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187736295New York: Harper & Brothers 1877. A plate from the volume The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Measures roughly 36 x 46 cm 14 x 18". Small faint stain on the lower edge not affecting the image. A very good copy. ; Prints; 36 x 46 cm. Harper & Brothers unknown
187576484London:: Dore Gallery 1875. First edition thus; presentation copy inscribed by Dore on the original plain front wrapper to a contemporary publisher "A Monsieur Goupil Hommage Affectueux G. Dore.". rebound inappropriately in 20th c. gilt-lettered leatherette but with the original plain wrappers bound in. Custom clamshell box. Some scattered foxing and slight marginal waterstaining to a few leaves. Oversised folio. Illustrated by Gustave Dore: title page vignette frontispiece and 38 black and white plates. Additional postage charge applicable for this oversized book. Dore Gallery, hardcover
18771877SSNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1877. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very good-/no dj as issued. Gustave Dore. Harper & Brothers Publishers 1877 2nd edition. with illustrations by Gustave Dore. Hardcover. Folio 18.5 x 15" 47x38 cm Green cloth with gilt front cover and spine. 8 pages text 39 full-page platesmost with tissue guards. All edges gilt.<br /> <br /> Binding solid some soiling and scuffing bumped corners. Pages with some foxing mainly in the margins see photos. <br /> Beautifully written short gift inscription dated 'Christmas 1876 'on the front free endpaper. Overall very good-.<br /> May require extra postage due to size and weight. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
1887800248Pollard & Moss. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1887. Hardcover. A beautifully designed book with green cloth and gilt and maroon cover illustration. Covers show light wear at spine ends and corners. Bright and clean. All edges gilt. Owner name. Pages are on heavier stock and printed only to one side. Arranged with text page opposite Dore illustration page -- Paton illustration gathered together at end. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Pollard & Moss hardcover
187847198Harper & Brothers 1878. Hardcover - as published. Ex-library re-bound in a red cloth library binding. has library stamp. t.e.g. Folio. Page edges gutters have some damp stains the illustrations are not effected. Harper & Brothers hardcover
187846084New York: Harper & Brothers 1878. Very Good-. New York: Harper & Brothers 1878. Large folio 47.5cm; publisher's blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; 12pp. & 39 leaves of plates collated complete. Cloth quite rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends upper cover soiled with a number of faint ring stains white paint residue at spine foot contemporary inscription on title page else a Good to Very Good still bright and internally sound example of this masterpiece of verse and book illustration. Harper & Brothers unknown
1889B3688Philadelphia: Henry Altemus 1889. Boards sunfaded illegible inscription to title page in period hand otherwise a fine copy text and plates are clean and crisp. Binding: Contemporary ¼ white elaborately-gilt cloth with red cloth boards gilt title to upper board flat spine with seven densely-gilt compartments of giilt-tooled bands gilt text on two all edges gilt red and gold endpapers. Size: Folio. Illustration: Complete with 40 hors texte woodcuts depicting various scenes of Coleridge’s epic poem each one facing a text leaf from the poem. Pages: Foliation. 2 ff. half-title frontis title vignette leaf life of Coleridge 4 39 leaves of poetry 2 ff. Category: Book Literature; Book Plate Books General; Henry Altemus hardcover
18771310170005Harper & Brothers 1877. Third edition. Hardcover. Good. Elephant folio illustrated by Dore. 47 cm. Hardcover. Original brown cloth with gold seagull on front. Rebacked with later leather spine. Wear to cover edges. 12 p. illus. 39 pl. Clean unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Harper & Brothers hardcover
18881039510New York: Harper & Brothers 1888. Hardcover. Poor. Boards detached however the pages are still bound. Boards are a deep navy blue heavily worn. Title and front illustration is faded. Pages are toned but the illustrations are still sharp. Pictures upon request Harper & Brothers hardcover
