Search Results: Titles starting with E from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Paris: Widow of Thielman Kerver, 1523 [calendar covering the years 1523-42]. 170 x 111 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 3/8"). Single column, 26 lines in a roman typeface. Each leaf with multiple one- to three-line initials, ALL WITH FULL METALCUT BORDERS on one side, incorporating vignettes and decorative designs, including the Dance of Death, and vining flowers and acanthus entwining animals and human figures, AND the other side of each leaf WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE surrounded by an architectural border. Printed in red and black. ◆A little soiling in places and the occasional additional trivial imperfection, otherwise in fine condition. These leaves contain attractive full-page metalcut miniatures with highly desirable imagery, including the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Resurrection, the Three Dead, Betrayal, and Deposition, all executed with a fine degree of detail and attractive composition. Besides their obvious aesthetic appeal, these leaves also help to tell the story of the gradual shift from… Read More

London: Guilielmi Stanesbeij, ex officinis Richardi Meighen & Thomae Dew, 1623. FIRST EDITION. 320 x 202 mm. (12 5/8 x 8"). 3 p.l. (lacking initial blank), XVI, 218 pp.Edited by John Selden from a manuscript in the Cotton Library. Contemporary calf, covers with later gilt supralibros of the Society of Writers to the Signet at center, raised bands, rebacked preserving original backstrip, red morocco label (repairs to cracked front joint and to ends of spine). With two woodcuts of seals in the text. Occasional neat marginalia in an early hand. STC 7438; ESTC S121437. ◆Small chip to head of spine and to a couple of bands, extremities a bit rubbed, but the binding solid and not without appeal. A little offsetting and foxing to edges of first and last leaves from turn-in glue, a couple of trivial ink stains to title page, occasional minor marginal stains or smudges, but an excellent copy internally, clean and fresh. This is the first edition in print of the "Historia Novorum" composed by the… Read More

[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. First Edition with Nielsen's illustrations, trade issue. 284 x 220 mm. (11 1/8 x 8 3/4"). 1 p.l., 206 pp., [1] leaf. Attractive dark blue morocco by Asprey (stamp-signed in gilt on pastedown), replicating the original cloth binding in color and decoration, upper cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, cream silk moiré endpapers, all edges gilt. With 25 tipped-in color plates with descriptive tissue guards, numerous black and white text illustrations. ◆Back cover with the vaguest hint of soiling and use, otherwise a virtually faultless copy. Offered here in a beautiful morocco binding imitating the design of the original cloth, this is the greatest work of celebrated Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen (1886-1957); it may also be the most beautiful children's book ever published. The work includes 15 Norwegian folk tales accompanied by Nielsen's darkly evocative illustrations that conjure wintry landscapes, moody heroes, and… Read More

New Rochelle: Francis Wilson, 1891. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 70 COPIES (from a total edition of 100) printed on handmade paper and signed by the publisher on limitation page. This copy unnumbered. 228 x 160 mm. (9 x 6 3/8"). 149, [3] pp. LOVELY GREEN MOROCCO, GILT, BY THE CLUB BINDERY (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers elaborately decorated with gilt-rolled border, scrolling vines, and many floral tools surrounding a central purple morocco onlaid oval with the image of a jester stamped in gilt, raised bands, compartments densely gilt, gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt scrolling pattern, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With original upper cover and backstrip bound in at rear. Housed in a (somewhat worn) suede-lined marbled slipcase with morocco lip. With engraved title page printed in red and black, and each poem illustrated with a headpiece and a decorative initial in red and black. With publisher's ex-libris tipped onto an inserted blank; flyleaf inscribed by the publisher to John… Read More

New-York: Anderson, Davis and Co, 1828. FIRST EDITION. 182 x 112 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 1/2"). xii, [13]-206 pp. Publisher's gray boards, backed with black roan, flat spine divided into panels by double gilt rules, gilt lettering. With an engraved plate depicting the recommended pruning and training of a grape vine. Front flyleaf with pencilled signature of Addie Gratacap and blue crayon signature of John Fields. Occasional neatly pencilled underlinings or marginalia in a 19th century hand. ◆Joints rubbed and cracked (rear board with the tiniest bit of give), spine with general wear (including small losses at top and bottom), boards somewhat soiled, text with persistent foxing (as usual in American imprints of this period); with obvious defects, but what one would expect for an American book on this subject at this date. This practical guide to gardening in the United States was written in part as a rebuff to English agricultural writer William Cobbett, who had cast aspersions on the type and quality of… Read More

