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THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT IN THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES.
         


 
                                              
London : (circa 1785).  Small 4to. Contemporary calf. 288, (4) pages, 10 engraved plates, of which 6 are folding.

 
This anonymous manual was first published for the Birmingham art schools in 1773.  Birmingham was a center for drawing schools at the time.  Scarce.  OCLC cites five copies as being in American libraries.  We could find no copy selling at auction during the past thirty years.  The text relies heavily on Dossie's Handmaid to the Arts.  Rebacked; some light sporadic foxing and soiling, else very good.



$985.00


BARRIE , J.M.  THE PLAYS.







London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1929. 8vo. Full calf, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, 844 pages.

  
A compilation of twenty plays including Peter Pan, Quality Street , and The Admirable Crichton.  Bound in handsome full-calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.  Sun fading along edges of front board, else very good.



$185.00

  
BIANCONI, Giovanni Lodovico.  DESCRIZIONE DEI CIRCHI PARTICOLARMENTE DE QUELLO, DI CARACALLA.
  




Rome : Stamperia Pagliarini, 1789. Folio. Contemporary gilt vellum. xxi, cxxx, (i) pages, 20 engraved plates, of which 7 folding. First, and only, edition. [Brunet I, 848; Cicognara, 3619]. 


 
This monograph on the fourth century circus, known in the eighteenth century as the Circus of Caracalla, but  through later historical and archaeological research renamed Circus of Maxentius.  It is considered to be the best preserved ancient circus in Rome , popular with visitors on the Grand Tour.  The text is in French and Italian.  With the bookplate of Bielby Thompsons, a member of the Society of the Dilettanti and a noted connoisseur of ancient Roman and Grecian monuments.  Uncut, with wide margins.  Slight wear to extremities of spine; else very good.


$1,850.00
 

(BRADLEY)   MASON, Walt.  UNCLE WALT.       










Chicago : George Matthew Adams, 1910. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. 189 pages. Second printing

 
This is a very good, bright copy of a book with cover designs by Will Bradley.  Additionally there is a long presentation by the book's publisher ``from the highly organized but poor publisher of this little volume.''  This is an excellent example of Bradley's later design work.  After becoming art editor for Collier's in 1907, he did very few outside assignments.  Scarce.



$110.00


(COLOR PRINTING-PYLE, Howard)   TENNYSON. Alfred.  THE LADY OF SHALOTT.
   

 



 
New York : Dodd, Mead, (1881). Square 8vo. Beveled cream cloth, foliated gilt design in spine, all edges gilt. (62) card stock illuminated pages.


Lavishly illustrated with nineteen full-page illustrations combined with text, eleven other full page illustrations, pictorial title page, four pictorial half-titles and ten decorated pages - all in Chromolithography.  Designed by Howard Pyle in an Aesthetic style recalling the work of Walter Crane, which he soon repudiated.  The illustrations which spread out over the text prefigure the style of Eugene Grasset in "Quatre Fils d'Aymon."  Color lithography by Brett Lithographing Company in New York .  Covers with black lettering, pictorial design in gilt, red and black illumination the capital "T."  According to Whtiman Bennett. American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books, page 91: "one of the most notable gift books ever produced in this country and the best of the Pyle color work..."  Fine copy.


$1,450.00

 
(COLOR PRINTING-TRADE CATALOGUE)   MANNING, BOWMAN, & CO.  ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST OF PERFECTION GRANITE IRONWARE AND DECOTATED PEARL AGATE.





     

Meridian , Connecticut and New York : 1892. Folio. (iii),Frontispiece view of extensive factory, 1-70, 101-150, 201-224, 301-342, as issued. 


A rare trade catalogue.  Romaine located one copy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and OCLC located copies at Winterthur and the Connecticut Historical Society.  This catalogue is notable for its exquisite color-printed wood engravings of tea and coffee pots and accoutrements, tureens, canisters, dishes, jars, cuspidors, and hotel/restaurant ware.  The engravings were by Sanford & Lohmann, color inks from Chas. Eneu Johnson, and printing by E.A. Horton.  In contemporary accounts, Horton is mentioned as a "fancy" printer, who's output was "the last word" in printing.  Laid-in is a color flier for "The New Mikado Pearl Agateware."  A handsome documentation of material culture.  Gilt and stamped cloth, worn along edges and at extremities.  Some stains on front floral endpapers; free endpaper torn with small piece missing.  Otherwise, near very good copy.

 
$1,650.00


 
DARLING, John, and Heber Lands .  THE CARPENTER'S RULE MADE EASIE: OR, THE ART OF MEASURING SUPERFICIES AND SOLIDS... bound with A SHORT TREATISE OF PRACTICAL GAUGING...   
    



London : J. How for G. Sawbridge, 1709. 12mo. Contemporary full-sheep. (x), 242 pages; (ii), 104, (1) pages. Seventh and third editions. [Park 102].


