Rare books from St. Wulfstans Books

Paris: Chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1714. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. 436 numbered pages + 16 leaf index + 119 full page copperplate engravings. Marbled endpapers. Title page in black and red. All edges rouged. Pages and engravings are clean and bright. Bound in contemporary full calf with five gilt and raised bands and extensive decoration to the five compartments of the spine and a red spine label with gilt title to one compartment. Wear to the spine and to the edges, a little more to the top edge of the front board. Spine a little weak around page 202 with some loosening of a few leaves. An excellent copy of the self-contained second volume of Helyot's important work on the history, habits and dress of the religious and knightly orders up to the early 18th Century. Highly illustrated with 119 engravings depicting the habits of more than 100 of the most notable religious and knightly orders (male and female) up to that time, including St. Sepulcre, St.… Read More

London: Grant Richards, 1902. 4th ed.. Cloth. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches; xvi + 476 numbered pages + 16 illustrations. Bookplate of John Gaylord inside front cover. Scattered light foxing. Top edge gilt. Bound in blue cloth with sun bleaching to spine. A very good early copy of this standard and invaluable text on the "practice" of the priesthood.

London: Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1852. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 3 1/4 x 5 inches. 32mo. Collates as 3 ffeps + A - L (in 16s) + M (4 leaves). Griffiths 1852/3 notes printing, and that only copy (at the British Library) was destroyed. Bound with: Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer on the Sundays and Other Holy-Days Throughout the Year, London: Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, n.d. [1852]. Collates as A - H (in 16s) + I (2 leaves). Bound with: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [Authorised/KJV version]. London: G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1852. Register is continuous with that of Proper Lessons beginning with I3, then K - T (in 16s) + U (8 leaves). Not in Hills. Bound with: Brady, N[icholas] and N[ahum] Tate, A New Version of the Psalms of David, London: Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1852. Collates as A - B (in 16s) + C (12 leaves including last blank) + 3 rfeps. Pages of all four works are unnumbered and printed in… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1721. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. 10 x 15 inches. Folio. 1 ffep + title + 5 leaf dedication + 13 page preface + 7 page list of subscribers + 4 page contents + lxii numbered pages (introduction and appendix) + 536 numbered pages + 8 page index + 211 numbered pages (appendix) + 1 rfep. Title page printed in red and black with old repairs. Scattered dampstaining and spotting. Bound in full brown paneled calf with old repair to hinges. Significant wear to edges of boards with some loss. Spine with six raised and gilt bands, also with significant wear and some loss. Gilt title to spine. An attractive although worn binding. ESTCT154479. An interesting history. Also notable for the fact that the list of subscribers includes "The very Reverend Cotton Mather D.D. Minister at Bostoun, New-England

London: Printed by J. Bettenham for Charles Rivington, 1722. sixth edition (Rationale) and first edition (Lives). Leather Bound. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece + combined title page in red and black + 4 leaf preface + title page (Lives) + 1 leaf (contents) + cxc + 13 page index + advertisement + title page (Rationale) + 2 leaves preface and contents + 317 numbered pages (including two additional separate titles for included works) + 15 page table and index. Pages very clean and bright with two worm tracks approx. 1/2 inch each through pages preceding A3 (in the Preface), then 3 holes diminishing to 1 through the course of the book, located at the foremargin, sometimes affecting the text, worming also at end, mostly to indices. Speckled rouging to edges. Bound in full brown calf. Both boards with gilt border and leaf motifs at corners which are bumped. Hinges starting at top and bottom but holding firm. Spine with five raised bands and extensive gilt decoration to five… Read More

Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1736. Leather Bound. Very Good. 8 x 10 1/2 inches. 4to. 3 ffep (1 marbled) + a (8 leaves) + A - F (8 leaf quires) + G (4 leaves). Printed in two columns. Griffiths 1736/3. Bound with: The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments [(Authorised (King James) Version]. Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1736. A - Rrr (OT & Apocrypha) + Qqq - Iiii (in 8s) (NT) + a - d (in 8s) (Index). Not in Herbert or ESTC. Separate title page for New Testament dated 1735 and stating location as London. Also not in Herbert or ESTC. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre. London: Printed by T. Wood and E. Palmer, for the Company of Stationers, 1732. A - G (8 leaf quires). Printed in two columns. ESTCT90365. Gift inscription from Maria Rice to Lucy Rice dated 1773, and later gift inscription dated 1855. Occasional loss at edges. All page edges gilt. Bound in beautiful full black morocco with light surface and corner… Read More

