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

Parma: Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1801. 12mo, pp. [ii], viii, [ii], 86. Half-title bound after prefatory verses. Contemporary tree sheep, boards bordered with a gilt rope roll inside a single rule, flat spine divided by gilt rules, pink leather label, other compartments alternating styles of sunburst tools gilt, blue endpapers sprinkled in black, edges yellow sprinkled in red. A touch of minor spotting. Extremities a little rubbed. A pretty copy of the Eclogues of Virgil translated into Italian by Prospero Manara (1714-1800), first published 1764 to general acclaim; it was further reprinted until the 1830s. This particular edition is produced with the typical care and elegance of the Bodoni press, which also published Manara's translation of the Georgics in the same year. Brooks 808.

London: S.W. Sustenance, 1831. 3 vols., 12mo, pp. 360; 359, [1]; 358 + engraved frontispiece and title-page in each vol. Contemporary sprinkled paper boards by S.P.A. Koumans of Delft (with labels on front pastedowns), red roan labels to spines. Title-pages and frontispieces rather foxed, some spotting elsewhere. Joints, spine ends and labels rubbed. Large pink ownership stamp of W.H.L. Janssen van Raay (of Delft) to title-pages. One of a string of popular works compiling quotations, adages, etc, in imitation of Charles Colton’s ‘Lacon’, 1820. This more substantial collection was first published 1827, and works with similar titles (not counting multiple editions of the same title) appeared every decade for the rest of the century. The fashion for such compilations clearly spread across Europe, since this copy was first bound and housed in a collection in Delft.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1900. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. [48] + frontispiece and 21 colour lithograph plates. Some plates printed with gold or silver ink. Original carmine red boards backed in paler red cloth, front board bordered with a double gilt rule and lettered centrally in gilt, four shoe illustrations printed in gilt to corners, edges gilt. A little finger-soiling. Boards somewhat scratched and marked, worn and a little scraped to edges, portion of rear board sunned. A companion book to shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse’s (1837-1912) earlier ‘Ladies' Old-Fashioned Shoes’, focussing on footwear from the 1800s. Many copies were broken for their attractive colour plates, now more often found framed than bound.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, oblong folio, pp. [viii], [22], 9, [1] + 11 colour lithograph plates; [vi], [12], 10 + 4 colour lithograph plates & 2 black and white plates. Black and white illustrations within pagination, some plates printed with gold or silver inks. Original grey paper boards backed in red roan, boards bordered with black rules, central crest and corner shoe illustrations printed in black, edges sprinkled red. Some very faint marks. Binding somewhat rubbed and worn, some scrapes to leather. Ink inscription ‘To Mr George Waterston from Thomas W. Greig’ dated October 12, 1885 to initial blank. The scarce first book of antiquarian shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse (1837-1912), with the intention ‘to preserve in an intelligible form what is fast crumbling into dust... as well as to to show the variety of shapes and the excellence of the workmanship and design used by our ancestors’… Read More

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., oblong folio, pp. [viii], [22], 9, [1] + 11 colour lithograph plates; [vi], [12], 10 + 4 colour lithograph plates & 2 black and white plates. Black and white illustrations within pagination, some plates printed with gold or silver inks. Original grey paper boards backed in red roan, boards bordered with black rules, central crest and corner shoe illustrations printed in black, supplement bound in sage green paper wrappers backed in dark green cloth, front wrapper printed in black and bordered with black rules. One leaf in supplement bound upside-down. Leather spine defective, extremities worn, a few small areas of supplement wrappers torn away, corners creased, wrappers lightly soiled. The scarce first book of antiquarian shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse (1837-1912), with the intention ‘to preserve in an intelligible form what is fast crumbling into dust... as well as to to show the variety of shapes and the… Read More

London: Printed for the Proprietors, under the Direction of John Bell, 1791. 5 vols bound as 1, 12mo, pp. 92, 85-88; 112; 75, [1]; 106, [2]; 84 + frontispiece for each work. Near-contemporary calf, edges sprinkled in red. Some light spotting. Rubbed, particularly to spine, front joint cracking at foot. Ownership inscription of Mrs James Brown to pastedown, title list to flyleaf in same hand. A collection of five plays, each of which was issued separately, and also sold as part of Bell’s British Theatre. Aaron Hill’s Alzira is based upon Alzire by Voltaire. ESTC N19222; T48990; N15135; N24415; N15112.

