[McDERMID, Thomas Wright]

The life of Thomas Wright, of Manchester, the prison philanthropist.

Manchester: John Heywood, [1876] 17cm. 98pp, albumen frontispiece portrait. Original decorated blindstamped brown cloth gilt. Extremes rubbed; spine complete but lower joint cracked; isolated soiling to title page.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 46247

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History North West England Wright, Thomas 1789-1875. Wright, Thomas of Manchester. Philanthropists Great Britain ; Biography. Prisons Great Britain History 19th century. Criminals Rehabilitation England Manchester. Prison reformers England Mancheste

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES (ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS; ROBERT BLOCH; THOMAS P. KELLEY; WILLIAM LAWRENCE HAMLING; DAVID WRIGHT O'BRIEN; RICHARD S. SHAVER; BERKELEY LIVINGSTON)

Fantastic Adventures: July 1946

NY, Ziff Davis. 1946. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 8, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Arnold Kohn for "Cult of the Eagle" (novelet) by Berkeley Livingston; rear cover by Frank R. Paul for "Stories of the Stars- Antares" by Alexander Blade (house pseud.). Includes "To Watch by Night" (short novel) by Robert Moore Williams; "Tree's a Crowd" by Robert Bloch; "He Who Saw Tomorrow" (novelet) by Thomas P. Kelley; "Jimmy Takes a Trip" by William Lawrence Hamling; "The Softly Silken Wallet" by David Wright O'Brien; "The Tale of the Last Man" by Richard S. Shaver. Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "Beaumont's Human Guinea Pigs" by H. R. Stanton; "Call a Doctor!" by R. Clayton; "Cosmic Creation" by J. R. Canfield; "Take a Suggestion, Miss Fitt" by Carter T. Wainwright; "The Great Leonardo" by Jeffrey Stevens; "New Faces for Sale" by June Lurie; "The Conquest of Pain" by Pete Bogg; "Reader's Page"; "Death's Fury" by C. P. Holmesby. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John, Rod Ruth, Brady, William A. Gray, & Arnold Kohn. Spine is faded, hinge areas lightly affected; letter W on cover in pencil and minor stain/soil as well; tanning; foxing. Very Good-.

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Book number: PN680

Catalogue: Pulps

Keywords: Science Fiction, Fantasy Pulps Ted White Science Fiction Pulps Fantasy Pulps

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES (ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS; ROBERT BLOCH; THOMAS P. KELLEY; WILLIAM LAWRENCE HAMLING; DAVID WRIGHT O'BRIEN; RICHARD S. SHAVER; BERKELEY LIVINGSTON)

Fantastic Adventures: July 1946

NY, Ziff Davis. 1946. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 8, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Arnold Kohn for "Cult of the Eagle" (novelet) by Berkeley Livingston; rear cover by Frank R. Paul for "Stories of the Stars- Antares" by Alexander Blade (house pseud.). Includes "To Watch by Night" (short novel) by Robert Moore Williams; "Tree's a Crowd" by Robert Bloch; "He Who Saw Tomorrow" (novelet) by Thomas P. Kelley; "Jimmy Takes a Trip" by William Lawrence Hamling; "The Softly Silken Wallet" by David Wright O'Brien; "The Tale of the Last Man" by Richard S. Shaver. Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "Beaumont's Human Guinea Pigs" by H. R. Stanton; "Call a Doctor!" by R. Clayton; "Cosmic Creation" by J. R. Canfield; "Take a Suggestion, Miss Fitt" by Carter T. Wainwright; "The Great Leonardo" by Jeffrey Stevens; "New Faces for Sale" by June Lurie; "The Conquest of Pain" by Pete Bogg; "Reader's Page"; "Death's Fury" by C. P. Holmesby. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John, Rod Ruth, Brady, William A. Gray, & Arnold Kohn. Spine is fading; rear hinge wrinkled with short tears; marks on front; tanning; creasing. Very Good-.

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Book number: PP1995

Catalogue: Pulps

Keywords: Science Fiction, Fantasy Pulps TW Science Fiction Pulps Fantasy Pulps

[WRIGHT, GEORGE NEWENHAM] / ALLOM, THOMAS (Artist):

China; historisch, romantisch, malerisch. Carlsruhe, im Kunst-Verlag, [1843-44].

