Search Results: Titles starting with P from Sky Duthie Rare Books

1596. Set of twelve engravings on laid paper. Second state (of two). Signed in the plate with monogram, date and number. B.33 & 36-38 with the coat of arms with tower watermark. A very good set. Nice, even impressions. Margins trimmed outside the platemark. B.27-32 laid onto card. Some with occasional foxing, more so to B. 32-33 & 35-37. Old fold and pinprick hole to B.28. Repaired margins to B.35. Two splash marks to B.38. B.27 (The Last Supper) is a seventeenth-century copy in mirror image by Lucas Vorsterman. An attractive set overall. Here, the German-born Dutch engraver Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), in one of his most popular productions, provides an exquisite, masterful rendition of the Passion of Christ drawing on the figure types and engraving techniques of Lucas van Leyden, as well as Albrecht Dürer's own depiction of the subject. A beautiful work by one of the leading figures of Northern Mannerism. Major holdings of his engravings include the Rijksmuseum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,… Read More

London: Bradbury & Evans., 1850.. First edition, with first issue points including "screamed" remaining uncorrected on page 132 line 20 (later issues with "screwed"); the etched title page dated 1850; chapter XXVII begins on page 282 rather than page 283 as listed in the table of contents; p.16 line 1 and p. 225 line 22 both read "recal" rather than "recall"; p.19 line 39 reads "cha pter ; ut"; p.387 line 45 reads "coroboration" rather than "corroboration"; and p.472 line 37 has no closing of the quotation marks. Octavo. Handsomely bound for Henry Sotheran Ltd. in early twentieth-century half brown calf over red-brown linen boards, the spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pale marbled endpapers. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece and vignette title page and 38 further etched plates by Halbot Knight Browne (aka 'Phiz'). Six-line errata page bound in after the list of plates. Lacking the half-title. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with a couple of faint… Read More

[Original photograph archive]., 1957-2008.. An original photographic archive compiled by Betty Boothroyd. Comprising: Eighteen personal photograph albums:- An album documenting Boothroyd's varied personal and official travels and engagements, including images of Boothroyd with Nelson Mandela, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip (3), David Hockney, Boris Yeltsin, and Bill Clinton (signed by Clinton in black ink: "To the Right Honourable / Betty Boothroyd, MP / with best wishes / Bill Clinton / 29. Sept. 1993"), as well as several official parliamentary photographs of Boothroyd, her inauguration as Chancellor of the Open University, visits to Kuala Lumpur, Morocco, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Egypt, Australia, Thailand, Cyprus, Trinidad, and Russia, 1993-1997, with scattered manuscript captions. Large oblong folio (51 x 31cm). Red and purple paper-covered boards. Containing 276 colour photographs (measuring between 25 x 20 and 6 x 6cm, the great majority large format) affixed to the pages, with… Read More

London: William Darton and Son., [c.1820]. 32mo. (10.7cm x 6.9cm). Attractively bound in contemporary black morocco with red, yellow, green and blue leather onlays and decoration in gilt. All edges gilt. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Fenelon and an additional decorative plate depicting urns and foliage. Contemporary bookseller's ticket for Philp & Evans of 29 Clare St., Bristol to the front pastedown. 127pp. A very good copy, the binding square and secure with a little cracking to the front hinge, rubbing to the extremities of the boards and some wear to the leather onlays. The contents with some spotting to the decorative engraved plate and light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order. An uncommon pocket-sized edition of this devotional work translated from the French of the Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer François Fenelon, published by the well-known William Darton. Only one institutional copy is recorded globally by… Read More

London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton., 1913. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original red cloth with colour pictorial onlays and titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with six colour plates. 327pp. A very good copy, the binding firm with a few minor marks to the boards and a little wear to the extremities. The contents with a contemporary previous owner's name to the half-title page, a couple of small splash marks to the textblock edge, and some scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order. A wonderfully illustrated early fantasy adventure novel.

Wellington: Printed & Sold by F. Houlston & Son., [c.1820]. Ninth edition. 32mo. (9.1cm x 5.6cm). Contemporary pictorial paper-covered boards with an engraved illustration of a jester to the upper board. Illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece depicting the Garden of Eden and numerous other woodcuts within the text. 95pp. Contemporary ownership inscriptions in ink to the front free endpaper and frontispiece verso: "Elizabeth Ann Oake 1824" and "Mary Ellen Oake / the gift of her sister / Elizabeth Ann Oake 1828". Further inscription to the rear endpaper: "Ms. Massingham / 146 Norfolk Street / Lynn / Norfolk". A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little marking to the boards and wear to the spine ends and corners. The contents with the odd spot of foxing and the occasional minor nick to page margins are otherwise in very good order. A pocket-sized, simplified, illustrated Bible designed for the Regency child, in a charming and unusual pictorial paper-covered binding, likely created by… Read More

London: George Bell & Sons., 1897.. First edition thus. Octavo. Publisher's original cloth decorated with Arts and Crafts Movement design of scrolling vines and grapes by Robert Anning Bell to the upper board and spine; the spine with titles in gilt. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated throughout with full-page and in-text black and white illustrations by Robert Anning Bell, including frontispiece, title page, and section headings printed in red and black. A very good copy, the binding firm with some scattered marking to the boards, minor chipping to the spine ends, and bumping to the corners. The contents with toning to the endpapers and some light occasional foxing to the preliminary pages and page edges are otherwise in very good order. The first Robert Anning Bell edition of Keats's poetical works, sumptuously illustrated in the Arts and Crafts Movement style.Part of the publisher's 'Endymion' series.

