Search Results: Titles starting with H from The Brick Row Book Shop

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019, 2019. First edition. As new.. 4to, green linen spine, decorated wrappers, 52 pages. Profusely illustrated. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later became a prominent botanical printmaker. This monograph, the annual keepsake published by The Book Club of California, includes a checklist of all the publications of the Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker. It was handsomely designed by Jonathan Clark of the Artichoke Press. Many of the illustrations have not been previously published.

Printed MDC.XXVI. First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. Text washed, most noticeably on the first and final leaves; fine copy, enclosed in a slipcase.. 4to, later brown morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for William Stirling-Maxwell, with the Stirling-Maxwell gilt insignia on the upper and lower boards, gilt lettering on the spine, a.e.g. 18 pages, A-D3; lacking the final blank. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance of power" later in the 17th century, when Overbury was principally known as the author of the often reprinted poem "A Wife" and for his central role in a court scandal, his imprisonment in the Tower and death there, which was possibly a murder. In addition to the politics written about in his essay, Overbury comments on the characteristics of the people… Read More

London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1606, 1606. Second edition in English of Justinus's Historiæ Philippicæ; the first edition of this translation. ESTC S117759; STC 24293. Some light stains and smudges in the text; two small burn holes, with slight loss, but not to the sense; occasional contemporary ink marks; edges rubbed; very good, sound copy.. Folio, contemporary calf rebacked, red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering. 12 wood engraved portraits of Roman emperors in the text, wood engraved initials, head-and tailpieces and one illustration. Without the initial and final blanks. The An Epitomie of the Lives and Manners of the Romane Emperors has a separately printed title-page with the same imprint and date, but the sequence is continuous. Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus' epitome of the expansive history and origins of the world from the beginning of time to the era of the Caesars by Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus. A complete text of Trogus's work has not survived,… Read More

In very good condition.. Single sheet folded to make four 20 x 13 cm pages. "Dear Sir: It falls to me, in Mr. Fields's absence, to thank you for your poem, which I'm sorry to have come a day or two too late for our September number. It will be printed in October, however, and I will send you a proof as soon as it is in type. Very truly yours, W. D. Howells / Mr. Whittier."