Authors starting with S from Savoy Books

London: L.Upcott Gill, 1883. 8vo, heavily stamped decorated cloth. Pp. x, 214 + ad leaf, printed in maroon ink on blue-gray and terracotta colored paper; illus. A fine copy. Attractively produced guide to painting on textiles, pottery and porcelain, paper, vellum and leather, glass and wood, stone and metal. ... more information

Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, 1784. 4to, disbound. Pp. 95; wanting the half title. A very good copy. Second edition. An exercise in hybrid form by the Swan of Lichfield; she considered this her best work. Despite her introductory tease that "This poem has little chance to be popular," it went through four editions the first year. NCBEL 2, 682.. ... more information

Edinburgh: Thomas Constable, 1856. 8vo, removed. Pp. 48. Outer leaves a little foxed. First edition, a presentation copy, inscribed, "The Rev, R. B. Major from T. C. Shairp" (inscription slightly trimmed). Though Shairp was 37 when this was published, it is among his first publications, a challenge to the universities to raise admission standards and institute entrance exams.. ... more information

Aided and guided by experience and the compulsion of circumstance as regards both the individual and the community as a whole, on the long road of human evolution. Keighley: Printed for the author by Messrs. Wadsworth & Co., The Rydal Press, nd [1916.] 12mo, print ed self wrappers. Pp. 55, ucut. Wrappers chipped at edges, sm library release stamp. Sole edition, initialled presentation copy, with a small photo of the author tipped in. A privately printed sampling of mystical essays and poems, according t... more information

Burton-On-Trent: J. Croft, 1814. Sm 8vo, later full polished calf, spine gilt; marbled endpapers. Pp. 154. Frontispiece of cock fight. Some browning and foxing; front hinge tender. Expanded edition of the a book first published in 1793. Pp. 1-61 give full particulars on breeding, desirable charcteristics, matches, etc.; remainder forms for keeping records, accounts, etc.. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers. Pp. vii, [9]-275, (1), illus.; port. plate. Printed in double columns. A fine copy. First edition, an important autobiographical account of a long career in acting and management in provincial 19th century America. Published a year before Smith's death, it combines elements of two earlier volumes of reminiscences with much new material. A fine copy in wrappers, with a family provenance, according to pencilled notes in the volume,... more information

Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'schen, 1891. 8vo, ornamented cloth. pp. 259 + ads; illus. With 150 mounted samples of dyed cotton. Cover damp-stained at bottom, else very good. . ... more information

Cazenovia, NY: Printed by J. F. Fairchild, 1828. 12mo, orig plain wrapper. Pp. 82, 3 blanks. Lacking rear wrapper. A little browned; fine. First editon. One of several anti-Masonic tracts issued by Stearns the same year, relating to the Morgan affair. Imprints 35394 (CSmH, IaCrM, MBFM); also AAS, defective.. ... more information

London: For J. Pridden [1765.]. Folio, stitched, uncut. Pp. 9, (1). Folding engraved frontis. Creased at center, with a light stain at inner margin. A very good copy. "Fifth edition." An early folio edition from the first year of publication of an oft-printed comic staple of 18th century theater, generally cited as the first English comic monologue. Stevens was an actor and author of a libertine bent, who scored a huge success with this parody of an academic lecture on physiognomy, propped with fi... more information

(Code writing.) STEVENS, Walter Husted, 1827-1867, Confederate Brig. Genera l, military engineer. Manuscript alphabet code key, signed in code. Single small sheet, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2. . Interesting manuscript, giving Stevens' original code system of line and dot symbols, enigmatically titled "Honorif icenticimus" in conventional script at top, and signed "Author. W. H. Stevens" in code at bottom. Stevens was an important military figure who graduated West Point in 1848, spent time in Texa... more information

London: for R & J Dodsley, 1760. 4to, stitched. Pp. 23; wanting the half-title. Light running stain to lower right, a good, untrimmed copy. First edition. John Hall-Stevenson entertained a coterie of rakes, wits and eccentrics at his Skelton Castle, among them Laurence Sterne, who made frequent use of its library. Published shortly after the appearance of Tristram Shandy, the first of these coarse macaronics is addressed to Sternes' title character and is signed "Antony Shandy," by wh... more information

Boston: Printed by Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1867. 12mo, orig. blue printed title wrappers. Pp. 18. Minor soiling, very good. By the noted nurseryman and author of the well-regarded treatise, "The Culture of the Grape", with a separate publisher's promotional leaflet for the book laid in. Includes 2 pages of foreign and domestic grapes, and 2 of roses. . ... more information

Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1886. 12mo, disbound. Pp. 129, uncut. Some browning of outer leaves, very good. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed "Mrs. Baldwin with kind regards from her friend A. J. Symington. Langside: Glasgow. July, 1886." Symington (1821-1898), a minor Scottish poet and biographer, was a regular visitor to Carlyle's Chelsea home over a period of thirty years.. ... more information

New York:: Editions de la Maison Francaise, Inc., 1942. 8vo, printed wraps; pp. 253. First edition. Previous owner's bookplate on flyleaf. Very good.. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. 12mo, orig color-illusrated cloth. Pp. 192 + ads. A little soiling to front cover and spine, otherwise very good.. ... more information

Des Moines, (1924). 8vo, stiff wraps. Pp. 163, illus with 16 full=page b&w photos. Very good.. ... more information

New York: A.T.De La Mare, 1928. 8vo, cloth; pp. 186, illus. Presentation copy; very good.. ... more information

London: H.F.&G. Witherby, n.d. (1937). 8vo, cloth, top of spine chipped, edges worn; internally a good copy.. ... more information

Chicago: W.B. Sloan, 1851. 12mo, original printed boards; pp. 160, frontis. Rubbed, first signature starting. Scarce midwestern guide. Byrd 1432.. ... more information

The Executive Committee...encouraged by the patronage of the Le gislature of Vermont, intend to offer premiums...E. E. Fuller, Chairman. Nd (c. 1850?) Broadside, 15 1/2 x 25 inches, untrimmed. Text within ornamental border. Fine. A handsome broadside, with a list of premiums and substantial text regarding the organization of the competition.. ... more information