lee priory (15 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Drawn By J. P. Neale. (illustrator). A splendid original antique hand-coloured view. Colouring not contemporary, but delicately and expertly executed. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. Very good condition. A scarce and exceptionally fine engraving. Showing Lee Priory with grounds.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Drawn By J. P. Neale. (illustrator). A splendid original antique hand-coloured view. Colouring not contemporary, but delicately and expertly executed. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. Very good condition. A scarce and exceptionally fine engraving. Showing Lee Priory with grounds.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original hand-coloured antique engraving. Hand-colouring not contemporary but delicately and expertly executed. Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraving - Lee Priory - Kent - the Seat of Captain T. B. Brydges Barrett.

1p, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed on reverse of second leaf, with minuting and broken seal in red wax, 'To / John Sainsbury Esqre / 35 Red Lion Square'. Reads: 'Dear Sir, / It occurs to me that I left my black cane at your house when I was with you yesterday. If so, would you give it to the bearer of this note / Yr's thankfully / A Egerton Brydges'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. [One of no more than 100 copies.]. Wood-engraved title-vignette, initials and tail-pieces, some light spotting. Contemporary grained cloth, rubbed, rebacked in dark blue morrocco, spine gilt, edges uncut. A very good copy.

On both sides of a 33 x 12.5 cm strip of paper. In fair condition, lightly-aged, with tiny part of mount adhering to one corner, and the merest loss to another. 'Egerton Bry' is written in another small hand in light pencil at the head. The Osborn Collection at Yale possesses what its catalogue entry describes as a 'probably incomplete' section of the manuscript, ' purporting to be the memoirs of a certain John Fitznigel Clavering, whose career and interests bear a strong likeness to those of Brydges himself'. The Yale cataloguer is unaware that 'Clavering's Auto-Biography. Containing Opinions, Characters, &c., of his Contemporaries' was serialised in The Metropolitan magazine (London: James Cochrane and Co.), in 13 installments between March 1832 and November 1833. The passage in the present manuscript features in the issue for July 1832. Brydges' authorship was well-known at the time: the London magazine 'The Original' of 14 July 1832, in its 'Magazines of the Month', reports that 'The Metropolitan' is presenting a 'further supply' of 'the dish of pleasantly-seasoned gossip catered, we believe, by Sir Egerton Brydges, and called "Clavering's Auto-biography"'. The manuscript is a fair copy, with only a couple of minor deletions. The two sides of the leaf do not form a continuous narrative, a passage in the printed text relating to Joseph Haslewood having been excised. Otherwise there are no significant variations between the manuscript and the printed version, apart from 'sniffling' in the manuscript being given as 'snuffling' in the print text. It is an entertaining and informative piece of writing, and is indeed 'splendidly seasoned'. It reads as follows: '[recto] [.] Mrs Chapone was somewhat crooked in person, - and a little so in temper and mind. She was one of the ancient family of Mulso, of Northamptonshire. | Fat old Captain Grose, the antiquary, was as good humoured as he was droll. I remember him in lodgings at his publisher's, Hooper, in Holborn; and I attended the sale of his drawings. He left a son, Genl Grose, and a daughter, who I think married Mr Singleton, Captn. of Landguard Fort in Suffolk and was mother (if I mistake not) of the present Archdeacon Singleton, late private Secretary to the Duke of Northumberland in Ireland, - an agreeable man, full of wit and anecdote, whom I have seen at the Castle. | When in London, many years ago, I used to be in the habit of spending much time at the British Museum. There I saw numerous Literati, with whom I had no personal acquaintance. There I continually sat opposite to Joseph Ritson, a strange little, ugly, half-deformed creature, bitter, goggling, and self-conceited, sniffling over an old, ill-written manuscript, and poring to find out that some word had been inaccurately transcribed for the printed copy, - a consonant omitted, or a vowel filled up in the orthography - and then accusing the editor of a moral crime. He had no quality of mind, but industry, and got credit which he did not deserve. But I ought not to be so severe; - the poor creature was insane. | There sat D'Israeli, daily extracting from the voluminous MS letters of Ja. I & Ch. I. There sat William Gilford, preparing notes for [.] [verso] [.] was then poor, and almost | Once I remember talking about her to Caroline Symmons, wh when a child had been noticed her. Caroline Caroline was an exquisite poetess, and died, I think, at 16. Some of her ballads or songs are appended to one of Wrangham's Seaton-Prize-Poems. Her father Dr Charles Symmons, a learned man, (a native of Pembrokeshire, I believe) has not long been dead. He was a various writer in prose and poetry. I was once or twice in company with him; - a plain, and rather vulgar-looking man. His brother, John Symmons, a book-collector, is probably still living, at a great age. Dr S. wrote the Life of Milton - not a very good one. - He had more learning and industry, than genius. | I knew how to hit the chords of Caroline Symmons's imagination, and I brought out sweet notes from her. | I am rather fond of female authors, provided they are not pedantic. - I was once in company with the Miss Burys - clever women - but whom Lord Orford spoiled, and made affected and conceited. Tall ladies - no beauties! Their father was them - any thing but literary himself! | As to old John Aikin with his great bottle-nose, he was a sensib [.]'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. 1st ed. in this form, 26.5 x 21.4 cms. Limited edition of 100 copies. (6), 37, (3), 70, (2). Titlepage printed in black and red with engraved vignette, limitation page also with red title, all pages printed with three-line black border. Paper water-marked 1812. Biographical and critical introduction by Sir Egerton Brydges. Later but not recent rebind with cloth spine with gilt lettering, paper-covered boards, later end papers. Light foxing on boards, some browning of free end papers, fore corners slightly rubbed, a little very light foxing of text but a very clean copy of the press's 2nd book. (ac12).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Title-page vignette. Bound by R.W. Smith for J.J. Cooke (1878) in red straight-grain half morocco with marbled paper-covered sides and matching endpapers. Spine titled in gilt, but head of spine badly scuffed. Internally, a very good copy. Ransom 39. Typically, the print run of Lee Priory books was about a hundred copies. The text follows the first edition of 1596, taking note of late emendations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Small 4to. 1st ed. 24.0 x 19.0 cms. [2]ff., 14pp., [58]ff.,16pp., [2]ff. Illustrated with many vignette woodcuts and engravings intended to include all those owned by the press. 1/2 title, titlepage, the following 46 leaves of verse with engravings and the 2 final leaves of "arrangement . of first lines and errata are printed in India paper and mounted on thicker paper watermarked 1817. 12 leaves of verse with no engravings and 16pp. of notes are printed direct on the thicker paper. Bound in contemporary 1/4 morocco with gilt lettering to spine, cloth covered boards. Spine ends rubbed, head of spine slightly frayed, fore corners rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown of Pamela and Raymond Lister and Bryan Hall, lengthy pencil notes on front fee end paper relating to the Lee Priory Press, further early owner's signature on first blank. Occasional foxing, india paper of last two leaves browned with some offsetting darkening onto preceding page. An acceptable copy of a book difficult to find complete. [The press was founded by Sir Egerton Brydges in 1813 and Quillinan was his son-in-law]. (p13).

