Search Results: Fine Binding from EGR books

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Large folio. Beautiful and intricate binding. Gilt-edge text block. Twenty-three full page engraved portraits. Internally clean overall with foxing to the tissue guard. Minimal rubbing/wear to spine and tips. A gorgeous book. Additional shipping may be required.

FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 8vo, 213 x 124, pp. [iv], 270, with errata on verso of half-title, Corners worn, spine rubbed. Translator- William Beloe. Very scarce in English edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, 109 volumes. Believed to be the second (2nd) edition. Engraved additional pictorial title in each volume, 48 engraved portraits, contemporary tree calf gilt, roll-tool borders to sides, flat spines in six compartments, marbled endpapers, and green and red morocco lettering and number labels. Interior pages are clean with very little foxing. Volumes are in Fine condition with little wear with one exception. The original volume 95 is missing and has been replaced by volume 95 from the 1807 reprint edition published by Cadell, Davies and Samuel Bagster. The front board of this replacement volume is detached. Edinburgh, at the Apollo Press, [for John Bell], [1778-1784]. A beautiful set comprising the work of approximately 50 poets.
Photos of the complete set coming soon.

Hardcover Condition: Fine. 1st edition, 1st issue. 624 pages. Almost no foxing. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere. Five raised bands with gilt image of Charles Dickens on cover and facsimile of Charles Dickens' signature on rear. Text block edges in gilt. Beautiful end papers. An exceptional copy. First edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Forty plates Including frontis. Half-title is present.Additional shipping for international orders.

London: Macmillan 1897. 8vo, Rebound by Bayntun-Riviere. First English Edition, illustrations by I.W. Taber. Gilt page block. Clean throughout. Rebound with original covers inserted in back.

Hardcover. 2nd Edition. VG. Bound by Charles Hering, the most distinguished and influential English binder of the first decade of the 19th century. Binding signed. Edge wear along spine, boards, and tips. Full s. q. morocco elaborately decorated in gold. Silk end papers and partial leather dentelles. Moderate foxing. Gilt text block. Folding facsimile plate in Greek and errata page. Charles Hering from Göttingen/Germany, was called "the artistic successor to Roger Payne, the doyen of English bookbinders". He worked for Lord Spencer and the statesman Thomas Grenville. The wealthy and famous West End clientele such as Lord Byron frequented his shop at 34 St. Martin's Street.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Rare. The De Vinne Press (printed, not published). Copy No. 35 of an unknown number. Introduction by Katrina Trask's husband, Spencer Trask. Signed by Spencer Trask. Vellum paper. Velvet end papers. Locking clasp. Written by Katrina Trask after two of her children died tragically, 3 days apart - Spencer, Jr., age 5 and Christina, age 11. In 1888, Katrina Trask suffered from diphtheria. A doctor allowed Christina and Spencer Jr. to visit her. Both contracted the infectious disease and died within two days of each other, but Katrina Trask recovered. A year later, the final Trask child died three days after birth. A few years prior to these tragedies, their first son, Alan, had died at the age of 4 and a half.Spencer Trask (September 18, 1844 – December 31, 1909) was an American financier, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He was the director of several railroads and the president of the Edison Illuminating Company of New York. Beginning in the… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Beautifully bound in 3/4s calf with marbled boards. Brown endpapers and red edges. Five raised, ribbed bands. Gilt spine title. Some wear to extremities and rubbing to boards. Binding is tight and square. A collector's copy.Robert Chambers (10 July 1802 – 17 March 1871) was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner, William Chambers, was highly influential in mid-19th-century scientific and political circles. Large item. Extra shipping may be required.

