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190831472London: John Hogg The Macmillan Company 1908. Hardcover. Stated "Second Edition Revised." 4.75 x 7.5in. xxxii. 510pp. "8pp. examples in red & black and 24pp. of collotypes." Publisher's quarter buckram over paper-covered boards. Signed and inscribed by the author Edward Johnston at the half-title page: "Given to H.C.D.C. by E.J. 14. June 1908." Directly above the inscription is the former owner's initials in gold leaf designed cut and "worked in" by Johnston himself. The former owner Henry C. D. Chorlton 1887-1929 was an artist and member of the Northern Art Workers Guild who visited Johnson at his home in Hammersmith. His bookplate at the front paste-down briefly details the visit and Johnston's extraordinary gift of a monogram in manuscript. An extraordinary copy of the masterpiece by the father of modern calligraphy which remains the definitive history and manual of the art. VERY GOOD. Shows an additional small bookplate noting this book at one time bequeathed to Chorlton's niece at the back paste-down bookplates for the Athenaeum Graphic Club and Baylis House the book itself with slight handling and shelf wear marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities fore-edge alone is lightly foxed slightly over-opened at the signature otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is clean and unmarked and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured. John Hogg | The Macmillan Company hardcover
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
185146518London: Longmans & Green 1851. <p>Humphreys Henry Noel 1810-79. Shakespeare William 1564-1616. Sentiments and similes of William Shakespeare. Edited by Henry Noel Humphreys 1810-79. 6 100pp. Elaborate chromolithographed border by Humphreys on the first page remaining text pages printed in black and gold with 2-color initials. London: Longman Brown Green Longmans and Roberts 1851. 194 x 147 mm. Pierced high-relief papier-mâché covers over gold foil featuring a cameo bust of Shakespeare on the front cover and the initials "WS" on the back gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Skillfully recased and rebacked; boxed. Minor soiling and fore-edge wear on first few leaves but very good. 19th-century gift inscription on the title. Bookplate.</p> <p> First Edition. "According to his preface Shakespeare was the first author Henry Noel Humphreys thought of honoring with a modern printed illuminated book . . . Humphreys's enshrinement of Shakespeare's words is completed by the black papier-mâché binding with a terracotta cameo portrait of Shakespeare on the front cover and Shakespeare's initials in a similar oval on the back cover. In the first edition the pieced strapwork is placed over a striated gold foil while the second edition 1857 has a red background and an indented bevel at the outer edge. This cover the illuminated first page and Humphreys's remarks about selecting ornament that Shakespeare might have requested himself reflects the emergence of an understanding that there was a difference between the style of the Middle Ages and that of the 16th and 17th centuries" Beckwith p. 43. A. Beckwith Victorian Bibliomania: The Illuminated Book in 19th-Century Britain no. 30. </p> . Longmans & Green unknown
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
1954142898Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1954. Final White script for the 1956 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>An adaptation of the 1925 operetta of the same name by Rudolf Friml which is based on Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 romantic novel and play "If I Were King." <br/><br/>Set in France in the year 1461. <br/><br/>Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Title page present dated December 9 1954 with credits for producer Pat Duggan director Michael Curtiz screenwriter Ken Englund. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 96A. Mimeograph duplication with blue and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 12-15-54 and 2-9-55. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with some wear at the edges. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1819elala1625Paris: Firmin Didot 1819. 1819. 7 Volumes. 8vo. with half-titles. 7 folding engraved maps & plans some hand-coloured. contemporary mottled calf a few corners worn else a fine set. First Edition. Darus history of the republic of Venice is regarded as one of the best works on the subject. "Il néparna rien pour en fair un monument historique: recherches sur place et dans les registres de cette république comparaison des documents imprimés et manuscrits." Nouvelle Biographie Générale The eminent French statesman was highly regarded by Napoleon who made him a councillor of state a count of the empire and intendant-general of the imperial household and employed him as commissary-general financier and negotiator. In 1811 Daru became chief minister of state and in 1815 he was chosen president of the French Academy. Brunet II 524. Graesse II 336. 1st Edition. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1819. unknown
200436902Paris chez l'Artiste 2004 In-4, pliage en accordon, couverture illustre. Etui.Edition originale de ce texte trs engag de Bernard Nol qui dnonce la situation en Palestine et en Irak, et regrette qu'aucune leon n'ait t tire depuis Auschwitz: ... Comment supporter de vivre dans un monde o les victimes deviennent des bourreaux tout en continuant se considrer comme des victimes... Cette violence ne repose que sur la peur de l'autre... Le texte a t imprim en noir sur un rhodod transparent, et chaque feuille est monte chaque page sur un fond gris dont la couleur devient de plus en plus sombre. Il est illustr par Bertrand Dorny de compositions trs noires, comprenant des dessins originaux excuts au feutre et l'encre inclus dans des dcoupages et collages rehausss de papiers argents avec des effets d'optique. Ce livre dartiste n'a t ralis qu' 12 exemplaires numrots sur vlin, signs par lauteur et lartiste.