1st Edition. First edition. ONLY COPY ON INDIA PAPER; and the other copy one of an edition of 80 copies. [x],38; [x], 38 pp. Second copy printed on India paper (one side of leaf only). 1 vols. 12mo. A lovely Hayday binding housing a regular copy and then another copy of the text, unique on India paper. An earlier cataloguer has conjectured that this was possibly Egerton Brygdes' own copy. Ransom, p. 337, #21 (citing 1 copy on India) Contemporary pebbled green morocco, boards with double leafy borders within gilt rules, a.e.g., by Hayday. Fine [x],38; [x], 38 pp. Second copy printed on India paper (one side of leaf only). 1 vols. 12mo First edition. ONLY COPY ON INDIA PAPER; and the other copy one of an edition of 80 copies.

One of 80 copies printed. One of 80 copies printed. Text printed within triple rule border. [iv], 3, [5], 2, 36 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Attractive copy of this uncommon private press title, resurrecting the 1621 edition, with a note by the editor, Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart. OCLC: 54563982 (Mass. Hist Soc., Edinburgh, Glasgow) Modern marbled wrappers and printed label. Fresh copy, perforated stamp of Penzance Library to title and last leaf; pencil note of library sale, May 1964, lot 87 Text printed within triple rule border. [iv], 3, [5], 2, 36 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Only one hundred copies printed. Only one hundred copies printed. Label tipped in to blank before title-page: "The Engravings on Wood at Lee Priory, Printed on Chinese Paper. with Verses. 3 guineas.". Pp. [2], 14, [1, sectional title]; [45] ff., woodcut vignettes and verses, on india, printed on rectos only; [12] ff., poems, printed rectos only; Pp. 16, Notes, [2}, list of first lines & errata. 1 vols. 4to (9 x 7-1/4 inches). Ransom 41; Lowndes XI.220, No 30; Johnson 732 Bound in full contemporary straight grained crimson morocco, a.e.g. Bookplate of Thomas P. Wood, signed by him on first leaf, ?Thos. P. Wood/ Chesterfield? Also inscribed by him to his sister on verso of flyleaf and signed again on title-page. Lightly worn at extremities Label tipped in to blank before title-page: "The Engravings on Wood at Lee Priory, Printed on Chinese Paper. with Verses. 3 guineas.". Pp. [2], 14, [1, sectional title]; [45] ff., woodcut vignettes and verses, on india, printed on rectos only; [12] ff., poems, printed rectos only; Pp. 16, Notes, [2}, list of first lines & errata. 1 vols. 4to (9 x 7-1/4 inches).