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2600Concord Mass.: Sign of the Vine 1903. . 12 original blue paper-covered boards printed white paper label on front cover; printed in black and red; uncut and unopened. Bambace A62. The colophon reads "Arranged and put into type by Will Bradley and issued from the Sign of the Vine Concord Mass. 1903" Bambace notes "Printed at the Heinzeman Press in Boston. [Concord, Mass.: Sign of the Vine, 1903]. hardcover
1823177057London: Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon 1823. 1st Edition. Leather. 2 vols. 341p; 283p. FINE BINDINGS BY BAYNTUN. A set of two hardcover books bound in full golden-brown calf with gilt-decorated spines gilt dentelles gilt foredges and marbled endpapers. Very good condition overall! Edges of spines barely rubbed; the gilt detailing remains shiny and unmarred. In the ELIA volume there are some tiny ink spots in the margin of page 7 and pages 285-290 have tiny closed tears which have been delicately repaired. Tiny orange smudge on the side foredge. Light tanning along the edges of the free endpapers. Both volumes' pages have mild age-spotting and tanning but are otherwise unmarked and securely bound. Both volumes have two attached ribbon page markers. This copy of ELIA is the rare first edition from 1923. THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA is the first British edition from 1833; an unauthorized American edition was published earlier. Thomas Davison, for Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon unknown
18351004W3London: Edward Moxon 1835. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A pair of uncommon essay titles published under the pseudonym 'Elia' bound in half calf. An uncommon collection of essays written by Charles Lamb under his eponymous pseudonym.Lamb was a close personal friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was also in the circle of many other noted writers such as Percy Bysshe Shelley William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt.Bound in half calf and marbled boards and decorated with marbled endpapers and text block edges red morocco spine labels and elegant gilt tooling along the spines.Bookplates of a Thomas Appach to the front paste downs. Bound in half calf and marbled boards. Externally smart. Mild shelf wear. Small closed tear to paper at vol2 board fore edge. Small surface loss to leather at vol1 top front spine tip. Vol1 hinges starting between blanks. Gift ink inscription to front blank of both volumes. Bookplates to front paste downs. Internally firmly bound with occasional mild strain. Pages generally bright and clean with areas of spotting towards the very front and rear of the works. Slight fading to joints. Vol1 front free endpaper has been pasted to vol1 front blank. Slight dusting to text block top edges. Very Good Edward Moxon hardcover
1899324138London: Macmillan 1899. Leather. Good. 425p. FINE BINDING BY BICKERS & SON OF LEICESTER. A hardcover book bound in full brick-red leather with gilt decorations on the spine gilt trim on the boards and marbled edges and endpapers. Boards just starting to crack off from the top down but still well enough attached for mindful handling. Spine is a bit bleached by the sun. Corners are just starting to wear through. Foredges are rubbed making the marbling less vivid. Small scuff on front free endpaper where a price label was peeled off. Early owner's gift inscription on first blank page dated Christmas 1917. Front endpapers foxed; a few tiny yellow droplet stains on title page. Otherwise pages clean and tightly bound. Good condition overall. Introduction and notes to this edition by Alfred Ainger. Macmillan unknown
19159655Wilmington NC: Harriss Printing & Advertising Co 1915. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Octavo. 8 pp. illus. As issued in printed wrappers. Only minor soiling and wear to the wrappers. A nice copy of an uncommon and perhaps the first separate edition. <br /> <br /> Lamb's narrative was originally printed in Battles & Leaders 1887-8 see Dornbusch II 737. University of Virginia identifies this present edition as "1890 " but it is certainly a 20th century publication. Our research suggests that Harriss Printing & Advertising was active under that name from 1912 to the early 1920s. One may speculate this edition was issued in 1914 around the semicentennial of the battle. Whatever the case this is an extremely uncommon edition and likely the first separately printed of this interesting narrative of the North Carolina 2nd Artillery. Harriss Printing & Advertising Co unknown
200475508London: Burleque Press 2004. Small 8vo.Limited Edition. Limited edition no. 40 of 60 copies. Folding booklet with green leaves bound in grey card boards bearing an illustration of a sheep. Yan Tan Tethera is an ancient counting system used by Lake District shepherds to count their flocks. This counting rhyme is still chanted by Borrowdale shepherds as they gather in their flocks. Each time 'jiggot' is reached the shepherd pockets a stone to designate twenty sheep and the recitation is repeated. With an inscription 'from the printer' and doodle of half of a sheep to the colophon at the rear of the booklet. . Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. Limited Edition. 2004. Burleque Press 2004 hardcover
