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1928293221928. A Paris Javal et Bourdeaux 1928. Un vol. au format in-4 333 x 253 mm de 88 pp. en feuilles sous couverture ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs 1 volume de mÂme format renfermant les suites ; le tout sous coffret de pleine percaline satinÂŽe vieux-rose ˆ fermoirs dos lisse titre dorÂŽ en long. Tirage unique ˆ 40 exemplaires seulement ; tous sur Japon impÂŽrial. Exemplaire revÂtu ˆ la justification de la signature autographe de Leonetto Cappiello. Outre les compositions contenues dans l'ouvrage gravÂŽes sur cuivre par Lorrain cet ensemble recÂle sous chemise titrÂŽe une triple suite desdites compositions ÂŽtat en deux couleurs ÂŽtat en bleu ÂŽtat en noir. ''AprÂs des ÂŽtudes ˆ Livourne Cappiello exposa en 1892 ˆ Florence et vint ˆ Paris la mÂme annÂŽe pour collaborer au Rire .''. in Osterwalder citant la prÂŽsente contribution de l'artiste. ''Voyage philosophique dans lÕEurope des LumiÂres La Princesse de Babylone constitue un conte oriental somptueux o entre humour et coups de griffe Voltaire dans une course amoureuse ˆ travers le monde dÂŽnigre la sottise du pouvoir absolu et prÂche la tolÂŽrance lՎtat de nature et de libertÂŽ.'' MahÂŽ RÂŽpertoire des ÂŽditons de luxe p. 41 - Monod I Manuel de l'amateur de livres illustrÂŽs modernes 11434 - Osterwalder I Dictionnaire des illustrateurs p. 214. Un fermoir du coffret absent. Couverture renfermant les suite nettement piquÂŽe. TrÂs rares au premier plat couverture du volume de texte. Excellente condition intÂŽrieure. Rare. b42961 unknown
1901310390New York: St. Hubert Guild 1901. 168 designs.done by the Craftsmen of the St. Hubert Guild many hand-coloured. 22 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters crimson morocco gilt spines t.e.g. by Bennett NYC. Fine. 168 designs.done by the Craftsmen of the St. Hubert Guild many hand-coloured. 22 vols. 8vo. St. Hubert Guild unknown books
190113129The Works of Voltaire / A Contemporary Version with notes / by Tobias Smollett revised and modernized; new translations by William F. Fleming and an introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh ; a critique and biography by the Rt. Hon. John Morley E. R. Dumont 1901 42 volumes complete a vg to near fine set bound in half leather with raised spines with marbled boards and matching marbled end-papers. 1/100 sets so labeled as the Les Delices Edition. Profusely illustrated. Formerly the set owned by 19th century Grand Rapids Lumber Baron Henry G. Dykhouse with his bookplates pn the front paste-downs. E. R. Dumont hardcover
1912328118Berlin: Paul Cassirer 1912. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Marcus Behmer. 40 exquisite tipped in etchings by Marcus Behmer. The etchings integrated with the text range widely in size and format from full page illustrations to historiated initials and vignettes. 77. 5 pages. Small folio original black-lettered mustard cloth Berlin: Paul Cassirer 1912. Limited edition -- Number 86 of 170 copies on "amerikanisches Japan" printed at the Pan Presse. A near fine copy of this scarce book.<br/> <br/> Voltaire: Zadig or Fate. An Oriental History. Behmer's wryly exquisite Beardsleyesque interpretation is the first of a sequence of Voltaire illustrations in modern German Pressbooks followed by editions of "Candide" by Klee Unold and Kubin. --Schauer II. 43.<br/> <br/> Paul Cassirer unknown
1928059808New York: Random House 1928. 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 111 Pp. #423 Of 1450 Copies The First Book Published By Random House Illustrated Throughout By Rockwell Kent And Signed By Him On The Limitation Page. Tan Cloth Beveled Edges Gilt. Binding With Only Slight Wear To Gilt Contents Fine. With The Original Plain Opaque Dust Jacket Browned Small Losses 3/4" Water Spot On Front Panel. <br/> <br/> Random House hardcover
1942WRCLIT57612Berne-Bümpliz: Éditions Les Belles Feuilles 1942. Small folio. Loose signatures laid into pictorial wrappers. Near fine in good quarter vellum chemise and slipcase the latter a bit worn with cracks and bumps at a few corners. First edition thus illustrated with ten large wood engravings a number of decorated initials and two decorations by Imre Reiner. From a total edition of 220 copies this is one of 170 copies on Rives signed by the artist with an extra suite of the woodcuts on Rives. An interesting production by the artist/designer/typographer. Éditions Les Belles Feuilles hardcover books
