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1843BBO14<p>One of 1000 copies printed it was sold for one shilling each a hefty price at the time the concept suggested by Sir Henry Cole who is best remembered as the intellectual designer of the Victoria & Albert Museum and responsible for the modern British postal system. However because the central design depicted feasting and drinking as designed by <b>John Calcott Horsley</b> the card was attacked by the Temperance League and thought to promote drunkenness so it was suppressed soon after publication and there are believed to be less than 30 examples thought to survive. The 2nd Christmas card did not get issued until three years later in 1846.<br /></p><p>The two side panels on the card illustrate images of the <i>Christmas Spirit of giving alms to the poor</i> feeding and clothing the needy. Its release literarily coincided the same week with the publication of Dickens' <i>A Christmas Carol</i> and certainly helped perpetuate the celebration of the holiday.</p><p>Printed on one side this is possibly a salesman's sample copy as an ink notation on the reverse side indicates the wholesale cost of buying multiples. It is also amongst the very best examples that survive.</p> [Joseph Cundall for Henry Cole, December books
184821535London: WIlliam Smith 1848. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes in four extra-illustrated with the insertion of the illuminated plates from Humpheys' "Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart" in addition to the hand-colored plates of this edition. <br/> <br/>Dark green levant morocco spines in five compartments intricately gilt board tooled in gilt and blind inner dentelles gilt linen endpaper all edges gilt. Bindings signed The Knickerbocker Press and G. P. Putnam's Sons. <br/> <br/>The handcolored plates are heightened with gold and silver in imitation of the manuscript originals.<br/> <br/>A fine set handsomely bound with bright plates the spines showing only a pleasant lightening toward brown. WIlliam Smith hardcover books
1877008666New York: Harper & Brother Publishers 1877. SCARCE in collectible condition. A lovely copy in original gilt-stamped grey beveled cloth boards all edges gilt grey end papers 12 numbered pages plus 38 plates with tissue guards illustrated frontispiece and title vignette. Very Good Plus small loss of cloth at spine ends and tips rear covers stained and soiled small tear to edge blank front end page. Copies this lovely uncommon in recent commerce. . Second American Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Harper & Brother Publishers Hardcover books
184721823London: Longmans 1847. Humphreys Noel. 8vo 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages with text symbolic borders miniatures and initials printed in gold black and colors 2 page printed explanation and advertising leaf. Publisher's papier-maché boards covered with black plaster molded to appear like a Gothic carved wood binding with gilt stamped leather back. Although as inevitable with the gutta-percha gluing the leaves have become detached this is nonetheless an exemplary and extraordinarily fine copy of a fragile production usually found quite worn often missing the spine the edges chipped etc. but here with the binding showing almost no wear and even the gilt on the cover edges intact and the spine gilt visible though tarnished. This is the earliest example of this innovative use of materials to reproduce antiquarian handmade work and it met with considerable commercial success. Cornelius Hauck copy with bookplate. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 231; Abbey Life 222. <br /><br /> Longmans hardcover books
18471267London: Longman & Company 1847. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Superbly bound in full black impressed morocco binding over beveled boards by Hayday. 31 chromolithographed full-page illustrations chromo title page text borders and initials all by Noel Humphreys. A monumental production of this most notable and sought-after early Victorian landmark in book binding and color production. A fne copy with almost no signs of wear seldom seen in this condition. <br/><br/> Longman & Company hardcover books
1861230141Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1861. First edition. Frontispiece 1 profile 8 fold-out panoramic views 24 lithographs some with tinted backgrounds 8 have been additionally hand-colored without 4 fold-out maps; 131; 154; 30; 6; 31 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/8 x 8-5/8 inches. Later quarter cloth and marbled boards and endpapers. Fine copy. Bookplate of the Burndy Library with withdrawal stamp on the front pastedown. First edition. Frontispiece 1 profile 8 fold-out panoramic views 24 lithographs some with tinted backgrounds 8 have been additionally hand-colored without 4 fold-out maps; 131; 154; 30; 6; 31 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/8 x 8-5/8 inches. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report "The best by far of these individual reports.It is a long carefully written journal consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report which accompanied Ives's narrative is one of the best of the government geological reports." Goetzmann gives a full account of the expedition in Army Exploration in the American West pp.379-94. Includes these separately numbered parts: Geological Report. By Dr. John Strong Newberry; Botany. By Professors Asa Gray John Torrey et al.; Zoology. By Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird; and Appendices<br/><br/>Inscribed by John Strong Newberry on the title page: "Prof. B. Silliman Jr. with the kind regards of J.S. Newberry." John Strong Newberry who was the naturalist on Ives' expedition up the Colorado River wrote Part III of this Report which deals with the Geology and Paleontology of the regions they explored. Ives' party were among the first white men to visit the floor of the Grand Canyon and upon their return it was Newberry who realized the canyon's geological significance and encouraged further exploration. It is likely that Newberry inscribed this copy to Benjamin Silliman Jr. a famous chemist and Yale professor whose analysis of "rock oil" in Pennsylvania in 1855 introduced investors to the potential of petroleum and led to the drilling of Edwin Drake's successful oil well on his property in 1857. Silliman also took on consulting activities in the American West in the 1860's and favorably reported on petroleum deposits in southern California as well as gold and silver properties in California Nevada and northern Arizona. Howes I-I92; Wagner-Camp 375; Sabin 35308; Wheat Transmississippi West 4: pp.98-101; Flake 4287; Goetzmann pp.379-394; Larned 412; Paher Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography 952; Arizona 100:47 Government Printing Office unknown books
1855225549<p>London John Murray 1855. 1855. "A New Edition" so stated. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Full gilt stamped polished tan calf spines with raised bands gilt stamped devices within gilt stamped compartments gilt stamped green and tan labels covers double gilt ruled with decorative corner devices gilt stamped edges blindstamped inner dentelles marbled endpapers and edges minor rubbing. Very good. 6 volumes complete. An attractive fresh set. No signatures or bookplates. Hardcover.</p> John Murray, 1855 hardcover books
184817405London: Longman & Co 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv1312pp. Thirty-two pages are chromolithographed by Humphreys in addition there is a leaf of the illuminator' s remarks and one comprising an index of the miracles. Bound in the original black papier-mache covers designed to look like carved ebony. The binding was based on one carved in ivory in the 12th Century and has medallions of the principal miracles intertwined with ornate decorations and the title. The front and rear covers are identical. The book is exuberantly illustrated using chromolithography on 32 pages alternating between hot bright colors and cool pages subtly tinted with various shades the whole combining to make both a magnificent tribute to Medieval illustration and to the then new and novel technique of chromolithography. Marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Nicely rebacked in plain black leather;; a few small cracks in the binding edges and corners neatly mended but a very good copy. The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings 160-162. Housed in a custom slipcase. Longman & Co hardcover books
1807937Newark: S. and J. Ridge 1807. First Edition Later Printing. =-. First Edition Later Printing. Finely bound in full dark brown crushed morocco with gilt ruled borders three-dot motif in corners five wrap-around embossed strapwork devices connecting five raised bands which have gilt ruled borders. A fine copy of the rare first edition with later issue points. <br/><br/> S. and J. Ridge hardcover books
182017071London: Thomas Davison / John Hunt 1820-24. Six volumes bound in three. Demy-octavos 16.5cm; contemporary full diced calf; bound including original title pages; half-titles and terminal leaves where called for. An attractive set in contemporary binding sympathetically re-backed preserving the original endpapers as well as most of the original spines and spine labels. Early printed bookplate of John Colston to each front pastedown with later inked ex-libris "J. Hames" added beneath each printed portion. The full foolscap octavo edition of Don Juan preceded in each case by quarto editions in the same year. Cantos I-II are from an early but not first printing with 1820 date at base of title page but no statement of "New Edition" as seems somewhat common though this issue appears unmentioned by Wise. The remaining volumes are first printings. WISE II p.3-8. Thomas Davison / John Hunt unknown books
18534676London: John Murray 1853. Two volumes. Bound in full red morocco by Riviere signed in ink on paper pastedowns with all-over gilt interlacing floral and leaf design on both covers and spine literally every square centimeter covered with this attractive repeating design. Some light foxing All edges gilt with attractive and intricate interweaved goffering to all edges on both volumes. Near fine. Exquisite. <br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
1848103118<p> Large 4to 9" x12" original red cloth gilt title top cover and gilt decorated spine illustrated with 42 hand colored plates xii. 137 1 pp. and 206 pp. Spine is split and torn lower portion may have been reattached frayed at head and foot hinges weak some minor foxing and toning a little some staining to half title probably from and old flower; otherwise about very good. Plates bright and clean. Henry Noel Humphreys 1807-1879 was a graphic artist and author born in Birmingham. His illustration work ranged from natural history and book illumination to works of fiction. He would do the incredibly attractive illustrations in Jane Loudon's Ladies' Flower Garden Series 1839-1848. The present title was first published in 1841 but several editions followed. Humphreys would also publish a similar work on Moths in 1845 and a second work on moths and butterflies in 1859. The 42 plates in this volume illustrate most of the known British butterflies at that time. ODB.</p> William Smith, books
