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1838réf. 306638Edinburgh 1838. First and only edition. 16 pp. 8vo. Original self-wrappers with original red side-stitch. A few faint smudges to title and last page ink note in margin of one page pencil notes at head of title. First and only edition. 16 pp. 8vo. One of approximately 10 copies printed. Very rare. Jackson thought that "only six copies of this vicious and trivial attack on Dibdin were struck off" but Windle & Pippin correct that to an estimated ten copies. Jackson 90; Windle & Pippin D19 unknown books
1810réf. 122754London: William Miller 1810-1812: John Murray 1816: Longman Hurst Rees. Orme and Brown 1819. 4 vols. 4to 285 220 mm. untrimmed 324; 328; 313; 316 leaves paginated as in Windle and Pippin. With 14 mezzotint portraits 24 other engraved plates numerous engravings and illustrations in the text some in red and black titles printed in red and black. Some occasional spotting and dust soiling in text and some offsetting of plates onto the text as always. Full red hardgrain morocco extra covers richly gilt gilt backstrips with green and black labels joints a bit scuffed and upper joint of vol. 1 repaired. Generally a very good set with distinguished provenance. With the index in a separate volume. § First edition thus. “Dibdin's voluptuously copious account of stories and characters connected with book production book trading and book collecting which inspired generations of bibliophiles and bibliographers. The work came as an enlargement of Joseph Ames's account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600 published 1749. Ames's intuition was the prime importance of first-hand knowledge of books the primacy of the title-page on printed lists and catalogues. Dibdin adopted this innovative rigor and endowed it with his own taste for anecdote and romance. The compelling quality of his writings was acutely felt by Isaac D'Israeli who on receiving a copy of Dibdin's Bibliomania wrote to him: "I have not yet recovered from the delightful delirium into which your Bibliomania has completely thrown me." A major player in the process of rationalisation of the book trade and the sharp rise in prices that took place in the middle decades of the nineteenth century Dibdin's flamboyant character is well reflected in Walter Scott's words: 'All bibliomaniacs must remember you long Dibdin as he who first united their antiquarian details with good humored raillery and cheerfulness'. Dibdin's passion for books together with several personally financed lavish publishing undertakings which never provided a worthy return threw him and his family into misery.” Finch. Windle & Pippin A15. In this copy vol. 1 p. 377 reads “377”; vol. IV page 121 reads “120” 335 “533” and 623 “623”.Provenance: Marquess of Stafford who is listed as a subscriber 1758-July 1833 created 1st Duke of Sutherland in January 1833. Thence by descent to Lord Francis Egerton 1800-1857 created 1st Earl of Ellesmere in 1846. In 1833 this fortunate man inherited the estates houses art collection the Bridgewater Canal and a huge income from his great-uncle the 3rd and last Duke of Bridgewater. Bound for George Francis Granville Egerton 2nd Earl of Ellesmere 1823-1862 with his full name in gilt on two interlocking triangles. Bookplate in each volume of Charles Sebag-Montefiore. William Miller unknown books
1841réf. 666609John Murray 1841. First Edition. Leather Binding. Near Fine. Beautiful inlaid binding by Kelliegram ca. 1920s signed at rear. Near fine in full dark blue crushed Levant morrocco spine with raised bands gilt shell devices and three small gilt balls at corners of gilt-ruled compartments covers bordered with a single gilt fillet front cover features an elaborate inlaid and tooled ship under sail composed of ca. a dozen inlays in red three shades of brown and two grays transfixed by a trident edges of boards and inner dentelles tooled in gilt red silk endpapers slight wear. Illustrated with 12 plates by George Cruikshank. John Murray unknown
1821réf. 009041London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer & W. Nicol Shakespeare Press 1821. 1st Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/Near Fine. Three Volumes 4to. xxvv462 lxxix - Bibliographical indices i corrections; 2 555; ii622 lxii supplement. Gorgeous First Edition beautifully bound in contemporary long-grained tanned morocco four raised bands elaborate spine decorations and dentelles in gilt; titles in gilt. gilt borders on all boards. a.e.g. Complete with 83 plates without text and 63 plates with text. Remarkably well-preserved set. Square tight and generally clean throughout save a few light and scattered spots. As is usual off-setting to page opposite plates even some of those with tissue guards. Some quite mild rubbing and edge-wear. A tiny scuff here and there. Laid in is the printed Grolier Club announcement of its December 1935 meeting ".devoted to Thomas Frognall Dibdin the bibliographer and bibliophile 1776-1847". The pamphlet includes an engraved portrait of Dibdin. A most handsome collectable set. Please note: International and Priority orders will require additional postage. Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer & W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press unknown books
