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Image for The First Report of the Gloucester Diocesan Board of Education, 1840. [with] The Second Report of the Gloucester Diocesan Board of Education, 1841.

The First Report of the Gloucester Diocesan Board of Education, 1840. [with] The Second Report of the Gloucester Diocesan Board of Education, 1841.

By: EDUCATION

Price: £80.00

Publisher: Gloucester: Printed by T. Jew, 1840 - 1.:

Seller ID: 38547

2 items. 8vo. pp. 17: 13. Disbound. Includes lists of donations and subscriptions. No locations traced. View more info

Four and Twenty Fiddlers; a favorite song sung by Mr. Edwin at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden.

By: EDWIN, Mr.

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Bland?, c.1780.:

Seller ID: 38782

Single sheet, engraved music with melody and words, 390 x 255 mm. A little creased. Scarce, Copac lists three locations. View more info

Image for Elkington’s Cabinet Museum of Economic Sculpture in Fictile Ivory, made and sold by Charles Elkington, Electro Metallurgical Artist and Fine Art Manufacturer. Tariff of Nett Prices for Exportation.

Elkington’s Cabinet Museum of Economic Sculpture in Fictile Ivory, made and sold by Charles Elkington, Electro Metallurgical Artist and Fine Art Manufacturer. Tariff of Nett Prices for Exportation.

By: ELKINGTON, Charles

Price: £450.00

Publisher: Charles Elkington, [April, 1853]:

Seller ID: 39937

4to. pp. [8]. Stitched, as issued, illustrated throughout. A little browned but a Fine copy. A rare catalogue, and probably one of the first to cover fictile ivory, a recently invented method of approximating the look of ivory using “Plaster of Paris, with Silica, and other matters capable of being moulded into the most delicate and beautiful forms, and which by nice manipulation, is made to take the appearance of ivory so exactly...” It was used to reproduce original ivory forms in a more affordable medium. Charles Elkington appears to have been one of the pioneers of the method... View more info

Image for Catalogue of Henry Elkington’s Series of Superb Gold and Silver Plated Sideboard Plate, Articles of Vertu, Bronze Statuetes, &c. Antique, Mediaeval and Modern.

Catalogue of Henry Elkington’s Series of Superb Gold and Silver Plated Sideboard Plate, Articles of Vertu, Bronze Statuetes, &c. Antique, Mediaeval and Modern.

By: ELKINGTON, Henry

Price: £400.00

Publisher: Birmingham: Elkington, Mason and Co., c. 1853.:

Seller ID: 39938

4to. pp. [4]. Illustrated throughout. A little browned but near Fine and a rare survival. Elkington and Co, later Elkington, Mason & Co., pioneered electroplating and they quickly became one of the leading producers of silverware. View more info

Directions for the Gardiner at Says-Court but which may be used for other gardens. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

By: EVELYN, John

Price: £75.00

Publisher: The Nonesuch Press, 1932.:

Seller ID: 39584

8vo. pp. 109. Original marbled boards, Fine in dust wrapper. Limited Edition, number 74 of 625 copies. View more info

The Crystal Labyrinth. A Puzzle. [Great Exhibition]

By: EYRE, Jno

Price: £2,500.00

Publisher: T. Dean & Son, 1851.:

Seller ID: 38719

Single sheet maze/labyrinth game. 20 x 12½ inches in arched mount cut to shape. Three short closed tears and a little dusty but a Very Good example. Framed and glazed. The only copy traced is held by the V&A. Their copy is worn, creased and folded and one of the 6d plain versions; this one is a 1s version, on stout paper, hand coloured. View more info

Original Paper Fan Leaf Illustrating a Horse Racing Scene.

By: FAN LEAF

Price: £750.00

Publisher: c. 1795.:

Seller ID: 39569

Single unused printed leaf, printed on blue paper, maximum size 264 x 475 mm. Very slight loss to the left and right printed border line and a little creased. An unused fan leaf printed on a single sheet. This would later be hand coloured and pasted on to wooden or ivory ribs. The scene would indicate that this was to be used at race meets. View more info

[Dos de Mayo Uprising, 1808] Dia Dos de Mayo de 1808. En Madrid. Mueren Daviz Verlarde defendiendo el Parque de Artilleria.

