Verlag: Struik Publishers, 1987
ISBN 10: 0869774328 ISBN 13: 9780869774328
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
Paperback. Zustand: Good. wraps are shelf rubbed and creased. light foxing and marks. small cut on front end page. a few annotations in text. fairly good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Verlag: T. Nelson and Sons, London, 1862
Anbieter: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Hardback, decorative blind-stamped gilt binding. Edges gilt. 16.5cm x 11cm. 224pp. Frontis. Illus. Binding is a little faded and worn. Prize annoation to front free end-paper. A pleasing copy. (ar15).
Verlag: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis., London, 1833
Anbieter: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, Vereinigtes Königreich
pp. (ii), 312, (vi) of adverts. Engraved title, frontis, 8 plates, 2 vignettes. 12mo. Full calf, all edges gilt. Front hinge tender. Including works by Letitia Landon, Coleridge and Mrs Opie. Faxon 1058.
Verlag: [London]: Jeremiah How, Title page 1842, Backstrip 1843. *, 1843
Anbieter: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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4to (27 x 20cms). 237 pages. Pictorial cloth, Hinges and joints cracked, corners bumped. Slight foxing. Illustrations throughout. Decorative title. Top edge gilt. First edition. [First series].
Verlag: 1 July on letterhead of Avenue Villa 50 Holland Street Kensington. W. London, 1878
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 4to. Fourteen lines. The recipient is not named. Written in a large loose hand, rendering the following reading tentative. In fair condition, lighty aged and worn, with minor traces of grey paper mount on reverse. Reads: 'Dear Sir. / As I do not consider the sum of two guineas [weekly?] sufficient recompense for your work as Publisher of Social Notes, I offer to pay you the usual per [?] given to Advertizing agents - i e 20 Per Cent upon all advertisements you obtain - 10 per Cent upon receipt of our advertisements and 10 per cent when payments are resumed from the advertizer / trly yours / S C Hall'.
Verlag: On letterhead of the Junior Athenaeum Club Piccadilly. 30 January, 1874
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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4pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He gives his 'best thanks' for his correspondent's 'watchful kindness'. As his 'acquaintance with Academicians is very limited', he has 'not yet solicited any one to propose me at the R.A.', and he 'would gladly accept Mr. E. M. Ward's obliging offer - and think Mr. G. D. Leslie or Mr Dobson would second me'. He made 'such a mistake' the previous evening, by going to the Vestry Hall, Chelsea. He found, 'on reading the circular again how I had erred'. He regrets 'to have lost the pleasure of hearing you read Sir Jasper - | Another regret not unmixed with shame is that the design for Mrs S. C. Hall's tales is not yet complete but in a few days I will send it.' Hall's 'Trial of Sir Jasper: A Temperance Tale in Verse' was published in 1873.
Verlag: Without date or place. Firfield near Addlestone Sussex;, 1878
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Printed in lilac on one side of a 12 x 8,5 cm piece of thin card, with serated edges and rounded corners, and with glue staining to one edge and on blank reverse. The card is embossed with tiny stars, with decorative edges and the text enclosed within an oval border, with the autograph signatures above one another in a rectangular box beneath it. The twelve-line poem (signed in type 'S. C. HALL.') might be viewed as an example of Victorian sentimentality, but one should bear in mind the childless couple and Mrs Hall's failed pregnancies, the fact that her mother lived with them throughout their marriage, and their great benevolence. The poem begins: 'Yes! we go gently down the hill of life, | And thank our God at every step we go: | The husband-lover and the sweetheart-wife. | Of creeping age what do we care or know?' Concludes: 'These fading faculties are sent to say | Heaven is more near to-day than yesterday.' The poem was published in 1878 in the Literary World.
