Search Results: Titles starting with A from McNaughtan's Bookshop

Aberdeen: Lewis Smith, 1868. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 129, [1] + engraved title page and 22 plates (2 of them maps), plus double-page inscription printed in red and black. Other illustrations included in pagination. Original green cloth, boards bordered in blind, spine lettered vertically in gilt. Some light spotting, plates lightly mottled, one bifolium partly sprung. Some rubbing to extremities.

Glasgow: Sold Wholesale by J. Lumsden and Son, 1815. 24mo, pp. 47, [1]. 8 leaves of plates printed in sanguine included within pagination. Original salmon paper wrappers pasted to first and last leaves as issued, front wrapper lettered in ink. Wrappers somewhat soiled. An attractive religious chapbook, an unusual survival in original paper wrappers, with 16 illustrations printed in red. The BL’s catalogue entry (alone among the several holdings in Library Hub) says the illustrations are attributed to Thomas Bewick - this is doubtful although his workshop did produce blocks for Lumsden’s chapbooks around this time. Roscoe & Brimmell 32.

Edinburgh: Printed by John Mosman and Company, for John Paton, 1721. 8vo, pp. [xvi], 287, [21]. Errata slip pasted to verso of p. 287. Contemporary sprinkled calf, boards bordered with a double blind rule, red morocco label. Some toning and spotting. Extremities a touch rubbed, a few marks to spine. Modern bookplate to front pastedown. A pretty copy of this abridgement of the acts of the General Assemblies, the sole edition (following a similar but smaller work of fifteen years earlier). ESTC T78539.

Edinburgh: Printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1778. 12mo, pp. 271, [1]. Contemporary calf, spine divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco label. Some light browning and spotting, a touch of nibbling to top margin of first few leaves. Rubbed, joints and edges a bit worn, head and tail of spine chipped, front flyleaf loosening, label partially defective. A scarce Edinburgh printing of John Wynne’s abridgment of Locke’s essay. It was a regular title for the publisher, with editions in 1767, 1770, and 1778, alongside publications of the full text. None are common, and this edition is located by ESTC in just 4 locations in the UK (BL, Cambridge, Oxford, NLS) plus William and Mary in the USA and the University of Queensland. ESTC T185309.

London: [Colophon:] Imprinted at London in Fleetstrete within temple barre at the signe of the hand and starre, by Richard Tottell, 1591. 8vo, pp. [vii], 135, [2] + 1 folding plate. Woodcuts within pagination, several full-page. Eighteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, spine divided by gilt rolls. Some soiling and light staining, title-page a little worn with small repair to verso, plate nearly split at fold, one leaf with several names censored in early ink. Extremities a little rubbed, front joint cracking at foot, a paper label sometime lost from spine. Ownership inscription of Stephen Newman dated 1792 to flyleaf, date calculation from 1809 to front board, early purchase note partially cropped at head of title-page: ‘[?] Roberts 23rd January 97 precium 2d’. First published in 1562 as ‘The Accedens of Armory’, this is the fifth recorded printing of the sole published work of Gerard Legh (or Leigh, d.1563), the son of a draper who became a member of the… Read More

Newcastle: Printed by J. Marshall, 1810. 12mo, pp. 8. Disbound. Toned, a few spots. A scarce Newcastle chapbook: COPAC locates copies at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, BL, and the V&A. Opie L270.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1806. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., 4to, pp. [viii], 409, [3]; [ii], 431, [3] + frontispiece in vol. 1 and 8 plates in vol. 2. Contemporary half russia, marbled boards, spines divided by raised bands between gilt rules, lettered in gilt direct. Toned, some foxing (particularly at beginning), a few leaves creased. Rubbed at extremities, some scratches, front joint of vol. 1 cracked and spine worn at head. The principal work of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739-1806), a substantial biography of his close friend the philosopher James Beattie (1735-1803).

