Search Results: Titles starting with F from Antiquates Ltd

London: Printed by T. C. Hansard...for C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1814. 243pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary tree-calf, later expertly rebacked, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A trifle rubbed. Offsetting to title, scattered spotting. An early nineteenth-century edition of poet John Gay's (1685-1732) perennially popular Fables, composed for the youngest son of George II, six year old Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. . Fifth edition.

London: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1808. xvi, 228pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved title page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to blank front endpapers, slight loss to margins of leaf EE1. An early nineteenth-century edition of poet John Gay's (1685-1732) perennially popular Fables, originally composed for the youngest son of George II, six year old Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. . 12mo.

London: Printed for Thomas Hodgkins, 1805 [i.e. 1808] In two volumes. viii, 206; iv, 219pp, [1]. With 73 copperplate illustrations in the text. Modern gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red roan lettering-pieces. Minor shelf- wear, chipping to lettering-pieces. Occasional short tears to margins, spotted. William St. Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript note on the text to recto of FFEP, Vol. I. William Godwin's (1756-1836) first book for children, published under his often-used pseudonym Edward Baldwin, profusely adorned with handsome copperplate illustrations commonly attributed to William Blake (1756-1827). The author's prefatory remarks clearly reveal his intentions behind writing the book, specifically his disapproval at comparable works: 'Half the fables which are to be found in the ordinary books end unhappily, or end in an abrupt manner. This is what a child does not like. The first question he asks, when he has… Read More

A Londres [i.e. London]: Chez B. Law...T. Cadell...P. Elmsly, 1781. xvi, 220pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece and two terminal publisher's advertisement leaves. Contemporary sheep. Heavily rubbed, some surface loss to boards, loss to head and foot of spine. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, several gatherings protruding slightly from text-block. An early edition of tutor and educational author Jean Perrin's (f. 1767-1798) remarkably popular French primer, a standard work in Anglo-American schoolrooms well into the nineteenth-century, following its first printing in 1771. All early editions are are, with this third being no exception; ESTC records copies at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and one further worldwide (BSB). ESTC T66810.. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo.

Paris: At the printing office and stereotype foundery of P. Didot the elder, and of F. Didot, 1813. [3], 6-235pp, [1]. Without half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled sheep, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed, joints split, chipping to head of spine. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscription to head of title page, scattered foxing. An early stereotype edition, done according to the process of Parisian printer Firmin Didot, of the collected fables of John Gay (1685-1732) and Edward Moore (1712-1757). OCLC records copies of this edition at five locations (National Library of Sweden, Northwestern, Purdue, Stanford, and Zurich); COPAC adds two further (Cambridge and Hull). . 12mo.

A Paris: Chez B. Waree, 1808. In four volumes. [4], xxi, [1], 465, [1]; [4], xiv, 467, [1]; [4], xxxii, 514; xvi, 521pp, [3]. With half-titles and a suite of three engraved plates to each volume. [Bound uniformly with:] MEON, [Dominique Martin]. Nouveau recueil de fabliaux et contes inedits, des poetes francais des XIIe, XIIIe, XIVe, et XVe siecles... A Paris. Chez Chasseriau, 1823. First edition. In two volumes. viii, 500, [2]; [4], 482pp, [1]. With half-titles and a suite of three engraved plates to each volume. 8vo. Bound by Bauzonnet in later half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Book-labels of Eric Gerald Stanley to all FEPs, very occasional light spotting. An authoritative compilation of French fables and tales from the eleventh to the fifteenth-centuries published, with extensive scholarly dissertations on the origins of French and Celtic languages by philologist Etienne Barbazan (1696-1770). First printed in three volumes in 1756, with the addition of a… Read More

London: Published for William Hone, by Hunt and Clarke, 1827. In 14 parts, The political house that Jack built (1821, 53rd ed.), The man in the moon (1820, 25th ed.), The Queen's matrimonial ladder (1820, 44th ed.), In Parliament. Dropt clauses out of the bill, against the Queen (s.d.), "Non mi ricordo!" (1820, 31st ed.), The form of prayer (1820, 5th ed. 1820), political showman--at home! (1821, 16th ed.), The right divine of kings to govern wrong! (1821), Bank restriction note, The bank restriction barometer, Buonapartephobia. (1820, 9th ed.), A slap at slop (1822), Aspersions answered (1824, 6th ed.), and Another article for the Quarterly review (1824, 2nd ed.). With 120 engravings by George Cruikshank. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Very occasional spotting. A collected edition of William Hone's (1780-1842) popular pamphlets, including his Bank Restriction Note (1820), a copper-plate… Read More

