Search Results: Titles starting with P from Wykeham Books

James H. Heineman, Inc., New York, first edition, 1990. Cloth, large 4to,. xlix, 461 pp + index, ills, colour plates. A wonderful work; much the most comprehensive Wodehouse bibliography. Includes careful descriptions of variants and dustwrappers many of which also appear on the colour plates; covers English and American editions, describes not only the novels and semi-autobiographical works but also plays, periodicals, contributions, translations, music, works about Wodehouse, imitations and parodies, letters, etc etc. Top edge slightly duststained, otherwise Near Very Good in a scratched and torn dustwrapper.

James H. Heineman, Inc., New York, first edition, 1990. Cloth, large 4to,. xlix, 461 pp + index, ills, colour plates. A wonderful work; much the most comprehensive Wodehouse bibliography. Includes careful descriptions of variants and dustwrappers many of which also appear on the colour plates; covers English and American editions, describes not only the novels and semi-autobiographical works but also plays, periodicals, contributions, translations, music, works about Wodehouse, imitations and parodies, letters, etc etc. Corners a trifle bumped, otherwise Very Good in a slightly chipped and edgeworn dustwrapper.

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st September, 2005. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 121 pp, plates, ills. 118 lots. The sale comprised: Early Voyages to the Pacific Lots 1-28; The Golden Age of Pacific Exploration Lots 29-87; Voyages to the Arctic Lots 88-118. From the introduction: "During a four-year stay in Tasmania in the early 1940s, my father Dick Sandwell sailed with an old yachting friend who had a keen interest in maritime history. Their voyages often took them to places explored by Cook, D'Entrecasteaux, Bligh and many others. Soon after returning to his home in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began to follow the tracks of such other 18th-century English and French navigators as Dixon, Meares, Vancouver and La Perouse. He began to collect the journals of those early seamen, beginning with Anson's Voyage Round the World (1740-44)… At first the collection had to do mainly with voyages in the South Pacific. Those about the North Pacific… Read More

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st September, 2005. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 121 pp, plates, ills. 118 lots. The sale comprised: Early Voyages to the Pacific Lots 1-28; The Golden Age of Pacific Exploration Lots 29-87; Voyages to the Arctic Lots 88-118. From the introduction: "During a four-year stay in Tasmania in the early 1940s, my father Dick Sandwell sailed with an old yachting friend who had a keen interest in maritime history. Their voyages often took them to places explored by Cook, D'Entrecasteaux, Bligh and many others. Soon after returning to his home in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began to follow the tracks of such other 18th-century English and French navigators as Dixon, Meares, Vancouver and La Perouse. He began to collect the journals of those early seamen, beginning with Anson's Voyage Round the World (1740-44)… At first the collection had to do mainly with voyages in the South Pacific. Those about the North Pacific… Read More

Historiska media, Lund, first edition, 1999. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm. 416 pp, ills. Near Fine in slightly torn dustwrapper.

Berggruen, Paris, first edition, 1976. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Grey boards; oblong 4to,. 21 pp, plus 24 full-page ills with facing page descriptions.. Reproduces a suite of 24 drawings which Picasso made in 1918. Copy No. 245. Fine.

Clarendon Press, Oxford, second edition, 1965. Cloth, 8vo,. xxx, 692 pp, folding map. Over 10,000 entries. The author was Secretary of the Polynesian Society from 1939 and, for many years, librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. An essential bibliography for the area. Very Good.