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly., 1768. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xii, [iii], 382 + folding map frontispiece. Contemporary mottled calf, edges sprinkled red. Small handling tear to edge of map. Sometime rebacked, spine divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco label, old leather a little rubbed. Bookplate of John M. Cameron and old bookseller’s catalogue clipping to pastedown, monogram to flyleaf dated 1894. The first edition of Boswell’s first proper book, an account of his journey to Corsica and a biography of Corsican president Pascal Paoli. In this copy leaves E2 and Z3 are cancellentia. Neither Gaskell nor ESTC nor Pottle assign any precedence to the various textual variations found across printings, with Pottle suggesting that the cancel leaves were printed in duplicate, four copies of each across an octavo sheet, resulting in slight differences, alongside other misprints across the edition ‘no doubt… Read More

London: John Murray, 1835. PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo, pp. xx, [ii], 276. Original grey boards backed in buff cloth, printed paper label to spine. Some light spotting, a dampmark to lower margin. Binding lightly stained and soiled, extremities a touch worn. Armorial bookplate of J.C. Gaisford St Lawrence to front pastedown, flyleaf inscribed ‘With the Editor’s best respects’. A schoolbook edition of the Acharnians, edited by Thomas Mitchell (1783-1845), who had earlier published an important English translation of Aristophanes’s comedies. This copy was presented by Mitchell, probably to Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), dean of Christ Church - Mitchell lived in Oxfordshire - though the bookplate is of Gaisford’s grandson Commander J. C. Gaisford St Lawrence (1862-1932), who had adopted his mother’s surname for reasons of inheritance, she being sole child of the third earl of Howth.

London: Printed and published at The Seizin Press, 1929. FIRST EDITION, NO. 182 OF 225 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. [iv], 50, [2]. Original white cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A little light browning. Binding slightly soiled. Sawyer 65.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1879. 8vo, pp. xx, 455, [1]. Contemporary prize binding of tree calf, boards bordered with a gilt roll, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, brown morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers. A little rubbing to extremities. Gilt stamp reading ‘Dollar Institution’ within a laurel wreath to front board. An attractive prize binding from the Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire.

[Edinburgh?]: [s.n.], 1748. 8vo, pp. 17, [1]. Disbound. Trimmed close sometimes touching text, title-page printed askew and a little dust-soiled. Ink attribution ‘by Mr. Robert Forbes’ to title-page. An early and scarce printing of this Scots translation of an excerpt from Ovid by Robert Forbes. Little is known of him - he seems to have been born in Buchan but plied his trade as a hosier in London. Evidently an educated man who ‘possessed a large fund of the humorous,’ he also published another excerpt from Ovid and a few original pieces (Walker, The Bards of Bon-Accord 1375-1860, 1887). ESTC records 5 locations, Aberdeen, BL, NLS and University of Wales in the UK, Huntington in the USA. ESTC T2219.

London: Printed for John Bell, 1777. 12mo, pp. 92, [4] + engraved frontispiece. Modern plain black suede. Somewhat toned, some small dampmarks. A reprint of the adapted script for Jonson’s Alchemist, with the frontispiece featuring David Garrick as Abel Drugger, a role that helped launch his career. Garrick had retired from the stage in 1766, but stayed on to manage the theatre until 1776, returning to the stage that year for a series of farewell performances.

[Ipswich]: Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd., 1964. 8vo, pp. [16] including original colour-printed card wrappers. Edges of oversized wrappers just a touch bumped. A full-colour promotional booklet designed for Guinness by advertising agency S. H. Benson to extoll the virtues of their stout; this one (they were issued yearly) is a series of parodies of well-known poetry in the theme of home improvement by Stanley Penn, such as the Walter Scott pastiche ‘The Lay of The New Lino.’ Given the context of the volume there are also many references to the helpful properties of Guinness. The illustrations are by John Tribe.

