Salisbury Alecto Historical Editions 1978

Limited edition set of plates in two red buckram custom made archival boxes with gilt lettered paste down labels on upper boards as issued. This numbered no 23 of 90. Includes, note on making of the edition 11pp + 3pp illustrated, loosely inserted in the top of the first box. 308 plates, various sizes, (c229 × 305mm) organized in 8 sets of paper wrappers representing each of the original 8 volumes. In early 1813, Daniell conceived of the ambitious plan to travel around the entire coastline of Britain while producing an illustrated work of the voyage. He set out to record the people, places, towns and villages around Britain's coastline. Eleven years later he completed his magnum opus having travelled from Land's End to John 0'Groats via the west coast, then back to Land's End via the east. The result was this collection of 308 aquatint engravings reproduced here. Very slightly rubbed else very good. A celebration of the rural coastline of Britain, The actual original aquatint printing plates survived and were acquired by the Tate Gallery Publications Department in the late seventies. Alecto Historical Editions was invited to take a limited number of impressions for the Tate and their Patrons and Friends in 1978. Just 100 impressions from each antique copperplate were taken for the published edition, which sold out.

London: Rivington in connection with the Incorporated Church Building Society 1863-1879

Bound as 6 volumes. Contemporary gilt lettered quarter calf with marbled boards. Corners and marbling on boards and spines a little rubbed else in good condition. Internally bright The first six volumes of the official journal of the Church Building Society, which ran until 1908. Packed with useful information and containing articles on general principles and techniques alongside accounts of individual churches being built, restored or extended. Illustrated with b/w plates showing proposed restorations and completed projects, this journal is a wonderful record of church architecture in the period. It is particularly useful for the study of the subject as each quarterly issue includes a list of new or restored churches with the date of their consecration, details of the architect used and a summary of the architectural work completed. Notoriously difficult to collate, this set contains all the parts called for together with two extra illustrations in no xvii, facing page 34, St Hilda's Hospital, Hartlepool and no xviii, facing p76 Christ Church Freemantle. The contents page for nos 1-4 not present but it is unclear if it was every produced. Similarly there is no title page or contents for nos 33-36.

London Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. nd 1870-1873

Publication in parts begun in 1870 - 104 parts issued, completed 1872. Four volumes, each with chromolithographic frontis. Vol. 1: iv + 412 pp; Vol. 2: iv + 412 pp; Vol. 3: iv + 412pp; and Vol. 4: iv + 428 pp. Small 4to. Publisher's quarter calf with gilt lettering. Vg. Collection of Dresser's series of 31 articles, including the first printing of his article "Principles of Design" within these volumes. The articles formed the basis of the 1876 book, 'Studies in Design'. Dresser's designs include the first appearance of his aesthetic teapot. Other articles include 'Chemistry Applied to the Arts', 'Material on Colour Pigments', 'Civil Engineering', 'Colour Theory' (by A H Church) 'The Lathe', 'Optical Instruments', 'Museums: Their Construction, Arrangement and Management', 'Photography, 'Ship Building', etc. Bright set. A brilliant example of journals at the time demonstrating the whole range of interests the Victorians held in design matters. Cassell's Technical Educator was the most successful of the Victorian self-help part-works. It was a companion to Cassell's New Popular Educator. It appears to have come out in fortnightly issues over a period of 2 years - although most surviving copies seem to have been sold as two or four volume sets. The intended readership was evidently the upwardly mobile class of skilled artisans and mechanics.