Rare title with only two copies of this edition recorded on OCLC and only in England .  Originally published in 1658, Darling says to the reader: "wherefore at the request of many that have occasion to make use of such kind of measure, I have made it publick with exact tables thereunto belonging, being perswaded that it would be a great help not only to carpenters, but others that make use of measure, especially of such as cannot read..."  Darling does not pretend to "great exactness'" he caters for the "ignorant," whose needs he evidently supplied so well that his book remained in print for eighty years.  There was a copy in America before the Revolution.  With twenty wood-engraved text illustrations.  Professionally rebacked.  Slight marginal waterstain in the final dozen or so leaves (but not heavy).  Inscription on front paste down; "John Booker, September 29, 1732 ."

 
SOLD
 

DRESSER, Christopher.  POPULAR MANUAL OF BOTANY, BEING A DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUDIMENTS OF THE BOTANICAL SCIENCE.   





Edinburgh : Adam & Charles Black, 1860. 8vo. Publisher's calf. viii, (2), 233, (1) pages. First edition.

A scarce work.  OCLC records 13 copies world-wide with only two in the US .  A clean copy of the colored issue of Dresser's third work on botany before he devoted himself to design.  "Among Dresser's first important writings were 'On the relation of science to ornamental art,' a paper given to the Royal Institution in 1857, and The Rudiments of Botany  and Unity and Variety, both in 1859.  On the strength of the two latter he was awarded a doctorate by Jena  University in 1860.  He was always extremely proud of this and made a point of being known as Dr. Dresser.  He was disappointed in the same year when his application for the chair of botany at London  University was unsuccessful."  Perhaps this disappointment led to Dresser's highly successful and influential work as a designer which was profoundly rooted in his understanding of botanical structures.
 
"In this volume we fear that it will be at first sight be thought that we have been guilty of a great breach of etiquette, for when speaking of the student we have always done so in the masculine gender.  However, we do not for one moment mean to commit such an atrocity as to insinuate that ladies are not students also, and that the book is not for them, on the contrary, it is emphatically a ladies' book..." (preface).  Tynmouth House School Library award bookplate dated June 19, 1874 .  Spine somewhat worn, else very good.


$385.00


ELLIS, Mrs. (Sarah Stickney).  THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, THEIR SOCIAL DUTIES, AND DOMESTIC HABITS.             
           


 
Philadelphia : E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1839. Small 4to. Cloth. x, 199 pages; (iv), (9)-212 pages. Second American edition. [American Imprints 55503].

First published in 1838, this edition contains two volumes in one.  Through this and her other books Mrs. Ellis sought "solely to the cultivation of habits that I have confined my attention--to the minor morals of domestic life".  Spine sunned, paper spine label chipped, some foxing to edges of leaves, still a bright copy.


 
$110.00
 
    
HULME , F. Edward.  FLOWER PAINTING IN WATER COLOURS.         
  




London: Cassell, n.d. (circa 1879). 4to. Publisher's cloth. 18 pages, 20 chromolithographic plates, 8 pages. First edition.


Hulme offers instructions on painting flowers.  The twenty plates are interleaved with drawing paper for the use of the owner.  Hulme was the author of Suggestions of Floral Design and Principles of Ornamental Art, two leading art reference books for the aesthetic movement.  Some minor edge wear and light, sporadic foxing. 


$185.00
 
 
OTTLEY, William Young.  A COLLECTION OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE FAC-SIMILES OF SCARCE AND CURIOUS PRINTS.
 




London: The Proprietor, 1828. Folio. Contemporary quarter-morocco. (iv), xxxvi, xxv pages, Engraved title leaf, 143 plates on 117 leaves. Second edition, large paper copy. [Bigmore & Wyman II, page 96; Ray, 24].


Scarce work--a compilation of prints by the "early masters of the Italian, German, and Flemish schools, illustrative of the history of engraving, from the invention of the art, by Maso Finiguerra, in the middle of the fifteenth century."  The popularity of early prints after 1790 led to many published histories of printing and engraving with facsimiles of these early works.  Ottley's opus magnum is the best of these early histories.  First published in 1826, this revised large paper edition was essentially published for a select group of his friends.  Many of the plates are mounted on paper, and several are reproduced on silver paper called Niello by Ottley.  The plate count corresponds to the desctiprions in the text and are complete--although two are mounted out of order.  Some sporadic foxing.  Rehinged; tips and edges rubbed.


$585.00

  
(PAULDING, J.K.).  LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH, WRITTEN DURING AN EXCURSION IN THE SUMMER OF 1816.  Two volumes.          
 




New York: James Eastburn, 1817. 8vo. Publisher's boards. 254; (ii), 260 pages. First editions. [B.A.L., 15693; Sabin, 59203].
 
So realistic, this novel was long thought to be non-fiction, a travel account through America's south.  It was listed as that in Clark's Travels in the Old South.  The anonymous author was James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860).  Our set is in mixed bindings.  Volume I, publisher's boards; Volume II later plain blue boards.  Spines chipped, slightly foxed.  Scarce.  We could find only one copy selling at auction during the past thirty years.



$485.00


PYLE, Thomas.  THE SCRIPTURE PRESERVATIVE AGAINST POPERY: BEING A PARAPHRASE WITH NOTES ON THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN
  



London: J. Noon, 1735. 8vo. Contemporary full-calf. xlviii, 212 pages. First edition.