London: Printed by Christopher Barker, 1585. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. ¶3 - ¶8 + A - E (8 leaf quires) + F (5 leaves). Lacks title page and following leaf. Scattered stains and soiling, mostly at margins. Small darker stain at top margin. Loss to lower forecorner of B8 affecting about 12 lines of text. Kalendar printed in red and black. Colophon at end with ownership inscription of John Purkiss dated February 1, 1768. Griffiths 1585/3. Bound with: The Holy Bible [Geneva/Breeches version]. London: Printed by Christopher Barker, 1585. A-3H (8 leaf quires) + 3I (2 leaf quire) + *(4 leaves) + 3K-3Y (8 leaf quires) + 3Z (10 leaf quire). Printed in two column black letter type. Occasional small closed tear with no loss and a few marginal notes shaved (esp. 3O). Lacks preliminaries and 3P4&5. 18th Century notes regarding Purkiss family on verso of NT title page. Herbert 187 (following Herbert 165 and Herbert 170). Bound with: [Herrey, Robert F.]. Two right profitable and… Read More

London: Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1633. Leather Bound. Very Good. 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. Folio. 2 ffep + A - b (4 leaf quires) + B - H (6 leaf quires) + I (4 leaf quire). Title page cropped and relaid with loss to imprint. Marginal loss to A3 not affecting text. Griffiths 1633/2. Bound with: The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New [Authorised/KJV version]. London: Robert Barker and Assignes of John Bill, 1633. [10] + 327 numbered leaves (OT) + 328-403 (of 404) (Apocrypha) + 406-507 (NT). Engraved title to Bible closely cropped at fore-edge. Lower half of last leaf of preface (A8) lacking. Folio 1 of OT with lower marginal loss affecting text. 163 with loss of lower quarter. Old repairs to marginal tears on a few pages. Occasional closed tear or marginal loss with no loss of text, and minor soiling and old marking. Folio 108 misnumbered 118, 117 as 61, 148 as 184, 152 as 154, 216 as 215, 224 as 223, 225 as 226, 232 as 231, 233 as 237, 234 as 238, 235 as 246, then… Read More

London: Printed by T. Newcomb, 1679. Exotic. Near Fine. 8 x 9 1/2 inches; 4 unnumbered + 108 numbered pages. Pages generally bright and clean, with light soiling at margins. Bound by John Field (with binder's ticket) in modern full African Springbock with hair and new endpapers. Provenance: Library of Henry and Virginia Walton. ESTCR228432. Harry and Virginia Walton were lifelong residents of Covington, Virginia, a small town in the Allegheny Mountains. Harry was a graduate of Lynchburg College, and Virginia was a graduate of the Lynchburg General School of Nursing. Although largely unknown to the general public, the Waltons' reputation as collectors was widely respected in bibliophile and academic circles, and items from their collection were exhibited at numerous colleges, universities and art centers. After their deaths, the original Walton collection was the subject of a series of very successful auctions in New York and London. John Field was an expert leather bookbinder associated with… Read More

New York: American Bible Society, 1867. 3/4 cloth. Very Good +. 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Folio. [1] + [872] – 974 leaves. Printed in raised letters for the blind. Tears to upper margin of front endpapers and, edges lightly soiled. Bound in contemporary 3/4 black leather and black cloth which is worn at edges. A scarce early American edition of its kind. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, several decades before the widespread adoption of Braille, printers and educators in France and Britain began developing a variety of tactile reading systems for the visually impaired, making independent reading among the blind possible for the first time in history. The results of an important competition at the Royal Society of Arts in Edinburgh in 1832 inspired the American activist, Samuel Gridley Howe, to research and develop his own embossed reading system for the blind, which emerged in 1835 as "Boston Line Type." Drawing upon the methods of James Gall, an entrant in the Edinburgh… Read More

New York: American Tract Society, [1861]. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. 4to. 1061 (OT) + [7] + 1065 - 1504 pages. With 3 double-page and 1 full page colored maps at beginning and two leaves of family records partly filled in. Old tape reinforcement to inner hinges. Pages otherwise clean and bright. NT with separate title page. 3 volumes bound as one. Hills 1742. Bound in contemporary full brown leather with deep blind stamped patterns on covers and spine. Gilt title and five raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelles. Light wear to edges and corners. An excellent early American family Bible.

