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18067096Printed by T. Bensley of Bolt Court for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1806. 2 vols. 12mo. on laid paper; early nineteenth century full speckled calf very neatly rebacked in calf gilt to style doublures tooled in gilt and blind a most attractive crisp clean copy in period binding. With the bookplate of Edward H Douty of King's College Cambridge in both volumes. Douty is recorded as a member of the KC Boat Crew in 1882. One of four unillustrated editions published in this year. A delightful set in near contemporary binding. Russell 98. Printed [by T. Bensley of Bolt Court] for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, unknown
184620611George Bell 1846. 16mo. small neat signature on front free endpaper; original dark green diced cloth backstrip with printed paper label browned but just legible very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a remarkably bright clean crisp copy in sympathetically restored publisher's binding. Complete with 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. George Bell, hardcover
189612355Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. 1896. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper with frontispiece original tissue guard present 11 plates and large folding map free endpapers lightly browned; original navy blue ribbed cloth gilt back gilt top bevelled boards uncut a remarkably bright fresh copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES. The illustrations are reproduced from drawings by Agnes Taylor of Ilminster mostly from photographs taken by Chas Andrew of Swindon. Goddard p.238; Miller & Matthews B29.1. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., hardcover
1890254979Verlag von Rich. Bong Berlin 1890. Hardcover mit Lederrücken und -ecken Lieferung I bis XXVI. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen leicht verletzt. Mit Kennungen Stempel und Aufkleber eines Klosters. Mit Romane Artikel Novellen Compositionen: Hoppegarten Iffezheim Freuden. Farbbilder von E. Jankowski; Der Thronfolger. von Ernst von Wolzogen Circusbilder von Paul Dobert mit Originalillustrationen von R. Knötel; Serenade componirt von Heinrich Hofmann; Berliner Sommerabende; Aus dem östlichen Holstein mit Ansichten von Kiel; Eines Künstlers Weib von Ida Boy-Ed; Aus unserem Skizzenbuch: Manöver; Die Kunst der Mode; Aus dem Schauspielerleben von Gustav Schwarzkopf; Streifzüge durch London von Johanna Feilmann mit Original-Illustrationen von F. Kallmorgen; Henriette Mankiewicz von Marie Schramm-Macdonald; Der Hypnotismusvon Wilhelm Hells; Paul Dobert: Eine Schauspielcarriere; Bei reichen Leuten Weihnachtsgeschichte von Marie Conrad-Ramlo; Paul von Schönthan: Bianca`s Locke. Eine Geschichte vom Wohltätigkeits-Bazar; Berlin zur Weihnachtszeit von Paul Dobert Illustrationen von Richard Knötel; Curiose Geschichte Gedicht von R. Reinick Musik von C. Millöcker; Carl Fröschl; Um Gottes Willen Haideerzählung von E. von Dincklage; Sarah Bernhardt von Paul Dobert; Bayern: Land und Leute; Stockholm von Ola Hansson; Aus unserer historischen Mappe: Der Historienmaler Zeichnungen von Caran d`Ache; Das Schring`sche Künstlerhaus in Charlottenburg; Auf Capri von Woldemar Kaden; Frau Flörike ein Berliner Lebensbild von Oscar Justinus; Emin Pascha Stanley und Casati; Prinz Karneval Skizze von Richard Fischer; Münchener Theaterleben von O.J. Bierbaum; Friedrich August von Kaulbach; Ein Winter in Rom von Oskar Justinus; Der Nord-Ostsee-Kanal von L. Brennecke; Am goldenen Horn von Ernst Boetticher; Vom Rennsport von Paul Dobert; Die ersten Veilchen Novellette von Aemil Kindt mit Oiginalzeichnungen von L. Dettmann; Wilhelm Kuhnert; Das deutsche Gastspiel in Petersburg von Hermann Bahr. Verlag von Rich. Bong, Berlin, hardcover
18802222058<p>8" x 9 3/4". "Chas. Warren Stoddard" 616 Harrison St. San Francisco July 8 1880 to Anna H. Brewster at Palazza Maldura Roma Italy. Stoddard vouches for his friend Will Stewart of The New York Graphic "and more recently of the dramatic profession" who is visiting Rome. 2 pages address panel on bifold leaf. Very good.</p><p>Brewster 1818-1892 had a close relationship with Charlotte Cushman. She was one of America's first female correspondents.</p><p>Stoddard 1843–1909 was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life.</p> unknown