Chicago: J.W. Goodspeed, 1873. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [ii], 364, [10, ads] + folding map frontispiece. Original blue cloth, boards bordered with a blind frame, spine lettered direct in bronze. Some scattered light toning, map a little spotted, handing tear to mount. Boards somewhat marked, extremities rubbed. Contemporary ink note to flyleaf on identity of the author, small shelfmark label to pastedown. A scarce work of Indiana local history by clergyman and historian Timothy Horton Ball (1826-1913). Worldcat records just the one copy, in Indiana State Library, amid a welter of facsimile reprints and digital and microfilm holdings.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1853. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xviii, [ii], 425, [3, ads]; xi, [i], 416. Original brown cloth, boards blocked in blind, spines lettered direct in gilt. A touch toned, lightly soiled. Bindings marked, a little worn to extremities. Presentation inscription to half-title of vol. 1: ‘M. A. L. Montandon, gage de haute estime et souvenir reconnaissant de la part de l’auteur. Paris, 10 Aout 1853. C. Marcel’. The major work of Cork-based diplomat and French teacher Claude Marcel (1793-1876), an early example of applied linguistics.

London: J. T. Hayes, 1855. 8vo, pp. 16. Extracted from a volume. Title-page a little worn to top edge. A few marginal pencil marks. An unrecorded pamphlet seeking to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Tsar Nicholas I and in doing so lessen support for the Crimean War. The preface, signed ‘A.S.G.’, claims the pamphlet was ‘originally written in the Russian language, translated from it into the German, and again translated into English by a lady, for private circulation.’ While this circuitous origin is possible, it seems more likely that this was, along with its anonymous publication, a way of obfuscating the text’s origin: the preface’s date of 8th November 1855 places it near the end of the Royal Navy’s campaign in the Sea of Azov, and its sympathetic portrayal of a military leader of an enemy combatant country may have been seen as seditious. The writer of the preface seems alive to this possibility when they refer to the… Read More

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1910. 8vo, pp. xi, [i], 254, [2] + frontispiece. Numerous illustrations within the pagination. Contemporary deep red morocco by Hatchards, spine and front board lettered in gilt, spine bands ruled in blind extending onto the boards and ending in blind trefoil tools (in imitation of earlier binding style), top edge gilt. A few very light scratches to leather. An attractively-bound (with something of an Arts & Crafts feel) reprint of the Brock-illustrated Last Essays, first published 1899.

Edinburgh: Printed by Neill & Company, 1835. 8vo, pp. 4, 90. Contemporary brown pebbled cloth. Scattered light foxing, some gatherings a little marked. Some marks to boards, spine-ends a little worn. AP monogram to title-page. A scarce edition of the will of goldsmith and philanthropist George Heriot (1563-1624), together with the statutes of the charitable school he endowed. Library Hub records just 3 copies: at NLS, St Andrews and BL.

Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1836. 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 72 + frontispiece and 4 plates, all with onlaid coloured triangles. Original green textured cloth, printed paper label to front board. Some of the coloured triangles partly oxidised. Cloth somewhat faded and rubbed, label marked. Gift inscription to flyleaf: ‘Alexander Lauder from Mr Patrik, Dec. 1927’. The chief work of David Ramsay Hay (1798-1866), whose artistic leanings were turned towards house-painting by the advice of Sir Walter Scott, for whom he did much work at Abbotsford. He developed his own unique theory of colour harmony, outlined in this work with demonstrations and arguments from (pseudo-)science, and it proved popular and influential: the first edition of 1818 was followed by five more, each expanded and edited.

London: Printed for James Cawthorn, 1814. FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. xvi, 222. 19th-century half green calf, green pebbled boards, spine divided by raised bands between double blind rules, red morocco label, top edge gilt. Some spotting to endpapers, spine slightly sunned, a little rubbed to extremities. Binder’s ticket of James H. Jackson, manufacturing stationer of Perth, to pastedown. Despite the title-page’s claims this is the first British edition of an American parody of Scott’s Lay of The Last Minstrel, satirising British naval conduct in the war of 1812, first published in America in 1813. Scott called it ‘a piece of tolerably dull Trans-Atlantic wit’ but regarded it ‘the highest compliment I ever received, since it blends me with the Naval reputation of my country’ (Todd & Bowden). Todd & Bowden 483S.

A Rotterdam: Chez Jean Hofhout, 1729. 12mo, pp. [xx], 343, [1]. Title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine divided by raised bands, brown morocco label, other compartments tooled in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Stab hole to outer margin of 2 gatherings. Binding rather rubbed and pitted, extremities worn. A Dutch printing of a French translation of a Spanish book on an Italian diplomat; Gracián’s first book, translated by poet, translator and Jesuit priest Joseph de Courbeville (1688-1715). A response to The Prince and a critique of Machiavelli, it was first published in Spanish in 1637. This French translation first appeared in 1725, and was translated into English in 1726.

