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A CALENDAR OF SAINTS FOR UNBELIEVERS
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A CALENDAR OF SAINTS FOR UNBELIEVERS

by WESCOTT, GLENWAY

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[Haarlem: Printed by Joh. Eschedé en Zonen for] Harrison of Paris, 1932. No. 611 OF 695 COPIES on Pannekoek paper (and 61 copies on other papers). 235 x 140 mm. (9 1/4 x 5 5/8"). 239, [1] pp. Publisher's black buckram, smooth spine with two gilt panels formed by tiny gilt Zodiac stamps, gilt titling, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In (the original plain cardboard slipcase (light wear, tape repair on bottom seam). With 12 signs of the Zodiac and tailpiece by Pavel Tchelitchew. Front pastedown with book label of Albert Sperisen. ◆Board and extremities lightly chafed, one two-inch ink mark to lower board, but A PRISTINE COPY INTERNALLY, in a binding with few signs of wear. This hagiographic parody was written by American poet and novelist Glenway Wescott (1901-87), and designed by his longtime partner, Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988). In the preface to the present work, the author tells us that it "should not be taken too seriously"; he notes, for example that Constantine the Great "was not a good… Read More
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THE CANTERBURY TALES
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THE CANTERBURY TALES

by GILL, ERIC, Illustrator. (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). CHAUCER, GEOFFREY

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Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. No. 344 OF 485 COPIES on paper (and 15 on vellum). 318 x 197 mm. (12 1/2 x 7 3/4"). Four volumes.. Original Niger morocco-backed patterned paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands, gilt titling, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. The four volumes housed in two burnt orange morocco-backed cloth clamshell boxes with gilt lettering on the backs. Red and blue initials, ONE FULL-PAGE AND EIGHT HALF-PAGE WOOD ENGRAVINGS, AND 267 VERY PLEASING WOOD-ENGRAVED BORDERS (frequently inhabited) AND TAILPIECES BY ERIC GILL (each border design repeated two to five times, so that nearly every page is thus adorned). Chanticleer 63; Gill 281. ◆Spines softly sunned--though uncharacteristically very minor and uniform in the fading; otherwise faultless. AN EXEMPLARY COPY, PRISTINE INTERNALLY. This is as fine a copy as one could hope to find of one of the best examples in modern fine press work of the successful collaboration of text, decoration, and… Read More
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THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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THE CANTERBURY TALES OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER

by KENT, ROCKWELL, Illustrator. CHAUCER, GEOFFREY

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Two volumes. Translated into modern English by William Van Wyck. Publisher's original pale beige linen, gilt lettering to upper covers and smooth spines, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. WITH 80 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROCKWELL KENT, comprised of 25 full-page in black and brown and 55 black & white head- and tailpieces (many repeated). Text in double columns, with modern English adjacent to the original Chaucerian English. Rockwellkentiana, p. 62. ◆Backstrips faintly darkened, very slight wrinkling at spine ends, but an extremely pleasing copy--fresh and bright internally, and the easily soiled bindings remarkably clean.Textually distinguished by a line-for-line modern English translation printed alongside the original Middle English, this is the grand edition of Chaucer's classic illustrated by the renowned American painter, printmaker, and writer Rockwell Kent. An artist with transcendentalist tendencies, Kent (1882-1971) spent much of his career living in, visiting, and producing images of… Read More
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CANTICUM CANTICORUM. THE SONG OF SONGS
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CANTICUM CANTICORUM. THE SONG OF SONGS