Goettingae [Gottingen]: Apud Ioh. Christ. Dieterich, 1782. 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 293, [1]. Later quarter roan, textured paper boards, corners tipped in parchment, spine divided by wide blind rules, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, others blocked with gilt frames, marbled endpapers. Toned and spotted. Spine and extremities rubbed, boards a touch scuffed. Ownership inscription dated [19]22 to title-page, gift inscription dated 1946 to verso of flyleaf. The allegorical defence of Homer against charges of immorality by the first-century AD grammarian Heraclitus, sometimes known as 'Homeric Problems' or 'Homeric Allegories'. This edition, by the Danish scholar Niels Schouw (and dedicated to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, then cabinet secretary and de-facto prime minister of Denmark), includes Conrad Gessner's 1544 Latin translation and notes by Schouw (1754-1830).

London: The Trade Papers Publishing Co., Ltd., 1921. 2 vols., oblong 8vo, pp. [i], 22, [1]; [i], 22, [1] + 2 double-page colour plates. Original red (vol. 1) and green (vol. 2) paper wrappers printed in black. Somewhat soiled, corners creased, first and last leaves of vol. 1 stained. Wrappers creased, somewhat marked and shaken. A scarce set of lettering guides, showing some signs of use in the painting trade. The only other holding of both volumes in this edition that we have located is in Toronto, while the V&A and the Grolier have an undated version of the 2nd series (possibly copies bound without the wrapper); Oxford and the Grolier also hold this version of the first, while Leeds and the BL record a 1906 Manchester printing.

London: Printed for J. Bell, 1805. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xv, [i], 64. Modern half morocco in perfect period style, marbled boards, spine divided by triple gilt rules, second compartment gilt-lettered direct, others with small central gilt tool. Some minor spotting, a few leaves creased. Gift inscription to half-title: 'J. Ahern, the gift of his friend Wm. H. Sidell, 1827'. A scarce volume of love lyrics including translations from Catullus and Ovid and imitations of epigrams from the Greek Anthology. The editor signs the preface 'I.I.M.' and describes the author as 'a native of another hemisphere' raised 'under the genial influence of a more southern sun', who was 16 on his first visit to Britain, and 19 at the time of publication - the same age as the editor. This has more than a whiff of literary invention, and in fact the Trinity College Dublin copy contains a manuscript note attributing the work to Eaton Stannard Barrett (1785-1820). This seems plausible: the… Read More

Shrewsbury: Printed by J. Eddowes, 1776. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. viii, 130. Extracted from a volume with portion of leather spine remaining. Half-title discarded. Some minor spotting. The first edition of this scarce tract on the American Revolution by the naturalised clergyman John William Fletcher (d. 1785), born Jean Guillaume de la Flechere in Switzerland before moving to England at the age of 21. A skilled preacher of Methodist tendencies, Fletcher was close with John and Charles Wesley but disappointed them by not seeking to rise beyond the living of Madeley in Shropshire. This did however leave him time to write and he became 'a prolific and meticulously detailed writer'. This is the longer of two tracts in the same year defending the British position (and Wesley's support for it) against the attacks of Caleb Evans; Fletcher draws upon 'reason, scripture, and the constitution' to argue that indirect representation is a valid basis for taxation and that a lasting… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by John Moir... and sold by Stuart Cheyne, 1809. 12mo, pp. 144. Original drab boards, printed paper label to spine. Some browning and spotting, a few gatherings opened a little carelessly. Rebacked with brown buckram, portions of original backstrip preserved. A posthumous collection including ‘Tullochgorum’, which Burns ‘declared “the best Scotch song ever Scotland saw” (Walker, 149)’ (ODNB).

Edinburgh: Printed for William Whyte and Co., 1824. 8vo, pp. [ii], lxiii, [i], 398 + frontispiece. Contemporary diced black calf, boards bordered with gilt rolls, spines divided by gilt rules between blind rolls, 2nd compartment lettered direct in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Dampmark to margin of frontispiece. Somewhat rubbed. Bookseller’s ticket of S. M. Thompson of Cork to pastedown, marginal pencil notes throughout. A scarce Edinburgh printing of Butler’s theological perennial, recorded in Library Hub in just two locations: NLS and Cambridge.