BOYLE, Robert

New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold

London: Printed for John Crook, 1665. A Milestone in the History of Chemistry Robert Boyle's Treatise on Cold Proving that Ice has a Smaller Specific Gravity than Water And that it Must Therefore Expand on Freezing BOYLE, Robert. New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. To which are added An Examen of Antiperistasis, And An Examen of Mr. Hobs's Doctrine about Cold.. Whereunto is annexed An Account of Freezing, brought in to the Royal Society, by the learned Dr. C. Merret, a Fellow of it. London: Printed for John Crook, 1665. First edition. Small octavo (6 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 163 x 105 mm.). [68], 696, [3, "An Advertisement"], [1, blank], 697-803, [1, blank], [3, "An Advertisement"], [1, blank], 805-845, [2, advertisements for the author's philosophical writings and forthcoming writings], [1, blank], 54 pp. Bound without the final blank leaf. Gathering aa ("An Advertisement to the Readers of The Following Experiments, by the Author of the foregoing History") bound after gathering a rather than before the text of "An Account of Freezing made in December and January, 1662" (54 pp. at end). Two folding engraved plates at the end. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, neatly rebacked to style. Covers bordered in blind with single rule and decorative cornerpieces. Spine with four raised bands, ruled in blind, Dark green morocco label lettered in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Light wear to corners. Some scattered light foxing and browning, a few small marginal dampstains, a few small rust stains. Four leaves 'pulling' at gutter margin (pp. 395-403). Neatly repaired tear to Dd2 (pp. 403/404), just affecting a couple of letters, tiny hole (paper flaw) in Nn1 (pp. 545/546), just affecting a couple of letters. One plate trimmed just within platemark to facilitate folding. Early ink signature of Edward Kundall on title. Overall, an excellent copy. "The treatise on 'Cold' is a milestone in the history of chemistry since it applies a quantitative tool, namely the thermometer, to study of the interaction of elemental substances and mixtures. This, together with his later 'Languid and Unheeded Motion', gives Boyle just claim to a place in the early history of ideas concerning the kinetics of chemical reactions (i.e. modern thermodynamics). In discussing cold, Boyle gives an account of his discovery of 'freezing mixtures' with the present-day interpretation of the phenomenon. He proved that ice has a smaller specific gravity than water and that it must therefore expand on freezing. The work is noteworthy also for a large number of important physiological observations. He describes the two modes of death from cold: that quite painless benumbing of the senses followed by torpor and death, which, happily, is the more common form of exitus; and secondly, the painful ending, experienced by those who ride horses and carry armour, which begins with abdominal pain, vomiting, &c. and terminates with physical exhaustion.. He was aware that frogs and fish could be frozen in ice and revived if the thaw occurred slowly. He thought that the same might be true of swallows, but was not quite sure on the point. He was aware that extreme cold prevented the putrefaction of animal tissues, and realized that cold could be utilized for the preservation of meat" (Fulton). "Another visitor to Kircher's gallery during 1661, who himself had recently been received by the Tuscan Grand Duke, was the Englishman Robert Southwell. This friend and emissary of Robert Boyle was later to be knighted by Charles II and elected president of the Royal Society. Southwell inspected Kircher's exhibits some time in November and noted, among others, an illustration of the Cartesian diver and 'Asshes of Bayes putt in a glass and filled with water and that water frozen, all the leaves of the Bayes appear.'" (John Edward Fletcher. A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher. p. 51). "Like Boyle, Kircher endeavored to craft a practical, social solution to the problem of knowledge, but the solution he settled upon - a centralized correspondence network of obedient Jesuit missionaries - was rather different from Boyle's meticulously detailed experimental histories." (Paula Finden. Athanasius Kircher. The last man who new everything. p. 255). Fletcher. Athanasius Kircher, pp. 51 & 574; Fulton, Boyle, 70; Honeyman 465; Wing B3996. .

