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THE WONDERFULL WOORKMANSHIP OF THE WORLD: WHERIN IS CONTEINED AN EXCELLENT DISCOURSE OF CHRISTIAN...
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THE WONDERFULL WOORKMANSHIP OF THE WORLD: WHERIN IS CONTEINED AN EXCELLENT DISCOURSE OF CHRISTIAN NATURALL PHILOSOPHIE . . . SPECIALLY GATHERED OUT OF THE FOUNTAINES OF HOLY SCRIPTUR

by DANEAU, LAMBERT

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London: [Printed by John Kingston] for Andrew Maunsell, 1578. First Edition in English. 189 x 134 mm. (7 3/8 x 5 1/4"). [4], 87, [1] leaves (with foliation errors, but complete).Translated from the Latin by Thomas Twyne. Retrospective half pigskin over marbled boards, raised bands, red morocco label. Title with woodcut ornament, head- and tailpieces, many decorative initials. Printed in black letter. Front pastedown with Macclesfield bookplate for the South library; title with inscription in ink "Dulcius ex ipso fonte bibuntur aquae" ["Sweetly the waters have been drunk from the fountain itself"]; a couple of contemporary annotations in ink (one slightly shaved); numerous marginal readers' marks in ink and pencil. STC 6231; ESTC S105155. ◆Paper a shade or two less than bright, title somewhat soiled, a dark stain affecting the upper corner of ff. 24-28 (touching text but all is legible); still, an overall very good, clean copy in a pleasing new binding. This is the first appearance in English of… Read More
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NOW IN WINTRY DELIGHTS
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NOW IN WINTRY DELIGHTS

by (DANIEL PRESS). (BINDINGS - ARTS & CRAFTS-STYLE). BRIDGES, ROBERT

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Oxford: Daniel Press, 1903. ONE OF 300 COPIES. 257 x 190 mm. (10 1/8 x 7 1/2"). 2 p.l., 23, [1] pp. LOVELY CONTEMPORARY OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO, upper cover gilt in an Arts & Crafts design of repeating rows of trellised roses, gilt title banner, smooth spine with a runner of five gilt roses, gilt-ruled turn-ins, HAND-PAINTED ENDPAPERS with stylized, attenuated fruit trees and small heart-shaped branch wreaths bearing golden apples. Original blue printed paper wrappers bound in. Printer's device on leaf facing opening of text. One folding leaf of manuscript facsimile printed in collotype at the Clarendon Press. Rear pastedown with the bookseller's ticket of W. & G. Foyle. Madan 54. ◆Minor offsetting to endleaves from binder's glue (as usual), other trivial imperfections, but A FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally, with generous margins, and in a virtually unworn, lustrous binding. This is an intriguing item in every way: it is "a noteworthy experiment in versification" (Madan) by a future poet… Read More
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THE DESCENT OF MAN. [with] ON THE ORIGINS OF SPECIES
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THE DESCENT OF MAN. [with] ON THE ORIGINS OF SPECIES

by DARWIN, CHARLES

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New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1871, 1872. First American Edition of "Descent" (with first use of the word "evolution" by Darwin), later issue without errata; Fifth Edition of "Origin.. 203 x 121 mm. (8 x 5"). All volumes with ads at the end. Two separately published works in three volumes.. Publisher's brown buckram, covers with black-stamped frames, flat spines with gilt titling, "Origin" with a leaves uncut in a couple of places. Descent with 76 illustrations in the text; "Origin" with folding diagram. Front free endpaper of all three volumes with pencilled signature of L. G. Andrews. Freeman 942, 394. ◆Tiny tear to head of one spine, one corner slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, a little chafing to a couple of boards, one page with faint printing smudges, other trivial internal imperfections, but FINE COPIES, internally clean and fresh, in sound bindings with few signs of use. The first edition of "Descent of Man" is especially notable for Darwin's first use of the word now virtually… Read More
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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY
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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY

by (DAVY, HUMPHRY). DAVY, JOHN

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London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836. FIRST EDITION. 222 x 135 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 3/8"). Two volumes.. Fine contemporary purple calf by Ingalton of Eton (binder's ticket on front pastedown), covers decorated in gilt and blind with gilt scrolling cornerpieces and gilt rules, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with scrolling and floral decorations, brown morocco labels, turn-ins gilt-rolled, marbled endpapers and edges. Volume I with frontispiece portrait engraving of H. Davy, a few in-text illustrations. First blank with ink inscription, "John Wolley from his sincere friend R. J. Hargane (sp?). Eton. July 1842." With half-sheet errata bound in before p. 1. ◆Spine and a portion of covers slightly sunned and faded, light wear to joints, foxing to endpapers, but an excellent copy of this memoir of the famed chemist and inventor, little changed since it was presented to naturalist John Wolley (1823-59) at the time he left Eton for Trinity College, Cambridge. .
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FAUST
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FAUST

by DELACROIX, EUGÈNE, Illustrator. GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON

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Leipzig: Inselverlag, 1912. Copy specially printed for Henry and Maria Newman on Van Gelder handmade paper (in addition to 100 numbered copies on this special paper and a regular edition of 515 copies). 455 x 320 mm. (18 x 12 3/4"). 2 p.l., 187, [1] pp.Edited by Hans Gerhard Gräf. IMPRESSIVE SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO BY E. A. ENDERS OF LEIPZIG (stamp-signed on rear turn-in) DESIGNED BY E. R. WEISS, covers bordered by three gilt rules, five-pointed star at each corner, upper cover with author and illustrator names and title in elegant lettering, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with diagonal crossed fillets or a theatrical mask centerpiece, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, dark blue raw silk endleaves, top edge gilt. In a (slightly worn) gray cardboard slipcase. WITH 17 COLLOTYPE PLATES AFTER LITHOGRAPHS BY EUGÈNE DELACROIX. Sarkowski 581. ◆Tiny snag to leather on one corner, but A VERY FINE COPY inside and out, with only the most trivial imperfections. This is a specially printed and… Read More
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ORATIONES DUAE: UNA DEMOSTHENIS CONTRA MIDIAM ALTERA LYCURGI CONTRA LEOCRATEM
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ORATIONES DUAE: UNA DEMOSTHENIS CONTRA MIDIAM ALTERA LYCURGI CONTRA LEOCRATEM

by DEMOSTHENES

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Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Typis academicis [by Joseph Bentham], 1743. 205 x 127 mm. (8 1/8 x 5"). 14 p.l., 344, [1] pp. Edited and annotated by John Taylor. Contemporary polished calf, covers with decorative blind tooling running vertically beside joints, raised bands, red morocco label. Text in Greek and Latin. Pastedowns with half a dozen neat contemporary ink inscriptions (one dated 1744). Dibdin I, 488 ("An excellent and critical edition, neatly printed"). ◆Spine lightly sunned and with half a dozen dark spots, corners a little bumped, offsetting to endpapers from binder's glue, but still A FINE COPY, the binding with almost no wear, and THE TEXT EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN, FRESH, AND BRIGHT. This is an attractively printed scholarly edition of Demosthenes' famous judicial oration "Against Meidias," significant for its strong stance on the rule of law. The orator warns that a democracy will perish if the rule of law is undermined by the wealthy and unscrupulous and that the voice of the citizenry in… Read More
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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. 197 x 140 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). 2 p.l., 112 pp.Translated by Edward FitzGerald. CONTEMPORARY ELEGANT AND ANIMATED GREEN MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID, IN A PERSIAN DESIGN, each cover with a frame containing 16 onlaid red morocco paisley forms decorated with gilt flowers, sinuous floral cornerpieces, gilt-diapered central panel (each diamond-shaped compartment containing the same floral centerpiece tool); flat spine bordered by plain gilt rule, vertical titling accented with small tools, CRIMSON MOROCCO DOUBLURES with eight green onlaid morocco paisley forms, leather hinges, crimson watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt (paper at hinge between two preliminary leaves renewed). In a suede-lined brown morocco fitted pull-off case. Paas 3045. ◆Spine mellowed to an olive brown, BUT A LOVELY VOLUME IN VERY FINE CONDITION, the extremely pretty binding lustrous and virtually unworn, and the text with only the most trivial imperfections. It is both astonishing and a… Read More
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VON DEM SIG DES WORTS GOTTES
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VON DEM SIG DES WORTS GOTTES

