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The Philosophical Magazine  1798;- 
By Alexander Tilloch
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The Philosophical Magazine  1798;- By Alexander Tilloch;- 1st. Edition ;- 1st. copy to Volume 1;- Published for the Proprietors;- (Alexander Tilloch);- London. Original Paper boards, in a very used state;- Bound in with;- An Account of some Experiments with Vapour of Tar in the Cure of Pulmonary Consumption,’ 1817;- By Alexander Crichton;- Published in Edinburgh; By James Ballantyne, 1817;- Extensive Index to Volume 1 and an Errata page. 10 engraved plates to the back pages One plate is a fold-out and another is hand-painted. Some foxing to the back plates, otherwise a very collectable book in a good condition;- Rare/Scarce.  1st. Edition thus...No other Volume 1 to be found on the world-wide net;- The Philosophical Magazine;-is one of the oldest  Scientific Journals published in English. It was established by  Alexander Tilloch in 1798; in 1822  Richard Taylor became joint editor and it has been published continuously by Taylor & Francis ever since. The name of the journal dates from a period when "natural philosophy" embraced all aspects of science. The very first paper published in the journal carried the title "Account of Mr Cartwright's Patent Steam Engine". Other articles in the first volume include "Methods of discovering whether Wine has been adulterated with any Metals prejudicial to Health" and "Description of the Apparatus used by Lavoisier to produce Water from its component Parts, Oxygen and Hydrogen".CRICHTON, Sir ALEXANDER (1763–1856), physician, second son of Alexander Crichton of Woodhouselee and Newington in Midlothian, was born in Edinburgh 2 Dec. 1763. He was educated in his native city, and at an early age apprenticed to Alexander Wood, surgeon, Edinburgh.   ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement,’ 1798.  ‘A Synoptical Table of Diseases designed for the use of Students,’ 1805.  ‘An Account of some Experiments with Vapour of Tar in the Cure of Pulmonary Consumption,’ 1817. ‘On the Treatment and Cure of Pulmonary Consumption,’ 1823.  ‘Commentaries on some Doctrines of a Dangerous Tendency in Medicine and on the General Principles of Safe Practice.’ He also published an essay in the ‘Annals of Philosophy,’ ix. 97 (1825), ‘On the Climate of the Antediluvian World,’ and in the ‘Geological Transactions’ three papers, ‘On the Taunus and other Mountains of Nassau,’ ‘On the Geological Structure of the Crimea,’ and ‘An Account of Fossil Vegetables found in Sandstone.’

The Philosophical Magazine  1799;- 
By Alexander Tilloch
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The Philosophical Magazine ;- February 1799;- By Alexander Tilloch;-Volume III;- Published for the Proprietors;- (Alexander Tilloch);- London. Original Paper boards, in a very used state;- Extensive Index and an Errata page to the back pages, before the plates.  10 engraved plates to the back pages, and two plates fold-out ;- Some foxing to the back plates, otherwise a very collectable book in a good condition;- Rare/Scarce.  1st. Edition thus..The Philosophical Magazine;-is one of the oldest  Scientific Journals published in English. It was established by  Alexander Tilloch in 1798; in 1822  Richard Taylor became joint editor and it has been published continuously by Taylor & Francis ever since. The name of the journal dates from a period when "natural philosophy" embraced all aspects of science. Including;- Description of a New Diving;- Experiments respecting the effects of Electricity etc...;- and Early Diving Machines...and this is Published in 1799;- Brilliant. 

The Philosophical Magazine  1800;- 
By Alexander Tilloch
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The Philosophical Magazine ;-  June 1800;- By Alexander Tilloch;-Volume VII;- Published for the Proprietors;- (Alexander Tilloch);- London. Original Paper boards, in a very used state;-   11 engraved plates to the back pages, two plates fold-out;- Some foxing to the back plates, otherwise a very collectable book in a good condition;- Rare/Scarce.  1st. Edition thus...The Philosophical Magazine;-is one of the oldest  Scientific Journals published in English. It was established by  Alexander Tilloch in 1798; in 1822  Richard Taylor became joint editor and it has been published continuously by Taylor & Francis ever since. The name of the journal dates from a period when "natural philosophy" embraced all aspects of science. Chemical Experiments;- Sir Joseph Banks;- Experiments on Electricity...etc...Brilliant. 