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Book number: 05293

Catalogue: Early Books

Keywords: Science and Technology

BOYS, Thomas Shotter

Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen &C

London: By Thomas Boys, Printseller to the Royal Family, 1839. A Very Beautiful Book" "A Genuine Triumph" "Worthy of the Highest Possible Praise" BOYS, Thomas Shotter. Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen &c. Drawn from Nature and on Stone. London: By Thomas Boys, Printseller to the Royal Family, 1839. First edition. Folio (21 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches; 539 x 371 mm.). [4, as title, Dedication]. Twenty-six "lithotint" (color-printed lithograph) plates (including title page) printed by G. Hullmandel after drawings by Boys, with tissue guards. Bound without the two-page "Descriptive Notice" that appears in some copies. Publisher's original half red morocco, front board with inner red moire silk panel enclosing a red morocco label lettered in gilt with title. Expertly rebacked to style with plain spine. Original yellow endpapers with neat early ink inscription dated 1871. The blank margins of the plates have been expertly cleaned not affecting the original coloring. An excellent copy. "A very beautiful book, and one that should take preference over its later and more popular rival, the Original Views of London [by Boys, from] 1842..Apart from the brilliance, sensitivity, and technical mastery of the drawing on stone there is the great, and often under-estimated, technical and artistic achievement of Hullmandel in making possible the transmission of such drawings, and in developing the cool, transparent, graduated tints, subtle in colouring, on which the unique effect of the book depends.." (Abbey). "..A genuine triumph..by Thomas Shotter Boys, a rather neglected artist who merits a far higher place than he was ever awarded in the annals of the English water-colour school..In this book Boys is head and shoulders above them all. His drawing is refined and sensitive, and his colouring cool, simple, and direct" (Hardie). "Our recommendation of it to all who love and can appreciate art cannot be given in terms too strong; it is worthy of the highest possible praise. The Work is of exceeding beauty" (Art Union, 1839). "Apart from the brilliance, sensitivity and technical mastery of the drawing on stone, this volume features Hullmandel's great and often under-estimated technical and artistic achievement in making the transmission of such drawings possible and in devolving the cool, transparent, graduated tints - subtle in colouring - on which the unique effect of the book depends" (Bobins II, 512). Thomas Shotter Boys (1803-1874) was an English watercolor painter and lithographer. He was articled to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship came to an end he went to Paris where he met and came under the influence of Richard Parkes Bonington, who persuaded him to abandon engraving for painting. Some sources describe him as a pupil of Bonington, although William Callow, who later shared a studio with him in Paris, disputed this. He exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time in 1824, and in Paris in 1827. In 1830 he went to Brussels, but returned to England on the outbreak of the revolution there. Paying another visit to Paris, he remained there until 1837, and then returned to England in order to lithograph the works of David Roberts and Clarkson Stanfield. His most important work, Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc. a collection of color lithographs, appeared in 1839, attracting a great deal of admiration. Drawn on the stone by Boys and printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, it was described in a review in the Polytechnic Journal as "the first successful effort in chromo-lithography hitherto brought to perfection". Abbey, Travel, 33; Tooley 105; Bobins II, 512; Hardie, pp. 247-249. .

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Book number: 04775

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Color Printing Topography Views

BRES, Jean Pierre

Simples Histoires Trouvees Dans Un Pot Au Lait

Paris: Chez Lefuel, 1825. Complete and Exceptionally Fine in its Original Box Eight Superb Hand Colored Stipple Engravings of Young 'Entrepreneurs' BRES, Jean Pierre. Simples Histoires, Trouvées Dans Un Pot Au Lait. Par M. Bres. Paris: Chez Lefuel, 1825. Eight small octavo volumes in original hand-colored lithograph box. Each volume with a color-printed stipple engraving, finished in color by hand. First Edition. Eight small octavo volumes (6 x 4 inches; 152 x 101 mm.). [1-7], 8-34, [2, blank]; [1-7], 8-35, [1, blank]; [1-7], 8-35, [1, blank]; [1-7], 8-37, [3, blank]; [1-7], 8-34, [2, blank]; [2, blank], [iv], vi, [7-9], 10-39, [3, blank]; [1-7], 8-34, [2, blank]; [1-7], 8-32, pp. Each volume has a color-printed stipple engraving, finished in color by hand, of a child dressed in the manner to suit each cover title. The title-pages of all volumes are titled Simples Histoires, Trouvées Dans Un Pot Au Lait. (Simple Stories Found in a Pot of Milk). Original color lithographed pale blue stiff wrappers, finished by hand in colors. Housed in the original double-compartment box with the title and a colored lithograph on the lid. The lid of the box is bordered in decoratively embossed gold foil which continues down the edges of the lid. Lower portion of box with gold border, original pink and blue ribbon pulls. An exceptionally fine and complete set in the original lithographed box. Some light sporadic foxing, small ex library number stamped in blue on verso of each title-page and in the margin of one other leaf. This is a spectacular and wonderful set of this early French children's title. In the Gumuchian catalog it is featured as the color frontispiece and its value is listed at 3000 FF. Exceptionally rare complete and in the original box. The titles: Le Petit Batelier (The Little Boatman) Le Petit Savoyard (The Little Boy of Savoy) Le Petit Ecolier (The Little Schoolgirl) Le Petit Berger (The Little Shepherd) La Petite Vandangeuse (The Little Grape Picker) La Petite Laitiere (The Little Milk Maid) La Petite Marchande De Fleurs (The Little Flower Seller) Les Petits Fagots (The Little Firewood Gatherer) Gumichian. Les Livres de L'Enfance du XV au XIX Siècle. #916 and color frontispiece (showing four of the eight color plates). .

