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1881005512802J.C. Nimmo and Bain 1881. First Edition. Leather Binding. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 2 volumes. Copy #14 of 100 copies issued with proof etchings on Japanese paper. Attractively bound in 3/4 dark green morocco over green cloth by G.P. Putnam's Sons spines with raised bands and gilt titling covers ruled in gilt with a single fillet top edge gilt green cloth endpapers spines faded to a lustrous brown; very slight edge wear.4 Original Etchings By R. De Los Rios. J.C. Nimmo and Bain unknown
188145905With Four Original Etchings by R. de Los Rios J.C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover
1809220153London : printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. First Edition. Hardback. Very good set bound in full contemporary polished calf. Gilt-blocked leather labels to spines with gilt-crossed raised bands and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Gilt-stamped and blind-tooled borders to panels. Inner gilt dentils. Some surface scratches and scuffs to panels. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bright and clean internally with light marginal age toning although there is some foxing around the plates. Each volume contains a previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and signature on blank prelim. leaf. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Further scans images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; Physical description: 4v. plates : illus.; 24.5cm. Subjects: French literature - English translation - Fiction. Benjamin Heath Malkin 1769-1842 translator. London : printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme hardcover
1881005512801J.C. Nimmo and Bain 1881. First Edition. Leather Binding. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 2 volumes. Copy #74 of 100 copies issued with proof etchings on Japanese paper. Attractively bound in 3/4 dark green morocco over green cloth by G.P. Putnam's Sons spines with raised bands and gilt titling covers ruled in gilt with a single fillet top edge gilt green cloth endpapers spines faded to a lustrous brown; very slight edge wear.4 Original Etchings By R. De Los Rios. J.C. Nimmo and Bain unknown
1822303072London: J. Robins and Co. Ivy Lane 1822. First edition of this Translation. 2 vols. 12mo. Quarter contemporary calf gilt spines marbled board. Ownership signature of Haliburton Fales father of DeCoursey Fales on ffep. First edition of this Translation. 2 vols. 12mo. <br/><br/> J. Robins and Co., Ivy Lane unknown
1881019172London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain 1881. Full grey cloth with paper label on the spine modest shelf wear slight darkeneing from handing. Endpapers unevenly age toned. Internally in excellent condition. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. First Edition Thus. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. J.C. Nimmo and Bain Hardcover
1807ST10577London: Printed for Richard Phillips 1807. 203 x 121 mm. 8 x 4 3/4". Four volumes. Translated by Martin Smart. <br/> EXTREMELY PLEASING CONTEMPORARY DEEP BLUE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT BY SAMUEL WELCHER with his ticket on verso of front endpaper covers bordered in gilt with triple rules and framed with wide palmette roll inside of which is a rule with small ring and floral tools at corners; raised bands spines ornately gilt in lobed compartments featuring stippled ground quatrefoil centerpiece with delicate foliate sprays at sides and fleurons at ends turn-ins gilt with single rule and fleuron and ring tools at corners all edges gilt. WITH 160 ENGRAVINGS comprised of 100 copperplates by Warner Tomlinson and others and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 60 plates by Conrad Martin Metz. Front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of H. Holland Edwards Pennant Ereithlyn North Wales see below. Lowndes II 1343; Graesse IV 174. Front joints just a little flaked backstrips slightly sunned covers with minor variation in color several plates a little foxed generally only in margins and more frequently on added plates one leaf with light ink stain in lower margin light dampstain in margin at head of one plate isolated very minor marginal soiling but A VERY PLEASING SET the decorative bindings very well preserved and internally clean fresh and bright.<br/> <br/> Staggemeier and Welcher were in partnership in London from about 1799 to 1810 and their bindings are normally found signed with both of their names rather than with one name or the other as in the present case. Like Kalthoeber and other immigrant German members of their trade the two came to England to satisfy the fashionable need among gentry and nobility for elegant bindings and "in their heyday Staggemeier and Welcher were one of the most prolific workshops producing 'extra' quality work in London." Maggs Catalogue 1212 They were known for bindings with typically tasteful and often elaborate gilt decoration and they were among the very best at producing these highly finished volumes. Howe gives evidence that at various times Staggemeier and Welcher worked together and separately at 11 and 12 Villiers Street. The assumption is that even when they were in partnership each of the binders did at least some work of his own but bindings signed by one of them are much scarcer than those signed by both. The illustrations in our volume are a source of interest