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190348637Boston: Bibliophile Society 1903. Edition limited to 473 copies printed for members only; 4 volumes 8vo frontispiece in each volume in two states one a remarque proof on Japanese vellum the other on Holland paper without remarque from original oil paintings by Howard Pyle etched by W.H.W. Bicknell; title pages printed in colors on Japan paper; original full blue morocco gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 2 seal of the Bibliophile Society gilt stamped on covers gilt turn-ins t.e.g.; spines a touch discolored bookplates in all volumes; a fine copy. This edition contains "Rare Books and Their Values" by William P. Cutler and an introduction by Richard Garnett. <br/><br/> Bibliophile Society hardcover books
1809306695London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme by W. Savage 1809. First edition. Title vignette. iv 87 1 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Circa 1914 full crushed brown morocco gilt a.e.g. the rest uncut by the Booklover's Shop signed in gilt on front and rear turn-ins "Bound by The Booklovers Shop Cleveland. Hardy Maillard Pilon". Small paper repair to margin of title else fine. First edition. Title vignette. iv 87 1 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Copy in Booklover's Shop Binding. An amusing work; Dibdin's best known. The real action takes place in the footnotes so copious and detailed that they overwhelm the main text. This copy finely bound by Henry Hardy Leon Maillard and Gaston Pilon of the Booklover's Shop bindery in Cleveland. The bindery traces its lineage back to The Club Bindery founded in 1895 by members of the Grolier Club to provide exceptionally fine binding for American collectors. The Club Bindery moved to Cleveland where it was successively renamed the Rowfant Bindery 1909-1913 the Booklover's Shop 1914-1917 and finally The French Binders 1918-1920s as in-house bindery to Doubelday in Garden City New York cf. Martin Antonetti's essay in Bound to Be the Best: The Club Bindery. Jackson 16; Neuburg 5; Windle and Pippin A11a. Provenance: Henry Alden Sherwin morocco booklabel Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by W. Savage unknown books
194352292La Crosse: Emerson G. Wulling 1943. Edition limited to 125 copies square 12mo pp. 9; red device on title 3 woodcuts reproduced from a book printed by Lucantonio De Giunta in the sixteenth century; self wrappers stapled; fine. Rulon-Miller Wulling 40. <br/><br/> Emerson G. Wulling unknown books
18247040London: Printed for Harding Triphook and Lepard and J. Major 1824. First edition. Boards. Very Good. Lg. thick 8vo. 2 parts in 1 paged continuously. 4lii912pp. Index. Plus an 8pp. publisher's catalog bound in at front. The separate title page of "Part Second" is bound in at rear. Orig. boards rebacked. Uncut copy. Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, and J. Major hardcover books
1824306690London: Printed for Harding Triphook and Lepard Finsbury-Square and J. Major Fleet-Street 1824. First edition large paper issue one of 100 copies. 4 li 1 400; 512 pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo 242 x 144 mm. Contemporary purple calf spine gilt gilt and blind rule to covers with gilt cornerpieces marbled edges and endpapers. A few stray spots minor rubbing and fading to extremities old dampstain to back cover volume one. First edition large paper issue one of 100 copies. 4 li 1 400; 512 pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo 242 x 144 mm. Duke of Bedford's large paper copy. Jackson 63; Windle & Pippin A50a. Provenance: John Duke of Bedford 1766-1839; armorial bookplates Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square, and J. Major, Fleet-Street unknown books
1824302945London: Printed for Harding Triphook and Lepard Finsbury-Square and J. Major Fleet-Street 1824. First edition large paper issue one of 100 copies. li 400 512 pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Boards printed spine labels. Spines worn with minor losses. Book labels of Michael Sadleir. Very good set. Cloth folding box. First edition large paper issue one of 100 copies. li 400 512 pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Sadleir's Copy Large Paper in Boards. Tipped in at vol. I are eight pages of undated advertisements at the front endpapers and an advertisement for the fourth edition of Dibdin's Greek and Latin Classics opposite the title page.<br/>A choice copy in original condition. Windle & Pippin A50a Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square, and J. Major, Fleet-Street unknown books