by KRAAZ, GERHART, Illustrator. (BINDINGS - ROLAND MEUTER). BIBLE IN ENGLISH

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Frankfurt am Main: Ars Libri Verlag, Gotthard de Beauclair, 1962. No. 93 of 250 COPIES IN ENGLISH, SIGNED by the illustrator and designer. 494 x 320 mm. (19 3/8 x 12 5/8"). 40 pp., [2] leaves.Designed by Gotthard de Beauclair. FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ROLAND MEUTER (signed "R. Meuter Ascona" on rear turn-in), upper cover with gilt lettering underlined with four gilt rules, smooth spine with gilt titling, leather hinges. In the original linen clamshell box backed with matching morocco. With 30 lithographs in the text by Gerhart Kraaz, and one additional lithograph in a portfolio. ◆Slight discoloration from a bookmark in the lower gutter of colophon opening, otherwise in perfect condition. Handsomely bound and beautifully designed and printed, this very large folio first publication from the Ars Libri Press (later called Ars Librorum) exemplifies the kind of high quality work for which leading German publisher and book designer Gotthard de Beauclair was known. Beauclair (1907-92) began his… Read More
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THE CAPTIVES

THE CAPTIVES

by (BINDINGS - F. C. AUSTIN). WALPOLE, HUGH

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London: Macmillan & Co, 1920. FIRST EDITION. 195 x 122 mm. (7 3/4 x 4 3/4"). xii, 470, 2 (ads) pp. CHARMING BLACK MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID, BY F. C. AUSTIN (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers with central panel of green morocco decorated with gilt rules and sprays of clover leaves, a narrow panel of red morocco at its head and foot, large inlaid lozenge at center, that on upper cover blind-tooled with an image of Westminster, London, that on the lower cover with a pastoral scene, raised bands, spine with gilt tooling similar to that on covers and gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt and blind rules, all edges gilt. ◆Isolated minor marginal stains or thumbing, but a very fine copy, the text fresh and clean, and the binding in mint condition. Prepared for and exhibited at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco, this is a thoughtful and pleasing binding by an artisan who had trained with and worked for some of the great names of modern English bookbinding. F. C. Austin… Read More
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CATALOGUE OF ETCHINGS OF LEVON WEST
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CATALOGUE OF ETCHINGS OF LEVON WEST

by WEST, LEVON

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New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. No. 115 OF 150 DE LUXE COPIES (there were also 810 regular copies). 306 x 226 mm. (12 x 9"). [44] leaves.Compiled by Otto M. Torrington, with an introduction by Elisabeth Luther Cary. Publisher's brown boards backed with vellum, flat spine with red morocco label, edges untrimmed. In the (slightly worn) original cardboard slipcase. With 125 reproductions of West's etchings, and WITH AN ORIGINAL ETCHING as the frontispiece, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. ◆Faint smudge on upper board, light offsetting from images, but A FINE COPY with virtually no signs of use. Born in South Dakota, Levon West (1900-68) was a precociously talented artist who abandoned a Harvard business education to become an etcher. West learned his craft from the eminent artist and draughtsman Joseph Pennell, and gained overnight success when the New York Times published his etching of Charles Lindburgh's airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, the day after its successful transatlantic flight. The present… Read More
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A CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS OF ENGLAND
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A CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS OF ENGLAND

by (STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS). WALPOLE, HORACE

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[Twickenham]: Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. 182 x 112 mm. (7 1/4 x 4 1/2"). Complete with the statement of the work's entry in the Hall-Book of the Company of stationers following the dedication in volume I. Two volumes. . Attractive contemporary polished calf, covers with double gilt fillet border, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with fleuron centerpieces, leaf cornerpieces, one red and one black morocco label, marbled endpapers. Title pages with engraved printer's device depicting the house at Strawberry Hill, volume I with engraved frontispiece by C. Grignion showing Earl Rivers presenting printer William Caxton to King Edward IV. VERSO OF FRONT FREE ENDPAPER INSCRIBED: "The Author's kind Present to / J. Campbell." Hazen 3; ESTC T63207. ◆First volume with one-inch crack to head of front joint, boards with minor chafing and scratches, light offsetting from frontispiece to title page, isolated faint foxing, other trivial imperfections, but quite an appealing copy--bright and clean… Read More
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CATALOGUE OF PORTRAIT MINIATURES
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CATALOGUE OF PORTRAIT MINIATURES

by (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM - MODERN). (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF)

