Titles starting with T from The Bookpress, Ltd.

1844. (TRADE CARD) T.H. WEBSTER, TEACHER OF ARCHITECTURE PERSPECTIVE &. (London: circa 1810). Engraved card. 2 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches. Webster (1772- 1844) revised John Imison's Elements of Science and Art in 1808 On the blank verso, he has added his address: No. 6 Clipstone Street. ... more information

1987. GOWEN, Al. T.J. LYONS: A BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICAL ESSAY. Boston: Society of Printers, 1987. 4to. Cloth. (x), 102 pages. First edition Printing for sixty-two years in the twentieth century, T.J. Lyons of Boston maintained the tradition of nineteenth century printing, using his vast collection of foundry types 1820-1890. Illustrated. Fine. At publication price. ... more information

1792. Paperback. (ROBERTSON, John.) TABLES OF DIFFERENCE OF LATITUDE AND DEPARTURE. Philadelphia: Joseph Cruikshank, 1790. 8vo. Later marbled wrappers. (i), 90 pages. First edition. [Evans, 22856.] Being a handy eighteenth century guide for the seaman and traveler. Robertso Tables was popular and was also included as an appendix to the 1792 edition o Robert Gibson's Treatise of Practical Surveying. Scarce. ... more information

1967. PLICKA, K., and E Poche. TAGE IN PRAG 7. (Prag): Orbis, 1967. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 213 (1) pages. First edition. "Photographischer Fuhrer durch die Stadt". With nearly five hundred photogra of buildings and interiors in Prag by Karel Plicka and text by Emanuel Poche. Very good. ... more information

1979. BECKMAN, Max. TAGEBUCHER, 1940-1950. (Munich): Langen Muller, (1979). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 443, (5) pages, (2 plates. [Freitag, 519]. This is the diary of German artist Max Beckman, kept over a ten year period. Small hole on front cover, else fine. ... more information

2007. JONES, Shirley. TAITH ARALL--AN OTHER JOURNEY. (Brecon: 2007). Oblong folio (12 3/8 x 15 inches). Quarter-leather with an additional leather label on the front board, housed in a cloth solander box w a leather spine label. The Deluxe Issue, from a total edition of 40 copies. The text consists of eight essays, commentaries on Geraldus Cambrensis's 1188 tour of Wales, during which he preached and recruited for soldiers willing to take up arms for a Third Crusade to the Holy Land. Each essay is il... more information

1970. ASH, William. TAKE-OFF. New York: Walker & Co., (1970). 8vo. Paper over boards, dust jacket. 223 pag First American edition. The editor of a small literary review becomes involved in a guerilla movement when he tries to publish the poems of the revolutionary leader. Fine in rubbe dust jacket. ... more information

1641. JONSON, Ben. A TALE OF A TUB. A COMEDY. London: 1641. Folio. Disbound. (ii), pages 67-113 (complete). First edition. First performed in 1633, it was the last of his plays written and performed i his lifetime. Our copy was first published in Volume III of the Workes of Benjamin Jonson, in 1640-1641. It was first performed for King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria in January, 1634. Very good. ... more information

1930. SCOTLAND, John. THE TALKIES. London: Crosby Lockwood, 1930. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. xvi, 194, (1) pages, plates. First edition. An early technical and historical survey of early talking pictures, with photographs of early equipment and movie sets. An attractive, bright copy. ... more information

1952. MUIR, P.H., and others. TALKS ON BOOK-COLLECTING. London: Cassell, (1952.) 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. x, 105 pages, 12 plates. First edition. Laid-in is a tls on Elkin Mathews stationary, signed by Muir, inviting the recipient to join the "Biblio Boys" at their monthly Dining Club. An appropriate letter as most of this book's essayists were members of the club. Very good in chipped dust jacket. ... more information

