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[OXON.] [Joseph Skelton] [Printed] Prospectus for "Skelton's Antiquities of Oxfordshire" with related ms. material. Two pages, 4to, stabbed, minor foxing, mainly good condition. It announces that Skelton is preparing a !series of Engraved Illustrations of the Antiquities of the County of Oxford", anticipating 50 plates "from Original Drawings made purposely by Mr. F. Mackenzie" with letterpress by a Member of... |
History | £450.00 | |
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[Peter Brett, bookseller and stationer (1762-1792, BBTI)] Invoice, printed heading, account of Sir Robert W. Vaughan. One page, 8vo, good. He sends newspapers post free "to all parts of the Kingdom." He charges mainly for items of stationery but also an almanack. |
Book Trade History | £25.00 | |
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'Le Jeu d'Échecs' [anonymous French nineteenth-century handbill poem on the game of chess] 4 pp, 16mo. Paginated [1] to 4. On a bifolium of wove paper. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with thin strip of previous mount adhering to inner margin of first page. A 96-line poem, written in rhyming alexandrine couplets, beginning 'Du noble jeu d'échecs la tactique savante | Bannit... |
Social history | £650.00 |
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[Alexander MacGillivray (1750-1793), leader of the Creek (Muscogee) Indians from 1782] Disbound, paginated [477]-484, some staining but otherwise text in good condition, clear and complete report of the Treaty on p.[477], with a Note Historique sur Mac-Gillivray. |
French, History | £56.00 |
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[Printed Pamphlet; Prospectus of Literary Periodical]] Prospectus for the New Series of "Once a Week" Pamphlet, [12]pp., 8vo, formerly sewn but thread missing, hence leaves loose, good condition. It advertises new works (for example, "A New Novel, by the Author of 'Guy Livingstone'") but is notable for its lists of contributing Authors and Artists, and "Classified Index of all the Principal... |
Literature | £85.00 | |
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[PRINTING HISTORY] [Samuel Billingsley, bookseller, printer [BBTI 1724-1760]] Announcement by "Hardwicke C.", Lord Chancellor. Printed, one page, c.6.5 x 4.5", verso blank, right edge irregular (extracted?), small tear, sl.ightly marked, good condition. "In pursuance of an Order of the House of Peers, of the Nineteenth Day of March 1746, I do appoint SAMUEL BILLINGSLEY to Print the whole Proceedings in the House of... |
Printing History | £120.00 | |
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[PRINTING HISTORY] Thomas Hughes and others. Four pages, fol., tear on fold marks, other defects but text clear and complete. The ten signatories also include W. Morrison (presumably the philanthropist, Walter), T[homas]. Brassey, R.M. [Castor?], Auberon Herbert ("the originator of Voluntaryism" (Wikipedia - see alos DNB), Hodgson Pratt (... |
Printing History | £300.00 | |
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[PRINTING: FIRST WORLD WAR]William Archibald Clowes (1866-1937), Chairman, William Clowes & Sons Ltd, English printers Clowes is an eminent firm of English printers, founded in London in 1803, and still thriving in Suffolk. The twelve typed letters are each one page, quarto, on the firm's Duke Street letterhead. The autograph letter is one page, 12mo, with mourning border. The collection in good condition... |
Printing History | £500.00 | |
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[PRINTING] Henry Sandon, Victorian engraver Engraved trade card with illustration. On good thick wove paper, roughly six and a quarter inches by four and three-quarters wide. Dimensions of plate indentation five inches by three wide. Good, on aged and lightly-foxed paper, left edge irregular indicating extraction. A very attractive card, carrying an engraving of a sylvan scene... |
Printing History | £65.00 | |
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[PROVINCIAL PRINTING, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE] Rev. John Hodgson 4to. Pages: [4] + 30. Uncut and in large part unopened, in original plain grey wraps. Stabbed as issued, but with thread worn away and signatures loose within wraps. Grubby and with some offsetting, but overall a very good survival of a scarce and fragile item. A handsome production which does... |
Printing History | £125.00 |