1861e0064Part I "General Report": 131 pages with the 2 large folding maps profile of area 12 engraved plates including frontispiece one "Interior of Moquise House" being colored 7 colored chromolithic plates titled "Indian Portraits" 8 folding panoramas and 41 wood cut illustrations in the text; Part II "Hydrographic Report: 14 pages; Part III " Geological Report": 154 pages with 3 plates 3 lithographic plates 27 wood cut illustrations in text tables 2 maps; Part IV "Botany": 30 pages; Part V "Zoology": 6 pages; and Appendices 32 pages. Quarto ll 3/4" x 9" 36th Congress 1st Session Senate EX Document. Original gilt pictorial blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Howes 194 First edition.<br /><br />Ives was born in New York City in 1828 and was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1852. As a Lieutenant from 1853 to 1854 he was appointed by the U.S. Army to the Topographical Engineers as assistant to Lt. A.W. Whipple in the Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel. From 1857 to 1858 Ives commanded an expedition to explore up the Colorado River from its mouth. At Robinson's Landing he built then used the 54 foot paddlewheel steamboat Explorer to map and survey the river. His party included Smithsonian associate John Strong Newberry as geologist. He led his party up the Colorado to the lower end of the Grand Canyon then struck out across the desert to Fort Defiance in Colorado. Ives Reported his findings in his 1861 Report upon the Colorado river of the West. The Ives expedition produced one of the important early maps of the Grand Canyon drawn by F. W. v. Egloffstein topographer to the expedition. Ives next served as engineer and architect for the Washington National Monument from 1859 to 1860. During the American Civil War he joined the Confederate Army and served in several engineering capacities and was finally appointed aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis from 1863 to 1865. After the war he settled in New York City where he died November 12 1868<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />New spine and paste downs some maps repaired else a very good copy. Government Printing Office hardcover books
184922424London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Black leather spine papier mache boards decorated in blind inner dentelles marbled endpapers. Aeg. Very good. Unpaginated. 19 x 14 cm. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with six chromolithographed vignettes four chromolithographed borders two wood engraved borders with numerous wood engraved initials. The author a British illustrator naturalist entomologist and numismatist took advantage of the Victorian craze for for gift books as well as aquariums providing practical instruction for creating them at home. This work exemplifies the former as GORDON N. RAY 233 notes in his Chromolithography section: "'Not content merely to imitate his medieval predecessors he created fresh designs in their spirit thus producing the most attractive of chromolithographic books." Chips to back cover lower corner and front cover upper corner. ABBEY LIFE 228. McLEAN. Victorian Book Design p.104. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover books
18191064London: John Murray 1819. First thus. First thus. Three volumes. Very attractive bound in contemporary black pebble grain morocco with swirling gilt foliage and ruling on both covers spine elaborately gilt; both covers with ornate blindstamped central medallion and border design. Glazed endpapers with gilt leaf pattern inner dentelles with gilt impressed borders. First collected edition of a contemporary printing including the complete "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" the final part having been finished only a year before this publication. A very attractive fine copy in a most pleasing full morocco binding. <br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
1807267757Newark: S. & J. Ridge 1807. First edition Large Paper second issue with half-title. xiii i errata 187 pp. 8vo 9 x 5-7/8 inches. Almost contemporary plum cloth text uncut. Covers unevenly toned few blisters hinges strengthened. Laid into quarter blue morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition Large Paper second issue with half-title. xiii i errata 187 pp. 8vo 9 x 5-7/8 inches. LARGE PAPER. Byron's first regularly published book following the privately printed Fugitive Pieces and Poems on Various Occasions. This copy has the second issue points as follows: leaf D3 i.e. pp 21-22 is not a cancel; p. 114 'Thunder' in spelled correctly; p. 171 numbered as 71; and p. 181 has 'The' correctly printed in the penultimate line. Wise I p. 8; Randolph pp. 9-10 thinks this is a forgery S. & J. Ridge unknown books
184841192London: Longman & Co. 1848. 8vo 17.1 cm 6.75". iv pp; 16 double-sided col. plts. <br><br>First edition of this Victorian interpretation of a medieval book of meditations: Biblical miracles delicately calligraphed and => framed in 32 vividly illustrated chromolithographed illuminated borders. The main figures were adapted from the Old Masters and the decorative details "all strictly original and not borrowed" according to the artist p. ii a successful illustrator with particular interests in natural history numismatics and classical and medieval studies.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Publisher's boards of papier-mâché and black plaster molded to resemble a medieval carved binding each cover with six figural medallions surrounded by a border of interlaced vines and strapwork incorporating small creatures; spine with embossed title edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Ray Illustrator and the Book in England 232. Binding as above small red shelfmark at foot of spine; corners and spine extremities chipped one small chip to outer edge of back panel design one very unobtrusive break in inner frame of front panel design nicely refurbished. Sewing loosening as is common with last leaf separated and previous one threatening; pages gently age-toned with occasional minor smudging in margins; text pages not plate pages foxed. => A striking binding and equally striking color-printing. Longman & Co. hardcover books