By: FAN LEAF

Price: £600.00

Publisher: Behrmann and Collmann, 1813.:

Seller ID: 39802

Hand coloured fan-shaped aquatint, 275 x 525 mm. Verso carries the printed title. Fine. This design celebrates the uprising on the 2nd May, 1808 of the Spanish in Madrid against the occupation of the French; hundreds of poorly armed Spaniards were crushed and killed by the Imperial troops. Several Spanish officers who joined the revolt were declared heroes and the date is celebrated as a public holiday in the Community of Madrid. View more info

Cathedral Cities of Ely and Norwich; with introduction by Edward A. Freeman.

By: FARREN, R. Drawn and etched

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Cambridge: MacMillan and Bowes, 1883.:

Seller ID: 39740

Folio. pp. Engraved title, 17; 35 fine etched plates. Disbound; the text block only with no covers. A fine selection of etchings. View more info

[Blank Visitor’s Book?]

By: FAZAKERLEY BINDING

Price: £1,800.00

Publisher: c. 1890.:

Seller ID: 39603

Large oblong 4to. 97 pages of blank hand-made paper, mostly interleaved with tissue guards. Fine full crushed green morocco binding by Fazakerley of Manchester, inset red leather border strip, ornate art-nouveau gilt and blind designs to covers and spine panels. With silk end papers and inset panel to front pastedown incorporating the bookplate of Robert Bateman of Carlisle. In the original cloth bound solander box, the box hinge rather damaged. The preservation of the box has kept this completely unused book and binding in extraordinary condition. View more info

Hyperion: a Romance, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

By: FOSTER, Birket illustrations

Price: £350.00

Publisher: David Bogue, 1853.:

Seller ID: 38750

1st Edition thus. 8vo. pp. xii, [2], 304; hand tinted wood engravings. Full morocco, gilt, patterned inlay to front panel. This attractive binding is by Slinn of Sheffield. It is possible that the delicate hand tinting was also carried out by the binder as I can find no record of other copies similarly coloured. View more info

Image for History of the War in the Peninsula[r], under Napoleon; to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers. Translated from the French.

History of the War in the Peninsula[r], under Napoleon; to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers. Translated from the French.

By: FOY, General

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jnr. and Richter, 1829.:

Seller ID: 39834

2nd Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, [2], 440; xv, [3], 638; portrait frontispiece, folding chart. Contemporary half calf, top of spine of second volume pulled, spine labels chipped. View more info

Image for True Stories; or, Interesting Anecdotes of Children: designed through the medium of example, to inculcate principles of virtue and piety.

True Stories; or, Interesting Anecdotes of Children: designed through the medium of example, to inculcate principles of virtue and piety.

By: FRANK, Elizabeth

Price: £200.00

Publisher: York: Thomas Wilson, High Ousegate, 1814.:

Seller ID: 39563

2nd Edition. 12mo. pp. 192; engraved frontispiece. Original printed boards, worn, front board almost detached, most of spine lacking; internally spotted and a little soiled. The first edition of 1810 was also published in York. View more info

White’s Plane Spherical Globe.

By: FRANKS, J.H.

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: Sheffield: William White, 1839.:

Seller ID: 38802

A two-dimensional ‘globe’, 260 x 260 mm. Original sheep-backed cloth, spine worn and cloth spotted. This opens out to show 2 volvelles, Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere each bisected by a fixed brass latitude marker. View more info

Collections From the Records and Other Mss in the Herald's College, Relating to the Name and Families of Freake, Freke, &c.

By: FREAKE

Price: £400.00

Publisher: Manuscript, c. 1860.:

Seller ID: 36684

Large folio. 171 folio leaves [some blank] mounted onto card; hand drawn and coloured coats of arms throughout. Full morocco, gilt, beveled boards, a little rubbed but Fine. A manuscript collection of genealogical tables, patents of arms, etc. from mostly unpublished earlier manuscripts relating to the Freakes or Frekes from Dorset and Somerset and elsewhere in the south and west. View more info

Plan of the City of Edo [Tokyo].

By: FUJIYA, Kichizo

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: Tokyo: Toueido, 1849.:

Seller ID: 38837

Single sheet hand coloured woodcut plan of the city with reference key inset. Printed on very fine paper, with some wear to the folds and edges, especially the right hand side. 750 x 860 mm within borders at maximum extent. As the paper is so fragile it is unlikely that many copies have survived. A detailed map showing the residences of the Daimyo [the provincial governors] and their importance, together with distances from Nihonbashi to each given location, principally temples or shrines. View more info