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ST17263-25Market Drayton England: Tern Press 1985. No. 9 OF 75 COPIES signed by the artist. 260 x 270 mm. 10 1/4 x 10 1/2". 6 leaves.Translated into English by Thomas Moore. <br/> DYNAMIC DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ALISON MARTIN five wavy lines of inlaid morocco in yellow orange tan beige and brown emanating from a section near the mid-fore edge of the front cover and radiating out and around the smooth spine three of the lines terminating on the fore edge of the rear cover the other two at the head and tail edges front cover also with a single straight diagonal line of inlaid black calf running from head edge to foot slicing through the color waves paste-paper endleaves made by Martin in an ombré of brown/orange/yellow etched with wavy lines echoing the cover design top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. In a felt-lined black cloth clamshell box black morocco label on spine. With five etchings by Nicolas Parry printed in black and sanguine. Tern Press Check-List 38. As new.<br/> <br/> This appealing fine press edition of an 1800 translation of odes by the sixth century B.C. lyric poet Anacreon comes in a 1995 binding that symbolically embodies the poems and their author. According to Alison Martin's artist's statement "the design represents the five odes as coloured waves against a dark background. These are the ideas and thoughts behind the formation of the Odes the Muses perhaps travelling across the ether destined to come together at an undefined point. . . The poet is represented by the straight black line . . . The man himself has become merely a shadowy figure in the background of his poetic works . . . yet his presence was a vital catalyst to their formation . . . Hence the design is abstract to express things beyond material existence. The colors reflect those used in the paper and printing of the text." Elected a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders in 1995 Martin earned a degree in English at Leeds University before taking a Diploma in Fine Bookbinding and Conservation at Guildford College. She also worked and trained with renowned binder James Brockman. Tern Press was founded by artist and printer Nicolas Parry and his wife Mary in 1973. In "Matrix 5" Parry said: "Our initial aims were to relate each subject to a relative set of materials to think of the book as an overall work of art rather like an opera with a body stage - props - paper - binding intellect thoughts - words - libretto and feelings music - color - prints to try as in all art to produce a form that lives and breathes. Thus our books are not conceived designed produced through process but are perceived arranged and produced through craft.". Tern Press unknown
1785ST11935Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeio 1785. ONE OF 50 COPIES ON FINE PAPER of a total of 310 copies. 308 x 216 mm. 12 1/8 x 8 1/2". 2 p.l. xciv 100 pp. 1 leaf. <br/> VERY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY CRIMSON STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO spine beautifully gilt in compartments between green stylized pentaglyph and metope strips flanked by double raised bands the plain-ruled compartments densely stippled with gold dots surrounding a small central medallion from which emanate a number of wavy vines bearing flowers and small leaves anular dot cornerpieces elaborately gilt turn-ins blue watered silk endpapers the pastedowns framed with elegant gilt garlands and bead-and-lozenge roll free endleaves with cresting gilt frame leather hinges these expertly renewed at top and bottom all edges gilt. In a modern brown cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Small author portrait tondo on title page large and elaborate armorial vignette on dedication page engraved by Cagnoni. Text of poems in Greek commentary in Latin both printed entirely in majuscules. Front pastedown with morocco monogram bookplate of Charles C. Kalbfleisch engraved bookplate of Hugh Morriston Davies and book label of Charles Whibley see below. Brooks 287; Dibdin I 265; Schweiger 25; Brunet I 252; Graesse I 111. ◆Spine probably a bit sunned though difficult to tell with so much gilt four tiny wormholes to joints extremities with a hint of rubbing but the binding solid lustrous and attractive; A SPECTACULAR COPY INTERNALLY entirely clean fresh and bright and with enormous margins.