ACCUM, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838)

[Hand-Colored] a Practical Treatise on Gas-Light : Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas / with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of This New Branch of CIVIL Economy

London, Stereotyped and printed by Davies and Michael, 19, Poppins' Court, Fleet Street; for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1815. Original Boards. A superb survival, untrimmed in original boards, of the first book to describe and widely influence installation of gas lighting in London and other metropolises. Royal 8vo (252 x 149mm): xvii,[1],194,6pp, with folding hand-colored frontispiece and 6 hand-colored plates (one folding) of machinery and various light fixtures and chandeliers. Original drab paper-covered boards, paper title label printed in black to spine. Engraved armorial book plate to front paste-down. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound, with virtually pristine pages and plates. Abbey (Life) 436. Second Edition (so stated), issued the same year as the first. In 1810, when the London Chartered Gaslight and Coke Company was formed, Accum was nominated one of its engineers. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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ADAMS, George (1750-1795)

An Essay on Electricity, Explaining the Principles of That Useful Science; and Describing the Instruments, Contrived Either to Illustrate the Theory, or Render the Practice Entertaining. Illustrated with Six Plates. To Which Is Added, a Letter to the Author, from Mr. John Birch, Surgeon, on the Subject of Medical Electricity. By the Late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty, &C. The Fifth Edition, with Corrections and Additions, by William Jones, Mathematical Instrument Maker [Uncut]

London, printed by J. Dillon, and Co. for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, Opticians, Holborn, 1799. Early Reprint. Paper-Covered Boards. Fifth (and most desirable) Edition of this seminal work on electricity and its applications (first published 1784), with corrections and additions by William Jones. 8vo: xiv[bound out of sequence],594pp, with six copper-engraved plates. Tall, uncut, wide-margined copy, completely unsophisticated, in original drab grey boards, beige paper spine, printed paper label. An exemplary example, binding square and tight; pages, clean fresh and bright. Wheeler Gift 519b. Adams came from a family of makers of scientific instruments and globes, and was Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty George III. In the 1780s, he began publishing a series of illustrated texts dealing with the physical sciences. Following close on the heels of Essay on Electricity were Essays on the Microscope (1787), Astronomical and Geographical Essays (1789), Geometrical and Graphical Essays (1791), and Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (5 vols. 1794). The six engraved plates, including a new frontispiece, contain 105 figures, mostly illustrating various experimental instruments constructed by Adams, often at the request of the king in line with his interest in the practical applications of science. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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AGEE, James (1909-1955); Walker Evans (photographs)

[Photobook] Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Boston / Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this tour de force of American photography and perennial classic of American journalism, a "highly experimental book, pushing the boundaries of the way documentary should treat the world." (Lionel Trilling, in the Kenyon Review, called it the "most important moral effort of our American generation.") Demy 8vo (205 x 144mm): [2],xvi,471,[1]pp, with 31 beautifully printed black & white full-page photographs by Walker Evans, "his only excursion into 'true' documentary—among the finest ever made." (Parr & Badger) Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver; illustrated dust jacket, priced $3.50. A Fine copy, tightly bound and clean throughout; Near Fine or better jacket, head and toe of spine panel rubbed, with short tear and crease to bottom of front panel. A fresh, honest copy with no restoration. Parr & Badger I, p.144. Roth (101 Books), p. 108-09. In July and August of 1936, Agee and Walker Evans traveled to the American South to research a story on sharecropping for Fortune magazine. Their assignment, according to Agee's Preface, was to produce a "photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers." Throughout the book, "Agee writes with extraordinary moral passion and highly personal emotion. He considers the tenant families victims of a massive system of human injustice that is global in proportions. In questioning his purposes, including the difficulty of ever really seeing into the heart of another, especially of those as different as the sharecroppers, Agee raises important questions about the aesthetic limitations of the literature of social consciousness that comprised a major genre in the 1930s and early 1940s. The design of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men reflects the fierce independence and eccentricity of its youthful author. Book One consists of only three pages: a single page 'Preface' and two pages listing the 'Persons and Places' in the book. Book Two, over 400 pages in length, is divided into an elaborate 'Design,' including its own 'Preamble'; sections on tenant clothing, shelter, education, and work; an 'Intermission'; and other narrative, poetic, autobiographical and confessional passages. The tour de force of this section, however, and perhaps of the book as a whole, is a short section on 'Overalls'. In the 'delicate beauty' that the overalls take on with age and wear, Agee finds an appropriate image to represent the lives of the tenants as a whole." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Near Fine+.

