BEETON, SAMUEL ORCHART (1831-1877 ) .

Beeton's British Gazetteer : a topographical and historical guide to the United Kingdom : containing nearly five thousand distinct articles with the correct pronunciation of the name of every place. With Supplements... returns of 1871 and 1881 .

London: Ward, Lock And Co, Warwick House, Salibury Square, [ nd - c. 1881] . 0. A very good original Victorian publication. pp.4/pp.284. 7.0" x 4.75" x 0.75". Brown cloth with black titles to front board and spine, edges lightly rubbed. Cover-title reads: "Beeton's National reference Books. Beeton's Shilling British Gazetteer A topographical and historical guide to the United Kingdom. About Five Thousand Distinct Articles." Adverts to endpapers. Browning to free-endpapers. Small yellow booksellers label to verso of the front board: "Morley, Bookseller, Forest Hill, S.E." Large fold-out table before title page. Clear text in double columns throughout. VG ** "Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson; 14 March 1836 – 6 February 1865), known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. After schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor..In May 1866, following a severe downturn in his financial fortunes, Samuel sold the rights to the Book of Household Management (plus other titles) to Ward, Lock and Tyler (later Ward Lock & Co).." - See Wikipedia.

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Book number: 47494

Catalogue: Reference: : 19th Century

Keywords: 48984 Beeton, Samuel Orchart Ward, Lock and Co Beeton's British Gazetteer Morley Bookseller Reference: : 19th Century

GOLDSMITH, JOHN .

An Almanack For The Year Of Our Lord M.DCCC.XL. Being, Bissextile, Or, Leap Year, Comprhending CelestialPhenomena And Useful Tables... By John Goldsmith.

London: Printed For The Company Of Stationers. By C. Baldwin, New Bridge-street; And Sold By G. Greenhill, At Their Hall, Ludgate-Street, 1840 . 0. A very good original wallet or wrap-round leather bindng. pp.64. 4.0" x 3.25" x 0.4". Darkened red leather. Corners rubbed and bumped, with small nicks at the top of the flap.Dulled gilt and gauffered page edges. Slot for pencil to verso of the front cover. Also: a pocket to the verso of the front cover. Bound before the Almanac are 3 leaves of paper, and two of vellum with numerous faded notes. Title in red & black. All Months of the Calendar with the Month in red, interleaved with blank leaves ( some with pencil notes). Clear text throughout. Just darkening to page edges of the endpapers. A well preserved little pocket-book. VG.

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Book number: 51279

Catalogue: Reference: : 19th Century

Keywords: Printed for the Company of Stationers. By C. Baldwin Reference: : 19th Century

LOWNDES, WILLIAM THOMAS (1798?-1843) / BOHN, HENRY G. (HENRY GEORGE BOHN (1796-1884) .

The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. Containing and Account of Rare, Curious and Useful Books, Published in or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; with Bibliograohical and Critical Notices...

London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1857-1864 0. "New edition, revised, corrected and enlarged, with an Appendix relating to the books of literary and scientific societies." 11 matching volumes in later quarter vellum bindings. 12mo. 7.0" x 4.75" x 1.25". 6 volumes in 11 books. Books 1 - 10 with continuous pagination - pp.3027 . Book 11 (Appendix) - pp.5/[3pp.]/pp.336 . Each volume with vellum spine over green marbled boards. Each spine with balck leather title label. Light toning to vellum, otherwise very clean and tight bindings. Red bookplate to the verso of each front board: "Allston A. Kisby, Cottingham". Later endpapers and free-endpapers added to each volume. Each of the 11 books with a separate title page and clear English text throughout, just a little light spotting to the preliminaries. A very good set in attractive bindings. VG. * Allston A. Kisby, headmasterof Cottingham School during the 1940s and a keen local historian. He was the author of Indifferent Children (1935). ** "William Thomas Lowndes (c. 1798 – 31 July 1843), English bibliographer, was born about 1798, the son of a London bookseller. His principal work, The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature—the first systematic work of the kind—was published in four volumes in 1834. It took Lowndes fourteen years to compile, but, despite its merits, brought him neither fame nor money. "For years Lowndes was the national British bibliography." It is regarded as a "bibliographical classic" although "pleasurably more scattershot than systematic." Lowndes, reduced to poverty, subsequently became cataloguer to Henry George Bohn, the bookseller and publisher. In 1839 he published the first parts of The British Librarian, designed to supplement his early manual, but owing to failing health did not complete the work." - See Wikipedia *** Book 11 has special titlepage: ' Appendix to The bibliographer's manual of English literature: containing an account of books issued by literary and scientific societies and printing clubs, books printed at private presses, privately printed series, and the principal literary and scientific serials / compiled by Henry G. Bohn.' **** Full title reads: The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold.

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Book number: 44250

Catalogue: Reference: : 19th Century

Keywords: 45673 Allston A. Kisby, Cottingham Lowndes, William Thomas Bohn, Henry G Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Reference: : 19th Century

WORCESTER, JOSEPH EMERSON 1784-1865.

A Dictionary Of The English Language By Joseph E. Worcester, LL. D.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, And Searle, 188 Fleet Street.. Boston, U.S.A.: Brewer And Tileston. 1859 / 1860 . 0. A very good half leather binding. 11.75" x 9.0" x 3.5" pp.lxviii. / pp.1786. Polished black morocco spine and corners, over black buckram boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Spine with 5 raised bands and gilt titles. Marbled page edges and matching endpapers. Engraved portrait frontis lightly foxed and stained, with offsetting to printed title-page. Clean text throughout, in triple columns, with small illustrations within the text. On the verso of the title-page: "Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry."; Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by Joseph E. Worcester, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. "A key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture proper names, to which are added terminational vocabularies": p. 1699-1750. This is a heavy book - 10.2lbs (4.6kg) . So there will be an extra charge for posting overseas. ** " Joseph Emerson Worcester (August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century.. In 1860, Worcester published A Dictionary of the English Language, a substantially revised and expanded work which was soon recognized as a major English language dictionary. The first copies were electrotype printed at the Boston Stereotype Foundry. The dictionary featured numerous illustrations throughout the text, a relatively new innovation.. Edward Everett Hale wrote of the 1860 Dictionary of the English Language: "We have at last a good dictionary."Works".

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Book number: 51975

Catalogue: Reference: : 19th Century

Keywords: Worcester, Joseph Emerson Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle Brewer and Tileston Reference: : 19th Century