19501809060026Oxford University Press 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Super limited edition "50 copies are to be offered for sale of a total of 100 printed." Folio 35 cm. Publisher's quarter morocco. Gilt spine; top edges gilt. Corners slightly bumped. lxvi 383 pages. Half-title; title in red and black; 7 facsimile plates 1 double-page. Limited Edition of this collection of Latin letters originally written by Bishop Richard de Bury 1286 - 1345. De Bury was noted as writing the first recorded book on bibliophily in England "the Philobiblon" The love of books. He founded Durham College at Oxford. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Oxford University Press hardcover
185058074London: Grant and Griffith Corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard 1850. Thick 4to. 6.75 x 9.25 x 2 in. 4 iv 208 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads decorated colophon leaf in red & black inserted errata leaf at rear. Title printed in red & black. With 10 plates featuring 114 embossed relief facsimile coins featuring gold silver copper & bronze leaf applied mimicking the originals all preserving their original printed cover leafs and some text woodcut engraved illustrations. Original embossed padded green publisher’s calf ornamental design borders & lettering in relievo marbled endpapers black linen tape reinforcement at gutter margin sunning & chipping to spine wear offsetting to text leaves minor wear & chipping to fore-edges of covers embossed raised letter spine label present still a VG bright original copy. First edition of this rare and inventive numismatic sample book on ancient Greek & Roman coins by the influential British illustrator and noted numismatist. He proclaims in his introduction how he has invented a new process to recreate actual facsimile coins in their original metals as he had found no other printing or reprographic process properly conveyed either the weight or appearance of the coins quite separate from the chromolithograph colour printing process for his very successful Coins of England. The coin specimens appear as they would have in a Victorian cabinet specimen trayHenry Noel Humphreys 1810-1879 was also fascinated with illuminated Medieval manuscripts and began producing beautiful books with painted ornaments by using the beautiful chromolithography process of Owen Jones 1809-1874. However he also had a keen interest in the natural world writing on aquariums butterflies entomology biology and more. See: Twyman A History of Chromolithography pp. 153-156; Alexander Del Mar A History of Money in Ancient Countries from the Earliest Times to the Present p. xv; Leitzmann Supplement to Lipsius Bibliotheca Numaria 60. Grant and Griffith, Corner of St. Paul’s Churchyard, unknown
1850588Philadelphia: A. Hart 1850. Very Good. <p dir="ltr">First American edition; first printing. 444 2 pp. Original publisher’s brown/black embossed cloth gilt spine lettering decorative blind-stamped boards brown coated endpapers. Heavy shelf-wear and rubbing; edge/corner wear with small losses at spine tips; noticeable surface abrasions to the back board; text block toning appropriate to age.<br /> <br /> Issue dated 1850 explicitly “TWO VOLUMES IN ONE†a classic 19th-century Anglo-American occult / demonology / apparitions compilation in book form. Victorian-era publisher’s cloth with ornate blind stamping and gilt spine titling in an attractive but clearly used example. Very good condition for the book’s age.<br /> <br /> A foundational supernatural reference scarcer in original cloth than later reprints. Display case 3.</p> . A. Hart unknown
176241811Ferrara-Venedig, T. Bettinelli, 1758-1762. Fol. Mit einem gest. Titelportrait des Verfassers von Marco Pitteri). Erster Titel in Rot u. Schwarz. Mit einigen Holzschn.-Vignetten u. -Initialen. Ldr.-Bde. d. Zt. a. 6 Bünden m. goldgepr. Rückenschildern u. dreiseitigem Rotschnitt.
