John Meriton (14 results)

Condition: Used - Very Good. Cloth, no dj. Some shelf wear. Scuffing to cover. Else clean copy. Very Good.

Stapled Softcover Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Wright, David; Bradley, Marvin (illustrator). First Edition. Browning to the covers with some edge rubbing to the spine. The pages are a little browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Includes 'Price of £30,000 Diamonds was a Bicycle by John Brandon, Judy by David Wright and Peter Meriton and Rex Morgan M.D. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Condition: Fair. London, New Castle, DE: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 1st edition. Sm 4to hardcover. 1008pp. Illustrations. Letter from the publisher laid in. Good book. (Chapbooks, Printed Ephemera, National Art Library, Great Britain) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1007pp 1008 p. Book.

hardcover. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover. 1,008 pages. First edition. The hundred years prior to the mid-nineteenth century saw a flowering of ephemeral publishing often referred to by the shorthand "chapbooks." This book is an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera of the period. For the purposes of this book, this includes entertaining and broadly educational works, such as abridged novels, alphabets, ballads, cries, dreadful, fables and tales, nursery rhymes, fortune books, garlands, histories, and natural histories. The book excludes primarily proselytizing and moralizing texts, along with battledores, cabinet and miniature books, harlequinaids, tracts, panoramas, plays, primers, and propaganda pamphlets. Also excluded are more substantial and sumptuous publications with engravings on quality paper and bound in boards as they were considered insufficiently ephemeral. Nearly 800 titles are described here in significant bibliographical detail to allow accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants, and states in other collections. Examples of illustrations from all the books described are reproduced here, providing a visual feast and resource. The book will appeal to all librarians and owners of collections containing literary and educational ephemera. It will provide support for current research into literary studies and work on literacy and language development. John Meriton is Librarian of the National Art Library and Deputy Keeper of the Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Carlo Dumontet is the National Art Library's Special Collections Bibliographer.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing Fine in a sew binding of black, illustrated paper covered boards with white text on the spine. A thick, heavy quarto measuring 10" by 7" with purple end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued. 1008 pages including several indexes, list of sources, glossary, appendices, bibliographic analysis, bibliographic method and text. Containing listings and bibliographical data for 761 children's ephemeral titles published between 1736 to 1850.

Hard back binding in publisher's original lime green cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine, black border line to the front cover, green dyed top edge. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 288 printed pages of text followed by 63 pages of Spring Announcements. Softened and rubbed spine ends, rubbed corners, minimal dust marking to the closed page edges and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover edition. Pamphlet published by Thomas Tegg, circa late 1700s to early 1800s. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine. 23pp, tall 12mo. rebound covers clean, new endpapers, original pages lightly chipped along edges, mild foxing to inerior, text clean and legible, Very Good.

Large 4to, volume four only, xxvi, 1043-1715pp., frontis., 37 illustrs., orig. publishers green cloth, lettered in gilt. Early Printed Books includes detailed bibliographical descriptions of some 4200 books published between 1478 and 1840. As well as conventional bibliographical details (transcriptions of titlepages, collations, tables of contents, etc.) the illustrative elements of each work are described in unprecedented detail, in a manner specially developed for this publication. At the end of each entry, before a description of the RIBA's copy, there are notes which attempt to set the work in its context, to illuminate its history, critical reception and impact, and to discuss variations and peculiarities in its physical make-up. In many cases these notes are extensive and form, in effect, sustained historical essays on the works and authors under discussion. With the most important authors, attempts have been made to supply complete bibliographies, in addition to the detailed studies of the editions owned by the RIBA Library. Early Printed Books forms the most comprehensive bibliography of architecture and the related arts and sciences ever published. Each volume is illustrated with plates, reproducing woodcuts, engravings, lithographs and text-pages from the works described.

Large 4to, volume one only, xlviii, 538pp., frontis., 35 illustrs., orig. publishers green cloth, lettered in gilt. Early Printed Books includes detailed bibliographical descriptions of some 4200 books published between 1478 and 1840. As well as conventional bibliographical details (transcriptions of titlepages, collations, tables of contents, etc.) the illustrative elements of each work are described in unprecedented detail, in a manner specially developed for this publication. At the end of each entry, before a description of the RIBA's copy, there are notes which attempt to set the work in its context, to illuminate its history, critical reception and impact, and to discuss variations and peculiarities in its physical make-up. In many cases these notes are extensive and form, in effect, sustained historical essays on the works and authors under discussion. With the most important authors, attempts have been made to supply complete bibliographies, in addition to the detailed studies of the editions owned by the RIBA Library. Early Printed Books forms the most comprehensive bibliography of architecture and the related arts and sciences ever published. Each volume is illustrated with plates, reproducing woodcuts, engravings, lithographs and text-pages from the works described. Volume 1. A-D (Academie-Dyce) With a foreword by Eileen Harris and an introduction by David Dean. This first volume contains descriptions of 960 books, among them important works by Robert Adam, L.B. Alberti (including the 1485 first edition of De Re Aedificatoria), the Blondels, John Britton, Sir William Chambers, Thomas Chippendale, A.B. Desgodetz and J.N.L. Durand.

Large 4to, volume four only, xxviii, 1717-2479pp., frontis., 36 illustrs., orig. publishers green cloth, lettered in gilt. Early Printed Books includes detailed bibliographical descriptions of some 4200 books published between 1478 and 1840. As well as conventional bibliographical details (transcriptions of titlepages, collations, tables of contents, etc.) the illustrative elements of each work are described in unprecedented detail, in a manner specially developed for this publication. At the end of each entry, before a description of the RIBA's copy, there are notes which attempt to set the work in its context, to illuminate its history, critical reception and impact, and to discuss variations and peculiarities in its physical make-up. In many cases these notes are extensive and form, in effect, sustained historical essays on the works and authors under discussion. With the most important authors, attempts have been made to supply complete bibliographies, in addition to the detailed studies of the editions owned by the RIBA Library. Early Printed Books forms the most comprehensive bibliography of architecture and the related arts and sciences ever published. Each volume is illustrated with plates, reproducing woodcuts, engravings, lithographs and text-pages from the works described. Volume 4: S-Z (Sadeler-Zuccaro). This volume is the most substantial of the series (although it describes only 859 books), since it includes some of the most influential and widely-read architectural writers of the last two thousand years. Four great Italians - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Sebastiano Serlio, G.B. da Vignola and Vitruvius - are afforded nearly two hundred pages of bibliographical and historical detail. Other notable authors include K.F. Schinkel, Thomas Sheraton, John Shute (author of The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture of 1563, the first English book on the subject), Sir John Soane, the Society of Dilettanti, Stuart and Revett, Giuseppe Vasi, John Wood and Sir Christopher Wren. There are also detailed descriptions of Vitruvius Britannicus (edited by Colen Campbell) and its successor volumes by Woolf and Gandon, and of a unique collection of publisher's catalogues issued by Taylor's Architectural Library between 1787 and 1828.

A Descriptive Bibliography. Pp. 1008, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, the title page printed in red & black, tables, glossary, source list, index; thick cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle, 2010. First edition. *An analytical illustrated bibliography of the National Art Library's large collection of chapbooks. Describes nearly 800 titles, including entertaining and educational works, abridged novels, alphabets, ballads, fables and tales, nursery rhymes, fortune books, garlands, histories, and natural histories.