<br/> <br/> This is a superb copy of the luxury paper Bodoni printing of the works of the sixth century B.C. lyric poet Anacreon. Imbued with delicacy and grace these works come down to us only in fragments quoted by other authors or in the derived form of imitators and they did not find their way into print until after the middle of the 16th century. Produced by Giambattista Bodoni 1740-1813 the most celebrated European printer of his era this remarkable piece of work is called "magnificent" by Brooks and Dibdin says that a "more elegant and exquisitely finished production . . . cannot be conceived." The appearance of the page printed only with capitals and offered here in a copy with vast margins is simply as stately and powerful as one could ever hope for. Bodoni was not only a great printer but also the most important type designer and punchcutter in Italy during his day. He was responsible for some of the most graceful and immaculate books to be printed during the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century and the present item is certainly to be counted among his most beautiful productions. The present copy has a distinguished provenance. Charles C. Kalbfleisch was a discriminating American collector whose library featured a great many beautiful bindings and who was known for choosing only the finest copies available. Parke-Bernet sold much of his collection in January of 1944 in a sale entitled "The Arts of the Book . . . The Splendid Library Formed by the Late Charles C. Kalbfleisch New York." Hugh Morriston Davies 1879-1965 was a pioneering surgeon known as "The Doyen of Thoracic Surgery" who collected fine bindings especially those of the 18th century. Charles Whibley 1859-1930 authored important books and wrote popular periodical columns of literary interest edited a number of works in the substantial and distinguished "Tudor Translations" series was at the center of a British literary circle with links to the Symbolist poets of France and made an enormous contribution to literature by recommending T. S. Eliot to Faber & Faber. Ex Regio Typographeio unknown
1555ST16215gLutetiae Paris: Apud Henricum Stephanum 1554; Paris: Apud Thomam Richardum 1555. First work: EDITIO PRINCEPS; Second Work: First Complete Latin Translation. 198 x 135 mm. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4". 4 p.l. 110 pp. 1 leaf blank; 24 leaves. Two separately published works in one volume. First work: Translated and edited with notes and commentary by Henri Estienne. Second work: Translated by Helias Andreas Élie André. <br/> Fine retrospective reddish-brown goatskin in the style of the period French fillet frame on covers raised bands spine compartments formed by double gilt rules endpapers raised exposing laced-in boards as an imitation of an antique binding. Estienne device on title page of first work; Richard's device on title of second. First work: Renouard 115:1; Schreiber 139; Dibdin I 258; Adams A-1001; Brunet I 250. Second work: Schweiger I 26; Adams A-1002. ◆Recently and very expertly washed and resized some leaves with very faint browning otherwise bright and fresh as well as entirely clean in a convincing new period-style binding.<br/> <br/> The first book to be published by Henri Estienne the initial work here is the original printing of an important collection of classical lyric poetry described by Dibdin as "a beautiful and rare edition." According to Schreiber this collection of Greek poems written in imitation of the sixth century poet Anacreon "became the most influential 'ancient' Greek poetic text during the Renaissance and Estienne's editio princeps virtually caused a poetic revolution." One of the greatest of the scholar-printers of the 15th and 16th centuries Henri Estienne 1528 or 1531-91 found these poems in two old manuscripts compiled the collection and did the Latin translation. The work became the first project released under Henri's imprint by his father Robert's press; Schreiber believes the presswork was done by Guillaume Morel rather than by Henri himself as it used three sizes of Claude Garamond's lovely and renowned "grecs du roi" type. The second work here includes additional odes not in the Estienne edition and is thus the first complete Latin translation of the "Anacreontia." It is a rare work: OCLC finds just two copies in North America while ABPC and RBH record three copies all bound as here with the 1554 Estienne. Apud Henricum Stephanum, 1554; Paris: Apud Thomam Richardum unknown
1773ST16314Paris: Chez Le Boucher 1773. First Edition with these Illustrations. 214 x 136 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". 2 p.l. iv 280 pp. without "Héro et Léandre" as usual.Translated by Julien Jacques Moutonnet de Clairfons. <br/> LOVELY RED MOROCCO GILT BY CHAMBOLLE-DURU stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with French fillet border raised bands spine gilt in compartments with rose sprig at center curling floral cornerpieces gilt titling densely gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece and 25 charming and delicate engraved illustrations by Jean Massard after Charles Eisen. Cohen-de Ricci 79; Brunet I 254; Graesse I 113. For the binding: Flety 40. ◆Lower half-inch of joints just starting to show wear three minor stains and one short scratch to upper board but a fine and pretty copy the text fresh and smooth with deep impressions of the type with rich impressions of the engravings with ample margins and with a lustrous binding.