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188318111601Paris: P. Ducrocq 1883. Hardcover. Very good. Edmond Morin; Gerlier; Fortune Meaulle. Octavo size 222 pp. in French. "Les Accidents de l'Enfance" is a series of stories depicting children in horrible accidents framed as a warning and advice to children to listen to their parents and to not get into trouble. The stories are accompanied by a variety of illustrations of the accidents described in the text by French illustrator and engraver Edmond Morin 1824-1882 who illustrated many books and periodicals such as "Children's Week" French illustrator Gerlier and Fortune Meaulle 1844-1901 a French engraver best known for providing engravings for Victor Hugo's "The Toilers of the Sea" based on drawings by Francoise Chifflart 1825-1901. <br/><br/>This volume has a lovely cloth binding with bright gilt floral patterns on the front board; it is one of only a very few online as of this writing.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full red cloth with title inside floral pattern in black and gilt inside gilt ruled borders on the front board gilt lettering and floral decorations on the spine black floral pattern with publisher's name inside black ruled border bevelled boards all edges gilt blue endpapers frontispiece a black-and-white illustration by Edmond Morin title page with publisher's device in black black-and-white engraved headpieces by Gerlier and Meaulle throughout black-and-white drawings by Morin throughout; octavo size 8.25" by 5.5" pagination: i-vi 1-216. Please note the text is in French.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is very good with a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; boards are clean overall with some slight soiling some rubbing to the edges of the board to the corners and to the head and tail of the spine sunning to the spine and some minor foxing to some of the interior pages. Although the exterior has some wear the interior pages are clean overall and the text block is strong with bright gilt on the front board.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. P. Ducrocq hardcover books
19711187927Boston: Godine 1971. First/Limited Edition. Approx. 8.5" x 11.75" VG hardcover in black quarter-leather with gilt lettering in VG dark denim blue slipcase with marbled olive/blue paper-covered sides. This copy is one in a Limited Edition of 100 quarter-leather bound by hand; the artist has SIGNED on the colophon and hand-numbered this copy #XVII. Rubbing to corners and spine ends of slipcase and boards with mild color loss to marbled sides of case. Interior clean and tight throughout. Shelve with Folio Society. 1187927. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Godine unknown books
001420London: Dean and Son. First edition presumed. Paper on boards. Fair. N.d. circa 1850s. Folio 13.5 by 10 inches. Not paginated 33 leaves including title page with printing on only one side per leaf. Wonderful hand-colored illustrations by unnamed artists but many with the qualiy of Tenniel. Some form part of a loose story narrative and others are part of a looser verse bond. Particularly appealing are the feline illustrations which come in several places most notably part of "The Cat Party". The leaves do not appear to have been bound in a proper order as this particular narrative moves in reverse. It is all somewhat chaotic yet charmingly so. Also a stand-out is the imagery of the "London Toy Warehouse". While some of the animal imagery is straightforward and pedestrian this is more than dominated by that which is humorous unexpected and inspired. The book was surely intended both to instruct and amuse and it is this twin objective that underlies its dual tone. The boards which are covered by illustrated paper pasted on are soiled and chewed up in the corners and the edges are rough. There are a fair number of closed tears inside near the front that were less than deftly repaired with tape some of which remains. Some soilage throughout. Still most of the imagery remains bright and appealing. <br/><br/> Dean and Son hardcover books
1981007980Millbank London and New Haven CT: Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Massive catalogue of British Sporting and Animal Prints from the Paul Mellon Collection. 257 pages. A fine oversized clothbound book in very good unclipped dustwrapper with some creases and closed tears to base of front panel. <br/><br/> Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art hardcover books
1926175197Paris: Collection des Arts 1926. Limited this being Number 212 of 365 copies. Paperback. VG. Printed cream wraps with remnants sof glassine jacket. 80 pp. with 11 full-page ttissue guarded color plates and 18 additional color illustrations within the text as well as 4 bw illustrations. Text is in French. One of 300 copies printed of De Rives Paper. Collection des Arts paperback books
183320466London: Chapman and Hall 1833. Cloth. Very Good. 2 xviii 2 1-464 1-ad pages frontis. Publisher's cloth blindstamped and gold stamped decorations. Rebacked with original spine laid down. All edges gilt. 4 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Generally bright and clean internally noting a '139' on the front flyleaf perhaps from a lending library. Wear at the extremities now a sound working copy. Cloth. Covers various topics targetted at youth including mechanics hydraulics hydrostatics pneumatics acoustics pyronomics optics electricity galvanism and magnetism. Engravings by E. Landells. Chapman and Hall unknown books