1900. TAPISSERIES ET ETOFFES COPTES. (Paris: H. Ernst, n.d., circa 1900). Portfolio (15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches). (ii pages, 48 colored mounted plates. A series of brightly colored plates of Egyptian Coptic textile samples. Each plate is mounted on grey stiff card stock. Respined in cloth; edges of board protected with tape. ... more information

1771. (GUEULLETTE, Thomas-Simon). TARTARIAN TALES: OR, A THOUSAND AND ONE QUARTERS HOURS. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759. 8vo. Contemporary quarter- vellum, marbled boards. Frontispiece, ix, 369 pages. Second English translation. First published in Paris (1714) and translated into English that same year, Tartarian Tales was advertised in The Virginia Gazette several times in 1771, along with the author's Peruvian Tales. The covers are worn, still a nice, un copy in an unsophisticated contemporary bindi... more information

1930. (DWIGGINS) DAUDET, Alphonse. TARTARIN OF TARASCON. Two volumes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Small 8vo. Cloth spines, patterned pa over boards, slipcase. One of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by Dwiggins. [Agn 30.01.] One of W.A.Dwiggins's most pleasing works. The book was designed and illustrated by him and printed by Richard W. Ellis at The Georgian Press. Bookplate, else very good in a worn slipcase. ... more information

1948. TAYLOR, Francis Henry. THE TASTE OF ANGELS. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispie xxx, 661 pages, plates. First edition. A review copy, being a history of art collecting from Rameses to Napoleon, wi illustrations. Bookplate, dust jacket chipped and creased, else very good. ... more information

1927. MASKELL, Henry Parr. THE TAVERNS OF OLD ENGLAND. New York: John Day Co., 1927. 8vo. Cloth, xii, 235 pages, 8 plates. First edition. A tour of the taverns of England focusing especially on the history associate with the names and signs of the taverns. Includes photographs and drawings. Very good. ... more information

1872. (TAXIDERMY) BROWN, Captain Thomas. THE TAXIDERMIST'S MANUEL ON THE ART OF COLLECTING, PREPARING, AND PRESERVING OBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY. London: A. Fullarton & Co., 1872. Small 12mo. Contemporary quarter- Morocco. xii, 150 pages, 6 plates. "Designed for the use of travellers, conservators of museums, and private collectors"--title page. Provides information on how to skin, prepare, and mount mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, fish, and other animals. Ex-library copy, name in i... more information

1954. (FESTSCHRIFT) HUGHES, H. Stuart (editor). TEACHERS OF HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HO OF LAURENCE BRADFORD PACKARD. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1954). 8vo. Cloth. 372 pages. First editi Without historians the greatest deeds fall into nothingness. More than one hundred of Professor Packard's students at Amherst and Rochester went on to d graduate work in history. Sixteen contributors. Very good. ... more information

1942. Paperback. THOMPSON, James S. THE TECHNICAL BOOK PUBLISHER IN WARTIMES. New York: New York Public Library, 1942. Small 8vo. Wrappers. 50 pages. Firs edition. The 7th R.R. Bowker lecture. Crease on front wrapper. ... more information

1925. RICHMOND, L., and J. Littlejohns. THE TECHNIQUE OF WATER-COLOUR PAINTING. London: Pitman, 1925. 4to. Cloth. 73 pages, 31 color plates. First edition. An instructional guide for the art student. Spine slightly browned, else ver good. (For photographs see http://www.bookpress.com/featured_290.html). ... more information

1774. OVERTON, Thomas Collins. THE TEMPLE BUILDER'S MOST USEFUL COMPANION, bound with, WRIGHTE, William. GROTESQUE ARCHITECTURE, OR RURAL AMUSEMENT. Two wor bound as one. London: I. Taylor, 1774; London: Henry Webley, 1767, Small 4to. Contemporary quarter-calf, marbled boards. Frontispiece, 15, (4) pages, 50 engraved plates of which 1 is folding; frontispiece, 14, (2) pages, 28 engraved plates. Third and first editions. [Harris, 611 and 952; Park, 62; Schimmelman, 147]. Frequently bound together in th... more information