1732xb386A Paris, chez Etienne Ganeau, ruë Saint Jacques, près la ruë du Plâtre, aux Armes de Dombes Relié 1732 "Deux volumes in-folio (26,5 x 39,5 cm), reliure plein veau, dos à 6 nerfs ornés de caissons dorés, gardes couleurs, 3e édition du classique ""Dictionnaire oeconomique, contenant divers moyens d'augmenter son bien, et de conserver sa santé. Avec plusieurs remèdes assurez et éprouvez, pour un très grand nombre de maladies, et de beaux secrets pour parvenir à une longue et heureuse vieillesse. Quantité de moyens pour élever, nourrir, guérir, et faire profiter toutes sortes d'Animaux Domestiques ; comme Brebis, Moutons, Boeufs, Chevaux, Mulets, Abeilles, et Vers à Soye. Differens filets pour la Pêche de toutes sortes de Poissons, et pour la Chasse de toutes sortes d'Oiseaux et d'Animaux, etc. Une infinité de Secrets découverts dans le Jardinage, la Botanique, l'Agriculture, les Terres, les Vignes, les Arbres, comme aussi la connoissance des Plantes des Païs Etrangers, et leurs qualitez specifiques, etc. Les Moyens de tirer tout l'avantage des Fabriques de Savon, d'Amidon ; de filer le Cotton, de faire à peu de frais des Pierreries artificielles, fort ressemblantes aux naturelles, de Peindre en Mignature sans sçavoir le dessein, et travailler Bayettes ou Etoffes établies nouvellement en ce Royaume, pour l'usage de ce Pays, et pour l'Espagne, etc. Les Moyens dont se servent les Marchands pour faire de gros établissemens ; Ceux par lesquels les Anglois et les Hollandois se sont enrichis, en trafiquant des Chevaux, des Chèvres, et des brebis, etc. Tout ce que doivent faire les Artisans, Jardiniers, Vignerons, Marchands, Negocians, Banquiers, Commissionnaires, Magistrats, Officiers de Justice, Gentils-hommes, et autres d'une qualité & d'un emploi plus relevé, pour s'enrichir, etc. Chacun pourra le convaincre de toutes ces veritez, en cherchant ce qui peut lui convenir, chaque chose étant rangée par ordre alphabétique comme dans les Dictionnaires"". Nombreuses gravures sur bois dans le texte ; très habile restauration ancienne au dos du tome 1, intérieur très frais, bel état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
1928213881928 1 Dix pointes-sèches par Armand RASSENFOSSE. Liège, Éditeur Mawet, 1928, in-4, broché, couverture rempliée, titre imprimé en bleu, 26 pages.