1800réf. 131Charles Dibdin 1800. Good. All 5 volumes have been rebound in half leather with purple marbled paper and are housed in a custom slipcase. There is some foxing and stains to the text throughout the volumes and the print quality is fairly poor. Mr. Dibdin was a bit of a musical theater prodigy and polymath who ended up building his own theater to perform in. In addition to multiple songs and plays he also wrote a 4 volume memoir and a couple of 3 volume novels. Unusual to see a complete set in hardcover that is not print on demand. Charles Dibdin unknown
1821réf. 1227501821. London: Printed For The Author By W.Bulmer And W.Nicol Shakespeare Press And Sold By Payne And Foss Longman Hurst And Co. 1821. 3 vols. royal 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. xxv 3 leaves 462 lxxix 1 errata; 2 p.l. 555; 2 p.l. 622 lxii. without half-titles. 83 plates incl. portraits; 1 color 2 sepia & 5 double-page & 63 smaller illus. in the text some on India paper mounted. Early half dark green morocco marbled boards gilt-lettered backstrips a tall untrimmed set with usual occasional foxing or spotting. Bookplates of James Whatman and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition regular paper issue. One of a very few books by Dibdin that went into a second edition. "The collation is very irregular by reason of the fact that all illustrations in the text being printed on India paper pasted-in are on separately inserted leaves . This Voyage Pittoresque is lavishly illustrated mainly with copperplates after drawings by G.R. Lewis and others. Dibdin says he spent over 7000 pounds on the book being the first patron to pay 100 guineas for a plate . It has been unkindly said of this book that it would have been better without any text. However it does contain a modicum of bibliographical information that is still useful if used with due caution" Jackson. Lowndes notes that it "contains much useful and curious information" on the libraries and private collections of Europe. The second edition of 1829 is abridged and omits all but 5 of the original plates. Jackson 48; Lowndes I 641; Windle & Pippin A38a. Provenance: James Whatman; Lister; Colin Franklin; Charles Sebag-Montefiore. Windle and Pippin A38a. unknown
1814réf. 1067671814. London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer Shakspeare Press and published by Longman Hurst etc. 1814-15. 4 vols. 8vo ix lii i 383; 503; 509 3; vii 509 lxxvii pp. with 22 plates including one double-page as called for and numerous additional woodcuts some in red in the text of all four volumes. These woodcut facsimiles are by the Byfield family. Full red morocco gilt dentelles. Bookplate of Ross Winans on the front pastedown of vol. one. Some occasional spotting or foxing especially in vol. 4 upper joint of vol. 4 beginning to split at head generally a very good set complete as issued. § First edition of Dibdin's great work. Loosely inserted at the front of vol. 1 is a manuscript note from Dibdin: "Subscription for copy of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana herewith sent £8.8. T.F. Dibdin Mar. 31." 500 copies were printed according to the prospectus and most nineteenth-century sources though A.N.L. Munby states that there were 550 copies; the prospectus states 50 copies on large-paper but Dibdin Bibliographical Decameron vol.II p.392 says: 'There were only 55 copies struck off on Large Paper.'. Regular and large-paper copies collate and paginate identically. In vol.I leaf M4 pp.87-88 occurs in two states both usually found together with and without the engraved facsimile of Polish type; the text of the bottom nine lines of p.87 is reset with the headline in a different type face; and there are minor changes in p.88. Ross Winans 1796-1877 was an American inventor mechanic and builder of locomotives and railroad machinery. He was one of the United States' first multimillionaires. His "small but choice" library Dickinson was bought en bloc by G.D. Smith and sold through various auctions though his copy of the First Folio was last recorded by Lee in the Census and is now unlocated. Windle and Pippin A25. unknown
1812réf. BIBLIO-12977Harding and Wright London first edition 1812. Limited edition of 50 copies. Slightly later half calf and marbled boards edges sprinkled 8vo. 24 pp without title-page as issued several blank leaves bound in at end. Very scarce: Fifty copies were printed but it is rarely seen in the market: our copy sold at Swann in 2006 US $ 1320 and this seems to have been the last solo auction appearance subsequently there has been only a copy included in a bound volume of Dibdin rarities in the 2015 Pirie sale US $15000. Before that there were auction appearances in 1992 and 1939 making just four copies assuming no duplication in the salerooms in 85 years. Dibdin wrote the work "in five morning-sittings' while on holiday in Ramsgate in September 1812 taking a break from his labours on the Bibliotheca Spenseriana. The poem has some 554 lines of Dibdin's bibliographical advice and opinions in what he calls 'mongrel-blank' verse and it appears as 'Book 1' Dibdin had intended there to be a total of six books with the verse serving as a peg on which to hang 'such elaborate notes that the reader could disregard the verse' Jackson. Wise friends who saw this first canto dissuaded the author from proceeding with this very