London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, et al., 1810. 165 x 115 mm. (6 1/2 x 4"). 144 pp. EXTREMELY PRETTY CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, ELABORATELY DECORATED IN GILT AND BLIND, covers with wide frame of closely spaced interlocking drawer handle tools in blind, the frame enclosing a large central panel with very densely gilt cornerpieces featuring foliate sprays and much stippling; gilt-decorated raised bands, spine panels with scrolling gilt lozenge centerpiece and intricate blind elaboration, all edges gilt. With 32 charming woodcuts in the text, engraved by Austin and Hole after Craig. Front pastedown with bookplate of W. Giffard Lenfestey. ◆Spine uniformly faded to a rose color, first three gatherings with sprinkled foxing, isolated minor spots in the text (a few more on last two leaves), but still a very appealing copy, the leaves fresh, and the charming binding with bright covers and next to no wear. Purportedly a series of translations from an ancient Indian manuscript, these short… Read More

London: Charles Taylor, 1819. FIRST EDITION. 515 x 350 mm. (20 1/4 x 13 3/4"). vi, 146, [2] pp. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, covers elaborately framed in gilt and blind, raised bands, spine panels with intricate gilt medallion centerpiece, gilt lettering, heraldic crest of Lyme stamped in gilt at foot of spine, turn-ins framed in gilt and blind, (original?) leather hinges, all edges gilt (very expert joint and corner restoration). With 110 ENGRAVED PLATES of Egyptian places, people, and antiquities, one double-page, seven folding, as called for. A Large Paper Copy. Text in French and English in parallel columns. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Lyme (engraved by J. F Badeley and dated 1904) and small library shelf label. ◆Frontispiece portrait and half a dozen other plates somewhat foxed, four folding plates with expert repairs, faint offsetting from engravings, isolated marginal foxing, otherwise fine--quite clean, fresh, and bright internally, with crisp… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892, 1894. Illustrated Large Paper Edition. No. 192 OF 250 COPIES of "Vignettes" and No. 65 OF 200 COPIES of the Second Series, both SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 245 x 197 mm. (9 5/8 x 7 3/4"). Two volumes.. ORNATE CONTEMPORARY AZURE BLUE MOROCCO, RICHLY GILT AND ONLAID, BY OTTO SCHULZE & CO. of Edinburgh (signed on front turn-in), boards with double gilt-ruled border enclosing a wide frame of roses--more than 200 of these onlaid red morocco blossoms appearing on the four covers--surrounded by hundreds of gilt leaves; raised bands dividing spines into six panels, three of these with double-ruled compartments containing a single red rose amidst a dozen gilt leaves, other panels with gilt titling, wide turn-ins featuring a gilt vine with berries, top edges gilt. With 23 plates, as called for, one of them (an uncommon depiction of Roger Payne in his bindery) in color. A Large Paper Copy. Front flyleaf with ink ownership signature of David Fyfe Anderson dated 1st June 1950. ◆Spines… Read More

London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, 1649. FIRST EDITION. 185 x 165 mm. (7 1/4 x 5 1/4"). 6 p.l. (without blank A1), 242 pp. Pleasant enough 19th century calf, covers panelled in blind, raised bands, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with urn-and-willow tool at center surrounded by calligraphic flourishes, red morocco label. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Walter Thomas Wallace and ex-libris of Kenneth Rapoport; front free endpaper with bookplate of Mary Elizabeth Hudson; front flyleaf with ink inscription of John Harding dated Jan. 20, 1840, and with pencilled bibliographic notes and tipped-on clipping concerning a Shakespeare quotation on p. 11 of the text. Shawcross 78; Madan, "Eikon Basilike" 159; Pforzheimer 709; Grolier, "Wither to Prior" 577; Wing M-2112; ESTC R202156. ◆Joints with significant flaking (but no cracking except just at the very top and bottom of front joint), boards and corners a little rubbed, but the binding solid and pleasing, with its gilt spine… Read More

Paris: H. Piazza, 1911. No. 262 OF 450 COPIES. 236 x 168 mm. (9 3/8 x 6 5/8"). 198 pp., [2] leaves. SUPERB DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID TO AN ARABIC DESIGN BY BLANCHETIÈRE (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in), covers with frame of gilt-tooled tan morocco outlined in scarlet morocco, central panel with recessed cornerpieces and central arabesque of lilac morocco, its edges framed with inlaid scarlet morocco, raised bands, spine compartments framed in tan and red morocco with gilt tooling at corners, central compartment with inlaid center ornament of tan morocco tooled with gilt flowers, gilt lettering, PURPLE MOROCCO DOUBLURES framed in blue and brown morocco with blind chain roll, royal blue moiré silk endleaves, all edges gilt. Original color-illustrated paper wrappers bound in. Housed in matching morocco-lipped slipcase. Title page and three section titles with elaborate Islamic frames printed in colors, 41 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY ÉTIENNE DINET, nine of them full-page, nine… Read More