14441Lot of 2 Original engraving of Horse Saddle Printsfrom: Diderot: Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences les Arts liberaux et les Arts mechaniquesPublished: 1763 Sheetsize: 39 x 26 cm. Very good condition. unknown books
1976244306New York: Library of Keepsakes 1976. Hardcover. 51p. 4.75x7.25 inches decoative endpapers forword illustrated with wood engravings personal inscription signed by Asimov on half-title sunning to spine otherwise very good first edition thus in green boards and gilt. Printing Week Library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes #23. Three short stories by Asimov that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1974 reprinted to observe the Bicentennial and Benjamin Franklin's 270th birthday. The stories concern Benjamin Franklin his philosophy his patriotism and his ghost who is speaking the authorial "I" Asimov himself. Library of Keepsakes hardcover books
14442Horse Saddle Prints Published in 1763 Original engraving from: Diderot:Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences les Arts liberaux et les Arts mechaniques Paris France Published: 1763 Sheetsize: 39 x 26 cm. unknown books
1929136253London: The Blackmore Press / Harper and Brothers 1929. First Edition. First Edition preceded by a French edition titled "Le voyageur sur la terre" 1927. One of 350 copies this being No. 56 printed on watermarked Rives vellum. Quarter-bound blue cloth cream calf gilt rule top page edges and spine titles. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted bibliophile Ruth Helen Kaufmann with her bookplate on the front pastedown. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket housed in a Very Good example of the original slipcase. Jacket spine toned with a small puncture and brief chipping at the extremities. Slipcase extremities faded long split to one bottom edge. The Blackmore Press / Harper and Brothers unknown books
1900D9232c. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Mottled cloth; oblong 170 x 140 mm; contains 50 photographs mounted direct to the recto and verso of black leaves. Most are silver prints plus a platinum a large image of breaking waves and a cyanotype; average size about 4 x 2.75 inches with some a bit smaller or larger. Backstrip torn; a few leaves detached. Taken by or related to an artist who appears to have specialized in architectural ornamentation. Includes snapshots depicting figures and buildings from different vantage points views of the studio including a close-up of drawings pinned to the wall a besmocked artist in front of an easel scenes of family a besmocked artist in front of an easel. And kittens! Plus a cyanotype of a classroom. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1931135672London: Golden Cockerel Press 1931. Limited edition 360/500 copies this one bound by Sangorski and Sutcilffe. Hardbound. VG very faint evidence of small label at base of leather spine faint. Half-leather with patterned cloth-covered boards. 66 pp.6 large and small engravings. Signed by the author on the Limitation page. Very nice copy. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1845007972London: Printed for Thomas Tegg 1845. Very Good in contemporary half pebbled brown morocco over marbled boards spine with five raised bands and lettered in gilt marbled end papers the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down along with a small bookseller's label. Prior owner name top edge verso front end page. Boards rubbed at edges binding solid contents quite clean and unmarked. A scholar's copy. . New Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Printed for Thomas Tegg Hardcover books
192534365Bale: Heufeld & Henius 1925. Limited. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 48 handsomely printed color plates mounted on heavy art paper protected with numbered tissue guards. No text other than title and list of plates. Slim folio original 1/2 blue calf over patterned boards with ornate gilt-decorated spine. Bale: Heufeld & Henius no date circa 1925. A very good copy of this unusual book.<br/><br/> One of 260 numbered copies.<br/><br/> Heufeld & Henius unknown books
1935WRCLIT20880Np: Published by the Author 1935. Small folio. Gilt cloth. Frontis and twenty plates several on folding sheets. First edition. One of only 60 numbered copies printed for private distribution. Extremities a bit shelfworn but a good copy of an interesting and uncommon book. Published by the Author hardcover books
1958263089New York: Thomas Yoseloff Inc 1958. Signed. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. #23 of 100 copies Signed by Robert Graves and illustrator James Metcalf. The dustjacket presents nicely with small chip at the top of the spine and two small chips at the top of the rear panel. There is modest loss to the bottom of the spine and a piece at the bottom has been reattached from the verso using heat-set tissue. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Thomas Yoseloff, Inc unknown books
