Search Results: Titles starting with E from The Bookpress, Ltd.

(BOWLES) ALLAN, Mea. E.A. BOWLES & HIS GARDEN AT MYDDELTON HOUSE 1865-1954. London: Faber and Faber, (1973). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 264 pages, 8 pages color plates and 31 pages of black-and-white photographs and illustrations. First edition. The author "tells the story of Edward Augustus Bowles, one of the greatest gardeners and most beloved personalities, who regarded plants as individuals banished botanical misfits and curiosities to his Lunatic Asylum under the keepership of a sane-minded magnolia." Bowles transformed the garden at Myddelton and, as a keen traveller, especially to Europe and North Africa, brought home with him many specimens of plant. Such was his collecting zeal that, by the turn of the century, he was growing over 130 specimens of colchi and crocus. Very good.

(FRANKLIN, Samuel). THE EARL OF WARWICK, A TRAGEDY. London: H.D. Symonds, (circa 1780's). 12mo. Later quarter-calf, marbled boar 38 pages. Rubbing to tips and edges of binding. Bookplate.

(THE PERMUTATION PRESS) EARLY 20th CENTURY COMMERCIAL WOOD ENGRAVING. Wheeling: 1982. 4to. Wrappers, in white envelope. (32) pages. First edition. An exhibition catalogue of the work of the S. George Company, handsomely prin with both color and black and white illustrations. Fine.

ORMSBEE, Thomas Hamilton. EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE MAKERS. New York: Tudor Publishing, (1936). 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece, 183 pages, 67 plates. Second printing of the new edition. A social and biographical study, including a bibliography and 122 illustratio on plates. Light coverwear and foxing on early leaves, else fine.

KETTELL, Russell Hawes, editor. EARLY AMERICAN ROOMS, 1650-1858. Portland: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1936. Small folio. Cloth, top edge gi Frontispiece, xvii, (i), 200, (1) pages. First edition. With articles by Kenneth Conant, George Francis Dow, Samuel Woodhouse, Jr., a others. Illustrations include measured drawings; partly uncut. Name in ink front endpaper, else fine.

WEGELIN, Oscar. EARLY AMERICAN POETRY, 1800-1820. New York: The Author, 1907. 8vo. Boards. 82 pages. First edition. One of 150 copies. A bibliography of early 19th-century poetry of North America, with an appendi of 17th and 18th-century literature which were omitted in his previous work. Uncut. Spine chipped, front cover marked.

ORMSBEE, Thomas Hamilton. EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE MAKERS. New York: (Bonanza), (1930). 12mo. Boards, dust jacket. Frontispiece, 183 pages. Being a social and biographical study, with 122 in-text illustrations. Fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket.

ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM. EARLY AMERICAN PEWTER. Allentown, Pennsylvania: 1966. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. 12 pages, 13 plates. Fi edition. An exhibition catalogue with one hundred and two objects illustrated on thirt plates. Ex-library stamp, else very good.

LEIGHTON, Ann. EARLY AMERICAN GARDENS, "FOR MEATE OR MEDICINE". Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 441 pages. With eighty-four illustrations with-in the text of the period. Leighton deta what is known about the plants that sustained the earliest permanent settlers North America and their various uses. There is "An Appendix of the Plants Mentioned by Explorers, Settlers, Underwriters and Visitors as Growing in Seventeenth-Century New England...." Very good.

CHRISTENSEN, Erwin O. EARLY AMERICAN WOOD CARVING. Cleveland: World, (1952.) 8vo. Cloth, slipcase. Frontispiece, 149 pages, 7 colored plates. First edition. One of 1,250 numbered copies. Included are shop signs, figureheads, sternboards, portraits, household artic and religious works. With color plates and fifty illustrations in the text. Very good.

LITTLE, Francis. EARLY AMERICAN TEXTILES. New York: Century, (1931). Cloth. xvi, 267 pages, 62 plates. First edition. An extremely good and comprehensive historical survey of American textiles wi chapters on embroidery, early cotton-printing, the story of American silk, et Very good.

JOHNSTON, Frances Benjamin. THE EARLY ARCHITECTURE OF NORTH CAROLINA, A PICTORIAL SURVEY. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1947). Folio. Cloth, publisher's box. Frontispiece, xxiii, (i), 290 pages. Second edition. A pictorial study of over three hundred photographs by Johnston, with a histo by Thomas Tileston Waterman, and a foreword by Leicester B. Holland. A very good copy in a worn slipcase.

WINDLE, John T. and Robert M. Taylor, Jr. THE EARLY ARCHITECTURE OF MADISON, INDIANA. Madison: Indiana Historical Society, 1986. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 230 (2) pages. First edition. Being an illustrated, in-depth study of the surviving nineteenth century architecture in this river town that was once a part of America's western frontier. Very good.

BENNETT, George Fletcher. EARLY ARCHITECTURE OF DELAWARE. Wilmington: Historical Press, (1932). Folio. Cloth. 213 pages, illustrations First edition. One of 1,200 copies. Illustrated with over 250 plates, chiefly from photographs, of interiors and exteriors. Part two is made up of details, measured drawings and profiles. Spine spotted, slight wear at top of front hinge, otherwise good to very good.

BACON-FOSTER, Corra. EARLY CHAPTERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PATOMAC ROUTE THE WEST. New York: Burt Franklin, (1971). 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece, viii, 277 pages. Reprint of the 1912 edition. Very good.

KELLY, J. Frederick. THE EARLY DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF CONNECTICUT. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1935.) 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xx, 210 pages, 48 plates. Third printing. In addition to the plates, there are over two hundred and forty in-text illustrations. Very good.

KELLY, J. Frederick. THE EARLY DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF CONNECTICUT. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927. 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xx, 210 pages, 48 plates. Second printing. In addition to the plates, this book is illustrated with two hundred and forty-two figures, mostly measured drawings of details. Binding rubbed and lightly soiled, text faintly yellowed, owner's name in rubber stamp with withdrawn rubber stamped over on front flyleaf, else very good.

RAYMOND, Eleanor. EARLY DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF PENNSYLVANIA. New York: William Helburn, Inc., 1931. Folio. Cloth. xviii, (4) pages, 158 plates. One of 1100 copies. With interior and exterior photographs and measured drawings of early Pennsylvania architecture by Eleanor Raymond. Subscriber's list included. I inscription of James T. Raymond on front flyleaf. Spine faded, good to very good copy.

PACKARD, Wellman. EARLY EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA, 1849-1850. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1971. 4to. Wrappers. viii, 25 pages of 500 copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition. Very good.

CESCINSKY, Herbert and Ernest R. Gribble. EARLY ENGLISH FURNITURE AND WOODWO Volume two only London: George Routledge and Sons, 1922. Large 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xvi 382 pages. A well-illustrated, standard work on the subject. Volume II only, and priced accordingly.