Search Results: Authors starting with I from Forest Books

Constable & Co. Ltd. 1936. First Edition, 2 vols., limited to 500 copies, frontispieces, facsimiles, orig. quarter vellum with marbled sides, slightly rubbed and a little soiled, uncut.

London: Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1678. First edition, folio, 19, [1]pp., woodcut royal coat of arms on title, stitched as issued, uncut. The Lord Chancellor = Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham. Wing, C3085.

Bodleian Library, Oxford. 1951. First Edition, 8pp., 24 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. The bindings reproduced in this booklet have been chosen to illustrate some of the many styles of gold-tooling current in Europe up to the eighteenth century.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1951. First edition, 8pp., 24 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. The bindings reproduced in this booklet have been chosen to illustrate some of the many styles of gold-tooling current in Europe up to the eighteenth century.

Oxford University Press. 1957. First Edition, 4to, 130pp., frontis., 1 plate, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications Series Vol. 7.

Royal Crown Derby, Derby. 1998. 4to, 94pp., coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. pictorial wrappers. The 'Imari' style with its rich colours - dark blue, iron red and gold - is one of the most distinctive of the classic styles associated with English wares. It has been identified with Royal Crown Derby in particular ever since its wares using Imari and Imari-derived patterns became the foundation of Royal Crown Derby's success in the 1870s and 1880s.Using Royal Crown Derby's remarkable pattern-book archive, Ian Cox surveys Derby Imari from its inception to the present day, charting the lasting popularity of the 'Imari' theme and its many derivations and developments by modern designers and craftsmen. The book concludes with a guide to identification and a table of all the Imari (and 'semi-imari' etc) patterns ever used at Royal Crown Derby's Osmaston Road factory.

Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico. 1954. 4to, 583pp., facsimiles throughout (some in red and black), orig. quarter calf. Besterman 5156-57.

Weimar. 1915. 4to, xi,113pp., frontis., 110 plates, orig. printed wrappers, worn.

The Free Libraries Committee, Cardiff. 1898. Small 4to, one of 500 large paper copies, 559,[1]pp., from the library of Owen Morris, orig. buckram, spine slghtly frayed, uncut.

Paris: Chez Sebast. Mabre-Cramoisy, Imprimeur du Roy, rue S. Jacques aux Cicognes, 1674. Second edition, 12mo, [24], 239, [1] pp., 2 folding plates, numerous illustrations in the text. Three works in one, some light dampstaining on the lower outer corners of a few leaves towards the end, later full calf, morocco, raised bands, spine label letter in gilt, a very nice copy. "A Jesuit, Pardies deserves a place in the history of physics for having intervened in the debate on the ideas of Newton and Huygens at certain decisive moments. His work, which is not extensive, is characteristic of a traditional period..... Although Pardies did not have the time to devote the full measure of his abilities to science, he was undoubtedly one of those vigorous intellects that science always needs.... His notions, as bold as they were näive, purported to demonstrate the spirituality of the soul by virtue of its capacity to understand the infinite through the 'clear and distinct ideas' of certain… Read More

Bassi & Nipoti, Modena. 1961. Small 4to, 80pp., 26 plates (6 coloured), orig. printed wrappers. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).

Corvina Press, Budapest. 1964. First Edition, 4to, 147pp., 48 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. The Bibliotheca Corviniana which Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-1490), collected in his Buda palace was one of the largest and most magnificent libraries of the times. Out of the original Corvinian collection 43 manuscripts and two incunabula are preserved in Hungary, and the present work is a discussion of them.

Im Insel Verlag, Leipzig. [1943]. First Edition, 4to, 150pp., coloured frontis., 30 plates, numerous illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth-backed marbled boards. A study of the noted 16th century bookbinder.

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1959. 4to, 151pp., orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy.

Im Insel Verlag, Leipzig. [1943]. First Edition, 4to, 150pp., signed and dated by Broomhead, coloured frontis., 30 plates, numerous illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth-backed marbled boards. A study of the noted 16th century bookbinder. From the library of the bookbinding historian, Frank Broomhead.

Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, Lisbon. 1975. First Edition, vol. I only, 4to, 521pp. numerous facsimiles, orig. cloth.

The New York Public Library. 1957. 88pp., limited to 500 copies, 4 plates, orig. printed wrappers, spine defective.

[London: n.p., 1715.]. Folio (304 x 194 mm), drop-head title, docket title, 7, [1]pp., stitched as issued. Thomas Trenchard who lived at Wolverton, in Dorset, had left all his manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments to Anthony Henley, of the Grange, in the County of Southampton. ESTC locating the BL and Bodleian copies only.

London: Printed for G. Woodfall, 1761. First edition, 8vo, [2], 78pp., disbound.

[Matlock, Derbyshire, 1783?.]. 210 x 160 mm., single sheet printed on one side only, addressed on the reverse 'For Peter Nightingale Esqr. Lea', 2 short tears reinforced, no loss of text. The words in square brackets are supplied in contemporary ink manuscript.