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AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas (1672-1738); Richard Bradley (Introduces)

A Philosophical Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening : Being a New Method of Cultivating and Increasing All Sorts of Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers. A Very Curious Work: Containing Many Useful Secrets in Nature, for Helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for Fertilizing the Most Stubborn Soils. By G.A. Agricola, M.D. And Doctor in Philosophy at Ratisbonne. Translated from the High-Dutch, with Remarks: And Adorn'd with Cuts. The Whole Revised and Compared with the Original, Together with a Preface, Confirming This New Method, by Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society. ; Printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand

London, printed for P. Vaillant in the Strand, and W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple-Bar, 1721. Half-Calf. First Edition in English of the "first treatise on cuttings and graftings." (Hunt) Demy 4to (276 x 214mm): [24],300,[4]pp, with 31 (i.e. 33: in the numbering of plates, XXIII and XXVIII are repeated) engraved plates inserted on 22 sheets (some folding); head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials. Recent half calf over marbled boards, spine in sic compartments divided by gilt-ruled raised bands, small gilt ornaments, red morocco lettering piece gilt, title page printed in red and black, end papers renewed. An excellent example, beautifully bound to period style, generally fresh and bright (occasional light spotting and dust-soiling), with excellent impressions of the plates. Henrey II, 443-46 and III, 411. Hunt II, 452. First published in two volumes in German ("High-Dutch"), in 1716, as Neu-und nie erhörter doch in der Natur und Vernunfft wohlgegründeter Versuch der Universal- Vermehrung aller Bäume, Stauden, und Blumen-Gewächse, and soon afterward translated into French (1720), Dutch (1719), and this English edition. A key gardening text, in which Agricola announced a new method of propagating plants, by grafting twigs to roots of the same species and sealing the graft with a turpentine and pitch plaster he called "vegetable mummy." His text also explains "many Useful Secrets in Nature, for helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for fertilizing the most Stubborn Soils." The plates, reproduced from first German edition, illustrate Agricola's procedures, which were used by fruit growers for years. Richard Bradley (1688?-1732) was appointed first professor of botany at Cambridge in 1724. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: XIX CENTURY

ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962); Paul Nash (Illustrates)

[World War] Death of a Hero

London, Chatto and Windus, 1929. First Impression. Hardcover. First English Edition (appearing a few weeks after the American edition) of this canonical modernist novel. Thick crown 8vo (207 x 124mm): xii,440pp. With the author's note, commenting on the publishers' censorship and explaining the use of asterisks, and considering it "better for the book to appear mutilated than for me to say what I don't believe." Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gold, sepia dust wrapper illustrated by Paul Nash and priced 8s / 6d. A presentable example, better than very good, tightly bound and clean throughout; jacket spine panel toned, front panel still vibrant. Kershaw 53. Falls, pp. 261-62. Aldington's scathing take on early twentieth-century British society, openly discussing sex, death, mental health, class and a host of other 'indelicate' issues, which so mortified his publishers that they extensively censored the manuscript (an unexpurgated edition was published in Paris the following year). Orwell called Death of a Hero "much the best of the English war books." It gives a "thorough and solid account of not just the fear and despair, but also the dirt, illness and, above all, boredom and loneliness that soldiers experienced in the trenches, of which Aldington had first-hand experience. The novel has, in fact, an autobiographical basis; it is divided into three parts, with the first two devoted to the protagonist's coming of age, and only the last part set during World War I. This final part is significant for its disenchanted take on war, stressing not only the physical destruction of the body, but the obliteration of the sense of self and of one's place in the world." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Very Good+/Near Fine.

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ALDISS, Brian W. (1925-2017)

The Brightfount Diaries

London, Faber and Faber, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the author's first book (first published mcmlv on copyright page). 8vo: 200pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, salmon-pink dust jacket illustrated by Pearl Falconer, who also contributed full-page line drawings throughout. Fine, square, and tight (apparently unread). Currey, p. 1. After the Second World War, Aldiss worked as a bookseller in Oxford, from which experience came this novel in diary form about the life of a bookshop assistant, which originally ran serially for two years in The Bookseller (Musings about publishers, authors, booksellers and buyers), under the pseudonym Peter Pica. ) According to Aldiss, the novel "did not entirely hatch, the parts being better than the whole," although it did serve to alert the reading public that a new novelist worth noting was afoot. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.