Privately printed, Oxford, for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, first edition, 1908. Folio, Roxburghe maroon morocco spine and boards, 29 cm, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed title printed in red and black,. [4], xvi pp, 55 monochrome photographic plates on Japanese vellum with facing transcriptions. Includes an introduction by William, earl of Carysfort and "A series of drawings representing scenes or 'pagents' in the life of the earl ... As to the origin of the manuscript ... there has been a persistent tradition that its author was John Rous ... there is very little to connect it with Rous, and ... while we may hesitate to accept him as the author even of the text, we have no hesitation whatever in pronouncing the drawings not to be his handiwork at all."- Introduction. Barker comments: "The Pageants of Richard Beauchamp, presented to the Club by the Earl of Carysfort in 1908, represents another turning point in the history of the Club. It was printed, both… Read More

The Leadenhall Press, Ltd, London, first edition, 1898-9. Decorated cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, small 8vo, 20 cm,. 510, 1 blank leaf, [2], 19 pp, [3] pp publisher's cataogue, ills. From the introduction: "The love of things rendered quaint and interesting by lapse of time and change of surroundings seems to grow on one imperceptibly. We have all wondered whether the elders who presented, and the children who read these forgotten little books, recognised the unconscious humour of the writers of the text and the drawers of the pictures. The illustrations, which were both plain and coloured, were usually printed from engraved wooden blocks, or copper-plates, and occasionally they were lithographed from stone, or etched. The colouring was done by teenage children, who worked with astonishing celerity and more precision than could be expected. The material is so great that in this book - which has no object but to amuse - the fringe only can be touched. In these examples the reader will miss the… Read More

The Monotype Corporation Limited, London, first edition, 1931. Cloth, large 4to,. x, 97 pp. Aims to demonstrate the versatility of the monotype composing machine by illustrating examples of numerous different types of book-printing involving difficult technical requirements, including for example "children's books, in which the type must be of the best and clearest design and large in size; dictionaries and linguistic text books requiring a variety of type sizes and characters; illustrated books, often calling for unusually wide, narrow, or irregular measures, large composition sizes, and a type face well matched to the style of illustration; mathematical settings requiring a large number of special sorts and the flexibility of separate type; pamphlets, etc., requiring frequent sub-headings, marginalia, etc.; scientific books, often requiring tabular settings and special treatment to allow of accurate illustration, characters, signs, etc. Head and tail of spine worn, otherwise Good.

The Lanston Monotype Corporation, Ltd, London, first edition, 1927. Cloth, gilt cover-title in decorative border, large 4to, 33 cm,. 92, [2] pp, ills. A collection of specimen book pages, selected as examples of modern British printing. An ex-library copy with a sticker taped around the spine, a barcode label on the front free endpaper, two stamps (one with accession marks) on the verso of the title-page, paperclip marks on the front free endpaper and half-title, boards faded and fore-edge corners bumped.

The Monotype Corporation Limited, London, first edition, 1931. Cloth, large 4to,. x, 97 pp. Aims to demonstrate the versatility of the monotype composing machine by illustrating examples of numerous different types of book-printing involving difficult technical requirements, including for example "children's books, in which the type must be of the best and clearest design and large in size; dictionaries and linguistic text books requiring a variety of type sizes and characters; illustrated books, often calling for unusually wide, narrow, or irregular measures, large composition sizes, and a type face well matched to the style of illustration; mathematical settings requiring a large number of special sorts and the flexibility of separate type; pamphlets, etc., requiring frequent sub-headings, marginalia, etc.; scientific books, often requiring tabular settings and special treatment to allow of accurate illustration, characters, signs, etc. Boards rubbed, name on front free endpaper,… Read More

British Library, London, first edition, 2003. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 26 cm,. 47, [1] pp, ills (some colour), maps. From the blurb: "Painted Labyrinth: The world of the Lindisfarne Gospels discusses: The world and faith around 700 AD; When, where and how was the Lindisfarne Gospels produced?; . The text, script and calligraphy of the Lindisfarne Gospels; The evangelist portraits; The art of the Lindisfarne Gospels; Procedures for making a medieval manuscript; What did the Lindisfarne Gospels mean to Its makers and to society? Near Fine.

Philip Allan & Co. Ltd , London, first edition, 1929. Cloth, large 8vo, 25 cm,. xii, 469. [1] pp, 116 ills. Name and date on front free endpaper, covers a little marked, Good.