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Book number: 03972

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Color-Plate Books Books in French

[SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]; Brontë, Charlotte; Brontë, Emily; Brontë, Anne

Shakespeare Head Brontë, the

Oxford: , 1931. The Shakespeare Head Brontë A Fine Set in the Original Dust Jackets [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne]. The Shakespeare Head Brontë. Oxford: Newly Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1931. Limited to 1,000 copies. Eleven large octavo volumes (containing the Novels). [Together with:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, [Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.] The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence. In Four Volumes. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1932. Limited to 750 copies. Four large octavo volumes. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Charlotte, and Patrick Branwell. The Poems of Charlotte Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited to 500 copies. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Emily Jane and Anne. The Poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne Brontë. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934. Limited to 500 copies. [And:] [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. BRONTË, Charlotte, and Patrick Branwell. The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë. In Two Volumes. [Edited by Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington]. Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1936-1938]. Limited to 1,000 copies. Two large octavo volumes. Together, nineteen large octavo volumes (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 231 x 156 mm.). Photogravure frontispieces and plates. Original orange buckram lettered in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt, others uncut (only on The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, The Poems of Charlotte Brontë & Patrick Branwell Brontë, and The Poems of Emily Jane Brontë and Anne Brontë). Volume I of The Miscellaneous and Unpublished Writings of Charlotte and Patrick Branwell Brontë has a previous owner's ink signature, dated 1945, on the front free endpaper. A fine set. In the original cream-colored printed dust jackets (some very minor shelfwear to jackets). This is the finest edition of the collected works of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë. Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 236. Ransom, Selective Check Lists, p. 18, no. 73. .

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Book number: 00184

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne English Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Sets Fine Printing Fine Printing Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Poetry

BRUNTON, Violet, illustrator; WILSON, Romer

Silver Magic

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. A Collection of the World's Best Fairy Tales Illustrated by Violet Brunton BRUNTON, Violet, illustrator. Silver Magic. A Collection of the World's Best Fairy Fairy Tales from all Countries. Edited and Arranged by Romer Wilson. With Illustrations in Colour & Line by Violet Brunton. London: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition. Octavo ( 7 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 201 x 137 mm.). [1]-432 pp. Eight color plates and forty-seven black & white illustrations in the text including several full-page. Publisher's silver cloth over boards, covers decorated with blue stars, spine decorated and lettered in blue, top edge stained blue. Small neat ink date "1929" at top of front free endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy of this lovely little book of fairy tales including such favorites as The Marriage of Cupid & Psyche, The a History of Reynard the Fox, Clever Alice, Lohengrin, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and many others. Violet Ella Evelyn Brunton (1878-1951) aka Victor du Lac. Born in Brighouse, Yorkshire, her father, Arthur D. Brunton, was also an artist. She was educated at the Southport School of Art, the Liverpool School of Art, and finally, the Royal College of Art in London. She trained in woodcarving, miniature painting, and illustration. She won a County Palatine Scholarship and a City of Liverpool scholarship and a number of medals while still a student. By 1903-04, Brunton's distinctive illustrations, drawings, and designs were being published in art magazines. During the 1920s, Brunton contributed illustrations to a number of books, including two volumes of fairy tales, edited by Romer Wilson - Green Magic (1928) and Silver Magic (1929). In her oil paintings, she tended towards classical and mythological subjects. She exhibited work at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute, the Royal Society of Miniature Painters (to which she was elected in 1925), and elsewhere. .

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Book number: 05433

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: WILSON, Romer Illustrated Books Fairy Tales

COSWAY-STYLE BINDING; BUCHAN, John; BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, binders

Sir Walter Scott

London: Cassell and Company Ltd. [1932]. A Fine Cosway-Style Binding by Bayntun (Rivière) Extra Illustrated with Twelve Plates [COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, binders. BUCHAN, John. Sir Walter Scott. London: Cassell and Company Ltd. [1932]. First edition. Octavo (8 5/8 x 6 inches; 219 x 152 mm.). 388 pp. Extra illustrated by the insertion of twelve plates, three of which are hand colored. A fine Cosway-Style binding by Bayntun (Rivière) ca. 1940, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full sangria red morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt in a fine thistle design. Front cover with a fine hand-painted oval portrait miniature (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 63 mm.) of a young Sir Walter Scott, set under glass and surrounded by a fine thistle design in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled with a thistle design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges and wide turn-ins. Marbled liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. Housed in the original felt-lined purple cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. The Extra Illustrations: Facing p.72, hand colored portrait of Francis Jeffrey, Esq. Facing p.83, engraved portrait of Wm. Gifford, Esq. Facing p.122, hand colored portrait of Henry Mackenzie Facing p.174, inlaid full length portrait of 'The Editor of the Quarterly' (Henry Mackenzie) Facing p.179, engraved view 'The Peel Tower in the Village of Darnick near Abbotsford' Facing p.202, inlaid engraved portrait of Mrs. J.G. Lockhart eldest daughter of Sir Walter Scott Facing p.215, engraved view 'Hall at Abbotsford' Facing p.217, hand colored engraved view 'The Pavilion on the Tweed near Abbotsford' Facing p.226, engraved view 'Rhymes Glen, Abbotsford' Facing p.259, inlaid engraved portrait of 'Adam Fergusson, l.L.D. F.R.S.E.' Facing p.275, inlaid engraved portrait of 'Thomas Moore' Facing p.348, portrait of 'Léon Tolstoy' John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Born in Perth, he studied classics at the University of Glasgow. He became a prolific author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, with involvement in over 100 books. His works include The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle. .