Philadelphia: Printed and Published by M. Carey & Son, 1818. Leather Bound. Very Good. 9 x 10 1/2 inches. [4] + 1-834 (OT) + [829-34] (family register) + 835-1080 (NT and index). With 11 full page engravings. Printed in two column Roman type. Pages 569-70 lacking. Slight loss to 855-56. Significant loss to 911-12. Four pages of family records include Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853). Hills #345. Bound with: Brown, John. A Brief Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Mathew Carey & Son, 1818. 72 numbered pages. Pages 67-70 lacking. A few pages toned or stained. Bound in contemporary full maroon straight grained morocco with gilt rolled borders and gilt title and decorations to spine. Hinges weak. Covers scuffed and worn at edges. The Asher Mott Howell Family Bible: Asher Mott Howell (1791-1853) was a relative of abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott, and the subject of a portrait by American painter Jacob Eichholtz currently on loan to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

London: Robert Barker, 1611. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. Folio. [78] (of [80]) pages. Lacking title page. Griffiths 1611/2. Bound with: The Bible: That is The holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament. London: Robert Barker, [1612]. [4] + 362 (OT) + 361-444 (Apocrypha) + 135 (NT) + [7] (tables) leaves. Collates as A (4 leaves) + A-Lll (in 6s) + Mmm - Ooo (in 8s) + Ppp - Eeee (in 6s) + Ffff (4 leaves). Engraved title page with old repair to closed tear at bottom. Full page woodcut of Garden of Eden present,with loss to lower outer corner of image. B6 with old manuscript repair to loss at outer corner. Lacks 2Z3.4 (Isaiah 17:13-24:18). Herbert 312. STC 2218. NT with separate title page dated 1611. Printed in two column Roman type. Bound with: Sternhold, Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1612. 114 + [6] (of 8) pages. Collates as A-K (in 6s) + L (1 of 2 leaves, lacking… Read More

Boston: From the Press of the Christian Examiner, 1828. Leather_bound. Near Fine. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. 368 pages. Bookplate of Elisabeth Fisher Everett inside front cover. Otherwise pages clean and free of marking, soiling or staining. All page edges gilt. Gilt bright. Bound in contemporary full black calf with gilt rolled borders to both boards and gilt dentelles. The spine has four (false) raised bands with gilt decoration, and additional gilt decoration at the head and tail of the spine. Spine also has gilt title ("Chapel Services"). Owner's name in gilt to front cover. Very light shelf wear to edges and corners. King's Chapel is the oldest church in America with continuous weekly worship services. Its liturgy is a unique hybrid that reflects this history, largely based upon the 1662 English Book of Common Prayer . A truly spectacular example of this scarce liturgical work in an unusually well decorated American binding.

London: Christopher Barker, 1585. Good. 10 1/4 x 15 inches (text block only). Folio. Lacks leaves before leaf 8. Bible begins at leaf 8 - 536 (OT & Apocrypha) + 137 (NT). A4 + B (6 leaves) + [par.] (6 leaves) + 2[par.] (2 leaves) + A - Tttt (6 leaves) + Uuuu (8 leaves) (OT & Apocrypha) + A - Z (6 leaves) (NT). Small text loss to lower margin/corner of leaf 8, 288, 293, 391, 438 (OT) and 5, 80 (NT), closely cropped on foremargin with slight loss to some notes, more particularly at bottom. Psalter, gospels and epistles rather soiled and worn with closed marginal tears and old repairs. Occasional ink to the margins. Edges soiled. Also lacks 17, 18, 290 (OT), 75, 76 (NT), lower half of 291 (OT), lower one-third of 292, 297 (OT), 33, 106, 121 (NT). Increasing wear to margins towards the end of the New Testament, with 9 leaves following Y3 (title of Revelation) lacking, and a few leaves at the end loose. Separate title pages to Psalter and New Testament complete, outer half of Apocrypha title… Read More