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first edition 2 vols. very tall 8vo. xx, 551, [1 (blank)]; xvi, 580pp., 5 large folding coloured maps, numerous photographs printed on text leaves, original deep blue cloth, front covers (differently) pictorially gilt blocked and titled, spines gilt lettered, top edges gilt, 1 cm. split at head of front joint of vol.1 and rear joint of vol.2, one top corner little bruised, else a very good bright and fresh copy. Arctic Bibliography 7943.A day-by-day journal of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition (1894-97). The party established winter quarters at Cape Flora, Franz Joseph Land, and remained there for 3 years. By sheer coincidence, Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen encountered Jackson's camp in June of 1896 during the Fram Expedition, and enjoyed several weeks of generous hospitality (after surviving through the winter on walrus and bear meat). Throughout their stay, the party made sledge journeys in the archipelago, surveyed, made scientific collections, hunted, and described the polar… Read More

FULSOMELY INSCRIBED TO A SOUL MATE
first edition thus, revised and enlarged 8vo. 180pp., blue cloth, spine gilt lettered, fine bright copy in nice dust jacket.
Inscribed on front endpaper "For R. V. Williams, Richard Rowley and Dick Williams - three in one and one in three and all excellent from his friend/ Holbrook Jackson/ L'Etoile/ London/ 13:x:26".
Jackson had published a book on Morris in 1908 but as he states in his preface this 1926 edition is "a new book". When asked to prepare a new edition he found that "his point of view with regard to certain phases of Morris's work had changed .. [and] his interest in the subject revived to such an extent that I found myself re-writing the book. All the old chapters have been revised and extended, and four new chapters have been added. One, 'A portrait of William Morris', is an attempt at a word-picture of the man as he was in his prime; another is devoted to the Kelmscott press; a third to Morris's literary work; and in the concluding chapter I have… Read More

"AN ATTEMPT TO SUBSTITUTE EXACT ENQUIRIES ... FOR GUESS WORK AND GROUNDLESS ARGUMENT" first edition tall 8vo. xliv, 428pp., 20 diagrams (many folding, some coloured - including one extremely long plate tracking prices annually 1731 to 1883), modern contemporary-style half russet morocco, spine panelled by gilt tooled bands with gilt tooled centre-pieces, a few unobtrusive unobtrusive blind embossed library stamps, trifle dusty, else a very good copy in handsome binding. "These papers are, throughout, an attempt to substitute exact enquiries, exact numerical calculations, for guess work and groundless argument .... to investigate inductively the intricate phenomena of trade and industry .... Perhaps, one might say that theory is all-important; and yet fact is all-important also" [Jevons]. "Important" [Schumpeter].

FIRST EDITION WITH PRONUNCIATION - HANDSOME COPY IN A VELLUM BINDING first edition thus, with pronunciation 2 vols. 4to. (27.6 x 22 cms.) [68 (title, subscribers, preface, etc)], [1029], [3 (blank)]; [2 (title)], [1080]pp., fine engraved portrait plate of Johnson (engraved by S. Clayton from the Joshua Reynolds painting), dictionary text printed triple column, contemporary quarter vellum, smooth spines with powder blue morocco title labels gilt, pale grey paper on sides, rear endpapers of both vols. damp spotted, last few leaves of vol. 1 with very minor old marginal water stains, upper part of the leaves in the latter half of vol. 2 with an unobtrusive light old water stain (diminishing in extent from the rear) mainly scarcely visible (only really visible in the last few gatherings, and even there not disfiguring), else a very nice fresh copy. A particularly handsome copy in an unusual binding for an Irish-printed book of this period. Alston v.190 Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. ESTC… Read More

ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT BY OWEN JONES - IN A HANDSOME RED MOROCCO BINDING ALSO PROBABLY DESIGNED BY JONES first edition thus large 8vo. (24.8 x 17 cms.) xl, 504, [2], 451-484 (notes)pp. with the text on every page enclosed inside a very great variety (changing every few pages) of decorative borders which are printed in colours (very often two, and including red, blue, green, mauve, yellow, and black), numerous large decorative initial letters printed in colours, ornaments (some printed in colours), all these decorations designed by Owen Jones, 12 plates (of which 8 are divisional title-pages chromolithographed in gold and colours by Owen Jones), 3 engravings by J. C. Horsley, 1 by Henry Warren, 37 line engravings drawn from old master paintings by George Scharf jnr. under ther superintendence of Lewis Gruner, final section of notes (which has aberrant pagination) with a simple parallel red and black line border, elaborate (publisher's?) binding of full rich morocco over very thick bevelled… Read More