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189913617Boston: Hardy Pratt & Company. Very Good. 1902 1899. Hardcover. Ex-library; wear to covers; contents clean except for library stamp to illustrations; page foredges a bit chipped; Good . Hardy, Pratt & Company hardcover books
18901340327New York: Harper & Brothers 1890. Hardcover. 12mo; G; blue spine with gilt text; no jacket; silver horizontal rules to spine; cloth has slight exterior wear; silver borders to front; minor rubbing wear to edges; mildly cocked spine; text block exterior edges age toned; deckled edges; small edge chips to front hinge; gift inscription to ffep; previous bookshop's small sticker to rear pastedown; good binding; pp 302. 1340327. FP New Rockville Stock. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
187427153Barcelona Spain: Empresa Editorial La Ilustracion 1874. lxi 266 pages 1 page plate list 1 publisher's announcements. With 10 black and white plates illustrating the cantos of the poem collated complete. Luis de Camoes c. 1525 - 1580 Portugal's greatest poet the Lusiads his most enduring work; here in Spanish translation. Title page with the small very faint ownership stamp of previous owner George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy surgeon & medical inspector 1861-1894. Volume approx. 6 1/8" x 8 7/8" size; bound in the full polished leather gilt spine titles on contrasting label. Some edge tips wear to the boards; some foxing spotting text & plates; in very good condition. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Empresa Editorial La Ilustracion books
185249780London: Henry G. Bohn 1852-1854. New Edition Revised. Three octavo volumes 19cm; publisher's original hunter green blind-embossed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spines; viii544 31 ads; vi538 31 ads; vi494 31pp ads; each volume with portrait frontispiece. Light wear to extremities hinges cracked but holding with gentle bumping to corners and scattered foxing to text edges; Very Good. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
188426130Paris: Germer Bailliere et Ce 1884. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. 5-127 1-3 pages. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Exlibrary from La Lumiere Electrique and the Edward Caldwell Electrical Collection of Knox College. An Extrait du Journal l'Electricite. Lightly browned paper throughout. Nicely illustrated. Boards. Germer Bailliere et Ce unknown books
1898012460London: Macmillan 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. First edition with MacDougall's bold Arts & Crafts decorations. Elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth 4to unpaginated title page in red and black the rest in black. Green cloth faded covers worn and stained at upper corners with 2" loss over lower spine internals fine. 1908 gift inscription ffe. Solid reference copy. William Brown Macdougall 1868 - 1936 was a Scottish artist wood engraver etcher and book illustrator whose motifs reflected influence of Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts. Macmillan hardcover books
188844565New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co 1888. First American Edition. Octavo 19cm; brown cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; floral endpapers; ivportrait frontispiece2951 plus 8pp ads. Hint of sunning to spine some faint dust-soil to covers and some pinpoint wear to extremities; hinges sound and clean throughout; Near Fine. LINE 78. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co unknown books
1896012478London/ Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott 1896. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Printed in England for both US and U K distribution. Beautifully preserved Art& Crafts-designed production of the Arabian tales. Small 8vo light green cloth boldly-stamped titles in darker green and blue front covers w/ more and gilt to spine. Brangwyn's full page illustrations are in duotone but the real graphic wallop is in the cover design and extra title page design which we suspect is attributable to an artist whom we cannot identify other than Brangwyn. A wonderful period piece. A collectible set - no names inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott unknown books
189549766Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd 1895. Connoisseur Edition. One of 25 sets numbered and specially bound this being no.8. Eight octavo volumes 23.75cm; full black crushed morocco spines in six compartments with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines and triple gilt-ruled border on covers; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt; xiv2255; xiii226-4335; x2384; x239-4475; xii2384; xii2394624; xii2264; xiv227-4764pp with frontispieces and 58 plates. Light wear to joints and extremities touch of dustiness finger-soil and a few scuffs to covers with faint foxing to text edges; contents relatively clean with hinges sound; Very Good. Handsome edition of the French critic and historian's landmark work on English literature published first in France in 1863 and translated into English in 1871. Gebbie published this set in a variety of issues the Connoisseur Edition representing the smallest available limitation. The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd unknown books
188643990New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co 1886. First American Edition. First Printing a review copy with two printed publisher's slips - one tipped onto front endpaper the other loosely laid in. Octavo 18.75cm; publisher's burgundy cloth with titling and the Russian coat of arms stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece 45-2951pp. Forward lean gentle sunning to spine with a touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock and some scattered rubbed spots to lower covers; Very Good. Scarce advance copy of Gogol's historical novella centered around Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his two sons. Preceded in English only by its inclusion in Cossack Tales London: J. Blackwood 1860. A significant title - its publication by Crowell was the first volume in a series of Gogol's works published in the United States preceding the London edition Vizetelly 1887 by one year and is apparently the first publication of any of Gogol's works in America. LINE Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945 p.20. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co unknown books
1872140941617London: Macmillan and Co 1872. First Edition in Italian. Very Good. First edition in Italian first issue. 12 189 3 pp. With 42 illustrations by John Tenniel in text. Bound in publisher's remainder binding of red cloth ruled in blind and stamped in gilt; top edges gilt plain endpapers. Very Good with rubbing and light soiling to boards faint sunning to spine. Macmillan and Co unknown books