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ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851); C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (introduces)

[Fox Hunting] [Sports and Pastimes] a Panorama of the Progress of Human Life : Fashionably Displayed, Illustrating "Shakespeare's Ages" and Exhibiting the Manners, Costume, Character and Field Sports of the English People ; the Whole Illustrative of Modern Character, in a Series of Many Hundred Moving Figures [Signed]

London, published by S. and J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place / privately printed [by Waterlow & Sons Limited] by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting, 1930. First Edition thus. Card Covers. First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Oblong folio (348 x 445mm): 10pp, including title-page vignette, colored portrait of Alken and facsimiles of 11 wrappers on one plate, and photographic illustration of the scroll case, followed by 35 colored aquatint scenes (miniature adaptations of plates in National Field Sports), depicting incidents in the life of a squire's son, mounted on five stiff-card leaves. Original publisher's mottled tan card covers lettered in black. Signed by the editor, C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, on limitation leaf. A pristine example in the original publisher's stiff card decorated envelope, lightly nicked. Originally published in scroll form, in 1820, the Panorama is extremely scarce; in the preface Schwerdt states: "apart from the writer's own copy, only one other complete specimen has come to his notice during the forty-five years that he has been collecting." Four hundred copies of this edition were published: this is no. 4 of 250 copies printed for Great Britain, with a further 150 copies for sale by Ernest R. Gee, in New York. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Catalogue: XIX CENTURY

ALLOWAY, Lawrence (1926-1990)

Nine Abstract Artists, Their Work and Theory

London, Alec Tiranti, 1954. Hardcover. First edition.  Slim foolscap 8vo (179 x 124mm): 38pp and 56 full-page plates. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, dust jacket repeating cover design by William Scott (one of the nine artists), priced 7s / 6d. Neat ownership inscription and date on fly-leaf. Jacket's spine panel folds lightly rubbed, caps skillfully restored (not involving lettering or design), else a Near Fine or better copy, tightly bound and crisp and clean throughout. An excellent example of a scarce book. Third volume in the publisher's Contemporary Art series. The nine artists of the title are: Robert Adams, Terry Frost, Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Roger Hilton, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore, and William Scott. In the 1950s, Alloway was a leading member of the Independent Group in the United Kingdom. He later worked as a critic and curator in the United States. He coined the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s, later shortened to "Pop Art", to describe art with a basis in the popular culture of its day. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+/Near Fine+.

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AMES, Delano (1906-1987)

The Man in the Tricorn Hat

London, Methuen, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this thriller set in a Spanish village. Crown 8vo (200 x 132mm): 200pp. Publisher's forest green finely woven cloth, spine lettered in silver, striking dust jacket illustrated by David Watson and priced 15s. A handsome example, tightly bound and clean throughout (jacket's back panel gently toned and dust-soiled, short closed tear to upper spine panel fold). The first of Ames's late series Juan Llorca stories, featuring a Spanish civil guard who, in this installment, falls for the prime suspect in a murder mystery. Followed by The Man with Three Jaguars (1961) and The Man with Three Chins (1965). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Near Fine+.

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ANBUREY, Thomas (active late 1700s)

[American Revolution] Travels Through the Interior Parts of America. In a Series of Letters. By an Officer

London, printed for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, 1789. First Edition. Half-Morocco. First Edition (preceding the French edition by one year) of this eighteenth-century travel account of Canada and the Northeast by an officer who served with Burgoyne. Complete in two octavo volumes, including plate list, subscribers and errata (rebound without half titles). [2],vii,[21],467,[1]1; [2],558pp, with frontispiece folding map ("delineating the March of the Army"), 5 engraved views (4 folding), folding plan, and facsimiles of American currency in red and black on two leaves. Recent burgundy half-morocco, marbled boards, end papers renewed. A superb set, short stained streaks to fore-edge of vol. I, affecting margins only of several leaves, very faint offsetting from plates, else clean and bright throughout with rich impressions of the plates. Clark I 192. Lande (Redpath) 7. Sabin 1366-67. TPL 541. Bibliotheca Americana (Stevens), p. 27. Howes A-226 ("Capt. Anburey served with Burgoyne, but this account of his travels was largely plagiarized from Burnaby, Smyth and others."). First Edition of this epistolary account of the British military expedition from Canada during the American Revolution. Anburey attempts to vindicate, in a series of 79 letters, the British surrender at Saratoga. Much of the early correspondence is addressed from Quebec and Montreal, most of the second volume from military prisons in Virginia and Maryland. The large plates and map provide some important views of military encampments and major battle locales. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine .

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Keywords: Burgoyne's Invasion—Personal narratives, British. Canada—Description and travel—Early works to 1800. United States—Description and travel—Early works to 1800. United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783

ANDERSON, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Horses and Men. Tales, Long and Short, from Our American Life ["I'm a Fool"]

New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1923. First Printing. Hardcover. First Issue (with orange topstain), including the author's most famous short story, "I'm a Fool." 8vo: xiii,[1], 347,[1]pp. Publisher's orange cloth, printed paper label to spine, top edge stained orange, beige typographic dust jacket priced two dollars on spine panel. About Fine (endpapers slightly toned, spine tips bumped), the cloth bright and fresh; Near Fine or better dust-soiled jacket that has benefited from professional conservation to edges (not involving lettering). A desirable copy. Sherwood Anderson's third collection, after the successful short story cycle, Winesburg, Ohio. The book was dedicated to Theodore Dreiser and includes a prefatory tribute and nine stories, six of which are variations of previously published pieces. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine-/Near Fine+.

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Catalogue: MODERN FIRSTS

ANDERSON, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Tar : A Midwest Childhood

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing (no additional printings noted). 8vo: xviii,346pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt within blue title block, upper cover lettered in gilt with vignette of farmhouse and barn, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed, title page printed in blue and black; cream-colored pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black and priced $3.00. Fine, bright copy, virtually As New, in jacket with shallow chipping, touching lettering at base of slightly tanned spine. Sheehy & Lohf 39. A fictionalized memoir constructed of episodes in the childhood of Edgar Moorehead (nicknamed Tar-heel, or Tar, because of his father's North Carolina origin), though fictional location of Tar bears a resemblance to Camden, Ohio, where Anderson was born and spent his first year. An episode from the book later appeared, in revised form, as one of Anderson's finest short stories, "Death in the Woods." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine/Near Fine+.

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Catalogue: MODERN FIRSTS

ANDREWS, William (1848-1908)

Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain. Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time

London, George Redway, 1887. Limited Edition. Original Cloth. No. 376 of 400 copies printed. Thin, square 8vo: viii,91,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Frost fair on the River Thames, in 1814") and two full-page engravings ("Frost Fair on the Thames in the reign of Charles II" and "Frost Fair on the Thames"). Publisher's finely woven black cloth, beveled boards, spine and upper cover ruled and lettered in gilt, back cover ruled in blind, top edge gilded, coated and mottled end papers, title page in red and black. Fine copy of this scarce work on the winter festivals of the Little Ice Age. Between 1400 and 1835, the Thames froze over 24 times, and merchants and manufacturers moved their various industries onto the ice (frost fairs were even far more common on the Continent, especially in the Netherlands). During the Great Frost of 1683-84, the worst recorded in England, the Thames was frozen over for two months, with the ice reaching a thickness of 11 inches in London. The final frost, in 1814, when an elephant was led across the river below Blackfriars Bridge, began on February 1 and lasted just four days. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Catalogue: XIX CENTURY

Keywords: Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. -- Great Britain. Fairs. Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. Great Britain -- Fairs.

