Provincial printing (8 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Softcover. Not ex. library. 84 pages, illustrated. published in a limited edition of 500. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. Derby: Printed by and for Henry Mozley, Brook-Street; and sold by G. Cowie and Co., Poultry, London, 1825. 12mo. 180pp. With frontispiece of Bandy Legged Thomas, and title-page vignette. §Previously issued by the same publisher in 1817 (BL and Bodleian copies only), this second edition (same pagination) not in Copac and with one NUC location only (Harvard). Original pictorial paper boards, rubbed and soiled, top edge rough, others untrimmed, with recent paper spine and label. Original endpapers preserved, one inner hinge neatly strengthened with period paper. Text slightly yellowed with age. Paper loss to outer margin of A3, clear of text and perhaps a tear rather than a paper fault. The occasional other slight tear to a page edge here & there. Nineteenth century ownership stamp of one T. Illston to front free endpaper. A good, sound copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co; Liverpool : D. Marples., 1832. 24mo. First edition. viii,179,[1]pp. Measures 5.4 x 3.4 inches approx. §Consists of floral poems by British, and occasionally French or Italian, poets from throughout the ages, arranged in three sections by season. Bodleian copy only. Not in Kohler, Johnson or NUC. The name of the Liverpool printer D[avid] Marples (1796-1881) additionally appears on title verso and at foot of final leaf of text. Very neatly bound in contemporary half calf, contrasting lettering-piece, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled paper boards, plain blue endpapers. Ink presentation inscription 'Eliza Hand from Jane Sheppard[?]' to Contents leaf, opposite to 'Eliza Chambers', the perhaps now married name of the recipient. A very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Hull: Printed for John Robinson, by M.C. Peck, 1840. First edition. 96,[4]pp. With list of subscribers - for ninety-five copies in all, making it perhaps likely that a total of one hundred were printed. §Not in Copac, not in Kohler, and seemingly only one location worldwide (UCLA). Pagination consists of [1]-96, followed by [313]-316 - latter consisting of 'The Maniac: A Poem. By Thomas Robinson' - as UCLA copy. Imprint 'Peck, Printer, Lowgate, Hull' to foot of p.96 and 316. Dedicated to the Earl of Yarborough (subscriber for 10 copies) by the editor, presumably the author's brother. The book opens with a short prose description of Brocklesby "where Earl Yarborough erected a commodious Inn for the accommodation of travellers and gentlemen"; followed by a four page prose description of a 'Dinner in Celebration of Earl Yarborough's Birthday', Barnetby, 8th of August 1840; and thereafter consists of poetry, opening with 'The Oxonian: A Poem' (heroic couplets, 16 pages, first line 'The wedded fair, whom "gay seducers" move'), followed by pieces such as 'The Tyrolese Villagers: Or, A Prospect of War' (heroic couplets, 18pp.), and 'The Gardener's Tale (blank verse, 15pp.). Original cloth-backed drab boards lacking part of original backstrip. A good, sound copy in all other respects. Pencilled ownership inscription of one Elizabeth [Illegible], dated 1851, to front free endpaper, and a few light pencilled annotations to text in same hand.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. First Edition. Two volumes. Tewkesbury: W. Dyde, 1802-1803. First edition. 12mo. [iv],192,vii,[i]; [iv],200,vi pp. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. §Lacks title-pages: these appear to have been discarded by the binder. Rare: BL, Bodleian, and UCLA copies only. Not held at National Army Museum. §Powell Snell - of Guiting Grange, Guiting Power, Gloucestershire; a barrister by profession - was a Captain of Militia from the early 1770s, and raised the First Troop of Gloucestershire Gentleman and Yeomanry (now the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) in 1795, at Cheltenham. He contributed poetry to the Gentleman's Magazine in the late 18th-century under a soubriquet, and Poetical Effusions from Fairy Camp - his sole known separate publication - seems to have been an attempt to collect his writings as he neared the end of his life. His 'My Own Epitaph, To be in the Church Yard, on a common Stone', rather touchingly concludes the second volume; he died about a year after its publication. From references in several poems (Louis Weltje, Sir John Lade), Snell appears to have been personally associated with the 'fast' circle of the Prince Regent, and references to Zachary Moore and to the writings of Laurence Sterne indicate possible youthful association with the circle of Sterne's friend John Hall-Stevenson, and certainly with the latter's occasional writings. Snell seems to have enjoyed a contemporary reputation in fashionable circles as a minor bel esprit. The poems include the usual odes, epitaphs, epigrams, puns, &c., but the overall tone is for occasional, social pieces, and the subject-matter tends towards the local: Gloucestershire and Worcestershire; Cheltenham, Bath, Bristol; female 'toasts' of the day, provincial drinking-houses, etc. 'Fairy Camp' is described by the author as 'a whimsical Retreat of P[owell] S[nell]. . . So call'd by an elegant lady of taste. . . Constructed on a small knoll, in the middle of a high hill of about forty yards diameter, in a semicircular plantation of firs and forest-trees, and surrounded by a fanciful railing, defended by a Royal Salute of brass guns. . . The Marquee built of wood resembling a real one, having the proper facings of the South Gloucestershire Militia. Gothic windows and door; the eaves ornamented with iron laurel-branches, between which, on Gala days, are placed small flags. . .'. Neatly bound in full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, gilt lettering, gilt and blind decoration, all edges gilt. Ink presentation inscription 'From Emma to Bruce London 9th Feby. 1838' to preliminary blank in each volume, and ink ownership name of recipient - identified by 19th-century owner's pencilled note as Alexander Bruce Dennistoun Sword '(1808-?)', also 1838 - to front pastedowns. Further 19th-century ink ownership name of one A. Whittle to each volume. Occasional internal soiling and trace of removal of early paper label to endpapers. The MISSING TITLE-PAGES aside, a very good set of the verse of an interesting minor poet, provincially printed, & in a neat & attractive contemporary binding.…

Advertising sheet, 265 x 180 mm.

Printed on one side of a piece of paper roughly 680 x 430 mm. Good, on aged paper with a little spotting and one short closed tear. Text complete and entirely legible. Heading printed in a variety of types and point sizes, with the Rules and Articles, dated 'Slough, April 20th, 1897. and 'Signed on behalf of the General Body of Subscribers, EDMUND J. CRASKE.', in double-column beneath. Final list of subscribers, in four columns, beginning with 'ABORN, Edwin, Eton' and ending with 'WOLLASTON, H. U., East Burnham'.…

A charming 48mo chapbook. In its 16 pages, it was able to fit 16 woodcuts. Kendrew, despite being a provincial printer in York was one of the most prominent printers of nineteenth century children's chapbooks until his death in 1841. This instant book was from his series of twenty-four 16-page halfpenny chapbooks. Atkinson, Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, pgs. 218-19. Uncommon in commerce as other copies appear bound as sammelbands with other chapbooks. Davis, Kendrew of York 40; Opie N 799. Very good in stitched paper wraps with light soiling to covers.…