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A Practical Essay on the Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours by CLARK, J.H.

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Title: A Practical Essay on the Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours
Author: CLARK, J.H.
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1812. CLARK, J[ohn]. H[eaviside]. A Practical Essay on the Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours. [4], 28 pp. Illustrated with 10 aquatint engravings of which 7 are coloured by hand. Folio, 370 x 280 mm, contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf, covers with Greek key border in gilt and floral roll and corner pieces in blind, spine (relaid) gilt in six compartments between raised bands, all edges marbled. London: Edward Orme, 1812. WITH: John Heaviside CLARK and William GILPIN. A Practical Illustration of Gilpin's Day, Representing the Various Effects on Landscape Scenery from Morning till Night, in Thirty Designs from Nature. [4], viii, [32] pp, with 30 hand-colored aquatint engravings by Clark after Gilpin. London: Edward Orme, 1811. A magnificent set of these two exceptionally beautiful and rare early nineteenth century colourplate books. The first volume is the second edition of this detailed artist's manual for landscape painting featuring colour plate illustrations, each with the pallet of colours required for its rendering depicted below the scene. The text spells out how to properly apply the pigments to various elements in landscape painting. John Heaviside Clark (ca. 1771-1836) was an established landscape painter who frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Abbey, Life in England, cites the first edition of this title, published in 1807. For the second volume Clark drew the title of Gilpin's Day from a poem in Gilpin's Essay on Pictorial Beauty, which celebrates the "arch ethereal . . . pregnant with change perpetual, from the morning's purple dawn, till the last glimm'ring ray of russet eve." Gilpin's Day was intended primarily as a drawing book, with aquatints the "nearest approach to actual water-colour paintings that I have met with in a book." (Martin-Hardie) The 30 plates (each with page of text, except plate 10, which has two pages) give the range of effects from "Dawn of Day" to "Waning Moon," passing through various sunrises, clouds and haze, storms, rainbows, lightning, and moonlight. The plate texts provide precise details for coloring each scene so as to resemble as closely as possible a watercolor sketch. An unusually clean set of these extremely rare works. The binding has been rebacked, and is sound. Of the first title, OCLC lists no copies of this edition, but copies of the first edition of 1807, at Metropolitan Museum, Huntington, Getty, Morgan,Yale and Winterthur. Of the second OCLC lists Yale, UCLA, U of Florida, Art Institute of Chicago and Kent State in the U.S.

THE SHADOW LINE. A Confession by Conrad, Joseph

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Title: THE SHADOW LINE. A Confession
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1917. Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First American Edition, published about a month after Dent's London edition, of one of Conrad's most autobiographical tales. To quote from the dust jacket, The "shadow line" is that dim boundary that divides youth from maturity. How a young first mate, who unexpectedly finds himself in command of a sailing vessel, leaves his carefree youth behind forever in the agonizing responsibility of a twenty-one day voyage from Bankok [sic] to Singapore. His ship is becalmed, the whole crew stricken with fever and no quinine in the medicine chest! The American edition was set from proof sheets supplied by Dent, after which Conrad made changes that were effected in the UK edition but not in the US one; as a result, "the American edition provides an interesting intermediate text between the ENGLISH REVIEW and the first Dent edition, showing the extensive changes made from serial to copy text for the book, as well as the further polishing which took place in proof" [Cagle]. This is a fine copy. This copy has the scarce 1917 dust jacket, which is scarcer than the Dent dust jacket; American jackets reading "Doubleday Doran" on their spines are from later printings after 1927. It is in very good-plus condition (spine browned as always with these DP&Co jackets, just a bit of soil and edge-wear). Supino A20.4.0 (this copy); Cagle A21b.1. Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J. Supino.

Experiments to Determine the Comparative Value of the Principal Varieties of Fuel .... - OFFERED WITH - A Defence of Experiments .... by Bull, M

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books

Title: Experiments to Determine the Comparative Value of the Principal Varieties of Fuel .... - OFFERED WITH - A Defence of Experiments ....
Author: Bull, M
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A very good copy; untrimmed.
Description: Philadelphia: J Dobson, 1827-' 28. First Edition.. modern linen cloth; the Defence is dsbd.. A very good copy; untrimmed.. 8vo. A frontis.. of the testing apparatus. An early attempt to introduce some measure of rationality and economic standard into the fuel requirements for the city of Philadelphia and construct a useful index of heating costs for householders. Bull's experiments on the heating capacity of different fuels are exhaustive, using a calorimeter similar to that of Rumford, and plainly recorded on the tables accompanying the text. In addition to the so called laboratory tests Bull undertook a complex series of room experiments with premises constructed to the specifications of the famous chemist and electrical experimenter Robert Hare (cited in the text). He was also able to comment on the nature of combustion in the stove he used. An important book. Rink # 2913 & # 2916.

A Photograph Signed By Ellen Terry And Dog by ELLEN TERRY

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Title: A Photograph Signed By Ellen Terry And Dog
Author: ELLEN TERRY
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ELLEN TERRY (1847-1928). Terry was a celebrated British stage actress.PS. 3 x 5 . N.d. N.p. A postcard photograph signed Bruin & Ellen Terry. The black-and-white image depicts Terry holding a white dog. Terrys fondness for dogs is well documented. It is in fine condition.

[FOLKLORE] THE ENCIRCLED SERPENT: A STUDY OF SERPENT SYMBOLISM IN ALL COUNTRIES AND AGES~~~~~ by M. Oldfield Howey

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Title: [FOLKLORE] THE ENCIRCLED SERPENT: A STUDY OF SERPENT SYMBOLISM IN ALL COUNTRIES AND AGES~~~~~
Author: M. Oldfield Howey
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: New York: Arthur Richmond Company, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text. Black cloth binding. Dustjacket a bit worn. Moderate to heavy edgewear to dustjacket. Long closed tear at bottom of dustjacket spine.; DJ protected with Mylar Cover~~. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

Passage of Arms by AMBLER, Eric

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Title: Passage of Arms
Author: AMBLER, Eric
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine Jean Carlu designed dust jacket that is price-clipped. Lacking the second jacket. Still a very copy of this Ambler thriller.

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The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Cain, William E.

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Title: The Blithedale Romance
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Cain, William E.
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780312118037
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bedford of St. Martin's, 1996. Very Good. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance. Cain, William E.. Boston: Bedford of St. Martin's, 1996. 512pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and pencil annotations on several pages..

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