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Published by Published by I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 6 Salem Road, London First Edition . 2006., 2006
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Purbeck grey cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xvi] 380 printed pages of text with 8 archive monochrome photographs. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 101845111664 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).
Published by 5 October ; on letterhead of Hentland Vicarage Ross-on-Wye, 1905
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
See the entry for this 'charismatic preacher and flamboyant individual' (referred to several times in Kilvert's diary) in the Oxford DNB, which states that, having been dispossessed out of his property and forced to dissolve his monastery in Norwich, in 1869 he was able, with the support of a wealthy benefactor, to purchase a property at Capel-y-ffin in the Black Mountains, south Wales, where he built Llanthony Abbey. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. The letter is headed 'Jesus Only.' It begins: 'My dear daughter in Jesus. / Very many thanks for your kind offer of hospitality - we shall hope to be with you by about 3 p m.' He thanks her for her kindness in taking them in, and saving them 'the expense of going to an Hotel. It will be nice & comfortable for me, being with so old & faithful a spiritual Child.' He signs: 'Your affect father in / Jesus / Ignatius O.S.B. / Monk.'.
2pp., 12mo. Printed on facing pages on one side of a landscape 8vo leaf, with blank reverse. In fair condition, on aged paper, laid down on part of a leaf removed from an album. The left-hand page carries three items: 'The Confidence Trick. A scene in Oxford Street.' (a series of puns with a purpose now lost, beginning 'A stout "Nave," | Met a green "Felloe"'), 'Anecdotes of the old Coaching Days' (beginning 'Talleyrand bought a new coach, but did not pay for it.') and 'Lord Lyndhurst'. The last reads in full: 'Ordered Robert Peake to build him a Chariot. It was finished and approved of. The bill was sent in and discharged. Afterwards a pair of commode handles (to lay hold of while ascending the steps,) were affixed, for which an extra charge was made. To this his Lordship demurred, "But, my lord" said the coachmaker, "if you ordered a builder, to build you a house, you would not expect him to furnish it." "No Peake, I should not, replied Lord Lyndhurst;" "but, I should certainly expect him to put balusters to the stairs." "The coachmaker caved in."' The second page carries a 24-line poem, in three stanzas, titled 'The Troubles of Lord Alphonsius Fitz Noodle', the first stanza of which reads: 'One morning Lord Alphonsius saw, | His "Break" fast in the Stable; | But when his Lordship's back was turned, | T'was not discover-able. | T'is said, "the coachman took it out," | And all his family treated; | That mirth and jollity prevailed, | While round it they were seated.' The final item, beneath the poem, reads: 'Why are so few water drinkers in Liverpool? | Because Shakespeare says "The quality of Mersey is not strained." | How do the Liverpudlians generally qualify it? | With the "dew off Ben Nevis."' In 1841 Peake was in business in Duke Street, Bloomsbury, as a coach builder; two years later he is listed as a tobacconist in Margate; In 1851 he is listed as a 'Coach Trimmer' in Jersey; between 1854 and 1862 he was again working in London as a coachbuilder. In 1862 he emigrated with his family to Austalia, where he ended his days working as a school teacher. From the archive of William Silk (b.1824), coachbuilder, of the firm Silk & Sons, Long Acre, London, and with a note by him in bottom left-hand corner: 'by Robert Peake.' A scarce ephemeral item: no copies on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.
Published by Published by South Metropolitan Gas Company, London,, 1936
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original textured dark green and black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. Quarto 10'' x 8''. The South Metropolitan Gas Works was the last gas works to be built in London, the brainchild of George Livesey. He received parliamentary permission to build the works on 140 acres of Greenwich Marshes in the December of 1880. In keeping with Livesey's religious ideals, frivolous decorative features were not a part of his grand design for the works; however the two gas holders were the biggest in Europe. Contains colour frontispiece, 10, 279 printed pages of text with 2 other colour plates, many monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Very Good clean and bright condition. Within 15 years, British families will have to start phasing out gas cookers, fires and boilers as the UK has to meet new tougher targets aimed at halting rises in global temperature, makes this book interesting to the grand-children of the future. Member of the P.B.F.A. TECHNOLOGY (Industrial Arts).
Published by Embossed heading Endcliffe Hall Sheffield 20 Dec, 1866
One page, 12mo, edges sunned and stained, text slightly obscured but readable. "I regret I was confined to the House yesterday (in fact since Saturday so could not attend the meeting at the [?] Hall in the sad Oaks Colliery affair [worst ever English mining disaster] [.] My two partners were also from Home. Will you add the name of my Company 'John Brown & Co." without LImited for £100[.] If our Directors will not pay the same I will.".