197825993Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press 1978. First edition first printing 8vo viii & 245pp. portrait frontis 5 facsimiles; some very slight rippling to bottom edges of text from damp else very good in original red cloth gilt. With a select list of bibliographic writings by Dibdin a listing of pseudonyms the bibliographer used to refer not only to himself but also to his friends and "the most extended contemporary account of Dibdin" that Neuberg was able to locate. The Great Bibliographers Series No. 3. <br/><br/> Scarecrow Press hardcover books
1819306651London: Printed by William Savage . for William Miller .; John Murray; Longman et al. 1819. First Dibdin edition regular issue. With 14 mezzotint portraits and 24 engraved plates numerous engravings and illustrations in text some in black and red. xx 2 95 1 cxxxviii 390; 4 vi 32 XII 33-400 X 400-614 2 half-sheet 4 ad; 4 iv 615 1 2; 4 ii 2 623 pp. Half-sheet instructions to binder at back of vol 2 titles and half-titles in red and black chapter heads in red. 4 vols. Royal 4to 276 x 211 mm. Original brown vols 1 & 4 and gray vols 1 & 3 boards with printed paper labels on spine uncut most gatherings unopened vols 2-4. Some neat restoration to spines occasional light spotting and some browning and offset but less than typically encountered some chipping to spine labels but prices still legible bookplates removed but a very attractive set overall in the original binding. First Dibdin edition regular issue. With 14 mezzotint portraits and 24 engraved plates numerous engravings and illustrations in text some in black and red. xx 2 95 1 cxxxviii 390; 4 vi 32 XII 33-400 X 400-614 2 half-sheet 4 ad; 4 iv 615 1 2; 4 ii 2 623 pp. Half-sheet instructions to binder at back of vol 2 titles and half-titles in red and black chapter heads in red. 4 vols. Royal 4to 276 x 211 mm. In Original Boards. An attractive copy in original boards of this finely printed and richly illustrated survey of printing in the British Isles including chapters on Caxton Wynkyn de Worde and Pynson. The first Dibdin edition being his enlargement of Joseph Ames's account of English printing to 1600 which was originally published in 1749. This copy retains the very scarce half-sheet "Directions for boarding and binding" at the back of volume 2 which Windle and Pippin note in only one other copy. Copies in boards uncommon. Bigmore & Wyman I 7 "the great storehouse for the History of English Printing"; Jackson 26; Windle & Pippin A15 Printed by William Savage ... for William Miller ...; John Murray; Longman, et al. unknown books
304825June 11. 3 pp. 12mo. removed some minor loss. 3 pp. 12mo. Reading in part: ".as I shall want £40 tomorrow at my banker's I am in full peparation for my farewell address on Friday. unknown books
1824WRCLIT66998London: Printed for Harding Triphook . etc. 1824. Two volumes. 4li1409;2401-912pp. Original drab boards untrimmed. Publisher advert slip tipped to verso of first front free endsheet detached. Spine coverings perished some foxing early and late collector's bookplate on each pastedown still a good set uncommon in original dress. First edition. With the year of publication ownership signature in upper margin of each title of "Lord Robertson 1824" i.e. Judge Patrick Robertson associate of Scott and literary dilettante. Printed for Harding, Triphook .... [etc]. hardcover books
18417299London: John Murray 1841. Later printing. 1/2 calf. Very good -. Cruikshank George. Sm. 8vo. xvi336pp. Illus. with numerous plates by George Cruikshank. Later 19th century 1/2 green calf gilt tooled spine with red calf label over cloth some rubbing of extremities outer front hinge starting but holding fine. A.e.g. A presentation copy inscribed & signed by Thomas Dibdin in 1841 on a preliminary blank. Cohn #231. John Murray unknown books
0275<br/><br/>12mo disbound 26pp. Frontispiece. Notes: "Duncombe's Edition. The only edition correctly marked by permission from the prompter's book. As performed at the London theatres. Embellished with a fine engraving by Mr. Findlay from a drawing taken in the London Theatre. unknown books
