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18041331115Philadelphia: Hugh Maxwell 1804. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; Hardcover; Spine brown leather with gold print; Boards are three-quarter bound with brown leather to spine and corners marbled paper to boards mild scuffing and wear to leather with slight surface tears at front hinge and corners slight staining to front top edge slight shelfwear to paper; Text block has red-speckled edges cracked font hinge stains to front endpapers and title page top portion of dedication page torn away foxing throughout initialed in ink on verso of title page; Poetry incorrectly attributed to Anacreon; xvi 301 pages frontispieces ports. 1331115. FP New Rockville Stock. Hugh Maxwell hardcover books
186947791London: John Camden Hotten Piccadilly 1869. 1st edition thus. Original blue publishers cloth with red and gilt decorations bevelled boards AEG. Minor extremity wear. A VG copy. 225 3 pp. One page publisher advert at rear. Illustrated with b/w drawings by de Roussy. Oblong 12mo. 5-3/4" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/> John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly hardcover books
18043324Philadelphia: Hugh Maxwell 1804. 12mo. 301 pp. <br><br>First American edition of this well received and thought of translation from the Greek. The true first edition was London 1800. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 5708. 20th-century library buckram. Ex-library with stamps call number on spine library name impressed in blind on covers bookplate. Binding soiled text with occasional foxing light dust soiling. Hugh Maxwell hardcover books
1810283286Philadelphiae: T. Barton Zantzinger et Soc 1810. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Selections with the text in Greek and in Latin. In sheep; spine with very minor loss and gilt rules. Printed by Fry and Kammerer for the Thos. B. Zantzinger Company. 123 pages; 2 publisher's ad. Shaw & Shoemaker 19363. Very Good binding. T. Barton Zantzinger et Soc unknown books
18022388London: William Bulmer 1802. 20 fine wood engraved head- and tail-pieces. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary diced calf marbled endpapers and edges. Fine copy of this beautiful book -- Bulmer's Greek type is perfectly complemented by the simple ornaments very small stain at top of last twenty pages. 20 fine wood engraved head- and tail-pieces. 1 vols. 8vo. Bulmer's Greek type is perfectly complemented by the simple head and tailpiece vignettes. William Bulmer unknown books
1864WB16253Paris: Ambroise Firmin-Didot 1864. Hardcover. Near Fine. 24mo 140 x 85mm. Pagination: iii-xlvii 158pp. including table. Signatures: a6 b-44 1-204 including final blank. Title printed with engraved border of muses and signed by engravers H. Catenacci - Hercules Louis Catenacci 18161884 and A. F. Lemaitre - Augustin Francois Lemaitre 17971870. 54 photolithograph plates of Girodets compositions illustrating the odes with fine classical figures and settings. Greek text with French prose translation for 64 odes by Ambrose Firmin-Didot. Text printed within red ruled borders with headings printed in red. Finely bound in a French 19th-century crimson morocco covers gilt with central ornament spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt: ODES DANACREON / F. DIDOT 1864 inner gilt dentelles marbled endpapers edges gilt custom cloth case; only slightest wave to a few leaves otherwise a very good and attractive copy. Front pastedown with the typographic bookplate of Robert Percy Alden an American Gilded Age lawyer and collector hailing from Pennsylvania who died in 1909. <br/><br/>Fine French edition of the Odes of Anacreon edited and produced by Ambroise Firmin-Didot 17901876 reusing the illustrations in a reduced scale by the French artist Girodet Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson 17671824. Girodets graceful neoclassic designs were executed in the revived Second Empire style and engraved by his pupil Henri-Guillaume Chatillon 17801856. J. B. de Saint-Victor originally commissioned the Girodet illustrations in 1808 but only two complete designs were published with his translation in 1810. Girodet continued to work on the illustrations privately as well as his own translation of the ancient Greek Odes until his death in 1824. Ambroise Firmin-Didot was an accomplished classicist editor and man of letters within the established line of Didot printers in Paris. This production is an outstanding example of one of the finely printed classics issuing from the renowned Didot press. It maintains the distinctive Didot typographic layout and refined use of red and black inks. The introductory text of a later English edition of the Odes 1869 by Thomas Moore notes that the Firmin-Didot edition was sold at the almost prohibitive price of two pounds. Wonderful copy most likely bound for Robert Percy Aldens American villa-library in the late 19th century. Alden spent several of his Yale post-graduate years in Europe and was married in Paris in 1878 when he likely procured this book. Ambroise Firmin-Didot hardcover books
1802298001London: White and Miller 1802. hardcover. very good. 130 pages slim 12mo full pebbled brown morocco ornately gilt on spine and covers inner dentelles all edges gilt inner frot hinge reinforced. London: White and Miller 1802. Very good .<br/><br/> White and Miller unknown books
181340741Londini: Ex officina B.R. Howlett veneunt apud J. Murray 1813. 8vo 18.7 cm 7.36". 2 130 pp.; illus. <br><br>Handsome example of the ever-popular songs of Anacreon edited and prepared by Edward Forster 17691828 based largely on Barnes' influential text. Lavinia Banks Forster the editor's wife supplied the illustrations the elegantly printed text is ornamented with => 20 copper-engraved vignettes. This is the second revised edition following the first of 1802.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary black calf covers framed and panelled in blind fillets with blind-tooled corner fleurons gilt arabesque motifs in outer panel rich blind roll in inner panel; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped motifs echoing covers; board edges and turn-ins with gilt Greek key roll. All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked inscription of J.F. Mackarness dated 1839. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Dibdin I 26667 for first ed.; NSTC A1179; Schweiger I 26. Binding as above joints and extremities with variable rubbing. Pages gently age-toned with occasional offsetting from engravings or faint spotting otherwise clean. => A desirable copy of this extremely attractive production. Ex officina B.R. Howlett, veneunt apud J. Murray hardcover books
180239276Londini: Gul. Bulmer & Soc. 1802. 8vo 21.5 cm 8.4". 2 130 pp.; illus. <br><br>First Forster edition and first Bulmer printing thereof: a handsome example of the ever-popular songs of Anacreon edited and prepared by Edward Forster 17691828 based largely on Barnes' influential text. This production made excellent use of the Greek font cut for printer William Bulmer by William Martin who had trained under Baskerville; Martin's distinctive sans serif type was designed without ligatures. => Lavinia Banks Forster the editor's wife supplied the illustrations the elegantly printed text is ornamented with 20 copper-engraved vignettes. The Annual Review & History of Literature for 1803 described the resulting volume as an "exquisite specimen of typographical skill" while Dibdin called it an "elegant work" that "confers great credit on the printer."<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary red straight-grained morocco modestly tooled using a single binder's tool for all decoration a single rule. It is used to frame the boards create the spine compartments decorate the board edges and enliven the turn-ins. Very interesting green marbled endpapers perhaps "arsenic green" All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Early 19th-century ownership signature on front fly-leaf of Robert Harry Hughes Jesus College Oxford; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Dibdin I 26667; NSTC A1179; Schweiger I 2526. Bound as above; darkening to spine and small adjoining area on boards and along top area of boards; joints and edges rubbed. Pages age-toned with instances of mild to moderate foxing. => A handsomely printed and pleasingly bound volume. Gul. Bulmer & Soc. hardcover books