201732479AB2017. Limited Edition No.74 of 100 of a special signed edition. Kinsale Gandon Editions 2017. Quarto. 336 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent as new condition with the DVD "A Life of Colour" included in the rear of the publication this film is only included in the special edition. Extremely Rare ! The Definitive Biography of this seminal Ceramic and Textile Artist who influenced a generation of successful ceramic artists not only in Ireland. This wonderful publication includes for example the following sections: 1 - John Ffrench's Family Background 2 - Art Education and Making Friends Dublin 1945-1951 and Italy 1951-1955 3 - Kilkenny India Iceland and Kilkenny again A Year in Kilkenny 1956/ ffrench in India 1957-1959/ Iceland 1960 / Kilkenny 1960-1962 4 - Arklow Studio Pottery 1962-1969 5 - Stockbridge Massachusetts 1969-2010 - Silk-screen printing / Batik / Dolphin Studio Pottery 6 - Kinvara County Galway 1993-2010 The publication includes also a Bibliography and an Index hardcover
18356796London: Taylor and Hessey and Edward Moxon 1835. First edition and second edition. Fine. Lamb's Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark brown morocco with a dark green morocco pull-off case. Two volumes octavo. vi 341; xiii 295 pp. complete. Elaborate gilt spines in six compartments with raised bands. Gilt rule to boards and gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Teal coated endpapers. Small twentieth-century bookseller's ticket to lower flyleaves. A Fine fresh set in a beautiful binding.<br /> <br /> First edition second issue of Essays of Elia with both the Fleet Street and Waterloo addresses in the imprint bound without the terminal publisher's ads. Second edition of Last Essays of Elia which was first published by Edward Moxon in 1833.<br /> <br /> Lamb's accessible and conversational essays were published under the pseudonym Elia inspired by an Italian man that Lamb had known at the South Sea House and had appeared serially in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825. Despite his struggles with mental illness Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 would be celebrated for his literary contributions producing a range of material from essays to poems. Lamb belonged to an active literary circle which included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Fine. Taylor and Hessey [and] Edward Moxon unknown
18086413London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1808. First edition. Fine. A fine copy. Octavo 7 1/8 x 4 1/4 in; 181 x 108 mm. xii 484 pp. Designed and bound c. 1920 by Root & Son stamp-signed in full brown crushed morocco with double fillet and a secondary gilt-rolled frame with gilt corner-pieces and inlaid dots in green. Gilt decorated compartments top edge gilt.<br /> <br /> A delightful anthology of Elizabethan poets including Thomas Sackville Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe Thomas Decker Ben Jonson William Rowley John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont among many others. The texts were compiled by Charles Lamb who although he worked for the East India Company also published articles essays and poems. He was a good friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge contributing sonnets to his publications and moved in a political literary circle that included Shelley Byron Hazlitt and Hunt Gertz. This copy has been artfully bound by Root & Son. The London-based firm of W. Root & Son was active in from the late-19th until the 1941 Blitz destroyed their premises. The bindery was known for both fine leather bindings trade bindings and sets. Here their talents are displayed with a "Jansenist Style" binding that was first popular in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries identifiable by a plain exterior and elaborately tooled doublures. Fine. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown
19046493London: J.M. Dent & Co 1904. Fifth edition. Near Fine. Two volumes bound in one small octavo 180 x 105 mm. xxii 294 1 imprint 1 blank; xii 254 1 imprint 1 blank pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations including decorative head and tailpieces all by Charles E. Brock. Bound ca. 1905 by Cedric Chivers stamp-signed in gilt on rear lower turn-in. Bound in handsome green morocco with decorative gilt floral patterns on the front board encircling a "vellucent" title label. Spine with gilt titles and art nouveau floral pattern. All edges gilt pale green end papers. Spine toned previous owner's gift inscription on the first blank otherwise a fine copy overall.