. Pp. xlviii, 351. Complete with engraved title and 35 steel engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine decorated in gilt and with title label, gilt and marbled deges, extremities rubbed, binding shaken with front hinge cracked. First German edition, which is an abridgement from the original English (1843). The beautiful steel engravings are made from drawings by Thomas Allom who copied Chinese drawings from Sir George Thomas Staunton's collection and also made use of amateur sketches made by others. A lovely copy. Cordier BS 81. Lust 364. Löwendahl 987.

Charlotte Du Rietz Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 29050

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, chine, kina, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, travel, voyage, exploration, kina, illustartions

Allom, Thomas; Rev. G. N. Wright, text,

China, in a Series of Views Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, Social Habit of That Ancient Empire. Drawn from Original and Authentic Sketches by by Thomas Allom, Esq. , with Historical and Descriptive Letterpress, Notices by the Rev. G.N. Wright, M.A. First Edition

London: Fisher, Son & Co. [1843-1845]. 4to. 21.1 x 27.2 cm. 4 volumes bound in 2 . Half-brown morocco with small morocco corners, embossed percaline covers, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding). 128 plates engraved on steel from drawings made on site by Thomas Allom, including 4 engraved titles. Complete. Very good. Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986. OCLC shows no complete sets of the first edition. .

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Book number: 16-4098

Catalogue: Books

George Newenham WRIGHT - Thomas ALLOM

France illustrated, exhibiting its landcape scenery, antiquities, military and ecclesiastical architecture

Fisher, son, & Co. | London, • Paris S.n. [1841-1846] | 22 x 27.20 cm | 2 Vol. reliés Fisher, son, & Co. | London, • Paris S.n. [1841-1846] | 22 x 27.20 cm | 2 Vol. reliés | Edition originale, illustrée de 148 planches gravées sur acier, dont 96 sur les trois premiers volumes, par Thomas Allom ; le quatrième volume comprend 52 planches dont 36 par Eugène Lami et 16 par Allom. Plein Veau glacé bleu nuit. Dos à faux nerfs plats orné de diverses roulettes et filets avec certains caissons maroquinés. Plats décorés d'une riche frise Romantique et de fers à froid angulaires. Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Tranches marbrées. Rayures sur les plats. Coiffes et mors légèrement frottés. Superbe reliure anglaise. Le tome IV, qui manque souvent, est la traduction d'Un été à Paris, de Jules Janin. On y retrouve, par l'illustration, un Paris Balzacien. On remarquera que le premier volume contient de nombreuses scènes des Pyrénées, très à la mode alors. Un autre volume contient de nombreuses scènes de la Loire (Saumur, Angers, Amboise...). L'ouvrage cherche ainsi à rassembler tout ce qu'on trouve de remarquable en France, aussi bien du point de vue architectural que paysager, l'illustration accompagnant le texte historique et descriptif. La richesse illustrative est remarquable, et on admirera autant le château de Pau que le Panthéon, le cirque de Gavarni que la cathédrale d'Orléans. L'intéressant étant que suivant les tendances d'alors, on trouve dans les gravures des personnages en costumes d'époque, et souvent le lieu tel qu'il était alors. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Librairie Le Feu FolletProfessional seller

Book number: "24791

Catalogue: Beaux-arts - Éditions originales

BLAKISTON, THOMAS WRIGHT:

Five Months on the Yang-tsze; with a Narrative of the Exploration of its Upper Waters, and Notices of the Present Rebellions in China. London, J. Murray, 1862.

. Pp. xiv, (ii), 380. With frontispiece, fifteen wood-engraved plates, two folding maps, seven text illustrations and a page from the author's field book. Occasionally some staining. Publisher's gilt cloth, somewhat faded and extremities lightly rubbed. Bookplate.First edition of a scarce work which for many years was considered the standard on the region including an accurate map of the river from Hankow to Pingshan. Thomas W. Blakiston (1832-91) was a British army officer and naturalist stationed in Canton during the Second Opium War in 1859. He organised an exploration of the middle and upper reaches of the Yang-tze-Kiang in 1861. The mission was to ascend the river as far as Min and then cross the province of Szechuan and reach northwestern India via Tibet and Lhasa. The party reached Pingshan after travelling eighteen hundred miles from Shanghai which was further than any other European explorer before them. This narrative contains interesting information about the country including fauna and flora, and also comments on the politically unstable situation in China at the time. The illustrations are by Alfred Barton. Cordier BS 121. Löwendahl 1263.