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England, ca. 1910. 392 x 287 mm. (15 3/8 x 11 1/4"). [32] leaves, with text in an attractive italic hand, all separated by tissue guards. SUMPTUOUS OLIVE GREEN STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, ELABORATELY GILT, BY ZAEHNSDORF (stamp-signed on front doublure and with their exhibition stamp on rear turn-in), covers with densely stippled floral roll border enclosing a large frame formed by drawer handle tools and floral tools on a stippled ground; central panel with large cornerpieces rampant with flower tools, circlets, volutes, and much stippling; raised bands, spine compartments heavily gilt in a similar style, gilt titling, RED MOROCCO DOUBLURES with opulent dentelle frame, surrounded by gilt-tooled green morocco turn-ins, red watered silk endleaves with gilt edging, all edges gilt.ma WITH 76 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS OF PORTRAIT MINIATURES BY RICHARD COSWAY, ANDREW PLIMER, AND OTHERS mounted and enclosed by hand-painted burnished gold frames, EACH PORTRAIT WITH HAND-ILLUMINATED TITLE in red,… Read More
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CATCH-22
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CATCH-22

by HELLER, JOSEPH

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. FIRST EDITION, First Printing. 220 x 150 mm. (8 5/8 x 5 3/4"). 443 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, white lettering on smooth spine. In the original illustrated dust jacket. Housed in a modern red morocco-backed clamshell box. Title page SIGNED BY HELLER in ink. ◆A pristine volume in a bright, pleasing dust jacket. (The jacket with one-inch tear to fold at front joint neatly repaired on verso, one other quite small closed tear to top of front panel, front cover lightly chafed, slight fraying at spine ends and minor wrinkling at bottom of back panel.). This is an excellent signed copy of Heller's modern classic on the absurdity of war, often hailed as one of the most important novels of the 20th century. Based on Heller's own first-hand experiences as a member of the U.S. Air Force in WWII, the story revolves around bombardier Captain John Yossarian and his desperate efforts to keep himself alive by avoiding bombing runs. As noted by Britannica, "The 'catch' in… Read More
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A CENTURY OF BIRDS FROM THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS
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A CENTURY OF BIRDS FROM THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS

by GOULD, JOHN. and N. A. VIGORS

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London: [for the Author, 1831-]32. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the backgrounds uncolored. 548 x 363 mm. (21 1/2 x 14 3/8"). 6 p.l., [72] leaves. Very pleasing modern maroon half morocco over red buckram boards, raised bands, gilt lettering. WITH 80 STRIKING HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES by Elizabeth Gould after John Gould. Pastedown with bookplate of Oregon gardener and rhododendron enthusiast James M. Blackford III. Fine Bird Books p. 101; Anker 168; Wood, p. 364; Zimmer p. 251. ◆Slight, unobtrusive wear to corners and edges, scattered always-vague foxing and intermittent always-faint offsetting internally, otherwise only the most trivial imperfections. A very nearly fine copy of a lovely book, the binding with few signs of use, the text clean and fresh, and the plates beautifully colored. Depicting a selection of vibrant species found in the Himalayan mountains, this impressive work was the first of Gould's celebrated folio volumes, and its success would launch his long and fruitful… Read More
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THE CHACE
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THE CHACE

by (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON). SOMERVILE, WILLIAM

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London: Printed for G. Hawkins, and sold by T. Cooper, 1735. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 750 COPIES. 263 x 207 mm. (10 1/4 x 8 1/8"). 6 p.l., 106 pp., [1] leaf (errata). SUPERB OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), cover with lettered central panel surrounded by four onlaid sections of darker green morocco, outer frame of leafy vines emanating from the tips of the fan-palm-shaped cornerpieces, each of these compartments with a blind-stamped leaping stag on a stippled gold ground, raised bands, spine with gilt-ruled compartments, gilt titling, gilt-ruled turn-ins, all edges gilt. In a (somewhat worn) fleece-lined burgundy buckram chemise and marbled paper slipcase. Engraved allegorical frontispiece featuring Diana and Apollo, by Scotin after Gravelot. Front pastedown with morocco ex-libris of Alfred Barmore Maclay. Foxon S-562; Hayward 158; Rothschild 1932; Schwerdt II, 166. ◆Leather on spine uniformly sunned to olive brown (as expected with green morocco), text… Read More
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A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS
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A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS

by (BINDINGS - CHIVERS). SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Second Edition. 185 x 123mm. (7 1/4 x 5"). ix, [1], 213, [1] pp., [1] leaf. A VERY PLEASING VELLUCENT BINDING BY CEDRIC CHIVERS (signed on rear turn-in), front cover and smooth spine painted in an Art Nouveau style featuring twining vines, center panel of front cover with painted gilt-strung lyre at bottom and round mother-of-pearl inlay within a wreath at top, doublures of glazed vellum enclosed by a paper frame, all edges gilt. Printer's device on final leaf. ◆Binding with a touch of soil, spine just a shade darker than the covers, a few very minor spots internally, otherwise a fine, virtually unworn copy. This is a charming example of Chivers' "vellucent" bindings, a painting-under-vellum technique inspired by Cyril Davenport's lecture on the 18th century painted vellum bindings of Edwards of Halifax, given at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. On returning to England after his life-changing visit to the exposition, Chivers (1853-1929) established binding premises in… Read More
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CHASTELARD
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CHASTELARD

by (BINDINGS - DE SAUTY). SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES

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London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1865. FIRST EDITION, First Issue. 174 x 105 mm. (6 3/4 x 4"). 4 p.l., 219 pp. SPLENDID DEEP PURPLE CRUSHED MOROCCO, LAVISHLY INLAID AND GILT, BY ALFRED DE SAUTY (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with rows of green morocco medallions inlaid with a red tulip on a stippled gilt background, the space between the circles with gilt-tooled tan morocco and inlaid morocco dots, raised bands, spine compartment tooled with pointillé gilt, turn-ins with gilt French fillet, gray endpapers, top edge gilt. Ashley Library VI, 55-56. ◆Isolated faint foxing, a couple leaves with expertly repaired short marginal tears, other trivial imperfections internally, but an excellent copy, the text clean and fresh, and IN A SPARKLING BINDING with no signs of use. This is the first printing of Swinburne's tragedy set in the court of Mary, Queen of Scots, offered in an unusual, remarkably flamboyant, and very skillful binding by De Sauty. One of the most accomplished binders at work in the… Read More
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CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
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CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

by (BINDINGS - TOUT). BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD

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London: John Murray, 1841. 242 x 162 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 1/4"). xvi, 320 pp. ATTRACTIVE DARK TURQUOISE-BLUE MOROCCO BY TOUT (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in), covers ruled in gilt, arabesque cornerpieces of lace-like flowers and stippling, raised bands, compartments densely gilt with all-over lacy design, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins with long floral sprays at each corner, brown brocade endleaves, top edge gilt, others trimmed. With 62 engravings after William Finden, including a frontispiece, an added engraved title page, a folding map (featuring a frame of scenic roundels) showing the course of Harold's travels, and 59 engraved vignettes used as headpieces and tailpieces, with the original tissue guards. ◆Spine very lightly sunned, tiny snag at tail of spine, some scarcely noticeable tiny abrasions on back cover, gutter open after half title (but the binding quite solid), occasional pale foxing (a little heavier to first and last few leaves), but overall in excellent condition, the… Read More
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES

by (BINDINGS - EUPHEMIA BAKEWELL). STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