<br/> <br/> This is a very attractive copy of the first printing of an anthology of French versions of classical poetry described by Cohen-de Ricci as "one of the most elegantly illustrated books of the 18th century." Charles Eisen 1720-78 was Louis XV's court painter as well as drawing master to Madame de Pompadour. Bryan says that "almost all the important books published in France in his time contain his exquisite plates" which "he engraved with a light point and with striking originality." He "took his inspirations direct from nature but added something of the ideal after the manner of Watteau and Boucher." The text contains biographies of and works by four important Greek poets: Anacreon sixth century B.C. Sappho b. ca. 612 B.C. Bion third century B.C. and Moschus second century B.C. The binding here is a perfect example of the kind of handsomely done French classical work produced for an extended period under the name of Chambolle. A rough contemporary of and certainly the equal in technique to binders like Trautz Marius Michel père Lortic and Cuzin the elder Chambolle served his apprenticeship under Hippolyte Duru and later formed a partnership with him as is clear from the stamped signature on our volume. Chambolle's son continued the business when his father retired in 1898 and in her "Modern Bookbindings" Sarah Prideaux says of her contemporary "Chambolle most worthily continues the traditions associated with the name of his father. . . . To him are confided the classics of former times which he clothes in the styles appropriate to them keeping to a simplicity of ornamentation which reveals great taste and feeling for composition.". Chez Le Boucher unknown
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179129736Parma: Giambattista Bodoni 1791. Two parts in one volume. The fine sedicesimo edition of 1791 with provenance of Herzog Albrecht Kasimir August von Sachsen-Teschen. Title with an engraved roundel with Anacreon's portrait by Giuseppe Lucatelli 1751-1828; the following leaf with engraved roundel portrait of the marquis Jose Nicolas de Azara. Text in Greek bound before the text in Latin. 16mo 102x68 mm in very fine contemporary red morocco executed by Georg Friedrich Krauss the leading Viennese binder for Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen. The boards framed within gilt Greek-key roll the smooth spine with author's name and imprint in gilt on double green morocco lettering-pieces four further compartments with the gilt initials 'AS' in fine gilt tools and additional gilt tooling these separated by flat bands trimmed in green morocco and gilt tooled green silk endpapers board edges gilt tooled and turn-ins with gilt dentelles a.e.g. blue silk ribbon marker. 4 120; 122 2 pp. A superb and beautiful copy the condition being essentially without flaw. A FINE COPY OF ANACREON BY THE PROMINENT PRINTER AND PUNCHCUTTER GIAMBATTISTA BODONI 1740-1813 OFFERED HERE IN A PRECIOUS MOROCCO BINDING FOR DUKE ALBERT OF SACHSEN-TESCHEN SON OF FRIEDRICH AUGUST 11 OF SAXONY KING OF POLAND. Albert had a well-known taste for the arts his collection of prints and drawings was one of the richest in all of Europe and he was the founder of the eponymous Albertina in Vienna.<br> In 1791 Bodoni printed two different editions of Anacreon one in octavo and the edition offered here in sedicesimo. The smaller Anacreon is one of the finest books ever executed by the great printer. The text is set in the Greek font he designed a few years prior which was based on one of Henri Estienne's 1554 types. His Greek font was highly admired all throughout Europe. The King of France as Bodoni once stated in a letter requested two copies of this beautiful gem of a book.<br> The very fine binding was executed by the leading Viennese binder Georg Friedrich Krauss. Krauss was active between 1791 and 1824 and was one of von Sachsen-Teschen principle binders.<br> Giambattista Bodoni hardcover
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159707Roma In Aedibus Athenaei 1958. XLIII219 p. Cloth. 22 cm Introduction text translation 'studio sui frammenti papiracei'In NP hardcover
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173631357AB1736. In Venezia Apresso Francesco Piacentini 1736. 4°. 3 Bl. 208 S. Mit 1 Portät. Pergamentband der Zeit. Die Übersetzer waren: Barnes Joshua; Corsini Bartolomeo; Marchetti Alessandro; Regnier de Marais François Séraphin und Salvini Anton Maria. Das Papier etwas stockfleckig. Der Einbandbzug fleckig und leicht verzogen. unknown
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