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However, the most striking difference between copies of this issue and the copies of the claimed first issue is the paper quality, which is much superior in this issue than in the other.\r \r The printing of this extraordinary set of volumes has raised the curiosity of many writers. From Pine s own Latin introduction, we know that the text was first composed in lead, then page by page printed on non-absorbent paper from which the transfer to copperplates was made. The impressions of the letterforms, then, were traced with acid or gravers and the plates were etched\/ engraved together with the vignettes and other decorations that fill each page.\r \r We may assume that Pine wished to keep the printing forms for possible later editions, and also wanted to have complete control over his work at a time when copyright was much debated and was still only being considered for protection by law. A copyright law was passed a few years later (1734-5. 8th George II). 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Thus an hour was 144 conventional minutes, a minute was 86.4 conventional seconds, and a second was 0.864 conventional seconds. However this decimal time did not catch on. Mandatory use of decimal time was officially suspended 7 April 1795, although some cities continued to use decimal time as late as 1801.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Church used a calendar of saints, which named most days of the year after an associated saint. To reduce the influence of the Church, Fabre d’Églantine introduced a Rural Calendar in which each day of the year had a unique name associated with the rural economy, stated to correspond to the time of year. Every décadi (ending in 0) was named after an agricultural tool. Each quintidi (ending in 5) was named for a common animal. 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With 20 steel engraved vignettes after William Turner, engraved by the team of engravers trained under his supervision.  Campbell s text had a special significance for [Turner] - and Turner took endless pains in the control of his engravers; on this small scale, he evolved formal ideas which he worked out more ambitiously in the oils of his last years  (G. Reynolds, Turner, p. 157-8).  Perhaps the most remarkable of all has been the neglect of Turner as a book illustrator  (Muir, p. xiii).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CAMPBELL, Thomas.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57819863679311,"sku":"X13","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/X-15.jpg?v=1781794857"},{"product_id":"campbell-thomas-1","title":"CAMPBELL, Thomas.","description":"\u003cp\u003ePROOF EDITION. Original yellow publisher's boards with leather title piece on the back, spelling \"Campbell's Poetical Works\". 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He was part of an important circle of Victorian artists and writers including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Opie, Ruskin, Tennyson and Adam Smith, among others. Having established himself in London, Rogers travelled to the Continent in 1814 and kept a diary of his experiences. He returned again seven years later, and out of these inspiring trips emerged his longest and most important work, Italy. It was published in stages; the first part, without illustrations in 1821-22, then revised and expanded in 1823 and 1824. The second part was published in 1828, and finally Rogers commissioned this intensely revised, grand and sumptuously illustrated edition in 1830. It was this edition that made the work a commercial success. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n The work is in the form of chaptered poems within which his wondrous impressions of the countryside of Italy are wrought in charming verse. 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The fine aquatints, with their somewhat old-world flavour, are well suited to reproduce the spirit and to recall the antique associations of the old quads and courts  (Prideaux). .Born in Saxony, Rudolph Ackermann emigrated to London in the 1780s, where he started traded in prints and eventually opened a business in the Strand dealing in books, prints, medallions and artists  materials.  He was particularly influential in furthering lithographic illustration in Britain , and published  many important, elegantly illustrated topographical books  (Archer, p.14). Each section includes a history of the college foundation as well as lists of its most important alumni and benefactors to the early C19, with detailed biographies including interesting bibliographic information, such as the nature and fate of the mss production and personal collection of the C17 antiquary Thomas Baker, fellow of St John s, or the mention of the  specimen of a intended edition of  Aeschylus   by Anthony Askew, from Emanuel, published in Leiden in the 1770s, but never eventually completed. \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Christopher Turnor (1809-86) was a Tory MP, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Stoke Rochford Hall was rebuilt in Jacobean style by William Burn in 1839. HRH Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-74) was younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI, and a great bibliophile. 