Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Forest Books

Rome: [Printed for private distribution by the Duchess of Devonshire] Excudebat de Romanis, 1816. Folio (420 x 275 mm), [2], 3-16pp., Latin text, followed by Italian translation, large paper copy, this being one of 60 copies for presentation, engraved title vignette, 18 engraved views by P. Parboni and others, after S. Pomardi and others, some minor signs of water-staining to fore-edge, cont. red crushed half morocco, spine with five raised bands, compartments gilt tooled, a nice copy. Only 150 copies of this work were printed for private distribution, sixty of which were for presentation from The Duchess of Devonshire who sponsored its publication, this copy inscribed by The Duchess to Captain Clifford. Cicognara, 1102; Brunet III, col. 327.

Metchim & Son, Ltd. 1947. First Edition, 4to, frontis., 92 plates, orig. cloth-backed boards.

London: Printed by and for William Hone, 1820. Eighteenth edition, 8vo, 22pp., woodcuts in the text, first and last leaf a little soiled, spine with a thin strip of tape.

Glasgow: Printed for the Regiment By Robert MacLehose and Company Ltd, 1948. First edition, 4to, 125pp., foreword signed by the author in ink, numerous illustrs., orig. publishers quarter blue morocco, blue cloth boards, gilt, spine faded otherwise a nice copy. Provenance: With a tipped-in A.L.s of presentation from the author to Mr. Harris, "I send you a copy of the centenary history of the Q.O.R.G.Y.... It was a very restricted edition and very few libraries have a copy..."

London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1781. First Edition, stab holes in the inner blank margins, [2], 25, [1] pp., disbound. Kress, B352; Goldsmith, 12147.

Bibliothèque Royal Albert Ier, Brussels. 1969. 4to, 548,[2]pp., numerous illustrs., orig. printed wrappers.

World of Islam Festival Trust, 1980. 4to, 144pp., over 100 illustrs., (some of bindings), orig. decorated wrappers, lacks backstrip.