Sean Jennet (6 results)

168 pp., index, appendices, ill. with attractive full-page b&w drawings by Gillian Kenny. The fascinating detailed story of rose breeding and introduction by four generations of the famous McGredy family. very good copy in slightly worn d.j.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback. With a Foreword by Jack Lindsay. Following the example of his elder brother, Felix, Thomas Platter left Basle to study medicine in Montpellier for his baccalaureat. He was a child of his father's old age and there was a difference of forty years between the sojourns of the two brother in Montpellier. In the interaval, much of the town had been dsestroyed in the religious wars and the protestant faction had gained power. He describes in detail the way in which the citizens lived and how they were governed. The period was cruel and intolerant and suffused with the uncertain atmosphere of temporary peace, a hiatus before another war. Thomas looked everywhere and reported what he saw honestly and without prejudice. In 1599, he returned to Basle a qualified bachelor of medicine and became one of the town's most noted physicians. His journal, a contemporary view of a university town rousing from the Middle Ages, is a document of great historical importance. Illustrated. 275 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Paperback. Condition: VG-.

. 22,5 cm. 474 pág., 50 lám. Ilustr. con facsímiles, dibujos y fotografías. Enc. tela edit. con sobrecubierta muy fatigada con pérdida parcial de papel. Pequeña rasgadura marginal en la pág. 7. Imprenta. Tipografía. Bibliofilia.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.63-126. Publisher's card wraps, stapled. Cover design by Henry Moore, decorations by John Craxton. Neat ownership to inside of front cover, edges toned, some rubbing to spine and the edges of the covers, some toning to rear panel. Very good.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. A smart two-volume set exploring the history of printing and the art of fine handwriting, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers.This set consists of: Pioneers in Printing by Sean Jennet (1958). This volume is a first edition. This copy is illustrated with six double sided monochrome plates and one plate reproduced across two pages. Collated, complete. This is a historical survey of key figures and innovations in the development of printing. A Handwriting Manual by Alfred Fairbank (1961). This volume is the third edition. This volume is illustrated with 16 double sided monochrome plates to rear, reproducing 40 samples of handwriting from various sources, and a monochrome frontispiece. Collated, complete. This is a comprehensive guide and study into the art and technique of fine handwriting. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to extremities. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers of "Pioneers." Stamp from Newcastle Upon Tyne Training College to rear paste down of "Handwriting." Dust wrappers, smart. Fading to spines. Slight soiling to wraps, with one or two slight handling marks. Slight age toning to wraps. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge and first and last few leaves. Library stamp from Newcastle Upon Tyne Training College to title page, limitation page, page 15 and page 77 of "Handwriting." Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…