1814001146London: Whittingham and Arliss. Chiswick Press 1814. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 26 volumes issued between 1814 to 1818 with a total of 104 plays four per volume. Extremely rare in this full and continuous set. A few illustrations accompany each play. This is an extraordinary collection of the popular and canonical theater of the day with some informative notes about the plays premier and players sometimes listing those of contemporary performances sometimes those who originated the plays. The plays include farces burlesques operas essentially musicals or operettas not full-fledged operas masques tragedies etc. Some from playwrights still revered and even performed such as Sheridan Congreve Milton Garrick Colley; others by now obscure writers. Also curious is the number of plays written by women and this might constitute an interesting springboard for study on female writers in the theater. Plays include in order of volumes up to just volume 18 to provide a sense of the range: The Rivals - Sheridan The Beggar's Opera - John Gay Venice Preserved - Thomas Otway The Irish Widow - David Garrick The West Indian - Richard Cumberland A Bold Stroke for a Wife - Mrs. Centlivre Isabella - David Garrick The Quaker - Charles Dibdin The Provoked Husband - J Vanbrugh and Cibber Colley Douglas - John Home Love in a Village - Isaac Bickerstaff Fortune's Frolic - John Till Allingham The Belle's Stratagem - Mrs. Cowley The Gamester - Edward Moore The Brothers - Richard Cumberland Richard Coeur de Lion - General Burgoyne Man of the World - Charles Macklin The Grecian Daughter - Arthur Murphy Maid of the Mill - Isaac Bickerstaff High Life Below Stairs - The Rev. James Townley She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith The Revenge - Dr. Young The Busy Body - Mrs. Centlivre Rosina - Mrs. Brooke The Fashionable Lover - Richard Cumberland Jane Shore - Nicholas Rowe Lionel and Clarissa - Isaac Bickerstaff Three Weeks After Marriage - Arthur Murphy The Hypocrite - Isaac Bickerstaff Cato - Joseph Addison George Barnwell - Mr. Lillo Midas - Kane O'Hara The Beaux Stratagem - George Farquhar The Fair Penitent - Nicholas Rowe The Critic - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Miss in Her Teens - David Garrick All in the Wrong - Arthur Murphy Alexander the Great - Nathaniel Lee The Way to Keep Him - Arthur Murphy Comus -- altered from John Milton The Jealous Wife - George Colman The Mourning Wife - William Congreve Tancred and Sigismunda - James Thompson The Guardian - David Garrick The Clandestine Marriage - George Colman and David Garrick The Roman Father - W. Whitehead The Inconstant - George Farquhar The Padlock - Isaac Bickerstaff Tamerlane - Nicholas Rowe The Wonder - Mrs. Centlivre Rule a Wife and Have a Wife - David Garrick The Tobacconist - altered from Ben Jonson by Thomas Gentleman A Trip to Scarborough - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Suspicious Husband - Dr. Hoadly The Siege of Damascus - John Hughes The Apprentice- Arthur Murphy Oroonoko - Thomas Southern Count of Narbonne - Robert Jephson Confederacy - Sir John Vanbrugh The Devil to Pay - C. Coffey She Would and She Would Not - Colley Cibber Love for Love - William Congreve Mahomet - The Rev. Mr. Miller The Citizen - Arthur Murphy The Orphan of China - Arthur Murphy Every Man in His Humour - David Garrick Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar The Mayor of Garratt - Samuel Foote A New Way to Pay Old Debts - Philip Massinger The Duke of Milan - Philip Massinger The Orphan - Thomas Otway The Recruiting Sergeant - Isaac Bickerstaff and on and on. Condition is very good. There are some dampstains in a few volumes and there is some other soilage here and there but generally the pages are clean and free of issues. Spines rebacked with modern calf featuring five raised boards and embossed title and volume number. Contemporary calf boards preserved and while generally scuffed and with wear along edges and corners these remain attractive. Bindings are tight. Modern endpapers. <br /><br /> Whittingham and Arliss. Chiswick Press books
1813227638London: Printed for the Proprietor By Joseph Hartnell 1813. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Frontispiece; No pencil or ink markings in text. Full brown leather binding. Archivally rebacked. Very light edgewear to boards. Very Good binding. Printed for the Proprietor, By Joseph Hartnell unknown books