18846903<p>New York: Harper & Brothers 1884. First American edition with Doré's illustrations. Binding and text very good; shipping box severely damaged but present. Oversized 47 x 37 cm; Wood-engraved title vignette after Elihu Vedder and 26 wood-engraved plates after Gustave Doré. Original gray cloth over beveled boards pictorially stamped in gold and black. Remarkably well-preserved copy in strong bright binding free of fraying or wear apart from insiginifcant rubbing at corners and minor soiling on lower board. Light waterstain at lower edge of initial leaves and at lower right corner of few interior leaves more noticeable toward last leaves. Few spots on text pages. "Nevermore" plate loose but present. Plates effectlvely clear and unmarred. ORIGINAL DEDICATED SHIPPING BOX virtually unobtainable blue paper over cardboard printed with "Poe's Raven Illustrated by Doré" in a fantastical font. Box is in deplorable condition broken and repaired with 20th-century masking tape some flaps missing stained and dusty but present <br /><br />The first American printing of Doré's last work and a signal edition of Poe's signature poem with original box.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover
187736313New York: Harper & Brothers 1877. Non-Book. A plate from the volume The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Measures roughly 36 x 46 cm 14 x 18". Small stain to lower edge not affecting image. A near fine copy. ; Prints; 36 x 46 cm. Harper & Brothers unknown
187736329New York: Harper & Brothers 1877. Non-Book. A plate from the volume The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Measures roughly 36 x 46 cm 14 x 18". A fine copy. ; Prints; 36 x 46 cm. Harper & Brothers unknown
185742522London: Addey and Co. 1857. First edition. Folio. 83 1 pp. Publisher's green cloth boards gilt lettered and decorated to the upper cover recently respined with matching corners in brown morocco in-keeping with the original binding. 12 plates. Some wear and discolouration to the boards occasional finger marking to the leaves plus small marginal tears at intervals with tissue repairs recurring damp stain cutting across the upper right margin of many of the plates sometimes touching the image. London: Addey and Co. unknown
187324640Philadelphia:George Gebbie Publisher 1873. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Philadelphia:George Gebbie Publisher. 1873. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 12 black/white engravings by Dore. Hardcover. Brown decorated boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with sun-fading to edges of boards and spine strip. There is a small hole to front gutter and top of spine end is worn and frayed. Internally a previous owners gift inscription to 2nd free endpage otherwise pages clean. Some tissue guards are age toned but plates are clean and bright. Philadelphia:George Gebbie, Publisher hardcover
187069952New York:: The Fine Art Publishing Company no date ca. 1870. . publisher's gilt-lettered decorated cloth. A light marginal dampstain affects the fore-edge throughout; approx. 4" x 3/4 inch. Old institutional ownership stamp on flyleaf and one of the tissue overleaves; no other library markings. Unobtrusive ink ownership signature on pastedown; some light marks and use to cloth. Folio. The Fine Art Publishing Company, hardcover
1890040913CHICAGO ILL.: BELFORD CLARKE & CO. BLUE CECORATIVE BOARDS CLEAN COPY. . VG. Hardcover. 1890. BELFORD, CLARKE & CO. hardcover
1866114492London: Cassell Petter and Galpin 1866. Hardbound. Fair. Portfolio in poor shape the sheets have scattered foxing and chipping to the edges and minor tears along edges not affecting plates. A reading copy or better. Large green cloth gilt embossed portfolio. vii pp text followed by the 12 plates. A good reading copy of a most difficult title to locate likely because of its elephantine size. Cassell, Petter and Galpin hardcover
189026055Chicago: Belford Clarke & Company 1890. Hardcover. g. Folio. Original gold-stamped and black illustrated brown cloth. Beveled edges. All gilt edges. Decorative patterned endpapers. Illustrated with 12 full-page b/w reproductions of drawings by French engraver illustrator and sculptor Paul Gustave Doré 1832-1883. The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on his way to the Crucifixion and then was cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming. Age wear scuffing and staining on binding. Joint on front board near head of spine bumped. Hinges starting. Tail of spine chipped. Foxing on title-page and blank leaf preceding title. Binding in fair interior in overall very good condition. Late 19th century edition with twelve of the most striking of Doré's imaginative works. Belford, Clarke & Company hardcover