<br /> <br /> Patented in 1898 Chivers's "vellucent" bindings departed from traditional methods of creating hand-painted vellum bindings. The usual approach was to merely bind a book in vellum and then paint on a design but this is prone to rubbing and flaking and such examples are often now found chipped and deteriorated. In the 18th century Chivers's great predecessor Edwards of Halifax painted in reverse on the underside of translucent vellum thereby providing a layer of protection for the design. His technique was not widely copied and almost vanished with his death and it was not until the 1890s that Chivers developed his own similar method for protecting the design underneath the vellum itself - the backing sheet of the vellum was painted which was then covered in vellum which had been shaved to transparency. The vellum was then tooled in gilt on occasion incorporating additional mother-of-pearl and onlays. The books which Chivers thus bound have always been a favorite of collectors and usually still present well the vellum having served its purpose of protecting the design for many decades as Chivers intended. Chivers was also known to have employed a great many craftswomen at his bindery in Portway: "forty women for folding sewing mending and collating work and in addition five more women worked in a separate department to design illuminate and colour vellum for book decoration and to work on embossed leather. These five were Dorothy Carleton Smyth Alice Shepherd Miss J.D. Dunn Muriel Taylor and Agatha Gales" Tidcombe.<br /> <br /> This book brings together Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia first published in 1823 with the subsequent volume Last Essays of Elia issues in 1833. The accessible and conversational essays were published under the pseudonym Elia inspired by an Italian man that Lamb had known at the South Sea House and had appeared serially in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825. Despite his struggles with mental illness Charles Lamb 1775-1834 would be celebrated for his literary contributions producing a range of material from essays to poems. Lamb belonged to an active literary circle which included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Near Fine. J.M. Dent & Co unknown
19006329London: J.M. Dent & Co 1900. Second edition. Fine. Two volumes bound in one small octavo 6 15/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 177 x 103 mm. xxii 294 1 imprint 1 blank; xii 254 1 imprint 1 blank pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations including decorative head and tailpieces all by Charles E. Brock. Bound ca. 1906 in a fine pastel "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers stamp-signed in gilt on rear lower turn-in with a delicately hand-painted 'Art Nouveau' floral design. This binding is No. LXXXV on page 34 of the Cedric Chivers catalog "Books in Beautiful Bindings." The front cover with three red flowers and a green vine design enclosing the title "The Essays And The Last Essays of Elia. Charles Lamb". Lower cover with a similar design but with just one red flower. Smooth spine similarly decorated and lettered in watercolor and gilt gilt ruled turn-ins mottled pale-green liners and end-papers all edges gilt. Neat ink inscription dated "Xmas 1906" on front blank. A very fine example housed in the original fleece-lined green cloth slipcase missing the movable spine panel.<br /> <br /> Patented in 1898 Chivers's "vellucent" bindings departed from traditional methods of creating hand-painted vellum bindings. The usual approach was to merely bind a book in vellum and then paint on a design but this is prone to rubbing and flaking and such examples are often now found chipped and deteriorated. In the 18th century Chivers's great predecessor Edwards of Halifax painted in reverse on the underside of translucent vellum thereby providing a layer of protection for the design. His technique was not widely copied and almost vanished with his death and it was not until the 1890s that Chivers developed his own similar method for protecting the design underneath the vellum itself - the backing sheet of the vellum was painted which was then covered in vellum which had been shaved to transparency. The vellum was then tooled in gilt on occasion incorporating additional mother-of-pearl and onlays. The books which Chivers thus bound have always been a favorite of collectors and usually still present well the vellum having served its purpose of protecting the design for many decades as Chivers intended. Chivers was also known to have employed a great many craftswomen at his bindery in Portway: "forty women for folding sewing mending and collating work and in addition five more women worked in a separate department to design illuminate and colour vellum for book decoration and to work on embossed leather. These five were Dorothy Carleton Smyth Alice Shepherd Miss J.D. Dunn Muriel Taylor and Agatha Gales" Tidcombe.<br /> <br /> This book brings together Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia first published in 1823 with the subsequent volume Last Essays of Elia issues in 1833. The accessible and conversational essays were published under the pseudonym Elia inspired by an Italian man that Lamb had known at the South Sea House and had appeared serially in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825. Despite his struggles with mental illness Charles Lamb 1775-1834 would be celebrated for his literary contributions producing a range of material from essays to poems. Lamb belonged to an active literary circle which included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Fine. J.M. Dent & Co unknown
