Search Results: BINDINGS from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1863. Illustrated by various artists. Bookplate; pages waterstained, but in a very attractive, lightly worn binding in deep green straight-grain morocco; all edges gilt; gilt decorations; inlaid red leather borders on both covers; the front cover has an inlaid shield with a rampant lion in red on a field of tan leather.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847. “Second Edition” of this illustrated edition. Bound in full green morocco (the binding is dated 1850); all edges gilt; gilt decorated boards and spine; only very light wear and with very moderate foxing; a very attractive volume. This copy bears the 1869 inscription of Edward Coleridge (nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge) noting that this copy, upon his death, was to pass to his son.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1840. First Edition. The most unusual trade binding we can recall seeing; publisher’s paper covered boards, primarily gold and brown, patterned with flowers and semi-abstract lines reminiscent of branches or a river’s course, bordered by blind stamped lines with ornaments; lettered on the spine with the title in a remarkably modern sans-serif type style. The text itself, illustrated with wood engravings, is very typical of the period, but the binding, which was certainly costly to produce, was well ahead of its time. Aside from rubbing along the extremities, very good.