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Morris was not an architect by trade, but rather  a barometer whose writings reflected contemporary changes in ideas about the basis of architectural order . From his profession he earned the reputation of architect, with buildings built by his kinsman Roger and son James Morris wrongly ascribed to him. Only two architectural works are attributed to him with certainty: the additions to Culverthorpe and a house on Burlington Street, both for Sir Michael Newton, to whom he dedicated his  Lectures . (Harris 318). \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The preface highlights the importance of  Proportion ,  Symmetry  and  Harmony , the key intellectual pillars of the Palladian movement, supported by the title s acknowledgement of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) and William Kent (1685-1748), who were both integral to the introduction of Palladian architecture in Britain. It also describes the style, ornamentation, and dimensions of 34 centrally planned and symmetrical structures, before exhibiting 16 further examples of chimney pieces. The former plates display beautifully illustrated elevations paired with a corresponding floorplan, as well as scale. They propose a selection of structures in a vast array of shapes, including rectangles, octagons, and circles, playfully mingling curvilinear forms with straight edges. The remaining plates present fireplaces in variations of a classical triangular pediment, there are a couple of examples of lunettes. Detailed sculptural and figural decoration are also included, in the form of busts, vases, animal heads and masks, as well as floral detail.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..This edition was published in the year following Morris  death, perhaps as a memorial and enjoyed more success than his older theoretical essays. 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One of few books that he published relating to his professional pursuits, along with  A New Method of Filtration by Ascent  (1793), and  Subordinates in Architecture  (1814), it provides meticulous detail as to the dimensions of his designs, as well as an insight into the architect s creative process. It consists of floorplans and indicates the function of each room, labelled with a letter of the alphabet, associated with a reference list on the adjacent leaf, with elements of interior design included. It was probably used to explain to clients the various architectural options available to them. The engraver, Clark, may be the Scotsman John Heaviside Clark (1771-1836), though he is better known for his aquatint works. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The preface defends Peacock s origins as a  bricklayer s son  and counters potential criticism about the author. This is followed by a short introduction, which highlights the designs as intended for  gentlemen of moderate fortunes , whilst the appendix works as a guide, detailing steps one must take to oversee an entire building process, from acquiring designs and scale models, to supervising execution. . \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The book was published in opposition to the growing fashion for asymmetrical designs in rural architecture, in a period when architects were fascinated with proportion. As well as elevations, Peacock provides floorplans and tables of proportion for the components of a house: rooms, passages, windows, chimney pieces, etc. There is no detail as to the style or material. This goes against the trend of contemporaneous architectural works, which concerned themselves intensely on  style  in buildings. A rigorously mathematical approach to architectural literature, and a particularly interesting example within the subject..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PEACOCK, James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868685476175,"sku":"L4196a","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/451364F1-152C-47CE-93EA-FD878A0008CA.png?v=1781793471"},{"product_id":"kinnear-john","title":"KINNEAR, John.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.This personal and informative set of 12 letters from Scottish banker John Gardiner Kinnear (1800-1866) provides fascinating insight into contemporary feelings in the West towards the government and culture of the Near East. Each letter is summarised under a number of headings, laid out after the preface and the reader can track Kinnear s movements moment by moment from his arrival in Alexandria on the 16.th. of January 1839 until his quarantine on Malta, as he returned home, on the 15.th. of September 1839, on his initially  entirely mercantile  (p. vii) expedition. His observations, descriptions and personal responses are laid out in most intimate detail, addressing themes ranging from culture and religion to taxes and politics. In particular, he mentions the religious tolerance under the current government, specifically towards Jews and Christians, and also acknowledges the government s faults in his fairly eulogistic discourse, but admits they are  by no means so bad as is supposed in England . He blames many of their problems on the traditional form of government, rather than the rule of Mehemet Ali (1767-1849) himself. The collection was compiled in honour of his friend Roberts, to memorialise the  interesting scenes through which we passed last year .. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Kinnear s positive comments about the government of Mehemet Ali, the ruler of Egypt and Syria at the time, are admittedly  more favourable than those entertained by many persons in this country  (pp. viii). Ali had initially been the pasha of Ottoman Egypt, founding a dynasty which lasted until the mid-20.th. C, but he poached Syria from Ottoman control in 1839, until he was ousted in 1841. He revolutionised the traditional political and economic structure of Egypt, building on the foundations left by the Napoleonic occupation.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The dedicatee, and Kinnear s travelling companion, was the Scottish painter David Roberts .(1796-1864), who. exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time in 1824 and often journeyed in search of  exotic or impressive subjects , making him one of the  first independent and British artists to experience the Orient at hand . A striking contemporary account contrary to the popular western view held at the time..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KINNEAR, John.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868686688591,"sku":"A6","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/DSC_9070.jpg?v=1781793469"},{"product_id":"gibbs-james-1","title":"GIBBS, James.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.A crisp copy of the second edition of Gibbs  second work focussing on the art of drawing architectural orders and their ornamentation, with a  more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised . This entailed a conscious effort to avoid complex fractions, which were employed in the works of Palladio (1508-1580) and Gibbs  rival, Colen Campbell (1676-1729), presenting difficulties for those wishing to follow their methods since  exactness on paper could not ensure correct translation to wood or stone . Gibbs instead divided  the orders mechanically into parts , splitting these further into progressively smaller sections, thereby preserving Palladio s laws of proportion and using a simpler technique. This system is clearly explained in the text corresponding to the plates and is further elucidated visually through dotted lines, numbers and letters labelling each image. This volume guides the reader through general proportions of each order, focusing on individual elements such as capitals, pedestals, dentils, cornices, bases, architraves, and larger structures such as arches, doors, gates, chimney pieces and windows. The plates are executed in a sketch-like line drawings, suitable for a treatise on the art of drawing. More detailed architectural drawings, such as the Corinthian capital, are divided, each side with a different level of detail illustrating the different stages of the process of designing the structure.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..The portrait of Gibbs on the title page was executed by Bernard Baron (c.1696-1762), a French etcher and engraver, accomplished in engraved reproduction of portraits and paintings, including works by Holbein, Titian, Hogarth, Rubens and Van Dyck. The architect trained in Italy and came to be the pupil of Carlo Fontana. Gibbs is renowned for his influence over secular and religious architectural designs in the US and England for the following hundred years, extending even to the President s House in Washington. Among his greatest achievements are St-Martin-in-the-Fields, the Senate House in Cambridge and the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford. During his career, he experienced mixed fortunes, starting the early 1720s in poverty and suffering humiliation when he was the only prominent living architect whose name was excluded from Campbell s 1725 third volume of  Vitruvius Britannicus , despite it featuring some of his work. Despite these setbacks, Gibbs encountered huge success, his books proving to be especially popular, and went on to create some of the most iconic structures in England today..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GIBBS, James.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868687114575,"sku":"L4370","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L4370-3.jpg?v=1781793468"},{"product_id":"book-of-secrets-1","title":"[BOOK OF SECRETS].","description":"A most interesting ms collection of excerpts from alchemical texts, produced as a reference work by some physician or alchemist c.1700. A witness to  the persistent interest in alchemy, natural magic and Paracelsian medical chemistry  in C18 France (Debus, p.36). Produced by a physician, apothecary, or scholar of alchemy, this ms is a copy, with minor variations, of Book IV, Part II, of the Sieur de Sainte-Hilaire s  Les remedes des maladies du corps humain  (first ed., 1685). The Sieur de Sainte-Hilaire was likely related to Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), a precursor of evolutionary-developmental biology. The section, called  De la Preparation des vertus \u0026amp;amp; usages des Arcanes, ou plus rares Secrets de Medecine , is largely based on Paracelsus  theories. Saint-Hilaire mentioned that this