Dibdinesque plan so Book 1 is all that saw the light of day in a small private printing from which copies were sold 'at the mere sum which it had cost'. Provenance: Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer 1802 -1874 an Anglophile served briefly as Prime Minister of Belgium in 1845-6 but is better known in bibliophilic circles as a distinguished book collector and grandfather of Oliver Brett Viscount Esher another such and as co-founder with Richard Monckton Miles of the Philobiblon Society and Vice-President of the London Library 1848-1874. Three bookplates on front endpapers: of Sylvain van de Weyer Harvard College Library Samuel Shapleigh bequest released stamp and Francis J. Gagliardi small Harvard College stamps on title-page and blindstamps on advertisement leaf and first text leaf small bookseller label of Phillip. C. Duschnes on rear pastedown endpaper. Spine scuffed joints worn but firm slight edgewear to boards some foxing to endpapers and blank leaves but text-leaves very clean with slight agetoning. Harding and Wright, London, first edition, 1812 hardcover
1821réf. 304129London: Printed for the Author by William Bulmer and W. Nicol Shakespeare Press 1821. First edition one of 100 large paper copies. 83 copper-engraved plates on India paper after drawings by G.R. Lewis 64 engraved plates on India paper mounted in the text EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with portraits variant states of many of the plates and one original drawing by G. Lewis volume III Part II "Supplement" page XXXIX. 4to. Contemporary full blue morocco covers stamped in gilt with strapwork design gilt arms of Henry Gee Barnard on panels a.e.g. by Lewis. Vols. I & II joints rubbed spotting foxing and offsetting to text large dampstain affecting lower margin of vol. I and upper and lower margins of vol. II. First edition one of 100 large paper copies. 83 copper-engraved plates on India paper after drawings by G.R. Lewis 64 engraved plates on India paper mounted in the text EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with portraits variant states of many of the plates and one original drawing by G. Lewis volume III Part II "Supplement" page XXXIX. 4to. First edition large paper copy of Dibdin's "amusing account pf his travels with descriptions of of the contents of several of the chief libraries of Europe" DNB profusely illustrated with over 100 beautiful engraved plates folding full-page and intext. Two original drawings by illustrator George Lewis are bound opposite the engravings based on them Vol. I p. 17 and Vol. II p. 163 -- one fully realized in ink and one a full orignal painitng finished in gold. Jackson 48; Windle and Pippin A38a. Provenance: Henry G. Barnard bookplate and arms in gilt on covers; Robert S Pirie bookplate Printed for the Author, by William Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press unknown books
1814réf. 302943London: Longman Hurst Rees & Co. Printed at the Shakespeare Press 1814. First edition. Illustrated. Armorial frontispiece numerous plates text printed in red and black. 4 vols. 4to. Original boards printed spine labels uncut and unpressed. Minor wear and foxing. Bookplate of R.P. Kemp. Blue cloth slipcases. A remarkable survival. First edition. Illustrated. Armorial frontispiece numerous plates text printed in red and black. 4 vols. 4to. In boards Uncut. Dibdin's elaborate catalogue of the library of the second Earl Spencer one of the great book collectors of his or any time. T.F. Dibdin 1776-1847 was for many years Spencer's librarian and produced the four-volume catalogue in 1814-1815. Three subsequent supplementary voluems were issued in 1822-3 not present. Jackson 36; Windle A25 Longman, Hurst, Rees & Co. Printed at the Shakespeare Press unknown books
réf. 122750London: Printed For The Author By W.Bulmer And W.Nicol Shakespeare Press And Sold By Payne And Foss Longman Hurst And Co. 1821. 3 vols. royal 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. xxv 3 leaves 462 lxxix 1 errata; 2 p.l. 555; 2 p.l. 622 lxii. without half-titles. 83 plates incl. portraits; 1 color 2 sepia & 5 double-page & 63 smaller illus. in the text some on India paper mounted. Early half dark green morocco marbled boards gilt-lettered backstrips a tall untrimmed set with usual occasional foxing or spotting. Bookplates of James Whatman and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition regular paper issue. One of a very few books by Dibdin that went into a second edition. "The collation is very irregular by reason of the fact that all illustrations in the text being printed on India paper pasted-in are on separately inserted leaves . This Voyage Pittoresque is lavishly illustrated mainly with copperplates after drawings by G.R. Lewis and others. Dibdin says he spent over 7000 pounds on the book being the first patron to pay 100 guineas for a plate . It has been unkindly said of this book that it would have been better without any text. However it does contain a modicum of bibliographical information that is still useful if used with due caution" Jackson. Lowndes notes that it "contains much useful and curious information" on the libraries and private collections of Europe. The second edition of 1829 is abridged and omits all but 5 of the original plates. Jackson 48; Lowndes I 641; Windle & Pippin A38a. Provenance: James Whatman; Lister; Colin Franklin; Charles Sebag-Montefiore. Windle and Pippin A38a. Printed For The Author hardcover books
