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Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. Gift inscription on front free end-paper. Pp.xx,257. 24 plates. 19 figures. Described as "a fascinating full-length history of one of the world's most interesting and ancient musical instruments."
Published : Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1975, First Edition
£28.00
A good copy in rather darkened and dusty white boards. A little pencilled underlining to early pages.138pp. Frontis and four illus. The biography of the discovereer of English china-clay and the first maker in England of true porcelain.
Published : E.Hicks, Junr., London 1895, First Edition
£18.00
Hardback. 4to. A near fine copy in a similar dustwrapper. 281 pages. Numerous illustrations, many in colour. This is a history of the Lan Na princes, their alliances and the textiles and dress of their 19th century courts.
Published : River Books, Bangkok 2002, First Edition
£25.00
Hardback. Small 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. No ownership inscription or other internal marking. 182 pages. Numerous illustrations.
Published : Studio Vista/Christie's, London 1980, First Edition
£12.00
Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. 304 pages. 544 illustrations of which 412 are in colour. An authoritative study founded on thirty years of research.
Published : Thames & Hudson, London 2008, First Edition
£30.00
Hardbacks. 4to. A near fine two volume set in near fine dustwrappers. Vol. I is a 1982 reprint. 421 pages. Vol. II is a 1989 first edition. 239 pages. Both volumes profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. With more than 3,300 entries in the two volumes they constitute the standard reference work for these popular and much collected wares. Please note these heavy books will require extra postage.
Published : Antique Collectors' Club Ltd 1989,
£50.00
Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 288 pages. Nearly 400 illustrations including many in colour. Prestonpans was the centre of the Scottish pottery industry in the 18th century and the tradition continued up to the 1930s. This is the definitive history of that industry.
Published : Prestoungrange University Press with Burke's Peerage and Gentry, Prestonpans 2007, First Edition
£60.00
Hardback. 4to. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the editor on the title page. 192 pages. Numerous coloured plates and figures. Documents the work and role of interantional tapestry workshop, Dovecot Studios. "Offers the definitive account of one of the world's most innovative centres of textile art production." Includes an essay by Dovecot Director, David Weir on "Dovecot Today."
Published : Lund Humphries in Association with Dovecot Studios 2012, First Edition
£32.00
4to. A near fine copy in a similar dustwrapper. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 125pp + 60 photographs by Cunningham at end. Further illustrations in text.
Published : Gordon Fraser, London 1979, First Edition
£40.00
Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. Small previous owner's inscription on front free end-paper. Pp.xvii,413. 12 colour plates. Black and white illustrations in text. Described as "a meticulously researched social history" of the part played by ice in history in relation to food.
Published : Michael Joseph Ltd, London 1994, First Edition
£14.00
A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which has one small edge tear. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 136pp. 56 plates.
Published : Frederick Muller, London 1977, First Edition
£9.00
Softback. A good plus copy in wraps. Spine a little torn at ends and smallish part of title piece missing. Internally a very good, clean copy. Unopened. Pp.xxiv,352 + loose errata page. 72 plates. A biographical dictionary of 18th century European furniture makers.
Published : Les Editions D'Art et D'Histoire, Paris 1953, Quatrieme Edition Revue et Augmentee
£40.00
A near very good copy in a similar dustwrapper. The front fixed end-paper shows evidence that the book was at one time in a library but there are no actual library markings. Pp.xi,150. 8 illustrations. Attempts to elucidate the part played by technical education in fostering the Scottish woollen and linen industries. Described as "an important contribution not only to the educational but also to the social and economic history of Scotland".
Published : University of London Press 1930, First Edition
£20.00
A good copy in brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 153pp. Illustrated.
Published : T.N. Foulis, Edinburgh 1906,
£9.00
A very good copy. Spine a bit darkened but the gilt lettering is clear. 153pp. + adverts. Frontispiece and 28 illustrations.
Published : T.N. Foulis, Edinburgh 1908, First Edition
£9.00
A very good copy in light blue cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black. Bevelled edges. Upper board a little marked. This is no. 106 of the small paper edition of 500 copies. Pp.xvi,98. 27 illustrations. Three of the six chapters are on Androw Myllar.
Published : J & J.P. Edmond & Spark, Aberdeen 1885, First Edition
£38.00
Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in the original cloth which is lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Not foxed. Pp.xix,227. 50 illustrations.
Published : George Bell & Sons, London 1902, First Edition
£24.00
Hardback. A good plus copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. Some fading to spine and rear board. Ownership inscription on front fixed end-paper. 478 pages. Numerous illustrations throughout. "A comprehensive history of the development of the piano from the monochord to the concert grand player piano."