HarperCollins, London, first edition, 1991. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 399 pp, profusely illustrated in colour. From the blurb - "Learn how to capture the brilliant colours of autumn leaves, the mood of a stormy sky, or the shimmer of dark reflections in water. Painting Nature in Watercolour provides 135 stimulating lessons in painting trees, skies and water to help you improve your landscape painting. Watercolour is the most exhilarating painting medium - it’s immediate, fresh and versatile. This book offers you all the help you need to paint nature in all its variety and complexity. The basic watercolour techniques are explained, then the special effects that can add sparkle to your paintings are explored. Once you have a thorough understanding of all these watercolour techniques you can begin any of the 135 lessons that make up this book. Each lesson concentrates on a common problem that you are likely to encounter when you paint nature. Each problem is analysed and then a working procedure is… Read More

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, original journal issue, 2009. Laminated illustrated wrappers, large 8vo, 28 cm,. 64 pp, 77 colour ills. Wrappers slightly creased, otherwise Very Good.

{John Gain for the author] London, second edition, 1686, though lacking its title-page and instead with facsimile title-page reproducing that of the first 1685 edition. Contemporary calf (rebacked with parts of the original spine laid down), corners repaired, later leather spine-label, edges red, 4to,. pp. Woodcut headpieces and initials. The second edition of the first systematic treatise on the history and criticism of painting in English : it is also important for containing the first English translation of eleven of Vasari's Lives, viz. those of Cimabue, Giotto, Leonardo, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Giorgione, Michel Angelo, Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, Titian and Donatello. T. Borenius published a long discussion of this work in The Burlington Magazine XXXIX (1921), pp. 188-195, 'An early English Writer on Art,' in which Borenius says: 'In all the years that I have tried to be on the lookout for early books on art, this is the only copy I have come across... the second… Read More

Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, first edition, 1976. Limited edition of approximately 220 copies. Quarter Oasis leather and boards with cover illustrations, small 4to, 25 cm,. 70 pp, ills, (1 folded in pocket). From the descriptions in the prospectus of the two works : "[1]The great body of presently-known European ream wrappers are of the 18th century, with examples before mid-17th century being very uncommon. For reasons which are unclear, Italian ream wrappers are unknown, nor were they' known even to the eminent Italian paper his¬torian, A. F. Gasparinetti. The collection of printed wrappers which are shown and described here are important, therefore, not only because they are early - they are all of the latter half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th - but because they are Italian, Milanese in origin. They are not ream wrappers in the strictest sense, but are quire wrappers, and all bear the sign oí the cartolaio or stationer who sold them. We are… Read More

St Anthony's Press, York, first edition, 1959. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 22 cm,. 18 pp, 4 plates. From the preface - "The lecture out of which this essay has grown was intended for an audience having little or no previous acquaintance with the forms or handwriting of English documents, and in preparing this version of it for publication I have made no attempt to remove the evidence of its original modest scope. Those readers to whom the glosses on technicalities may seem elementary, over-simplified, or superficial, are asked to believe that my object has been not to impart to the unsuspecting layman or novice covert instruction about the history of English administration or the documents it has produced but, by providing the minimum of explanation necessary to clarify my narrative, to afford him a partial but intelligible glimpse of what palaeography and diplomatic are about. Good.

Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, first edition, 1969. Cloth, 8vo,. lxxi, 360 pp, 2 plates. 160 entries The title understates the contents as this work does not confine itself to pamphlets : the author explains in the preface that for accuracy the title should be "Attacks on Pope published between 1711 and 1744 mostly in pamphlet form but sometimes as broadsides, as books, or as parts of books, excluding all but several newspaper attacks". For each item, there is brief bibliographical description including a full transcription of the title-page, a complete summary of each pamphlet or other work, an account of the exact charges made, a list of Pope's works which are being attacked and generous quotations from the attack itself. From the blurb: "The attacks published against Alexander Pope in his lifetime played an important part in his poetical career and influenced him both as man and poet. A careful study of these attacks is essential to a full understanding of his major satires.… Read More