Antiquarian from Jane & John Kinnaird

Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham for J. Sharpe, London, 1807. 196pp + engraved frontispiece. Leather boards, scuffed and rubbed, front board detached. Spine ends chipped with some leather loss. Ownership inscriptions inside front cover and on title page. Pages browned and little fingered. 13x9cms.

Vernor and Hood, London, 1804. 53pp + 12 full pg engraved plates + engraved title. Engravers James Storer and John Greig. Calf covers, little scuffed. Spine little frayed at top and bottom with 2 small worm holes to base. Contents little time stained and soiled. Name and date on title page. 13x8cms.

Routledge, London, 1856. iv + 252pp. Cloth boards, extremities bumped and frayed. Light stain to front cover. Contents little soiled. 17x11cms.

John Camden Hotten, London, n.d. (advertisements dated1871). 299pp + 20p ads., with b/w illus throughout. Conjuring, 'parlour arts', theatrical performances and other entertainments. Cloth boards, scuffed and little bumped and marked. Extremities little frayed. Contents little foxed and browned with marginal damp staining to a few pages. Stitching to 16 pages a little loose, hinge… Read more about this item

Gleave, Manchester, 1827. vii + 688pp + 11 full page plates + frontispiece + engraved title. Engraved title dated 1824. Marbled boards, calf spine. covers little scuffed. Contents little time stained, moderate foxing. Lower right corner of first few pages creased. 22x14cms.

Thomas De La Rue, London, 1887 (fifth edition). 131pp + 4p ads. Cloth boards, gilt titles. All edges gilt. contents little time stained, but a nice clean copy, covers very bright. 17x11cms.

Karslake, London, 1909. viii + 392pp + frront + ads. 'Being a compilation of 2,032 notes from catalogues of book-sales which have taken place in the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, between the years 1885-1909'. cloth boards, little scuffed. 22x18cms.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1903. 568pp + 1p ads + 6 photogravures. Cloth boards, little scuffed. Vellum spine scuffed and very soiled. top edge gilt. Contents little foxed, outer pages little soiled, inner hinge weak. 23x16cms.

Longmans, Green, .. London, 1866. xi + 435pp. Ex library copy. Boards with cloth spine, scuffed and bumped, top of spine damaged. Contents soiled and fingered, with some foxing. Small library stamps on frontispiece, title page and first page of preface. Penned numbers on title page. Bookplate inside front cover. … Read more about this item

Johnston, Edinburgh, 1904. xii + 295pp. Bagpipes, Highland Dances, Customs, Patriotic Poems, etc. Decorative cloth boards with gilt titles. Covers little scuffed and bumped. End papers browned, name inside front cover. A few annotations. Lacks page iii/iv (following title page and before preface). 19x13cms.

Richard Cruttwell, Bath, 1808. xii + 236pp. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Smith. Calf covers, scuffed and bumped, corners frayed, lacks 4cm portion from base of spine. Contents time stained and foxed. Title page loose, lacking lower right corner and with 1cm strip trimmed from along the top edge. 19x12cms.

Longman, Brown, London, 1852 (2nd edition corrected, enlarged and improved). xvi + 522pp + 32p ads. Original cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Boards little marked and generally soiled. Corners and top and bottom of spine bumped and frayed. Page edges dusty and little stained (extending to margins of a few pages). Pages uncut … Read more about this item

Chatto And Windus, London, 1874. viii + 256pp + 48p ads. Cloth boards, scuffed, bumped and frayed. Spine hinges split (4cms top and bottom). Contents foxed and fingered. Name on end paper and on title page. 20x14cms.

Chapman And Hall, London, 1858 (2nd edition). 72pp, with a few colour illus. Cloth boards little scuffed, extremities little rubbed and frayed. Gilt titles and decoration to upper cover. All edges gilt. Contents little foxed and fingered. Gutta-percha binding, with a few loose pages. 19x14cms.

David Nutt, London, 1894 & 1898. 2 vols. xx + 433pp & xv + 531pp. 'with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the kingdom'.Cloth boards, little scuffed. Both vols lack an end paper, but nice bright copies. 23x17cms.

John Mason, London, 1864. ii + 384pp + b/w front, with a few b/w illus in the text. Marbled boards, leather spine. Covers scuffed and bumped with some loss to leather. Contents little browned and soiled. Name on front free end paper. 22x14cms.

London & Derby, 1863, 4th edition (enlarged and revised). xv + 144pp. Cloth boards, scuffed. All edges gilt. Contents time stained. Bookplate pasted onto front free end paper. 20x13cms.