Published : Covina Publishing Company, Covina California 1911, First Edition
£18.00
Softback. A very good copy. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 237 pages. Numerous illustrations. Includes the scripts of Douglas's trilogy: "My Childhood," My Ain Folk," and "My Way Home" together with various articles about Douglas and his film-making.
Published : BFI Publishing in Association with the Scottish Film Council, London 1993,
£22.00
4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper (designed by Frank Brangwyn) with a few closed edge tears two of which have been internally repaired. A clean, attractive, copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 57pp + 100 plates. Covers interior decoration, furniture and woodwork, carpets and textiles, metalwork, lighting and heating, pottery and glass.
Published : F. Lewis, Benfleet, Essex 1935, First Edition
£60.00
Hardback. Folio. A very good copy in light blueish-green cloth lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Ownership inscription. Pp.ix,168. 44 full-page illustrations including 32 in colour.
Published : George Allen, London 1911, First Edition
£35.00
Nd. c. 1922. 4to. A good copy. 132pp + 4pp adverts. 67 plates including colour.
Published : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., London, Second Edition
£12.00
Large 4to. A very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in red. Some mainly end-paper and edge foxing. 218 pages. Includes the words and music to many of the finest Scots traditional ballads together with a Note on each ballad. As the editor says: "Probably no country in Europe was richer than mediaeval Scotland in popular minstrelsy".
Published : Bayley & Ferguson, London, First Edition
£60.00
Hardback. A fine copy in publisher's black cloth with title in gilt on spine. Profusely illustrated in colour. No inscriptions. 207 pages. Fine dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and is protected in a removable cover. Jemima Blackburn (1823-1909) was a watercolourist of outstanding ability whose keen sense of observation gives a faithful and evocative picture of life in 19th century Scotland.
Published : Canongate, Edinburgh 1988, First Edition
£8.00
A very good copy in dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Sellotape traces on end-papers otherwise a nice clean copy internally without foxing or ownership inscription. Pp.xiv,485. 24 plates.
Published : Royal Artillery Institution, London 1954, First Edition
£20.00
Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn but just a little faded on the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. A clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 272 pages. This is a selection of Fenton's theatre reviews.
Published : Jonathan Cape, London 1983, First Edition
£20.00
Folio. Appears to be first edition of 1988. A fine copy in a dustwrapper which has one smallish edge tear to the rear panel. Unpaginated. Weird and wonderful cat photographs in colour. Text in French.
Published : Michele Trinckvel,
£35.00
A good copy in a fair dustwrapper with a number of chips. Some splashing to title page but otherwise a nice copy internally. Pp.vii,126 + adverts at front and back. 58 illustrations. Difficult to find in first edition.
Published : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., London 1932, First Edition
£35.00
Hardback. A near fine copy in green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and lettered and decorated in gilt on upper board. A nice clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xii,130. 8 colour plates. Numerous black and white illustrations. A study of the fine European book bindings - mainly from the 16th-18th centuries- in Marsh's Library, Dublin.
Published : Ashgate Publishing Limited 2004, First Edition
£65.00
4to. A near fine copy in a similar dustwrapper. 184 pages. A book of superb cat photographs in colour. Text in French
Published : Editions Cartes D'Art, Paris 1987, First Edition
£15.00
Hardback. A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and with harp in gilt on upper board. A little wear to spine ends and board tips. No ownership inscription. Pp.xiv,[1],320. Six illustrations. Includes a memoir of Edward Bunting in nine chapters, a memoir of Arthur O'Neill in four chapters, three chapters of the diary and letters of Patrick Lynch and chapters on the harp in ancient Ireland, the last harpers, famous harps etc.
Published : John Murray, London 1917,
£85.00
Hardback. A good copy in brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and decorated in gilt on spine and upper board. Pencilled ownership inscription on front end-paper. Pp.xxvii,422 + 6pp adverts. 5 wood engravings. 8 (of 9) chromolithographs, lacking the plate at page 278. The author was at one time head chef to Queen Victoria.
Published : Chapman and Hall, London 1866, Second Edition
£120.00
Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. In a near very good dustwrapper with minor edge tears. No ownership inscription and very little foxing. Pp.xxxi,214. 72 plates illustrating 385 drinking glasses etc. Deals mainly with 18th century drinking glasses and includes a lengthy chapter on "Glasses devoted to the Jacobite cause and clubs."