Paris: Chez Henry Charpentier, 1698. FIRST EDITIONS, 12mo, pp. [x], 162, [14], [vi], 111, [9]. Illustrated with wood-engravings. Contemporary sprinkled calf. Small piece torn from margin of privilege leaf of second work, a few small stains. Rebacked, hinges relined, corners worn. Scarce together, these are two related early works on Tric Trac, a French cousin of backgammon. A second edition combining the two appeared in 1701.

Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamperia di Bartolommeo Sermartelli, 1587. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 4to, pp. [viii], 198, [2], [viii], 40, 16. Late 18th-century straight-grained black morocco, boards bordered with gilt rules and a blind roll, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules, second compartment gilt-lettered direct and the rest infilled with blind tooling, marbled endpapers. A little minor spotting. Binding rubbed, a little insect damage to head of front joint. Later ownership inscription to initial blank: ‘Agnes Payne from Revd. L. Jones’ The major published poems of Benedetto Dell’Uva (1540-1582), a Benedictine monk, in their first collection edition: each been first published individually in 1582 shortly before the author’s death. While the earlier editions were sometimes found bound together, they are here first issued together, a state which would be repeated in subsequent editions of 1588 and 1599. The longest poem, ‘Le Vergini… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for Private Circulation, 1872. FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp. viii, [ii], 168 + 1 plate. Title-page printed in red and black. Original purple cloth, boards bordered with a double black rule, printed paper label to spine. Lightly toned and spotted. Extremities bumped and a little rubbed, label chipped. The rare privately-printed first edition of these translations of extracts from the Aberdeen Breviary and Arbuthnott Missal concerning the patron saint of Glasgow (also called St Mungo), by Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh, Rev William Stevenson (1805-1873). The text and appendix are on slightly different paper with different typography. A revised version was published in an edition of 200 copies posthumously in 1874.

A Londres [London]: chez Jean Nourse, 1749. 4 vols. 12mo, pp. [xii], 306, [2, ads]; [viii], 260; [xii], 291, [1, ads]; [x], 281, [1] + 32 plates. Title-pages printed in red and black. Contemporary pale calf, spines divided by gilt bands, red morocco labels, spine numbered direct in gilt, other compartments with central botanical tools. Some soiling to a spread in volume 4. Spines creased and darkened, volume 2 worn at head, boards just a little rubbed and scratched. Lesage’s picaresque novel was first published between 1715 and 1735, with this edition the first time the French text was printed in England, appearing in the same year as Tobias Smollett’s English translation. ESTC T134729.

Paris: Chez les Freres Estienne, 1768. 2 vols., 12mo, pp. [iv], xlviii, 380, [4]; [iv], 480 + frontispiece, 24 plates and a folding map. Contemporary marbled sheep, spines divided by raised bands, brown morocco labels, other compartments tooled in gilt, edges red, marbled endpapers. A touch of toning to first and last leaves. A little rubbed, joints starting, corners worn. Amorial wax seals of Lindesay family and ownership signatures of P. Lindesay, Musselburgh, to pastedowns, signatures of P. Lindesay also to title-pages beneath earlier struck-through signature, ownership inscriptions of George Paterson dated 1841 to half-titles. A scarce printing of Fénelon’s popular novel, which Worldcat records in just 2 locations, both in Switzerland, in a worn but still attractive contemporary binding. This copy belonged to a P. Lindesay of Musselburgh, most likely Sir Patrick Lindesay (1778-1839), soldier and colonial administrator, the namesake of 2 mountains and one river in Australia.

London: The Folio Society; Oxford University Press, 2007. LIMITED EDITIONS, EACH NO. 840 OF 3750, 1980 OR 1000 COPIES, 78 vols, folio and 8vo, comprising 39 folio volumes printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and bound in original half blue, green red or turquoise Nigerian goatskin, marbled boards, spines lettered direct in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, and 39 companion 8vo volumes in matching-colour buckram, printed paper labels to front boards, spines lettered direct in gilt; one book of each format housed together in 39 matching-colour solander boxes with Nigerian goatskin labels. A fine set. A complete set of a major undertaking: the complete works of Shakespeare in elegant large-format letterpress, set in 16pt Monotype Baskerville with Caslon Display by Gloucester Typesetting Services, with printing requiring the services of three different firms across England and Germany, and the binding in quarter goatskin completed by Lachenmaier in Reutlinge. Each play volume is numbered and… Read More