Catalogue of Water and Oil Colour Paintings, Prints, Etc. Principally of the 18th-20th Century English School Which Will Be Sold by Auction on Behalf of Newcastle Borough Council by Mr Andew Bowyer at the Guildhall, High Street,

Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Friday 14th March 1986 Newcastle under Lyme: Borough Council of Newcastle under Lyme, 1986. First Edition.. Paperback. Auction catalogue, 16 pages, some ink margin notes.. Very Good .

Philip EmeryProfessional seller

Book number: 148297

[PULLEN, HENRY WILLIAM]

John's Governor Visits Dame Europa's School. The Result of Which Is Among Things That Yet Remain to Be Seen Being a Rejoinder to 'the Fight'

Alabama: William Blackwood & Sons, 1871. Reprint. Paperback. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 32pp.. G : in good condition without dust jacket .

Barter BooksProfessional seller

Book number: j2722

Catalogue: Essays

Keywords: Essays 1850 - 1900 Antiquarian Autographed Editions

The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, Commonly Called the King of the Beggars. With His Portrait from an Original Picture in the Possession of the Earl of Exeter, Being a True Account of His Life, from His Leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen, and Entering Into a Society of Gipsies; Wherein the Motives of His Conduct Are Related and Explained: Also, the Variety of Shapes and Characters He Assumed in Great-Britain, Ireland, and Several Other Places of Europe: With His Travels Twice Through Great Part of America: Giving a Particular Account of the Origins, Government, Law and Customs of the Gypsies, with the Method of Electing Their King. To Which Is Added a Dictionary of the Cant Language Used by the Mendicants

Bath , Printed and Sold by J. Browne; Crosby and Letterman, 1802. Leather. An early edition of this entertaining biography of Bamfylde-Moore Carew. An early edition of this work, originally published in 1745. Tracing the life, travels, and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, an English rogue, vagabond, and impostor of the eighteenth century. He was the self-proclaimed King of Beggars. A great success, this work went through numerous editions as books and chapbooks of this exciting and entertaining historical account. It is difficult to ascertain the validity of the contents of this volume, as some of the stories are too fantastic or literary. The book states that the contents were penned by Carew himself, however it is suggested it being authored by Robert Goadby. Including a canting dictionary to the rear with the language used by mendicants  Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved portrait of Carew. In a full calf biding. Externally generally sound with shelf wear and considerable rubbing to the boards and spine. Front board is loose but present. With Major Will Ayling library bookplate to the front pastedown. Undated previous ownership inscription Charles E Brown, possibly a commercial aviation photographer for the United Kingdom bearing the same name living 1896-1892. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally very clean throughout. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved portrait of Carew. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 805A55

Catalogue: History & Culture

Keywords: Bamfylde-Moore Carew history biography history Not Stated

[GÉNARD (François)]

The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, a key to the satyrical characters interspersed in this work.

London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, 1753. Third edition, 12mo, xvi, 304, [8]pp., with an initial advertisement leaf and a final contents table, early engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus, cont. full calf, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco title label, a nice copy.

Forest BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 34262

Keywords: ENGLISH LITERATURE

ALCOTT, William A.

Essay on the Construction of School-Houses, to which was awarded the prize offered by the American Institute of Instruction, August, 1831.

Boston, Hilliard Gray &c 1832. Octavo disbound; 66pp, two full page plans. Some spotting or browning but a pretty good copy.
¶ The first American work devoted to school buildings and their design. Alcott is not celebrated in architectural history, after all he was no architect but an educator, reformer and pamphleteer. But "the characteristic form of schoolhouses was established with the 1832 publication of William A. Alcott's 'Essay on the Construction of School-Houses'. Alcott stressed the importance of light, fresh air, and space in his designs." (Doggett and Wilson). Alcock was not dogmatic about the style of the building but he was about everything else, the site and landscaping, the timber for the floorboards and blackboards, the size and placing of each student's book box, the placing of coat pegs. All was to be healthy, rational, beneficial and beneficent. The American Institute of Instruction was itself new; this was the beginning of a new movement for universal education. Over the next few years these ideas spread, often in the briefest form: Alcock's plan and key. In 1839 the superintendent of schools in Michigan submitted Alcock's plan with few modifications to the legislature and this was in turn reprinted in a Connecticut journal.

Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 8707

Keywords: architecture building design education schools c19th America children reform progress

[ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW PILKINGTON]

A Concise Introduction to the Knowledge of the most Eminent Painters. By which every lover of the art of painting may instantly know the Names. [ Bound with. Guicciardini's account of the ancient flemish school of painting. ]

London, T. Cadell. 1778. Hardcover, 8vo. Two works bound in one volume. First work. Book measures 21x13.5.cm. Unpaginated, period or early annotations throughout the text. Second work Guicciardini's account of the ancient flemish school of painting. Translated from his description of the netherlands, published in italian at antwerp, 1567. With a preface, by the translator. Printed for I. Herbert, London. 1795. Second English edition?. Collation, xv, [1], 36pp. With half-title. Light tanning to text. Bound in later half calf, calf corners, gilt lines, flat gilt bands. Binding rubbed, worn. Binding in good firm condition. Pages generally clean throughout the two works. Near Very Good.

George Jeffery BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 014023

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: painting

Bardsley, Charles Wareing.

Memorials of St. Ann's Church, Manchester. In the last century: an attempt to rectify several popular errors; to which is added a short history of church building and Sunday school work in the same town.

Manchester: Thomas Roworth London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1887. xiv - 181[iii] pp, appendices, index and list of subscribers to rear, coloured tooling to front/rear boards, coloured lettering to front board. Original cloth gilt, 19.5 cm x 14 cm. Spins slightly faded, spine tips fraying with minor loss of colour, remnants of sticker to spine, binding fairly loose in case, some sections only being held by threads, ink and pencil notes to index, pages lightly age browned.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 29049

BARDSLEY, CHARLES WAREING

Memorials of St Ann's Church, Manchester in the Last Centuryt: An Attempt to Rectify Several Popular Errors; to Which Is Added a History of the Church Building and Sunday School Work.

Manchester, Thomas Roworth. 1877, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xiv 181pp hardback, brown cloth gilt and black-lettered, small closed tear to first 4 or so leaves, front hinge broken, text block loose, binding copy but scarce, heraldic bookplate of William Asheton Tonge to front paste-down. Fair.

Salsus BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 017021

Keywords: topography

George Barnard

Drawing from Nature: a series of progressive instructions in sketching, from elementary studies to finished views, with examples from Switzerland and the Pyrenees; to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School.

London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer,, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. binding wrecked cover loose contents loose. Poor.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 500045544

Keywords: ART

George Barnard

Drawing from Nature: A Series of Progressive Instructions in Sketching, to Which Are Appended Lectures on Art Delivered at Rugby School

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1877. Cloth. A delightful guide to drawing from nature, by George Barnard, the former Professor of Drawing at Rugby School. An uncommon new edition. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding. With a beautiful colour frontispiece, seventeen full-page plates and numerous vignette woodcuts. Collated complete. An educational guide to drawing from nature, alongside lectures on art delivered at Rugby School. Written by George Barnard, the former Professor of Drawing at Rugby School, and author of numerous art works. With a gift inscription to to the reverse of the front free endpaper for one, 'Gwelyn Gordon' from the Senior Drawing Class of St Margaret's Hall School, dated 1900. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with some shelf wear to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Rear hinge is starting but still very firm. Ink gift inscription to the reverse of the front free endpaper. Internally, binding slightly strained but still firm. Pages lightly age-toned but otherwise bright and clean. The odd spot and handling mark throughout. Light spotting to the plates. Small stain to the bottom of the last few plates. Very Good . Ill.: George Barnard. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 845g16

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: art sketches drawing art guide sketches George Barnard

The New Standard Alphabetical Indexed Bible

Holy Bible (Authorized or King James Version): School and Library Reference Edition; Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues and with All Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised; to Which Are Added Many Unique Features of the Bible

Wichita, KS, Hertel Bible Publishers, International Sunday School League, 1971. Hardcover. Approx. 300p. SALESMAN'S SAMPLE - DOES NOT CONTAIN THE COMPLETE TEXT. An oversize, gilt-decorated, pictorial hardcover book in very good condition. Brown smudge on back cover. Image of Christ on the front cover is scuffed and dented. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers. Otherwise clean and tight. Salesman's sample copy of a decorative family Bible. Contains only select portions of the Old and New Testaments, color plates, Bible dictionary, and atlas. Red letter edition of the King James Version (KJV). Stated on title page as a "Blue Ribbon Bible." Contains a family record section, which has not been filled out. Gilt foredges. Measures approx. 11.75" x 9.5.