184822423London: Longman 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Black leather spine papier mache boards decorated in blind. Aeg. Very good. Unpaginated. 17 x 12 cm. Thirty two chromolithographed plates. The author a British illustrator naturalist entomologist and numismatist took advantage of the Victorian craze for for gift books as well as aquariums providing practical instruction for creating them at home. This work exemplifies the former as GORDON N. RAY 232 notes in his Chromolithography section: "'Not content merely to imitate his medieval predecessors he created fresh designs in their spirit thus producing the most attractive of chromolithographic books." Chips to upper cover corners last two text leaves Remarks of the Illuminator toned T. Bowler book label Manchester and gift inscription dated 1849. Longman hardcover books
185518139Paris: Didot 1855. Deluxe edition with full amount of photos. With 8 mounted photographic vignettes after drawings by F.J. Barrias. 64 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Marbled boards red morocco spine covers worn internally fine. Deluxe edition with full amount of photos. With 8 mounted photographic vignettes after drawings by F.J. Barrias. 64 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed Copy With the Full 8 Mounted Photographic Plates. Inscribed by the editor on flyleaf "A Monsieur et Mme de La Grange.". The Truthful Lens 179 notes; Yanul Photographically Illustrated Books Before 1860 P. 7 notes Didot unknown books
1889011755London: William McKenzie 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes - Comedies Tragedies Histories - folio. Undated 1888-89. Richly decorated green pebbled leather beveled oval center in red black and gold beveled edges titles and devices in gilt and black on spine. teg sides uncut. Covers sparkling new cloth to head and foot of spine worn with some loss. Internals as new. 3 gravure plates in Histories 1 in Tragedies and Comedies. William McKenzie hardcover books
18572853London: Longman Brown Geen Longmans and Roberts 1857. 12mo. vi 98 pp. Additional illustrated chromolithograph title page. 8vo 19x15 cm 7Ωx6" original black papier-machÈ binding intricately formed with central oval portrait of William Shakespeare in terra-cotta on front cover rear cover with oval bearing intertwined initials "W.S." red boards showing through the spaces in the design black leather spine. A scarce survivor of this inherently fragile binding style. In need of some binding repair: lower third of spine perished three of the four outer corners of the boards have chipped rear cover detached; good only yet an extremely rare Humphrey's title. <br/><br/> Longman, Brown, Geen Longmans and Roberts hardcover books
18409789London: Charles Tilt 1840. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. Illustrated with engravings by W. B. Cooke from drawings by eminent artists accompanied by literary sketches by H. Noel Humphreys. Bound in half brown leather and maroon cloth with blind-stamped decorations and title stamped in gilt on the spine. Marbled end papers. Occassional foxing to plates extremeties rubbed otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Charles Tilt hardcover books
1821120409London: John Murray 1821. First edition of Byron's retelling of the fall of the Assyrian monarchy and its supposed last king with the Two Foscari and Cain A Mystery. Octavo original boards. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. Set in ancient Nineveh and recounting the fall of the Assyrian monarchy and its supposed last king Sardanapalus draws its story mainly from the Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus and from William Mitford's History of Greece. Byron wrote the play during his stay in Ravenna and dedicated it to Goethe. It has had an extensive influence on European culture inspiring a painting by Delacroix and musical works by Berlioz Liszt and Ravel among others. John Murray hardcover books
1815302355Philadelphia: James P. Parke . Wm. Fry Printer 1815. First Philadelphia edition. 47 1 pp. with half-title. 12mo. Uncut in publisher's drab boards. Spine perished but sewing intact staining to rear board signature of "M. Canty 1816" at head of title-page. First Philadelphia edition. 47 1 pp. with half-title. 12mo. Shaw and Shoemaker lists the Boston edition of 1815 as the first American with 2 editions published in New York that same year. Shaw & Shoemaker 34267 James P. Parke ... Wm. Fry, Printer unknown books
1817047079London: John Murray 1817. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Three poems bound up together in contemporary calf moderate edgewear corners rounded rebacked date to front blank old Atwood armorial bookplate inside cover scattered foxing and browning; Manfred with the added quote to the title and the Davison imprint at rear usually regarded as the 3rd issue bound without the half title. Mazeppa bound without the half title and the rear ads apparently the 2nd issue the imprint was moved to the verso of the ads page for the 2nd issue. The Deformed Transformed is the second edition. 80pp; 69 1 pp; 88pp.<br/><br/>The fragment included after Mazeppa is the result of the famous ghost writing contest which resulted in Frankenstein. This fragment provided the spark which resulted in Polidori's The Vampyre. Byron himself was the model for the vampire Lord Ruthven. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry. Inventory No: 047079. John Murray hardcover books
