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[BAVEREL, Jean-Pierre]. Notices sur les graveurs qui nous ont laissé des estampes marquées de monogrammes, chiffres, rébus, lettres initiales, etc., avec une description de leurs plus beaux ouvrages et des planches en taille-douce, contenant toutes les marques dont ils se sont servis : suivies d'une table qui en donne l'explication. Besançon. De l'Imprimerie de Taulin-Dessirier, 1807-08 First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xv, [1], 360, lix, [1]; [3], 6-322pp. With five engraved folding plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black calf lettering-pieces. Rubbed, joints starting, spines dulled. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 23277
ALBERTI, Leonbatista. Della pittura e della statua. Milano. Dalla Società Tipograpfica de'Classici Italiani, 1804. 8vo. xxv, [1], 136pp, [4]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, supralibros of George Agar-Ellis to both boards. Rubbed, without lettering-pieces. Recent bookplates of J. B. Bury and Michael Bury to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 32523
[WINSTANLEY, Thomas]. Observations on the arts, with tables of the principal painters of the various italian, spanish, french, flemish, dutch, and german schools, their scholars and imitators, with lists of the most celebrated painters of those schools, arranged by the subjects in which they excelled.. Liverpool. Printed by W. Wales and Co., [1828]. First edition. 12mo. [2], x, 132, xxii pp. With the title page, preface, and index of the second edition bound in. Contemporary navy half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper board sunned. Scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to blank leaf bound after title page: 'To Henry Norris Winstanley / from his affc. Father'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 32521
WILDE, W[illiam] R[obert]. A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities of gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. Hodges, Smith, and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. [4], 100, iv pp. With 90 engraved illustrations in the text. Later brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's printed buff wrappers and a contemporary envelope addressed to 'Mr. Pfister, Medal Room, British Museum' bound in. Rubbed, spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of FFEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 27877
HAYDON, B. R., HAZLITT, William. Painting, and the fine arts: being the articles under those heads contributed to the seventh edition of the encyclopaedia britannica. Edinburgh. Adam and Charles Black, 1838. First edition. 8vo. [4], 227pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Upper hinge exposed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher to recto of FFEP: 'To William Lawson Esq. / From his Scotch Friend / Charles Black / Edinburgh / 9 April 1838'. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 20254
BERENSON, Bernard. The florentine painters of the renaissance: with an index of their works. New York. G. P. Putnams' Sons, 1896. First edition. 8vo. [2], 141pp, [3]. With a frontispiece. Original publisher's brick red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Booksellers ticket of Galloway & Porter of Cambridge and bookplate of Bernhard and Mary Berenson to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To / Capt Wakey Chandos-Pole / with the best / remembrances of / Bernard Berenson / I ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27198
CAREY, William. The national obstacle to the national public style considered. Observations on the probable decline or extinction of British Historical Painting, from the effects of the church exclusion of paintings... London. Printed by Howlett & Brimmer, 1825. First edition. [4], 151pp, [1]. With a terminal page of errata. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'To the Revd. H. C. Morewood, Alfreton, Derbyshire, this tract is presented with the Author's best respects, May 6. 1825. 37 Marylabonne Street, Piccadilly, London'.

[Bound with:] C**** [i.e. CAREY, William]. Patronage of irish genius. Two letters, shewing the utter unfitness, inutility, and public discredit of erecting ... More >
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 22625
GREEN, William. A description of sixty Studies from Nature; etched in the soft ground, by william green, of ambleside; after drawings made by himself in cumberland, westmorland, and lancashire. Comprising, a general guide to the beauties of the north of england. London. Printed for the Author, by J. Barfield, 1810. First edition. 8vo. x, 122pp. Uncut in original publisher's green paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed, marked, and dampstained, joints starting, surface loss to spine. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 30079
JACKSON, John. A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical. London. Charles Knight and Co., 1839. First edition. Large 8vo. xvi, 749pp, [3]. With seven plates (two coloured, one tinted) and 346 engraved illustrations in the text. Bound by J. Wright of London in contemporary blind-ruled brown half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of George Tudor to FEP, loss to upper corner of leaf 2H8, plates foxed. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23244
[STOWE GARDENS]. Stow: a description of the Magnificent Gardens Of the Right Honourable richard, Earl temple, Viscount and Baron cobham. With a Plan of the House and Gardens. London. Printed for J. Rivington...and B. Seeley, 1756. 8vo. 32pp. With an engraved folding plan. Extra-illustrated with an engraved dedication leaf and 11 engraved plates of views (one folding) seemingly extracted from Stow: the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham... (1751), signed: B. Seeley, the publisher of the work and draughtsman of the plates. Later blue paper boards, rebacked in modern gilt-ruled calf. Boards worn. Bookplate of the Society of the ... More > £ 1,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 28539
THOMPSON, William. An hymn to may. London. Printed and sold by R. Dodsley, [1746]. First edition. Quarto. [2], v, [2], 8-33pp, [2]. With a half-title. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Half-title and verso of final leaf marked, short tears to spine, edges dusty, occasional spotting. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 19208
JOHNSON, Samuel. PIOZZI, Hester Lynch.. Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To which are added, some poems never before printed. Published from the original Mss. in her possession. Dublin. Printed for Messrs. R. Moncrief..., 1788. First Dublin edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound in one. xvi, 279, [1]; ix, [1], 306pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary sheep, gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A crisp copy, with faint crease to spine and a little scuffing to boards. Some damp-staining, most noticeably to the front endpapers. With bookplate of Murdock Library, Canterbury, to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11563
[D'AULNOY, Marie-Catherine, Madame]. Memoirs of the Present State of the Court and Councils of spain. In Two Parts. With the true Reasons why this Vast Monarchy, which in the last Century made so considerable a Figure in the World, is in this so Feeble and Paralytick. Done into English by T. Brown. London. Printed for D. Brown et al., 1701. First edition in English. 8vo. [8], 192, 187pp, [5]. With two final advertisement leaves. Contemporary speckled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, chipping to lettering-piece. Armorial bookplate of Mary Hamilton Nisbet Ferguson to FEP, leaves toned/spotted, marginal ink-stain to p.13. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 16710
[HARRIS'S CABINET]. The paths of learning Strewed with Flowers or english grammar Illustrated. [London]. Published September 25th. 1820 by Harris and Son 8vo. 16pp. Printed on one side of the leaf only (alternative between rectos and versos). Engraved and hand-coloured throughout. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's printed buff stiff-paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, chipping to spine, slight surface loss to lower panel. Advertisement leaf detached, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25949
TAYLOR, Joseph. Tales of the robin, and other small birds; selected from the british poets... London. William Darton, [s.d., c.1825] 12mo. 140pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, and a further five engraved plates. Original publisher's black roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, slight loss to head and foot of spine. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, offsetting to title page, occasional light spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 21826