Charlotte Du Rietz Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 120534

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

Charles D Wright, Thomas Hall, Thomas D. Hill

New Commentary on the Old English 'Prose Solomon and Saturn' and 'Adrian and Ritheus' Dialogues

Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 435 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503603278.
¶ Summary Who was not born, was buried in his mother's womb, and was baptized after death? Who first spoke with a dog? Why don't stones bear fruit? Who first said the word 'God'? Why is the sea salty? Who built the first monastery? Who was the first doctor? How many species of fish are there? What is the heaviest thing to bear on earth? What creatures are sometimes male and sometimes female? The Old English dialogues The Prose Solomon and Saturn and Adrian and Ritheus, critically edited in 1982 by J. E. Cross and Thomas D. Hill, provide the answers to a trove of curious medieval 'wisdom questions' such as these, drawing on a remarkable range of biblical, apocryphal, patristic, and encyclopaedic lore. This volume (which reprints the texts and translations of the two dialogues from Cross and Hill's edition) both updates and massively supplements the commentary by Cross and Hill, contributing extensive new sources and analogues (many from unpublished medieval Latin question-and-answer texts) and comprehensively reviews the secondary scholarship on the ancient and medieval texts and traditions that inform these Old English sapiential dialogues. It also provides an extended survey of the late antique and early medieval genres of 'curiosity' and 'wisdom' dialogues and florilegia, including their dissemination and influence as well as their social and educational functions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Sourcing Wisdom: Commentary as Dialogue Organizing Wisdom: The Compilatory Structure of the Prose Solomon and Saturn (SS) and Adrian and Ritheus (AR) Transmitting Wisdom: Encyclopaedic Notes, Dialogues, and Florilegia Disputing Wisdom: Medieval Lore Masters and Modern Scholars List of Texts I. Latin Curiosity Dialogues II. Latin Wisdom Dialogues III. Latin Commonplace Dialogues ad Florilegia IV. Latin Hybrid Dialogues and Florilegia V. Vernacular Dialogues VI. Greek Dialogues VII. Slavonic Dialogues VIII. Encyclopaedic Notes Commentary I. The Prose Solomon and Saturn including Items Shared with Adrian and Ritheus II. Items Unique to Adrian and Ritheus Works Cited Indices I. Biblical and Apocryphal Citations II. Manuscripts III. Primary Sources IV. Subjects.

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Book number: 65406

Catalogue: Literatuur ; Literature ; Litterature ; Literatur

Keywords: & Devotional Insular Cultural & intellectual history (. ) British Isles (c. 500 1500) Schilderkunst kunst paint schilder Beaux Arts Sciences antiek deco beeldhouwkunst beelden sculpturen & Architecture schilderen Kunst Fotografie Art Histoire et patrimoin

Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas Wright

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text, with Illustrative Notes

London, Charles Griffin and Company, c1870. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce collection of the Canterbury Tales with illustrative notes from Thomas Wright. Scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece and vignette to the title page. The collected twenty-four short stories of the Canterbury Tales. Written in Middle English between 1387 and 1400, the tales are mostly told in verse, presented as a story-telling contest between a group of pilgrims as they travel from London to Canterbury. Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, author, and civil servant, considered the "father of English literature" for this work. With illustrative notes by Thomas Wright, an English antiquarian and writer remembered as an editor of medieval texts. In the original orange cloth wraps. Externally, sound with rubbing to the extremities and the odd small crease to the board tips. Light discolouration to the cloth with the odd mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 918T21

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Chaucer Canterbury Tales Notes Wright Canterbury Tales None

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY; THOMAS WRIGHT

The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. A New Text, with Illustrative Notes, and an Introduction by Thomas Wright. Includes the full text of: Canterbury Tales; The Cuckow and Nightingale; The Assembly of Foules; Minor Poems; and a Glossary. Corners bumped and lightly worn, moderate wear and rubbing to head and heel of spine, spine sunned, front hinge sprung, former owner's name written on ffep, else very good. GOOD. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall. 631 pp. Good with no dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 23964

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry; Literature; Fiction; Chaucer; Middle English; Novels, Poetry & Literature Poetry

Corcoran, William, T.T. FLynn, Frederick Niven, Ared White, L.G. Blochman, Raoul Whitfield, Thomas Thursday, Sewell Wright, Henry LaCossitt, Charles G.D. Roberts, Hugh Pendexter, Kay Cleaver, Strahan, and other contributors

Everybody's Magazine (December, 1927)

New York, Ridgway, 1927. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Very good in original wrappers. Very Good.