Song Stories for Kindergarten; 
music composed and arranged by Mildred J. Hill; 
words written and adapted by Patty S. Hill; 
with an introduction by Anna E. Bryan. 
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Song Stories for Kindergarten; music composed and arranged by Mildred J. Hill; words written and adapted by Patty S. Hill; with an introduction by Anna E. Bryan. (RARE first publication of "The Birthday Song", aka "Happy Birthday to You", in the Original Version "Good Morning to All") Published in Chicago, Illinois: By Clayton F. Summy,, 1896.. 1st. Edition. Original Illustrated front board with a light blue cloth spine;-  Worn and tired covers, otherwise a highly collectable copy of a Scarce/Rare early American Song Book;-This is an original copy of this Original Publication, of  "Good-Morning to All" "The Birthday Song.";-   Book has 90 pages, Includes many other children's songs including 'As I walked over the hills one day', 'Bye baby! night is come', 'Do you hear the sound of rain', 'Merry little snow flakes', 'Rub, scrub, rub-a-dub-dub', etc. The 1893 first edition with the all-time most popular tune for 'Happy Birthday', originally entitled "Good-Morning to All" (as recognized in the famous Supreme Court case). "The melody of 'Happy Birthday to You' comes from the song 'Good Morning to All', which was written and composed by American siblings Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893. Patty was a kindergarten principal in Louisville, Kentucky, developing various teaching methods at what is now the Little Loomhouse; Mildred was a pianist and composer. The sisters created 'Good Morning to All' as a song that would be easy to be sung by young children. Mildred J. Hill (June 27, 1859 – June 5, 1916) was an American songwriter and musicologist, who composed the melody for "Good Morning to All", later used as the melody for "Happy Birthday to You”. Mildred J. Hill, born inLouisville, Kentucky,  was the oldest of three sisters, Mildred, Patty, and Jessica. She learned  Music from her father, Calvin Cody, and Adolph Weidig. It has been reported that Mildred Hill was a Kindergarten  and Sunday School Teacher,  like her younger Sister Patty.  Prof. Robert Brauneis, after extensively researching the Hill family, has concluded that she was not a kindergarten teacher. She moved into music, teaching, composing, performing, and specializing in the study of Negro Spirituals. Hill and her sister were honored at the Chicago World Fair for their work in the progressive education  program at the experimental kindergarten, the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School. She wrote about music using the pen name Johann Tonsor, and her 1892 article 'Negro Music', suggesting that the existing body of black music would be the basis of a distinctive American musical style, influenced Dvorak in composing the New World Symphony.  Hill died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1916,long before her song became famous. She is buried with her sister in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Happy Birthday  "Happy Birthday to You” While teaching at the Louisville Experimental Kindergarten School, the Hill sisters wrote the song "Good Morning to All"; Mildred wrote the melody, and Patty the lyrics. The song was first published in 1893 in Song Stories for the Kindergarten as a greeting song for teachers to sing to their students. "Happy Birthday to You” first appeared in print in 1912 using the melody of "Good Morning to All" with different lyrics.Its popularity continued to grow through the 1930s, with no author identified for the new lyrics, nor credit given for the melody from "Good Morning to You". Based on 1935 copyright registrations by the Summy Company, and a series of court cases (which all settled out of court), the sisters became known as the authors of "Happy Birthday to You". The Hill Foundation today shares royalties on public performances of the song. Hill and her sister were posthumously inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame on June 12, 1996.

