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‎THE COSTUME OF THE NETHERLANDS, displayed in thirty coloured engravings after drawings from nature by Miss Semple; with descriptions in English and French. ‎

‎ 1817 London: Ackermann, 1817. In-folio: 27 x 36 cm, 2 ff., 30 pp., 30 pl. grav. Edition originale de ce recueil de costumes des Pays-Bas. Page de titre gravée par Bartlett. Ouvrage illustré de 30 aquatintes hors-texte en couleurs, imprimées par Ackermann d'après les dessins de Miss Semple et entièrement rehaussées à la main. Chaque planche est accompagnée de sa description en anglais et en français. Elégante reliure de l'époque en maroquin rouge à longs grains. Dos à 5 nerfs plats richement ornés, titre, dentelles et caissons dorés. Plats décorés d'arabesques dorées encadrées de dentelles à froid et de roulettes dorées. Roulettes intérieurs à motif de feuilles de vigne, gardes recouvertes de soie bleue. Tranches dorées. Ex-libris: Lord Farnham. Traces de frottement aux coiffes, aux gouttières, et aux coins. Gravures propres et fraîches. Ouvrage en très bel état luxueusement relié et bien complet de toutes les gravures.‎

‎[English. London : Ackermann, 1817. Folio : 27 x 36 cm, 2 ff., 30 pp., 30 engr. col. pl. First edition. Title page engraved by Bartlett. Illustrated with 30 hand-colored inserts aquatints, printed by Ackermann after Miss Semples drawings. Each plate has an English and a French description. Very elegant contemporary long grain red morocco binding. Flat bands on spine, with gilt title and panels. Large gilt arabesques on covers, framed with fillet rolls. Doublures rolled with gilt vine leaves. Blue silk endpapers. Gilt edges. Ex-libris: Lord Farnham. Hinges, headcaps and corners lightly rubbed. Engravings and paper clean. Very nice copy, luxuriously bound, complete with all color plates.]. ‎

‎HENRY MOORE. Prints and Portfolios - English edition‎

‎ 2010 Genève, Patrick Cramer, 2010. Relié: 24.5 x 31 cm, 408 p. Édition standard, en anglais, contenant une introduction de Mitchinson, la description de 73 publications contenant des gravures et lithographies originales de Moore. Avec 829 illustrations, liste des publications et index. Reliure pleine toile grise d'éditeur, titre en blanc sur le dos, jaquette illustrée. À l'état de neuf / ENGLISH: Standard edition with a introduction in english by Mitchinson, description of 73 publications witch contain original lithographs or etchings by Moore. Book with 829 illustrations, a list of publications and an index. Hardcover, original grey cloth, white title on spine, illustrated dust jacket. Perfectly clean and tight, as new. ‎

‎PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH. ‎

‎ 1814 Londres, John Murray, 1814. In-folio, 27 x 36 cm. Edition originale, illustrée de 50 aquatintes hors-texte, gravées par William Alexander et entièrement rehaussées à la main. Elégante reliure en maroquin rouge à longs grains. Dos à 5 nerfs plats et orné de caissons dorés. Plats décorés d'arabesques dorées encadrées de dentelles à froid et de roulettes dorées. Roulettes intérieures à motif de feuilles de vigne, gardes recouvertes de soie bleue. Tranches dorées. Ex-libris: Lord Farnham. Traces de frottements aux coiffes, aux mors et aux coins. Quelques minimes rousseurs sans gravité. Gravures propres et fraîches. Ouvrage en très bel état, luxueusement relié et bien complet de toutes les gravures. (La page de titre annonce 64 gravures, ce qui est erroné comme le montre la table des planches qui s'arrête au n°50). ‎

‎[English: London, John Murray, 1814. Folio : 27 x 36 cm. First edition, illustrated with 50 hand-colored inserts aquatints engraved by William Alexander. Very elegant mid-19th centrury long grain red morocco binding. Flat bands on spine, with gilt title and panels. Large gilt arabesques on covers, framed with fillet rolls. Doublures rolled with gilt vine leaves. Blue silk endpapers. Gilt edges. Ex-libris: Lord Farnham. Hinges, headcaps and corners lightly rubbed. Some very light foxing. Engravings clean. Very nice copy, luxuriously bound, complete with all color plates. (The title page bears the mention "illustrated in sixty-four coloured engravings" which is not correct as the list of plates has only 50 numbers)]. ‎

‎Visible English. Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c. 700-c. 1550‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, xix + 408 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, 24 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503598420.‎

‎Summary Visible English recovers for the first time the experience of reading and writing the English language in the medieval period through the perspectives of littera pedagogy, the basis of medieval learning and teaching of literate skills in Latin. Littera is at the heart of the set of theories and practices that constitute the 'graphic culture' of the book's title. The book shows for the first time that littera pedagogy was an 'us and them' discourse that functioned as a vehicle for identity formation. Using littera pedagogy as a framework for understanding the medieval English-language corpus from the point of view of the readers and writers who produced it, Visible English offers new insights on experiences of writing and reading English in communities ranging from those first in contact with Latin literacy to those where print was an alternative to manuscript. Discussing a broad range of materials from so-called 'pen-trials' and graffiti to key literary manuscripts, Visible English provides new perspectives on the ways that the alphabet was understood, on genres such as alphabet poems, riddles, and scribal signatures, and on the different ways in which scribes copied Old and Middle English texts. It argues that the graphic culture underpinned and transmitted by littera pedagogy provided frameworks for the development and understanding of English-language literacy practices and new ways of experiencing social belonging and difference. To be literate in English, it proposes, was to inhabit identities marked by Anglophone literate practices. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Visible English Chapter One: Graphs, Alphabets, and Scripts Chapter Two: Graphic Models Chapter Three: Graphic Play Chapter Four: Graphic Display Chapter Five: Reprographics Conclusion: Medieval English Literacy Index‎

