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

London Printed by John Streater, in Little S. Bartholomews, and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the west-end of Pauls 1656. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 270 x 170 mms., pp. [xii], 99, [7], 239, [11], 55, [7], 34, additional engraved title-page, trimmed to margin and laid down, double-page maps of Cheshire & The Isle of Man, double-page plan of Chester, 11 plates of Arms and 5 other folding or full-page plates, engraved illustrations, letterpress title rather soiled, backed with 1 letter restored, 1 double-page map and the plan with splitting along central fold, 1 plate trimmed, affecting caption at foot, occasional short marginal repaired tears, occasional soiling, damp-staining towards end, armorial bookplate on front paste-down end-paper, attractively bound in 18th century red morocco, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt to Greek motif in compartments, all edges gilt; some light wear to extremities but a very good copy, The work was in fact written by William Smith, William Webb… Read More

Lugd. Batavorum, Ex Officina Hackiana, 1670. 8vo, 180 x 113 mms., pp. [xvi], 844 [845 - 876 Index], including engraved title-page. BOUND WITH: Cornelius Nepotis. Vitae Excellentium Imperatorum, Observationibus ac Notis variorum Uberioribus illustratae, Accurante, Roberto Keuchenio Icto et Historiarum Professore. Lugd. Vatav. et Roterod. Ex Officiana Hackiana 1667. 8v9,m 180 x 113 mms., pp. [xxiv], 377 [378 - 392 Index, including engraved title-page. 2 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary vellum, with yapp edges, with the autograph "Wilhelm von Samson/ Bevall 1800" on the verso of the front free end-paper; spine a little soiled, but a very good copy. The anecdotes and memorable sayings of the rhetorician Valerius (fl. 14AD - 57AD) were popular with later orators and historains; the earliest publication of his works was in Mainz in 1471; the editor, Antoine Thysius (1603 - 1665) was the son of the Dutch theologian of the same name (1556 - 1640) and professor of poetry at the… Read More

Londini, Typis Excudit J. F. Dove, Veneunt apud Richardum Priestley, 1821. 4 volumes. 8vo, pp. [ii], 487 [488 blank]; [ii], 786; [ii], 611 [612 blank]; [ii], 447 [448 blank], contemporary half roan, gilt spine, marbled boards; some evidence of damp-staining in margins, rear cover volume 1 detached, front joints of volumes 1 and 2 tender, top of spine volume 3 chipped. Christopher Gottlob Heyne (1729 - 1812) first published his edition of Virgil in 1767 - 1775.

Madrid En la Imprenta da Agustin Fernandez..., 1709. Small quarto, 200 x 140 mms., pp. [xii], 288, annotations dated 1800 on rear paste-down end-paper, contemporary vellum, rather creased and dried, and slightly soiled, but an inoffensive binding. This is a remarkably early example of lipogrammatic literature. A lipogram is "a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided. Extended Ancient Greek texts avoiding the letter sigma are the earliest examples of lipograms" (Wikipedia). As early as the 1820s, Robles's Varios Prodigios de Amor was regarded as not only a remarkable technical achievement, but also a specimen of writing which exemplified the lexical wealth of Castilian Spanish itself. As the bibliographer Vincent Salva said of Robles's book: "No work affords more ample proof of the inexhaustible richness of the castilian language than the present. To write five… Read More

London: Printed by Charles Say...For the Author, 1756. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 118 mms., pp. xvi, 383 [384 blank], including eight pages of subscribers, contemporary calf, red leather label, gilt "1" on spine; joints cracked (but firm), top and base of spine chipped, corners worn. Penn (1727 - 1800) published two more volumes with the same title in 1758 and 1762, but with different contents. Penn takes a more liberal attitude towards the growth of deism and free-thinking than some of his fellow clergyman, as is evident in "An Essay upon the Reasonableness of Free-Thinking Religious Matters, and The Weakness and Danger of relying upon Human Authority."

London; A. B. Hampson & Co., Ltd. Printers., 50a Barbican, London, E. C. 1904. Large 12mo, 183 x 113, pp. [11] 12 - 120, green publisher's cloth, blocked in gilt on spine. Inscribed by author on verso of front free end-paper, "Aunt, from her affectionate nephew/ Douglas./ Evensham Day. 6th. July 1904." With numerous corrections in pencil, perhaps by the aunt.

