The Bibliophilist Society 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 640 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine board edges and corners with crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine with minor scuffing and marking to boards. The Bibliophilist Society hardcover
H.G.Bohn 1849. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1849. New Impression. 574 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate peeling to spine and corners. Visible wear marks to boards. H.G.Bohn hardcover
Tudor Publishing Company 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1963. Reprinted. 720 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Slight cracking to hinges with exposed netting front board is loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall. Tudor Publishing Company hardcover
John Camden Hotten 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 640 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Illustrations by Gustave Dore. Book has been rebound. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout heavier to first and last few pages. Light thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning. John Camden Hotten hardcover
Navarre Society Limited 1921. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. W. Heath Robinson. Complete 2 vols in dust jackets. 4to's. illustrated by W. Heath Robinson throughout both vols. Vol1 pp474 vol2 pp462. both vols with Dust jackets in protective sleeves in reasonable condition with some tears and splits to spine and edges and discolouration to spine. Decorative cream cloth binding are both in very good condition with old water stain to bottom of back board to Vol 1. Inside both vols all pages with top edge gilt in very good condition with some very minor foxing intermittently. <br/> <br/> Navarre Society Limited hardcover
London: Gibbings and Company 1903. Cloth. Very Good. 6" by 4". Various. An illustrated set of Rabelais novels with a black and white plate to frontispiece of each volume and numerous illustrations throughout. In three volumes complete. The museum edition with a decorative half title. François Rabelais c.1494 - 9 April 1553 was a major French Renaissance writer doctor Renaissance humanist monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy satire the grotesque bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants a father Gargantua and his son Pantagruel and their adventures written in an amusing extravagant satirical vein. The text features much crudity scatological humour and violence. Lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters. The censors of the Sorbonne stigmatised it as obscene and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression it was dealt with with suspicion and contemporaries avoided mentioning it With a life and critical essay to front of first volume. In quarter cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally sound but with bumping and wear to extremities and slight marks to boards. Internally binding slightly strained. With slight marginal age toning to pages but generally clean but with the odd mark and foxing to endpapers only. Very Good Gibbings and Company hardcover
London: Gibbings and Company Ltd 1901. 5 volumes bound in blue cloth with attractive gilt decoration and titles to the covers and spines top edge gilt title pages printed in black and red engraved frontispieces and a few other plates within the text. Very good gilt dulled to the spine but the panels are bright and clean cloth rubbed to the corners and a couple of nicks to the fore edge of volume IV the bindings are firm text block edges dusty but the text is clean and crisp. A very good set. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. 1901 Gibbings and Company Ltd hardcover
London: Lackington Allen and Co 1807. Very Good. Translated from the French with explanatory notes by du Chat Motteux Ozell and others. Tan calf boards with gilt greek key border and decorated spine. The spine has been well repaired but parts are missing. Edges are worn. Marbled endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned with some foxing but otherwise tight. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper.; Vol. 2 Very Good 1807 Lackington Allen and Co hardcover
<p>John Camden Hotten dies the year of this publication which makes this book of the last of his publishing achievements. It was also the signed copy of William Scarth Dixon famous chronicler of English horse and hunt. Somehow this itherwise sturdy copy has lost its rear cover though the end papers remain.</p><p>Photo on request.</p> John Camden Hotten hardcover
London: The Navarre Society 1948. Blue cloth a little stained and darkened on spine; some foxing; page edges brown. Reprint of 1931 one volume edition with drawings by W. Heath Robinson. Heavy - may need extra shipping to some locations. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. Heath Robinson. The Navarre Society Hardcover
London: RIchard Baldwin 1694. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Four books in three volumes contemporary calf. Modest wear to corners and hinges minor browning foxing stains. A nice group. Lacking the sometimes present frontis portrait in volume 1 and wanting book 5 also published 1694 and separately paginated. First editions in English of books 3 and 4 second or third the first two books were published in 1653 and the sheets reissued with a new title page and life in 1664. 8 clvi 38 230 viii 9-208; 2 430 12; 6 xiii 4 mis pag xii-cxliv 40 272; wanting book 5 lacking rear blanks in first volume <br /> <br /> Nice examples of books 1-4 of Urquhart and Mottreux's famous translation of Rabelais which Charles Whibley 1859-1930 called "the finest translation ever made from one language into another". <br /> <br /> Provenance: Kenneth Rapoport ex libris<br /> <br /> Levenside es lbris Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 049236. RIchard Baldwin hardcover
<p>Paperback. Very Good. This paperback has unmarked pages except for a price inside the front cover. The book's cover is worn around the edges.</p> paperback
ALLIA 2009. Paperback. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. ALLIA paperback
Bookseller reference : F-053-649 ISBN : 2844853013 9782844853011