Published : Herbert Jenkins, London 1926, First Edition
£150.00
A near fine copy in a similar dustwrapper. 320pp. Many illustrations including colour. An invaluable work of reference for every photographer.
Published : Leisure Books 1987, Reprint
£10.00
Hardback. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper which has a couple of small edge tears. A clean copy internally without ownership inscription or other marking. 164 pages. 10 colour plates. 270 black and white illustrations.
Published : Lund Humphries, London 1982, First Edition
£18.00
Hardback. Nd. but catalogue at end is dated 6/12 so may be 1912. A very good copy in the original decorated green cloth lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription. Moderate edge foxing. Pp.[xiv],188 + 20pp catalogue. Frontispiece. Illustrations in text. "The following collection of travestical or burlesque sketches are intended to offer to the amateur an opportunity of amusing his friends with a new class of entertainment in which the fyn created is a substitute for the genuine entertainment parodied, and an excuse for the humorous swindle perpetrated". Parodies conjuring, juggling, phrenology, second sight, spiritualism etc.
Published : L. Upcott Gill, London,
£40.00
4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 224pp. Many illus. including colour. A survey of the developments in every category of the applied arts from 1940 to 1980.
Published : Phaidon, London 1980, First Edition
£5.00
Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A nice clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 184pp. After an Introduction and Descriptive Commentary there are 200 plates in black and white of day and evening dresses, corsets etc. dealing with each five-year period in the century.
Published : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1960, First Edition
£22.00
A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.ix,[3],1258. A superbly detailed reference work which deals in chronological order with every original British musical performed in London's West End between 1915 and 1984 as well as many produced in the provinces.
Published : Macmillan, London 1987, Reprint
£70.00
A very good copy in a good, complete, dustwrapper. 451pp. 567 plates. Deals with porcelain pieces from more than forty factories.
Published : Barrie & Jenkins, London 1974, First Edition
£8.00
Hardback. A fine copy in a price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper. No.1185 of 1500 copies. Pp.xxxvii,336. 10 colour plates. 317 black and white plates. Described as "one of the most important ceramic reference books" which "has successfully resolved the problem of distinguishing between the porcelains made at the Caughley and those made at the Worcester factory." First published in 1969 this second limited printing has a new Introduction by the author, additional illustrations and other minor amendments.
Published : Antique Collectors' Club Ltd 1981,
£38.00
Illustrated by Charles Burton.
4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Ownership inscription. 223pp. Profusely illustrated. A book of Belgian cuisine with many recipes.
Published : The Tuesday Group 1982, First Edition
£12.00
Hardback. Oblong 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Unpaginated. (Approx. 130 pages). A collection of black and white photographs of Glen Lyon in Winter. "Taken over ten long winters, this book is a unique celbration of the landscapes, people and spirit of Scotland's longest glen."
Published : Watermill Books, Aberfeldy 2013, First Edition
£18.00
Illustrated by Yvonne Skargon.
Hardback. A near very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper which has one small closed edge tear. No ownership inscription and not foxed. A few splash marks, especially at page 278/279, show that the book has been used for its intended purpose. Pp.xiii,[v],508. Black and white illustrations.
Published : Michael Joseph Ltd, London 1982, First Edition
£30.00
Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's dark green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's name on f.e.p. 92 pages Good plus dustwrapper which is rubbed on spine and has l closed tear. Not price-clipped and protected in a removable cover. This collection includes adaptations of homely family puddings and some of the traditional English dishes which she loved.
Published : Michael Joseph, London 1993, First Edition
£8.00
A very good copy. Paperback. 112pp. Illustrated. UK postage on this item one pound.
Published : Special Interest Model Books Ltd. 2002, Reprint
£5.00
Softback. 4to. A very good copy. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other marking. 231 pages. Musical examples. A collection of essays which gives, for the first time, an extended, considered, synoptic view of the life's work of Thomas Wilson (1927-2001) who is widely considered to be the leading Scottish composer of his generation.
Published : Musica Scotica Trust, Glasgow 2004, First Edition
£35.00
A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Red on spine has faded to yellow. 205pp. 16 plates. 137 figures. Errata slip. "Provides all the relevant information and instruction for the creation of textiles of your own design".
Published : David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980, Third Impression
£5.00
Hardback. Nd. c.1880 A good plus copy in dark green cloth lettered in gilt. No ownership inscription. Pp.xv,198 + 4pp adverts. Numerous illustrations including frontispiece and two others in colour.
Published : Chapman and Hall, London,
£12.00
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