1910TK0294London:: Chapman & Hall ca.1910-25. 1910. 8vo. vi 393 2 pp. Original full rouge calf simple gilt-rules raised bands gilt spine title all edges gilt marbled endsheets by Henry Young & Sons Ltd. Liverpool. Very good. With a recent fore-edge painting showing some women punting a rowboat in a small river. Commissioned or painted by a house artist for Harrington's ca. 1990s-2010. c340/101 Chapman & Hall, [ca.1910-25]. hardcover
189981241East Aurora:: The Roycroft Shop 1899. No. 141 of 970 copies signed by Elbert Hubbard. publisher's gilt-lettered limp suede with yapp edges with perior woven doublures neatly added over the pastedowns from and rear. Elegant 1899 ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; spine and edges of the leather a little faded . 8vo. With elaborate hand-drawn initial letters in colors. . McKenna 40. The Roycroft Shop, hardcover
1816855B6London : Henry Colburn 1816. Leather. Good. 7" by 4". None. A three volume set of the third edition of Glenvaron. Third edition copies published in the same year as the first edition. Complete in the three volumes. Glenarvon was Lady Caroline Lamb's first novel and created a sensation when in was published. Lady Caroline Lamb was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist best known for this novel. With all three engraved title pages but no half title pages and no advert page. Collated. With a bookplate for John Rutherford to each front pastedown. In half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally smart with some rubbing to the spines more to the head and tails. Some rubbing to the joints and fading to the boards. With a bookplate for John Rutherford to each front pastedown. Pencil inscription to the title page of vol. 1. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Good Henry Colburn hardcover
40762London: Printed for J Godwin at the Juvenile Library 1809. Second edition 12mo 4 viii 9-179 1 advertpp. engraved frontispiece marbled endpapers front endpaper loose later dark green crushed morocco joints worn spine lettered direct all edges gilt. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of C. L. F. Robinson Newport R.I.; red leather label of Carson Brevoort. London: Printed for J Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 1809 hardcover
1809100381London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library 1809. Second edition. 12mo. Frontispiece and 23 plates all hand-colored. 4 136 2 2 ads pp. Contemporary half red morocco; damage to tail end of spine some discoloration to plates Published anonymously and now ascribed to Charles Lamb.REFERENCES: Gumichian 3594 Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library unknown
183153692London: Edward Moxon 1831. First Edition. Full leather. Fine. 36p Duodecimo.illustrated by Robert Cruikshank without printed attribution. A fine fresh copy in early 20th century full deep red crushed morocco by Riviere and Son. Original wraps retained and bound in at rear. Floral gilt compartments gilt rules and all edges gilt. Handsome bookplate contemporary to the binding on the front paste-down. Uncommon. Fine. Hardcover. $450.00 53692 <br /> <br/><br/> Edward Moxon hardcover
1866L014532Edward Moxon 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A UNIQUE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY. This unique fine bound copy is extra-illustrated with the insertion of 36 19th-century portraits and views mainly engravings most expertly inlaid to size a few tipped-in on special leaves. Bound in full tan 19th-century calf spine with raised bands brown morocco label and elaborate gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments covers bordered with twin gilt rules and gilt floral devices at corners gilt inner dentelles brown marbled endpapers all edges gilt. wear chiefly to spine edges; some bumping to corners particularly top edges. viii 252plates extra illustrations.5 Engraved Plates 36 Extra Plates. Edward Moxon hardcover
183677489London:: Edward Moxon. 1836. A New Edition. First issue of the second series. old half blue levant morocco; t.e.g. A few minuscule scuffs to the bindings; tight and sound; contents fine. 8vo. School prize copy with the school's circular emblem on the front cover and ms. ink inscription in Vol. I. Recipient's elegant engraved bookplate in each volume. Edward Moxon. unknown
1823AQ35118London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1823. 4 341pp 1. Without half-title. Later blind-ruled half-calf marbled paper boards with contrasting gilt-tooled red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Marbled endpapers A.E.G. Very lightly rubbed and scored. With a tipped-in contemporary newspaper clipping announcing the work's publication to verso of FFEP. Browning and spotting to terminal and initial leaves. The first edition second issue of the collected essays of Charles Lamb 1775-1834; the essays had initially appeared in John Scott's London Magazine between 1820 and 1825 under the pseudonym 'Elia'. Lamb's sketches drawing in a semi-autobiographical manner from his own experiences and correspondence utilised a conversational and personable dramatic persona allowing for a more naive and whimsical take on contemporary events. A second series Last Essays of Elia appeared in 1833. . First edition second issue. 8vo. Printed for Taylor and Hessey hardcover