section had been written by an anonymous, very capable alchemist. It is an expanded version, with variations, of the  Arcana Paracelsi  by Van Helmont, who considered Paracelsus  the vindicator and healer of almost all diseases  (Hedesan, p.176). (Van Helmont s liquor  alkahest  is twice mentioned and attributed to him.) The chapters discuss his  precipit é diaphoretique , a panacea from  fleurs de mars argent érs ,  poudre bezoardique dor ée , Llull s tincture,  panac ée aperitive ,  Sel volatile des Plantes , the  stomachique universel , the  petit precipit é de Paracelse ,  alkalis volatile  (made from mercury), Van Helmont s anti-hydropique remedies, mineral mumia, and Paracelsus   baume de suye . Each section lists the benefits of a particular remedy, and how to prepare and administer it, using alchemical procedures. Among the authorities mentioned are Paracelsus, Llull, Arnaldus de Villanova, and Van Helmont. As a medical book of secrets, it is quite technical and addressed to physicians or apothecaries trained in alchemy. 'There was close and stable interaction between C18 academic chemists and certain groups of educated practitioners, especially apothecaries, assayers, mining officials, and, especially in France, commissioners of state manufacturers.   a significant number of practitioners, especially apothecaries, were acknowledged as chemists  (Klein, p.18).","brand":"[BOOK OF SECRETS].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868707529039,"sku":"L4345","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20250123_182030-copy.jpg?v=1781793428"},{"product_id":"medicine-pharmacopoeia","title":"[MEDICINE]. Pharmacopoeia.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.A most interesting  book of secrets , compiled until c.1765, with recipes and accounts gathered from a variety of printed and ms sources, as well as personal experience. It was the working reference notebook of a French physician, who wrote down prescriptions and remedies for dozens of conditions, head-to-foot, mostly in French and occasionally Latin. These include dysentery, a clister against diarrhoea (possibly drawn from T. Sydenham s  Opera , 1714), breast tumours, remedies to make a mother s milk cease, eye conditions, earache, toothache, nose bleed, vertigo, epilepsy, smallpox, children s bruises, mania, asthma, gout, cataract, heatstroke (this suggests the author lived in the south, and one section is signed  Toulouse ), etc. The notebook also includes remedies against fungi plaguing horses  hooves, and the best practice to exercise a horse. The author is unknown; several remedies are dated, from 1715 to 1765, some attributed to specific authorities, e.g.,  a surgeon from Paris , Monsieur de Cornes from Carpentras (an apothecary?), Monsieur Weissmann, Sieur Brossard, Monsieur du Moulin (1745), Madame la Marquise de Bourg, the Acad émie Royale des Sciences (1741-3), and le  Mercure de France  (1759). One of them, it is said, obtained a pension thanks to the success of one of his remedies; and the author seems to have witnessed a declaration signed by Brossard, La Martini√®re, Morand, and Faubert. Some sections relate actual experiences, e.g., a remedy, taken from the Irish physician Christopher Nugent s work, was given to the widow of Candier in Paris in 1754. One of the patients was Monsieur Touffreville, from Rouen, importer of tobacco (1760). At the end is the report of a consultation about a difficult birth drawn from  a journal from Verdun 1765 . 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In several cases De la Croix provides the shelfmarks of manuscripts in the French Royal Library or gives the dates of the printed edition that he was using. A bibliography of De la Croix s sources, with biographies, concludes the volume. \u003cbr\u003e\n De La Croix was one of a group of young linguists, les Jeunes de Langues, who were sent by the Minister for Finances Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83) into the Ottoman Empire to learn its principal languages and act as interpreters for the French government. At age seventeen De la Croix travelled to Turkey, Persia and Syria, spending time in Aleppo and Isfahan in modern-day Iran. 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They feature a variety of smaller scale designs, all listed in the index at the front, including fireplaces, ceilings and cornices, decorated in classical style, as well as a few sections of rooms, porticoes, stairways and a theatre plan. Ware s engravings, as well as three designs that were not engraved, can be found in the Soane Museum. \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nThis publication serves as  evidence of [Ware s] association with the Burlington circle  (Harris 468) and strengthens the claim that he was patronised by the Earl (1694-1753), a wealthy amateur architect, also known as the  Apollo of the Arts  and the  Architect Earl , who likely provided him his education and the opportunity to develop his architectural studies in Italy. His connection with Burlington, who is credited with the design of pl.30, comprising piers flanked by two symmetrically mirrored pillars, rusticated blocks of stone crowned by a carved meander band, garland motif and two seated sphinxes. 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