181430934Oxford At the Clarendon Press. 1814. Hardcover. Fair in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Books rebound in 1/2 leather binding with marbled endpapers and boards. Boards rubbed with colour loss. Spines covers are torn and will need to be rebacked. Boards edgeworn. Spine hinges and joints crudely repaired with tape in places now yellowed and cracking. Former owner's name in ink to titlepage. Foxing and browning to pages. Boards detached but present. Some boards crudely affixed with tape.; Vol. 1: 1814 671 pp; Vol. 2: 1816 430 pp; Vol. 3: 1920 551 pp; missing Volume 4.; 3 Volumes Only.; 1-3; V. I. Hesiodi Opera et dies. Theogonia Scutum Herculis Fragmenta. Theognis. Archilochi fragmenta. Solonis fra´gmenta. Simonidis fragmenta. Mimnermi fragmenta. Callini fragmentum. Tyrtæi fragmenta. Phocylidis fragmenta. Naumachius. Lini fragmenta. Panyasidis fragmenta. Rhiani fragmenta. Eueni Parii fragmenta. Pythagoræ Aurea carmina. 1814.--v. II. Theocriti Bionis et Moschi Carmina bucolica ex recensione L. C. Valckenaerii. 1816.--v. III. Scholia ad Hesiodum. 1820 . Oxford At the Clarendon Press hardcover
18484463<p>First edition. Small octavo. Original glazed yellow boards spine a bit worn. With half title page. Good a little foxing. 27 pages. No signatures or bookplates. BAL 13069.</p> NICHOLS hardcover
1880M00494Complete in 4 volumes. Half dark brown calf leather over brown marbled paper Spanish Pattern moire type; spines with 5 raised bands gilt stamped on bands with fine guilloche motif and in panels with titles and floral and tendril designs; top edges gilt; end papers of matching marbled pattern. Bright clean covers and spines; leather remains supple; slight rubbing wear at some fore corners; tightly bound; each volume with owner bookplate on front pastedown 'Ellen Mudge Butler'; bright clean interiors; all vols with many leaves unopened at fore edges - never been read. 12mo 1820 total pp; paged 443 480 476 421. Index in vol 4. Cf OCLC #9592699. Owner Butler was mother-in-law of Ellsworth Bunker. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Italy India Nepal South Vietnam Organization of American States and twice recipient of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. London: Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
18805606Smith Elder & Co. 1880. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition small neat institutional stamp in blind on title of first volume only; original pictorial brown pebbled cloth blocked in gilt and black gilt backs uncut expertly recased with new black endpapers to style joints lightly rubbed covers lightly frayed at extremities else a good clean sound copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Miller & Matthews B12.1 binding variant a; Sadleir 1309 'this is one of the few two-or-three volume books of which the front cover blocking is not uniform' vol. I: horse ploughing team; vol. II: steam ploughing machine. Smith, Elder, & Co., hardcover
18136879Seguin Avignon 1813. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo. text in Italian; contemporary tree calf sides with elaborate gilt frame border back elaborately tooled in gilt with two red leather labels marbled edges patterned endpapers skilfully rebacked with original backstrip laid down corners of upper board bruised else a remarkably bright crisp copy. With separate half-titles to each book and the early nineteenth century trade ticket of Berard & Mondon 'French Spanish Italian Books etc' of New York. French issue of the major work of Alessandro Tassoni Modena 1565-1635. First published in 1614 this mock-heroic poem which translates loosely as 'the captured bucket' uses the theft of a well-bucket to satirise petty warfare between the towns of Modena and Bologna. The satire belongs to the same category as the ancient 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' de Vega's 'Gatomaquia' Boileau's 'Lutrin' and Pope's 'Rape of the Lock'. 'The poem is pervaded by an exuberant satirical and often brilliant humour. There are passages in which the humour is sustained and cumulative and others in which an apparent seriousness finds its climate in a sudden hilarious absurdity' Wilkins 'Italian Literature' pp. 298-9. THIS EDITION IS RARE. Seguin, Avignon, hardcover
18605340William Tegg 1860. 8vo. with an engraved frontispiece; splendidly bound in mid-nineteenth century tree calf sides with decorative border comprising double gilt rules linked by curlicue and enclosing institutional arms in gilt all edges marbled skilfully rebacked in calf with original decorative backstrip gilt extra and original leather label laid down marbled endpapers a clean and handsome copy in fine contemporary binding. Bound for the Oxford Diocesan Board of Education William Tegg, hardcover
