Search Results: Authors starting with D from Forest Books

Syracuse University Press. 1947-61. First Edition, 4 vols., xxvi, 292; xxxii, 365; xlii, 638; xxx, 411pp., orig. cloth. Volume I: The Mediaeval Period. Edited by Urban T. Holmes. Volume II: The Sixteenth Century. Edited by Alexander H. Schutz. Volume III: The Seventeenth Century. Edited by Nathan Edelman. Volume IV: The Eighteenth Century. Edited by George R. Havens and Donald F. Bond.

Liverpool: Egerton Smith & Co., 1876. First and only edition, 15, [1]pp., disbound. Not recorded on Copac.

Belper: Printed and Published by and for S. Mason: Sold also, by Drury, Wilkins, Pritchard, and Stenson, Derby; [and seven others], 1811. First edition, viii, 717, [15] pp., engraved vignette on title, folding hand-coloured map (1 inch closed tear), 2 plates, cont. half half, rubbed. Provenance: Bookplate of Richard Ussher.

Cambridge University Press. 1975. First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, orig. cloth, d.w. slip-case. Volume 1 contains some 10,000 entries, giving full bibiographical details and information on the first lines, subject, and locations. Volume 2 comprises a full series of indexes. An utterly comprehensive work which immediately established itself as the standard work.

Leo S. Olschki, Florence. 1984. Large 8vo, 55pp., 20 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, and sold by John Balfour bookseller in Edinburgh, 1766. First Glasgow Edition, 8vo, viii, 190 pp., some light browning at the beginning, contemporary green morocco, spine ruled in gilt, crimson label, a nice copy. Printed from a manuscript in the Pepysian Collection, Magdalen College, Cambridge. The preface is signed by the editor, the jurist and historian Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Gaskell, 449.

American Antiquarian Society, 1972. First edition, 4to, lxvi, 516pp., orig. cloth. Full descriptions of over 1,000 books.

Elliot Stock, 1905. 4to, 32pp., introduction followed by an 88pp., unpaginated facsimile on the 1486 edition, orig. old style parchment wrappers, a little browned with a couple of small tears, uncut.

London: Printed [by [Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard, 1595. Small 4to (181 x 126 mm), [4], 95, [1] leaves, 3 parts in one, additional section titles to parts 2 and 3 but with continuous pagination and signatures, lacking the 4 blanks (A1 [bearing signature 'A'], L3-4 and Dd4) but skilfully replaced with near-matching slightly later paper, the first blank with inverted inscription of 'Peter Martin, his book, 1754' at foot of recto, 116 woodcut coats-of-arms, occasional minor spotting and some very trivial pin-prick wormholes to blank marginal extremities, a few scattered blue pencil crosses to margins and a few words similarly underscored on leaves N1-3, small marginal repair not affecting text on Cc1, nineteenth-century diced calf with five raised bands, corners rubbed through to boards, slightly cracked at foot of joints, al edges gilt. A very good copy of Markham's revised version of Juliana Berners' Boke of St.… Read More

London: Printed, and are to be sold by Walter Davis, Bookbinder, 1680. First edition, folio, [2], 35, [1]pp., small tear on outer blank margin of first 3 pages, disbound. Wing, E3727.

London: Printed by J. Clark, near Fleetstreet, 1713. First Edition, lacks half-title, [2], 5-23, [1] pp., disbound.

London: Printed, and Sold by J. Baker, 1713. First edition, 8vo, [2], 46pp., modern marbled boards. This is a copy of the variant printing in two copies examined by Moore, no priority has been established. "The author, who writes as a Tory and Churchman, explains to his friend in the country how Parliament came to make the amazing mistake of rejecting the Bill of Commerce - of which he supplies the text... The arguments brought against the Bill at the Bar of the House by spokesmen for various commercial interests were very easy to refute, and the Dutch would be the real gainers from continued trade barriers against France.... Altogether, though one would not rule out Defoe's authorship, the basis for an ascription to him does not seem very solid." - Furbank and Owens. Moore, 265; Furbank and Owens, Defoe De-Attributions, 265: Kress, 2833; Goldsmith, 5016; Hanson, 1843.

Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech, 1807. First edition, 8vo, xiii, [3], 246pp., without half-title, endpapers renewed, cont. calf, cloth reback. Provenance: Bookplate and a couple of stamps of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

London: Printed by John Streater, 1656. First edition, small folio (285 x 180 mm), [12], 99, [7], 239, [11], 55, [1], [6], 34pp., signature A incorrectly bound in after signature B, complete with the engraved title page, the printed title page, a double-page engraved map of Chester, a double-page engraved plan and inset prospect of Chester by Wenceslaus Hollar, a double-page engraved map of the Isle of Man with 8 inset prospects, 2 double-page engraved plates (one with repair to a closed tear), 15 other engraved plates, including armorial plates, and engravings in the text, small piece of blank lower corn of title page torn-away, finely bound in nineteenth-century green straight-grained morocco, gilt tooled dentelles, boards with a gilt roll tooled floral border, spine with five raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt direct, others ornately tooled, all edges gilt, fine. Frances Mary Richarson Currer's copy in a fine morocco binding. A choice copy with a fine provenance and bound in a… Read More

London: Printed for the Editor, 1776. First edition, 4to (230 x 185 mm), vii, [1], 172, [4, appendix]pp., ex-Mercantile library with neat stamp to title page, some minor chipping to blank margins of half-title, text age toned, recent half calf, marbled boards, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. "Designed as a polyglot dictionary for commercial traders, and includes words associated with manufacture and commerce as well as nautical terms. Arranged alphabetically."—Alston. Alston II, 122; ESTC locates 3 copies in the UK and 3 in North America.

London: John Churchill, Princes Street. Soho, 1837. First Edition, [5], vi-xvii, [1], 296 pp., original cloth, spine worn with tear.

London: John Churchill, Princes Street. Soho, 1837. First edition, 12mo (165 x 110 mm), [5], vi-xvii, [1], 296pp., neat repair to half-title, original cloth, paper label to spine.

London: Printed for Richard Hett, 1732. 8vo, xvi, 649, [3]pp., cont. full calf, rather rubbed, joints cracked, spine defective. Bound with: A Catalogue of Books Printed for and Sold by Samuel Birt, at the Bible and Ball in Ave-Mary-Lane. [London: s.n. c. 1732]. Caption title, 8pp. First line of text (below heading "A"): Abridgment of statutes, 6 vol. 8vo. ESTC No. T59392. Provenance: Booklabel of Revd. Reginald P. Hill, Bromesberrow Recotry.

London: Saunders & Otley, 1857. 8vo, [2], 15, [3], xvi, 496, 30 [ads]pp., orig. red patterned cloth, head and foot of spine lightly chipped, small hole to base of spine.

London: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, 1818. Second edition, 8vo, 40pp., disbound pamphlet.