The Tomahawk 1867  (Magazine); 
Saturday May 11-No. 1- to No XX- to Saturday September 21st. Price Twopence. 
By A'beckett 
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The Tomahawk 1867  (Magazine); a Saturday May 11-No. 1- to No XX- to Saturday September 21st. Price Twopence. By A'beckett ;- Original Magazine format 1st. Issue;- In Original paper format;- Many Illustrations, in stunning colour and double page length;- 212 pages in total, Ads to the back pages. In fine collectable condition;- Rare/Scarce in Magazine form.In beautiful condition. The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire (1867-1870), founded by Arthur William à Beckett in London, first appeared 11 May 1867, priced two pence. The title of the journal tells us much of what we need to know about it. This was a weekly paper and like most serials in the weekly cycle, it was published on Saturdays, following the model of the popular Saturday Review. The title ‘Tomahawk’ was borrowed from William Makepeace Thackeray, the novelist, satirist, illustrator and editor whose spirit so influenced the men behind Tomahawk; his 1852 novel Men’s Lives describes a journal editor, Mr. Bludyer, ‘the brilliant and accomplished wit, whose sallies in the Tomahawk delight us every Saturday’ and who is known in particular for his savage ‘slasher journalism’, which gives a good indication of the type of sharply barbed, satirical analysis à Beckett sought for his new venture. The image of ‘Tomahawk,’ a noble savage Native American – hatchet in hand, ready to scalp the politicians of the day – became the symbolic, even iconic, mascot for this comic journal. Looking back at Tomahawk now, it is true that the cartoons are the first thing to catch the eye – tStunning colour illustrations, the double pages, the unique dramatic intensity of the composition, the sharpness of the critique. The images complement the clever, often thoughtful words on the page. This was a carefully thought through periodical, from its Prefaces to its impressive Almanacs, with tremendous energy and verve, as readers noted from the moment of its audacious launch. It’s perhaps curious, then, that despite the extraordinary competition in the marketplace, Tomahawk only lasts for six volumes. The truth is, we don’t yet know why – on 30 July 1870 – the periodical came to a ‘mysterious and abrupt end’, as Kent describes it. A Beckett went on to work at Punch and Morgan ended up in North America; of the other regular contributors, one became poet laureate, another became a successful writer of farces, still others leading and important journalists. In short, there is much more research still to be done on the magazine; our hope is that by providing access to the journal in digitized form, explorations in the world of Tomahawk will be greatly enabled, allowing new ideas to emerge about its cultural formation, its significance and its relationship to the broader field of nineteenth-century journalism. $8,500

The Children's Friend. 1883
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The Children's Friend. 1883;-Published in  London;- by Seeley, Jackson & Halliday., 1883;- Original blue cloth binding with a colour photo of a young girl to the front cover, Gilt and black decorations and lettering and date 1883, also to the front cover, embossed design of the printer’s to the back cover. Gilt lettering and date 1883, along the spine;- 192 pages in total, including Illustrated Publications issued by Messrs. S. W. Partridge & Co. and Books for the Young by S. W. Partridge & Co’s. All to the back pages...Frontispiece and engraved Title- Page in colour, Many illustrations both in colour and black and white throughout the book;- A good collectable early Children’s Book. 

The Gentleman's Magazine; and Historical Chronicle Volume XCIV;- (1824 ) (July  to December 1824) 
by Sylvanus Urban 
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The Gentleman's Magazine; and Historical Chronicle Volume XCIV;- (1824 ) (July  to December 1824) by Urban, Sylvanus Urban (pseud of Edward Cave 1691-1754) (Being the Seventeenth of the New Series.) Published by John Nichols, London 1796;- Original binding, brown cloth spine and old marbled paper, with a black paper label with handwritten lettering to the top of the spine. An engraved frontispiece of Hereford Cathedral with tissue guard, facing the Title page;- Many engraved plates throughout, an extensive Index to the back pages. Some of the Plates to include,Thomas Wolsey;- A Fold-out Plate of Darlington Church, Durham;- Louis XVIII Roi de France;- and many more engravings all with tissue guards;- In fine collectable condition 