by (COUNTER-REFORMATION). RUPERT OF DEUTZ

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Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1567. First German Edition. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 26 p.l., 416 leaves.Translated by Nicolaus Hug. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, inner medallion roll with Julius Caesar, Ovid, Cicero, and Virgil, outer roll with King David and Christ, raised bands, later paper label with manuscript title, original catch plates and anchor-plates, remains of thongs (two small contemporary patches to boards). With full-page woodcut of the Apocalypse showing the Queen of Heaven and the Beast. Title page printed in red and black, and with ink inscription in a 17th century hand: "Ex bibliotheca Wisensteig, de[?] 1626." VD16 R 3806. ◆Significant splaying to front board, small patch of worming to lower cover, pigskin a little soiled, one-inch closed tear to front free endpaper, mild foxing to title page and six other pages, other trivial defects, otherwise an excellent copy, quite clean and crisp internally, in a sturdy binding. Featuring a dramatic… Read More
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS

by DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL

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London: Printed for Harding & Lepard, 1827. Fourth Edition. 292 x 197 mm. (11 1/2 x 7 3/4"). Two volumes.. HANDSOME EARLY 20TH CENTURY BROWN STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, covers with gilt double fillet border, fleuron cornerpieces, raised bands, spines richly gilt with panels dominated by a bold and complex quatrefoil incorporating spade-like tools and with palmette cornerpieces, turn-ins with two gilt fillets, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With a facsimile of Greek and Latin text from the Complutensian Polyglot and volume I with a specimen leaf laid down, as called for (the leaf taken from the 1826 Pickering Diamond miniature edition of the New Testament). A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedowns with engraved armorial bookplate of John William Pease; rear pastedown with vellum armorial bookplate of Lord Wardington. Lowndes I, 639; Brunet II, 684 ("Édition la plus complète et la meilleure"); Graesse I, 382. ◆A touch of rubbing to tail edge of boards, one leaf with a thin band of soiling along four… Read More
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MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI
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MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI

by DICKENS, CHARLES, Editor. (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON)

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London: Richard Bentley, 1838. FIRST EDITION, Second State (with frame around final plate, "The Last Song"). 204 x 125 mm. (8 x 4 7/8"). With half titles and with 36 pp. of ads at the end of Vol. II. Two volumes.. HANDSOME FOREST GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with French fillet borders, raised bands, spines gilt in delicately tooled compartments with scrolling centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools, volute cornerpieces, gilt titling, turn-ins densely gilt with floral rolls and plain and decorative rules, purple endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original purple cloth binding bound in. With 13 plates by George Cruikshank. Eckel, pp. 140-42; Kitton, pp. 177-83; Gimbel Collection B-64. ◆Spines evenly sunned to tan (as usual with green morocco), faint offsetting from final plate, otherwise A VERY FINE COPY, with only the most trivial imperfections internally, and in a sparkling binding. This is an extraordinarily attractive… Read More
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SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS
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SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS

by [DICKENS, CHARLES]. "TIMOTHY SPARKS" (Pseudonym)

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1836. FIRST EDITION. 175 x 115 mm. (6 7/8 x 4 1/2"). v, [1], 49 pp. Extremely pleasing red crushed morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine in compartments with ornate urn-and-floral-spray centerpiece, gilt titling, turn-ins with gilt floral roll, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original pictorial wrappers bound in. Title page and illustrated wrapper with three small woodcut heads, three plates with guards, all by H. K. Browne. Title page with Charles Dickens' name faintly written in ink beneath "Timothy Sparks" in a 19th century hand. Eckel, pp. 102-03. ◆Front joint a little worn (though well masked with dye), separation in hinge after front flyleaf, but a solid, lustrous, and very pretty binding; internally fine, with only the most trivial imperfections. This is an attractive copy, complete with original wrappers, of Dickens' little political pamphlet written in opposition to a bill being considered in Parliament that… Read More
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THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF CHARLES DICKENS, WITH A FEW MISCELLANIES IN PROSE
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THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF CHARLES DICKENS, WITH A FEW MISCELLANIES IN PROSE

by DICKENS, CHARLES

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London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1882. First Collected Edition. 230 x 146 mm. (9 x 5 3/4"). Volume II lacking title page. Two volumes. Edited, prefaced, and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd. Pleasing contemporary scarlet three-quarter morocco over buckram by Jeremiah Larkins (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with central starburst of lancet tools, curling cornerpieces, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original blue cloth spine bound in. ◆Bindings lightly soiled, very minor wear to extremities, gutter open at final page of volume I (though without causing looseness), trivial foxing, but still quite appealing--entirely clean and fresh internally, and in well-preserved bindings. This is an attractively bound copy of the first collected edition of Dickens' plays and poems, which was immediately suppressed after its publication due to copyright infringement. The piece that caused the trouble was the play "No… Read More
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THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL; THE CHIMES; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; THE BATTLE OF...
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THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL; THE CHIMES; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; THE BATTLE OF LIFE; [and] THE HAUNTED MAN