Penhanze: Beare and Son, 21, Market Place. 1913. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo pamphlet, 163 x 123 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 24, original dark grey wrappers, stapled; wrappers a bit soiled. Thomas Cawley (fl. 1840s-1890s) matriculated from Wadham College, University of Oxford, in 1856, and graduated from Oxford with his B. A. in 1860, as Alumni Oxoniensis identifies him as the man as having become the Rector of Bittadon in Devon. The verses echo quite a few well-known English poems, as well as "Thought art gone up on high," from Handel's Messiah. The last poem, "The Last Voyage," beginning, "There may be moaning at the bar" is clearly an allusions to Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." No copy located in any repository or online database.

Augsburg, gedruckt und zu finde ben Johan Jacob Lotter und Sohn, Buchbrucker und Musickalien Verleger, 1800. Small 4to, pp. [vi], 268 [269 - 276 index], engraved frontispiece, three full-page engraved plates, folding engraved plate of music at end, contemporary marbled boards, paper label on spine; repairs to folding plate, engraved frontispiece rather faint, but other plates fine, occasional spotting and staining, but otherwise a very good copy. Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787) published this in a propitious year for music and music-lovers, 1756, the year of his son's birth. It was republished several times (a second edition appeared in 1770, a third in 1787, and a further edition in 1791), translated into other languages, and became a standard text on the subject of violin playing. In a paper published by the American Mozart Society, Thomas Irvine argues that, "Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (1756) is more than a mirror of eighteenth-century violin playing. In this paper I… Read More

No Place No Publisher [c. 1970]. Small folio, 268 x 168 mms., unbound (loose stiff wrappers enclosing two bifolia of extremely thick high-quality art paper, the first bifolium bearing the title-page on its first recto; the second bifolium bearing the main text on its first recto and first verso, and its second recto bearing a rather elaborate colophon, with variant title at the head of the first page of text, "Conduct in an Artist's Studio." Colophon on p. [3]: "Rives BFK paper / Garamond type / a Washington hand press; / all handled by Fred Brian of the / Pilot Rock Press --- / add up to: // A Very Small Book of Etiquette." The writer, artist, and printer Fred Brian (1924 - ) manages the Pilot Rock Press, which is among the more celebrated private presses of the United States. The textsconsists of suggestions on how to conduct oneself when visiting an artist's studio. The narrative is featured on the WEN (Wood Engravers Network) website (accessible here,… Read More

Romae, Apud Io: Iocbumde Rubeis ad Templum S. Mariae de Pace suis sumptibus, & cura, cum Privilegio Summi Pontificis. 1685. Folio, 338 x 225 mms., pp. [x], 20 [21 - 22 divisional title], 16 [2], 15 [16 errata], engraved frontispiece and 92 full-page engraved plates, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; joints cracked and front cover holding on for dear life, boards worn. A working copy. The painter, biographer, and antiquary Giovani Pietro Bellori was" brought up in the household of Francesco Angeloni, a well-to-do writer, collector, and antiquarian. It was Angeloni who established the intellectual climate in which Bellori's interests developed. Angeloni assembled, probably with Bellori's help, what was then one of the finest private collections of classical antiquities, important enough to be noted in contemporary guidebooks.... His Notes on Museums, a guide to the art treasures of Rome, which appeared in 1664, contains an addendum on the remains of ancient Roman painting… Read More

London: Printed for F. Newbery..., 1766. 2 volumes. 12mo, 160 x 100 mms., pp. [viii], 214; [vi], 225 [256 blank], recently rebound in quarter calf, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, red morocco labels, vellum tips on corners, ; fore-margins of front free end-paper and title-page of volume one slightly defective and fragile, other leaves with slight loss at edges and corners, original end-papers preserved with the autograph "Elizabeth Gibbs/ Elizabeth Isalbella Rosson" on the recto of the top margin of the front free end-paper in volume and "Elizabeth Gibbs" in volume two. The composition and printing history of the text of The Vicar of Wakefield is expertly told by Arthur Friedman in his Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith (1966). Friedman states that "The text of the Vicar offers few difficulties. The first edition [1766] contains a fair number of misprints, many of them in the headlines and catchwords; and a few formes underwent correction of obvious errors… Read More

Glocester, Printed and Sold by D. Walker...; Sold also by C. Mutlow...., London. 1809. 2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo, 158 x 98 mms., pp. [iv], 224, including half-title, with continuous pagination throughout the two volumes, woodcut vignette on general title-page, woodcut vignettes on separate title-pages for each volume, 4 full-page woodcuts in text, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, morocco label, marbled boards (rubbed); 6 leaves slightly sprung with fore-margins slightly frayed, edges worn. Bewick's woodcuts for this edition of The Vicar of Wakefield were first published in 1798, and the same woodcuts appeared in later editions. Uncommon. The only copy of this Glocester 1809 imprint that I have been able to find is in the Houghton Library, Harvard. The BL has Wellington and London, 1809, imprints, but apparently not this Glocester imprint. There was also an edition published in Baltimore in 1809

