The National Trust Book of English Furniture.
Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1986. 14.5cm x 21cm. 295 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.
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Dictionary of British Book Illustrators. The Thentieth Century.
First Edition. London, John Murray, 1983. 26 x 19 cm. 336 pages. With illustrations showing samples and styles of various book illustrators. Original black cloth with gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally bright and clean.
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The Collector’s Hand-book of Marks and Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain of the Renaissance and Modern Periods. Selected from His Larger Work.
London, Reeves and Turner, 1906. 19.5cm x 13cm. XXX, 234 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilted cover and spine.
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American Factory Production of Women’s Clothing.
First Edition. Limited Edition, copy no. 868. London, Devereaux Publications Ltd, 1947 24 x 19 cm, xvi, 251 pages with 24 full page plates. Original ‘velvet’ type dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Paper labels on front cover and spine. Binding seriously rubbed on corners and spine. Part of spine label missing. Internally very good condition. Minor amounts of foxing. Some age darkening.
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The ABC of Collecting Old English China. Giving a Short History of the English Factories, and showing how to apply Tests for Unmarked China before 1800.
Second edition. London, The London Opinion Curio Club, 1908. 23 x 15 cm. 142 pages with 75 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with minor external wear and some foxing.
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Costume & Fashion. The Evolution of European Dress through the Earlier Ages. With Sixteen Full-Page Coloured Plates, Eight Half-Tone and over Three Hundred Line Drawings by the Author.
London & New York, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd & E.P. Dutton and Co. Inc., 1947. 19 x 25 cm, xv, 300 pages. Beautifully illustrated in colour and B&W throughout. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Book in excellent condition. Clean and tight. No annotations, but the name of the previous owner small on front paste down. Some foxing on end papers and edges. Dust jacket with just a little shelf wear, darkened and foxed. Dust jacket front corners both clipped. A very nice copy.
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Old Glass – European and American. With Two Hundred and Sixty-Five Ilustrations. [With a Chapter on Irish Glass / A Chapter on Waterford Glass / A Chapter on Dublin and Cork Glass].
London, Hodder & Stoughton, no year (c.1935). Octavo. XVI, 394 pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover [Grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine and embossed illustration on spine andfront board]. Original binding in very good condition with some strong signs of spotting and staining to the covers. Interior in very good condition. The binding still very firm.
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The Irish Character in Print.
First Edition in this Form. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1969. 21 x 13 cm. x, 40 pages plus 6 plates, one of them folding. Original green cloth with gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, now in protective jacket. A very nice copy. Bright and clean.
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One Breath. Notes from the Reluctant Engagement Project. Stories that tell us about truly empowering relationships.
First and limited Edition of 92 copies. No. 21. Westport, Mayo, Clan Beo / The Doire Press, 2019. 22 x 22 cm. One Breath Pack – including explanatory pamphlet, 23 Haiku from Roberta Beary, Kona from Maitiu Quinn, 24 seperate cards and narratives by Willie Walsh with art work from Clan Beo, all beautifully presented in a bespoke designed box. As new.
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British Private Press Prospectuses 1891 – 2001.
First and Limited Edition. No. 136 of 350. Risbury, The Whittington Press, 2001. 28 x 20 cm. xii, 147 pages. Illustrated. With losely inserted facsimile prospectuses. Cloth spine over decorated paper boards. Gilt title. Inside matching slip case, as issued. Fine deckle edges. As new condition. A bright and clean copy.
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Les modes Parisiennes illustrees, journal de la bonne compagnie. Trentieme Annee.
Paris, D’Aubert, January to June 1873. 27 x 20 cm. 312 pages, (2). With B&W Illustrations and coloured Plates, some folding. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. New cloth spine. Morocco spine label wih gilt title. New end papers. Very good condition. Some shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Internally clean. A nice copy.
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[A Collection of Engravings showing Habits & Dresses from Various Countries]. [Unknown Title and Publisher – No Title Page].
