Search Results: Titles starting with W from Antiquates Ltd

[London]: Country Life & George Newnes Ltd., [1901]. xiv, 177pp, [1]. With 147 black and white photographic plates. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to half-title, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition, published as a part of the "Country Life" Library, of renowned horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll's (1843-1932) manual on dry-wall, rock and terrace, stream, lake, pond, pool, and heath gardens. . First edition. 8vo.

New York: Published by S. A. Rollo & Co., 1859. xvi, [3], 14-531pp, [1]. With a lithograph frontispiece, and additional lithograph title page, a double-page lithograph map, and 69 engraved plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed, chipping to lower joint, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. The first edition of John Ireland’s thrilling narrative of his extensive world tour. Having thrown off the shackles of his Wall Street career, the author travels to London to witness the opening of the Great Exhibition (and briefly engage with Queen Victoria), before setting out for Asia via the Continent and the Middle East. His destinations include, inter alia, the Plains of Troy, Palmyra, Jerusalem, Petra, Kashmir, Peshawur, the Khyber Pass, Java, China, and finally, Mauritius. . First edition. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Privately printed, William Brown, 1922. Number one of 50 copies printed. In two volumes. 313 leaves of photographic collotype plates. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, bruised at head of spines. Endpapers browned. A crisp copy. The compiler John H. Beveridge's own copy, with his armorial bookplate to FEP and inked ownership inscription to limitation page. The first, limited, edition of a significant collection of 321 collotype reproductions of photographs, chiefly landscapes of architectural and archaeological interest of the Highlands and islands of Scotland (though also including views of the United States of America, British Columbia, Belgium, and Holland), taken by Scottish textile manufacturer, antiquary and keen amateur photographer Erskine Beveridge (1851- 1920) in the late nineteenth century. The work was compiled (with a preface) by his son John Harrie Beveridge (1869- 1932), the first owner of this, the first of 50 numbered copies. .… Read More

London: The Offices of "Stamp Collecting", [1920]. 116pp. With xvi pages of photographic plates. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Rubbed, chipping to dulled spine. . Popular edition [i.e. first edition]. 8vo.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1918. xviii, 280pp, [4]. With half-title, photographic frontispiece, and two terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in black. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Occasional pencil annotations to text, else an internally clean and crisp copy. Signed by the author 'John Pollock' to recto of FFEP, ink manuscript correction to a single word of preliminaries likely in the author's hand. A collection of papers by English historian Sir John Pollock (1878-1963), which had originally appeared in periodicals including The Standard, Manchester Guardian, Fortnightly review, New Europe, and Nineteenth Century; providing accounts of the Russian Revolution, the Polish question, and the nation's involvement on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Pollock served in Russia and Poland from 1915 to 1919 as chief commissioner for Great Britain to Poland and the Galicia Fund under the Russian Red Cross. He was… Read More

London: Adam & Charles Black, [1901]. De luxe edition, limited to 350 copies signed by the author, of which this is number 348. xiv, 254pp, [2]. With 99 colour plates, six facsimile letters, and a folding map. Original publisher's cream cloth, tooled in gilt, bevelled edges, T.E.G., all others deckled. A trifle discoloured. Armorial bookplate of H. C. Embleton to FEP, very occasional spotting. The de luxe, limited, pre-trade edition, of painter Mortimer Menpes' (1855-1938) pictorial history of the Boer War, the text supplied by his daughter Dorothy. . First edition. Quarto.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930. 318pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards, spine lettered gilt. With the original cream dustwrapper lettered black. Boards bright, with minor bumping to corners and ends with the spine a trifle cocked. Wrapper marked and toned, spine significantly sunned with losses to both ends, with the corresponding fading to the cloth. Endpapers toned, otherwise bright and clean throughout save light pencil markings on page 143. Laurence Housman (1865-1959) was a prolific writer, poet and illustrator whose career spanned from the Edwardian Era to the middle of the twentieth century. He was an active Suffragette, Humanist, and member of the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society dedicated to the ascetic homosexual ethos. One of only three works edited by Housman, the best-known being the universally panned A.E.H.: some poems, some letters and a personal memoir by his brother Laurence Housman (1937). . First edition. 8vo.

London: Printed by J. Hartnell, 1824. [2], 68, vii pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed, some surface loss to bowed boards. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title. A compendium of the rules and regulations governing British Army barracks in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies ('Ceylon and New South Wales excepted'). . 8vo.

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1837. 72pp. With numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's pictorial paper wrappers. Without spine panel, dust-soiled and a trifle chipped. Inked and pencilled ownership inscriptions to recto of FFEP and foot of p.70. An apparently unrecorded Religious Tract Society edition of Mary Martha Sherwood's (1775-1851) Worcester-based morality tale for children. The narrative centres around young Mary, who, in an effort to provide for her kindly widowed mother and subsidise her income as a glove sewer, takes a position as a housekeeper at a local estate. There, she earns the animosity of a fellow female employee Hannah, a rather languorous young woman. Hannah, naturally, proves herself the more diligent worker, learning the benefits of honest employment, commitment to one's duties, and the dangers of procrastination. Whilst COPAC and OCLC locate other contemporary editions, none are dated, as here, 1837. . 12mo.