192322200Paris: Rene Kieffer 1923. leather_bound. Orig. full two-toned brown leather covers decorated in blind backstrip lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of front cover paste-down. Hémard's lasting fame however lies in his book illustrations - always with a distinctly French character usually comic and often mildly erotic. He was probably the most prolific book illustrator in the first half of the twentieth century in France. Rene Kieffer unknown books
19288733<p>One of 237 copies number 211 one of 185 on Vélin de Montval. Sylvain Sauvage ws the pseudonym of the artist Félix Roy 1888-1948. He later illustrated the Nonesuch edition of Candide.</p><p>4to 280 × 220 mm pp. 6 157 7 including frontispiece and title 54 etched illustrations and vignettes by Sauvage including the cover hand-coloured numerous decorative initials printed in red and black. Uncut in original pictorial wrappers chemise and slipcase. An excellent copy.</p> [Frazier-Soye and Paul Haasen for] the artist and A. Maillart.
1949148560New York: Hermitage House 1949. Hermitage House limited edition of Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece. Octavo bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers with black and white illustrations. One of 1500 numbered copies this is number 500. In fine condition. Illustrated by Sydney Joseph. One of the most influential thinkers of the French Enlightenment François-Marie Arouet know by the nom de plum Voltaire was a resourceful and prolific writer. His works touched nearly every literary form including plays poems novels theoretical essays and scientific treatises. A forthright and candid advocate of civil liberties he frequently criticized the institutions of religious dogma and classism prevalent in 18th century France often doing so through satire to avoid censorship and imprisonment. Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide who in the course of his travels in Europe and South America saw and suffered such misfortune that it was difficult for him to believe this was "the best of all possible worlds." Indeed it seemed to be quite the opposite. In brilliantly skewering such naïveté Voltaire mercilessly exposes and satirizes romance science philosophy religion and government — the ideas and forces that permeate and control the lives of men. Hermitage House unknown
192322200Paris: Rene Kieffer 1923. leather_bound. Orig. full two-toned brown leather covers decorated in blind backstrip lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of front cover paste-down. Hémard’s lasting fame however lies in his book illustrations – always with a distinctly French character usually comic and often mildly erotic. He was probably the most prolific book illustrator in the first half of the twentieth century in France. Rene Kieffer unknown
193017483New York: Random House 1930. First Trade Edition. Cloth. Very good/near fine. The first trade edition of Candide by Voltaire from Random House inscribed and hand-numbered by the illustrator Rockwell Kent. Octavo 2 111pp 1. Publisher's red cloth title stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. Both hinges showing wear with archival reinforcement to both as is common with this book. Solid text block internally clean. In the publisher's first state dust jacket advertisements for other Random House imprints on the rear panel a few scuff marks closed tears at heel of the spine a bright near fine example. This copy is inscribed by Rockwell Kent on the title page: ".especially for Marjorie Wallace! no - 15!! / Rockwell Kent / Montreal / October 1930." Candide was illustrated by Rockwell Kent beginning in the fall of 1927. It was the first book published by Random House. The book was produced by Pynson Printers. The book first appeared as a limited edition of 1470 numbered and signed copies in 1928. It sold out almost immediately. The following year it was released in trade editions by the Literary Guild in 1929 and this copy from Random House in 1930. Johnson p. 44-46. Random House unknown
196912611DESCH 1969. 1. softcover. DESCH paperback