No publishing Information. c. 1790-1800. 21 x 13 cm. 35 engraved plates. No title or text pages. Contemporary leather. Front board detached. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Front board detatched. Dust dulled throughout. First three pages with edgewear and minor losses, not affecting the engravings. See images.
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Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain & Ireland. From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, out of the Collection in the Possession of the Author.
First Edition. London, William Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press. For Messrs. Colnaghi and Co., 1814. 36.5 x 26.5 cm. Frontispiece, Decorated Title Page, Title Page, Engraved Dedication Page, viii [Preface], (4) [subscribers & List of Plates]. 60 unpaginated coloured Plates with text description pages. Complete. Conteporary full red morocco with elaborate gilt and blind decorations. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Tiny loss to top of spine (see images). Armorial Ex Libris of previous owner (‘Deburgh, Earl of Clanricarde’) on front paste down. Mild age darkening throughout. Small stain affecting the top of one plate (see images). Otherwise very clean, with beautiful colour. A great copy. Please review all the images on our web site.
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Modern Painters. Volume I. Containing Parts I and II. / Volume II. Containing Part III. Sections 1. and 2. Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. / Volume III. Containing Part IV. Of Many Things. / Volume IV. Containing Part V. Of Mountain Beauty. / Volume V. Completing the Work, and Containing Parts VI. Of Leaf Beauty. VII. Of Cloud Beauty. VIII. Of Ideas of Relation. 1. Of Invention Formal. IX. Of Ideas of Relation. 2. Of Invention Spiritual.
Vol. 1: Third Edition – Revised by the Author. Volumes 2-5 First Editions. Five Volumes – Complete Set. London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1846, 1846, 1856, 1856, 1860. 26 x 18 cm. Vol.1: lxiii, 422 pages plus 32 pages publishers list / Vol.2: xvi, 217 pages plus 3 pages publishers list / Vol.3: xix, 348 pages plus 16 pages publishers list and 18 Plates / Vol. 4: xii, 411 pages. With 35 Plates / Vol.5: xvi, 384 pages plus 32 pages publishers list and 34 Plates. Also small illustrations in text. Green cloth with elaborate blind decorations to boards. Gilt titles and decorations on spine. Small binder label in volume 1: ‘Westleys & Clark, London’. Very good condition. All bindings are rubbed, bumped and some are stained. Various degrees of fraying to spine ends. Spines age darkened / browned. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally dust dulled and occasionally mildly foxed. All Plates are present, a few are lose. Bindings sound. A nice complete set of this important publication.
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The Universal Penman. Or, the Art of Writing. Made Useful To the Gentleman and Scholar, As well as the Man of Business. In all the useful and ornamental Branches of Modern Penmanship; with some necessary Observations on the Excellency of the Pen, and a large Number of select Sentences in Prose and Verse; various forms of Business, relating to Merchandize and Trade; Letters on several Occasions; accurate Specimens of the Oriental Languages, and Alphabets in all the Hands now practis’d. Written with the friendly Assistance of several of the most Eminent Masters, and Engrav’d by Geo. Bickham. The Whole Embelish’d with beautiful Decorations for the Amusement of the Curious.
London, Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Print Seller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, ND [1741]. Folio [c. 36 x 24 cm]. Blank, unnumberred engraved Frontispiece, Engravings numbered 1 to 119 and 121 to 212. Page 120 is missing. Old black polished calf with elaborate gilt decorations to boards and spine. Dentelles. All edges gilt. Gilt title, author and publishing date (‘London 1733’) on spine. Five raised bands. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with some minor material losses to spine and corners (please review images). Front hinge started to open with front free end paper and leading two blanks partially loose. Remnants of a red morocco Ex Libris on front free end paper. The two blanks in the front of the book and the one at the end are creased and lack a corner each. The entire text black, consisting of 212 Engraved pages in Excellent condition. Mild age darkening and occasional very mild foxing throughout. The occasional small ink stain. A tiny worm hole close to the binding (not affecting any of the actual engravings) visible between pages 180 and 198. Overall an exceptionally well preserved and clean copy of this scarce item.
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