms., pp. [vi], [5] 6 - 164, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Joe Miller as Teague (Published by T. Rodd...), printed obituary notice on recto of leaf after portrait, with adverts on verso and next leaf, many leaves uncut, later half calf, marbled boards; front joint cracked and weak. Joe Miller's Jests was first published in 1739, and there have probably been umpteen jillion later editions, along with facsimiles of the first edition offered for sale as a genuine first edition. Th work was compiled by Elijah Jenkins under the pseudonym of John Mottley. The comic actor and singer Josias Miller (1683/ - 1738) provided a name for the "jests," but very little of the material comes from him. The only listing for Barker as printer and publisher in OCLC is for an edition of 1796, but adding "His Majesty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice… Read More

London: Printed and Sold by T. Read..., 1739. 8vo, 223 x 150 mms., pp. [ii], 70, 19th century quarter morocco, reddish boards (rubbed); ex-library, with a circular ownership stamp of Chas. W. Banks, San Francisco, May 21 1876 on the title-page, and the bookplate of the Ferniehield Library on the front paste-down end-paper; spine worn with joints slightly cracked, newspaper clippings removed from front free end-paper. This is not, of course, the original edition, but a 19th century facsimile; a watermark - "Michallet" is distinguishable in the lower margins of B3, C3, and D4; vertical chains are also visible, but the book is unlikely to have been printed on laid paper. This is possibly the facsimile printed by John Camden Hotten in 1862.

London: Printed for S. Crowder...; W. Nicol...; and J. Williams..[ no date [1772]. 12mo (in 6s), 168 x 100 mms., pp..192, engraved frontispiece, bound in later full calf, gilt rules on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive morocco label; cover a bit scratched, but a very good copy with the autograph in pencil of W. I. P. Chatto on the title-page, and the bookplates of William Turner and T. N. Abdy on the front paste-down end-paper. Joe Miller's Jests was first published in 1739, and there have probably been umpteen jillion later editions, along with facsimiles of the first edition offered for sale as a genuine first edition. The work was compiled by Elijah Jenkins under the pseudonym of John Mottley. The comic actor and singer Josias Miller (1683/ - 1738) provided a name for the "jests," but very little of the material comes from him. ESTC T63550 suggests a date of 1772 and locates copies in BL and Bodleian in this islands and McMaster in Canada and Sydney

Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1927. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xv [xvi blank], 182 [183 epigraph, 184 printer's imprint], portrait, illustrations, original cloth, embossed in gilt. A very good copy. Loosely inserted is a fine pencil sketch of Logan Turner.

Tours, Alfred Mame et Files..., 1884. Tall 8vo, pp. 237 [238 blank, 239 contents, 240 blank], including half-title, steel-engraved frontispiece, prize copy from the Ecole Primaire Publique in Orleans, bound in contemporary green embossed cloth, front cover blocked in gilt to a rectangle within a semi-lozenge design, with the arms of Orleans in the centre, all edges gilt; binding a little worn and soiled, front hinge slightly cracked. Seeburg's book was first published in Regensburg in 1882, and the French translation was first published in 1883, and into English in 1884.

London: Printed by Baylis, Greville-Street, and Sold by the Author, No. 29, Great Pulteney-Street, Golden-Square, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 1798. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 200 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 235 [236 directions for plates], with adverts on verso of half-title, engraved plate before first page of text, another engraved plate between pages 98 and 99, and ms. facsimile at end of text, contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, red leather label (both rather faded), possibly rebacked with old spine laid down; some foxing to the first few and last few leaves, but nonetheless a very good copy indeed. Jean-Baptiste Cléry (1759-1809) had close access to Louis XVI, King of France, as his valet, holding that position most crucially during the period of the king's imprisonment in the Temple: the king "was arrested on 25 September 1793," and later "avoided the fate of the guillotine," only to be "freed on 27 July 1794" (Wikipedia).… Read More

London: Printed by T. Gilbert...And sold at Surry Chapel; also by T. Chapman..., 1799. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. xii,182 [183 - 184 adverts], including half-title (with contemporary autograph "Mr. J. Smith" at top margin), disbound; lower portion of last thirty leaves slightly water-stained. The evangelical preacher and scholar Rowland Hill (1744–1833) made this tour in 1798, and followed it up with a second tour the next year. He was minister of Surry Chapel, known for its music and his powerful preaching. He claimed not to be a dissenter, but many of his positions were not consonant with those of the Church of England. The same sheets were used for the same work with a different title: Journal of a Tour Through the North of England and Parts of Scotland.

Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, M. Saunders...[inter alia], 1775. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 162 x 97 mms., pp. [ii], 192; [3] 26 - 120, 289 -384, contemporary calf, rebacked, with old label laid, but with hinges rather crudely taped, with an autograph "S West head" on the front paste-down end-paper and another in pencil on the top margin of the title-page. Fleemanj 75.1J/4. "The printer made an attempt to produce a page-for-page reprint of the 1st London 8vo edition...in a 2 vol. 12mo format, but the effort failed after 2 sheets..., and in vol. 2 where the pagination commenced at 25 the attempt was less successful, though a new star was again made at F1 (p. 289). This section may have been the work of another printer if the work was shared out to hasten the reprint, thought the type is the same." The reprint was, of course, a piracy.

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Ogle; M. Ogle, Glasgow; R. Ogle, and T. Hamilton, London; and J. Johnston, Dublin, By Thomas Turnbull, 1811. 12mo, 176 x 98 mms., pp. 186 [187 - 188 adverts], contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), gilt spine (rubbed); joints cracked, corners worn, contemporary autograph of "Margaret Moir" on top margin of title-page. Fleeman.75.sJ/13.

London, Printed for Henry Herrignman..., 1670. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 163 x 105 mms., pp. [viii], 247 [248 blank], notes in pencil on recto of rear free end-paper, later wrappers; front hinge exposed, but a good to very good copy. This abridged translation of Voyage d'Espagne curieux, historique, et politique (1665) by Antoine de Brunel is also attributed to François van Aerssen, 1572-1641, and to his grandson François van Aerssen, 1630-1658. "Dutch diplomat Antoine de Brunel's Voyage d'Espagne (A Journey into Spain, 1665) tends to burden the reader with intricacies of court politics, but he also inserts here and there superb portraits of political figures - under lining the pettiness of the Spanish nobility - as well as poignant descriptions of a mostly desolate land, its miserable lodgings, its precarious buildings, and other evidence to Spain's low quality of life" (Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González, César… Read More

Lutetiae Apud F. Morellum, 1557. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 217 x 147 mms., foliated, [iv], 476, [30 index, 31 printer's imprint], attractively bound in near contemporary light brown calf, ornamented with gold fleurs de lys, with in a gilt border, spine gilt in compartments to the same motif, red leather label, with the armorial bookplate of "John Marques[s] of Tweeddale, Earle of Gifford, Viscount Walden, Lord Hay of Yester, &c." and a later (probably 18 century) note on the recto of the front free end-paper, a very good and attractive copy, except for the title-page, which has been vandalized by the cutting out of a portion of the leaf, measuring 75 x 58 mms. from, the centre Born in Italy, Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484 – 1558), spent most of his adult life in France and began his career in the military of the emporer Maximillian. His first work, printed in 1531, was an oration against Erasmus in defence of Cicero and his allies. Wikipedia notes, "He is best known for his… Read More

Lvgd. Batavorum Ex officina Elzeviriana, Anno 1640. Small 12mo, 120 x 64 mms., pp. [xii], 294, 39 [40 - 93 Index, 94 blank], fine engraved title-page, contemporary red morocco, gilt panels on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, art nouveau bookplate on front paste-down end-paper; front cover detached, but an attractive copy. This is the first Elzevir edition to have Vossius' dedication to Thure Bielke.

P. Alex. Pag Benacenses F. Bena. .V. .V. [Aexander and Paganinus de Paganinis: Toscolano] [?1517 - 1525]. Small 8vo, 150 x 88 mms., unpaginated, a-q8, contemporary vellum, faded red morocco label; binding a bit soiled, but a very good copy. The first edition of this translation by Georgio Summaripa (1435 - 1496) of Juvenal's satires was first published in 1480 (Tarvisii : M. Manzolinus). The earliest edition of Juvenal seems to be that published in 1469 by Ulrich Hand in Rome (see Curt F. Bühler, "The Earliest Editions of Juvenal," Studies in the Renaissance [1955]). The text is printed in italics, first used by Aldus in 1501, and Summaripa's was the first translation into Italian. Book historians now think that the publishers Paganino and Alessandro Paganini, particularly the latter, were the first to create an editorial series, i. e., books that shared the same editorial characteristics, presentation, and size. The printer's mark used here, P.ALEX.PAG./… Read More