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1877987G22London : George Routledge and Sons 1877. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A smart volume containing the works of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse Edmund Spenser with a frontispiece and vignette title page. The new edition of the work.In full brown calf binding with a decorative spine marbled fore edge and endpapers. Includes a portrait frontispiece and a vignette title page.This volume contains the works of English poet Edmund Spenser best known for The Faeire Queene. Spenser is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse and he is considered one of the great poets in the English languageWith a selection of notes from various commentators and a glossarial index with some account of the life of Spenser by Rev. Henry John Todd. In full calf. Externally very smart. Shelf wear to extremities with calf cracking to the head and tail of the spine. Slight rubbing to joints. Previous owner's book plate to front paste down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some spotting to the front and rear. Ink inscription to first blank. Very Good Indeed George Routledge and Sons hardcover
180931943AB1809. First Hibernia Press Edition in the year 1809 of the original 1633-Edition. Two Volumes complete set. Dublin Printed by the Society of Stationers / Reprinted at the Hibernia Press for the Proprietors by John Morrison 1809. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: 2 22 4 pages including the rare engraved dedication-leaf with allegorical vignette for the "Dublin Society" showing the Irish Harp etc. 10 266 8 204 pages plus one errata-leaf / Volume II: 4 410 II 32 pages. Hardcover / Original 19th century publisher's binding. Now professionally restored by a professional bookbinder. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Binding with some staining. Deckled edges. Name of pre-owner H.L.Conner. to both title-pages. hardcover
1899RO80102702SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY. 1899. In-12. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 114 pages. Ouvrage en anglais. Etiquette de code sur la coiffe en-tête et tampons de bibliothèque sur la page de titre et dans quelques marges.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1870174<p>Green boards with gilt titles and tooling to spine.</p><p>Very well preserved for its age with some minor wear to the top of the spine and pale staining to front and rear boards.</p><p>Top edge of the page block is gilt.</p><p>Contemporary inscription"To Thos Middleton my most valued friend from Thos Kenworthy".</p><p>Engraving of Chaucer to the frontispiece decorative title page and engraving of Spenser at the start of the Faerie Queene.</p><p>624 pages with a 16-page catalogue of Nimmo publications dated November 1869</p> Nimmo hardcover
1888265062London ; Paris ; New York ; Melbourne : Cassell & Company Limited 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Finely bound set in half contemporary gilt-blocked aniline-calf over marble boards. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Series; Cassell's national library. Physical description; two volumes ; 15 cm. Notes; Introduction by Henry Morley. Poetry. Subjects; Spenser Edmund 1552-1599. Poetry. London ; Paris ; New York ; Melbourne : Cassell & Company, Limited hardcover
186925011London: Macmillan 1869. The Globe Edition small 8vo pp. lv 1 736; a fine copy in contemporary half black morocco gilt paneled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label lettered in gilt in 1 teg. <br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
189511858New York: Dodd Mead & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1895. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This edition limited to 25 copies; this copy unnumbered with "Artist's copy" written in red above his signature on limitation page. Moderately soiled gilt dec faux vellum mild bumping and rubbing small split upper spine end small spatter of black paint lower rear corner. Front hinge cracked but holding o/w solid binding. Pages browned. Three illustrations each with a few small brown soil spots and abrasions as if from a past failed attempt at cleaning . No ex-lib marks stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Illustrator . Dodd, Mead & Co. hardcover
189556144NY: Dodd Mead & Co. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. . Ex-University library with ink stamps and removed bookplates. Limited to 450 copies. Slight rubbing/soil to cloth. Title page in red and black. B/w illustrations throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover
189556883NY: Dodd Mead & Co. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Limited to 450 copies. Bookplate and PO inscriptiion. Slight rubbing/soil to cloth mild corner wear. Title page in red and black. B/w illustrations throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover
1895DEMO013574INew York: Dodd Mead 1895. First edition thus. Hardcover. fine. George Wharton Edwards. Octavo full vellum extra gilt top cover marbled endpapers. <br/><br/>Stopford Brooke called this "the most glorious love-song in the English language". One of only 450 copies. Illustrated in an art nouveau style. Parsons declared Spenser to be the third name in English literature. Dodd, Mead hardcover