1925elala168Paris: René Kieffer 1925. 1925. 8vo. pp. numerous text illus. with pochoir hand-colouring. contemporary half morocco original coloured pictorial wrs. bound in. First Edition Illustrated by Joseph Hémard Limited to 500 copies this one of 480 on vélin de cuve. One of the few of Voltaires works to deal with a distinctly economic subject. Directed against the Physiocrats and specifically Mercier De La Rivières Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés the witty and sarcastic tale takes its title from Merciers statement that in an organized state according to the physiocratic doctrine an average sum of forty crowns should suffice for the existence of each citizen. Voltaire singles out for special ridicule the proposed impot unique or single tax on land. The story revolves around the owner of a small estate yielding an annual net income of forty crowns who is alarmed at the promulgation of several edicts "by a few gentlemen who having some leisure have undertaken to govern the kingdom from their firesides". According to them the government "being by divine- and birth-right co-proprietor of his land he at least owes it one-half of his income" and that "as all wealth proceeds from land land is to bear the whole burden of taxation." Carteret IV 406. 1st Edition. Paris: René Kieffer, 1925. unknown
1928059795New York: Random House 1928. 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 111 Pp. #1057 Of 1450 Copies The First Book Published By Random House Illustrated Throughout By Rockwell Kent And Signed By Him On The Limitation Page. Tan Cloth Beveled Edges Gilt. Binding With Only Slight Wear To Gilt Contents Fine. With The Original Sales Receipt Dated Sept. 13 1928 From E. Weyhe / Prints And Books On The Fine Arts. <br/> <br/> Random House hardcover
1928059796New York: Random House 1928. 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . 111 Pp. #1324 Of 1450 Copies The First Book Published By Random House Illustrated Throughout By Rockwell Kent And Signed By Him On The Limitation Page. Tan Cloth Beveled Edges Gilt. Binding With Only Slight Wear To Gilt Contents Fine. <br/> <br/> Random House hardcover
19196269BB1919. 2 Bände. Berlin Gustav Kiepenheuer 1919. Mit Illustrationen von Moreau Le Jeune nach alten Vorlagen. Orig.-Pergamentbande mit reicher Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung sowie Kopfgoldschnitt. Eines von 150 nummerierten Exemplaren. - Papier gebräunt und wenig stockfleckig. Einband berieben und fleckig. Die Deckel verzogen. unknown
1928elala167Paris: Henri Babou 1928. 1928. 4to. pp. 132 3. numerous text illus. with pochoir hand-colouring. original coloured pictorial wrs. short tears in upper & lower spine slight discolouration from bookmark on title & half-title. First Edition Illustrated by Jacques Touchet Limited to 350 copies this one of 330 on Arches. "No one of Voltaires works shows his anti-religious or at least anti-ecclesiastical animus more strongly. The various title-words of the several articles are often the merest stalking-horses under cover of which to shoot at the Bible or the Church the target being now and then shifted to the political institutions of the writers country his personal foes &c .". Encyc. Brit. 11th Edn. The book was officially condemned and ordered to be burned. Carteret IV 406. 1st Edition. Paris: Henri Babou, [1928]. unknown
19222709701922. hardcover. near fine. Tirée du manuscrit du Père Quesnel. 39 charming color illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. 186 pages tall square 12mo bound in 3/4 burgundy morocco original wrappers bound in. Paris: René Kieffer 1922. Near fine. Limited to 500 numbered copies.<br/><br/> unknown books
1922ILTInVOL37Paris: René Kieffer 1922. 1922. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l. 186 1 leaf. 39 colour illus. by Sylvain Sauvage head & tailpieces title vignette & front cover illus. Uncut in modern half buckram original illus. wrs. bound in short split in spine wrs. bit soiled. Limited to 500 copies 40 on japon with a suite of illus. on China paper. Hardcover. Paris: René Kieffer, 1922. Hardcover
197763279Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press 1977. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 33pp. Quarto 28.5 cm 1/2 black cloth over red marbled boards. Black endleaves. Pages bound in French-fold fashion. Very good plus with bumping to the foot of the spine. Housed in a black cloth slipcase that is in very good condition with light surface and edge wear. Dance 225. Illustrated with six Lynd Ward engravings. Translated by Anthony Hecht. Introduction by Arthur Wilson. Signed by Ward Wilson and Hecht on the limitation page. This Deluxe edition was limited to a 100 roman numeral copies this is copy LI 51. Penmaen Press hardcover
