middle hill press (13 Ergebnisse)

From the Stock of the eminent bookseller, H.P. Kraus (1970s?), priced at $425!! See copy slip. 12pp., unopened, browning of edges of wraps.

Single sheet printed on bluish paper on recto only (200 x 320 mm). Lithographic sketch, dated 1870 and given a print run of 100 copies by Wakeman. Geoffrey Wakeman, "Anastatic Printing for Sir Thomas Phillipps," Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no. 5, 1969, pp. 38; Holzenberg 167.

Broschiert, 12 Seiten, eine Seite 3cm Einriss, Einband bestaubt-dunkle Ecken, das Buch ist akzeptabel erhalten --- Softcover, 12 pages, frontcover dusted and brown corners, 1 little tore in 1 page, acceptable. Shipping to abroad insured with tracking number.

Single sheet printed on bluish paper on recto only (200 x 320 mm). Lithographic sketch of rear facade of Salford House. Holzenberg 243.

Folio, 342 x 207mm, single sheet, printed on both sides in double-column, disbound. An index to the contents of the manuscripts which Phillipps bought from the Earl of Guilford, comprising Phillipps MSS. 4912,413,4925 & 5222. Holzenberg 10.

Folio (340 x 215 mm), 4pp., caption-title, disbound. The Will of Colonel Barwick who lived in Barbados in the 17th century. Barwick sent his daughter to be educated in England and his Will provided her with a sum of money upon marriage with further sums to be paid on the birth of any children. "All the rest of my Landes, and Negroes, Goods' and Chattles, Rightes, and Credites, I give to my Son, Samuel Barwick.". Shortly after making this Will in 1673 he moved to Bermuda where he made a codicill which greatly complicated matters. Holzenberg 74.

Folio (335 x 210 mm), [2], 76pp., printed on blue paper, title page from type, text zincographed from the handwriting of Sir Thomas Phillipps, light spotting throughout, orig. Middle Hill boards with printed paper spine label, spine torn a defective. A reproduction in anastatic printing of a catalogue of all those who usurped the names and titles of gentlemen without authority and were thereby disclaimed. Covers all the counties of England, beginning with Devon and Cornwall. Fenwick 54; Holzenberg 88.

Folio (335 x 210 mm), [2], 115, [1]pp., title page printed on white paper, text on blue paper lithographed from the handwriting of Sir Thomas Phillipps, title page lightly browned, last couple of leaves a little spotted, orig. Middle Hill boards. Index of the fines for the County of Gloucestershire for the reign of George I. Fenwick 13; Holzenberg 183.

Small 4to (210 x 165 mm), 12pp., disbound. "The following fragment was found in the cover of an old book in the possession of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Bath, and was lent to the editor by the Rev. J. Hunter of Torrington Square. The whole poem was printed by Cawood, in the 16th century, but this contains some few variations. 50 copies of this impression have been taken. T. P. / M. H. / Oct. 1838."Preface. Fenwick 124.1; Holzenberg 126.

Folio (320 x 200 mm), [2], viii, 33, [3]pp., text in double columns, this being the variant edition with engraved vignette of the Broadway Tower above the imprint, closed tear to lower blank margin of signature D, bound in contemporary half green calfskin and Middle Hill boards for Phillipps by George Bretherton, his binder's ticket "Bretherton, Ligavit, 1850" pasted on the inside front cover, a nice copy. Christopher Merrett's translation of Neri's famous book on the manufacture of glass which was first published in 1662. The present edition, edited by Phillipps, was printed by F. T. G. Crees who only worked at the Middle Hill press for six months (January to July, 1826). Fenwick 109; Martin, p. 457 ("One hundred copies were printed"); Lownes, p. 1857; Kraus 215; Holzenberg 353.

Folio, [4], 87, [1]pp., no more published, one of 25 copies printed, Middle Hill boards, detached, spine defective. "A work containing the names of the heirs of the ancient Gentry of England, with their ages, has long been a desideratum in Topography. To supply this defect in some degree, the following work is undertaken. Twenty-five copies only are printed, my object being merely to prevent unique records being utterly destroyed by a single accident".Preface, signed [in print] Sir Thomas Phillipps.+ Holzenberg 360; Fenwick 95.

Folio (340 x 215 mm), [2], 10pp., printed on bluish paper, stitched as issued. Printed from Phillipps MS. 2670. A printed note in Latin on the final leaf apologises for the numerous for the numerous errors (errata fill all p. 10) caused by the editor not being able to compare proofs with the original, due to absence. Fenwick 112; Holzenberg 392.

Most items show signs of being disbound, mainly good condition1.Thomas Phillipps, Letter "[heading] To the Editor of the Cheltenham Free Press and Gloucestershire Herald", associating "Reform" with "the Re-establishment of Roman Catholics", one page, 12 x 19cms.2.[Verse] Ebenezer Higgins, Complaint of the Parish Clerk against Ritualism, one page, 26 x 9cm3.[Verse] The Spider Monk and the Maiden Fly, one page, 10 x 16.5cm.4.Ex Vita Ducis Valentino | Magnifico Viro [] , 8pp., 11 x 17cms5.The Conspirators Schemes, Hospitals, Homes, Convents, [8]pp., 11 x 17cm6."The Christian Observer" on the Position and Progress of Popery, and the Peril of the Times, [8]pp., 11x 17cm.7.[Verse] A New Inscription for Farthinghoe Church, one page, 10 x 17cm.8. Letter of Pope Innocent the XI, to James, Duke of York, 25 July 1682, 8pp., pp.1-4 separated from pp.5-8.9.What is done in Nunneries, one page, 14.5 x 21cms.10.Churchwardens empowered to Remove Superfluous Ornaments, one page, 21 x 16cms.11. The Black Box of Roome [sic] opened, formerly "Printed in the Yeare, 1641", 15pp., 17 x 11cms. Gatherings separated. "From whence are revealed, the Damnable Bloody Plots, Practise, and behaviour of Jesuits, Priests, Papists []".12. Untitled, Handbill/Letter taking the content of "The Eighth Letter of Gabriel d'Emilianne. A secular priest of Italy" (partly entitled "On the Corruption of the Italian Priests []"; present; Pamphlet, [38]pp, Cheltenham imprint, 1865) as an opportunity to express extreme views about Catholics ("A Protestant" signs the Letter, One page, 11 x 18cms.13.De Convivio 50 Meretricum cum duce Valentino, one page, 10 x 17cms. In the Bibliotheca Lindesiana dated 1860 with a question mark, and ascribed to Cesare Borgia14.The Declaration of a Lady [concerning Confession], 4pp., bifolium, 17x10cm.15.[Verse] On a Puseyite Parson [Broadway: J. Rogers [for the Middle Hill Press], 1863, 2pp., 10 x 16.5cm. Note: 1cm at left has been folded over to allow the sheet to be bound into a book, but now disbound and loose.16.Romanism in the British Army, minor foxing, 4pp., bifolium, 11 x 17cms.17.A Short and True Account of the Several Advances The Church of England hath made towards Rome: on a model of the grounds upon which the Papists for these hundred years have built their hope and expectations that England would ere long return to Popery By Dr Du Moulin [Ipswich; S.H. Cowell for the Middle Hill Press], Unbound. Originally published in London, 1680. 24 pages of lithographic reproduction from handwritten manuscript. Press. In original plain paper wrappers which are lightly browned. An example of anastatic printing.