Verlag: 12 April 5 Aubrey Villas Notting Hill London, 1853
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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See Parris's entry in the Oxford DNB. The subject of the letter is his work 'restoring' James Thornhill's paintings inside the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. Beginning in 1853 and ending three years later, Parris worked on scaffolding he had designed for the purpose thirty years before. His efforts were not well received: he was accused of completely repainting Thornhill's work, to its detriment. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased, with minor traces of mount adhering to the blank reverse. Folded twice. Having received the recipient's 'favor', he begins by sending his 'regards to Mr and Mrs Hall', i.e. Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), editor of the of the Art Journal and New Monthly Magazine, and his wife Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881). From the context of the letter it would appear that Duffane has requested information for an article for one of the two magazines of which Hall is editor. He is sending 'a very rough & hastily scrawl'd account of my apparatus &c at St Pauls, which You may perhaps distil something from'. He points out that the account he is sending 'is quite different from what has recently appear'd in the Times &c'. He feels that 'the shortest notice will be most advisable', but asks him to 'make what You please out of it'. The letter ends: 'I am at the Cathedral every day and shall be glad to shew You all particulars if you will enquire for me any time you are passing'.
Verlag: Jeremiah How, London, 1842
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
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First edition. Dadd, Richard. First edition. Profusion of wood-engraved illustrations after Richard Dadd, John Tenniel, John Gilbert, and others. [4], vi, 233 [1] pp., printed entirely on INDIA PAPER and mounted two pages per sheet. Printed by Vizetelly Brothers and Co., Printers, 135, Fleet Street. 4to. Ray, England, 61 ("the most ambitious English book with wood engravings during the period under survey") Unbound sheets housed in a cloth chemise and green quarter morocco slipcase. Fine Profusion of wood-engraved illustrations after Richard Dadd, John Tenniel, John Gilbert, and others. [4], vi, 233 [1] pp., printed entirely on INDIA PAPER and mounted two pages per sheet. Printed by Vizetelly Brothers and Co., Printers, 135, Fleet Street. 4to.
Verlag: 'Saturday Evening' no place or date but on paper with watermarked date, 1831
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1p, 12mo. Bifolium. Addressed on reverse of the second leaf, with broken seal in red wax, 'To / | S. C. Hall Esqre | 59 Sloane Street'. In fair condition, on aged paper. Folded by Blessington into a diamond-shaped packet. Reads: 'Saturday Evening. | Lady Blessingtons Compts. To Mr Hall, and requests that he will call on her, as soon as may suit his convenience, as she wishes to consult him, about having an Enquiry executed.'.
London : S. W. Partridge, [1868]. First edition. Large octavo (210 x 170 mm), publisher's blind-blocked green cloth (corners bumped), upper board with chromolithographic illustration inlaid within gilt border (very good), spine decorated in gilt (short split to cloth at tail), pastedowns and endpapers with publisher's advertisements, original owner's name in ink to verso of front endpaper, colour frontispiece and title page, pp. vi, 168, [8 publisher's advertisements]; with numerous full-page plates and text illustrations by Harrison Weir (fknown as "The Father of the Cat Fancy"); occasional handling marks at the margins, but generally an excellent copy. First edition of this beautiful animal book for children: although stories about cats and dogs predominate, there are also anecdotes about horses, chickens, elephants, bears, birds, sheep, mice, rats and other creatures.
Verlag: Facsimile letter as a circular from 'Office of the Nightingale Fund. / 5 Parliament Street / May 19' Actual manuscript letter: 22 March 1858; on letterhead of Lord Herbert's town house 49 Belgrave Square London, 1857
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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See the entries on Nightingale, Hall and Herbert in the Oxford DNB. The Nightingale Fund was established in the Crimea on 29 November 1855, to raise money for the training of nurses. As a result of discussions held at the time of this circular the money from the Fund was used to set up the first nursing school, the Nightingale Training School, at St Thomas's Hospital in 1860. ONE: Printed circular in form of a facsimile ALS from 'S. C. Hall / Hon. Sec.' 1p, 8vo. On first leaf of a bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Twenty-four lines of text. The only genuine piece of Hall's autograph is the address to 'Col Jeb / &c &c'. Begins: 'It is considered desirable that the Nightingale Fund should not be dissolved without conveying to M. and Madame Goldschmidt some mark of respect - in acknowledgement of their munificent contribution to that Fund.' The contribution is stated to total £2422. It is proposed to present the Goldschmidts with 'a marble bust of Her Majesty the Queen, to be executed by Mr Joseph Durham'. TWO: Manuscript letter. 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, with closed tear to fore-edge. Sent from the town house of the Fund's chairman Lord Herbert of Lea.