by DICKENS, CHARLES

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London: Chapman and Hall (first three); Bradbury & Evans (last two), 1843; 1845 [but 1844]; 1846 [but 1845]; 1846; 1848. FIRST EDITIONS, "Carol" in FIRST STATE (closest interval between blind-stamped left border and left extremity of gilt wreath being 15 mm., "D" in Dickens on front cover in perfect condition); "Chimes" with First State of the vignette title page; "Cricket," and "Battle" in Second State ("Haunted" with no issue points). 170 x 107 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/4"). Five separately published works in five volumes.. Publisher's cloth ("Carol" in light reddish brown, the others in scarlet), decorated in gilt and blind, smooth spines with gilt lettering, "Carol" with green endpapers, the rest with yellow glazed endpapers. Housed together in a red cloth chemise inside a fine early 20th century crimson crushed morocco pull-off case by Zaehnsdorf (signed on inside top of box) designed to look like five volumes with raised bands and gilt titling. An aggregate total of 53 woodcut illustrations in the… Read More
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THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL; THE CHIMES; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; THE BATTLE OF...
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THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL; THE CHIMES; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH; THE BATTLE OF LIFE; [and] THE HAUNTED MAN

by DICKENS, CHARLES. (BINDINGS - COSWAY)

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London: Chapman and Hall (first three); Bradbury & Evans (last two), 1843; 1845 [but 1844]; 1846 [but 1845]; 1846; 1848. FIRST EDITIONS. "Carol" in FIRST STATE (bound-in original front cover with closest interval between blind-stamped left border and left extremity of gilt wreath being 15 mm., "D" in Dickens on front cover in perfect condition); "Chimes," and "Cricket" in Second State; "Battle" with Fourth Issue of the engraved title, as usual ("Haunted" with no issue points). 167 x 102 mm. (6 5/8 x 4 1/8"). Five separately published works in five volumes.. SUPERB OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO COSWAY BINDINGS BY RIVIERE & SON FROM DESIGNS BY J. H. STONEHOUSE (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), upper covers all with two inlaid red morocco banners, that at head with title in gilt, that at foot lettered "Lord keep my Memory Green," and each binding FEATURING AT CENTER AN OVAL MINIATURE PORTRAIT BY MISS C. B. CURRIE (signed in gilt on rear turn-ins), the five showing Dickens at different ages, painted on… Read More
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A NEW SPIRIT OF THE AGE
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A NEW SPIRIT OF THE AGE

by (DICKENS, CHARLES and his contemporaries). HORNE, R. H., Editor

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London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1844. FIRST EDITION. 200 x 124 mm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8"). Two volumes.. Very attractive contemporary cadet blue three-quarter morocco over pale blue watered silk, raised bands, spines handsomely gilt in compartments with floral sprig centerpiece and volute cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. With 10 engraved portraits. ◆Top inch of silk on one board faded by sun, one plate with closed one-inch fore-edge tear (not affecting image), other minor internal imperfections, but A VERY PRETTY SET, especially fresh and clean inside and out, and with bindings that are remarkably bright. Poet Richard Hengist Horne (1802-84) patterned this collection of critical essays about contemporary writers after the acclaimed collection of essays "Spirit of the Age; or Contemporary Portraits," published by his idol William Hazlitt in 1825. Among the writers included in the work were Dickens, the Brownings (Mrs. Browning is given credit for contributing at least one of the chapters),… Read More
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MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK
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MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK

by DICKENS, CHARLES. (BINDINGS - ALVAH COOK?)

