Search Results: Titles starting with I from Bull's Head Rare Books

Paris: Libraire Internationale, 1866. First edition. 8vo. [vi], 255, [1] pp. Near contemporary half red pebbled cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, publisher's blue-gray printed wrappers bound in. Light toning to wrappers, else fine. Presentation copy on large paper of the first edition of this collection of bons mots extracted from the Journals. Inscribed on the half-title by Jules de Goncourt to Edouard Thierry (1813-1894), drama critic and director of the Comédie Française.Thierry makes a brief appearance in the 26 December 1867 entry of the Journals: "Été voir Thierry, pour lui demander la lecture aux Français de nos cinq actes sur la Révolution. Les politesses de Thierry nous ont fait trembler." Thierry's civility would not prevent him from rejecting the play (La Patrie en danger), which he did on the grounds that its glorification of the Revolution would not be acceptable during the conservative reign of Napoleon III.PROVENANCE: Edouard Thierry… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1840; 1842; 1847. First editions in book form. 3 vols. 8vo. Engraved titles printed in red and black, 17 etched plates George Cruikshank (8) and John Leech (9), and 2 engraved portraits. v, [3], 338, [2, appendix]; vii, [1], 288; vi, [2], 364 pp., with half-titles. Full brown-green morocco, spine gilt with red morocco onlays, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., publisher's cloth bindings bound-in, by Riviere & Son; very slight rubbing to joints in places, vol. 3 with a small stain to fore-edge and few fore-edge rough. Bookseller ticket of Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow A handsome set of the first book appearance of The Ingoldsby Legends, following periodical printings in Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine in 1837.REFERENCE: Cohn 50; Sadleir 156b/e/f

Paris: Nicolas Chesneau & Jean Poupy, 1576. 12mo. Woodcut title vignette. [86], 629, [11] pp. Contemporary calf, covers with single fillet gilt border and gilt-stamped centerpiece, spine in compartments with raised bands, small gilt fleuron in compartments; portions of spine head and tail lacking, exposing sewing and raised band cords, tips worn, contemporary manuscript notes on rear pastedown

Detroit: George S. Davis, 1890. Second edition. 8vo. Publisher's maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Light wear to extremities, contemporary doctor's inscription on flyleaf Vol. II only

London: J. Watts, 1734. First edition. 8vo. Printed music in text to 12 songs. [12], 40 pp. Later drab wrappers; title-page foxed Uncommon first edition of Fielding's ballad-opera adaptation of Jean François Regnard's Le retour imprévu.REFERENCE: Cross, III, pp. 297-8; Rothschild 839

(Venice: In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri mense, October 1518). 8vo. 233, [3] leaves, including blank q8, colophon leaf, penultimate blank, and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. Collation: a-z^8 A-F^8 G^4. 18th-century half calf and marbled boards, red morocco spine label; binding worn, old repair to spine head, paper flaw on margin of c4; occasional light dampstaining and foxing The sole Aldine edition of these works; it is also the editio princeps of Publius Victor, the second edition of Antoninus Augustus' Itinerarium, and the third edition of Dionysius in Latin. As is to be expected, the text is in italic with spaces and guide letters provided for (unaccomplished) initials. The register (leaf G2 recto) lists a gathering *4 that is not found here or in any known copy, so the reference would seem to be incorrect.REFERENCE: Adams M1053; Renouard 83; Schweiger, II, 607 ("seltene Ausg.")