18366977Printed for Thomas Tegg Cheapside; R. Griffin & Co. Glasgow; and Tegg Wise & Co. Dublin 1836. 3 vols. 8vo. with an engraved portrait of the author and 19 engraved plates; publisher's original boards cloth backs paper labels labels worn and faded but most lettering just legible uncut boards lightly soiled and age-marked corners lightly bruised long split in lower joint of third volume but all bindings entirely sound a very good clean entirely unrestored set in scarce and fragile binding. In line with the convention of the period all the plates in each volume are placed together at the front since it was intended that the publisher's binding should be replaced on purchase by a house family or other 'style' binding. Accordingly each volume has the 'Directions to Binder' leaf indicating the proper position of each plate. COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING AND IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE Printed for T[homas] Tegg, Cheapside; R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow; and Tegg, Wise & Co., Dublin, hardcover
189517906Warne 1895. Oblong 4to. Thirtieth Edition with illustrated title and 109 full-page illustrations by the author in the text front free endpaper creased; original pictorial blue cloth upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black bevelled boards primrose endpapers backstrip mildly chafed without material loss at head and tail hinges tender but binding entirely sound an unusually bright clean copy. With personal bookplate and contemporary inscription on front paste-down. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Lear's humorous classic was first published in 1862. Warne, hardcover
190016451'Knickerbocker Edition'. Red cloth over boards with contrasting grain patterns; gilt stamped on front cover with double egret device and the macaulay motto 'Dulce periculum'; gilt stamped titles and fancy strapwork patterns on spine; top edges gilt; untrimmed fore edges; 2 color title page; tissue-guarded frontispieces and many interior etchings; decoratice head and tailpieces. Bright crisp clean covers and spine; very slight rubbing/fading at spine end corners - no splits or fraying; tightly bound; owner bookplates on each front pastedown 'George Raymond Bunker'; interior is bright crisp clean - many leaves unopened at fore edges from front to rear of each volume - they have never been read. 12mo 4041 total pages. Index in volume 10 for all volumes. Many illustrations. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Italy India Nepal South Vietnam Organization of American States and twice recipient of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. Bookplates are that of Ellsworth Bunker's father. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
18396961Whittaker and Co. 1839. 8vo. First Edition text in Latin introduction and notes in English; contemporary full calf sides with triple frame border stopped at corners by rosettes all in blind back gilt with compartments ruled in gilt and blind wanting original label but impressed lettering just legible doublures tooled in blind speckled edges one or two slight scuffs to covers small ink mark on lower board else a remarkably clean crisp and highly desirable copy in unrestored period binding. EDWARD VESEY BLIGH'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A NOTABLE COPY OF ONE OF KEIGHTLEY'S FINEST CLASSICAL COMMENTARIES. Remembered today primarily for his 'Fairy Mythology' 1828 Thomas Keightley 1789-1872 was also a classical historian and scholar of note; his editions of Greek and Roman texts were produced mainly from Trinity College Dublin. His 'Fasti' is based on the Krebs text and Keightley notes the most important variant readings of the fifty-eight collated MSS of the poem together with not unnaturally appropriate references to his own 'Mythology of Greece and Italy' published eight years previously. The edition received several laudatory reviews notably in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' and was adopted for use by at least one major public school. The Hon. Edward Vesey Bligh brother to 6th Earl of Darnley was vicar of Birling in Kent and Chairman of the Prayer Book Revision Society Whittaker and Co., unknown
1824SB11186London: Henry Colburn 1824. Two-Volume Set; Green end pages lightly foxed or age spotted textblocks else exceptionally clean and tight. Leather spine and corners with light to moderate wear and rubbing 5 raised bands marbled paper boards. Vol. I is 400pp. Vol. II is 401pp. Second Edition. Half-Leather Marbled Sides. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Henry Colburn Hardcover