London: Printed for W. Hone, 1817. xxiii, [1], 60pp. With a half-tile. Uncut in contemporary two-tone paper boards. Rubbed, joints split, surface loss to spine. Ink-stamp of William Stark and recent book-label of Anne and F. G. Reiner to FEP, scattered spotting. An early edition of Southey’s verse drama reflecting his youthful radical political ambitions, composed in 1794, and first printed surreptitiously by pirates in 1817 in order to the embarrass the recently created Poet Laureate. . New edition. 8vo.

Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., 1814. In three volumes. [4], 358, [2]; [4], 370, [2]; [4], 371pp, [1]. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and bumped. Later armorial bookplates of Serjeantson of Hanlith to all FEPs. The second edition, published anonymously in the same year as the first, of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) seminal Scottish novel of the 1745 Jacobite Rising; which constituted both the author's initial venture into prose fiction and the beginning of the remarkably successful 'Waverley Novel' series. Todd & Bowden 77Ab.. Second edition. 12mo.

London: William Collins Sins & Co Ltd, 1976. 320pp. Original publisher's moss green cloth boards lettered gilt, with the photographic dustwrapper. Board edges slightly toned, bumping to spine ends. Clipped wrapper a little nicked and toned, with small paper numbered label to foot of spine. Signed by Lord Home on the title page. Previous owner's address inked in manuscript to FFEP, with additional return instructions in pencil below. First edition, signed, of the autobiography of British Prime Minister Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel KT, PC (1903 – 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963. . First edition. 8vo.

London: William Heinemann, 1913. [4], 316pp, [16]. Original publisher's brown cloth boards lettered and tooled in black. Bottom edge untrimmed, all edges a little foxed, internally bright with an ink gift inscription dated 22/3/1913 to FFEP. Bookseller label of Roffey and Clarke, Croydon, to rear pastedown. E. F. Benson's thirty-first stand-alone novel, a classically 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. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. [8], 289, [3], 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue (dated March, 1896). Title in red and black. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt.Minor shelf-wear. Armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon and booksellers ticket of Gilbert & Field of London to FEP. The posthumously published first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-1894) unfinished novel set during the Napoleonic Wars. . First edition. 8vo.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1950. [viii], 75pp. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered silver. A little rubbed and bumped, though internally bright and clean. Inscribed on the FFEP 'From the Author in deepest admiration for the first Chichester season and gratitude for the recording, Robert Gittings'.’ Robert Gittings (1911-1992), English writer, biographer, and BBC Radio producer. In 1978, he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography The Older Hardy. Wentworth Place was his first major collection of poetry. From the library of Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), one of the most important figures of stage and screen in the twentieth century. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Charles H. Kelly, 1895. 273pp, [1]. With 107 plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled black morocco, A.E.G., gilt dentelles. Gilt lettered presentation inscription to FEP: 'Presented to Mr. William Hines on laying a foundation stone of the Wesleyan Methodist School-Chapel, Cauldron Road, Shelton, Hanley. October 5th, 1897'. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. A finely bound copy of a memorial volume dedicated to Anglican clergyman and founder of Methodism John Wesley's (1703-1791) and other prominent members of the Methodist Church. The work was first published in 1891 to commemorate the centenary of Wesley's death. . Second edition. Quarto.

Barnstaple: Avery, Printer, [1817]. Single leaf broadside, edges uncut. Lightly creased and spotted, central vertical fold. An apparently unrecorded flyer advertising the letting of pasture land situated between the market town of Barnstaple and the village of West Down. . Dimensions 160 x 190 mm.

London: Smith and Elder, Fraser, Weale, Williams, and Reid, 1839. 58pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's printed mauve wrappers. Rubbed and dulled, backstrip worn. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to upper wrapper: 'The Revd. Canon Conway / Rector / from the Author'. A presentation copy of the second edition (printed in the same year as the first) of an authoritative survey of the progress of the Westminster Improvement Company, intended to solicit further attention to plans to develop the area. The Gentlemen's Magazine (Vol. XI, p.180) received the pamphlet favourably: 'Independently of the matters immediately relating to the company, Mr Bardwell has compressed into this tract a great body of interesting topographical information on the site and buildings of the ancient city of Westminster, which will be valuable and amusing to those who are not immediately interested in the objects of the Westminster Improvement Company.' .… Read More

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Limited deluxe edition of 250 copies signed by the publisher, of which this is number 108. vii, 147pp, [1]. With 21 colour plates by John Fulleylove. Uncut in original publisher's decorated cream buckram, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. A deluxe limited edition of A. & C. blacks handsomely illustrated history of Westminster Abbey. . Quarto.

London: The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900] 60pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves. [Together with:] KINGSLEY, Charles. Westward Ho! Or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight. Part II. London. The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900]. 60pp. iv. With two final advertisement leaves. 8vo. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities spotted, lightly rubbed and dust-soiled. Leaves browned. An abridged edition, in two parts, of Kingsley's historical novel of privateers in Elizabethan England, edited by journalist William Thomas Stead (1849-1912); numbers 86 and 87 respectively in the "Review of Review's" Masterpiece Library, Penny Popular Novels series. .