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London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1902. 146 x 92 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 5/8"). x, 101 pp. VERY PRETTY CRIMSON STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO BY EUPHEMIA BAKEWELL (stamp-signed "19 - E B - 04" on rear turn-in), covers with double gilt fillet rules, wide border tooled with tulips and dots, central panel with closed gilt dots at corners and along perimeter, raised bands, spine compartments with similar tulip and dot design, turn-ins with gilt rules and foliate cornerpieces, all edges gilt and gauffered with lines of dots. In a fine marbled paper clamshell box backed with burgundy linen, paper label on spine. ◆Spine evenly darkened, with a tiny snag near head of front joint, a touch of rubbing to extremities, but a very nearly fine copy, clean and fresh internally with few signs of use, and its lustrous, handsome binding bright with gilt. This is a lovely binding in the style of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson by a noted American female artisan, here covering a later edition of Stevenson's perennially popular children's book,… Read More
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A CHILD'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
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A CHILD'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

by (CHILDREN'S BOOKS - AMERICAN HISTORY). SHEA, JOHN GILMARY

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New York: McMenamy, Hess & Co, 1872. FIRST EDITION in book form. 267 x 197 mm. (10 1/2 x 7 3/4"). Three volumes bound in two.. IN THE PUBLISHER'S DELUXE ELABORATELY GILT BROWN MOROCCO BINDING, covers lavishly gilt with a frame of interlacing floral vines, volutes, and arabesques, large allegorical centerpiece featuring Columbia sitting on a cloud, the Stars and Stripes flying from a lancet in her left hand, while her right hand clutches a sword, at her feet an eagle, wings spread, clutching arrows and olive branches in its talons and resting atop a book; raised bands, spines gilt in panels with large and intricate central fleuron, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With 151 full-page illustrations, and numerous woodcuts in the text, including portraits, battle scenes, and lively depictions of key historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. ◆Joints, bands, and extremities a little worn, but a sturdy and pleasing deluxe binding. Some minor thumbings and smudges, as usual in children's books (not… Read More
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CHILTERN AND VALE FARMING. [bound with] THE PRACTICAL FARMER; OR THE HERTFORDSHIRE HUSBANDMAN
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CHILTERN AND VALE FARMING. [bound with] THE PRACTICAL FARMER; OR THE HERTFORDSHIRE HUSBANDMAN

by (AGRICULTURE). ELLIS, WILLIAM

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London: Printed for the author, 1733; London: Printed for Weaver Bickerton, 1732. Early [First?] Edition of the first work; Second Edition (with additions) of the second work (published in same year as the first edition). 191 x 127 mm. (7 1/2 x 5"). viii, 400 pp.; iv, 5-171 pp., [5] pp. (ads). Two separately published works bound in one.. Pleasing recent retrospective half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine with red morocco label, speckled edges. Paper repairs to title page and pp. iii and 151 of first work, no doubt to remove library stamps. Perkins 557, 562. ◆A few quires of the first work with faint dampstain in the upper half of the fore margin (not affecting the text), light soiling to "Chiltern" title page, isolated minor browning in the first work, otherwise quite a fine, fresh, clean copy with only trivial imperfections internally, and in an unworn sympathetic binding. This volume contains two important 18th century English works dealing in a direct, specific way with land… 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 CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND
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A CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND

by DOYLE, JAMES E., Author and Illustrator. EDMUND EVANS, Printer

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HANDSOME PERIOD RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with double gilt-ruled borders on either side of gilt floral roll, corners with encircled gilt flower tools, raised bands flanking inlaid black morocco strips, spine in compartments with multiple gilt rules and central gilt ornaments formed of several circles, gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt.
With 81 in-text illustrations by Doyle, engraved and printed in color by Edmund Evans. Hardie, pp. 269-70; Muir, pp. 157-8; Ray, "England" 241. ◆The slightest rubbing to joints (and a bit of worming at bottom of front joint), a hint of wear elsewhere, but A FINE COPY, the binding lustrous and showing few signs of use, and the text virtually flawless.This is a very pleasing copy of a landmark work in Victorian color printing, the product of a collaboration between author and illustrator James Doyle and the brilliant printer Edmund Evans, whose work represents some of the best of the period. Although… Read More
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