182514686Alliana E Paravia Torino 1825. 2 books in one vol. 8vo. text in Italian on laid paper some very light spotting mainly marginal; neat nineteenth signature on front free endpaper; contemporary pebble-grain cloth calf back with five bands ruled in gilt second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt boards unevenly faded fore-edges a little dust-soiled else a very good bright firm copy. A MOST UNUSUAL TURIN PRINTING of Roberti's treatise on ethics and integrity nominated by Gamba as one of his better works and first published in Bassano the author's birthplace in 1784. In it Roberti takes his inspiration from Montesquieu and others in exploring the distinction between honesty and truthfulness uprightness and moral rectitude. The treatise is divided into two parts; the first exploring six 'doubts' the second concentrating on six founding principles. Both parts contain numerous examples some literary and some factual. Extremely scarce especially in this condition. Gamba 2420 recording the first edition. Alliana E Paravia, Torino, hardcover
185418509Nathaniel Cooke 1854. 4 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with pictorial series title 4 engraved frontispieces title-vignettes 22 engraved plates and numerous engraved illustrations in the text; publisher's original binding of elaborately patterned plum cloth sides patterned in blind backs blocked and lettered in gilt primrose endpapers backstrips chipped at head and tail else a remarkably well-preserved bright clean copy in wholly unrestored publisher's series binding. With the trade ticket in blind of Thos. Smith of Stockport on front free endpapers. First appearance of Johnson's 'Lives of the English Poets' greatly expanded by William Hazlitt and published as the 'British' Poets. 'The number of Lives contained in the present volumes is ten times greater than those given by Dr. Johnson' Preface.Dedicated to Monckton Milnes the work is published in Cooke's well-known National Illustrated Library with its distinctive patterned cloth binding and profusely illustrated throughout the majority of the plates are after Dalziel. Nice set in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. Courtney & Smith p.145. Nathaniel Cooke, hardcover
1846DEMO014603IPhiladelphia: George R. Graham 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Good. mezzotintsengravingsmusic. Octavo contemporary half calf marbled boards scuffed some foxing <br/><br/>Contains "Marginalia" and "The Philosophy of Composition" by Poe and a review of Herman Melville's "Typee". The Parisian fashion plates are by Le Follet. Also there is an article on California by Charles Jacob Peterson aka Harry Danforth. And with book reviews on THE WILDERNESS AND THE WARPATH by James Hall and Darwin's VOYAGE OF A NATURALIST. George R. Graham hardcover
1847001086London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small 4to. 219 mm pp. xxvi actually 34 2 340. With woodcut illustrations. Bound in period half red morocco with marbled boards. Spine is gilt in 6 compartments. Tiny binder and bookseller stamps verso of front free end paper indicate that the binding was executed by Tout & Sons for the Boston bookseller Estes & Lauriat. Binding shows spots of rubbing to the extremities. Corner tips of the boards are neatly patched. Interior contains mild toning and occasional minor wear; faint offsetting is present from some of the illustrations; pages 116-117 display an area of light tanning due to a pressed leaf. Pages are otherwise generally clean. This is a selection of popular English ballads transcribed mostly from the Roxburghe collection of broadsides. According to the introduction: "The main purpose of the ensuing collection is to shew in their most genuine state the character and quality of productions written expressly for the amusement of the lower orders in the reigns of Elizabeth James and Charles." Text is printed in older style fonts inside simple line borders after the manner of a 17th century English imprint. Occasional small decorative initials and headpieces are present. Woodcut illustrations are reprinted from or based on the broadsides. John Payne Collier was a Shakespeare scholar who eventually became infamous for forging a series of Shakespeare related documents. Note: A promotional photo of London Bridge for Hoods Photos of the World a photo portrait cut-out with a partial advertisement on the verso and two fashion figure cut-outs from early magazines are all loosely inserted in the back. <br/> <br/> Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