in that the 60 by Metz depict scenes from the text that are also shown in corresponding plates by the other artists though with a style that is dramatically different. In the engravings by Metz there are settings with larger more prominent figures whose dimpled knees and large round faces lend an air of comic farce to the scenes. This is perhaps more in keeping with the picaresque quality of the novel than the refined cool and professional engravings of the other artists who have produced rather small figures that seem to be dwarfed by oversized settings. Le Sage 1668-1747 began his literary career translating Spanish works and thus came to appreciate the form pioneered in Spain of the picaresque novel recounting the adventures of a likable rogue and satirizing the foibles of the times. In middle age he turned to creating his own theatrical works and novels and his acknowledged masterpiece is "Gil Blas." The story is set in Spain and the feckless hero suffers many adventures and essays several careers physician courtier before he learns compassion and achieves tranquility in a countrified life. Our owner is the distinguished collector Howel Holland Edwards 1764-1842 of Pennant Ereithlyn North Wales. Son of Edward Edwards of Caerhwm Carnarvonshire he matriculated at Christ Church Oxford in 1782 attaining his B.A. in 1786 and his M.A. in 1789. To his alma mater he donated some of his choicest finds including manuscripts by Isaac Newton. For some time the Duke of Marlborough retained him as both his chaplain and librarian. In 1803 Edwards was made Prebendary of Westminster Abbey and when he died in 1842 he was buried in the abbey. Printed for Richard Phillips unknown
1836L010071Harper & Brothers 1836. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Translated by Tobias Smollett. American issue of the Roscoe edition see Cohn #711. 12mo. -over 6 ¾ in. - 7 ¾ in. The first volume is 406pp. the second 394pp. volume two lacks title page and frontispiece. Bound by W. Roach New York in three quarter green morocco over matching marbled boards with gilt-stamped spines with raised bands and matching marbled endpapers t.e.g. 11 engraved plates throughout both volumes.Rubbing along the edges especially at the corners usual fading to the green morocco at the spine and end-tips; interal foxing to the text and plates but not bad. Overall a Very Good copy. Harper & Brothers unknown
1819AQ33042London: Printed for J. Mawman 1819. In three volumes. xi 1 388; vii 1 375 1; viii 398pp. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I and a further 28 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers ticket of London-based booksellers Bowdery & Kerby to FEP of Vol. I scattered spotting offsetting. Alain-René Lesage's 1668-1747 picaresque novel Gil Blas in its most notable translation by Scottish picaresque writer Tobias Smollett bap. 1721 d. 1771. The novel follows the life of the eponymous protagonist born into poverty who becomes a valet and eventually ends up serving in the royal court ending life in prosperity and comfort. Highly popular in its day the novel is mentioned in the works of Rousseau Sartre and Dostoevsky. . 8vo. Printed for J. Mawman unknown
182432249New York: H. Durrell 1824. 3 volumes. An early American issue of this famous work. A copy with the fine provenance of George C. Shattuck the important Boston physician and educator. Handsomely decorated with 24 full page illustrations by Smirke engraved by Neale and others throughout. 8vo bound in full polished calf of the period the covers with gilt rolled borders original marbled endleaves the spine panels fully gilt and handsomely restored at an early date. 316; 308; 304 pp. A handsome set clean and nice the calf in pleasing condition the spines restored and the hinges strong the text-blocks and illustrations clean and only lightly mellowed by time. SCARCE IN CONTEMPORARY CALF. A handsome and well preserved set of this 18th century classic offered here in the best translation by Mr. Smollett who was also renown for his translation of DON QUIXOTE and for his own masterful works of literature and travel. Robert Smirke English painter and illustrator specialized in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. He was a member of the Royal Academy and illustrated many books including the Gil Blas as here Don Quixote The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare the Arabian Nights and others.<br> Gil Blas is related to Le Sage's other well known play Turcaret. In both works Le Sage uses such things as witty valets in the service of thieving masters women of questionable morals cuckolded yet happy husbands gourmands ridiculous poets false savants and dangerously ignorant doctors to make his point. Each class and each occupation becomes an archetype. The work is universal while also being decidedly French.<br> It is thanks to Smollett that Gil Blas had such an impact on the English-speaking nations. The work was referred to by authors such as Jonathan Swift Oliver Wendell Holmes Wilkie Collins and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered a primary model to Twain for 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and Charles Dickens relates the story of Gil Blas to Steerforth and Traddles in David Copperfield. H. Durrell unknown