Thomas Pyle (1674-1756) was a Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist.  At the time he published this book he was minister of Lynn Regis in Norfolk, and Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury.  His book, which was a polemic against the Roman Catholic church, includes "a preface concerning the great usefulness and intelligibleness of this book.  Also a short and summary view of the Revelation; with an alphabetical dictionary to the prophetick language as used by St. John in this book."  With the contemporary armorial engraved bookplate of Charles Lord Maynard, (1690-1775) who was First Viscount Maynard, a British peer and Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk .  Former Colonial Williamsburg Library copy with library bookplate on inside of front board, no other markings.  Very good.


$385.00


SALMON, William.  THE COUNTRY BUILDER'S ESTIMATOR, OR THE ARCHITECT'S COMPANION.
                   



London: James Hodges, (circa 1730). 12mo. Contemporary full-calf. (xiv), 96 pages, 2 folding charts. First edition, second variation. [Harris, 776; Park, 73; Schimmelman, Architectural Books, 123].

 
Rare edition. This was Salmon's first book and the first one totally devoted to builder's prices.  It was the most popular of Salmon's price books with editions up to 1774--all of which are scarce.  It established the market for consistent price manuals for the building trades that led to his other comparable titles, The Builder's Guide, (1736), The London and Country Builders Vade Mecum, (1741), and Palladio Londinensis, (1734)--covering the work of the major building crafts including bricklayers, blacksmiths, carpenters, pasterers, painters and trimmers.  Copies of Salmon's book were advertised for sale in pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia, Boston, and New York.  Contemporary signature in ink on front blank leaf, "Robert Lawrence, His Book, 1730,"  which is the reason we date the book much earlier than Eileen Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers,  who dates it 1733-34.   Hinges cracked, but firm, else very good. 


$3,250.00



SCHLESINGER, Max.  SAUNTERINGS IN AND ABOUT LONDON .





London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1853. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Frontispiece, engraved title page, xii, 290 pages, 5 plates. First English language edition. 


Engraved by the Dalziel Brothers after drawings by William McConnell, the Irish illustrator most remembered for his contributions to Punch.  A personal tour of London, the book is in a most unusual ripple-grained cloth with a gilt scene on the front cover.  The gilding on the spine is oxidized, else a very good copy.  The text was translated from the German by Otto Wenckstern.



$285.00



THOMSON , J.  THE SEASONS.       
 










London: J. Wallis, 1805. 8vo. Contemporary calf. (iii), xviii, 286, (6) pages.


This edition of The Seasons is attractively illustrated with unusually large woodcuts by Thomas Bewick.  A portrait of Bewick, not printed for this book, is pasted to front endpaper.  Hinges and tips expertly repaired, an attractive copy.


$210.00



TIJOU, John, and Louis Fordrin.  A NEW BOOKE OF DRAWINGS INVENTED AND DESIGNED BY JOHN TIJOU. 
 
 


(L ondon or Paris: Louis Fordrin, 1723). Folio. Later calf. 20 double-page engraved plates. Second edition. [ Berlin Catalogue, 1323; Harris, 879].

First printed in 1689, this is the first English book on ironwork and one of the earliest pattern books in England.  It features Tijou's iron work at Hampton Court, with plates from the first edition.  Christopher Wren and William and Mary were Tijou's patrons.  He
created iron-work for Hampton Court , Chatsworth, Trinity College , and other large projects.
 
The popularity of Tijou's designs led to a French edition by Louis Fordrin who acquired Tijou's original plates and printed his edition in Paris about 1723.  It is a copy of the Tijou original with a duplicate of Tijou's engraved title leaf in English and French and reprints of all of Tijou's original designs.  Of the nineteen plates, five are signed by Tijou and appear to be printed from the original plates.  The remaining fourteen plates are exact copies of the Tijou original plates but are signed by Louis Fordrin with an added caption in French.  The last plate, although a copy of Tijou's design, is the only one modified by Fordrin.  Nine pages have been professionally remargined in the very best manner.  Very slight wear to the extremities of the spine and tips of the binding.  Overall an exceptionally nice copy of a rare book. Only  four copies of the first edition are cited by the NUC; none of the second.

 

$3,250.00

 
(TRADE CATALOGUE)   PUTZ, Wilhelm.  ARCHITECTONISCHE VERZIERUNGEN UND ORNAMENTS AUS DEM MODELL-LAGER...HEFT I.




Koln: 1865. Large folio. (14 x 10 3/4 inches). Publisher's printed wrappers. (iv) pages, 10 plates, all loosely inserted as published. First edition.
 

An early and rare trade catalogue for garden ornaments including fountains, figures, and vases.  The four pages of text includes a price list.  There are several separate images on each plate.  The catalogue is rare with no copies appearing in OCLC or any other standard reference.  While this is identified as Book I, we could find no evidence that other parts were ever published.  Even if there were, this work stands as complete, in itself.  A very good copy in the publisher's printed yellow wrappers.



$785.00


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