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Book number: 05089

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: BUCHAN, John BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, binders Biography Cosway-Style Bindings Extra-Illustrated Copies

BULL, René, illustrator; Mérimée, Prosper; Johnson, A.E.

Carmen

London: Hutchinson & Co. 1916. With Sixteen Full-Page Color Plates by René Bull [BULL, René, illustrator]. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. Translated by A.E. Johnson. With Pictures by René Bull. London: Hutchinson & Co. [n.d, 1916]. First trade edition. Quarto (10 13/16 x 8 7/16 inches; 275 x 214 mm.). [2, blank], x, 204 pp. Color frontispiece and fifteen color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Seventy-four black and white illustrations in the text. Publishers red cloth over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Gray and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, others stained red. Gilt on spine dull, some light wear to extremities, neat ink inscription dated 1917 on front free endpaper, and another ink inscription on front blank leaf. A good copy of an uncommon book. Rene Bull's vibrant illustrations perfectly capture the intense drama of love and jealousy in Prosper Mérimée's tale which was the basis for Georges Bizet's opera of the same title. René Bull (d. 1942) "was born in Ireland and went to Paris to study engineering, but left this for art work in London, 1892. After working for various magazines, he was appointed ‘special' for Black and White, 1896, attending the Armenian massacres and the Graeco-Turkish War as artist..He served in the First World War in RNVR, 1916, and RAF, 1917. Bull was one of the most versatile specials because his stature as an artist was above average. Not only an accurate reporter, he was a talented comic draughtsman and a brilliant illustrator of fairy stories" (Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 81). Works illustrated by Bull include: La Fontaine's Fables (1905), Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris (1906), The Arabian Nights (1912), The Russian Ballet by A.E. Johnson (1913), Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1913), Carmen, by Prosper Mérimée (1916), and Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift (1928). .

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Book number: 03527

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Mérimée, Prosper Johnson, A.E. Signed Limited Edition Illustrated Books French Literature European Literature French Literature Music

BUNBURY, Henry; GAMBADO, Geoffrey

Annals of Horsemanship

London: W. Dickinson, 1791. The Classic Lampoon Of Idiots On Horseback [BUNBURY, Henry]. Gambado, Geofrey (pseud.). Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents, Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq..Together with Most Instructive Remarks Thereon, and Answers Thereto, by that Accomplished Genius. And Now First Published, by the Editor of the Academy for Grown Horsemen. Illustrated with Cuts by the Most Eminent Artists. London: Printed for W. Dickinson, 1791. First edition. Folio (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in; 323 x 222 mm). xvii, 81, [1, adv.] pp. Frontispiece and sixteen line- and stipple-engraved plates, plain as issued without color option. Engraved by W.P. Carey after Bunbury's designs. Early twentieth century half crimson hard-grained morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt dots. Gilt-ruled compartments. An excellent copy. A "singulier ouvrage" (Brunet) and wildly popular, Annals of Horsemanship was reprinted in the same year in Dublin, again in 1796, 1811, and once more in 1812 collected with Bunbury's other satire, The Academy For Grown Horsemen. The engraved plates were designed by Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811). "Bunbury owed much during his lifetime to the charm of a genial nature, and to his position as a man of family and education. West flattered him, and Walpole enthusiastically compared him to Hogarth. He was the friend of Goldsmith, Garrick, and Reynolds, and the favourite of the Duke and Duchess of York, to whom in 1787 he was appointed equerry. All this, coupled with the facts that he was seldom, if ever, personal, and wholly abstained from political subjects, greatly aided his popularity with the printsellers and the public of his day, and secured his admission, as an honorary exhibitor, to the walls of the Academy, where between 1780 and 1808 his works frequently appeared.. [They] are not without a good deal of grotesque drollery of the rough-and-ready kind in vogue towards the end of the last century¾that is to say, drollery depending in a great measure for its laughable qualities upon absurd contrasts, ludicrous distortions, horseplay, and personal misadventure." (DNB). "'The lovers of humor were inconsolable for the loss of Hogarth, but from his ashes a number of sportive geniuses have sprung up, and the works of Bunbury [et al] have entertained us' (Walker's Hibernian Magazine, May 1790). Just at this time, one of these ‘sportive geniuses' was at the height of his popularity. Of the many amateur caricaturists who flourished during the second half of the eighteenth century, Bunbury was undoubtedly the most famous. His talents for depicting humorous incidents of everyday life and manners established him as a master of the burlesque, and his reputation in social caricature rivaled that of Thomas Rowlandson or James Gillray." ((Riely, John C. Horace Walpole and ‘the Second Hogarth', in Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, Autumn, 1975, p. 28). The Plates: 1. The Apotheosis of Geoffrey Gambado 2. Mr. Gambado Seeing the World in a Six Mile Tour Famed in History 3. Dr. Cassock F.R.S. T.P.Q. Inventor of the Noble Puzzle for Tumble Down Horses 4. The Puzzle for the Dog, The Puzzle for the Horse, The Puzzle for Turk, Frenchman, or, Christian 5.How to Make the Most of a Horse 6. How to Make the Least of Him 7. How to Do Things by Halves 8. Tricks Upon Travellers 9. Love and Wind 10. Me & My Wife and Daughter 11. How to Make the Mare to Go 12. How to Prevent the Horse Slipping his Girths 13. How to Ride Without a Bridle 14. A Daisy Cutter with his Varieties 15. The Tumbler, or its Affinities 16. A Horse with a Nose 17. How to Travel Upon Two Legs in a Frost ESTCT12226, Brunet II, 1474. .