1838réf. 1227512 vols. London: Printed for the Author. 1838. 2 vols royal 8vo i-v vi-xv xvi 10 subscribers plates contents 1 2–436 i ii-xxx supplement 1 errata 12 plates; iv 437–39 440–1090 pp. With 40 plates and woodcut vignettes on titles and throughout the text. Original pinkish buff boards printed paper labels skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrips. Binding signed "J. MacKenzie Binder 4 Crown St. Westminster". Bookplate of Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition regular paper copy. Dedicated to Frances Mary Richardson Currer. The dedicatee subscribed for nine copies eight on large-paper. Arthur Freeman has one of these still in original boards and Roxburghe quarter roan inscribed by Dibdin ‘To Miss Currer From the Author April 19.1839. The first copy into boards.’ Jackson states that there were 100 large-paper copies bound in three volumes with a third title-page inserted before p. 815 and with the index at the end of vol.3. The quantity of the regular issue is not known. The Barlow copy in original boards uncut has an eighteen-page Bohn catalogue an octavo and an additional leaf bound at the end of vol.I. ‘I think it belongs there since it is printed by the same printer as the book on what appears to be the same paper.…The unusual thing … is that it appears to be excerpts from a rare book catalogue selected specifically for this book rather than a publisher’s catalogue.’ Barlow in litt. Freeman’s ‘first copy into boards’ has only pp.17-18 the last single leaf of this catalogue bound in at the end. This copy like Barlow's has the entire catalogue.Tipped into vol. 1 is an autograph letter from Dibdin dated 20 November 1848 addressee unknown. "May I venture to solicit your transferring your name from my "Reformation Lectures" which are postponed perhaps sine die to the enclosed work. Perhaps the same favour could be obtained from your Brother" signed T/F. Dibdin. Provenance: Lister; Colin Franklin; Sebag-Montefiore. Windle A65. Printed for the Author.. hardcover books
1799réf. 1238344to. London: Sept. 9 1799. 4to 1 p. tiny hole in centre text unaffected. § A highly important very early and previously unrecorded letter tasking his correspondent to give the bearer two copies of “my Charts of the Rights of Persons” one colored and one plain without charge “in tolerably clean condition.” The letter relates to the now lost Dibdin publication described in Windle & Pippin as ‘B2’ with a long descriptive letter offered above; the date of ours suggests a second try at a cheaper and more commercial reprinting of the “Blackstone Chart” after Cadell & Davies declined it. The request “in tolerably clean condition” suggests that Dibdin had had them stored and perhaps knew that some had been stained or otherwise soiled. The mystery around this chart has yet to be solved. Sept. 9 unknown books
réf. 106767London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer Shakspeare Press and published by Longman Hurst etc. 1814-15. 4 vols. 8vo ix lii i 383; 503; 509 3; vii 509 lxxvii pp. with 22 plates including one double-page as called for and numerous additional woodcuts some in red in the text of all four volumes. These woodcut facsimiles are by the Byfield family. Full red morocco gilt dentelles. Bookplate of Ross Winans on the front pastedown of vol. one. Some occasional spotting or foxing especially in vol. 4 upper joint of vol. 4 beginning to split at head generally a very good set complete as issued. § First edition of Dibdin’s great work. Loosely inserted at the front of vol. 1 is a manuscript note from Dibdin: “Subscription for copy of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana herewith sent £8.8. T.F. Dibdin Mar. 31.” 500 copies were printed according to the prospectus and most nineteenth-century sources though A.N.L. Munby states that there were 550 copies; the prospectus states 50 copies on large-paper but Dibdin Bibliographical Decameron vol.II p.392 says: ‘There were only 55 copies struck off on Large Paper.’. Regular and large-paper copies collate and paginate identically. In vol.I leaf M4 pp.87-88 occurs in two states both usually found together with and without the engraved facsimile of Polish type; the text of the bottom nine lines of p.87 is reset with the headline in a different type face; and there are minor changes in p.88. Ross Winans 1796–1877 was an American inventor mechanic and builder of locomotives and railroad machinery. He was one of the United States' first multimillionaires. His “small but choice” library Dickinson was bought en bloc by G.D. Smith and sold through various auctions though his copy of the First Folio was last recorded by Lee in the Census and is now unlocated. Windle and Pippin A25. Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer Shakspeare Press and published by Longman unknown books
1825réf. 24574Paris Crapelet 1825 4 volumes in-4, demi-maroquin bleu petits coins, plats de papier marbr, dos nerfs orns de filets dors; doublures et gardes de papier marbr, ttes dores, non rogns, couvertures imprimes (Muller, successeur de Thouvenin).Le texte des deux premiers volumes est traduit par Th. Licquet, celui des deux derniers par M. Crapelet.
