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Wie vnd in wellicher gestalt Kay. May. Võ[n] Bruck auß gen Lunden in Engeland gezogen ankõm[m]en vnd Empfangen worden ist
[Augsburg], [Melchior Ramminger], [1522]A rare newsletter providing a day-to-day account of the visit of Charles V to London in June 1522, to confirm the recent alliance made between him and Henry VIII against Francis I of France. -
Magna Carta Regis Johannis, XV. Die Junii Anno Regni XVII. A.D. MCCXV
London, John Whittaker, 1816The handsome Magna Charta printed in gold by Whittaker. In 1812, the Westminster bookbinder John Whittaker ingeniously adapted the process of stereotyping to print in burnished gold. He circulated a prospectus and specimens, and in 1816 published the present work in celebration of the 600th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. The stereotypes were imposed on a range of materials (paper, vellum, and satin mounted on paper) of varying colours (white, red, and purple), and of varying dimensions. “Special” copies were produced by adding illumination in gold and colours, with varying degrees of elaboration: borders, incorporating the heraldic insignia of the Barons; portraits; coats of arms of the recipients, etc. The number of leaves in the book varies: many copies, printed on paper, vellum, and also satin, contain a title and eleven leaves, comprising the text of the Magna Carta (12 leaves in total, as here); some copies include an additional page, containing the names of the Barons (13 leaves in total), and a few have in addition a dedication to the Prince Regent, a sub-title and the text of the treaty (Conventio inter Regem Iohannem et Barones) in which the king surrendered the City of London (17 leaves in total). Copies further enhanced by additional dedication leaves bearing the arms of the original owner also are recorded. -
Chatham: his early life and connections
London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1910(24 cm), xii, 526 pp. Publisher’s cloth. ¶ Exlibris “John Quinn”. Binding lightly stained, front hinge weakening. -
Henry the Sixth : a reprint of John Blacman's memoir with translation and notes by M.R. James
Cambridge, University Press, 1919(24 cm), xvi, 60 pp. Publisher’s quarter cloth, printed dust jacket. - Text of “Collectarium mansuetudinum et bonorum morum regis Henrici VI”, a detailed biography of Henry VI presenting the king as a model of lay piety. The text does not survive in manuscript form and M.R. James has reprinted Thomas Hearne’s text (1732) and collated it with an edition printed by Robert Coplande in about 1523. Designed by Bruce Rogers; see A.W. Pollard, “The work of Bruce Rogers, printer” in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, volume 14 (1919), pp.9-22, no. 250; Frederic Warde, Bruce Rogers: designer of books (Cambridge, MA, 1925), no. 136. ¶ Dust jacket age-stained and very worn (several small losses); internally a fresh, unmarked copy. Compliments slip loosely inserted (Syndics of the Cambridge University Press). -
Henry Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations
New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920Two volumes (22 cm), xiv (2), 365 (1) pp., frontispiece and [4] plates; ix (3), 391 (1) pp., frontispiece and [4] plates. Uniform publisher’s maroon cloth. - Henry Fox was at various times a lord of the treasury, secretary at war, paymaster general, secretary of state. The author, a descendant of Holland's brother, bases his account on family correspondence, which had been inaccessible to previous scholars. ¶ Frontispieces foxed; otherwise a well-preserved, unmarked copy. -
The early opposition to Sir Robert Walpole, 1720-1727 (University of Kansas publications, Humanistic studies; no. 14/15)
Lawrence, University of Kansas, Dept. of Journalism Press, 1931(23 cm), vi, 280 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A revision of the author’s dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 1931). Realey, professor of history at Kansas from 1927-1960, bequeathed most of his library to the University; his collection of 200 volumes documenting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole (1721-1742) was purchased posthumously by the Department of Special Collections. ¶ Excellent copy -
Some materials towards memoirs of the reign of King George II. Printed from a copy of the original manuscript in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle; and from the original manuscript at Ickworth
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931Three volumes (23.5 cm), lx, 1003 pp. (consecutively paginated), illustrations. Uniform publisher’s blue cloth, top edges gilt. - The previous edition had been prepared by John Wilson Croker from a severely bowdlerized manuscript (London 1848). The discovery of the complete manuscript, among the papers of George III and George IV in the cellars of Apsley House, made possible a collation with the mutilated original at Ickworth, and Hervey’s “Memoirs” are here printed for the first time “without regard to considerations either of decency or dullness”. ¶ Copy 225 of 900 numbered sets. Backs lightly sunned; otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. -