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Book number: 02549

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: GAMBADO, Geoffrey Nineteenth-Century Literature Sports

BUNYAN, John; Bayntun

Pilgrim's Progress, the

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. An Elegantly Printed Edition of One of the Most Significant Works of Religious English Literature BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress. [The Royal Library Chef D'Oeuvre Series]. London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. Octavo. (9 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 233 x 166 mm). [4], 327, [1 blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound by Bayntun in early twentieth-century three-quarter dark blue polished calf ruled in gilt over blue cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands and red and green morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers. Printed on handmade watermark rag paper. Top of spine and joints a little rubbed otherwise excellent. An elegantly printed modern edition of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream, originally published in February, 1678. A celebrated allegorical tale of Christian the pilgrim on his journey to the Celestial City, the Christian encounters both worthy companions and dreadful adversaries. .

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Book number: 00852

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Bayntun Bindings Fine Printing Seventeenth-Century Literature Fine Printing Literature Seventeenth-Century Literature

BURCKHARDT, Caspar

[Six Fine Hand Colored Aqautint Plates of Neuchatel, Switzerland]

Neuchatel: Chez Baumann Peters, 1835. Six Fine Aquatints of Neuchatel, Switzerland SPERLI, Johann Jakob [&] BURCKHARDT, Caspar [&] BAUMANN, Jean-Henri. (Artists). Six fine hand colored aquatint plates of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Neuchatel: Chez Baumann Peters, [ca. 1835]. Six fine hand colored aquatint views of Neuchatel, Switzwerland, window mounted in two cards each measuring 17 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches; 437 x 219 mm. The first five of the individual views have an average image measurement of 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches; 82 x 57 mm. The sixth view has an image measurement of 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches; 104 x 70 mm. The six aquatints are titled: 1. Interieur d'un Chalet Suisse (J. Sperli) 2. Ury (J. Sperli) 3. Sion (C. Burckhardt) 4. Vaud. Vue de Vevey (J. Sperli) 5. Le Rappel des Vaches (J. Sperli) 6. L'Auberge sur le Righi Koulm (unsigned) The city of Neuchâtel, the French-speaking capital of the Swiss canton Neuchâtel, lies on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel. Its medieval old town spreads beneath the Château de Neuchâtel, a castle begun in the 12th century. SPERLI, Johann Jakob, the Elder. (1794-1843). Watercolorist and printmaker in Zurich. BURCKHARDT, Caspar (1810-1861). Swiss engraver active 1831-1835. BAUMANN, Jean Henri (1801-1858). Swiss topographical watercolorist, working in Neuchatel from 1821. Pupil of Lory and Moritz. .