1818980T60London: J. Walker 1818. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 3". None. A smartly bound edition of this translation of Lesage's highly popular novel Gil Blas in two volumes. Complete in two volumes. With a frontispiece and illustrated title page to each volume. A highly popular picaresque novel following the life of Gil Blas. Born in misery to a stable-hand and a chambermaid he is educated by his uncle and leaves his home to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he is forced to help robbers along the route and is faced with jail. Written by Alain-Rene Lesage a French novelist and playwright best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks. Translated by Tobias George Smollett a Scottish writer and surgeon. In the original full calf. Externally smart with minor wear and light bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light age toning to the extremities. The previous owner's label to the front pastedown. Very Good J. Walker hardcover
1896002001Gibbings and Company 1896 4 volumes. Several full-page plates designed by Ad. Lalauze. 12mo three-quarter green morocco and cloth spines gilt top edges gilt. A handsomely bound edition. Condition: Spines faded to brown; very good. Language: eng. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gibbings and Company hardcover
18812010080024J. C. Nimmo and Bain 1881-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 6 volume set. Bound in original vellum-backed green boards. Spines darkened. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean unmarked pages. Floral patterned green end sheets. Includes: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane complete in three volumes by Asmodeus or the Devil Upon Two Sticks The Bachelor of Salamanca; THe History of Vanillo Gonzales <br> Lovely little inscription Christmas 1941 May you always kind in these books the same charm and delight I always find in you Frank. J. C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover
1881SET34-G-3London : J. C. Nimmo and Bain 1881. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". R. de los Rios. A limited large paper edition set of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre. Written by Alain-René Le Sage 6 May 1668 17 November 1747 a French novelist and playwright. He is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks his comedy Turcaret and of course this novel. Translated from the original French by Tobias Smollett. "With twelve original etchings by R. de los Rios." Hand numbered 83 of only 100 sets "on laid paper medium 8vo with proof etchings on Japanese paper". Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally generally smart with sunning to spines and light wear to extremities. Dampstaining and light mold to the rear board and final few pages of volume I. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with only occasional instances of spotting. Many pages remain uncut. Very Good J. C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover
1807000114 volumes 12mo 160 x 100 mm ¶ Volume 2 dated 1812 all others 1807. First and only edition of Martin Smart's translation excepting the large paper edition here reported by the publisher. ¶ Illustrated with 100 copper plates including several library scenes and many signed by Tomlinson or Warner some misbound but all present. Publisher's ad at end of v. 4 for a large paper edition of Gil Blas and a matching edition of Don Quixote. Includes a translator's preface and life of the author. ¶ Apparently an unrecorded variant of this Phillips edition as records in OCLC and Copac offer no evidence for any volumes dated 1812 as found here with a cancelled v. 2 title page. --- CONDITION: Contemporary sprinkled brown calf; spines with black leather labels and gold tooling. ¶ Lacking final leaf of v. 4 additional publisher's ad; spines badly rubbed the first two volumes lacking their labels; mild scattered foxing; light dampstaining to last two plates in v. 1; v. 2 frontispiece and title leaf attached by single thread; inky fingerprint on verso of plate facing p. 289 in v. 2. ¶ A robust profusely illustrated set in contemporary bindings. --- PROVENANCE: "D. Milne 1813" inked on each front paste-down. T. Gillet for Richard Phillips hardcover
1896060165London / Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company / J.B. Lippincott Company 1896. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Complete Four Volume Set. Green half leather covers with marbleized boards. Each volume has five raised bands and gilt stamped designs on it's spine. Gilt upper edges. Uncut fore and bottom edges. Marbled end-papers. Frontispieces with tissue guards. Illustrated with tissue guards. 237pp. 281pp. 273pp. 248pp. Covers and spines have rubbing in places. Spines are sunned. Text block shaken in Volume Two. Fore and bottom edges have a few spots of foxing. Several pages have very slight foxing on them but the rest of the text bodies are clean. Text body is free from underlining highlighting or notes. Full refund if not satisfied. Gibbings & Company / J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover
18641776Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 1- 398 pages. Vol. 2- 407 pages. Vol. 3- 395 pages. 5 x 7 1/4 in. Maroon cloth binding gilt lettering on spine top edge of text block gilt. Condition of each volume is VERY GOOD: light wear to covers heavy wear to spine ends esp. top ends and bottom end of Vol. 1 spines faded and soiled corners lightly worn cover edge of Vol. 3 and one small spot on rear cover edge highly abraded edges of text block yellowed pages clean binding tight. Little Brown & Co. hardcover