180942460London 1809. <p> With an Autograph Letter from Dibdin</p> <p>Dibdin Thomas Frognall 1776-1847. The bibliomania; or book-madness; containing some account of the history symptoms and cure of this fatal disease . . . iv 87pp. London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. 214 x 124 mm. 20th century half calf marbled boards a few tiny scuff-marks on back cover. Light toning but very good. With an Autograph Note signed by Dibdin dated Jan. 25 1841 tipped to the front pastedown mended with clear tape.</p> <p> First Edition. "Dibdin's Bibliomania first published in 1809 is an anthem to the printed book a warning to the unwary about the perils of obsessive book-collecting and the confessions of a rabid book-collector" Danckwerts p. vii. Written in less than a month The Bibliomania marks "the first full flowering of Dibdin's love affair with books" Windle and Pippin p. 35; it had the effect of "producing much innocent mirth and exciting a general curiosity after rare and precious volumes" Dibdin Reminiscences of a Literary Life p. 272. Dibdin a clergyman and inveterate book-lover was a lively and engaging writer whose works enjoyed great popularity and helped to stimulate enthusiasm for book collecting in the nineteenth century. The autograph note tipped into this copy reads: "Good Mr. Warren If I had not been cheated of £37.10 that Monday you would have had your £5 with fresh boards last week. As it is please to wait until Saturday next. Always your obliged T. F. Dibdin." Danckwerts "Introduction" in Dibdin The Bibliomania 2004 pp. vii-xxxvi. Jackson Thomas Frognall Dibdin: An Annotated List 16. Windle and Pippin Thomas Frognall Dibdin: A Bibliography A11a. </p> <p>. unknown books
18281258398New York: J. and J. Harper 1828. First American Edition. Octavo; Poor Condition/no dust jacket; boards strong 3/4 of bindings attaching front cover to spine detached back spine joint cracked but intact significant edgewear at corners moderate wear and chipping on edges paper covering spine almost entirely chipped away front and back marbled design paper clean and intact apart from aforementioned edgewear; textblock has significant age tone moderate to heavy foxing page by page discrepancy front free end paper detached inscriptions from previous owners and numerical calculations on front free end paper bookplate and minor writing in quill ink on front pastedown back free end paper appears to be missing some unintentionally dogeared pages 36-42 bookstore stamp on title page verso no marks or non-age-related stains minor very faded handwriting in pencil on last page free of highlighting/underlining. pagination restarts at beginning of volume two both volumes in one book pp 204 pp 180. 1258398. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. J. and J. Harper unknown books
1827242220London: Henry Colburn 1827. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth Century polished tan calf t.e.g. Very good. Bookplates of Henry Marquand and St. Paul's School. Small nick to title label of one volume. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Henry Colburn unknown books
180555724London: printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme Paternoster-Row 1805. First edition 8vo pp.64 2; removed from binding wrappers wanting title page separated; very good. <br/><br/> printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row unknown books
1817306781London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. Slip announcing vol. IV of Typographical Antiquities inserted before half title of Vol. I. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Original drab boards printed spine labels untrimmed. Old clean repairs to the joints of vol. I; joints of vol. III a bit rubbed. Ownership signature of Mary Curteis Dec. 29 1817 on pastedown in each volume; bookplate of Charles Sarolea and his signature on title page; small morocco label; printed label of Claude Smith on flyleaf. Very good. Cloth slipcases. First edition. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. Slip announcing vol. IV of Typographical Antiquities inserted before half title of Vol. I. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70 Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
1817306787London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco by Charles Smith covers gilt ruled with gilt side-pieces along central panel spines in six compartments with elaborate gilt scrollwork gilt turn-ins blue silk doublures with gilt cornerpieces duplicated on silk free endpapers a.e.g. Foxed minor rubbing to boards an attractive copy. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Bound by Charles Smith. Dibdin's lavish work in an ornate binding by Charles Smith one of the more active and competent binders in London of the 1810s-'30s with his "13 Church St Soho" ticket in volume 1. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70. Provenance: R.P. Hooper bookplate Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
