Search Results: Authors starting with T from Antiquates Ltd

Paris: Theophile Barrois, 1790. In three volumes. lxxix, [1], 550, [2]; [4], 485, [1]; [4], 477pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, speckled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, early pen trials to verso of Vol. I errata leaf. A handsome late-eighteenth century edition of the surviving works of Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, translated by Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle (1742-1807). . 8vo.

Londini [i.e. London]: Sumtibus Rodwell et Martin et al., 1817. In three volumes. [4], 322; [4], 276; [4], 363pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, marbled edges. Extremities discoloured. Marbled endpapers, occasional light spotting. A handsome early nineteenth-century edition of the surviving works of Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, edited by Alsatian philologist and archaeologist Jeremie-Jacques Oberlin (1735-1806). . 12mo.

London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., 1883. viii, 24, 24a-24z, 24aa-24xx, 25-168pp, (2) advertsisements. Original publishers red cloth, gilt. Ink staining and some fading to binding. Small split to spine and rubbing to extremities. . Ninth edition. 8vo.

[London]: [s.n.], [1857]. Single sheet, printed on one side only. Several early vertical and horizontal folds. Manuscript title to verso. An apparently unrecorded advertisement for the 1857 range of coats available for purchase from tailors S. K. Salaman of Charing Cross Road; with the addition of 'directions for transmitting measure in inches' to allow the gentleman consumer to supply his own body measurement for the manufacture of bespoke apparel. . Dimensions 430 x 260 mm.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. 83pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green roan-backed drab paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, marked, and discoloured, some splitting to joints. Inked gift inscription to verso of damp-stained frontispiece, offsetting to title page, occasional spotting. An unsophisticated copy of the sole edition of an anonymous original early nineteenth-century juvenile fantasy work. The book, 'composed solely at the request, and for the amusement of, the children of a friend' is by the author's own admission a departure from the usual acceptable fare, indeed they state that anything 'in the shape of a Fairy Tale' would not have otherwise entered their head in 'this enlightened age, when such productions have long been banished from all juvenile libraries'; though they nonetheless hope that it may 'find admittance into the literary collections of the youthful members of… Read More

[London]: Puck & Co., 1844. 8pp. A single sheet, folded and unopened. Some splitting to folds, slightly browned. A separate and unillustrated edition of the satirical fairy-tale poem that first appeared in George Cruikshank's Daddy Gander's Entertaining Fairy Tales (London, 1821). . First separate edition. 16mo.

London: Printed and sold by E. Billing, [1839]. 10pp, [2]. Wrappers included in pagination. Original publisher's pictorial tan wrappers. A trifle creased and dusty. A remarkably rare survival, in original state, of a juvenile chapbook retelling of the perennially popular English fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. OCLC records a single copy (Queensland), COPAC adds no further. . 12mo.

London and Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1869. 224pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed. FFEP torn away, else internally clean and crisp. The sixth volume of short stories selected from Chamber's Journal, including Anna Maria Sargeant's 'The lie of expediency', Percy B. St John's 'The rifle: a tale of Arkansas', Camilla Toulmin's 'To slay or to save?', and several unattributed others such as 'Story of an Edinburgh sedan-carrier' and 'The work-girl'. . 8vo.

London: Printed [by N. Biggs] for J. Wallis, 1804. 64pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Extremities worn and shaken, backstrip perished. Without endpapers, hinges exposed, early inscription to verso of upper board: 'Ellen Clarkson's book', inscription to verso of lower board: 'When read to be returned to Mrs. Clarkson, Theescombe', short tear to gutter of frontispiece, scattered spotting. The third located copy of the sole edition of an anonymous series of eight short moral tales, emphasising kindness to creatures of nature, and warning of domestic dangers, such as with 'The Burnt Child', in which a careless young girl is very nearly immolated after foolishly lighting a piece of paper with an unguarded candle. The usual databases record copies at only two locations (Oxford and Toronto). . First edition. 16mo.

London: Edward Moxon, 1852. xii, 369pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, scattered foxing. The collected theatrical works of writer, judge, and politician Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854). . Eleventh edition. 8vo.

Dublin: Printed for B. Dornin, 1800. 31, [1], 89, [3], 34pp. In three parts; a life of Tansillo, the nurse, and notes - each has separate pagination, the register is continuous. The poem has parallel Italian and English texts. With a half-title. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-piece, gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Rubbed, joints cracked, some loss to head of spine. Upper hinge cracked, armorial bookplate of Roberti Bourne to FEP. The Nurse, a long form poem by Luigi Tansillo (1510-1568), Italian poet of the Petrarchian school, encouraged the Early Modern European woman to suckle her own children for the benefit of both parties' health and emotional well-being. The translator, historian William Roscoe (1753-1831), refers to the piece as 'the work of one of the brightest wits in that constellation of Genius which appeared in Italy in the sixteenth century, and which yet diffuses a permanent light over the horizon of literature.' ESTC T97231. Jackson p.244.. Third edition. 12mo.

