Search Results: Titles starting with L from First Folio

[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited to 1475 copies, this no. 1174. A brilliant copy with absolutely none of the usual spine fading and no warping. Just a hint of soiling to cover, a bit of spotting to edge of front flyleaf. Limited to 1475 copies, this no. 1174. 324p. Illustrated with 42 double-page plates after Sandro Botticelli. 4to. Bound in full orange-dyed vellum, gilt, t.e.g. on the rough. Housed in custom full slipcase of blue silk-covered boards with leather spine label gilt. Text in Italian and English side by side in columns. Edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence, the English version by H.F.Cary. Printed on Van Gelder paper with the Nonesuch watermark. Designed by Francis Meynell. Dreyfus 50.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Reprint of the 1936 original edition. Fine. Reprint of the 1936 original edition. Quarto. 565p, 88p, supplement. Gilt-titled maroon cloth.

Paris: Librairie Centrale D'Architecture, 1884. Second edition. Paper a little wavy, a few plates with marginal soil, all quite acceptable. Second edition. Folio (18.75" tall). Title page, list of plates, and 120 plates, all loose in portfolio as issued. Apparently lacking the brief preface or introduction. The portfolio has been professionally rebuilt retaining the printed paper covers.

n.p., 1900. Very good+. Miniature brass book object. 1 1/8" x 3/4". A brass hinged locket containing a leporello or concertina fold series of eight photos and a title page simply stating "La Vie de Jeanne d'Arc". The binding is of embossed brass with a clasp and a ring at the top for attaching as a locket. The cover features a raised image of Joan of Arc with fleur-de-lis cornerpieces, the rear cover with dates at the top and central lily and a crowned sword flanked by fleurs-de-lis.

Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1893. Fine, a very beautiful grouping. Small octavo. Seven volumes in companion bindings by Thierry. All bound in various colors of crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines elaborately gilt with floral ornaments in the center of the panels. Illustrated by Myrbach, Paul Chabas, Jeanniot, Andre Brouillet, and De Orazi. Francoise Coppee. Henriette; Paul Bourget. Steeple-Chase; Marcel Prevost. Le Moulin de Nazareth; Andre Theuriet, L'Abbe Daniel; Paul Bourget. Un Saint; Andre Theuriet. Rose-Lise.

Zurich: Photoglob, 1910. Covers are poor, worn and soiled. The mountings are toned and warped. All photos fine. Oblong album of 20 original photos measuring 6 1/2" x 8 7/8". Album of red cloth, the upper cover with color pictorial design and stylized title in gilt.

New York: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1996. First printing. Book and box fine and bright as new. First printing. Tall quarto (14"). Unpaged. Illustrated from color photographs throughout. Bound in colorful glazed boards with illustrated endpapers. Housed in similar glazed paper box with 'LaChapelle Land Map' laid in.

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. First edition, second printing. Worn with frayed spine extremes, but complete and sound. First edition, second printing. 6 (ii) 482p. Bound in original terra-cotta cloth with gilt spine titles, the covers with frames in blind. BAL 19456.

Edinburgh: Adam an Charles Black, North Bridge, 1853. A good deal of wear to thespine, flyleaves soiled, probably from repeated display of the excellent painting. 8vo. 375p. Illustrated with wood engravings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert and with a fore-edge painting of Loch-Katrine in the Western Highlands of Perthshire where the poem is set. Bound by J. Ross, Edinburgh in full black pebbled morocco, a.e.g., the spine densely gilt, the covers with ornamental frames in gilt, dentelles. The painting is quite detailed and accomplished, a scene of the lake with two men and a dog in the periphery.

New York: The Century Co, 1910. Fine. [vi], 236p. Bound in dark gray cloth with large white titles and central device in red and gilt. Cover design by Amy Richards.

Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. tHw upper cover and spine faded to a mellow brown, else about fine. Thin 8vo. 128p. Frontispiece. Bound by Bickers in full green crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and elaborate gilt designs in the panels of leaves and vines with built up dot grounds, single fillet on the covers and board edges, double-ruled dentelles with corner ornaments.

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1862. First edition. Repaired crack to the upper joints, minor rubbing, but an attractive and unusual binding. First edition. xix, (xx)-128p. Portrait frontispiece and two other plates by Norton. Rebound without the final ads in full brown morocco, painted and gilt, the spine vertically titled in gilt, the covers with a black frame outlined with decorative rules, the central panel in a diapered pattern alternating rows of black compartments with silver fleur-de-lys and brown compartments with gold fleur-de-lys, the endpapers of colorful flowers highlighted in gold, all edges gilt and gauffered with repeating rosettes. The story is of a French countess who founded a hospital for the poor. Colbeck p. 616. With the bookplate of Rauri McLean.

London: The Blackamore Press, 1929. No. 430 of 550 copies. A bit of fading to silk, else fine in worn slipcase. No. 430 of 550 copies. 33p. (v). Illustrated with four dry-point etchings by Hermine David. Bound in gilt-titled cream silk over beveled boards, t.e.g.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. First American edition. Light wear around the edges, first signature split in the gutter, but sound.. First American edition. xvii, 444p. Gilt-titled brown cloth.

New York: Rizzoli, 1978. Fine in d.j. and cardboard slipcase. 304p. Folio. Silver-titled blue cloth. Illustrated throughout. Translated by Michael Taylor.

Paris: [Marcilly], 1817. Some wear and handling, but very good. Rare. Miniature book (1" x 3/4" ; 27 x 19 mm). 64p. Illustrated. Bound in full scarlet leather, a.e.g., the covers with central gilt floral design and decorative rolled borders. Housed in a beautiful little silver box with hinged cover, Box hallmarked and decorated with human figures and scroll work. Welsh 221; Gumuchian 4055.

Staten Island: Martino, 1997. Reprint of the edition of 1899-1909. Reprint limited to 175 copies. Reprint of the edition of 1899-1909. Reprint limited to 175 copies. xxiii, 440p, xvi, 172p. 8vo. Gilt-titled gray cloth. An important bibliography and standard work in the field of Swiss travel and topography. The arrangement is by region and chronology. Text in German and Franch.Includes supplement which updates the work through 1900. Besterman 5975.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968. First edition. VG+ in d.j.. First edition. xiv, 281p. Tan cloth with black spine titles. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Rome: Edizioni Universitarie, 1950. Page edges a little yellowed, VG. 144 loose plates in fabricoid portfolio.

Paris: Editions Albert Morance, Librairie Centrale D'Art et A'Architecture, 1913. All plates clean and bright, portfolios VG. Three series in three portfolios. Tall folio (20 1/2" tall). Each portfolio with half-title and title page and introductory text. I: 80 plates; II: 80 plates; III: 78 plates. Plates from photos. Complete. Portfolios of titled tan boards with gilt-titled red cloth spines and string ties. Louis Dimier's name printed on third series only. Quite scarce in nice condition and complete.