Imprint: London : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Subject: Great Britain -- Description and travel ; Great Britain -- Social life and customs ; Antiquities
Edition: [2d ed.]
Imprint: London : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Description: Black's water-colour series
Subject: Great Britain -- Description and travel ; Art
This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.
Imprint: Are to be sold by Thomas Bassett in Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Church yard [1676].
Description 38 x 51 cm
Babson no. 40
Notes "Jodocus Hondius caelvit. Anno Domni 1610" From Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell's edition of Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain. London, 1676. Colored.
Kirkpatrick reference: 552
Description: 7, [1] pages
Periodical title: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Issue No.: Vol. XVI, part 1
Imprint: London
Notes: "From the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,' Vol. XVI. Part 1."--in square brackets on front cover.
Ownership notes: Autograph: R.F. Burton. Inscription on p. 1: Licked into shape for the writer, who appears a d...[?] young[?] fellow, by G.P.B[adger]; he asked me to send you this copy.
This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). The volumes cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. (499150:095) and J.M. Dent (499150:421). Most volumes bound in the publisher's pictorial cloth bindings. Many dust jackets are damaged, and some spines are damaged.