1822réf. 54607London: John Lowndes 1822. Isaac Robert Cruikshank. Two volumes. VOLUME 1 FIRST EDITION: Folding hand-colored frontispiece etching "Mr. Wilkinson Mr. Burroughs & Mr. Wrench As Logic Jerry & Corinthian Tom." by Robert Cruikshank. Bound together with Songs Parodies etc below in 8vo gilt-stamped polished calf by Riviere & Son with six spine compartments; all edges gilt; 54 pp; 2-line Errata and "Printed by F. Marshall Kenton Street Brunswick Square" at base of last text page. Upper half-inch of spine rubbed to board darkening from old tape repair on verso of frontis crossing upper left corner otherwise very good. Bound in at rear is SONGS PARODIES DUETS CHORUSSES . TOM & JERRY; OR LIFE IN LONDON . UPS & DOWNS IN LIFE . BY A CELEBRATED EXTRAVAGANT ERRATIC AUTHOR." London: John Lowndes no-date. Title page notes "First performed at the Adelphi Theatre November 26 1821." Hand-colored frontispiece etching "Corinthian Tom" by Robert Cruikshank 23 pp; publisher's ads on verso of title page. VOLUME 2 SECOND EDITION CORRECTED: Hand-colored frontispiece etching "Mr. Oxberry as Jerry Hawthorn" by Robert Cruikshank. "Bingham Printer Tavistock-street Covent-garden" on title page. Bound by Wallis in 8vo three-quarter leather over light brown cloth boards gilt-lettered spine; 40 pp; top edge gilt. Front cover front free endpaper and first blank detached rubbing along edges of leather lower half inch of spine leather rubbed to board. Provenance: Bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin who served as the Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt in each. In the first Woodin's bookplate partially obscures that of J. Barton Townsend whose collection of color-plate books was auctioned in 1919 and in the second that of Cruikshank bibliographer Alfred M. Cohn whose collection was auctioned in 1920. The first and second editions of the "Larks" are exceedingly scarce if not rare as is "Songs Parodies etc. John Lowndes unknown
1817réf. 13004London: The Author. By W. Bulmer & Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. FIRST EDITION. Complete with errata colophon and half-titles. With 40 plates including the oft missing "Presentation in the Temple" in Volume I portraits illustrations and facsimiles engraved vignettes woodcut and text illustrations some printed on India paper and mounted. Contemporary full crimson crushed levant morocco bound by St. James' Duke Street London a dated binding with the elaborate gilt spine in 6 compartments and "London 1827" in gilt at the foot. From the library of Thomas Willement 1786-1871 British stained glass artist called "the father of Victorian Stained Glass" with his signature a small circular binders label and his personal bookplate from the Society of London Antiquaries. A handsome copy with an important provenance. First and only edition of one of the monuments of typographical bibliography and the most extravagant of all Dibdin's works. It was limited to under 1000 regular and 50 large paper copies. "Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania" Windle & Pippin A28. According to Bigmore & Wyman the work is written in the same dialogue manner as Dibdin's Bibliomania with the same interlocutors and may be properly described as a continuation of that work. The Author. By W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Press unknown
1827réf. 107222London: Harding and Lepard 1827. Together with an account of polyglot Bibles polyglot Psalters Hebrew Bibles Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek fathers and the Latin fathers. Fourth edition; greatly enlarged and corrected. In two volumes. Pp. ivxiv562iv580 1 engraved plate and small mounted specimen leaf Volume I corrigenda at end of Volume II; impl. 8vo; half dark green morocco the spines lettered and decorated in gilt marbled papered boards; edges slightly rubbed; t.e.g. others uncut and partly unopened; marbled endpapers; ribbon markers; bookplate on upper pastedowns small catalogue slip tipped-in after upper free endpaper Volume I large water stain to top fore-corner of the engraved plate and a couple of the surrounding leaves a little light offsetting from the bookmarkers scattered pale foxing; Harding and Lepard London 1827. Fourth edition large paper copy one of 250 thus. Windle & Pippin A3d. Contains much information not found in earlier editions. The plate is a facsimile of a page from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible and the mounted specimen leaf is from Pickering's 1826 Diamond Edition of the Greek New Testament. Harding and Lepard unknown
