ACKERMANN, R.,

10 Prints By R. Ackermann + One Other Print Together 11 Prints, All Framed

. A collection of 10 Ackermann prints , all framed and all from the walls of Thornton's Bookshop in Broad street (1835 - 2002) namely: University and Queen's colleges. High street / Oriel college / St. Peter's church / Hall of Exeter college / Merton Chapel Queen's College Chapel / A view of Magpie Lane / The Old Tower / View of Oxford taken from New College tower: (damaged bottom margin) / All Souls College, taken from the top of the Radcliffe Library From A History of The University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: R. Ackermann, 1814. After David Loggan's Oxonia, Ackermann's History of Oxford is the best known of works on that great university. The plates from this volume are justly known as perhaps the aesthetically finest views of the city and its colleges, halls, etc. Their interesting compositions, many showing students, travelers, dons, and so on, are finely depicted with the excellent engraving and vivid, rich colour for which these prints are known. + one other print (not Ackermann) View in Broad-Street in Oxford. J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculpt. Pub. June 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside. Sepia aquatint. 320 x 220mm. From the 'History of the River Thames'.Abbey: 432. PAYMENT VIA BANK TRANSFER ONLY. COST OF FORWARDING AND INSURANCE IN UK VIA UPS. WE CANNOT SEND THIS COLLECTION ABROAD.

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Book number: F3276

Catalogue: Oxford

Keywords: Oxford Prints

AUDEN, W.H.,

Good and Evil in the Lord of the Rings.

. Oxford, 1993, 16pp. including the stiff front cover, issued originally as free insert for the 1992 catalogue Tolkien and Friends number 4, issued on the occasion of the centenary celebrations at Keble college, Oxford. there were 26 copies marked A - Z for friends of the publisher, never made available in the trade. Printed on single sides, A-4 with front cover in 3 colours (initials W and A) on conqueror paper, This edition has a colophon which did not appear in the regular edition. Actual year of publication was 1992. this copy in loose sheets is stamped below the colophon: Uncorrected proof copy followed by the title. [ Tolkien inklings Oxford ].

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Book number: Auden14

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Tolkien Tolkien

CARROLL, LEWIS [DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 2 Editions and Through the Looking-Glass

. 3 editions on offer here: Alice in Wonderland, 75th thousand 1883 and .83rd thousand 1886 AND Through the Looking-Glass 58th thousand 1887. All three volumes rebacked and held in a new box with inlaid Alice designs . A separate box 2 is included in case you are not happy with box 1. ASK FOR FULL DESCRIPTIONS.

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Book number: F3249

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Oxford Alice in Wonderland

CLARK, WILLIAM LESLIE

Wine-Dark Seas

. Oxford, Mouette press, 1977, 56pp. printed wrappers [ poetry] One of a limited edition of 226 copies, this is number 2.

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Book number: F2802

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Literature

COULSON, ROBERT

One Day in the Life of a Dickensian Bookseller: Un Petit Roman-à-Clef

. Grasmere Publications (2001), 14pp. coloured wrappers, The author worked at Thornton's Bookshop in Oxford. 978-0952273189. (ISBN: 0952273187) .

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Book number: F3174

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FRISHMAN, MARCEL,

Drawings

. Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1957, twenty-five tipped-in black and white plates. folio, number 62 of a limited edition of 500 copies. In a wonderful contemporary full red crushed full morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe and described as a special copy on the last page In a matching slip case, also quarter bound (spine and edges) in red morocco . All edges gilt. the spine of teh slip case very slightly sunned. Marcel Frishman was born in 1900 in Lodz and died in 1952. He studied at the Berlin Academy in the early 1920s under Hans Meid and in 1926 joined the staff of the political and satirical weekly 'Simplicissimus' as a cartoonist. When the magazine was taken over by the Nazis in 1933, he was compelled to leave Germany, working in Copenhagen and then, in 1937, Australia where he remained for 13 years, working in factories. In 1950 he returned to Europe with deteriorating health to continue his work.

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Book number: F3003

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Limited Leather

GALLICO, PAUL

A Miracle in Wilderness. A Story for Christmas.

. Illustrated by Jane & Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Oxford, Mouette Press, 1975. Printed by the Whittington Press, in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by Paul Gallico. This is one of the 50 copies which were numbered M1 - M50. Printed on an 1848 Columbian press, on mould made paper from St Cuthbert's Mill. embossed cloth binding in protective white plain d/j. gilt top edge. Fine copy.( private press ). (ISBN: 0904845001) .

