fe
|
The Quince Tree Press |
The Pocket Books |
All the books in this series contain 16 pages and are a uniform size of approximately 5" by 3.5" (which is gradually becoming a standard A6). The series covers a wide range of poets with the Pocket Books, a collection of idiosyncratic and eccentric Pocket Dictionaries and the Pocket Illustrators include sets of fine wood engravings.
NEW in 2002 : Larger and updated editions of the dictionaries of English Kings and Queens (£1.75 each).
Sporting new covers and bolder text, these versions were launched to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee.
Poets (£1 each)
The poetries and histories within this collection cover everything from the literally sublime - Austen and Shakespeare - to the literary ridiculous of Lewis Carroll. Including on the way:
|
Jane Austen Francis Bacon William Barnes William Blake Robert Burns John Bunyan J.L.Carr Lewis Carroll Geoffrey Chaucer John Clare Abraham Cowley George Crabbe |
John Donne Edward Gibbon Thomas Gray Thomas Hardy George Herbert Robert Herrick Dr. Johnson John Keats Charles Lamb/Tom Moore Lord Macaulay Andrew Marvell Wilfred Owen/Rupert Brooke Revolt of 1381 |
The Rossetti's
John Ruskin Walter Scott William Shakespeare Robert Louis Stevenson Sydney Smith Alfred Lord Tennyson Edward Thomas Duke of Wellington William Wordsworth Young Womans Old Testament The Reciter Christmas Book |
|
|
|
|
||||||
| Jane Austen | William Shakespeare | Lewis Carroll |
Dictionaries (£1 each)
Unique, humorous, stimulating and intriguing. A blend of hard fact and spurious findings create something ideal "for reading in cold bedrooms, and / or in the bath".
| English Queens | English Cricketers | English Kings |
| Eponymists | Parsons | Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary |
|
Dictionary of English Cricketers |
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, d.1751, is the only member of the Royal Family known to have died violently after a blow from a cricket ball. C.B.Fry, Hants b.1872, held the Worlds long jump record, played in an F.A.Cup Final, headed the England batting averages in six seasons. At the Treaty of Versailles it was sensibly proposed that he be crowned king of Albania, a blessing denied that unhappy land which, instead, inherited a family called Zog and later went Maoist. Dr. E.M.Grace, Glos., b.1841, was so agile in the field that it was said that the only thing he could not do was to keep wicket to his own bowling. Mrs.Martha Grace, Glos., b.1812, a handsome matriarch, the only women canonised in Wisden. |
|
Ethelwulf, d. 856, a sluggish uxorious man much addicted to religious practices, who, aged 58 and against the advice of St. Dunstan and his physicians, married Charlemagne's thirteen year old granddaughter. One of his natural sons became a popular Oxford don. Frederick Louis, eldest son of George II, who's mock epitaph reads 'hear lies Fred, / who was alive and is dead, / there's no more to be said.' George I, first Hanoverian King, d.1727, based his claim on descent from James I daughter, Elizabeth of Bohemia. Refusing to learn English he argued with his ministers in French and dog-Latin. Suspecting her adultery, he imprisoned his wife for life and took on two huge German mistresses known to Londoners as the Elephant and Castle. |
Dictionary of English Kings |
Wood Engravers (contemporary £1.50, all others £1 each)
A wide ranging collection which spans some of the best wood engravers, from established craftsmen like Thomas Bewick to artists working today such as Sarah van Niekerk. The other artists included in the collection are:
|
Thomas Bewick George Cruickshank Clare Dalby |
Edwina Ellis Saša Marinkov Sarah van Niekirk |
Gwen Raverat Yvonne Skargon Margaret Wells |
|
Sarah van Niekerk |
Thomas Bewick |
The Quince Tree Press© 2003 Robert Carr
