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18133644London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray 1813. Second edition. Good. 8vo. 2 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf rubbed and worn tooled in blind outer frame of gilt palmette rolls all edges gilt drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with paper flaw; outer margins of final pages darkened from turn-ins. With faults and priced accordingly. THE ONLY KNOWN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. LAVINIA FORSTER. Our copy bears learned MS annotations in Greek and Latin. <br /> <br /> Beautifully printed in a Greek font created especially for William Bulmer by William Martin. Dibdin described the 1802 first edition as an "elegant work that confers great credit on the printer." Our copy belongs to the second edition which was printed in the same Greek font and retains the 20 fine engraved head- and tailpiece vignettes designed by Lavinia Banks Forster 1774-1858 wife of the present editor Edward Foster. Two of the vignettes are signed in absolutely miniscule lettering "Publ. by W. Miller Old Bond Street 1802." <br /> <br /> Mrs. Lavinia Banks Forster was the only child of the sculptor Thomas Banks and his wife Elizabeth. She married the Reverend Edward Forster in 1799 and from 1815 lived in Paris with her husband who was at that time Chaplain to the British Embassy. There they provided a social center for artists. Her lively and fully accomplished illustrations for her husband's Anacreon represent the only published examples by her that we have been able to trace. <br /> <br /> "Few of Anacreon's works survive but those that do focus on wine love homosexual and heterosexual and the overall pleasures of the legendary Roman symposium. Anacreon used various techniques in his writings including self-deprecation and irony. The collection of miscellaneous Greek poems from the Hellenistic Age and beyond known as the Anacreontea was 'mistakenly labeled' with Anacreon's name" see William and Mary Law Library online exhibit. <br /> <br /> The annotator of our copy was one George Houstoun on title: "Ex libris Georgii Houstoun." Given the lavishness of the binding and the fact that the book itself was printed on fine paper perhaps this individual was George Houstoun 1743-1815 4th Laird of Johnstone Renfrew Scotland. Subsequently signed in pencil inside the lower cover: "R. Bradford." <br /> <br /> Dibdin Greek and Latin Classics vol. I pp. 266-267 1802 edition. See DNB under Edward Forster. B.R. Howlette / John Murray unknown
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
186499287Paris: De Firmin Didot Freres 1864. Hardcover. Good. First edition of this translation. Text in Greek. Translated by D'Amb. Firmin Didot. 54 mounted albumen plates of classical illustrations by Girodet mostly mounted two per page. Full leather. Rebacked boards quite worn appears to lack front and rear blanks a good only copy. De Firmin Didot Freres hardcover
1889141595Paris, A. Quantin 1889 13 volumes. In-8 14,5 x 9,5 cm. Reliures demi-basane fauve marbrée, filets dorés, dos à nerfs, têtes dorées, couvertures conservées, 211-138-206-135-209-124-135-119-111-220-192-203-85 pp., notices bibliographiques, notices artistiques. Tous les textes sont dans des encadrements, Les tirages des vignettes d'illustrations parfois en chromolithographies sont splendides.Ex-libris Auguste Heriot.
180255219London Bulmer et Soc. apud White et Miller 1802. 8vo. Contemp. full morocco. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. Edges gilt. Edges with light wear. 4130 pp. Many fine executed engraved vignettes and endpieces. Finely printed with Greek letters on good paper. The first leaves with light browning further a few minor brownspots. With engraved bookplate of Hen. J. Blakeney and his written name. unknown
180255219London, Bulmer et Soc., apud White et Miller, 1802. 8vo. Contemp. full morocco. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Broad gilt borders on covers. Inside gilt borders. Edges gilt. Edges with light wear. (4),130 pp. Many fine executed engraved vignettes and endpieces. Finely printed with Greek letters on good paper. The first leaves with light browning, further a few minor brownspots. With engraved bookplate of Hen. J. Blakeney and his written name.
1823210091823 Paris, Lefevre, 1823, in-24 de XII-(2)-160 pp., index in fine, très bel exemplaire dans une reliure de l'époque signée de THOUVENIN en bas du dos, plein veau glacé rouge, dos à nerfs ornés de roulettes dorées et fleurons romantiques à froid, plats frappés d'un beau décor de plaque ornemental à froid, composée d'encadrements de grecques et d'un décor octogonal central, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées.