1912292504Richmond: Clarence E. Weaver; W. C. Hill Print. Co 1912. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Issued in the Spring of 1912 this tourist guidebook has photographic illustrations throughout accompanied with explanatory text. 48 pp. plus 2 ads. Rebound in burgundy cloth with the printed wrappers bound in. Illustrations throughout. Because of the protection of the later binding the wrappers are quite bright.~With the bookplate of Claude Monteiro of Richmond descendant of Confederate surgeon Aristides Monteiro.~~This guidebook is local item for us. Having said that this is but the second copy we have had. Uncommon with but a single copy found on OCLC. Good binding. Clarence E. Weaver; W. C. Hill Print. Co unknown books
189340313Paris: Damascène Morgand 1893. First edition no. 571 of 550 copies on Papier Vergé of a Total Edition of 600. 675 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in three quarter green morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. Fine. First edition no. 571 of 550 copies on Papier Vergé of a Total Edition of 600. 675 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Damascène Morgand unknown books
19579011607New York: Museum of Modern Art 1957. Hardcover. Fine condition in a very good folder. Leonard Baskin. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Bound in publisher's original wrappers in a paper covered folder. The folder is sunned and has closed tears to the extremities and water stains to the back cover. <br/><br/> Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
1923210503006Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. White Ethelbert. No. 200 of 320 copies on paper duodecimo size 49 pp. Edmund Spenser 1552/3 to 1599 is probably best known for his epic poem "The Faerie Queene" an ode to Elizabeth I. Even today he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. <br/><br/>This work "The Wedding Songs" is a publication uniting two works which were published a year apart both dealing with love and romance.<br/><br/>According to "Chanticleer" this is the first work of the Press to be illustrated with wood-engravings; however they go on to state that "there is no great feeling of harmony between the engravings and the type" p. 16. We find the three wood-engravings charming; Ethelbert White 1892-1972 was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society beginning his career with water colour but being introduced to wood-engraving in 1920. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter linen white paper spine label with black lettering blue paper sides over boards fore- and bottom edges uncut the frontispiece one of three wood engravings and the only one in three colours rust green and yellow the other two only in rust; Caslon type on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper duodecimo size 7 3/8" by 4 1/2" pagination: 1-8 9-46 47 final wood-engraving 48 colophon 49 publisher's device; no. 200 of the 320 copies on paper per the colophon; per the bibliography there were 350 copies on paper there were an additional 25 copies on Japanese vellum. In the original plain glassine dust jacket. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume near fine with clean boards perfectly straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright with many signatures still unopened and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light sunning at the top edge the glassine wrapper was cut a bit short else fine. The glassine wrapper very good entire the spine sunned and with several tears and chips along the spine. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Chanticleer no. 14. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
372Lithographic transfer. c. 1900. Image: 10½ x 7¼. Margins: 14¾ x 11½. unknown books
1964240569Iowa City: Printed for the author at The Stone Wall Press 1964. Hardcover. 20p. 8x5 inches landscape layout preface woodcuts tissue guards rubricated title page #169/250 limited first edition thus in sewn blue boards and gilt. Printed for the author at The Stone Wall Press hardcover books
1924WRCLIT61967New York: The Grolier Club 1924. xiv89pp. plus frontis and 28 plates. Large octavo. Boards paper spine label. Extremities shelfworn with some chipping to spine extremities internally near fine. First edition board bound issue. One of three hundred copies printed at the Gilliss Press. 125 items were exhibited with extensive annotations including biographical information on the artists. The Grolier Club hardcover books
1924007589Berkshire England : The Golden Cockerel Press 1924. #333 of 380 copies 350 of which were for sale. Vellum spine over handmade patterned paper boards gilt lettering at spine Near Fine petite period bookplate front paste down the usual toning to front and rear end pages. An essay taken from "Walden or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau 46 pp. with wood engravings in blue by Robert Gibbings. A lovely tight copy that feels unread. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Vellum Over Handmade Paper Boa. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Golden Cockerel Press Hardcover books
449Lithograph from Views of Paris. c. 1840. Lithographs with hand-coloring. With stamp of publishers Goupil & Cie. editeurs. Image: 6¾ x 10¾. Margins: 11 x 16¾. unknown books
