von ERDBERG, Eleanor.

Chinese Influence On European Garden Structures.

Harvard Univ Press 1936. Quarto publisher's cloth (a touch of wear to spine top); [6],221pp & 95 illustrations. Harvard Landscape Architecture Monographs I.
¶ A scholarly but none the less interesting study. With an annotated list of the buildings mentioned giving description, bibliography and present condition, if any.

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Book number: 7477

Keywords: architecture landscape history design c18th gardens China Asia

ERLE, Sir William.

The Law Relating to Trade Unions.

London, Macmillan 1869. Octavo publisher's cloth, ix,92pp. A presentation from Erle to fellow judge Sir Edward Vaughan Williams.
¶ Begun as part of the Trade Union Commission to ascertain the state of existing laws, the work grew "beyond the immediate scope of our commission" and is here published separately. "Many of the principles were obtained by my own induction .. I intended .. to state the law as it is, and only rarely express an opinion as to what the law ought to be." This was really a primer for the other commissioners. "A very lucid exposition," says the DNB but the reviewer for The Spectator differed vehemently. Erle received a thorough thrashing for his appalling style and grammar which, rather than hiding clear thought displayed too clearly the "looseness of his thought". A week later the same writer (J.M.L. - a champion of labour) returned to deliver another drubbing to Erle and this book, this time sounding an alarm about the wider dangers of Erle's specious claim to have published an opinion free book before the Commission's report was finished. Erle is credited with being the formative influence of the 1871 Trade Unions Act which redressed the illegality of trade unions in law - credit that seems undeserved in many ways as the liberality of the act is the legacy of the minority report - and I bet J.M.L. would have something to say about that.

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Book number: 5142

Keywords: law politics trade unions c19th England history social reform progress social sciences

Smoca advertising. Kataoka Toshiro etc.

[Smoca Kokoku Sakuhinshu].

Tokyo, Seishindoshoten 1928 (Showa 3). 22x15cm publisher's printed wrapper; [2],213pp, profusely illustrated throughout in b/w (a few folding). Signs of use and some browning; a pretty good copy.
¶ The first and hardest to find of Smoca's compilations of their advertising, six more followed over the next thirteen years. Smoca's success - they are still going - was through clever advertising. From the start, in 1925, the company's founder, advertising man Kataoka Toshiro, hired the best artists and cartoonists.Smoca, in case you wondered, was then a tooth powder for smokers.

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Book number: 10872

Keywords: graphic art advertising c20th Japan Asia modernism cosmetics tobacco humour meiji

Smoca advertising. Kataoka Toshiro etc.

[Smoca Kokoku Sakuhinshu Daigoshu].

Osaka, Sumokasha 1937 (Showa 12). 22x15cm publisher's printed red wrapper; [8],176pp, illustrated throughout including two mounted colour plates. Minor signs of use and some browning; quite good.
¶ The fifth of Smoca's compilations of their advertising, seven appeared between 1928 and 1941. Smoca's success - they are still going - was through clever advertising. From the start, in 1925, the company's founder, advertising man Kataoka Toshiro, hired the best artists and cartoonists.The colour illustrations are two of Smoca's series of face and teeth posters - about the last and probably the two dullest after the weird and sometimes disturbing series issued over the previous decade.Smoca, in case you wondered, was then a tooth powder for smokers.

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Book number: 10955

Keywords: graphic art advertising c20th Japan Asia modernism cosmetics tobacco humourmeiji

EVANS, Bob [ed].

Surfing World Vol 1 No 1 ... Vol 2 No 6.

Sydney, September 1962 to August 1963. 12 issues quarto together in contemporary cloth titled in gilt, all covers preserved; thoroughly illustrated. A couple of old tape repairs; rather good.
¶ The first year of the pioneering surf journal, begun as a sport went viral and became a way of life, but still more wholesome than not - a subculture rather than the drug raddled counterculture it would soon be. Trove finds no complete run, only two libraries hold issues from the earliest years.

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Book number: 9781

Keywords: social history periodicals Australia c20th surf surfing sport pastimes maritime

Exhibition, Kyoto 1895. Yoshiwara Takeo.

[Daiyonkai Kangyo Hakurankai Taikyoku Zenzu?].

