Search Results: Titles starting with B from Forest Books

. 4to, 39ff. printed on one side only, signed and dated by Broomhead with his bookplate, quarter green morocco by Broomhead, spine faded. Photocopies of 11 bookbinding articles by H. A. De Coverly, taken from the 'British Printer' which originally appeared between 1963 and 1965. From the library of the bookbinding historian, Frank Broomhead.

London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1873. Fourth edition, large 8vo, vi, 120, [4], [259]pp., orig. cloth, spine lettered in gilt, minor worm track to upper board otherwise a very nice copy. Provenance: Ownership signature of 'W. R. Partridge, May 1882' to front endpaper.

Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch [volume 2, Delhi: Manager of Publications], 1927-33. First edition, three parts in 2 volumes, 4to (320 x 235 mm), original blue quarter morocco, 48 collotype plates, cont. half morocco, vol. II a little rubbed. The Bakhshali manuscript is a mathematical document found in 1881 by a local farmer in the vicinity of the village of Bakhshali, near the city of Peshawar in what was then British India and is now Pakistan. It is written in ink on birch bark, a common medium for manuscripts in northwestern India throughout much of history. In the tough climate of India and neighbouring regions, such things deteriorate rapidly, and it is miraculous that this document has survived. The Bakhshali manuscript is in a very damaged state, but is a valuable mathematical record nonetheless. The manuscript was donated to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University early in the twentieth century.—(American Mathematical Society).

Chester: Lithographed by W. Crane, [c. 1830]. First edition, oblong 4to (196 x 242 mm), [10]pp., [8] leaves of plates, lithographed throughout, orig. pink lithographed paper wrappers stitched as issued. The posthumously published work of the Reverend Reginald Heber (1783-1826), the hand-written lithographic verse and gothic like illustrations tells the story of Lord Llewellyn who tries to summon up the Devil with disappointing results. Twyman, Early Lithographed Books, 1.116.

London: Elliot Stock, 1882. 4to, 96, [2]pp., bound in the de-luxe full vellum binding, decorated in red and gilt, soiled. The earliest known printed English ballad.

Printed for Presentation to the Members of The Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1912. Folio, [xvi],287,[1]pp., with the bookplate of the Printer's Library, Oxford, title printed in red and black, 9 full-page facsimiles, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt,, slightly rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. Presented to the Club by Sydney Christie-Miller.

Paris: Charpentier, 1839. 8vo (175 x 110mm), 346pp., marbled endpapers, cont. full mottled calf, upper cover detached, spine tooled in gilt, morocco title labels.

Printed for G. & J. Robinson, 1803. Eighth edition, 12mo, [4], xxvi, [2], 328pp., cont. calf, rubbed, covers detached.

London: Printed for Thomas Cox, 1726-28. 2 vols., 8vo (190 x 115 mm), [6], 570; [2], 571-894, [2]pp., with final advert leaf, 6 engraved plates, woodcuts in the text, titles printed in red and black (lightly soiled), new endpapers, expertly bound by Trevor Lloyd of Ludlow in half mottled calf, marbled boards, spines with five raised bands, gilt tooled, red morocco title label lettered in gilt, a very attractive copy. Kent's abridged edition of John Guillim monumental work on heraldry, A Display of Heraldrie, first published in London in 1610.

Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1892. First edition, 4to (285 x 230 mm), [2], 10, [6]pp., followed by 48 double-page tables of estimates and costs for binding, presentation inscription from the author to Léon Gruel, marbled endpapers, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. half red morocco by Gruel, five raised bands, lettered direct, marbled boards, corners lightly bumped, minor rubbing, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy. Uncommon price lists for bookbinders by Émile Bosquet (1834-1912), a Brussels bookbinder who was active in France with Engel and Hachette until 1878. Provenance: With Léon Gruel's bookplate; H. P. Kraus bookplate.

Folkestone: Printed by J. English, 1892. First edition, 4to, [4], 126pp., portrait frontis., orig. blue cloth, gilt, head and foot of spine frayed, lower cover lightly damp-stained.

B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1952. First Edition, frontis., 1 plates, 127 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w.

Birmingham School of Printing. 1933. 4to, 16pp., orig. printed wrappers and tied cord. Wallis, p.72.

London: [s.n.], 1790. First and only edition, 12mo, [2], 45, [1]pp., with half-title, some minor spotting, orig. marbled paper wrappers, cont. manuscript notation of title and author on upper cover "The Battle of Newland 1790, By Benjn. Clarkson, Alverthorpe Hall". ESTC fails to attribute this to an any particular author, however, the contemporary inscription on the upper cover does give strong evidence to Benjamin Clarkson as being the writer of these poems. Benjamin Clarkson (d. 1820), a Wakefield attorney, resided at Alverthorpe Hall. "Several well known circumstances which happened some years ago in the town and neighbourhood of Wakefield, gave rise to the following Ballad". (Advertisement leaf). Rare; ESTC locating 4 copies (all in the UK).

London: Printed for John Murray, 1809. Second edition, [ii], 39, [1]pp., recent marbled boards. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Surprisingly uncommon: we find no copy of the first or this second edition, Copac locates the third and later editions only.

London: Printed by Harding & Wright, for John Murray, 1810. Eight edition, with some additions, 8vo (205 x 125mm), [4], 43, [1]pp., title page with presentation inscription from the author to Sir Francis Freeling, cont. short note on the authorship of the book on front-free endpaper, some foxing and browning throughout, cont. blue full morocco, lightly rubbed but a very nice copy. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Freeling; small book label of Alan G. Thomas.

Maggs Bros. 1919. First Edition, square 8vo, frontis., 1 plate, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. An absolute necessity to the collector, student and dealer of Baxter colour prints.

Maggs Bros. 1919. . First Edition, frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

Wien: Brüder Hollinek, 1961. First edition, 4to, 360pp., orig. cloth. From the reference library of Prof. T. A. Birrell.

London: The British Library, 2011. 4to, 192pp., coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. Presentation T.L.s from the author; typescript copy of Hobson's observations sent to the author.