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1824016667London: Printed for Sherwood Jones and Co 1824. Book measures 18x11.cm. xii3551pp coloured frontis. Bound in period half calf calf corners marble boards raised bands blind stamped tooling leather label. At some time the book has been rebacked retaining the original spine. Calf has minor abrasion wear. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally pages clean. A nice copy. F. Fifth Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. Small 8 Vo. Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co Hardcover
183442096London: Sherwood Gilbert & Piper. 1834. Seventh. Hardcover. Very Good-. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; x 467 1 24 ads pages; 1834 Seventh Edition. Original owner's signature at top of titlepage -- "J. Stanley M.D." also there is a note in the owner's hand on P. viii of the Preface indicating the address of the nursery owned by Mr. Gibbs who is mentioned there in the preface. Otherwise clean and tight in original cloth binding with printed title label at spine; label is roned and rubbed cloth at spine has a couple splits but binding quite secure. Notably the section on the Private Brewery was not included in the early editions of this classic work on animal husbandry and bee-keeping and according to the pPreface this is the first edition to include information on British wine making 45 pp. The author addresses this topic in two ways. First "the extensive and fraudful adulteration of foreign Wines in too many instances attended with fatal effects." Secondly with respect to domestic substitutes "consideration as to the most perfect mode of their manufacture" including management of casks fermentation the wine press Painshill water addition private family recipes etc. A nice example of this scarce book in the contemporary cloth binding. . Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper hardcover
183416139Sherwood Gilbert & Piper London 1834. Book Hardcover. Very Good. 7th edition. Illustrated book with three hand-coloured plates. Recently rebound in half-leather and brown cloth with new end-papers. Rough-cut pages. Occasional foxing spots. No marks or inscriptions. pp. pre-title frontis x 467 13 pages of ads for publisher's books. Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, London hardcover
1835D7020London et al: Simpkin and Marshall T. W. Stevens et al 1835. Hardcover. Very Good. Full green morocco ornate border gilt-stamped on boards details and lettering in gilt-stamped in spine compartments 5 raised bands inside gilt dentelles a.e.g.; 4to 8.25 x 10.75 inches; collates complete pp. iv 68 plus 78 engraved plates. Spine the slightest bit sunned; some light scuffing along joints; corners gently bumped. Internally pristine. <br/><br/> Simpkin and Marshall, T. W. Stevens, et al hardcover
1835D7020London et al: Simpkin and Marshall T. W. Stevens et al 1835. Hardcover. Very Good. Full green morocco ornate border gilt-stamped on boards details and lettering in gilt-stamped in spine compartments 5 raised bands inside gilt dentelles a.e.g.; 4to 8.25 x 10.75 inches; collates complete pp. iv 68 plus 78 engraved plates. Spine the slightest bit sunned; some light scuffing along joints; corners gently bumped. Internally pristine. <br/><br/> Simpkin and Marshall, T. W. Stevens, et al hardcover books
1828D2439Paris: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 210 x 132mm. viii cxlvi 48pp. notes and glossary. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved title with marginal vignettes of female personifications and muses by Richard Parkes Bonington. Illustrated throughout with 10 half-page lithographs printed on chine-collé carefully hand-colored heightened in gilt and mounted; six are by Richard Parkes Bonington and four are by Henry Monnier and 15 decorative initials highlighted with colors inspired by ornaments found on the Books of Hours printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 19th-century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands gilt doublures marbled endpapers all edges gilt; lightly foxed throughout miniatures remain bright and fresh; spine slightly scuffed. Armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens Junior to front pastedown. First Edition of this rare and unusual book OCLC locates only four copies all in German libraries. Férdinand Langlé littérateur dramatist and occasional necromancer focused his literary interests on the nostalgic and the romantic. In 1828 he edited Les Contes du Gay-Sçavoir a witty collection of medieval ballads and fables. The text is printed in Gothic characters and illustrated to imitate the style of medieval manuscript illumination; it is followed by endnotes and a glossary printed in Roman type. The major illustrator of the work Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter who also worked in lithography. He was a close and admired friend of painters Eugene Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros. Gordon Ray speaking of Bonington says his importance in the development of lithography can hardly be overstated.His designs for Vues pittoresques de lEcosse and Contes des Gay-Sçavoir are by no means negligible. Boningtons career as a lithographer was short but splendid. - Art of the French illus. book pp. 173 & 176. Fine fresh and bright rare colored copy of this nostalgic work on the medieval period. Brunet III 819; Carteret III p. 172 livre tres rare; Curtis 54-60; Ray 114 <br/><br/> Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan hardcover
1828D2439Paris: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 210 x 132mm. viii cxlvi 48pp. notes and glossary. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved title with marginal vignettes of female personifications and muses by Richard Parkes Bonington. Illustrated throughout with 10 half-page lithographs printed on chine-collé carefully hand-colored heightened in gilt and mounted; six are by Richard Parkes Bonington and four are by Henry Monnier and 15 decorative initials highlighted with colors inspired by ornaments found on the Books of Hours printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 19th-century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands gilt doublures marbled endpapers all edges gilt; lightly foxed throughout miniatures remain bright and fresh; spine slightly scuffed. Armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens Junior to front pastedown. First Edition of this rare and unusual book OCLC locates only four copies all in German libraries. Férdinand Langlé littérateur dramatist and occasional necromancer focused his literary interests on the nostalgic and the romantic. In 1828 he edited Les Contes du Gay-Sçavoir a witty collection of medieval ballads and fables. The text is printed in Gothic characters and illustrated to imitate the style of medieval manuscript illumination; it is followed by endnotes and a glossary printed in Roman type. The major illustrator of the work Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter who also worked in lithography. He was a close and admired friend of painters Eugene Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros. Gordon Ray speaking of Bonington says his importance in the development of lithography can hardly be overstated.His designs for Vues pittoresques de lEcosse and Contes des Gay-Sçavoir are by no means negligible. Boningtons career as a lithographer was short but splendid. - Art of the French illus. book pp. 173 & 176. Fine fresh and bright rare colored copy of this nostalgic work on the medieval period. Brunet III 819; Carteret III p. 172 livre tres rare; Curtis 54-60; Ray 114 <br/><br/> Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan hardcover books