Search Results: Authors starting with B from Liber Antiquus

London: Printed by John Haviland, for William Lee, and are to be sould at the Great Turks head next to the Mitre Taverne in Fleetstreet, 1639. FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. An attractive, crisp copy in contemporary English speckled calfskin, ruled in blind (light wear to extremities, discreet repairs to head-cap, the lowest compartment of the spine sympathetically restored; a few light scrapes to the boards.) Complete with the engraved allegorical title page (dated 1631) and engraved portrait of Bacon. The text is type-ruled throughout. Small tear in outer margin of title (no loss). Woodcut head-pieces and initials at the opening of each book. The "New Atlantis" is introduced by a separate, undated title page. Provenance: 18th c. black ink stamp of a ram, with "Sheppard" and the number "10" stamped beneath. Possibly the mark of Thomas Sheppard (d. 1763). See David Pearson, "Book Owners Online" for more on this puzzling stamp. First published in 1627, the year after Bacon's death, the… Read More

London: Printed for J. Clarke at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane, and J. Brotherton at the Bible next the Fleece-Tavern in Cornhill, 1728. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary black morocco (rebacked, corners discreetly repaired, endpapers renewed), the boards tooled in panels with attractive ornaments. The contents are in fine condition with the occasional minor stain and a few trivial faults: tiny hole in leaf F1, pale dampstain to lvs. K3-5, a slightly darker one to leaf L1; two small holes and alight stain to leaf N8. A few small stains to the engraved frontispiece of Bunyan dreaming. Pt. II has its own title page, dated 1727. A fine copy of this illustrated edition of Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress", one of the most famous English allegories and the Puritan conversion narrative par excellence. In response to the proliferation of poorly-printed editions of the book, the publishers of this edition aspired to present the work "in a handsome manner", on heavy paper and illustrated with new… Read More