Search Results: Titles starting with W from P & B Rowan

IMPORTANT DESCRIPTIVE & PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT
first edition tall 8vo. [14], errata slip, 410, [2], iv (index)pp., 20 maps and plans (of which 4 folding, including 1 in pocket ar rear), 68 photographic plates, original dark green cloth over bevelled boards, front cover pictorially gilt blocked and lettered, spine gilt lettered, decorative patterned endpapers, edges untrimmed, slight foxing to first few leaves, a few trivial marks on covers but a fine bright and fresh copy.
Contemporary signature on front endpaper E. MacBown.
Bird, an official with the British colonial Educational Department, in this important account of the county provided a preliminary survey in pages 1-144 of Burmese geography, peoples, languages, history, towns, etc. before describing 24 different journeys stretching into most parts of the country with detailed descriptions of the places and peoples along each. The book is enhanced by photographs by Felice Beato who had a studio in Mandalay (described on pages 291-2).Felice Beato… Read More

AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF WELSH FOLK MUSIC - FINE COPY FROM A SUBSCRIBER'S COLLECTION [Full title] The Welsh Harper, being an Extensive Collection of Welsh Music, including most of the contents of the three volumes published by the late Edward Jones called Relics of the Bards with numerous annotations on Historical Subjects, also several Airs from the Publications of the late Mr. Parry of Ruabon, (Harper to the Wynnstay family), with Many Others never before Published, to which is prefixed Observations on the Character and Antiquity of the Welsh Music, also an Account of the Rise and Progress of The Harp from the Earliest Period to the Present Time [Volume First] ... [with] The Welsh Harper, containing Two Hundred Welsh Airs, chiefly selected from manuscript Collections; interspersed with numerous interesting Historical Notes and Observations on the Music of Wales, arranged for the Harp or Pianoforte ... Volume Second.first edition 2 vols. folio [2 (letterpress title)], (3)-8, 144… 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

NICE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF first edition small folio [2 (general title)]; [16], 316, [12 (index)]; [12], 102; [8], 52; [6], 103, [1 (blank)], [4 (3 index plus a blank)], general title page printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece plate engraved by R. White, each part with a separate dated title page and pagination, a few engraved illustrations, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with raised bands, closed tear (no loss) in last divisional title unobtrusively repaired on its blank verso with archival tissue, the joints, ends of spine, and corners very skillfully refurbished. Nice copy. WING B5150 ESTC r19807 KEYNES Browne Bibliography 201The first collected edition printed under the supervision of Archbishop Tenison, and the last collected edition in English until Pickering's in 1835.

THE FIRST IRISH-PRINTED COLLECTED WORKSfirst Dublin edition 3 vols. 8vo. [4 (general title & contents)], 61, [1 (blank)], [6 (sectional title & contents)], 65-580; [4 (title & contents)], 655, [1 (blank)]; [4 (title & contents)], 602pp., contemporary bold Irish tree calf, gilt rolled border on sides, smooth spines richly gilt decorated in panels (two different large gilt tools at panel centres surrounded by smaller gilt tools), russet title and very dark blue numbering labels gilt, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, vol. 1 with front joint cracked and crack at head of rear joint, slight cracking to joints of vol. 2, some loss to gilt on spines, else a very good and handsome copy.ESTC t52809 TODD Burke Bibliography, 79h Vol. II has (as usual) the imprint 'Printed by William Porter, for R. Cross' [et alia] and is dated 1793. (vide Todd). The other volumes are dated 1792.The first three volumes of the collected Works were first published in quarto volumes in London in May 1792. These… Read More

HANDSOMELY BOUND
first editions 5 vols. (in 6 as issued) tall 8vo. [6], 536; 557; 292; x, 293-589; 474; 368pp., errata slips, 48 maps and charts (of which 39 are folding), 12 plates including photo plates, numerous illustrations in text, uniform quarter turquoise polished calf with the smooth spines lettered in gilt, dark green cloth on sides, nice bright copy.
Vol III (both parts 1 & 2) with the bookplate of Percy Izod.
WOOD 'Churchhill Bibliography' A31(a)Published between 1923 and 1931, these volumes contain a thorough account of the Great War from Churchill's perspective as a serving member of the armed forces in the trenches during the war. His writing is filled with the nuances of an individual who had served his country both as a Cabinet member and as an officer. "I feel it both right and my duty to set forth the manner in which I endeavoured to discharge my share in these hazardous responsibilities" (vol. I, p. 6). The first four volumes in this set are concerned with the years leading up to,… Read More