181921653London: Thomas M'Lean John Bumpas et al. 1819. Hardcover. Three quarter red morocco marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. 384 378 392 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. With half titles and 15 hand-colored engravings. Though not signed the plates are by J. Clarke and all bear imprint. TOOLEY 139. Bound for William Brown Edinburgh small bookplates offsetting of plates to text but plates are clean as is the text. Raised bands spine panels lettered in gilt light rubbing to joints. Bookplates pastedown front endpapers. Thomas M'Lean, John Bumpas et al. hardcover
1896065053London and Philadelphia: Gibbings and Co./J. B. Lippincott Co. 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Complete in four 4 volumes pink cloth lettered in black outline with yellow accents deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Cover cloth mildly soiled and faded spine panels tanned to brown. Firm bindings interiors unmarked beyond former owner's signature stamp to each front flyleaf. Contents tanning toward edges. Approx. 240-280 pp. per volume. Gibbings and Co./J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover
181947996London: Thomas M'Lean; John Bumpus et al. 1819. 3 volumes 8vo 15 hand-colored aquatint plates; bound without the half-titles in later full polished blue calf by Zaehnsdorf double gilt rules on covers gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments morocco labels in 2 a.e.g.; a very good sound set. With the engraved bookplate in each volume of the meat-packing baron Philip D. Armour Jr. 1832-1901 of Chicago. Thomas M'Lean; John Bumpus [et al.] unknown
182227924London: Hurst Robinson and Co 1822. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4 vols 12mo. Bound in full smooth tan calf with gilt on spine. Green calf title and authors labels. A very desirable set. Hurst, Robinson and Co hardcover
18641385184New York: Dion Thomas 1864. Library edition. Hardcover. Octavo Two volumes xiv 425 pages ; viii 458 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spines are brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners light shelf wear. Text blocks have gilt top edge. First volume has cocked spine and cracked front hinge second volume has cracked rear hinge. Illustrated: "Embellished with engravings after paintings by Robert Smirke"- title page; b&w frontispieces and plates with tissue guards. Edition statement from spine tail. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1385184. FP New Rockville Stock. Dion Thomas hardcover
1831blb05611Hartford Conn.: Silus Andrus 1831. 1st American. Hardcover. Very Good. Full leather with gilt decorations and titling to spine. Large thick book 900pp is tight square relatively sharp-cornered given age and free of major flaws or markings inside and out other than general wear to leather some faded pencil writing in elaborate 19th century script a tag showing the book was donated to the Library of the Philorhetorian Society of Wesleyan University by a J.W. Lester no other library markings present and a few pages slightly loose. Filled with fantastic engravings by Robert Smirke. Translated by T. Smollett - Three Volumes bound into this one Book with three separate title pages. Vol. I - 316 pp. Vol. II - 308 pp - Vol. III - 304 pp. Silus Andrus hardcover
1836QQ0491J. J. Doubochet & Co; Charles Tilt; H. Hooper 1836. Mid-19th-century binding in half tan calf marbled paper to boards. Raised bands gilt decor and red gilt label to spine. Rubbing to boards and board edges. Top board corners of vol. I slightly pushed in. 8vo 16.5 x 24.3cm. Hinges sound. All edges marbled. A little creasing to fore-edges of vol. II pp. 69-100 with small tears to fore-edges of pp. 85-98 not affecting text. Endpapers marbled. Frontispiece to both vols vignette to t.p.s and numerous in-text illus. Decorated initials throughout. Very light scattered foxing. Illustrations are by French artist Jean Gigoux 1806-1894 whose immensely successful series of several hundred woodcuts for Gil Blas was first published in 1835: this is their first publication in an English edition. The archetypal picaresque novel Gil Blas was first published between 1715 and 1735; its most notable English translation by Tobias Smollett was first published in 1748 and is republished here. 'The appeal of the novel lies above all in the vigour speed and humour of the narration. It enjoyed immediate and lasting success' France ed. 2005 The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. We have the 1841 English translation of Le Sage's earlier classic Asmodeus available in a matching binding. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. . Very Good. 486 478pp. J. J. Doubochet & Co; Charles Tilt; H. Hooper Hardcover
181949562London: J. Mawman Ludgate Street 1819. Leather. Very Good. 3 vols. complete bound without half-titles. 8vo. Pp. xi i 388; vii 1 375; viii 398. Complete with 30 plates 10 per volume including frontispieces. Bound in full smooth green calf boards with blind-stamped decoration within a thick gilt floral border; spines with gilt-decorated compartments and titles lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers with bookplate and ink stamp of a previous owner and a gift inscription in Vol. I dated 1826. Corners bumped and worn; spines rubbed with light wear to spine of Vol. II. Plates with light to moderate foxing; text largely clean with minimal foxing. A very good set. J. Mawman, Ludgate Street unknown