London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1944. 224pp. Original publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, with the A. E. Barlow dustwrapper. Spine cocked and faded with other markings, with some wear and staining to wrapper, with old repairs to verso. Pencil inscription '[heart] for Precious May' and underneath in ink '& also a word from the author: in memory of a very happy evening in July 1950,. H. E. Bates.' An inscribed copy of H.E Bates' (1905-1974) eighth novel, and first financial success. Bates went on to have a prolific and varied career; he is best remembered now for both The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas. Commissioned into the RAF during the Second World War, originally as Flying Officer 'X', further suppressed works written for the Air Ministry during this period are still coming to light. . First edition. 8vo.

London: Published by John Fairburn, [1805] 40pp. With an engraved folding frontispiece depicting the Battle of Trafalgar. Original publisher's navy wrappers, title in manuscript to upper panel. Housed in modern navy cloth gatefold case, red calf lettering-piece to spine. Wrappers marked and chipped. Internally clean and crisp. Printed and publisher John Fairburn's (fl. 1789-1840) immensely popular chapbook memoir of Lord Nelson. The firm would issue two further related works; Fairburn's Edition of the Death of Admiral Lord Nelson (1806) and Fairburn's Edition of the Funeral of Admiral Lord Nelson (1806). All editions are scarce; OCLC records copies at three locations (BL, Cork, and National library of Sweden); COPAC adds no further. . Twentieth edition. 12mo.

London: Printed and Published by John Fairburn, [s.d., c.1830s] 13pp, [3]. Wrappers included in pagination. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. Oversewn in original publisher's yellow wrappers, hand-coloured pictorial title label pasted to upper wrapper. Extremities worn, marked, dust-soiled, and creased, loss to spine, short tears to both wrappers, slight loss to lower corner of upper wrapper. Some spotting internally. A rare survival of a vibrant chapbook retelling, for a juvenile readership, of William Cowper’s (1731-1800) The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1782), a comic ballad concerning the titular draper and his misadventure with a runaway horse. OCLC records copies at five locations (Indiana, Oxford, Princeton, Washington, and V&A). . 8vo.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1866. vi, [3], 10-220pp, [4]. With a half-title, frontispiece, additional title page, and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and a trifle cocked. Leaves browned. The first edition of a collection of original fairy tales by children's writer and missionary Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893), written under the pseudonym A. L. O. E. (that is, A Lady of England). . First edition. 8vo.

Chicago: Knight, Leonard & Co., 1893. [32] leaves. With a tipped-in folding colour ‘Bird's-Eye View of Niagara Falls and of Niagara River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario‘, printed on tissue. Original publisher’s two-tone cloth, bevelled edges, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. A late nineteenth century souvenir album comprised of illustrated and photographic depictions of Niagara Falls and environs; with descriptive passages extracted from the work of such authors as Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens. . Oblong quarto.

London: Printed for W. Strahan, 1773. [7], iv-viii, 16, 560pp, [i.e. 460pp]. With 16pp subscribers' list. Contemporary calf, gilt. A trifle rubbed, some discolouration to joints. Without lettering-piece, gilt faded. Preliminaries a little browned, else internally a fine copy. Francis Douglas (bap. 1719, d.1790), Scottish bookseller, stationer and writer. In the dedication (to Queen Charlotte) and preface to Familiar letters, Douglas expresses dismay at migration from the British Isles, but also of the need to better educate the inhabitants in 'decency and decorum of character, so graceful, so indispensable necessary in the FAIR SEX', and that 'happiness is founded in VIRTUE and FRIENDSHIP; dignity of mind, in a reverence for RELIGION, and the LAWS'. Uncommon, with ESTC recording copies in only six British libraries, and seven elsewhere (BC, McMaster, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, Virginia and Yale). ESTC T99697.. First edition. 8vo.