‎Letters Concerning The English Nation. - [A KEY WORK OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY]‎

‎London, 1733. 8vo. Bound in a lovely, contemporary English Cambridge-style full calf binding with a plain spine with five raised bands. Spine a bit cracked vertically and with minor loss to capitals. Corners a bit bumped and adges of boards a bit worn. Binding overall nice and tight. Small damp stain at the lower blank corner of the first few leaves, otherwise a very good, clean copy on thick, crisp paper. (16, -including preface, contents, advertisements), 253, (1), (18, -Index) pp.‎

‎The important actual first edition of this highly celebrated key work of the Enlightenment, in which the anecdote of how Newton discovered gravity (the story about Newton and the falling apple) appeared for the first time, together with the description of the difference between the physical world view of the English and the French (the ""plenum"" and the ""vacuum""). This seminal work, in which Voltaire famously depicts British philosophy, science, society and culture, in comparison to French, can be viewed as the Enlightenment equivalent to Tocqueville's ""Democracy in America"". This series of essays, which is based on Voltaire's experiences when living in England, was actually written by Voltaire mostly in English, which he mastered to perfection. It has often been presumed that the first edition of the work was that published in French in 1734, but actually, the present English edition constitutes the actual first appearance of the work as well as the version that is closest to Voltaire's intention, as the French language version is the re-written one, and the English version the original. Curiously, almost all modern English versions are translations into English of the French edition, instead of the original English version, making this edition of the utmost importance.After the original English edition of 1733, two French editions soon followed (the first in 1734). Unlike the British, the French resented the book, and already in 1734, the French Parliament issued an order for the author's arrest and condemned the work, causing the impact of it in France to be delayed. The book was burned for being ""dangerous to religion and civil order"". At the same time, the work became a bestseller in Britain, and as much as 14 editions of the work were published in the eighteenth century. ""Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires. Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres philosophiques, and current editions in English translate his French."" (Nicholas Cronk, Introduction to the Oxford's Classics edition from 1999).The great French philosopher Voltaire was greatly impressed by the philosophical and scientific achievements of the English, especially those of Newton, Locke, and Bacon. As a disseminator of scientific knowledge, Voltaire came to play a great rôle in the popularization of Newtonian science and its discoveries, the present work being a prime example. Although the work was condemned by the French authorities, it still came to play a great rôle in the spreading of Newtonian ideas in France. The present work generally came to play a dominant rôle in Enlightenment accounts of the history of science and philosophy. The work focuses on British science and thought and uses the accounts of these to emphasize what is lacking in French society and French thought. The work is generally very critical towards the French ""ancient régime"", and when Voltaire here discusses the emergence of empiricism, it is viewed as an English tradition that stands in opposition to the French rationalist tradition (with Descartes as the prime example). This view is taken over by the following Enlightenment historians of science and philosophy, e.g. d'Alembert (see for instance his ""Preliminary Discourse"" of 1751). Some of the most influential passages of the work are probably those on Bacon (who Voltaire sees as the founder of modern experimental science), Newton, and Descartes. Letters XIV, on Descartes and Newton, XV, on attraction, and XVI, on Newton's Optics (from 1704), are among the most influential essays of the work. In XVI Voltaire reflects upon Newton's ""Optics"" and the way that he rejected Descartes' theory and set out his own account of the properties of light. In XV he presents the first account of Newton and the falling apple: ""As he was walking one Day in his Garden, and saw some Fruits fall from a Tree, he fell into profound Meditation on that Gravity, the Cause of which had so long been sought, but in vain, by all the Philosophers, whilst the Vulgar think there is nothing mysterious in it. He said to himself, that from what height soever, in our Hemisphere, those Bodies might descend, their Fall wou'd certainly be in the Progression discover'd by Galileo" and the Spaces they run thro' would be as the Square of the Times. Why may not this Power which causes heavy Bodies to descend, and is the fame without any sensible Diminution at the remotest Distance from the Center of the Earth, or on the Summits of the highest Mountains" Why, said Sir Isaac, may not this Power extend as high as the Moon?..."" (pp. 127-28).But perhaps the most famous passage in the volume is the opening of Letter XIV: ""A Frenchman who arrives in London, will find Philosophy, like every Thing else, very much chang'd there. He had left the World a ""plenum"", and he now finds it a ""vacuum"". At Paris the Universe is seen, compos'd of Vortices of subtile Matter" but nothing like it is seen in London. In France, 'tis the Pressure of the Moon that causes the Tides but in England 'tis the Sea that gravitates towards the Moon" so that when you think that the Moon should make it Flood with us, those Gentlemen fancy it should be Ebb, which, very unluckily, cannot be prov'd..."" (pp. 109-10).‎