The General Magazine And Impartial Review
 for January, 1792 to January 1793;- 
by  Thomas Bellamy;- 
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The General Magazine And Impartial Review for January, 1792 to January 1793;- by  Thomas Bellamy;- Published by  Bellamy & Rabarts;- in London 1792 - Volume VI;- Original Brown Leather Binding with gilt decorations to the front and back covers, extensive decorations along the spine with two labels with gilt lettering to the top red label and and a circle VI in the black label lower down the spine. 2 Frontispiece  ‘Innocence protected by Minerva’ and ‘A Citizen of the World recording the dictates of Truth’ acts as the Title page;- followed immediately by 3 full page engravings all with tissue guards. Many other full page engravings also with tissue guards.Thomas Bellamy (1745–1800) was an English miscellaneous writer. He was born at  Kingston-on-Thames in 1745. Having served his apprenticeship to a hosier in Newgate Street, he began business on his own account. Very early he showed a taste for verse-writing, some of the pieces in his 'Miscellanies' being dated 1763. After carrying on business with success for twenty years he became tired of serving at the counter. So, relinquishing the hosiery trade, he served as clerk in a bookseller's in Paternoster Row. 'But Bellamy,' says his biographer, 'was not calculated for a subordinate position.'  A disagreement arose between him and his employer, and Bellamy had to seek a livelihood elsewhere. In 1787 he started the 'General Magazine and Impartial Review,' which was published for some months. Another venture was 'Bellamy's Picturesque Magazine and Literary Museum,' which contained engraved portraits of living persons, with some account of their lives; but the public gave little support to this undertaking.In 1794 he collected into two volumes the moral tales which he had written for the 'General Magazine,' adding some verses, unpublished tales, and a life of Parsons, the comedian. These 'Miscellanies in Prose and Verse' were dedicated to Charles Dibdin, with whom the author afterwards quarreled. Later he projected the 'Monthly Mirror,' which was chiefly concerned with the stage. When this periodical had run its race, he established a circulating library. On the death of his mother he became possessed of some property, which enabled him to retire from business and devote himself to literary pursuits. But he did not long enjoy his leisure; seized with a sharp and sudden illness he died, after four days' suffering, on 29 August 1800.

The Tale of a Tub. 
Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind 1771;-  
By Swift, Jonathan.
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 The Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind 1771;-  By Swift, Jonathan. To which is added, An Account of a Battle between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James‘s Library;- With the Author‘s Apology;- and Explanatory Notes, by W. Wotton, B. D. and others., Published by  G. Faulkner;- Dublin 1771;- Re-bound in old dark red leather, with embossed decoration to the front, back and spine of the bindings. 8 Full page engravings throughout. All are present. 225 pages and another 58 pages leading into the story itself;-  With a frontispiece opposite the main title page;- A good copy of a very collectable book;- Early edition of Swift's masterful satire;- 'The Battle of the Books', 'A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit;-A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity. The "tale" presents a consistent satire of religious excess, while the digressions are a series of parodies of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, Biblical exegesis, and medicine. The overarching parody is of enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. "Tub," was a common term for a Dissenter's pulpit, and a reference to Swift's own position as a clergyman. The Battle of the Books depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St. James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, "The Battle of the Books" has become a term for the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. $150

The Gentleman's Magazine; and Historical Chronicle Volume LXVI, for the year M DCC XCVI, (1796 ) (July 1796 to December 1796) by Sylvanus Urban 
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The Gentleman's Magazine; and Historical Chronicle Volume LXVI, for the year M DCC XCVI, (1796 ) (July 1796 to December 1796) by Sylvanus Urban (pseud of Edward Cave 1691-1754)  Published by John Nichols, London 1796;- Original binding, brown leather spine and old marbled paper, with a red label with gilt lettering to the top of the spine. The date is in gilt also to the spine 1796/2;- Many engraved plates throughout, an extensive Index to the back pages. Some of the Plates to include,  Whittington’s Palace;- Remains of a large Forest near Liverpool;-The House of Correction, Middlesex;- In good highly collectable condition;- 

The Book of Old English Songs and Ballads;-  
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       Published by Hodder and Stoughton;- London, New York, Toronto;- [1915]. 1st. Edition. Quarto. 198 pages. Twenty-four tipped-in coloured Plates by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Original Full green decorated cloth binding, with Titles in red to the front and the spine covers. Seventy-two poems and Ballads by various authors. Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Johnson, Andrew Marvell...etc....In good collectable condition, some wear and nicks to the covers, a small tear to page 12, doesn’t effect the text, repaired with tape. Otherwise a very clean copy. 