A Londres, Chez John Peter Lyton, 1781. 4 volumes. 12mo, pp. viii, 398; [iv], 403 [404 blank]; [iv], 399 [400]; [iv], 391 [392 blank], including half-titles, engraved portrait and two other engraved portraits and engraved vignette on title-page in volume 1, 3 engraved portraits in volume 4, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spines, red and green leather labels; front cover volume 1 detached, front joints volumes three and four cracked, some other general wear to binding. This note from the publisher appears on the verso of the title-page of the first volume: "All the Editions of this Work, which might appear without the Vignette on the Tittle [sic], and the Portraits &c. ought to be looked upon as Incompleat, and no ways to be relayed [sic] on. London the 1. of December 1780. John Peter Lyton." In the above set, the vignette appears on the title-page of the first volume only; the other volumes have a pattern of ten ornaments in a triangle shape. ESTC locates three different… Read More

London: Printed by S. Palmer, 1728. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 288 x 218 mms., pp. [50], 407 [408 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, other engraved vignettes and illustrations in text (by John Pine after John Grison), 12 folding engraved plates, recently rebound in quarter calf, spine gilt in compartments to a floral motif, red morocco label, blue marbled boards. An attractive copy. Although Pemberton (1694 - 1771) had a medical degree, he practiced medicine only sporadically. His interest in mathematics led him to show some of his work to the mathematician John Keill, and that brought him into contact with Newton; this book was one of the results. Voltaire in his Letters concerning the English Nation (1733) made extensive use of Pemberton's commentary. The work also formed part of the mathematical tripos at Cambridge shortly after it was published. It is also notable for being the first book to use Caslon's Roman typeface. The poetic tribute by the sixteen-year-old Richard Glover,… Read More

London: Printed for C. Rivington..., 1736. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 185 x 105 mms., pp. [ii], 26 [27 - 28 adverts]; lacks half-title, text split at pp4 and 5, some underlining in pencil, disbound

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips..., 1821. 8vo, 202 x 117 mms., pp. 124, recent marbled wrappers; text only, lacks plates.

Norwich: Jarrold and Sons..., 1839. 8vo, 187 x 114 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 207 [208 blank], including half-title, with new "Preface to Second Edition," contemporary quarter cloth (defective), paper label on spine. "During the last few months, upwards of twelve hundred copies of the "Village Musings" have been put into circulation; and the author has the satisfaction of knowing that his little book has produced an impression in his favour, far beyond what he had anticipated" (Preface to Second Edition). The list of subscribers to this edition appears on pages 189 - 207, some 1100 subscribers.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co...., 1832. Small 12mo, 164 x 99 mms., pp. x, 61 [62 colophon], contemporary embossed cloth, with paper label on front cover; binding a little faded and slightly worn but a very good copy. White (1803 - 1862) is described on the title-page as "Late Curate Hartest cum Boxted, Suffolk." He dedicates the book to Lord Brougham, "First in Talents - First in Honour - and First in the Hearts of his Countrymen," echoing the famous phrase uttered by Henry Lee about George Washington, "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." The first edition was also published (anonymously) in 1832, and the dedication in this second edition is dated "14th May, 1832." The author alludes to the "favourable notice which the Press has taken to this little volume" in the Preface to the second edition. Indeed the reviewer in The Monthly Review was downright estatic: "In the poem thus offered to his… Read More

London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses..., 1788. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 98. BOUND WITH: [FLETCHER (John)]: A Second Check to Antinomianism; occasioned by A Late Narrative, In Three Letters. To the Hon. and Rev. Author. By the Vindicator of the Reverend Mr. Wesley's Minutes. London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses..., n. d. [1771]. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xi [xii blank], 109 [110 blank], including half-title. BOUND WITH: [FLETCHER (John)]: A Third Check to Antinomianism; occasioned by A Late Narrative, In Three Letters. To the Hon. and Rev. Author. By the Vindicator of the Reverend Mr. Wesley's Minutes. The Second Edition London: London: Printed by Robert Hawes..., 1775. 3 volumes bound in 1, 170 x 105 mms., contemporary calf, gilt spine, morocco label reading "Fletcher's Works" and "2" in gilt below label; some water-staining… Read More

London: Printed for J. Pemberton..., 1718. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xii], 116, title-page and last page soiled, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. This was Sherlock's third contribution to the Bangorian controversy, in which he argued that religion should not be made a civil test.