Kubik Fine Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 164918

Catalogue: Biblical Studies

CHRISTIE'S

Valuable Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. The Properties of Thetford Fulmerston School, Brown University Library, from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, P.A. G. Wilson, Esq. , the Late K.K. Knight, Esq. And from Various Other Owners Which Will Be

London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1980. First Edition; First Edition. Softcover (Perfect Bound). 229 lots. With b/w & coloured plates. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Front cover slightly damaged. ; Octavo (standard book size). Good with no dust jacket .

Literary Cat BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 21519

CHRISTIE'S AUCTIONS

Catalogue of the collection of highly important pictures by Old Masters of Sir William Neville Abdy, Bart. (...) Comprising fine examples of the Italian School and works by Dutch, German and English artists, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... on Friday, May 5, 1911.

London, Christie, Manson & Woods Auctions, 1911. Original boards. 32 p. Uncut. With 5 photogravure reproductions on stiff paper. 1st edition. Very good condition. Includes a.o. Botticelli, Carpaccio, Ghirlandaio and Giorgione, to mention only the depicted paintings.

Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional seller

Book number: 274199

Catalogue: Auctions & Catalogs

CLARK, Samuel

The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History; 'Divided Into Two Parts: The First, Containing the Life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Lives of the Ancient Fathers, School-Men, First-Reformers, and Modern Divines: The Second, Containing the Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Soveriegn Princes: Whereunto Are Added the Lives of Inferiour Christians, Who Have Lived in These Latter Centuries: And Lastly, Are Subjoyned the Lives of Many of Those, Who by Their Vertue and Valor Obtained the Sir-Name of Great, Divers of Which, Give Much Light to Sundry Places of Scripture, Especially to the Prophecies Concerning the Four Monarchs: Together with the Lively Effigies of the Most Eminent of Them Cut in Copper. '

London, Tho. Sawbridge & Will. Birch, 1675. 2nd edition. Leather Bound. Pagination of our copy: pp. 27, [5], 504, [4], [8], 116, [4], 104, [4], 298. Pages 123 to 126, and 163 to 168 mis-numbered. This copy lacks the first 24 unpaginated pages containing the title page and introductory remarks. The first numbered leaf (pages 1/2) lacks the top half of the page. The remaining text is complete, except for the last five printed pages of the book. Tall 4to. Engravings and woodcuts: portraits engraved on copper, rubricated first letters, head and tail pieces. A few of the initial portraits have been hand coloured. Some early 'copperplate' handwriting on opposite sides of a few of the portraits. The margins of some portions of the text have been closely trimmed. Our copy has been freshly re-bound in half leather over green cloth, with matching green leather spine label, with new endpapers; now a very handsome presentation of this scarce and important work. This is 'The Second Edition, Corrected and amended'. Ill.: engravings and woodcuts.

Bison BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 9900038573

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Biography; Church history; engravings and woodcuts

R. O. C. [Rose Owen Cole]

The Official Handbook for the National Training School for Cookery Containing the Lessons on Cookery Which Constitute the Course of Instruction in the School

London, Chapman and Hall, 1878. Cloth. A very scarce, second edition of the official handbook for the National Training School for Cookery providing comprehensive instruction and numerous late Victorian recipes. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. This volume is a second edition. Originally issued by the National Training School of Cookery in South Kensington (established 1873, renamed in 1902), this comprehensive work outlines the cookery lessons taught at the school, in structured "lesson" format. This edition covers utensils, cleaning materials, lessons on cleaning and lessons on cookery. The handbook was written to be easily understandable by those with 'no knowledge on the subject', and each clear and concise recipe completes with 'Now it is finished.' The book was compiled by R. O. C. Rose Owen Cole, and incorporated many of the recipes honed by teachers of the school, such as: Oatmeal Biscuits, Yorkshire Tea Cakes, Mutton Broth, Tomates Farcie au Gratin, Melted Butter Sauce, Stewed Lentils, Carrot Pudding, Batter Pudding, Alexandra Pudding, and Vennoise Pudding, to name a few. These Lessons on Cookery are encouraging and accessible, and the students of the school would no doubt have treasured their copy of this handbook. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in the odd closed tear and chip to head and tail of spine, especially the tail where the cloth is slightly loose, but holding. Slight rubbing to boards with the odd slight handling mark and slight discolouration. Hinges slightly cracked, partially exposing binding materials at endpapers, particularly the front hinge. Previous seller's label to rear paste down. Rubbing and the odd slight handling mark to endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, "Ada Whituell". Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with the odd handling mark and spot, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Slight offsetting from pressed flowers or leaves to pages 30-35. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 965H20

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes

Keywords: Cookery Recipes Handbook Training Recipes National Training Chapman None