189519631New York: Dodd Mead 1895. Special Limited edition No. 2. of 25 copies printed signed by the artist George Wharton Edwards 1859-1950 American impressionist painter and illustrator and author of several books of travel and historical subjects a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Connecticut; pages; title page and frontispiece illustration in gold and red; rest of the text in black and white in an Arts and Crafts style beautifully executed; bound in faux-vellum paper covered boards elaborately gilt and decorated; green watered silk endpapers and each leaf of the book tipped-on via the same green silk each page being on a cardstock-weight paper; binding very soiled and worn; contents in very good condition. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by George Wharton Edwards. Dodd, Mead Hardcover books
18971243241897. First Edition. CRANE Walter illustrator SPENSER Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. London: George Allen Chiswick Press 1897. Six volumes. Quarto contemporary three-quarter vellum gilt brown morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt uncut; original wrappers bound in at rear of each volume. $5200.Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's ""most ambitious project of book illustration"" Lacy 103 one of 1000 large-paper copies with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts two double-page 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. Handsomely bound by J. Adams of Manchester.""The noblest allegorical poem in our languageindeed the noblest allegorical poem in the world"" James Montgomery. Originally published in the late 16th century the first three books in 1590 and the next three in 1596 with the ""Mutabilitie Cantos"" added in 1609 Spenser's ambitious Arthurian allegory was the first epic that ""both incorporated countless mythological and folkloric traditions and exemplified the careful design and poetic quality of written literature"" Clute & Grant 890. Finely printed on handmade paper the Chiswick Press edition with notes and commentary by Thomas Wise was originally issued in 19 parts 1894-96 and stands at the pinnacle of famous illustrator Walter Crane's career. All front wrappers and rear wrappers bound in. Massé 47. A splendid set of this delightful illustrated edition in fine condition. hardcover
1898011002New York: Maynard Merrill & Co. 1898. Stapled. Fair. With Prefatory and Explanatory Notes. Maynard's English Classic Series No. 27. Wear to wraps light stains signed by owner on front. Red stain on rear wraps bleeding through to rear inside cover. Sticker shock on first page. Several pencil notations else text very good. <br/> <br/> Maynard, Merrill, & Co. unknown
1895175910London: George Allen 1895. hardcover. fine. Crane Walter. Bold illustrations by Walter Crane. Originally issued in 19 parts Seven title pages eighty-eight full page woodcut illustrations one double page 132 head and tailpieces and numerous woodcut initials. Now exquisitely rebound in 3/4 crimson crushed morocco 6 volumes small 4to marbled endpapers. London: George Allen 1895-97. A fine set.<br/><br/> Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's "most ambitious project of book illustration" Lacy 103 one of 1000 large-paper copies.<br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
1899099650London England: Lawrence and Bullen 1899. Hardcover. First Edition. From Cromwell to Wellington: Twelve Soldiers. Foxing to end inside covers. Previous owners name to inside cover. Ticks in margin in pencil to a couple of pages. Corners of cloth worn. Sunned spine and fading to cloth With age boards. Few marks to cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Cromwell. Marlborough. Peterborough. Wolfe. Clive. Coote. Heathfield. Abercromby. Lake. Baird. Moore. Wellington. Plans of Battles and Sieges. Sketches to Illustrate Campaigns. Illustrated. 508 pp. Hand cut pages. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions and all types of Educational Reference Literature. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback. Lawrence and Bullen Hardcover
1899110789Philadelphia: Lippincott 1899. First American edition. 508p; plates. Red cloth. Spine faded. Ex-libris from private historical society library; only ex-libris marks are a library bookplate and a shadow on spine where shelf label removed. Text clean and tight. A hardcover book in good condition. Biographies of 12 of Britain's leading military commanders of the 17th-18th centuries. Lippincott unknown
1899041103Lawrence And Bullen Ltd. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. Hardcover; Hardcover. Red leather boards with gold ruling at edges. Title in gold over black leather label as well as decorations in gold on spine between raised bands. Boards are soiled and scuffed corners frayed. Spine is sun darkened is rubbed and worn at sides and edges. Beautiful marbleized fore edges and endpapers. Previous owner's book plate on first paste down. Gift inscription on blank second free endpaper. Noticeably foxed on blank endpapers only occasional foxing to text. Memoirs of 12 famous British soldiers spanning 1642 to 1852: Cromwell Marlborough Peterborough Wolfe Clive Coote Heathfield Abercromby Lake Baird Moore and Wellington. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; B/w Illus; 8VO . Lawrence And Bullen Ltd. hardcover
1860059211London: Ward and Lock 1860. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1860. FINE BINDING by Leighton son & Hodge Shoe Lane'. "Petter and Galpin printers Playhouse Yard" -- title page verso. Hardback. Introductory Essay. With an illustrated engraved frontispiece plate with tissue-guard. With an initial half-title leaf. Contemporary full red Morocco-leather; gilt lettered and decorated spine. Full gilt decoration to covers; gilt dentelles. All page-edges gilt. Original yellow end-papers. NEAR FINE. i i xxxiv 472 pages. Index of First Lines. SCARCE. Only the Bristh Library holds a copy in the UK. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting. London: Ward and Lock. VERY SCARCE. <br/> <br/> Ward and Lock hardcover
