Search Results: Titles starting with V from Wykeham Books

Oak Knoll Press, New Castle / British Library, London, first edition, 2004. Cloth, 4to,. xxiv, 266 pp, 8 pp of colour plates, numerous ills. From the blurb: "As a typographer, publisher, and wood engraver Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) was a versatile and innovative practitioner who exerted a powerful influence on the development of modern book design. The Vale Press is the most extensive account to date of his quest to become "a publisher in earnest"." "Beginning with Ricketts's work as "a designer of books and bindings" for Oscar Wilde, the story of the Vale Press reveals for the first time the nature of Ricketts's collaboration with the master printer Charles McCall of the Ballantyne Press and the degree to which Ricketts's success, both artistic and commercial, depended upon the transformation of his redundant skill as a wood engraver into a positive medium of artistic expression." "This work offers a historic window into the world of… Read More

Funk & Wagnalls Company, New york, first edition, 1938. Cloth, 8vo, 20 cm,. xiii, 168 pp, numerous ills. From the preface: "This handbook is an outgrowth of the experience gained through examining questioned documents in some 2500 cases and presenting testimony as to the authenticity of disputed writing in more than 400 court cases. ..The book is intentionally brief and is intended for the non-expert man or woman unfamiliar with, but desiring to learn quickly the procedure in, the expert analysis of writing, and perhaps to apply the knowledge gained herefrom to personal problems in determining whether some questioned bit of writing is valid or forged. Booklabel of the "Northwest Sheriff and Police Reporter", Seattle , and inscribed address of George T. Masury on front pastedown endpaper. A little rubbed, contents slightly agetoned, Good.

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th November 2007. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 178 pp, colour ills. Lots 1-155.. The sale comprised: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Lots 1-23 including a Book of Hours from the Collection of Anton Philips; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts 24-56; Printed Books 57-155, including: Important Early Printed and Illustrated Books from a Private European Library 57-87; The Darwin Collection formed by a Private English Collector 88-99; Natural Sciences and Atlases 100-114; Literature, History and Topography 115-155. A few minor marks, otherwise Very Good.

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th June 2003. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 202 pp, ills (chiefly colour). 132 lots. The sale included sections on Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Lots 1-23) and Natural history (84-132) . Indexed. Neatly but regrettably colour-coded by the previous owner, a bookseller, with 5 coloured tape bands around the spine. Priced in ink and 1 or 2 notes, otherwise Very Good. Print-out of prices realized paperclipped to last leaf.

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th November, 1978. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 59 pp, plates, ills. 316 lots. Good. List of estimates laid in.

Christie's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 29th November, 1999. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,. 246 pp, colour ills. 342 lots. The sale comprised: Illuminated Manuscripts and Miniatures Lots 1-25; The Property of an Athenian Collector 26-106; Printed Books 107-204; Autograph Letters 205-342. among the manuscripts were several books of Hours and the Psalter of Jean de Foix, Toulouse, c.1495. Fine.

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th - 25th October 1990. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 171 pp, ills (some colour). 332 lots. Catalogue annotated with numerous prices and sometimes buyers, some lots with some yellow highlighting, otherwise Good. List of prices realized and buyers laid in.

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th and 29th October 1987. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 26 cm,. 151 pp, ills (some colour). 483 lots. From the introduction: "John Arlott’s fame, particularly in the world of Cricket and Wine, as expert, correspondent, writer and broadcaster, needs no explanation, it is legendary. But perhaps one of his lesser known achievements has been to create, during the last 40 years, probably the most extensive recorded collection of books with aquatint illustrations. Unlike Major Abbey he did not venture into the realm of lithography, it was the aquatint and its employment in book illustration, so brilliantly used in England between the years 1775 and 1830, which intrigued him. The following 188 lots (over 600 volumes) comprise his diverse and well preserved collection. In his own words ‘when I decided to winter abroad I feared for the safety of this particular collection and sent it to auction’. Very Good.

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th October, 1989. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 108 pp, ills (some colour). 229 lots. Among the sections in the sale were the following: atlases. maps, architecture. art and ornament, costume and sports, travel. Very Good.

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 9th December 1983. Laminated illustrated wrappers, small 4to,. 85 pp, ills. 332 lots. Estimates printed at end of catalogue. Wrappers slightly yellowed, otherwise Near Fine.

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st - 22nd July 1975. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 95 pp. 530 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: English Literature of the 16th to the 19th century, including Lomazza's A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Painting . . 1598, the Rheims New Testament, 1582, and the Douai Bible, 1609-10, Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne, 1600, the Second Folio Shakespeare, 1632, Banks's The Destruction of Troy, 1679, Vertue Betrayed, 1682, and the Island Queens, 1684, Bunyan's Christian Behaviour, [1680], and A Collection of Works of Defoe; Bligh's A Narrative of the Mutiny..1790, Hearne's A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort. . ., 1795, and Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, 1676; Continental Books of the 16th to the 19th century, including Matthiolus's Herbar . . ., Prague 1596, Boccaccio's Il Decamerone 1757, Large Paper Copy, and Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico, 1813; Natural… Read More

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16 November 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 96 pp, ills (some colour). 291 lots. Very Good.