1866B5284London: Cassell Petter and Galpin c. 1866. A fine and handsome example of this work. The text and plates are clean and crisp. . Binding: Contemporary full green cloth binding. Top board with gilt text and tooled borders. Notes: A superbly illustrated edition of the story of the Wandering Jew from the mid 19th century. The illustrations are set to a poem about the Wandering Jew by Pierre-Jean de Ranger. The story of the Wandering Jew dates back to the crucifixion of Christ. The story relates that as Jesus was being led to the spot of his crucifiction a Jewish man shouted insults at him and in response Jesus said “'Verily I say unto you There be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.†This meant that until the return of Christ this Jewish man would be forced to live and wander the earth. Of course over the centuries there have been “spottings†of the Wandering Jew. <br><br>Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré 1832 – 1883 was a French artist printmaker illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving.<br> Size: Large Folio 544x383mm. Illustration: Illustrated with 12 wood engravings by several engravers after illustrations by Gustave Dore. Pages: P. Blank. Half title. Title page. Introduction 3. Plates 1-12. Blank. Category: Book Plate Books General; Book Religious Christianity Cassell, Petter, and Galpin hardcover
1866816P2London: Cassell Petter & Galpin 1866. Cloth. Good. 21.5" by 15". Gustave Dore. A folio volume containing Gustave Dore's twelve engravings of the legend of the Wandering Jew a striking example of the Frenchman's art. A series of twelve folio sized illustrations by Gustave Dore on the legend of the Wandering Jew.The Wandering Jew is a mythical immortal man who is cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming. The Legend begun spreading in Europe in the thirteenth century.Dore was an eminent French artist of the nineteenth century perhaps best known for his illustrated edition of the Holy Bible.Collated complete.Undated dated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Cambridge Libraries. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally with some marks and rubbing to the boards and spine and some loss to the head of the spine. A few small cracks to the backstrip. Minor bumping to the extremities. Head of the rear board is a little discoloured. Hinges are strained. Closed tear to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots. Good Cassell Petter & Galpin hardcover
187365312Philadelphia Pa U. S. A.: George Gebbie. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1873. Second Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial green boards tight and square corners lightly bumped. Edgewear to top/bottom spine. Gilt titles and cover illust. Top-edge gilt. Tissue-guard overlays to 12 illust. B/w plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 15 pages . George Gebbie hardcover
186574340Boston:: De Vries Ibarra and Company 1865. First edition. publisher's beveled green gilt cloth. A lovely copy of an uncommon book. The corners are a little rubbed. 12mo. Illustrated by Colored Plates and Numerous Woodcuts after Gustave Dore Daubigny Timms and Others including a color frontispiece and ten color plates. . With an Introduction from Thomas Miller. De Vries, Ibarra, and Company, hardcover
187736299New York: Harper & Brothers 1877. A plate from the volume The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Measures roughly 36 x 46 cm 14 x 18". Small faint stain to lower edge not affecting image. A near fine copy. ; Prints; 36 x 46 cm. Harper & Brothers unknown
1874163583Stuttgart: Eduard Hallberger 1874. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner name on 2nd 3rd FEPs. Hinges starting. Rubbing along panel edges. Text block edges gilt. Illustrations by Gustav Dore. Text in German. Rare. Gorgeous illustrations by Gustave Dore.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Eduard Hallberger hardcover
187534760London Paris and New York: Cassell Petter and Galpin c. 1875. 2 volumes bound in one. Early Issue. With 220 full-page engravings by Gustave Doré. Thick Folio handsomely bound in a binding of three-quarter black morocco the spine with raised bands ruled and stopped in gilt red morocco label lettered in gilt in one compartment. xvi 1004 ii 186 323 pp. A handsome and clean copy of this spectacular Bible. This book is prone to heavy foxing but this copy has none to speak of. VERY SCARCE AND A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED EARLY PRINTED COPY OF THIS FINE EDITION OF DORE'S GREAT BIBLE. One of the most magnificent of the Doré illustrated books. A huge testament to Doré’s talent and a most impressive set in size and scope. These books are not commonly found in such condition due to the stress caused by the bulk of the text but this is a very sturdy copy and remains in excellent condition.<br> Gustave Doré was one of the greatest illustrators of his day. His grand and magnificent style is a wonderful complement for the greatest of all books. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin hardcover