First Edition. Thick book. in full publisher's decorated leather. A history of the Olympic Games published just prior to the 1928 games in Amsterdam. Full color & other illustrations throughout. Near Fine condition. A few of scuffs to tips and edges. Top 1/5 of front leather cover is slightly sun faded, Front cover has small eraser-head size push. A beautiful book in beautiful condition. Large book. Extra shipping costs.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Rebound. Beautifully rebound in full crimson morocco, full leather dentelles, ruled and decorated in gilt, silk endpapers.. This is the Certaldo Edition of The Decameron is limited to fifteen hundred and fifty sets. Volume I has 538 pages. Some rubbing to the extremities. This is the Certaldo Edition of The Decameron is limited to fifteen hundred and fifty sets. Volume I has 538 pages, illustrated. Volume II has 549 pages. Volume II has 549 pages. With a portrait and 19 realistic illustrations from engravings by Teyssonnieres, after original paintings of Jacques Wagrez.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/NF. Five volumes. Limited edition. No. 51 of 150 copies printed on Holland paper "all of which are signed and numbered, was printed in the month of May 1884." (2 additional copies printed on Vellum and 20 additional copies printed on Japan paper.) Signed by the printer, Theo. L. DeVinne.Bound in 3/4s red morocco with marbled boards and matching endpapers. t.e.g. Raised bands. Gilt tooled spine and gilt tooled borders around boards. Binding is tight and square. Some light rubbing/wear to extremities - spine, boards, raised bands, edges, and hinges. Tiny chip to spine crown of Volume 1. Volume has a small smudge to morocco on lower right of front board. Case Western University gift bookplate on inside cover. Another sticker is affixed to the FFEP from "The Graphic Arts Collection in Honor of Mary B. Eilbeck." The sticker can be removed if buyer chooses to do so (similar to a Post-It Note). "Western Reserve Academy" stamp on dedication page, otherwise clean interior. A wonderful… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Short 8vo, beautifully bound in full polished calf with ornate gilt-decorated spine and covers; inner & outer dentelles; marbled end papers, A few very light scratches to boards. A Fine copy in a lovely binding. Page numbering meets points. Alciphron rare.

Condition: Fine. First Published in 1926. Elegant full crushed morocco blue leather binding by Riviere & Son with portrait of Pepys on the front. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to rear of spine at hinge, otherwise flawless. 60 illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. A gorgeous book in NF slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Full-Leather. Preface by Ada Galsworthy. 921pp. With a folding genealogical chart. Bound by Riviere and Son in green full calf. a.e.g. Gilt tooling to boards. Gilt tooling to inside borders. Gilt tooling to 6-panelled spine with two gilt labels and raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Some light scuff marks to calf boards. Very light wear to some extremities. A gorgeous copy.

Hardcover Condition: Fine. Special edition limited to 350 copies. Copy number 133/350. Signed by Peter Hassrick on limitations page. Full padded leather binding with four raised bands and blind cowboy stamp to the cover. Marble end papers. A beautiful copy.
Oversized book. Additional shipping charges may be required. A beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Second edition. 287 pp. Complete with folding frontispiece and 87 plates. Nicely rebound in 1/2 morocco, elaborate gilt designs to spine, stamped with floral and leaf design. Slip case. t.e.g. Decorative marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing. Some rubbing to spine at hinges. Slipcase has light edge wear and some fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bound by Riviere & Son, London. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham in full color and b/w. 12 plates. 8vo. Full blue Levant raised bands and compartments on spine heavily decorated. All edges gilt. Elegant, marbled endpapers. A beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Trade Edition. Bound by Whitman Bennett bindery (1 of 12 bound by Whitman Bennett) in full decorated crushed morocco, with a note by the author. Beautiful, marbled endpapers. Gilt text block edges. Tight and square binding. Edges and hinges rubbed. Stephen Vincent Benet, a prominent early 20th century poet, wrote his most famous book-length poem about the Civil War. Benét won the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed poem named after the song about the great martyr for emancipation, John Brown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 3/4s calf with marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Gilt tooled spine. Top edge gilt. Clean interior. Slight spine lean. Swedish language

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Mixed state. Beautifully bound by Riviere in full calf with 5 raised bands, gilt trim to boards, and gilt text block edges. Tightly bound and square. Marbled end papers. Sophisticated owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Very clean internally. Virtually no foxing. A beautiful copy in collector's condition. Mostly first issue, thus, mixed state. Frontispiece portrait and 39 plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Octavo. First issue points include "visiters" for "visitors" on p. 272, "flys" for "flies" on p. 245, "suprise" for "surprise" on p. 586 line 24, "incontestible" for "incontestable" p.297 line 22, "latter' has been corrected to "letter" on page 160 line 6 from the bottom, and "visiter" has been corrected to "sister" on line 17, page 123. Illustrations on pages 25, 38, and 44 do not say Chapman and Hall. Therefore, this is a mixed state.