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th - 11th April, 1975. Blue printed wrappers, small 4to,. 76 pp, plates, ills. 605 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: English Literature of the Seventeenth to the Twentieth century including Aesop, Fables, illustrated by Gooden, 1936; Blunt, Love-Lyrics, 1892; Boswell, Life of Johnson, 2 vol., 1791; Browning, Dramatic Romances, Printed on Vellum, 1899; Burke, Philosophical Enquiry, 1757; Davenant, Works, 1673; Forster, Passage to India, Signed, Limited, 1924; Housman, Shropshire Lad, 1896; Joyce, Ulysses, 1936, and Finnegan's Wake, 1939, both signed limited editions; Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, 1646; Swift, Gulliver's Travels, illustrated by Whistler; Yeats, Poems, 2 vol., 1949, and the King's Threshold, 1904, both signed limited editions; Private Press Books, including Works by the Ashendene, Kelmscott, Nonesuch and Shakespeare Head Presses; an Important Collection of "Gothic"… Read More

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th November, 1978. Printed wrappers, 8vo, small 4to, 25 cm,. 65 pp, 5 plates, ills, facs. 200 lots. Estimates are printed at the end of the catalogue. The highlights included a manuscript opinion for King Henry VIII on the question whether a man may marry the widow of his deceased brother, bound by the King Henry's Binder. Very Good.

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th November 2006. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 206 pp, colour ills. 251 lots. Some corners folded, some scribbled notes to catalogue, otherwise Good.

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 13th June 2012. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 166 pp, colour ills. 220 lots. Numbers on front wrapper, several corners folded, a few notes and marks, Printout of prices realized laid in.

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th November, 1993. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 154 pp, numerous plates (including several in colour). 150 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: The first book from the Aldine Press (Venice: 1495); Important Incunabula and Early Greek Printing from the Collection formed in the 18th Century by Sir George Shuckburgh; Cicero, Of Old Age, printed by William Caxton (Westminster: 1481); First Editions of Holbein's Dance of Death (1538), Le Giroufflier aux Dames (ca. 1505); Milton's Of Education to Master Samuel Harttib (1644), Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776); Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813); The Dutch edition of Blaeu's Theatrum (1648-50); The Bragadin Press's Ashkenazic Mahzor (1711-15), containing Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's autograph manuscript of his important Kavvanot; Horace, De arte poetica, manuscript on vellum (Italy, early 14th Century);… Read More

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th July 2002. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,. 279 pp, ills (some colour). 185 lots. The sale comprised: Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts: Lots 1-49; Early printing, science and fine bindings: 50-132; Modern fine printing: 133-10; Travel and topography: 151-159; Natural history: 160-185. The illuminate dmanuscripts included a good range of Books of Hours, extensively described. A very few minor annotations, otherwise Very Good.

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 30 October, 1996. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 189 pp, ills. 261 lots. Among the highlights noted were: Vitruvius. De Architectura Libri Decem, Como, 1521 and early Architectural works by Adam, Blondel, Boffrand, Campbell, Gibbs, Héré, Jones, Kleiner, Landi, Marot, Le Pautre, Nash, Palladio, Oppenord, Richardson, Rigaud, Rossi, Tijou and Vanvitelli. Important works on Gardens and Rural Architecture by Broebes, Chambers, Dearn, Decker, Hirschfield, Krafït, Laborde, Le Rouge, Papworth, Plaw, Repton, Soane and Wright. Furniture books by Chippendale, Heppelwhite, Ince and Mayhew, Sheraton and Smith. A fine coloured copy of Raphael's Delle Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, 1772-6. Important Architectural drawings, including a 16th-century album of Roman Antiquities, Designs for the improvement of the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg, ca. 1838, and an album of plans for the gardens at Versailles, ca. 1700. A fine… Read More

[Phillips, H.], n.p., 1823. Later half-leather and original boards with printed paper title-label, 8vo,. [4], 391 pp. 3960 lots of books and 1588 lots of furniture, paintings, drawings and other items. The full catalogue of the 37 days' sales, arranged in chronological order, and with the 20 days of book sales priced in manuscript. The sale was initiated by John Farquhar, (1751-1826), a rich gunpowder manufacturer, who had bought Fonthill Abbey and most of its contents from the writer and collector William Beckford (1759-1844), 'England’s wealthiest son,' in 1822. Beckford had been forced to sell after his finances collapsed from his extravagance, a loss of value in his West Indian property, and miscellaneous lawsuits. His financial difficulties did not deter him from buying considerable parts of his property back at the 1823 sale and continuing to collect. Lacking the frontispiece, the prelims in this copy comprise the title-page and the "Arrangement of Sale" leaf:… Read More