Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Antiquates Ltd

London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1922. xi, [1], 276pp. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, a further 31 black and white plates, and 16 diagrams in the text. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some soiling to upper board and spine. Upper hinge exposed, lightly spotted. The first edition of Royal Navy officer Edward Keble Chatterton's history of Q-Ships, heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks, and their employment during the First World War. . First edition. 8vo.

Cheltenham: Printed for G. A. Williams, 1822. 95pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's blue printed paper wrappers, some chipping to extremities, marking to wrappers. Internally clean and crisp. A treatise on the popular trick-taking card game Quadrille, a variant of the Spanish game of Ombre. Popular in the eighteenth-century it is played by two paired teams, the pastime is referenced on four occasions in Pride and Prejudice (with mastery of the somewhat complicated rules used as a tool of social distinction by Lady Catherine de Bourgh), and is frequently mentioned in James Woodforde’s The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802. . First edition. 16mo in 8s.

London: Printed for John Murray, 1814. In three volumes. xiii, [3], 308; 316; [4], 320pp. Contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Boards heavily rubbed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of Vol. I title page: 'Presented to the Library of the Royal Institution by the author'. With the ink-stamp of the institution beneath (and to verso of both other titles). The first edition of Anglo-Jewish man of letters Isaac D'Israeli's (1766-1848) survey of notable historical literary squabbles, a spiritual successor to his Calamities of Authors (1812), both in turn offshoots of his influential study of the characteristics of men of genius, An Essay on the Literary Character (1795). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Hutchinson & Co., [1920]. 304pp, [24]. Original publisher's red cloth boards, spine lettered black. A few marks to boards, faded to spine and fore edge, corners and ends a little bumped. Endpapers toned, with some foxing up to the title page. Benson's bookplate, designed by George Plank, adorns the front pastedown. Ownership inscription of C. E. Tomlin to FFEP. Internally bright save a few marks, and a small loss to the top of page 237, though text remains intact. Publisher's catalogue dated spring 1920 bound in to rear. The first instalment of Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, a wry send-up of Edwardian high society. E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death. Charlie Tomlin was… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for John Murray...and Archibald Constable, 1808. In four volumes. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, joints starting, upper board of Vol. I held by cords only. Recent book-labels of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEPs, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Miss Charlotte Simpson to front blank fly-leaves, scattered spotting. The only work of fiction by antiquary and engraver Joseph Strutt (1749-1802), an historical romance set in fifteenth century England, published together with his play Ancient Times. The manuscript of the novel was unfinished at Strutt's death; Walter Scott edited it for the publisher and completed the final chapter, and as such Queenhoo-Hall is Scott's first published work of fiction, preceding Waverley by six years. The composition of the concluding chapters of this work had a great influence on Scott's subsequent career as a novelist. Writing in 1829 Scott… Read More

A Paris...Et a Londres: Chez J.-B. Louvet...Chez J. Johnson, [1794]. ix, [10]-296pp. Uncut in original publisher's blue paper wrappers. Extremities lightly dust-soiled/creased, loss to head and foot of spine. Neat contemporary ink correction to price, else internally clean and crisp. The memoirs of novelist and politician Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray's (1760-1797) which document the trials and tribulations suffered between his fleeing Paris following the downfall of the Girondists and his eventual return after the fall of Robespierre. Numerous editions of varying length and format appeared throughout 1794-95; this edition of 296pp is not recorded by ESTC, though COPAC does locate a single copy held at Oxford. Not in ESTC.. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. In three volumes. [2], lxiii, [1], 273, [1]; 331, [1]; 360pp. Without half-titles. Bound by Swinnerton of Macclesfield in contemporary blind-stamped half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Binder's tickets and armorial bookplates of Thomas Hibbert to all FEPs, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Carolina H. Hibbert to all titles. The first edition of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) historical novel centred on a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI; the seventeenth title in the Waverley Novels series. The present copy was bound by James Swinnerton, bookseller, bookbinder, and stationer, printer and publisher of the Macclesfield Herald and Congleton Gazette, and sometime agent to the London Genuine Tea Company. From the library of sometime High Sheriff of Cheshire, Thomas Hibbert (1788-1879). In 1823 Thomas had married Mary Caroline Henrietta Cholmondely… Read More

London: Francis & John Rivington, 1845. 48pp. Original publisher's printed drab wrappers. Extremities spotted and dust-soiled. Occasional dog-earing, else internally clean and crisp. A new edition of this series of questions on scripture by Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), first printed in 1814, 'designed for the use of the National Society's Central and other schools' and preserved here in the fragile original wrappers. . New edition. 12mo.

Londini [i.e. London]: Sumptu J. Rodwell et al., 1815. viii, 245pp, [1]. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, slight splitting to upper joint, chipping to head of spine. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to FEP, occasional creasing. An early nineteenth century edition of the works of Roman lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) edited by German classical scholars Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761) and Johanne Carl Zeune (1736-1788). . 12mo.

Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]: Impensis Bliss et Baxter, 1812. [2], 362pp. Finely bound in contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, very occasional light spotting, overall internally clean and crisp. A handsomely bound copy of this Oxford edition of the works of Roman lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) edited by German classical scholars Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761) and Johanne Carl Zeune (1736-1788). . 12mo.

Edinburgh: Printed by Andrew Balfour, 1813. [8], 353pp, [1]. Contemporary dark green half-morocco, green buckram boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Early inked ownership inscription of W. M. Spalding to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. The first edition of the 'Ettrick Shepherd' James Hogg's (bap. 1770, d. 1835) first major critical and commercial success, the work which established his reputation as one of the leading poets of his generation and a formidable rival of contemporary fashionable poets including Scott and Byron. Presented in dialect throughout, the narrative poem imagines a poetical contest (the 'wake' of the title) held at Holyrood to celebrate the return of Mary Queen of Scots to Scotland after her long sojourn in France. Jackson, p. 371.. First edition. 8vo.

Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1855. 14pp. Recent morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Very minor shelf-wear. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. The sole edition of a pamphlet by Anglican clergyman and sometime college head of St Mary Hall, Oxford, Drummond Percy Chase (1820-1902) arguing that children of low-income households ought to be permitted to attend Industrial Schools. Such institutions had been established to provide industrial training and residential care for destitute and vagrant children, and throughout the latter half of the nineteenth-century were increasingly seen as a preferable alternative to reformatories. Initially these 'ragged schools' were funded solely through poor rates, though they became increasingly dependent upon subsidies from the state; Chase is keen to highlight here that allowing children of poverty-stricken families to be educated for a fee would relieve some of the need for money to be taken from taxation. Additionally, he… Read More

London: Printed by W. and C. Spilsbury, 1801. [4], 79pp, [1]. Uncut and partially unopened, stitched, as issued. Printed errata to verso of advertisement leaf, with contemporary manuscript errata notes beneath, some creasing/spotting, A pamphlet attributed to Sir John Joseph Dillon (d.1837) discussing the possibility of repealing the Test Acts of 1673 and 1678 which prevented Catholics from sitting in Parliament. . First edition. 8vo.