Newcastle: Printed for the author, by I. Dinsdale, 1785. [2], 188pp, [2]. With a half-title. Contemporary reverse calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Worn, without upper board, with loss to spine and splitting to lower joint. Tear without loss to D1. Presentation copy, inscribed 'The Gift of George Marshall (the Author) to Thomas Collin April 20th 1787'. A rare, gossipy conduct of life work, epistolary in structure, by the sometime East India Company chief officer, poet and member of the Trinity House in Newcastle, George Marshall (c.1740/1-1823). Signed to the preface with the nom de plume 'Palinurus', the 17 letters are addressed to a younger brother 'Jack', and concern, alongside the usual advice on life stages and etiquette, the somewhat more professional-slanted: 'thoughts on the coal trade', 'thoughts on escape from shipwreck' and the 'necessity of commanders setting good examples'. Although identified as the author of this work, and… Read More

Manchester: Printed and published by J. A. Robinbson & Co., 1829. xi, [2], 14-184pp. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep. Rubbed, upper joint split, lower starting, some loss to head of spine. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title, foxed. A revised edition, printed in the same year as the first, of a succinct explication of Catholic doctrine and dogma for 'the instruction of children in general, and of adults amongst the poor whose religious education has been neglected in their earlier years', by Roman Catholic priest Joseph Curr (1793-1847). . Second edition, revised and corrected. 12mo.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1839. 130pp, [2]. With an engraved title page. Original publisher's blind-ruled brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed and marked. Decorated endpapers, later armorial bookplate (designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour) of Owen Franklin Aldis to FEP, presentation plate of Yale University Library (dated 1911) to REP, foxed. A mid nineteenth-century edition of American poet, and member of the Knickerbocker Group, Fitz-Greene Halleck's (1790-1867) longest poem. First published anonymously in 1819, Fanny, modelled on Byron's Beppo and Don Juan, proved so popular that the initial 50 cent edition was soon commanding sums of up to $10. Two years later, its continuing popularity motivated Halleck to append an additional 50 stanzas. . 12mo.

Bath: Printed by R. Crutwell, for the Author, 1777. [6], 5-55pp, [1]. Modern green wrappers. Book-label of J. O. Edwards to verso of upper wrapper. Small marginal worm-track running throughout, blank lower margin of leaf F1 shaved, ink-stamps of Merton House to terminal leaf, scattered spotting. The sole edition of the first published work of historian and poet Richard Polwhele (1760-1838). Born at Truro, Cornwall, Polwhele began to write poetry when about twelve years old. His juvenile production received praise, most notably from satirist John Wolcot (bap. 1738, d. 1819), then a resident of Truro. The flattery of friends encouraged him to publish The Fate of Lewellyn under the moniker of 'a young gentleman of Truro School', whereupon a critic for the Monthly Review quipped that the master of the school should have kept it in manuscript. The volume did nothing to further his career, indeed it gave him the reputation of an unpromising poet - a reputation he was fortunately able to shake off… Read More

Edinburgh: Published by William Oliphant, 1824. [3], 6-370pp. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain green morocco, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, ink gift inscription to verso of frontispiece, occasional light spotting. Scottish writer Grace Kennedy's (1782-1825) most renowned novel; a controversial tale of a suffering Jesuit minister written from a Protestant viewpoint. First printed in 1823, the work reached a twelfth edition by 1858, and was translated into several European languages. . Second edition. 12mo in 6s.

London: Edward Lumley, 1832. vii, [1], 79pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece (misbound after the title) and a further 27 engraved plates (several displaced). Later calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red calf lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. William St. Clair's copy, with his pencilled ownership inscription and a note in his hand to recto of FFEP: 'The translation by PBS of the May Day Night Scene is presumably reprinted from the version in The Liberal. The Note is also taken (with some omissions) from The Liberal. Does the attribution 'L H' [Leigh Hunt] imply that Hunt was concerned with the book as a whole? Lumley published The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley (pirated but claiming authority from Leigh Hunt) in 1831.' An anonymous translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (1749-1832) magnum opus, appended by Percy Bysshe Shelley's (1792-1822) translation of the May-day Night scene. Shelley's obsession with Faust spanned… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons, [s.d., c.1890] 135pp, [1]. With.a coloured frontispiece. Original publisher's pictorial tan cloth. A trifle rubbed and marked. Endpapers browned. A crisp copy of a posthumously published edition of journalist and social theorist Harriet Martineau's (1802-1876) charming juvenile tale set in Norway, first published in 1841. . 8vo.