Country Life. Country Life magazine. No 356, 31st October 1903, Belton House in Lincolnshire Seat of Earl Brownlow. Portrait of The Princess Henry of Pless. Mr Ruggles-Brise Spains Hall Essex Cattle & Sheep., Falconry - with the Merlins in Wiltshire Pt 1. Old Buildings at Amesbury. Retriever Trials at Bergholt. Partridge Driving at Quidenham.. Country Life, George Newnes Ltd., London, England. UK., 1903.

Price: US$35.30 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A single original issue disbound from a compilation. 14 x 9 inch. As was common this had been bound without the exterior cover or end-page adverts but contains all the copy and has never been folded. About 32 pages, all on glossy paper. Well illustrated. In the title line is firstly details of the main multi-page article, followed by the name of the 'Girls in Pearls' front page portrait, and then some other articles of interest. If you would like more information about any item please ask seller. Interior in nice clean condition, external hinge edge may be rough. 14 x 9 inch, will be despatched with board protection.

Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom

Original Early Issue of Country Life Magazine. Original Issue of Country Life Magazine Dated September 12th 1903, with a Main Feature on Layer Marney Tower in Essex. With a Portrait Frontispiece of Lady Gwendolen Onslow.. Country Life, London, 1903.

Price: US$57.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: An original very early issue of Country Life Magazine dated September 12th 1903 featuring a main article on Layer Marney Tower in Essex, the Seat of Mr. J. C. Peache, six page write up with black and white illustrations of the property and grounds. This issue is in good condition with a lovely portrait frontispiece of Lady Gwendolen Onslow.

Seller: Rostron & Edwards, Shropshire, United Kingdom

WREN, Christopher. Life and Works of Sir Christopher Wren. From the Parentalia or Memoirs by His Son Christopher. London: Edward Arnold and New York: Samuel Buckley & Co., (but printed at the Essex House Press, Campden, Gloucestershire), 1903.

Price: US$1251.18 + shipping

Description: Limited edition, no. 242 of 250 copies. 4to bound in 8s. (ii), 259, (1), viii, (2) pp. Later dark blue full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, new dark blue endpapers but the original flyleaves also preserved in situ, edges uncut. 6 plates, numerous decorative initials, 20 vignettes of London churches set into the text along with a number of other illustrations and diagrams. A little light spotting to the fore edge of a few of the text leaves, a handsome copy of a delightful book. The book was first published in 1750 and is divided into two parts: the first concerning Sir Christopher Wren's scientific writings on mathematics, anatomy etc.; the second his writings on London and architecture. An Essex House Press book in all but name. The colophon at the rear of the main part of the text, featuring a wood engraving of their building, acknowledges the work "carried out under the supervision of C.R. Ashbee". The 20 church illustrations are attributed to E.H. New with the other illustrations reproduced from the original 18th century edition.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

(Essex House Press); Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments & Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; & the form & manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. (Together with a supplement showing variants from the Prayer Book of the Church of England in the Prayer book of the American Church). H. M. Printers, Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode; Mr. Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand; Samuel Buckley & Co., 100 William Street, London and New York, 1903.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 69/400. Folio. [10], 387, viii (string-bound American supplement)pp. Uncut, on heavy stock. Rebacked in dark brown calf over oak boards; leather inlays at fore-edge of each board (replacing perished clasps and straps). Spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt; gilt dentelles at back-strip edges and inlay borders. Title page (view of London) and frontispiece (Edward VII on his throne, surrounded by his six predesessors) with elaborate woodcut historiation; captions printed in red. Eight pages with table of contents framed with elaborate woodcuts at top. Historiated headpieces and initials. Calendar with woodcuts in red and black, and pages with "proper lessons and psalms" and calendar with illustrative woodcuts. Printed in red and black throughout. "The designs and the type throughout are by C. R. Ashbee; R. Catterson-Smith assisted in the preparation of some of the blocks, which were cut by W. H. Hooper & Clemence Houseman." (Colophon). Inside front cover and first free endpaper with small smudges from removed item laid in. Bookplate with numbers inked to top margin. Fore-edge of block with some traces of handling, else a fine copy in a nearly fine binding. A superb example of the printer's art, and the magnum opus of the Essex House Press. "The English Book of Common Prayer was the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by, and common to, both priest and people" (PMM). The source of the Anglican Church's shared liturgical life since 1549, it was first adapted for use in the United States in 1789, and underwent its second American revision in 1892. Limited to 400 copies (10 on vellum), the being copy number 69, hand-numbered at the colophon. Production at Essex House London and Essex House Campden spanned 1901 to 1903. "Throughout his life, [financier J.P.] Morgan was a strong supporter of the Protestant Episcopal church" (ANB), support that included his service on the revision committee that produced the 1892 revision. In a contemporary review, "The Independent," an Episcopal church newspaper, declared: "That the completed and perfected Standard, just issued from the De Vinne press, appears in the sumptuous form which makes it confessedly the finest production of the American printer's art is due to Mr. J. Pierpoint Morgan, who from the moment of his appointment as a member of the committee has never ceased devising liberal things for the furtherance of the work." Provenance: Bookplate at front: "This Beginning of the J. William Smith Collection, illustrative of the art of bookmaking is given for the use of the people to the Syracuse Public Library in testimony of the long and faithful service of the Reverrend Ezekiel Wilson Mund AM LITT D Librarian." References: Ransom 37; see PMM 75.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.