1822réf. 54607London: John Lowndes 1822. Isaac Robert Cruikshank. Two volumes. VOLUME 1 FIRST EDITION: Folding hand-colored frontispiece etching "Mr. Wilkinson Mr. Burroughs & Mr. Wrench As Logic Jerry & Corinthian Tom." by Robert Cruikshank. Bound together with Songs Parodies etc below in 8vo gilt-stamped polished calf by Riviere & Son with six spine compartments; all edges gilt; 54 pp; 2-line Errata and "Printed by F. Marshall Kenton Street Brunswick Square" at base of last text page. Upper half-inch of spine rubbed to board darkening from old tape repair on verso of frontis crossing upper left corner otherwise very good. Bound in at rear is SONGS PARODIES DUETS CHORUSSES . TOM & JERRY; OR LIFE IN LONDON . UPS & DOWNS IN LIFE . BY A CELEBRATED EXTRAVAGANT ERRATIC AUTHOR." London: John Lowndes no-date. Title page notes "First performed at the Adelphi Theatre November 26 1821." Hand-colored frontispiece etching "Corinthian Tom" by Robert Cruikshank 23 pp; publisher's ads on verso of title page. VOLUME 2 SECOND EDITION CORRECTED: Hand-colored frontispiece etching "Mr. Oxberry as Jerry Hawthorn" by Robert Cruikshank. "Bingham Printer Tavistock-street Covent-garden" on title page. Bound by Wallis in 8vo three-quarter leather over light brown cloth boards gilt-lettered spine; 40 pp; top edge gilt. Front cover front free endpaper and first blank detached rubbing along edges of leather lower half inch of spine leather rubbed to board. Provenance: Bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin who served as the Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt in each. In the first Woodin's bookplate partially obscures that of J. Barton Townsend whose collection of color-plate books was auctioned in 1919 and in the second that of Cruikshank bibliographer Alfred M. Cohn whose collection was auctioned in 1920. The first and second editions of the "Larks" are exceedingly scarce if not rare as is "Songs Parodies etc. John Lowndes unknown books
1618réf. 1395620London UK: William Miller 1810 1812 18161819. First Dibdin Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 4 volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full red morocco leather with gilt ornamentation to spine boards board edges and turn ins. Boards have light to moderate chipping to joints and corners in some cases leaving the corners of the boards visible. All textblocks have gilt edges still very bright. All textblocks have marbled end papers and mild age toning and foxing on some pages throughout. All volumes bound by Riviere with Riviere stamp to verso of each front free end page. CONTENTS: VOL I: xx 2 95 1 cxxxviii ix-xi 1 390 plus 16 plates. Lacking binder's instruction page. Published in 1810.- VOL II: 4 vi 32 xii 33-400 x 401-614 4 ad plus 15 plates. Lacking binders instruction page. Published in 1812.-- VOL III: 4 iv 2 615 1 plus 5 plates. Contains binders instructions page. Published in 1816.-- VOL IV: 4 ii 2 623 pages plus 3 plates. Contains binder's instruction page. Published in 1819. Shelved in Room A. 1395620. Special Collections - Upstairs. William Miller hardcover
1810réf. 437London: William Miller John Murray & Longman et al. 1810. 1st Dibdin Edition. Modern calf reback over contemporary calf boards. Very Good. The first Dibdin edition of Typographical Antiquities is a seminal work in the history of printing scholarship providing a comprehensive account of early English Scottish and Irish printing and serving as a foundational reference for bibliographers and collectors. The work was highly anticipated amongst English bibliophiles booksellers and dignitaries. Subscribers included King George III prominent British Institutions like the British Museum and Cambridge University and numerous prominent publishing houses some of which bought dozens of copies. PROVENANCE From the library of Arthur Dalrymple 1808-1868 FSA Fellow Society of Antiquaries a solicitor and antiquary from Norwich England. He was a major collector of historical manuscripts books and prints. His library was well known among contemporary historians for its rare volumes and meticulously affixed armorial bookplates. Overall Condition: Very Good SET INFO Published in London by William Miller Vol I and II John Murray Vol III and Longman Hurst et al. Vol. IV. Each volume published separately between 1810-1819 and issued to subscribers: Volume I 1810 Volume II 1812 Volume III 1816 Volume IV 1819. Each volume is a preferred first Dibdin edition when his influential and impressive book scholarship greatly expanded the work. Authors: Thomas Frognall Dibdin Joseph Ames William Herbert. Bound in contemporary fine calf binding with spines rebacked in modern gilt calf. Boards with thick gilt vine-patterned roll paneling. Spines with five raised bands separating compartments ruled and tooled in gilt. All board edges with gilt rolls. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and leather-turn ins tooled in blind. Quarto 11" x 8. 7/8". Each volume richly illustrated in addition to the plates - full page woodcuts within text woodcuts decorated initials head-and tail-pieces. Collated and textually complete including half-titles lacking a few binder's notes for plate placement and ads and all 38 plates: Volume I: xx 2 95 1 cxxxviii 2390 pp. 15 plates with Binder's Instructions leaf. Volume II: 4 v 1 30 2 xii 33-399 1 x 401-614 pp. 15 plates without Binder's Instructions leaf and publisher ads. Volume III: 4 iv 615 3 pp. 5 plates with Binder's instructions leaf. Volume IV: 4 ii 2 623 1 pp. 3 plates with Binder instruction's leaf. Dibdin's four-volume edition substantially built upon the earlier works of Joseph Ames and William Herbert. Descriptions of the earliest and most important English printers and publishers are described in detail including their typography genres and key works published printer devices and ornamentation devices like woodcuts head and tail pieces and decorated capitals and initials. Dibdin's edition is highly valued for several key reasons: 1. Comprehensive Documentation: It systematically covers printers from Caxton onwards tracking their known works and offering historical context; 2. Biographical Detail: Volume 1 includes lives of Ames and Herbert followed by accounts of early printers providing insight into the development of the printing profession; 3. Bibliographical Utility: By consolidating prior editions with new editorial notes it has enabled subsequent scholars and collectors to identify locate and study early printed books with greater accuracy; 4. Cultural and Historical Importance: Recognized as a work of cultural significance it serves as part of the knowledge base of civilized bibliographical scholarship preserving the history of early printing practices. ABOUT THE AUTHOR EDITIOR AND BIBLIOGRAPHER Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776 - 1847 was an influential English bibliographer and Anglican clergyman best known for popularizing book collecting and producing landmark bibliographical works such as Bibliomania Bibliotheca Spenceriana and his revised edition of Typographical Antiquities. Dibdin was one of the founders and vice-president of the Roxburghe Club established in 1812 considered the first English bibliophile society. The club encouraged the production and reprinting of rare books stimulating a culture of book collecting that profoundly influenced English literary and bibliographical history. Dibdin's legacy lies less in his enthusiasm for books colorful writing style encouragement of book collecting and role in creating bibliophile societies that preserved rare works for future generations. His works remain referenced both for their historical contents and for their influence on the culture of bibliophilia. CONDITION REPORT The books are in Very Good antiquarian condition. Exterior and binding: firm hinges and joints tight pages. Rubbed and worn edges rubbed boards. Top edge darkened per usual. leather darkening in multiple areas particularly along the edges and board perimeters dry areas with cracking. Interiors: Flaking and darkening of leather turn-ins. Generally lightly toned pages which are clean and bright. Offsetting from plates and occasional light offsetting from woodcuts. Moderate to heavy foxing at extremities of each volume and on and near plates. Signs of handling - some smudges creases bent corners small ink spills and multiple instances of marginal reading tears and some paper repairs with tape not affecting text a few leaves with small holes or feathered edges. Armorial bookplate of Dalrymple on front pastedowns. Volume I: light oxidation of text block. Small water dampening stain at head of first few leaves and bottom fore-edge corners of pp. cvii-cxxiv. Light and scattered foxing most main text. This volume GOOD to GOOD due to the text block oxidation. Volume II: Mostly white to lightly toned pages. 2" tear at title page foot. A few pages with small waterdrop along a margin. An occasional spot of foxing in the main text. Some charring along fore-edge of rear cover leather. Volume III: Head of margins of leaf 461-462 and adjacent plate with multiple tears and creases not affecting the plate image or text. Volume IV: Several tears and marginal wear of FFEP. Large water dampening stain at foot of frontispiece. All in all a scarce complete first Dibdin set of Typographical Antiquities: Or the History of Printing in England Scotland and Ireland in VERY GOOD antiquarian condition. . William Miller, John Murray & Longman, et al. unknown