PICK-ME-UP;- 
by A. N. Other.  
Thirteen Drawings in Colour
 by Ian Fenwick, 
Price: SOLD

PICK-ME-UP;- by A. N. Other.  Thirteen Drawings in Colour by Ian Fenwick, ( Major) With Thirteen Rhyming Recipes;-  Published by The Centaur Press, in London. - 1933, 1st. Edition,;- A Stunning book with beautiful illustrations, oblong shape. In the original printed and colour illustrated paper boards, with a green cloth spine. Highly collectable in such fine condition. Ian Fenwick was an artist and a soldier. He was born in September 1910 in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, the son of Captain Charles Harry Fenwick of the 60th Rifles, who had married an American socialite called Lilian Everett from Newport, Rhode Island.  Ian’s father, who was known as Harry, had achieved fame of a sort by owning Why Not, which won the Grand National at Aintree in 1894.  Ian was busy as an artist during the 1930s.  His drawings appeared in many magazines, including Punch, Men Only, and London Opinion. His books, and books he illustrated, include: Pick-Me-Up $60

The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain;-
 By Stothard, C.A. [Charles Alfred] 
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Stothard, C.A. [Charles Alfred] 

The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain; Selected from our Cathedrals and Churches, for the Purpose of Bringing Together, and Preserving Correct Representations of the Best Historical Illustrations Extant, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Henry the Eighth  Published in London: by J. M'Creery for the Author 1817-1832 London: Folio Contemporary three quarter brown leather over brown marbled boards, five raised bands, fading gilt title, within a brown label to the top of spine, marbled endpapers. A very good copy with wear at spine ends, boards scuffed with wear along edges, occasional foxing;-colours brilliant on the engravings,  binding tight;- A very good and collectable and Rare/Scarce Folio;- Chronological Arrangement Plates to the back of the Folio. An extensive Index also to the back pages and a list of the Monuments;- Alfred John Kempe, introduction and descriptions. full page engravings throughout, with a richly coloured and gilt frontispiece, one portrait, a second frontispiece for the introduction, one unnumbered and 144 numbered colour & duotone plates, plus 9 vignettes. Charles Alfred Stothard (1786 -1821), antiquarian draughtsman... published... the Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, a work designed to portray the changes in English costume from the twelfth century to the reign of Henry VIII. The work was issued in twelve parts, each consisting of twelve separate plates, of which the first ten were prepared by Stothard himself; the last two, issued after his death, were the work of other artists. The letterpress was supplied by his friend and brother-in-law, the antiquary Alfred John Kempe, and the last number appeared in 1832. The Effigies became an important sourcebook for Victorian historical genre painters in their search for accurate details of historical costumes.... Its continuing usefulness was evident when a new edition, with considerable additions, edited by John Hewitt, was published in 1876."  

Iconographie General et Methodique du Costume du IV au XIX siËcle. (315-1815). 
ByJacquemin, Raphael 
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Jacquemin, Raphael 

Iconographie General et Methodique du Costume du IV au XIX siËcle. (315-1815). Collection gravee à l'eau-forte d'aprËs les documents authentiques & inedits par Raphael Jacquemin 

      Published in  Paris: by l'auteur rue Royer Collard n.d. 1867?;- 1st. Edition. Large Folio. 200 Stunning Coloured, full page Illustrations, in fine collectable condition;- Title page has some damage to the lettering (I) in Iconographie, and the small corner missing, other then that a fine copy of a Rare Book with all 200 Coloured Plates;- Original three quarter brown leather binding with brown marbled paper to the covers, some wear and tears to the binding but over all a fine copy. Gilt lettering to the spine;- 

Knights clad in chain mail populate these pages, alongside crowned heads in royal regalia and common folk in their finest apparel. Scrupulously authentic in every detail, these images offer colorful portraits that span centuries of fashion, from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.Raphaël Jacquemin was preeminent among the fashion illustrators and historians of nineteenth-century Europe's golden age of fashion design publications. His 1867? Iconographie Générale et Méthodique du Costume du IV au XIX Siècle drew upon manuscripts, reliefs, and effigies from the Louvre, university libraries, and other archives for the most striking and accurate fashion statements from the fourth through seventeenth centuries. This collection features ninety of Jacquemin's magnificent hand-colored engravings, a gallery of iconic portraits that have served as museum exhibits in their own right. Fashion designers, artists, costumers, and others seeking authenticity of period detail—as well as inspiration for contemporary style;-

General and methodical costume from the fourth to the nineteenth century Iconography: 315-1815: collection engraved etchings from authentic and original documents. Jacquemin was the grandson of the great Rabbi of Paris, who received great prestige. The Plates were drawn in Dalatre workshop. The vivid Colours are very fresh. Rare and Scarce in this complete condition.