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
18021007Y35London: J. White and G. Miller 1802. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A morocco-bound edition of the odes of Anacreon edited by English cleric and writer Edward Forster. With lovely engraved vignettes. An early 19th-century edition of The Odes of Anacreon amended according to the text of Barnes in the Greek text. Bound in full straight-grain morocco with marbled endpapers.With elegant engraved vignettes throughout.Few of Anacreon"s works survive but those that do focus on wine love and the overall pleasures of the legendary Roman symposium. Anacreon used various techniques in his writings including self-deprecation and irony. Edited by Edward Forster 17691828 an English cleric miscellany writer and Fellow of the Royal Society. Bound in full straight-grain morocco with marbled endpapers. Externally quite rubbed to the extremities. Short cracks to the tail of the joints. Internally firmly bound. Pages are marginally toned but generally clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Good J. White and G. Miller hardcover
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
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
1827149491827 un volume, reliure d'époque romantique polychrome plein maroquin vert foncé in-32 (full morocco 32mo - A book that is up to 5 tall.), dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands) décoré or (gilt decoration) filets or (gilt line)- compartiments or à fleurons de couleurs peints à l'huile (compartment with floweret paints in colours) - titre frappé or (gilt title) - pièce de titre sur fond noir (label of title) avec filet or (label of title with gilt line) , plats décorés or (gilt decoration on the cover) et à la peinture de couleurs, décor rocaille or avec vase central doré et guirlandes de fleurs , fleurs dans le vase et noiseaux exotiques peints en couleurs dans un encadrement à double filets or, coins en bronze doré travaillés et gravés motif fleurs , fine restauration au niveau de la charnière du quatrième plat, fermoir central bronze doré orné de motifs fleuris , petit accident quasiment invisible au niveau de la fermeture mais aisément restaurable, tête lisse (top edge smooth), toutes tranches lisses (all smooth edges), ex-libris J.V. au tampon encreur bleu, sans illustration (no illustration) excepté une marque de l'imprimeur gravée sur bois (engraving wood) en noir en bas de la page de titre), très rares et légères rousseurs (rare and light redness marks), 244 pages, 1827 Paris Compère jeune Editeur,
1802AQ33176Londini i.e. London: Sumptibus Editoris Excudebant Gul. Bulmer et Soc. 1802. 4 130pp. With a half-title. Numerous engraved vignettes. Later black roan-backed tartan paper boards. Lightly rubbed. Light foxing. An elegant edition of the odes of Greek lyric poet Anacreon c.582- c.485 edited by fellow of the Royal Society Edward Forster 1769-1828 with vignette engravings by his wife Lavinia 1774-1858 daughter of renowned sculptor Thomas Banks 1735-1805. . 8vo. Sumptibus Editoris Excudebant Gul. Bulmer et Soc. hardcover
181231246AB1812. The Eleventh Edition. London Printed for James Carpenter 1812. Duodecimo. XXIV 172 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful decorative leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. The little Volume now in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The binding tight and intact. Minor signs of foxing. Poetry Foundation: "Living up to the title Anacreon Moore strained the budget of the promising young poet but rather than accept an Irish laureateship created for him by Atkinson and Moira Moore published his juvenile poems as Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq. 1801 assuming a pseudonym appropriate to his short stature. The proceeds barely met his debt but the collection of love poems further enhanced his reputation as a ladies man. Although these light lyrics seem remarkably chaste to modern readers the kisses and embraces they celebrate suggested much to 19th-century readers. As in Moores later poetry the visual sense is starved in these lyrics but they provide well for the emotional dimension. Moore later regretted publishing these poems; at the time he was as grateful for the publishers remuneration as for the advance of his poetic reputation." hardcover