1817261849London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Bound in contemporary three quarters blue pebbled morocco spine gilt and marbled boards and edges. Fine small bump to some pages in Vol. I. Bookplate of The Right Hon. Charles Abbot prob. Charles Abbot 1st Baron Colchester in Vols II & III. First edition with half-titles and errata. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. some tinted in red and blue and slip of gold printing with directions to binder slip at vol. II p. 417. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo 9-3/4 x 6 inches. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70 Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
1821302946London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol Shakespeare Press 1821. First edition Large paper copy. Extra-illustrated with 2 original drawings 152 plates including portraits and views; and plates on India mounted of inserted vignettes. 3 vols. Large 4to. Early full navy morocco elaborately gilt-decorated spines raised bands gilt dentelles a.e.g. First edition Large paper copy. Extra-illustrated with 2 original drawings 152 plates including portraits and views; and plates on India mounted of inserted vignettes. 3 vols. Large 4to. With 2 Original Drawings by George Lewis. First edition large paper copy of Dibdin's "amusing account of his travels with descriptions of of the contents of several of the chief libraries of Europe" DNB profusely illustrated with over 100 beautiful engraved plates folding full-page and in-text. Two original drawings by illustrator George Lewis are bound opposite the engravings based on them Vol. I p. 17 and Vol. II p. 163 -- one fully realized in ink and one a full original painting finished in gold. Jackson 89; Windle and Pippin A65 Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press unknown books
1821304129London: Printed for the Author by William Bulmer and W. Nicol Shakespeare Press 1821. First edition one of 100 large paper copies. 83 copper-engraved plates on India paper after drawings by G.R. Lewis 64 engraved plates on India paper mounted in the text EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with portraits variant states of many of the plates and one original drawing by G. Lewis volume III Part II "Supplement" page XXXIX. 4to. Contemporary full blue morocco covers stamped in gilt with strapwork design gilt arms of Henry Gee Barnard on panels a.e.g. by Lewis. Vols. I & II joints rubbed spotting foxing and offsetting to text large dampstain affecting lower margin of vol. I and upper and lower margins of vol. II. First edition one of 100 large paper copies. 83 copper-engraved plates on India paper after drawings by G.R. Lewis 64 engraved plates on India paper mounted in the text EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with portraits variant states of many of the plates and one original drawing by G. Lewis volume III Part II "Supplement" page XXXIX. 4to. First edition large paper copy of Dibdin's "amusing account pf his travels with descriptions of of the contents of several of the chief libraries of Europe" DNB profusely illustrated with over 100 beautiful engraved plates folding full-page and intext. Two original drawings by illustrator George Lewis are bound opposite the engravings based on them Vol. I p. 17 and Vol. II p. 163 -- one fully realized in ink and one a full orignal painitng finished in gold. Jackson 48; Windle and Pippin A38a. Provenance: Henry G. Barnard bookplate and arms in gilt on covers; Robert S Pirie bookplate Printed for the Author, by William Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press unknown books
1803306789Cheltenham: H. Ruff 1803. First edition. Frontispiece vignette title one engraved plate at p. 66. xvi 358 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Twentieth century green cloth morocco spine label. Very good. First edition. Frontispiece vignette title one engraved plate at p. 66. xvi 358 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Jackson 7; Windle & Pippin A4a H. Ruff unknown books
1825145229London: Harding 1825. Second. hardcover. very good. 912pp. 8vo old calf binding is well rubbed; front hinge has been reattached interior lightly age-browned but otherwise very good. London: Harding Triphook and Lepard 1825. Second Edition.<br/><br/> Harding unknown books