Kyoto, Ide Shozo 1895 (Meiji 28) Lithograph 42x56, folded. A scattering of small wormholes and signs of use; not bad.
¶ A bird's-eye view of the 4th National Industrial Exhibition held in Kyoto from April to the end of July 1895. Five of these national exhibitions were held between 1877 and 1903; the first three in Tokyo and, after some provincial agitation, this in Kyoto and the fifth in Osaka. Each was bigger, better and more crowded than their predecessor.

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Book number: 10715

Keywords: graphic art international exhibitions c19th Japan progress modernism manufactures bird's-eye reform meiji

Exhibition - Dublin 1853. SPROULE, John [ed].

The Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853 : a detailed catalogue of its contents, with critical dissertations, statistical information, and accounts of manufacturing processes in the different departments; ...

Dublin, McGlashan 1854. Large octavo publisher's cloth (rebacked with most of the original spine preserved); xviii,502pp, portait, double page colour litho view of the central hall, double page plan, two elevation plates, four other plates, illustrations through the text. A few flaws to early pages, a couple professionally repaired with tissue, a fair scattering of marginalia and underlining, definitely used but still a decent, acceptable copy.
¶ This also exists with a somewhat different title under the imprint of Sproule; either and both are very uncommon. Sproule is convinced that this Dublin exhibition would be the last of its kind: "the magnitude of the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1853 would have caused a long interval ... before any future attempt could be made; but such attempts the almost faery creation of the Crystal Palace Company at Sydenham have rendered unnecessary" - ie the continuous exhibition of all that was new and excellent would make these monumental exhibitions obsolete. "Considerable attention" is given to the Exhibition Building for much the same reasons - its temporary nature - thus the captivating colour view of the central hall, even though it added "very materially to the expense of each copy".

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Book number: 8494

Keywords: technology exhibitions catalogue c19th Ireland manufactures applied art

FALK, David G.

Rick; or, The Recidiviste. A Romance of Australian Life.

London, Trischler 1891. Octavo publisher's textured pink cloth blocked in black (spine and around the edges faded). Patterned endpapers browned, signs of use but a pretty good copy.
¶ Only edition of this elusive thriller set in and around Melbourne that exploits that timeless Anglo-Australian characteristic - fear of foreigners. In this case it's the Recidivistes, escaped French convicts from New Caledonia. Falk prefaces the book with an extract from the Melbourne Argus noting the disquieting increase of French convicts in Australia. Rick and the Recidiviste are not the same person, Rick is an orphaned young woman with a mysterious past and the Recidiviste is Ranq, by name and nature. The young detective Sprowde solves both problems before the most overstretched deathbed scene I've skimmed in years and a gently melancholic but happy enough ending. Falk appears to have written a fair bit for papers and journals but only two novels were published as far as I can work out. Trischler & Co. used to be the Hansom Cab Publishing Co and published a few Australian authors during its brief life.

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Book number: 8674

Keywords: literature fiction c19th Australia thrillers detective crime mystery

FARJEON, B.L. [Benjamin Leopold].

Grif. A story of Australian Life. Seventeenth edition.

London, Hutchinson 1898. Octavo publisher's cloth, spine decorated in gilt. A little browning at the very ends, quite a nice copy. Inscribed and signed by Farjeon with an accompanying letter.
¶ A gift from Farjeon to Mrs Granville Ellis in 1901. The short letter on Farjeon's letterhead explains that it isn't always easy to find spare copies of his books but he is sending three, including this one, and Harry - Farjeon's composer son - is sending along some sheet music just published. Mrs Ellis must be the American born journalist, Anna May (or Mai?) Bosler, who married Granville Ellis twice and wrote under the name Max Eliot. Elizabeth Pennell described her as "that awful American newspaper woman ... a vile specimen! Vulgar!" Gifted copies of Farjeon's books have a longer history than Farjeon himself. Decades later Harry used his father's own copies as school prizes.

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Book number: 10282

Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c19th Australia association

FARJEON, B.L. [Benjamin Leopold].

Something Occurred. [and] Something Occurred. Third edition.

London, Routledge 1894. Two volumes colour illustrated glazed boards; the first with wear to edges and quite good the other more rubbed and worn about the edges. The first with 331pp and adverts dated July 1894; the second with 328pp on noticeably cheaper paper and adverts dated August 1896.
¶ I want to make it clear that this is not my discovery, the work here was done by Rowan Gibbs. Now. The first copy here is, I believe, first edition - 1893 - sheets with a cancel title. There our interest might end except the next copy - the 'third edition' is revised and reset. The revisions aren't dramatic as far as I can see but they are there. That a publisher would take this on for a cheap yellowback reprint is a surprise to me. Something Occurred is a light fantasy involving magical snuff which owes more than a bit to the identity exchange and transformation novels of F. Anstey.