[Cheltenham]: [s.n.], 1868. vi, 329, [5], 5pp, [1]. Engraved portrait frontispiece, Original publisher's plain paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, marked, and water-stained, loss to lower portion of spine, chipping to lettering-piece. Foxed throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed to FFEP; 'To his nephew / Samuel Carrington C. E. / with the author's kind regards / 8 October 1871'. The sole edition, limited to 50 copies, of this compilation of extracts relating to the life and writings of Italian poet and humanist Pandolfo Collenuccio (1444-1504). COPAC records three copies (NLS, Oxford, and Society of Antiquaries of London). . First edition. 8vo.

Exter: Printed for the author, 1790-93 In three volumes. v, [1], iv, viii, [2], 213, [1]; ix, [1], 167, [1]; [2], iii, [1], 188pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I, list of subscriber's, and a final leaf of errata to Vol. III. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Very minor shelf-wear. Bookplate of the Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore to front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I, with their occasional blind-stamps to all Vols., offsetting to Vol. I title, else internally clean and crisp. An exquisitely bound set of Exeter-based poet and antiquary William Tasker's (1740-1800) translations of selected odes of Pindar and Horace, together with choice examples of his own verse compositions and his letters of historical enquiry. The lengthy list of subscribers unsurprising includes numerous persons and companies of note based in Devonshire and surrounding counties, including Bristol Hot-Wells Circulating Library, and… Read More

[Hobart]: [J. Walch & Sons], [s.d., c. 1900] [14] leaves. Original publisher’s green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked gift inscription to FEP, four leaves detached. An attractive early twentieth century souvenir album comprised of photographic landscape views of Tasmania. . First edition. Oblong quarto.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1792. xix, [1], 326pp, [14]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and one engraved plate. Contemporary speckled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Rubbed, some loss to head of spine, lettering-piece detached. Armorial bookplate of E. H. Greenly to FEP, ink inscription of 'Amelia Bosworth' to head of title, offsetting from both plates, tear to rear blank fly leaf. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Italian vernacular poet ranking amongst Dante, Petrach and Ariosto in that nations literary canon. Famed for his work 1581 work Gerusalemme Liberata, an epic with Godfrey of Bouillon, leader of the First Crusade, as its hero, Tasso thrived on court life in Ferrera. He was variously diagnosed with melancholy and madness during his life, and spent several periods of time in mental institutions; he is now considered to have suffered from schizophrenia. ESTC T133780.. 8vo.

Paris: Librairie Anti-Clericale, [1884]. 370pp, [2]. Bound by Hatchards in contemporary olive-green half-morocco, tan paper boards, T.E.G. Original publisher's pictorial upper wrapper bound in. Extremities sunned and discoloured, lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing. A handsomely bound copy of Leo Taxil's (1854-1907) humorous, and often acerbic, retelling of the life of Christ; one of his notorious anti-Clerical works in which he satirically highlights inconsistencies and contradictions within Christian religious texts. This (second?) edition does not contain the comic drawings of Pepin present in the first (1882) and in another edition printed in 1884. . 8vo.

London: The Religious Tract Society, [s.d., c. 1850] 32pp. Original publisher's yellow wrappers, black paper lettering-piece to upper panel, A.E.G. A trifle dusty. An apparently unrecorded Religious Tract Society chapbook – of entirely ripe hue - by Church of England clergyman and prolific writer for the young Charles Benjamin Tayler (1797-1875), which, as with many of his publications, is a relentlessly moralising manual of religious instruction for a spiritually 'unripe' readership. . 32mo.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. 152, [2], 8pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Upper hinge exposed, inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, a trifle toned, occasional spotting, two printed clippings of Taylor's verse pasted to 'Notes' leaf. The second published collection of poetry by American author and literary critic Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), author of the immensely popular Views a-foot: or Europe seen with knapsack and staff (1846). . Second edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 1829. [2], xii, 393pp, [1]. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, gilt, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. An anthology of devotional verse from authors including Cowper, Milton, Wordsworth, and Southey; edited by schoolmistress Emily Taylor (1795-1872), first printed in 1826. COPAC records copies of the second edition at only one location (BL), with copies of the first also only being held at a single location (Oxford). . Second edition. 12mo.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1875. xii, 260pp. Numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary Elstree School prize binding, bound by John Bumpus of London in richly gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros to upper board, marbled edges. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, occasional light spotting. A handsome copy of curator and popularizer of science, John Ellor Taylor's (1837-1895) study of coastal aquatic fauna, including corallines, shellfish, anemones, and crustacea, first published in 1872. . Second edition. 8vo.