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 257 x 171 mm. (10 1/8 x 7 3/4"). Three volumes.. VERY PRETTY CORAL RED MOROCCO, EXUBERANTLY GILT, LIKELY BY ALVAH COOK, covers tooled in a 17th century style with repeating compartments formed by drawer-handle tools, filled with flowers and stippling, raised bands, spines delicately tooled with central fleuron, leafy cornerpieces, gilt lettering, turn-ins with floral gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With frontisipiece in each volume and wood engravings throughout by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne. Eckel, pp. 67-70; Podeschi A51. ◆One leaf with upper corner restored (perhaps before printing), some margins faintly browned (because of paper quality), here and there a fox spot, other trivial internal imperfections, spines just slightly and evenly sunned, but AN ESPECIALLY PLEASING SET, internally with virtually no signs of use, and the lovely bindings unworn. First issued as a weekly periodical between April 1840 and… Read More
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THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB
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THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB

by DICKENS, CHARLES. (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). (BINDINGS - SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE)

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First Edition in Book Form. 218 x 134 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/4"). xiv, [2] (directions to the binder and errata), 609 pp. Three volumes.. MOST ATTRACTIVE GREEN MOROCCO, GILT, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers bordered by gilt fillets, upper covers with inlaid maroon morocco medallion with gilt lion and author's initials, raised bands, spine compartments lavishly gilt, volume I with BROWN MOROCCO DOUBLURE at front, SET WITH A COSWAY-STYLE OVAL PORTRAIT OF DICKENS under glass, other pastedowns with brown silk embellished with gilt facsimile of Dickens' signature, top edges gilt. Housed together in a fine fleece-lined green morocco-backed pull-off box with raised bands (to resemble a set of books). With 43 plates, as called for, the title and frontispiece in first state, the other 41 plates all present with letters, and 40 of the plates (all except the first Buss plate) in one (14 plates) or two (26 plates) additional states, 32 IN ECKEL'S FIRST… Read More
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LE PÈLERINAGE DE LA VIE HUMAINE

LE PÈLERINAGE DE LA VIE HUMAINE

by (INCUNABULAR LEAF). GUILLAUME DE DIGULLEVILLE

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Paris: Antoine Vérard, 1499. 271 x 190 mm. (10 3/4 x 7 1/2"). Single column, 31 line plus headline in bâtarde type.Prose version by a cleric of Angers. Attractively matted. Fairfax Murray French II, 644; Goff G-637; BMC VIII, 88; ISTC ig00635700. ◆Trivial smudge to one margin, mild marginal foxing, but an excellent leaf, clean and fresh, from an especially rare work in French (10 copies in ISTC, one in North America; two in auction records). .
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PARADISE LOST
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PARADISE LOST

by DORÉ, GUSTAVE, Illustrator. MILTON, JOHN

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London, Paris, New York, & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1905. 340 x 257 mm. (13 3/8 x 10 1/3"). 3 p.l., lxii, [2], 329, [1] pp. APPEALING CONTEMPORARY BURGUNDY MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID IN THE ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE, covers with a wide frame of undulating gilt vines bearing flowers and berries of onlaid green morocco (the flowers with a total 220 separately onlaid petals), upper cover with gilt lettering at head and foot of central panel, raised bands, spine compartments with central onlaid green flower surrounded by a swirl of gilt leaves, gilt titling, turn-ins tooled with gilt fillets and with a spray of three leaves at the corners, all edges gilt (hinges reinforced with linen, very expert repairs perhaps performed at top of joints). WITH 50 DRAMATIC BLACK & WHITE PLATES depicting scenes from the poem, after engravings by Doré. ◆Front joint somewhat rubbed (but nothing cracked or loose), corners gently bumped, a hint of soiling to boards, free endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins and… Read More
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A DECADE OF YEARS
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A DECADE OF YEARS

by (DOVES PRESS). (BINDINGS - DOVES BINDERY). WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM

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Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1911. ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER (and 12 on vellum). 235 x 165 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). 230 pp., [1] leaf. RUSSET CRUSHED MOROCCO BY THE DOVES BINDERY (stamp-signed and dated 1912 on rear turn-in), covers with simple gilt fillet border, raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments, gilt titling, turn-ins with two gilt rules, all edges gilt, with two rows of gauffered dots. Printed in red and black. Front pastedown with bookplate of Haven O'More of The Garden Ltd. Tidcombe DP-25; Tomkinson, p. 56. ◆Spine gently sunned, leather with (naturally occurring) variations in hue, covers with a score of tiny dark spots, but the binding showing no signs of wear. A few trivial imperfections in the text, but a fine copy internally, clean, fresh, and bright. An excellent example of the fine printing and fine binding produced under the aegis of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, this is a Doves Press book highly sought after both because of its limited press run and its content, which Cobden-Sanderson… Read More
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