The Heritage of Country Furniture: A Study in the Survival of Formal and Vernacular Styles from the United States, Britain and Europe Found in Upper Canada, 1780-1900 by Pain, Howard [SIGNED] - 1978

S. Price, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potter, 1770. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Small Octavo. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 6643. .

England: At the Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1932 IN GOOD CONDITION. AUTHOR'S SIGNED LETTER, on Oxford University Press stationary, addressed to Mr. Kent, tipped-in. Along with an article on the author, laid-in. Bound in original paper wraps, stitched binding is tight. Front cover detached, in a protective mylar sleeve.

Savannah Georgia: Morning News Print, 1901. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good+/None Issued. VG+/1st ed. Jonathan Bryan was born in 1708 in Prince William's parish (Beaufort South Carolina). He was the youngest child of Joseph Bryan, owner of the plantation known as Providence. This is a record of his life in Georgia, starting with the founding of Savannah with Oglethrope, through to his death at age 80, having lived in Georgia for 50 years. Jonathan Bryan was an important civic and political figure in the Georgia and South Carolina colonies, owned a great deal of property in both and owned Brampton Plantation. Book condition is Very Good+; hand sewn binding is firm; there is no foxing, soiling or markings in book. 97pp. First Edition. Brown cloth covered boards have some rubbing to corners, and to the head and tail of spine. Some small spots on back panel. Gilt letter title is bright on front cover. A well preserved copy.

Volume 1 of this 10-volume set on medieval costume, art and equipment.With 72 fine chromolithographs, many finished in gold, numbered 1-72 and 38 pages of explanation in German.Plates include religious subjects, suits of armour, tapestries, gravestones, portraits of knights and ladies, fine jewelry, etc. from the 5th to 12th centuries in Europe.Condition: Some scuffing to the marble boards and cloth spine, some foxing and discoloration to plates.Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.Heavy book - extra shipping charges apply.

London: London: printed for and sold by Greenland & Norris, Finsbury Square, 1805. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. Two separate works in one volume. First editions, octavo. Sketch of Worcester: [2], 16pp, with full complement of 14 engraved plates, one folding. Memoirs of Charles I: [1], 22, [ii]pp, complete with engraved title-page bearing portrait of Charles I and 17 engraved portrait plates together with closing publisher's adverts. In contemporary full speckled leather (lightly worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt rolls to board margins, spine gilt, gilt lettered black leather spine label, marbled endpapers with internal hinges expertly reinforced in matching blue cloth, twentieth century ownership label to front blank, sporadic light paper browning and unobtrusive soiling, overall an attractive complete copy of these two uncommon illustrated titles. The Sketch of Worcester is listed in ESTC (T155523) since it was previously thought to have been printed around 1760; 4xUK… Read More

Two volumes. i-xij, 774 pages (1st volume) and 784 pages (2nd volume).

10pp. Frontispiece illustration by Philip Burne-Jones. Decorative red vignette of bats flying under a crescent moon to title page, duplicated on text pages. Rubbing/marks to boards and early foxing. A scarce survival.An unauthorized pamphlet featuring a poem written by Kipling to publicise for the painting by Philip Burne-Jones (a cousin of Kipling's) entitled "The Vampire," which was first exhibited at the New Gallery in London, 1897.

Japan: Harry N Abrams, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. NOT EX-LIBRARY NOT PRICE-CLIPPED.

Boston: Thomas & Andrews. Good with no dust jacket; Boards splayed and worn, foxing, several small . waterstains and ink stains, penciled owner signatures on front pastedown . endpaper.. 1807. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Eleventh edition, corrected by the author. Full tree calf binding with maroon gilt-titled leather lettering piece on spine. Gilt ruling on spine. Two folding maps: a frontispiece world map (missing outer half) and a map of North America and the Caribbean islands. Howes M850 notes that this was the first American school geography and first American book describing the Western country. Sabin 50936. Interesting opinions and observations throughout the text, including description of indigenous people, mention of the venomous spit of South American llamas, Mexicos floating gardens, American birds, alligators, and other wildlife, as well as commentary about African countries on the Slave Coast to make some amends [which] could be made for past treachery to the natives. Morse is… Read More

First UK edition, London, 1898. Hardcover. An English sailor describes life aboard an American whaling vessel. Overall condition is Very Good: primary condition issue is sun fade to front board and spine. Gutters showing front and back but all is holding together and only slightly tender. Interior is excellent. Gift inscription on half title dated 'Jan./99' along with prior bookseller's pencil note. Complete as issued with all blanks, 8 illustrations and folding map. This copy is distinguished by the scarce red brick binding. Almost all other first editions have the blue binding. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: True 1st UK editions are dated on title page 1898 by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Those without dates on title page are later issues. The 1st US edition is Appleton dated 1899 on title page. There is no such thing as an 1897 edition although you will find some for sale. For more info see Hill 212.