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Book number: b44068

DOUG WRIGHT, STEVE THOMAS, BOB FREITAG, STEVE ADAMS (EDITORS/ASSISTANT EDITORS)

Out Magazine Vol 2, No 49 Eartha Kitt and Mr Universe Tony Carroll in Tinbuktu

Baltimore, MD: Mike Rutherford, 1979. Wrappers. Cover: Photo: Eartha Kitt and Tony Carroll in "Timbuktu" . Stapled Wrappers. Lifesyles, Film, Theatre, Galleries, Night Life, Pope Recordings, Disco, Classifieds Illustrations. 22 pages. Creases. Film features - : More American Graffiti: Ron Howard and John Milner, pictured. Article about Strongman/actor Tony Carroll and Eartha Kitt. Clean inside; outer wrappers are torn at the front upper edge; back cover has tears. Fair .

Bookshop BaltimoreProfessional seller

Book number: 26303

Keywords: Eartha Kitt Timbuktu's Muscleman Gay Literature Airport 79 Tony Carroll Mr Universe Ethel Merman Martha Raye Angele Bofill More American Graffiti

Thomas Wright [ed.]

Queen Elizabeth and Her Times, a Series of Original Letters, Selected from the Inedited Private Correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Most of the Distinguished Persons of the Period

London, Henry Colburn, 1838. First edition. Leather. The collected correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I complete in two volumes. The first edition of this work. Complete with two volumes bound in one.Biographical sketch of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth I compiled from a series of original letters from the private correspondence of the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the Earl of Leicester, the Secretaries Walsingham and Smith, Sir Christopher Hatton, and other distinguished people from her time. Selected and edited by antiquarian Thomas Wright. Illustrated with frontispiece to each volume and three further plates, of which two folding. Collated, complete. Folding plate with minor closed tear tape repaired by a previous owner. Rebound in half calf over marbled boards, renewed plain endpapers, gilt tooling to spine. Externally with shelf wear, chipped to head of spine, substantial loss to spine title label, back strip rubbed and chipped. Previous ownership inscription to front pastedown, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean with minor spotting to odd leaf, particularly leaves of plates; pages otherwise generally very clean throughout. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 854A15

Catalogue: History & Culture

Keywords: queen elizabeth biography correspondence britain biography Not Stated

Thomas Wright (ed.)

Songs and Ballads with Other Short Poems, Chiefly of the Reign of Philip and Mary Edited from a Manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum

London, J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1860. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce collection of poetical works edited by noted antiquarian Thomas Wright. The first edition. Very scarce. Printed for The Roxburghe Club. The Roxburghe Club is an exclusive bibliophilic and publishing society, with notable members including Andrew Lang, Richard Heber and Henry Bradshaw. Thomas Wright was an English antiquarian and writer, who contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine and was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Wright was a renowned scholar, who was perhaps best known for his editing of a number of relics of the Middle Ages. In this very scarce work, Wright edits a collection of poetical works, discovered in the library of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Wright notes that the manuscript the work is based on contains a number of different handwriting styles, although the author or authors of the works are unknown. The work is an important and thorough work which brings to light a previously unknown manuscript. In a quarter morocco binding with paper covered boards. Externally generally smart with slight rubbing. A few light marks to the boards. Hinges slightly strained but firm. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with marginal age toning and the odd spot, slightly heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 639K7

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: The Roxburghe Club Queen Mary Thomas Wright Ashmolean Museum Queen Mary None

Thomas Wright Edited

A Contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings Against Dame Alice Kyteler Prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede Bishop of Ossory Original 1863 Hardcover ((West Point Library)

London, Camden Society, 1863. First English Edition. Hardcover. Original 1863 First English Edition. 8vo Very Good Text Hardcover Rebound in Blue library buckram at West Point Military Academy Library. Irish Witchcraft Trial Dame Alice Kyteler Prosecuted For Sorcery Hardcover Very Good Condition English Introduction and history, Latin Text, English notes, introduction. Text and Camden Society Membership. A Contemporary narrative of the trial of 'Witchcraft' in the reign of Edward II in Medieval Ireland. Very Good shape Bound In West Point Academy library markings. Latin and English Pages free of writing or underlines. West Point Military Academy library sticker Hardcover Binding, Gilt titling on Cover and Spine. Previous owners embossed initials first free end paper. No writing in text. Rare original document and history of Irish Witchcraft Persecution. Association copy of West Point Military Academy. See our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans. Very Good .

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Book number: 011630

Catalogue: Irish

Keywords: irish witches irish witchcraft gnostic witch trial salem dame alice kyteler celtic witches west point military academy library wicca cunning bishop of ossory irish women medieval women sorcery scottish witch trials feminist witch trials salem witch trials