183718480nantes Forest 1837 1 -in-4 demi chagrin 5 tomes reliés en 1 volume, reliure demi-chagrin havane in-quarto (half binding leather in-quarto (27,4 x 22 cm), Reliure d'Epoque , dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands), décoré "or" et à froid (gilt and blind-stamping decoration), titre et auteur frappés or (gilt title), filet à froid en place des nerfs avec un filet à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, filet à froid en tête et en pied, plats décorés à froid d'un double filet à froid aux mors, papier peigné marron clair, marron foncé et rouge aux plats (cover with painting paper), toutes tranches lisses (edges smooth) jaunes, abondamment illustré (plentifully illustrated) de 31 lithographies hors-texte (full page engraving) en noir par E. de La Michellerie, Messager, Louis Petit, Hersart du Buron, Jules Noël et Rivière Fils + 2 importantes vignettes in-texte en noir (7 au Tome 1, 6 au Tome 2, 9 au Tome 3 + 2 vignette in-texte , 5 au Tome 4, 1 au Tome 5), texte 2 colonnes (text - 2 coloumns), quelques Rousseurs Habituelles, pagination normale jusqu'à la page 32 du 1er volume, ensuite pagination à la colonne, Tome 1 : 417 pages + 6 de tables, Tome 2 : 398 pages + 6 de tables, Tome 3 : 429 pages (tables comprises), Tome 4 : 398 pages (tables comprises), Tome 5 : 494 pages (tables comprises), 1837-1841 Nantes Forest Imprimeur Editeur,
183724629nantes Forest 1837 1 -in-4 demi chagrin 5 tomes, reliure demi-toile violine in-quarto (half cloth-bound in-quarto) (26,2 x 20,5 cm), RELIURE D'ÉPOQUE, dos long (spine without raised bands), décoré "or"(gilt decoration), Titre et Tomaison frappés "or" (gilt title and volume numbering), pièce de titre et de Tomaison sur fond bleu-marine avec un filet "or" de part et d'autre, papier peigné bleu, vert, rouge et crème aux plats, toutes tranches lisses, couvertures marron clair imprimées en noir et ornées d'un encadrement orné en noir conservées, abondamment illustré (plentifully illustrated) de 31 lithographies hors-texte (full page engraving) en noir par E. de La Michellerie, Messager, Louis Petit, Hersart du Buron, Jules Noël et Rivière Fils + 2 importantes vignettes in-texte en noir (7 au Tome 1, 6 au Tome 2, 9 au Tome 3 + 2 vignette in-texte , 5 au Tome 4, 1 au Tome 5), texte 2 colonnes (text - 2 coloumns), quelques Rousseurs Habituelles, pagination normale jusqu'à la page 32 du 1er volume, ensuite pagination à la colonne, Tome 1 : 417 pages + 6 de tables, Tome 2 : 398 pages + 6 de tables, Tome 3 : 429 pages (tables comprises), Tome 4 : 398 pages (tables comprises), Tome 5 : 494 pages (tables comprises), 1837-1841 Nantes Forest Imprimeur Editeur,
alb7225a3d27557b26dByron J. G. The Works of Lord Byron in Translations of Russian Poets. In Four Volumes In Russian /Bayron Dzh.G. Sochineniya Lorda Bayrona v perevodakh russkikh poetov. V chetyrekh tomakh Edited by N.V. Gerbel in St. Petersburg: The Printing House of F.S. Sushchinsky in 1874. XVI, 320 and VI, 2, 336and VIII, 311and VIII, 336s. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb7225a3d27557b26d.
1992L3 box80 L1 box72 aThe Anchor Bible Dictionary Complete Six Volume Set. Editor-in-Chief: David Noel Freedman; Associate Editors: Gary A. Herion David F. Graf John David Pleins; Managing Editor: Astrid B. Beck. 1992 by Doubleday. Hardcover. Doubleday hardcover
2014x-1461491932Springer Verlag 2014. Hardcover. New. 1000 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.75 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
1995__1852786981Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd 1995. Hardcover. New. 1688 pages. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd hardcover
1642ROGNER & BERNHARD. hardcover. Dirk Gently 226230 ROGNER & BERNHARD hardcover
174124651741 Commercy, Henry Thomas & Compagnie, 1741. 25,5x41 cm. Ouvrage en 2 tomes relié en 1 volume + SUPPLEMENT (2 tomes reliés en 1 volume), soit 4 tomes reliés en 2 forts volumes au total (424 + 400 + 522 + 460 pages. Nombreuses gravures dans le texte (188 au total), plus 1 planche sur double pages au tome premier, 8 planches hors-texte au tome deuxième (dont 1 dépliante), 1 planche hors-texte dans le supplément, ainsi que de jolies lettrines, bandeaux et culs-de-lampes. Reliures de l'époque en plein veau. Dos à 5 nerfs ornés de caissons dorés. Titre et tomaison sur pièces de couleur beige. Quelques rousseurs éparses sans gravité. Reliures frottées, mais solides. Un ensemble intéressant et richement illustré.
