Education from John Price Antiquarian Books

London, Printed by J. Heptinstall for E. Smith..., 1716. 8vo, 190 X 110, pp. [xxii], 584, contemporary panelled calf; front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, other general wear to binding; a fair copy. William Darrell (1651–1721) "entered the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1671. He entered the novice college at… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, 1733. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 360 x 230 mms., pp. [3 4 - 8, followed by 17 recent blank leaves, recent buckram spine, marbled boards; some fraying of lower margins, but a good copy. Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) addresses his… Read more about this item

Londini, Excudebat Edvardus Griffin, Sumptibus Michaelis Sparke, 1640. 8vo, 171 x 107 mms., pp. [xxiv], 211 [212 blank, 213 - 214 index], [66 "Clavis ad Portam," name obscured with ink on title-page.with separate title-page in English, dated 1739 following Latin, "The Gate of Tongues unlocked and opened...," garishly rebound in quarter red-brown morocco, title in gilt on… Read more about this item

London: Printed for A. Millar...[inter alia], 1759. 8vo (in 4s), 200 x 112 mms., pp. [iv], 59 [60 blank], recently rebound in full light tan calf, gilt lettering on spine, marbled end-papers. A very good copy, with the bookplate of Sidney Broad on the verso of the front free end-paper The work was… Read more about this item

[London]: [Reprinted by W. Bulmer and Co.] [1818]. 8vo, 184 x 111 mms., pp. [iv] v -xv [xvi], 104, attractively bound in later full calf, gilt border on covers, spine in blind and gilt in compartments, with vertical title, in gilt, all edges gilt; lower front joint slightly cracked, some additional rubbing of joints, but a very good copy,,… Read more about this item

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1813. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 211 x 123 mms., pp. iv, recent boards, with paper label on front cover. A very good copy. Christopher Samuel John (1747 - 1813) sports a long string of prestigious associations and honours after his name on the title-page, but otherwise… Read more about this item

Cambridge At the University Press, 1899. Small 8vo, 166 x 111 mms., pp. lix [lx blank], 240 [241 - 248 adverts], original cloth, blocked in gilt on spine (faded), bookseller's ticket of "R. Daniell/ Aberystwyth" on front paste-down end-paper; extensively underlined and annotated throughout; upper inner margin of title-page defective. Quick's edition was first published… Read more about this item

Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1705. 8vo, 189 x 120 mms., pp. [xxiv], 270 [271 Contents, 272 blank], engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, attractively bound in Oxford panelled red morocco, gilt rules on spine; front joint slightly cracked, but a very good copy. The Church of England clergyman Richard Allestree (1621/2–1681) joined the royalist… Read more about this item

Glasgow [?privately printed] 1873. 8vo, 196 x 128 mms., pp. 8, original pink wrappers (slightly soiled). This pamphlet gives a glimpse into the nuts-and-bolts process of choosing an applicant for a job in academic philosophy in nineteenth-century Scotland. Our candidate, Adam Semple, appears to have been eminently successful in this instance, as he is known to… Read more about this item

London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1841. 8vo, 170 x 103 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 211 [212 colophon], engraved frontispiece of the Portland Vase, additional engraved title-page, full-page engraved plates ap pages 9, 77, 91, 167, 185, original cloth (soiled); edges dusty, slightly shaken in casing, but a fair to good copy, with the inscription "William Wallace… Read more about this item

Varsovie. de l'Imprimerie de la Banque de Pologne, 1837. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Tall 8vo, 250 x 162 mms., pp, [ii], iii [iv blank], 426 [427 - 428 Appendix, 429 - 432 index, 433 Errata, 434 blank], original printed wrappers, uncut and mostly unopened; library stamp on front cover and title-page, edges a bit soiled, but a… Read more about this item

London and Paris, Fisher, Son, & Co. [no date] [1838]. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 202 x 120 mms., pp. [9], 10 - 342, 2 [adverts], original ribbed cloth, with image in gilt of Queen Victoria on front cover; some slight wear to binding, but a very good copy. Sarah Stickney (1799 - 1872), the daughter of… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. and E. Wallis...By P.l Vigues..., 1813. FIRST EDITION. 12mo,126 x 78 mms., pp. 107 [108 blank], contemporary pin stiff paper covers, with handwritten on front cover; lacks frontispiece, title-page partially detached at inner margin.

London: Printed and sold by James Phillips..., 1779. 8vo (in 4s), 211 x 133 mms., pp. 64, folding engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved plates at end, uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers (rubbed and faded), stitched as issued; some slight, short tears to plates not affecting plate area. SOLD WITH: An engraved medallion, 50 mms. in… Read more about this item

Argentinae [Strasbourg] Apud Ioannem Albertum, Anno M. D. XXXV. Mense Martio. 1535. Small 8vo, 147 x 90 mms., unpaginated, pp. [124], collating A-H8, with the recto of the last leaf bearing the engraved colophon, contemporary vellum (slightly soiled), with the autograph in ink "Walter Shelley/ M. Temple" on the front paste-down end-paper, and in pencil on the recto of… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Tho. Astley..., 1736. 12mo (in 6s), 162 x 96 mms., pp. viii, 231 [232 - 236 adverts], contemporary calf (worn); all leaves before title-page missing, front paste-down end-paper defective, no free rear end-paper, front cover holding by one cord, rear joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped; with the later autograph "Alex Mitchell"… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1783. 8vo, 202 x 128 mms., pp. 338, including half-title, contemporary calf, recently rebacked with old gilt spine and red morocco label laid down, facsimiles of pp. 19 - 22 inserted before defective leaves of those pages in text, and last leaf of subscribers in facsimile; text a little fingered and soiled,… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Fleming and Company, 1731. Small 8vo, 152 x 98 mms., pp. xi [x blank, xi - xvi Act of Parliament], 46, contemporary marbled wrappers, stitched as issued.

London: Longmans, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 176, original cloth, fine copy in very slightly soiled dust-jacket.

London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1798. 12mo (in 6s), pp. viii, [13] - 232 [233 - 278 "English Spelling Dictionary"], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin (worn); covers detached. Despite the apparent absence of 2 leaves after the Contents, the text appears complete; p. [13] is the first page in gathering B. The leaf after the… Read more about this item