London: Darton and Clark., [c.1850].. First edition. 16mo. (10.7 x 7cm). Contemporary full dark-green morocco with elaborate decoration in gilt and blind to the boards and spine; the spine with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Additional illustrated chromolithographic title page in gilt, green, blue, red and brown. pp. xv, 176. A good copy, the binding firm with a little cracking to the front hinge and wear to the spine ends and corners of the boards. The contents lacking the blank front free endpaper and with a vertical crease to pp.45-6 and some light scattered foxing and toning are otherwise in good order. A charming mid nineteenth-century pocket-book of love poetry published by Darton with an attractive chromolithographic title page printed in colours and gilt. The work includes poems by Shakespeare, Byron, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, amongst others.An uncommon title, LibraryHub records only two institutional copies (BL & Cambridge).

London: Paul Jerrard., [1858].. First edition. 28 x 19cm. Publisher's original deluxe pink enamel binding elaborately decorated in gilt, green and blue, with cream leather spine. Signed "Paul Jerrard's Patent Binding" in gilt to the foot of the upper board. All edges gilt. Pink watered silk endpapers with floral design in gilt. The contents comprising a hand-coloured title page and presentation page, followed by 8 (of 9) richly hand-coloured full-page lithographic plates, 13 (of 14) text pages printed in pink and gilt, and one page of publisher's advertisements printed in gilt. NOTE: The work is lacking one leaf, comprising one text page recto with one plate verso (plate no. 2). Two publisher's leaflets advertising the work loosely laid in. Disbound, with the text separated from the binding, now comprising single leaves. The binding with some chipping to the leather spine ends is otherwise in good order, the upper board remaining bold and bright. The contents with a little offsetting and the… Read More

Paris: Librairie d'Art, Ludovic Baschet., 1880. Limited edition, one of 10 copies printed on Japon paper, this being number 9. Quarto. Handsomely bound by Ramage of London in full brown morocco with gilt fleur-de-lis devices to the corners of the boards and spine compartments, and with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 34 fine photogravure plates (proof impressions) produced by Goupil & Cie, 64 further full-page plates, and 50 in-text drawings. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the spine and joints, rubbing to the corners, a few light scuffs to the boards, and a touch of cracking to the front hinge. The contents with scattered foxing to the endpapers are otherwise clean and crisp throughout. The plates remain fresh and bright. One of a very small limitation of this extensively illustrated guide to the Paris Salon exhibition of 1880, printed on Japon paper and with wonderfully sharp… Read More

London: The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald, and Hodder and Stoughton., [1914]. First edition. Presented by King George V to S. Lawes of the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment at the 4th London General Hospital, Denmark Hill, on Christmas Day 1914 (inscribed to front free endpaper). Quarto. Publisher's original cream cloth with decorative titles in green to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece, 16 tipped-in colour plates, 1 further colour plate, and 10 black and white plates. Additional printed presentation plate to front pastedown: "King Albert's Book, with Sir Francis Trippel's Best Wishes for a Happy Xmas, a Speedy Recovery and a Victorious New Year, Xmas 1914". 188pp. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with marking and darkening to the boards. The contents with toning to the endpapers, scattered foxing, and creasing to the corners of some of the tipped-in plates, are otherwise in very good order. Inscribed in black… Read More

Manchester: Manchester University Press., 1959.. First edition, first printing. Association copy, originally purchased in the year of publication by Francis Haskell, art historian and former pupil of Hobsbawm. Octavo. Publisher's original red-brown boards with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. 208pp. Original bookseller's label for Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge to the front pastedown and with original receipt for the book dated 6/5/59 made out to F. Haskell of King's College loosely laid in. Italian journal article by Hobsbawm titled "Per lo studio delle classi subalterne" (1960, 14pp.) loosely laid in. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some faint spotting to the boards. The contents with some faint toning to the endpapers, a light crease to the front free endpaper, and foxing to the top edge of the textblock, are otherwise clean and crisp throughout. The dustwrapper is in very good order with some dust-soiling and light spotting and a couple of small nicks to the head of the… Read More

[London: A. Pugin et al.], 1831. First edition. Quarto. Late nineteenth-century half red roan over marbled boards with titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title page and 4pp. list of plates followed by 100 lithographic plates, including one hand-coloured (bound without the letterpress title page). A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little wear to the head of the lower joint and rubbing to the spine and corners. The contents with a previous owner's inscription in pencil to the front endpaper, a small hole to the blank margin of one page, a 1cm tear to the blank margin of another, and scattered foxing to the plates are otherwise in very good order. The first edition in book form of this gothic architectural sourcebook containing 100 beautiful lithographic plates of carvings, ornaments and other architectural elements in wood and stone after drawings by Pugin's pupils Joseph Nash and Benjamin Ferrey. The work was originally issued in five parts… Read More