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Book number: 05446

BURNETT, Frances Hodgson

Little Lord Fauntleroy

New-York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition, First Isue of Little Lord Fauntleroy With a Signed Quotation from the Book BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New-York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition, first issue, with the imprint of the De Vinne Press on the verso of the final leaf of text. With a signed ink quotation from the book loosely inserted ""He was always/lovable because/he was simple and/loving"/Frances Hodgson Burnett". (p. 205, line 16). Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 209 x 165 mm.). xi, [xii], 209, [1], [14, ads] pp. With twenty-six illustrations from drawings by Reginald B. Birch, many of them full-page. Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in red, black and gilt, brown coated endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities, inner hinges sound. An excellent copy with an original quotation from the book. Chemised in a quarter dark blue morocco slipcase (chemise joints neatly strengthened). Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886. The novel's protagonist, Cedric, and his mother, Dearest, live in America until Cedric learns that he is to inherit the title and estate of his paternal grandfather. The mother and son then move to England, where Cedric, as Lord Fauntleroy, charms his embittered grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, and everyone else he meets with his open, egalitarian ways. In the illustrations for the novel and in the popular stage play that followed, Cedric's hair was worn in shoulder-length curls. He is clad in velvet knee pants and a white lace collar (which would later be referred to as a Lord Fauntleroy collar). Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a British-born American novelist and playwright who was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 they emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery. In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honor in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon. BAL 2064. .

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Book number: 04735

Catalogue: American Literature

Keywords: Books into Film Nineteenth-Century Literature

BURNEY, Fanny; HEATH, William, illustrator

Evelina: Or Female Life in London

London: Edward Mason, 1821. Adventures Of A Young Woman In A Big City [BURNEY, Frances]. [HEATH, William, illustrator]. Evelina: or the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World. By Miss Burney. A New Edition Embellished with Engravings. London: Published by Edward Mason, 1821. First illustrated edition, first issue. Octavo (9 x 5 5/8 inches; 229 x 125 mm.). [1]-522 [i.e. 530] pp. (The pagination on gathering 'G' pp. 41-48 is repeated adding an additional 8 pp. to the 522 pp.). Hand colored aquatint title/frontispiece and six hand colored aquatint plates after William Heath, all but one aquatint engravings - the illustration facing page 25 is a hand colored etched plate. Publisher's drab maroon cloth, original red paper printed label on spine (most of the lettering worn away), inner hinges strengthened, fore and lower edges uncut. Small booksellers label "A. Playter. Dealer in English Books. Amsterdam" on front paste-down. Some minor offsetting from plates to text. Some light to moderate foxing, gathering '3A' pp. 361-368 browned. Still a wonderful 'uncut' copy in the publisher's cloth binding, housed in a fleece-lined red cloth clamshell case. This edition of Frances Burney's 1778 epistolary novel "Evelina" is notable for being the first to include illustrations by William Heath, contributing visual elements to Burney's classic novel. The hand-colored plates add a decorative and artistic dimension to the narrative. The uncut state of the book, along with its original binding, enhances its collectible value. The book was was reissued the following year by Jones and Co. under the title Evelina: or Female Life in London, being the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to Fashionable Life, and the Gay Scenes of the Metropolis; Displaying a Highly Humorous, Satirical, and Entertaining Description of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements, in the Higher Circles of Metropolitan Society. Embellished and Illustrated with a Series of Humorous Colored Engravings, by the First Artists. The title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, and thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and come under the eye of a distinguished nobleman with whom a romantic relationship is formed in the latter part of the novel. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. Scarce: OCLC?KVK locate just four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Huntington Library (CA, US); McGill University (CA, QC, US); The British Library (London, UK); Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands); The plates: Title/frontispiece Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World. 1. Evelina, Mrs Mirvan and Maria, Shopping. 2. The Captain attacking Madame Duval. 3. Evelina, Visit to the Opera with the Branghtons. (W. Heath delt.) 4. The Captain hunting Madame Duval in the Ditch. 5. Madame Duval Dancing a Minuet, at the Hampstead Assembly. (W. Heath delt.) 6. Evelina, Mr Lovel and the Monkey. (W. Heath delt.) Bobins 1323; Tooley 118. .

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Book number: 05673

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: HEATH, William, illustrator Color-Plate Books Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature

BURY, T[homas T[albot]

Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

London: Ackermann & Co., 1833. The Most Complete Issue With Sixteen Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates [BURY, T. T. Illustrator]. Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, With Plates of the Coaches, Machines, &c. from drawings made on the spot by Mr. T. T. Bury. With descriptive particulars, serving as a guide to travellers on the railway. London: Ackermann & Co. 1833. Third edition, with the additional three folding plates. Large quarto (13 5/16 x 11 inches; 339 x 279 mm.). [ii], 8 pp. Sixteen hand-colored aquatint plates (13 by S.G. Hughes or H.Pyall after T.T. Bury, three folding by S.G. Hughes [2 after I. Shaw, one unsigned]). Text watermarked 1831-1832; plates watermarked 1832. Folding plates with folds reinforced on verso with linen (as issued), third folding plate with small marginal tear at top (just touching image) invisibly repaired. Bound ca. 1840 by Thomas Cross of Holborn Hill, London (stamp-signed "Cross, Binders to the King" on front paste-down) in three-quarter crimson straight-grain morocco over pink cloth boards, ruled in gilt. Front cover with gilt bordered red morocco label lettered in gilt. Spine with two raised bands, lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Joel Spitz on front paste-down. Housed in a fleece-lined red cloth slipcase. A wonderful copy of the most complete edition of this fine work. Provenance: purchased from Button, 15 June 1946. An eye-witness account of travel on the world's second practical railway line, with plates after Bury "an outstanding architectural designer" (Abbey) and a detailed report of the difficulties overcome during the railways construction. "A later edition with the plates re-engraved [many of them with significant changes] was issued in 1833.. Copies occur with 2 extra folding coloured aquatint plates by I. Shaw, engraved by S.G. Hughes viz. "A Train of First and Second Class Carriages with the Mail" and "Trains of Waggons with Goods, Cattle &c.. This [edition] may have a further additional [folding] plate "Bridge on the line of St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway." (Tooley). "This book was first published with six plates in 1831. It proved popular, and other editions followed, of which this is the msot complete. This classic record of the beginnings of the railway age was also one of the last significant books illustrated with aquatints. Lithography was already sweeping the field for pictorial records of this kind" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England). Thomas Bury, 'a pupil of Augustus Pugin, was an outstanding architectural designer, and engaged with Pugin, in designing the details of the Houses of Parliament. He was the artist responsible for the best-known views of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. He Published as hand-colored aquatints in paper covers by Ackermann in February 1831 [titled Six Coloured Views of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, with a plate of the coaches, machines, &c], Bury's work went through many editions covering a period of about three years. There were seven views in the first edition and thirteen in the second. A reissue appeared in 1832 followed by Spanish and French editions, while the prints were reproduced separately in France and Germany. After re-engraving, new editions appeared in England in 1833 and 1834. Ackermann clearly realized the potential of the British and European markets for railway prints as no other work passed through so many editions' (Rees). The present copy includes the first state of one of the two folding plates of carriages and engines: before canopies were added to the lower set of carriages. The view of the interior of the Wapping to Edge Hill tunnel is in a later state (possibly the fifth) dated 1833 and after the removal of the steaming train (the train was a mistake as no train under steam was allowed in the tunnel). The inspiration for the project to build the railway was the success of the Stockton to Darlington rail line and the urgent commercial need for faster links between the docks of Liverpool and the factories of Manchester ("goods have been known to make the transit from New York to Liverpool in less time than from the latter town to Manchester.") The route was proposed in 1824 and, under the direction of George Stephenson and with parliament's blessing, the immense work was completed by 1830: the line being opened to the public on the 15th September of that year. Despite the tragic death of the Liverpool member of parliament Mr. Huskisson (the first fatality attributable to the Railways) and the huge cost of the work (£740,000 by 1830), the railway was an immediate popular and financial success. Speeds in excess of 30 m.p.h. were recorded for the 31 mile journey and as the author predicted in the final paragraph "The success of this experiment.. has been.. so complete, as to justify the anticipation of the speedy introduction of railways throughout the country.." The plates include three plates of the train and rolling stock employed on the railway, and 13 others of views of the railway in operation. Abbey Life 400 (1834 edition); Tooley, 121; Ray, 45; Gareth Rees Early Railway Prints (1980) p.21 and see plates 5-9 & 13. .

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Book number: 03346

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Railroadiana Views

CADBURY, Richard

Cocoa: All About It

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1896. 'Pioneers in the Chocolate Industry' [CADBURY, Richard]. Cocoa: All About It. By "Historicus". London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1896. Second edition, revised. Small quarto (8 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 207 x 159 mm.). Text printed in blue. [xii], 99, [1, advertisement] pp. Twenty plates printed in blue including folding frontispiece, three color plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's maroon cloth, front cover decorated in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, blue coated endpapers. Small crease on lower cover, gilt on spine slightly dulled, otherwise an excellent copy. "Three years ago the writer ventured to place before the public some details respecting the cultivation and use of Cocoa, and he has since been enabled to collect much new, and as he believes, valuable information. Few early books treat accurately or exhaustively of the subject, but nearly all the earlier travellers and settlers refer to Cocoa as an important article of consumption in South America and Mexico, long before it was known in Europe. A number of extracts have been made from publications and manuscripts in the British Museum and elsewhere, and exact copies of some very rare plates have been produced by the photo-zinco process, which it is hoped will prove of general interest." (Introduction). "In Britain, the name of Cadbury has been synonymous with chocolate ever since John Cadbury opened his factory in 1831. This book, written by Richard Cadbury (1835-99) under the pen name 'Historicus', was published in 1892. It describes the natural history of the tropical American cocoa plant, its spread in cultivation across the world, and the history of its use. He also deals with the manufacturing process, as exemplified by the Cadbury factory at Bournville, surrounded by the model housing and leisure facilities which the family built for its workers. The processing of cocoa beans into solid and drinking chocolate is described in detail, with emphasis on the developments in machinery which simplified production. A chapter deals with the importance of the vanilla plant for flavouring, and an appendix gives guidance on the cultivation of cocoa trees. This remains a fascinating account of one of the world's most popular indulgences. .