1926WRCLIT59286Paris: René Kieffer 1926. Small quarto. Handsome color lithographed pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. About fine in nicked glassine wrapper. First edition in this format. Illustrated with over thirty vignettes and decorations by Braun colored via pochoir. From an edition of 550 numbered copies this is one of five hundred copies on vélin blanc. Monod asserts that despite the colophon publication actually took place in 1930. MONOD 11440. René Kieffer unknown books
1927573Haarlem / New York: J. Enschedé en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries Inc 1927. Limited Edition. Near fine. Clara Tice 1888 - 1973. 8vo 9 x 5 3/4 inches 228 x 147 mm. 2 parts in 1 volume with continuous pagination: 10 182 pp. 7 index 10; 10 etched plates by CLARA TICE including hand-colored frontispiece each with tissue guard with legends printed in red. Copy 541 of the limited edition of 1000 copies set by hand in Didot type and printed on 'papier à la cuve' t.e.g. one page unopened. Etching at p.54 with loss in the lower corner not affecting the image paper somewhat toned at edges and occasional small tears to some sheets but copy is in near fine condition paper supple. Half cloth binding with marbled boards; gilt title on spine slightly rubbed some bumping and wear at corners and edges 2-inch crack to top of front hinge but binding tight and square.<br /> All for the Best. This edition enriched by Clara Tice's racy and whimsical illustrations is an "Exact reprint of the earliest English text" and was printed in Holland by the Johann Enschedé en Zonen of Haarlem founded in 1703. The verso of the title page states it was "set entirely by hand from type cast by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen from original Didot matrices." It bears amusing legends on the tissue guards printed in red: "Their hands strayed"; "Cut off only one of the buttocks"; "Their veils dropt".<br /> <br /> Clara Tice 1888 - 1973 drew racy illustrations at a time when ladies did not engage in such things and when Anthony Comstock's Society for the Suppression of Vice was very active. Tice attracted their unwanted attention for one of her early exhibitions at Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village in 1915 and it helped to jump-start her career. Vanity Fair dubbed Tice the "QUEEN OF GREENWICH VILLAGE". According to The New York Times 27 June 1920 she was the first woman in Greenwich village to bob her hair. Tice also created a cartoon strip and posters and she is included in the New York Dada Movement. J. Enschedé en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries Inc unknown
198579477Oxford: The Inky Parrot Press 1985. patterned paper-covered boards slipcase. Inky Parrot Press. small 4to. patterned paper-covered boards slipcase. x 1411 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 360 numbered copies. Translated by Richard Aldington. Signed by the illustrator Wilton Priestner. Profusely illustrated with slightly disturbing almost surreal line drawings that push the satirical tone of the story itself to a new level. The modern edgy drawings are evidence of the relevancy and adaptability of the work of the eighteenth-century French writer Voltaire. The imagery does not exactly match up with the moment of the story it illustrates but rather offers a highly interpretive version of the events as told by Voltaire. For example whereas the text reads ".she observed Doctor Pangloss in the bushes giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's waiting maid a very pretty and docile brunette" the illustration shows a couple copulating in the garden. Paper covered boards and the slipcase also with drawings by Priestner. With shoulder notes. The Inky Parrot Press unknown books
1930000011623New York: Williams Belasco and Meyers 1930 1930. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 4 7-144 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine gold decoration on the front board. Price of $7.50 on the front panel of the dust jacket. With six full-page illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. With the glassine dustwrapper. Included is a publisher's announcement advertising Blaine's Candide and Aubrey Beardsley's Salome. A striking edition of Voltaire's masterful lampoon of Leibniz' "best of all possible worlds" theory. The jacket and the glassine wrapper have a few chips. Williams, Belasco, and Meyers [1930] hardcover
1985BC06E-008Oxford: The Inky Parrot Press 1985. Book. Illus. by Priestner Wilson. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Hardcover in Slipcase. Signed by the illustrator. Number 107 / 360. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks. Spine show an even lightening. BC06Ee. The Inky Parrot Press Hardcover