1828304322Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey 1828. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. 230 2 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Original printed yellow-coated boards pink linen spine with fine paper labeluncut. Scattered foxing throughout. Half crimson morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. The American precedes the English issue of the Second Series. 230 2 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. This is an unauthorized edition. The true "Second Series" was not published in England until 1833 under the title of "The Last Essays of Elia." The editor of this present edition mistakenly included two essays by Bryan Waller Proctor and one by Allan Cunningham Roff. With a copy of the second American edition of the First Series. Roff p. 157; American Imprints 33813 CSmH; PPL. Provenance: Mrs. J. Insley Blair Blairhame bookplate; Sotheby's New York 3 December 2004; Robert S Pirie bookplate Carey, Lea and Carey unknown
1833232748London: Edward Moxon 1833. First edition first issue of the first series; first English edition of the second series. 2 341; xii 283 pp.; without the half-title in volume one; and without ad leaves in either. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full chestnut morocco gilt t.e.g. others uncut by Stikeman & Co. N.Y. Fine. First edition first issue of the first series; first English edition of the second series. 2 341; xii 283 pp.; without the half-title in volume one; and without ad leaves in either. 2 vols. 8vo. An irresistible copy of Lamb's classic essays. Grolier English 74; Tinker 1457 & 1458; Ashley III pp. 50 53; Livingston/Roff pp. 149ff 185ff Edward Moxon unknown
18288675Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey 1828. True First Edition and First American Edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Scattered foxing throughout. Original printed yellow-coated boards linen spine uncut. Worn much of spine torn-away new endpapers. True First Edition and First American Edition. 1 vols. 12mo. This is an unauthorized edition. The true "Second Series" was not published in England until 1833 under the title of "The Last Essays of Elia." The editor of this present edition mistakenly included two essays by Bryan Waller Proctor and one by Allan Cunningham Roff. Livingston p. 157 Carey, Lea and Carey unknown
18288671Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey 1828. First American Edition of Elia True First and First American Edition of Elia. Second Series. 2 vols. 12mo. Full blue morocco elaborately gilt gilt dentelles marbled endpapers t.e.g. other edges uncut by Pomey. Volume two with ownership stamps and signature on title page with part eradicated. A very attractive pair. First American Edition of Elia True First and First American Edition of Elia. Second Series. 2 vols. 12mo. "Elia" volume one is a reprint of the original London edition. "Elia. Second Series" volume two is an unauthorized edition. The true "Second Series" was not published in England until 1833 under the title of "The Last Essays of Elia." The editor of this present edition mistakenly included two essays by Bryan Waller Proctor and one by Allan Cunningham Roff. Livingston p. 153 157-8 Carey, Lea, and Carey unknown
182853688Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey 1828. First American Edition First Printing. Original Boards. Very good. First American editions of both volumes and the first complete edition as the second volume was not published in England until 1833 the first American edition was unauthorized. The term "second edition" appears on the title page of volume I because the first edition had been published in London in 1823; all copies of the first American edition bear this "second edition" statement. Both volumes are in the original boards. Volume I is in blue unprinted boards with cream paper spine and spine label this appears to be a variant binding as most others we've seen were in yellow printed boards. Front outer joint partly cracked spine a bit cupped but an otherwise clean bright untrimmed copy; about very good. Volume II is very good or better in the publisher's yellow printed boards with red muslin spine and spine label. Mild wear to corners but a very sharp sound example. Occasional very light foxing to both volumes but much less so than usual. Both volumes bear the leather bookplates of Arthur M. Brown as well as another early 20th century bookplate. Volume I also has another bookplate and ownership signature both belonging to minor poet and Episcopal priest Charles West Thomson. It is likely that this set was married around the turn of the century. Housed in green cloth dust jackets with gilt spine titles and matching slipcases with green morocco edges. Very good. Hardcover. <br /> <br />The first collected editions of these much-loved essays by Charles Lamb which appeared in the London Magazine in the early 1820s. Those editions being highly ephemeral and difficult to obtain this partly pirated American edition represents the first reasonably obtainable complete edition of his collected essays. <br /> <br />Often found rebound or in rough condition this is an appealing set. <br /> <br/><br/> Carey, Lea and Carey hardcover