185443816London: David Bogue 1854. <p>Humphreys Henry Noel 1810-79. The origin and progress of the art of writing. viii 176pp. 28 lithographed plates 13 in color. London: David Bogue 1854. 256 x 170 mm. Pierced high-relief papier-mâché binding over crimson paper; boxed. Rebacked preserving original spine a few cracks and chips to the fragile papier-mâché minor foxing first and last leaves browned but very good. Ownership signature on title.</p> <p> Second issue with title-page dated 1854 and the imprint of David Bogue.; first issue is dated 1853 and bears the imprint of Ingram Cooke & Co. "Twenty-eight plates supplement Humphreys's text which is further enriched with woodcut diagrams and initial letters. Twelve of the plates are chromolithographed . . . This book was attractive to general readers for the clarity of its prose the beauty of the chromolithography and the sculptural fascination of the original black papier-mâché cover . . . By introducing the general reader to the study of ancient writing Humphreys contributed to the growing public awareness of manuscript illustration and further stimulated Victorian bibliomania" Beckwith p. 3. A. Beckwith Victorian Bibliomania: The Illuminated Book in 19th-Century Britain no. 17 first issue. King Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 1830-1880 no. 66 first issue.</p> . David Bogue unknown
1819191925London: Thomas Davison for John Murray 1819. The true first edition First edition of the first two cantos of Byron's epic satire published anonymously. The poem has an unorthodox publishing history. John Murray was nervous about the first two cantos and requested cuts but Byron was uncooperative. Murray only agreed to publish in quarto format with his printer Thomas Davison named and therefore bearing the legal responsibility. Priced at £1 11s. 6d the first volume was as Murray no doubt intended prohibitively expensive. Quarto 280 x 210 mm. Twentieth-century brown morocco spine lettered in gilt double gilt rule to boards gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate of philanthropists Jean S. Armour 1915-1963 and A. Watson Armour III 1908-1991. A few spots of rubbing to extremities occasional foxing. A bright copy. hardcover
1932190021London: William Heinemann Ltd 1932. A lavish pageant of British history from the Boer War First edition signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This copy also contains an autograph letter signed by the author to Major Montague Isidore Gluckstein dated 19 October 1931 a week after the play's premiere. Gluckstein 18861958 was involved in negotiations about establishing a Jewish state after the Second World War and worked as chairman of the successful chain of tea shops J. Lyons & Co. Involving over 40 cast members and several extravagant sets Cavalcade premiered at the Theatre Royal in October 1931 directed by Coward and presented by the impresario Charles B. Cochran. The 1933 film adaptation won three Academy Awards including Best Picture. Octavo. Half-tone photographic frontispiece 22 half-tone photographic plates title page printed in black and red. With autograph letter loosely inserted. Original yellow cloth spine and front cover lettered and ruled in black red and blue publisher's device to rear cover in blue. Spine gently toned with a few spots minor soiling and rubbing to extremities: a very good copy. hardcover
1931170458London: William Heinemann Ltd 1931. His own copy of his anti-war polemic First edition the playwright's own copy signed by him on the title page and with his bookplate on the front pastedown and first blank. The play was written at the height of Coward's dramatic power but went unperformed in his lifetime. "By the early thirties Coward's increasingly mature work and its critical and popular success had established him as probably the most important dramatist of his day. Virginia Woolf flattered by his attentions professed to have fallen 'in love' with the playwright and his work and encouraged him to write more adventurously. The openly gay Semi-Monde 1926 and the anti-war polemic of Post-Mortem 1930 written after his brief appearance in a Singapore production of Journey's End appeared to be Coward's attempt to write up to these expectations" Philip Hoare in ODNB. Coward's elegant art deco bookplate combining the masks of comedy and tragedy into a single persona was designed by Gladys Calthrop 1894-1980 who worked as a set and costume designer on many of the original productions of his plays including Private Lives 1931 Design for Living 1933 and Present Laughter 1943. This copy later passed into the collection of Coward's close friend and agent Geoffrey Johnson 1930-2021 with his ink and blind stamps to the front endpapers. Octavo. Original purple cloth spine lettered in gilt publisher's device to rear pastedown. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine sunned lightly worn at head gutter cracked before first gathering but firm contents clean; jacket unclipped rubbed spine toned extremities lightly chipped: a very good copy in very good jacket. hardcover