1865144443Mlano: Ricordi 1865. In-folio mm. 393x290 cartonato editoriale figurato mancanze al dorso; lievi tracce d'uso pp. XIII273 compreso il frontespizio incorniciato a colori. Testo entro graziosa cornice rossa ornato da capilettera figurati in sanguigna finalini in nero e 16 belle incisioni su legno eseguite da Centenari sui disegni di: Ciseri Hayez Servi Ribossi Cambi Bartolini Dupré. Testo ben conservato. Ricordi, unknown
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
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
1825159541825 2 tomes différents reliés en un volume, reliure "romantique" d'époque, plein velin blanc in-32 (binding full white vellum in-32) (8 x 12 cm), dos long (spine without raised band), décoration or (gilt decoration) et fleurons noirs (black floweret), titre frappé or (gilt title) - plats décorés en noir et or (cover black-stamping and gilt decoration), d'un grand rinceau noir à chaque angle dans un encadrement de 2 filets noir et or, toutes tranches lisses (all smooth edges), dorées (all edges gilt), pages de garde en papier moiré blanc (endpapers with paper watered), ex-libris - vignette illustrée collée sur le deuxième plat (illustrated label of ex-libris stuck on the reverse of the front cover), à l'effigie du dieu "Ganesh" - Protecteur des écrivains et de tous ceux qui se livrent à l'étude, se promenant un livre sous le bras - texte en grec avec des commentaires en latin, sans illustrations, (xiv + 157) + (viij + 221) pages, 1831 + 1825 Parisiis apud LEFEVRE BIBLIOPOLAM,
1833815A11London: Sherwdood Gilbert and Piper 1833. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None . The first edition of the classical odes of Anacreon edited by James Usher a bright pocket sized edition. Anacreon was a Greek lyric poet known for his drinking songs and erotic poems. The present pocket sized volume is the first edition of his odes rendered to English and edited by James Usher a scarce copy. The odes are admired for their elegance and genuine simplicity mostly concerned with themes of love infatuation revelry and aspects of every-day life. Rebound a full cloth binding with titles in gilt to spine. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities light soiling to boards and spine. Internally firmly bound. Odd minor spotting to occasional leaf otherwise pages clean throughout with a touch of age toning as usual with the type of paper used. Very Good Indeed Sherwdood, Gilbert and Piper hardcover
1843680781843. Florentiae : apud Guillelmum Piatti 1843 4° XVI 179 pp.; 11 pp. feiner Pappband. First Edition! Bilingual Edition - Greek text with Latin version opposite. Anacreon c. 575 - c. 495 BC was a Greek lyric poet notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Ionic dialect. Like all early lyric poetry it was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love infatuation disappointment revelry parties festivals and the observations of everyday people and life Sappho c. 630 - c. 570 BC was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.a Sappho is known for her lyric poetry written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost and what is extant has mostly survived in fragmentary form; only the Ode to Aphrodite is certainly complete. As well as lyric poetry ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams formerly attributed to Sappho are extant but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style. unknown
182567130Anacréon, traduction en vers par Charles-Louis Mollevaut, Membre de l'Institut Royal de France, De l'Imprimerie de Didot le Jeune, Paris, 1825, xii-216 pp.[ Suivi de : ] Odes d'Anacréon, traduites en vers par M. Alexis Monregard, dédiées à M. Guizot, Bureau Central d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, Paris, 1836, 170 pp. et 2 ff. n. ch.
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
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
180426CLA23Hugh Maxwell Philadelphia: 1804. 1804 8vo. 301 p. Fine stipple engraved portraits of Moore and Anacreon executed by David Edwin 1776-1841. Uncut. Quite foxed. Original marbled boards. Spine taped. Manuscript ownership of the early American collector Richard J. Tucker Jr. Anacreon ca. 570-485 B.C. was a Greek lyric poet born at Teos in Ionia. Later he lived at Samos and at Athens where his patron wa s Hipparchus. His poetry graceful and elegant celebrates the joys of wine and love. Little of his verse survives. Anacreontics poems in the style of Anacreon were written from Hellenistic to late Byzantine times. Scarce Early American Edition. S&S/AI 57 08 3 examples only. PRICE JUST REDUCED! W120 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good. Hugh Maxwell, Philadelphia: 1804. hardcover
