Tesseyman (3 results)
Published by Not Applicable 1903
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United KingdomCosmo Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 16.20
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Add to basketNot applicable. Condition: Very Good. Carefully folded, and in very clean condition overall. This is an original document, not a modern reprint or copy. The picture shows only a portion of the document, but nothing is missing from the document. Category: Ephemera; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers.… A bookseller you can rely on.
More imagesPublished by York Printed by W. Blanchard 1788
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Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, United KingdomForest Books, ABA-ILAB
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£ 1,250.00
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Add to basket8vo (201 x 125 mm), [2], 248 (i.e. 250pp.) pages 241-250 misnumbered and corrected in ink in a contemporary hand, terminal leaf a little soiled and creased, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, A rare catalogue issued by the York bookseller William Tesseyman (trading dates 1762-1811), the catalogue lists some 8922 items with…prices affixed. This appears to be the earliest catalogue issued by this York bookseller, JISC lists two other catalogues issued by the firm: 1795 (York Minster only) & 1801 (British Library only); of this 1788 catalogue JISC locates a single copy at York Minster. Provenance: With the early book label (printed on green paper) of Emily Wind of Helmsley (Yorkshire), ink ownership signature of T. S. Wind to head of title page.
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Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, U.S.A.The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerYork, [Eng.]: Johnson and Tesseyman, 1871. "The Turnip Controversy": A Defendant-Family Copy of the Landmark 1871 St. Quintin v. Lett Agricultural Trial [Agriculture]. [Yorkshire]. ST. QUINTIN, Colonel [Matthew] vs. LETT, Joseph. Important Trial on Farming: St. Quintin v. Lett: Before Mr. Baron Cleasby and a Special Jury, York S…pring Assizes, 1871. York, [Eng.]: Printed by Johnson and Tesseyman, [1871]. Octavo, 206 pp. Original sewn blue printed wrappers with original printed paper label to spine. Wrappers worn and soiled; spine chipped. Internally clean and bright. $450. A Unique "Turnip Controversy" Association Copy. This landmark 1871 agricultural dispute pitted the landed gentry-the prominent St. Quintin family of Harpham and Scampston-against their tenant, Joseph Lett. While the official transcript addresses technical "tenant-right" precedents, this copy identifies the colloquial heart of the conflict through two distinct contemporary hands: 1. Family Provenance: A title-page presentation inscription from "Mr. John Lett" (dated Dec. 1901), a relative of the defendant. The 30-year interval between the trial and this gift suggests the volume was a carefully preserved family artifact. 2. The "Turnip" Gloss: A second, distinct penciled hand has added "The Turnip Controversy 1870" directly beneath the title. This annotation provides a rare, eyewitness window into the trial's origin: the catastrophic drought of 1870. In the Yorkshire "four-course" system, turnips were the vital winter fodder that cleaned the soil and provided manure. The 1870 drought caused widespread crop failures, forcing tenants into impossible choices: sell the failing crop for immediate cash (breaching their lease) or watch livestock starve. This volume records the legal fallout when the "gold standard" of Victorian farming failed, resulting in a high-stakes battle over land-use covenants and the "custom of the country." A rare survival of a provincial legal printing by Johnson and Tesseyman, significantly elevated by layers of local social history and direct defendant-family association. York, [Eng.]: Johnson and Tesseyman, 1871. (illustrator).