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Book number: F3162-4

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Bibliophile Private Press Weblists2 Wim Meeuws Sch1 Gallico English Literature Bibliophile Private Press Limited Editions Christmas Noel Kerstmis Weihnachten Natale Natali 0904845001

HEINEMANN, F.H.,

The Philosopher of Enthusiasm. With Material Hitherto Unpublished",

. offprint from Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 6 (1952): 294-322. 29pp. with a dedication by the author, dated Oxford 14.5.53 and initialled by him F.H.H. WITH the author's survey of recent philosophical and theological literature I. Philosophy. a printer'sd proof with his dedication in ibnk to William Cohn, dated 26.10.53 also initialled. 4 pages printed single-sided.

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Book number: F3040

Catalogue: Philosophy

Keywords: Philosophy Signed

HOLT, VINCENT M.,

Why Not Eat Insects ? [on Dustjacket : Insects, a Victorian Cookery Book .

. With 7 illustrations by Pauk Wakelin (e.g. Purée of woodlice, Candied web sorbet, Chinese style slug stew etc.also striking chapter headings by this illustrator. the original title -- Why Not Eat Insects ? -- published in 1885 was re-issued by Thornton's of Oxford in 1995 with an extra dust jacket bearing the title -- Insects, a Victorian cookery book -- . Also included are 2 menus in French and English. the oroiginal book appeared in 1885 and its title page is also shown on one of the plates. Text entirely re-set from the 1885 edition by Daniel Meeuws. 68pp. ISBN 0854550240, there are 2 editions, each with a different dust jacket, see website for pictures and illustrations. (ISBN: 0854550240) .

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Book number: 092039-4

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Keywords: Cookery Humor Humour Insectsholt 0854550240

HOLT, VINCENT

Why Not Eat Insects ?

. With 7 illustrations by Pauk Wakelin (e.g. Purée of woodlice, Candied web sorbet, Chinese style slug stew etc.also striking chapter headings by this illustrator. the original title << Why Not Eat Insects ? >> published in 1885 was re-issued by Thornton's of Oxford in 1995 with an extra dust jacket bearing the title > . Also included are 2 menus in French and English. the oroiginal book appeared in 1885 and its title page is also shown on one of the plates. Text entirely re-set from the 1885 edition by Daniel Meeuws. 68pp. ISBN 0854550240, there are 2 editions, each with a different dust jacket, see website for pictures and illustrations. (ISBN: 0854550240) .

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Book number: F2840-4

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Keywords: Cookery Humor Humour Insectsholt 0854550240

JENNINGS, ELIZABETH

An Oxford Cycle. Poems

. Oxford, Thornton's, 1987. 16pp. One of a limited edition of 538 copies. Fine copy in original covers, << Spell of Oxford - It is a scheme of spires / a haze of green / a range of clouds / A cluster of boys / And girls and the old.......>> one of the 38 specials, but not signed. the poet promised to sign all 38 , came to sign, but left after only signing 6 copies. note by the publisher.

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Book number: F2553-2

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Poetry Signed Oxford

KING, JOHN R.,

The Fourteen Philippic Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero

. a new translation mainly from the text of Halm. Oxford : James Thornton, 1878, 268pp. + publisher's catalogue of 40pp. hardback, worn binding, names of 2 previous owners on f./e.p, dated 1882 and 1884.

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Book number: F3245

Catalogue: Classical Antiquity

Keywords: Classical Antiquity

LAWLOR, JOHN & AUDEN W.H. (COLLECTED BY)

To Nevill Coghill from Friends

. Faber & Faber,1966, First edition 3-156pp. : front. (port.) plate, orange cloth in d/j jacket frayed at edges, cloth spine sl. worn at the bottom, armorial bookplate insuide front board, pwencil annot on 1st e.p. some small remnants of cellotape on 1st e.p. with the publisher's compliments slip , obituary Nevill Coghill in the Tmes dated 10.11.1980 + facsimilés of Coghill's letter to David Luke of 30 Oct '61 and of his risqué poem "nous n'irons plus" [ see Oxford, Bodleian Library shelfmark MS. 15021 ] + draft version of 'Thanks before going, for Wystan', Coghill's contribution to Auden's Festschrift, For W.H. Auden, published 21 Feb 1972, photocopy of typescript same shelf mark.

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Book number: F3234

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Oxford Gay

SCHENK JR. HILBERT,

Ed Lear Wasn't So Crazy

. Leaning Chimney Press [ Chris Hicks ] , 1967, 4pp. 150 x 70 mm. limited edition, number 12 of 25 copies, black covers with grey title label. covers sl. soiled, good copy. Chris Hicks initially worked for Blackwell's for many years before setting up his succesful book binding business in Oxford.

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Book number: F3279

Catalogue: Private Press

TOPOROV, VLADIMIR NIKOLAYEVICH (1928 - 2005 ),

Collection of Correspondence

. Correspondence collection between Holdan Books, Oxford and Professor V. N. Toporov between 1976 and 1980 about a possible publication of his work on Dostoevsky's GOSPODIN PROKHARCHIN.

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Book number: F3254

Catalogue: Slavic

Keywords: Russian Slavic Semiotics Doestoevsky