Mailand [Milan]: Kaiserl. königl. Buchdruckerey, 1827. First Edition in German. A Large Paper Copy. 246 x 160 mm. (9 3/4 x 6 1/4"). xvi, 327 pp. Translated from the Italian by S. Poschacher. Unusual contemporary red straight-grain morocco decorated in gilt and blind, covers with gilt Greek key frame, large blind-stamped centerpiece of cathedral design, flat spine divided into compartments by decorative gilt rolls, botanical centerpiece, gilt titling, gilt-rolled turn-ins, edges untrimmed. With engraved frontispiece and title page, and 22 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES, as called for. ◆Extremities just slightly rubbed, front board with shallow three-inch scratch, a couple of short marginal tears (from rough opening), other trivial defects internally, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, remarkably clean, fresh, and bright internally, with spacious margins, and in a lustrous binding with only insignificant wear. Printed on thick, smooth handmade paper and very handsomely bound--almost certainly for… Read More

Venice: Giovanni Gatti, 1781. 214 x 147 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 3/4"). Four volumes.. Attractive contemporary limp paper boards, patterned with yellow, red, and black inks, paper manuscript labels on spines, deckle edges. With four folding engraved plates at the end of volume IV. Pastedown of volume I with a small square of paper with some inscrutable pencil notations glued down. Bolton, p. 646; Cole 893; Partington III, pp. 80-90. ◆Edges just a touch bumped, a few pages with some very light foxing, one page with a small hole affecting a word or two of text, plates a little browned along the fold and one plate partially torn along the fold, but still A SUPERB COPY, exceptionally fresh and clean inside and out. Offered here in very pleasing contemporary paper boards, this is the first combined edition in Italian of two of Macquer's most popular works: "Élémens de chymie-théorique" (1749) and "Élémens de chymie-pratique" (1751). Coherently written in a straightforward manner, primarily with the… Read More

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. FIRST EDITION. 216 x 167 mm. (8 1/2 x 6 1/2"). 4 p.l., 24 pp. Later plain brown paper boards, smooth dark red morocco spine with title, author, and date in gilt. Pastedown with book label of Marion C. Walker; verso of title and one other leaf with small ink stamp of the Selbourne Library. Macdonald 29; ESTC R1595; Pforzheimer 324. ◆Paper evenly toned throughout, but fresh, and a clean, appealing copy inside and out. At the Revolution, when Dryden lost his positions of Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal, he was more than usually compelled to accept remunerative literary projects like this panegyric, written about a lady and for a patron he had never met. According to Macdonald, "The countess, daughter of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, died on 31 May, 1691, but the poem 'betwixt ill health, some business, and many troubles' was not published till nearly a year later." Some have suggested that much of Dryden's genius was lost to his public because of the… Read More

London: Purnell Book Services, Ltd, 1973. Second Edition, Book Club Edition. 207 x 135 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4). 447 pp. STRIKING OLIVE CRUSHED MOROCCO, INLAID AND ONLAID, BY PAUL DELRUE (signed in ink and dated 1973 on front flyleaf), covers and smooth spine with wraparound design composed of the word "ELGAR" in maril onlay of multicolor leathers near foot of boards, and above it a swath of flying birds inlaid in russet leather, RUSSET MOROCCO DOUBLURES with flight of birds onlaid in black morocco, and quotes from Elgar blind-stamped in majuscules, marbled free endpapers, all edges gilt. In a green cloth solander box with paper medallion portrait of Elgar on front cover and brown leather title label on spine. With 20 black & white photographs, including a frontispiece portrait. ◆As new. First printed in 1955, this definitive biography of the self-taught musician described by DNB as "certainly the greatest composer to arise in England since the death of Purcell in 1695" is offered here in a very… Read More

New Rochelle, New York: Elston Press, 1902. ONE OF 160 COPIES. 240 x 165 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 3/4"). 4 p.l., 115, [2] pp. HANDSOME MOSAIC CHOCOLATE BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, BY "MYRIAM" [Marie de Jouvencel] (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with inlaid border and repeating rows of interlocking circles in green morocco, raised bands, spine compartments with inlaid light brown frame, gilt titling, stylized monogram ("E L"?) formed by gilt arrows at foot of spine, GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES inlaid with two brown morocco frames (lobed at head and foot) and brown morocco circlets containing a blind-tooled and inlaid brown morocco flower at each corner, green silk free endleaves, marbled flyleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. CHARMINGLY ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT BY RACHEL GRIBILLAC, with added double page pictorial title on front flyleaves, the decorative lettering within architectural frames with medallions at head featuring Endymion and his lover the Moon Goddess, putti on clouds at lower fore-edge… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1883. No. 14 of 50 COPIES OF THE LARGE PAPER EDITION, signed by the printer, Charles Whittingham & Co. 205 x 130 mm. (8 1/8 x 5"). 1 p.l. (limitations), xxiii, [1], 283, [3] pp.Edited by Oswald Crawfurd. QUITE PRETTY CRIMSON MOROCCO, GILT IN AN ART NOUVEAU DESIGN, BY ZAEHNSDORF (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in and with the stamped oval, normally marking the firm's best work, on the rear pastedown), covers with two gilt fillet frames enclosing a central panel with five vertical vine sprouting leafy branches and striking Art Nouveau blossoms, smooth spine with elongated compartment containing similar vine, smaller compartment above it with gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt fillet and leafy branch border, deep red silk endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and almost entirely UNOPENED. Title page printed in black and red. A Large Paper Copy. ◆Spine evenly darkened (with gilt a little dulled), front joint with thin three-inch crack at bottom, isolated… Read More