The London journal and its authors, 1720-1723 [University of Kansas publications, Humanistic studies; no. 19]
Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1935(24 cm), iv, 38 pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - An account of the rapid turnaround of the “London Journal”, from a newspaper critical of the government of Robert Walpole, to one consistently defending his policies. Includes discussions of the journalists John Trenchard (1662-1723), Thomas Gordon (d. 1750), Benjamin Norton Defoe (b. 1687), and Robert, Viscount Molesworth (1656-1725). Realey, professor of history at Kansas from 1927-1960, was an avid collector; he bequeathed the greater part of his library to the University, and in 1963 his collection of 200 volumes documenting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole (1721-1742) was purchased from heirs by the Department of Special Collections. ¶ Occasional pencil marginalia, a few ink marks in margins. -
England, 1870-1914
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1936(23 cm), xxiii (1), 634 pp., 7 folding maps. Publisher’s cloth. ¶ Fore-edge and endpapers foxed. -
Social life in the reign of Queen Anne : taken from original sources… With 84 illustrations from contemporary prints
New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1937(20 cm), xix (1), 474 pp., frontispiece (folding facsimile of The Daily Courant, 11 March 1702), illustrations. Publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth. - “A veritable cornucopia of information” extracted from newspapers and other contemporary sources, presenting lists of the London coffee-houses of the period (1702-1714), of the persons to whom rings of mourning were presented upon the “occasion of Mr Pepys’s Death and Burial”, etc. “A new impression” (verso of title-page; original edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1883). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Conflicts: studies in contemporary history
London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1942(20 cm), viii, 222, [1] pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Dust jacket very soiled, small defects. Unmarked copy. -
The decline and fall of British capitalism
New York, Charles Scribner, 1950(24 cm), xiv, 301 (1) pp. Publisher’s cloth binding. ¶ Front hinge cracking; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
The England of Elizabeth; the structure of society
New York, Macmillan, 1951(25 cm), xv (1), 546 (2) pp. [12] leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth. ¶ Lacking dust jacket. Fresh, unmarked copy. -
Gladstone, a biography
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1954(22 cm), xiv, 482 pp., [8] leaves of plates, illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth, dust jacket. - The dust jacket identifies this as the “Second printing”. ¶ Short tears in dust jacket, with minor losses; unmarked copy. -
Eminent Victorians
New York, Modern Library / Random House, [undated; c. 1954](18.5 cm), xi (1), 342 (2) pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Unmarked copy. -
English radicalism, 1762-1785 : the origins
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955(21.5 cm), 534 (2) pp. Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jacket. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956(22 cm), xiv, 380 pp., frontispiece and 13 plates (nos. 2-14). Copyright notice inkstamped by publisher on verso of title-page. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket (dated “10/56”). ¶ Bookseller’s ticket on lower endpaper: From Jerrold Nedwick | Antiquarian Bookseller | 2013 Prairie Chicago, 16, Ill. Dust jacket worn, with some losses; a good, unmarked copy. -
Sir Robert Walpole : [Volume 1] The Making of a statesman § [2] The King's minister
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956-1961Two volumes (21.5 cm), xv (1), 407 (1) pp., frontispiece and 8 leaves of plates; xi (1), 363 (1) pp., frontispiece and 12 leaves of plates. Uniform publisher’s cloth. - First American editions (printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge). ¶ Occasional pencil marginalia. Good copies. -
English men and manners in the eighteenth century, an illustrated narrative
New York, Oxford University Press, 1957(20 cm), xxiii, 539 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Reprint of 2nd edition, published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929. ¶ Ownership inscription on half-title; otherwise a good, unmarked copy. -
The second Tory party, 1714-1832
London & New York, Macmillan / St Martin's Press, 1959(23 cm), vii (1), 451 (1) pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Reprint of the 1938 first edition. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.
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