186015819Trubner & Co. 1860. 8vo. Second Edition with an engraved frontispiece illustrated title in red and black 6 fine wood-engraved plates FINELY COLOURED BY HAND and 26 engraved illustrations in the text wanting front free endpaper frontispiece and title lightly spotted; original pictorial red coarse-grain cloth upper board elaborately blocked with multiple frame border in gilt and blind enclosing jester and title all in gilt gilt back gilt edges bevelled boards yellow endpapers covers moderately age-soiled corners scuffed joints somewhat rubbed with one short tear gathering cracked at F6-7 but binding wholly sound else a firm tight copy. With Westley's binder's ticket on rear paste-down. Mackenzie's version of the German mediaeval classic was first published in 1860 as a Christmas volume but stocks were swiftly exhausted and a second edition prepared to meet continuing demand. Mackenzie produced a lengthy additional preface to this second edition attributing the success of the venture partly to 'the generous and unanimous verdict of the press' but also surely to the wonderful illustrations by 'Alfred Crowquill' A.H. Forrester. Many would-be Christmas readers must have been disappointed for Mazkenzie dates his preface Christmas Eve but scholars of mediaeval romance and fantasy will find this a most useful edition replete with extensive historical preface and bibliographical and other scholarly appendices. The US edition T&F of Boston of the same year is the first American edition of the tale in English. Scarce. Trubner & Co., hardcover
181428154J. Walker Paternoster Row 1814. 12mo. with engraved frontispiece and engraved and printed titles some light and inoffensive age-staining; contemporary diced calf boards with double frame border enclosing decorative floral frame all in gilt back with flat bands in gilt second compartment with black leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down corners mildly worn else a very good crisp copy. Printed by Hamilton of Weybridge. The engraved titles are dated 1814; the printed titles 1815. With the contemporary trade ticket of Lance Libraire 50 rue croix des petits champs Paris on front paste-down. Includes the Life Preface and Apologue. SCARCE J. Walker, Paternoster Row, hardcover
18448645Edward Moxon 1844. 8vo. Fifth Edition neat early twentieth century signature pencilled in front paste-down; original publisher's cloth sides with double frame border in blind enclosing an elaborate arabesque in blind gilt back uncut short split in backstrip not affecting lettering or soundness cloth hinges just cracking but binding wholly firm and sound else a remarkably bright fresh clean copy. Complete with 8pp publisher's catalogue dated June 1 1844 bound before title and 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.The Excursion was first published in 1814 the only quarto issue. A second edition in demy octavo appeared in 1820 followed by a third in foolscap octavo in 1832. This was subsequently reprinted from stereo plates in 1836 and as here in 1844. See Wise p.83. Edward Moxon, hardcover
183019564J.F. Dove St. John's Square n.d. 1830. 12mo. First Edition thus with engraved portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present engraved and printed titles and separate titles to the parts small neat signature on blank preliminary; attractively bound in dark red full calf boards with frame border in gilt enclosing double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in blind back with three flat bands second compartment with green leather label lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt gilt dentelles marbled endpapers label chipped without loss of lettering joints moderately rubbed upper hinge tender but binding entirely sound else a very good clean crisp copy. The plates are engraved for Dove's 'English Classics'. The frontispiece reproduces Robert Graves' portrait of Matthew Hale; the engraved title the same artist's portrait of Rochester. RARE. BLPC gives one copy and provisional dating. J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, hardcover
1900SB15579Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1900. Shaken binding aged textblock else clean and tight; Top edge gilt; Embossed cloth with moderate silverfish depredation at the front and back board edges surface wear bumping to corners as well as to the head and foot of spine. 337p. Embossed Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. L.C. Page and Company Hardcover