Two volumes plus portfolio. Publisher's deluxe biscuit-colored morocco over reddish-brown linen, flat spines with gilt titling. In the original slipcase. Profusely illustrated with more than 1,000 reproductions of Gill's works; THIS SPECIAL COPY ACCOMPANIED BY A PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT ENGRAVINGS PRINTED DIRECTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Haven O'More, the Garden Collection. ◆In pristine condition.This is the deluxe copy of a comprehensive survey of Gill's work as an engraver and typecutter, prepared as a labor of love by his nephew, Christopher Skelton. Glaister describes Eric Gill (1882-1940) as "an English craftsman, engraver, type designer, sculptor, and philosopher whose influence on contemporary book production has been profound and world-wide." Gill studied lettering as a young man under Edward Johnston, then for five years, beginning in 1905, designed and engraved title pages and initials for books printed by Count Harry Kessler at Insel Verlag, Leipzig… Read More

London: Bensley and Son for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Cadell and Davies, and P. W. Tomkins, 1818. FIRST EDITIONS. ONE OF ONLY A FEW COPIES WITH MOUNTED HAND-COLORED PLATES. 563 x 415 mm. (22 1/8 x 16 3/8"). Lacking two-leaf "To subscribers" called for by Abbey in the second work, otherwise complete. Two works in five volumes.. Uniformly bound in contemporary brick-red straight-grain morocco, gilt, by Fairburn and Armstrong for Colnaghi & Son (stamp-signed in gilt on turn-ins), covers with gilt fillet borders with an elaborate Neoclassical roll in gilt, and smaller rolls in blind, inner panel with gilt cornerpieces in an arabesque design, double raised bands embellished with gilt tooling, three compartments with black morocco labels with gilt lettering, others with dense gilt tooling, gilt turn-ins with multiple gilt rules and cornerpieces, yellow glazed endpapers, all edges gilt (expert repair to head of spine of the first volume of the first work, occasional small repairs to the… Read More

Paris: Lucien Scheler, 1975. FIRST EDITION. No. 29 OF 110 COPIES, with ONE OF 24 "EXPERIMENTAL SUITES" OF SIGNED ETCHINGS (Copy S), printed on various papers, bound in, plus an unbound SECOND "EXPERIMENTAL SUITE" OF 30 ETCHINGS printed on paper in various shades, ALL MARKED "SUITE ESSAI" ["Test Suite"] IN PENCIL AND SIGNED BY FLOCON. 320 x 250 mm. (12 1/2 x 9 3/4"). 69, [5] pp.; [2] leaves, followed by plates. One volume and one portfolio.. STRIKING KHAKI BROWN CALF BY RENAUD VERNIER (stamp-signed on front doublure), front cover with jagged "split" down the middle, connected by four entrelac "straps" interlacing three times, the olive drab suede free endpaper visible beneath this entrelac, rear cover with edges of "split" cut on front cover tooled in thin black lines, smooth spine with title embossed in vertically stacked letters, khaki brown calf doublures, olive drab suede endleaves, all edges gilt on the rough. Original embossed wrappers bound in. Housed in the matching calf-backed chemise and… Read More

Paris: A. Renouard, [An] XII, [1804]. 173 x 103 mm. (6 7/8 x 4"). xl, 239, [1] pp. EXCELLENT DARK BLUE STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, BY BOZERIAN (signed at tail of spine), covers with a frame of double gilt rules and cresting palmette roll, flat spine divided into panels with swirling medallion centerpiece, turn-ins with bead and star roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mably, title page with medallion portrait of Phocion. A Large Paper Copy. Brunet III, 1264. ◆Just the slightest hint of rubbing to joints and extremities, a handful of leaves with faint browning, but clearly A FINE COPY, the text clean and fresh with extremely ample margins, and the binding lustrous and scarcely worn. This is a restrained yet elegant binding from the Bozerian atelier on a work by the French philosopher Mably (1709-85). First published in 1763, "Conversations of Phocion" sets forth major themes in Mably's own thought in the guise of a series of dialogues between the 4th… Read More