188955777EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS <br />extra-illustrated 8vo. xxiv 389pp. folding coloured map extra-illustrated with 17 small tipped in contemporary photographic portraits and a larger one of a medal original olive green cloth front board blocked in black and gilt spine gilt lettered title page foxed else very good. <br />Contemporary armorial bookplate of J. Y. Calwell and an article on Hayti clipped from the Belfast News-Letter of June 1 1802 tipped to verso of front free endpaper.<br /><br />St John 1825-1910 British diplomat became British chargé d'affaires in Haiti and in 1871 took up the same post in the Dominican Republic. He was promoted to Minister in Haiti late in 1872. His assessment of the country based on twenty-five years experience which occurs on the first page of the introduction was that it was "a country in a state of rapid decadence". The book includes a description of the country and its troubled history together with chapters on the population "Vaudoux-Worship and Canniballism" cannibalism the government on the various aspects of the state and society on language and literature and on economic activity. The book caused outrage because of its sensational tales of vodoo and cannibalism and is described as "a savagely hostile account" in O.D.N.B. In his introduction to this second edition St. John replies to some of his critics.<br />The photographs circa 8.5 x 5.8 cms. are contemporary or earlier portraits of leading figures from Haitian history and are tipped in at the head of the pages on which they are first mentioned in the text. Some of the photos are probably from life and others of earlier figures are presumably from miniatures. The persons generally identified at the foot of the print were presumably at some time commercially available separately from the book. Smith Elder, & Co. hardcover
18841132<p><b> A SOURCE BOOK FOR <i>JEZEBELL PETTYFER</i></b></p><p><b>MACFALL Haldane. ST. JOHN Sir Spenser. </b><i>Hayti or The Black Republic. </i>8vo nearly contemporary remainder cloth pp. xiv 2 343. London: Smith Elder 1884. </p><p>First Edition. An important copy bound without the map. <b>ODNB </b>calls this a "savagely hostile" book. We have seen the book referred to as "racist." It was written by a British diplomat who spent several years in the country. This copy belonged to Haldane Macfall while he was writing his classic picaresque West Indian masterpiece set in Barbados <i>The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer </i>1897. Ownership inscription inside front cover: "C. Haldane Macfall 60 Wynnstay Gardens Kensington SW '96." Macfall has made marginal scorings and underlinings on 82 pages in pencil the greatest number in the section on voodoo and also written 44 words. On free half of front end paper he cites three books on Haiti calling Moreau de St. Mery's "excellent & truthful." It is interesting that Macfall should focus on voodoo which St. John said involved cannibalism. Spine lettered in gold "St. John's/ Hayti." The covers are a little soiled and there is evidence of removal of a label from front cover. <b>Cundall </b>507. </p> Smith, Elder hardcover
188924710New York:Scribner and Welford 1889. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Scribner and Welford. 1889. 2nd edition. xxiv389pp Illustrated with folding map as frontispiece. Hardcover. Green decorated boards lightly soiled with light wear to edges spine ends and edge points. Page edges soiled with dust residue. Internally some penciled notes to verso of 1st free endpage with light foxing to prelims otherwise a very good clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact. New York:Scribner and Welford hardcover
1884WytST. J71London: Smith Elder & Co. 1884. 1884. 8vo. pp. xiv 1 leaf 343. folding partially hand-coloured engraved map. original black & gilt-stamped cloth recased covers rubbed spine ends repaired with darker coloured cloth. First Edition. St. John wrote this account of Haiti after spending several years there as a chargé d'affaires and later resident minister. Included are chapters on population voodoo worship and cannibalism and a general description of the country and its history. Cundall 507. F. Hardcover. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1884. Hardcover
18891317576New York: Scribner and Welford 1889. Hardcover. Octavo; G Hardcover; Green spine with gold text; Boards have severe bumping and rubbing to the corners edges and exterior front and rear hinges are slightly separated but boards are not affected;Text block has age-tone with foxing to the gutters of end papers front free end- paper has an inscription by the previous owner gutter between pp. 92 and 193 has considerable separation but pages are in tact fore edge has foxing and is deckled front free end- paper has an inscription of the previous owner pages are clean; 389p. 1317576. FP New Rockville Stock. Scribner and Welford hardcover books
190051836London: Illustrated London News 1900. 1st edition. Near Fine. folio. 3/4 leather 84 ivpp. b/w pls. text ills. photogravures8 Folio-size. Contains many nice full-page ills. & Plates of Commanders. Minor wear to edges o/w nice copy & internally excellent Illustrated London News hardcover
190016694London: Illustrated London News 1900. 1st edition. Very Good. folio. chipped wrappers 84 ivpp. b/w pls. text ills. photogravures8 Folio-size. Contains many nice full-page ills. & Plates of Commanders. Worn some dampstains o/w VG Illustrated London News unknown