ANDRIESSEN, P. J. (Pieter Jacob, 1815-1877)

[Movable Book] [Novelty Book] [Paper Engineering] Wat Er Alzoo in de Wereld Te Zien Is. Een Aardig Boek Voor Kinderen, Met Bijschriften

Amsterdam, G. Theod. Bom, 1874. Pictorial Wrappers. Crown 8vo (180 x 128mm): [8]pp, with six color lithographs (printed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem), each with flaps that, when flipped, reveal a completely different image (a ship at sea becomes Bedouins in the desert, a volcano erupts into walruses in the Arctic, Native Americans transform into explorers in the Rockies), taking the viewer on a tour around the world. The accompanying text guides the reader through these twists and turns. Original burnt orange illustrated card wrappers printed in green, gold, and terracotta and lettered in black. A superbly preserved example of this fragile production, all but pristine, rare, with Worldcat Discovery listing only one copy and LHD none. For more than 700 years book designers have been pushing back the boundaries of the two-dimensional page, adding flaps and rotating parts to enhance the text, most often in scientific literature. But only in the nineteenth century did movable flaps became a regular feature in children's books. In the Netherlands, 'De nieuwe rijschool' [The new riding school], published in 1856, was the first movable children's book, which reached their peak in the 1870s and 1880s. Gerardus Theodorus Bom (1814-1884) was a Dutch publisher of books in Amsterdam, issuing such titles as Kindervreugd (1864), Robinson Crusoë (c.1865), and Kunstenmakers at work (1875). Andriessen's first books were published under the pseudonym Pieter Jacobsz. Under his own name he wrote a series of romantic stories for young people, mainly derived from Dutch national history. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Catalogue: XIX CENTURY

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[Coronations] a Complete Account of the Ceremonies Observed in the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England. Containing, I. The Form of the Royal Letters of Summons... . II. The Usual Disposition of the Horse and Foot-Guards, and Their Respective Habits, Parades, and Stations on the Coronation-Day. III. The Apparelling and Robing of the King and Queen... IV. The Marshalling and Conducting Into Westminster-Hall... V. Their Majesties Entring the Said Hall, and the Ceremony of Presenting the Regalia, &C. To the King. VI. The Grand Proceeding to the Coronation... VII. The Usual Ceremony of the Coronations As Performed in the Church. VIII. The Manner of Their Majesties Return to Westminster-Hall. IX. The Ceremony of the Champion's Challenge, and of the Heralds Proclaiming the King's Style in Latin, French, and English. X. A Description of the Royal and Sacred Ornaments, and of the Crowns and Scepters, &C... . XI the Ceremony of the Proceedings at the Coronations of King William and Queen Mary, of Queen Anne, and of His Late Majesty King George I... XII. A Complete List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and of the Knights of the Bath... XIII. A Bill of Fare at a Former Coronation-Feast. With Many Other Notable Particulars, for Which the Reader Is Referred to the Index. The Whole Adorn'd with Curious Cuts... To Which Is Also Prefix'd a Very Large and Curious Copper-Plate, Exhibiting (in That of King William and Queen Mary) the Magnificent Form of the Procession Usually Observed in the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England

London, Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg, in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne, without Temple-Bar, 1727. Quarter-bound Leather. Third Edition (with price 2s. 6d below imprint in square brackets). Full of fascinating information relating to the etiquette and procedure of royal ceremonies. Small 4to (210 x 155mm): 80pp, with large folding copper-engraved frontispiece, "Procession of Kings and Queens with over 150 robed figures" (measuring a full 440 mm x 350 mm), a second folding engraving, "The Manner of the Champions, performing the Ceremony of ye Challenge," and 12 woodcuts in the text depicting various ceremonial objects, including crowns, maces, scepters, and coronation rings. Bound in early (possibly contemporary) quarter sheep with marbled boards, red morocco lettering piece gilt, all edges marbled. Bookplate of Buddle Atkinson to front paste-down. A sturdy, unsophisticated copy, frontispiece slightly spotted along folds, sporadic light soiling and browning, binding rubbed along spine and corners, but an excellent example of a scarce book. ESTC Citation No. T113877. Lowndes 526. Bindley pt. vi, 1039. Not in Halkett & Laing. Buddle Atkinson's bookplate appears in Hugo's Catalogue of Thomas Bewick's works, but it is, in fact, engraved on steel, not wood, and came from the workshop of Mark Lambert, one of Bewick's pupils. The plate was designed and engraved by George F. Robinson, who joined Lambert's workshop in 1841 and who, in the course of 50 years, became chief engraver and director of all art works carried out by the firm. The plate was produced when Atkinson (b.1841) was a young child, perhaps for putting in books that had been owned by his father, John Buddle, so it likely dates from 1845-1850. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Near Fine+ .

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Catalogue: XIX CENTURY

Keywords: Coronations—Great Britain. Germany—History—843-1273.