Scarce. Red cloth over boards with stamped detailing to boards and gilt detailing and particulars to boards and spine. Corners rubbed. Contains penciled notes from a previous owner to endpaper and first page. No other inscriptions. Pages bright and clean. 4 x 6 inches. First Edition. View More...
Publisher:
London, Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the Author : 1685
Seller ID: 7514
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ogilby by P. Lombart after P. Lely engraved plate of Aesop among his animals, and eighty-one engraved plates illustrating the fables by Cleyn most of which were cut by Hollar. The work first appeared in folio in 1665, with 82 fables each with its own full-page illustration (save one plate representing two fables) printed on a separate leaf, with accompanying letterpress text. Hollar was responsible for 57 of the illustrations & the print depicting Aesop. Period debossed full calf with handsome recasing in a fine morocco. Engraved frontispiece portrait cut and... View More...
Publisher:
London, Printed for the Author, and Sold by William Flexney : 1762
Seller ID: 4999
Three slender half calf quarto volumes bound in two: [iv], 56; [iv], 57-113. Handsomely marbled boards and end papers. Hinge to volume I/II with losses but firm. Scarce in uniform binding with half titles. First Edition. View More...
To the narrow spine: "London Stage. Price Three Pence. Published by Sherwood, Jones and Co. Paternoster Row." This publisher's price is not found in the bound editions of London Stage. Cruikshank's signature and (probably most importantly) Cohn's definitive label all point to this as the first issue (Cohn's 'original number') before the plays were bound. Cf. Richard J. H. Douglas, "The Works of George Cruikshank" (London, 1903) #79 & Cohn's #615 for the 1830 edition: "Tom Thumb. A Burletta." Blue rampant Lion stamp affixed to p. 12. Late nineteenth century folding paper case separated, creas... View More...
Number 23 of only 250 copies. Aesthetic cardboard covers. Gilt particular to front and spine. Large paper. Deckle end papers. Blank recto of limitation page discolored. View More...
Two-volume set. Red pebbled cloth over boards. One hundred etchings on thick stock with tissue guards by various famous French etchers as well as three hundred half-page illustrations by Gustave Dore. Green decorated endpapers. As the paper spine labels state, this is an Edition De Luxe. Shows wear to head and tail of spine of Volume One; darkening to spines; some discoloration to boards; lsome tearing to right edge of printed paper spine label of Volume One; corners slightly rubbed; tear to edge of rear board of Volume One. Despite some exterior wear; pages bright and clean. No previous owner... View More...
Bound in brown cloth; gilt decor. Bookplate to pastedown. Minor foxing throughout. ; 356 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition. View More...
Conforms nicely to Blanck 1683 re. p. 18 orientation, Harper's code & end papers. True first, not a nearly or mixed. BAL 3683. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Half calf; five raised bands, gilt title to spine. Wear to front board hinge. Bookplate to front pastedown. Small blue star to front pastedown. Otherwise a nice copy without previous owner's names or other markings. ; 316 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
Two volumes bound as one in half blue morocco. Top edged gilt, others deckle. Fore edge corners bumped. Gilt particulars to spine. A handsome clean copy in a fine binding & without previous owners' names or other markings. 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches View More...
Half ruled olive morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands and gilt particulars to faded spines. Some wear to edges and hinges. Marbled endpapers. Uniformly bound but not uniformly numbered on limitation pages. Spine of Volume one discolored, otherwise nice clean copies without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
Full mottled calf. Gilt particulars to spine. Gilt rolled edges. Marbled edges and endpapers. Translated to Latin by Caux de Capreval in service to la Cour Palatine. "Nouvelle edition revue avec le plus grand foin d'apres celle de Deux-Ponts corrigee." Scarce copy bound nicely. Marks in front and title page. Slight bookworm damage to rear's bottom corner (see image). 408pp. View More...
Nice copy in scarce original wraps. Mallocks' name added in script. Chips to edges of wraps (see image). Includes receipt from Wm. Matthews, Bookseller 9 March 1990. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 32 [2 ads] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition. View More...
Professionally rebound in elegant marbled boards over dark green calf with 4 raised bands, gilt particulars, and red calf label to spine. New endpapers, although original first and last free pages also present. As described in book's advertisement: "[The letters] are genuine, but broken and interrupted sketches of a life spent in the most remote obscurity." Previous owner's name in in ink to first free page (J. W. Rogers). Lady referenced in the title is Mrs. Philip Schuyler (Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler), mother of Alexander Hamilton's wife Elizabeth Schuyler. Closed 1 inch tear to page ... View More...
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