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Book number: 10285

Keywords: literature fiction fantasy thrillers c19th England yellowbacks

Hikifuda - fashion.

A small hikifuda - handbill - advertising fashion from Kawaki Shoten in Ogawamachi in Tokyo.

Tokyo [c1910?]. Colour lithograph broadsheet 18x19cm. Illustration on one side, text in blue on the other. An old crease.
¶ Small but chic. Is the young dandy wanting the stylish but undeniably bourgeois family to move on or is that merely a dandy's customary expression of disdain?

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Book number: 10022

Keywords: graphic art advertising trade catalogues fashion textiles costume c20th Japan Asia modernism

Advertising - Feet.

M. Joel & M. Kock, (from Paris) Corn Operators, by Special Appointment to the Duke de Orleans and Princess Adelaide, Prince Nassau ... most respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry and Public in general, that they eradicate Bunions and Soft Corns from their very roots; ...

n.p. [c1830?]. Single sheet (220x140mm); text printed in a decorative border with a cut of a corn operator at work at the top and a bare foot at the bottom. A couple of spots but pretty good.
¶ Messieurs Joel and Kock normally spent their winters in Paris and summers in London but here their residence has been filled in by hand as 3 George Place, Plymouth, opposite the Royal Hotel.

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Book number: 8297

Keywords: advertising trades c19th feet medicine trade catalogues ephemera graphic art

FIELDING, Henry.

An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, &c. With some proposals for remedying this growing evil ... the second edition.

London, Millar 1751. 12mo contemporary (or publisher's?) calf (rubbed and a bit crazed, small chip from the spine, hinges cracking but firm); xxii,203pp. A little browning at the very ends, a rather good, fresh copy. With the half title advertising the book at 3/- bound, 2/6 sewn; bookplate of diplomat and Pennsylvanian folklorist Henry W Shoemaker.
¶ A timely best-seller. This second edition followed the first edition (which had an uncommonly large print run of 1500 copies; this second edition was even larger, with 2000 copies) by about six weeks, with minor revisions and corrections. Fielding's social and magisterial conscience made him a strenuous pamphleteer and this was his most important and influential foray into social and legal reform. The gin craze and other pernicious 'luxuries' rampant among the lowest classes; the civic 'lethargy' of government; the incoherent and helpless systems of policing and prosecution all fall under Fielding's inspection. Credit has been given, and is in some measure due, to this work for the Gin Law of 1751 and the inception of the modern police force. It is also a vivid picture of the degredation of London's poor or 'commonalty'. The three page notice 'To the Public' at the end advertises the establishment of a registry of servants in order to obviate the scourge of rudeness and insolence of servants hired without any good character.

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Book number: 7963

Keywords: social sciences reform law government crime police alcohol gin drink progress

FIELDING, Henry.

Joseph Andrews edited by Martin C. Battestin.

Wesleyan Univ Press 1984 [1967]. Octavo publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 389pp.
¶ Wesleyan Edition.

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Book number: 6465

Keywords: literature fiction c18th England

Henry Fielding.

The Letter-Writers: or, a New Way to Keep a Wife at Home. A farce in three acts. As it is acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written by Scriblerus Secundus.

London, printed and sold by J. Roberts 1731. Diminutive slender quarto later blind panelled calf by Riviere (wear to spine, front hinge cracked); 48pp. Trimmed a bit close along the top touching "The" on the title but above the headlines throughout; some natural browning but a good, quite fresh copy that marks the heady days of the Fielding craze of the late 19th and early twentieth centuries when every good copy that could be found was banged into smart bindings by Riviere or Sangorski and flogged to millionaires.
¶ First edition and hard to find. Rushed through the press and published the day the play opened - the 24th of March - to little purpose. Modern critics have described The Letter-Writers as the best of 18th century farces and as dismal but Fielding's contemporaries don't seem to have had any disagreements. It lasted three days and wasn't reprinted for a long time.

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Book number: 9924

Keywords: literature drama c18th England