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Book number: 05749

Catalogue: Food

Keywords: Cookery

LE CAIN, Errol; BRICUSSE, Leslie

An Original Watercolor Painting from "Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride.

London: , 1987. Santa Being Hijacked LE CAIN, Errol, illustrator. BRICUSSE, Leslie. An original watercolor painting from "Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride." (Faber, 1987). [Santa being hijacked]. Image size: 16 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches. [Page 22]. "It was as though, in some strange way,/I saw in one extraordinary day/A miniature kaleidoscope/Of human lunacy and hope -/A well-matched pair, like man and wife,/Who stick together all through life./"In Africa, a dreadful drought/Cut all our drinking water out./In Mexico, it was so hot/Three reindeer fainted on the spot./In Russia, were stiff with ice./In Cuba, we were hijacked twice." Matted, framed and glazed. In 1986 Leslie Bricusse showed David Brass a poem that he had written entitled Christmas 1993 or Santa's Last Ride. It described how difficult Santa's job of delivering gifts around the world had become in these modern times. David, who had known Leslie for many years, had the idea to create a book from the poem and introduced Errol Le Cain to Leslie Bricusse. The book was published in 1987 - unfortunately Errol Le Cain died just before the publication date. It was his last work. Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 - 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. He won the 1984 Kate Greenaway Medal for Hiawatha's Childhood (Faber & Faber), recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. Descended from a French-Canadian great-grandfather, Le Cain was born in Singapore but evacuated to Agra, India with his mother and other relations the following year to escape the Japanese invasion. His father was captured and interned in Changi Prison. Returning to Singapore after the war, he attended St.Patrick's Catholic school. With no formal art education, his talent was nevertheless evident from an early age, Le Cain was fascinated by cinema and made his first animated film, The Enchanted Mouse, with a friend's 8-mm camera at age 11. His next work, The Little Goatherd, was created with a 16-mm camera at age 15. This came to the attention of agents for British film distributor Pearl & Dean, who offered to pay his passage to London that year (1956) to pursue a career in animation for film and television. In 1965, Le Cain joined Richard Williams's animation studio and worked on a wide range of animation projects, including film titles for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Casino Royale, and The Charge of the Light Brigade. His most important work with Richard Williams was for the unfinished (1964 to 1992) animated film The Thief and the Cobbler. Le Cain turned freelance in 1969, working on sets for BBC television productions, continuing with animation projects, and beginning his career as a children's book illustrator. Le Cain's first children's illustrations were published by Faber and Faber in a story he'd originally storyboarded for film, King Arthur's Sword (1968), which began a long association with Faber that continued to his death. His first book "made me aware of the scope and possibilities of children's book illustration, and now I am convinced this is the medium for me". Le Cain wrote 3 and illustrated 48 children's books during his lifetime, recognized for their richly decorative watercolours and masterful command of design and colour. His self-authored works were King Arthur's Sword (1968), The Cabbage Princess (1969) and The White Cat (1973). He was commended for the 1969, 1975, and 1978 Greenaway awards before winning the 1984 Medal and was commended again for 1987. The four commended books were The Cabbage Princess; Thorn Rose, or the Sleeping Beauty based on the version related by the Brothers Grimm; The Twelve Dancing Princesses, retold from the Brothers Grimm; and The Enchanter's Daughter by Antonia Barber. Leslie Bricusse (1931-2021) was an English composer, lyricist, and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and also film theme songs. Bricusse was educated at University College School in London and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge University, he was Secretary of Footlights between 1952 and 1953 and Footlights President during the following year. In the 1960s and 1970s, Bricusse enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Anthony Newley. They wrote the musical Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (1961) which was successful in London and on Broadway, and was made into a film version in 1966. Also in collaboration with Newley, Bricusse wrote The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd (1965) and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's book by Roald Dahl, and for which they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song Score. Working solely as a lyricist, he collaborated with composer Cyril Ornadel on Pickwick (1963), based on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. Later collaborators included Henry Mancini (Victor Victoria in 1982) and John Williams (Hook in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the successful film Doctor Dolittle (1967), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Talk to the Animals"), and the less-successful Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969). .

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Book number: 04152

Catalogue: Original Art

Keywords: BRICUSSE, Leslie Christmas