1817réf. 306781London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First edition. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. Slip announcing vol. IV of Typographical Antiquities inserted before half title of Vol. I. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Original drab boards printed spine labels untrimmed. Old clean repairs to the joints of vol. I; joints of vol. III a bit rubbed. Ownership signature of Mary Curteis Dec. 29 1817 on pastedown in each volume; bookplate of Charles Sarolea and his signature on title page; small morocco label; printed label of Claude Smith on flyleaf. Very good. Cloth slipcases. First edition. Hundreds of engravings and examples of type etc. Slip announcing vol. IV of Typographical Antiquities inserted before half title of Vol. I. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo. Windle & Pippin A28; Jackson no.40; Hart no.186; Bigmore and Wyman pp. 169-70 Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
1825réf. CLL-149Paris, Crapelet, 1825 4 volumes in-8 de XXIV, 344 pp. - (2) ff., 374 pp., (1) f. d'errata - VIII, 383 pp., (1) f. de table - (2) ff., 446 pp., demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs très finement orné et doré, têtes dorées, non rognés (Capé).
1824réf. 164843London: N 1824. Pp. ivlii912 title page vignette index errata; thick demy 8vo; early half calf over marbled papered boards rebacked not recently with the original gilt lettered and decorated spine laid on the gilt worn away from the decorations between the raised bands the boards a trifle rubbed edges lightly worn with a few mainly small surface chips heavier below top fore-corner of upper board both joints worn with the upper joint cracking; uncut; ribbon marker; hinges cracking book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown some light foxing and browning occasional slight soiling; printed for Harding Triphook and Lepard and J. Major London 1824. First edition one volume issue. 100 large paper copies were issued in two volumes. Windle & A50a. Tipped-in after the upper free endpaper is an autograph letter from Dibdin signed and dated April 15 1814 with an integral address leaf to W. Godwin Bookseller franked by Earl Spencer in Bath. George John Spencer 2nd Earl Spencer 1758-1834 served as Home Secretary from 1806 to 1807. He was renowned for his vast and impressive book collection and was the instigator and first President of the Roxburghe Club the oldest society of bibliophiles in the world. Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776-1847 was also a founding member of the Roxburghe Club. Earl Spencer was Dibdin's patron for many years opening up the library at Althorp to Dibdin for cataloguing. The resulting Bibliotheca Spenceriana a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century and of Many Valuable First Editions in the Library of George John Earl Spencer is regarded as one of the most thorough and elaborate catalogues of a private library. In 1818 Spencer commissioned Dibdin to buy books for him on the continent a trip described in Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany 1821. Dibdin also wrote Aedes Althorpianae an account of Althorp giving many details of the library. The letter to Godwin is Dibdin's response to a request for a copy of Bibliotheca Spenceriana: 'Sir I understand you have solicited for a third copy of the B S as subscribed for last July - but am sorry to add that such third copy never came to my knowledge and there must have been a mistake somewhere. It is wholly out of my power to furnish you with it. I am Sir Your undeciphered T. F. Dibdin.' It is possible that the recipient could have been the writer and political philosopher William Godwin 1756-1836 widower of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. At the time of the letter 1814 Godwin was a bookseller and publisher in partnership with his second wife Mary Jane Clairmont. In 1805 Mary Jane and William Godwin opened a bookshop and publishing house M. J. Godwin & Co. Among other popular titles the firm published The Swiss Family Robinson and Charles & Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. The bookshop also known as The Juvenile Library specialised in literature for children. N unknown
1797réf. 239979London: Privately Printed 1797. First. hardcover. very good. Copper engraved vignette on title page. Viii 2 117pp slim small 8vo 3/4 tan calf brown leather spine label marbled boards lightly rubbed t.e.g. London: Printed for the author 1797. First Edition. Scarce. Very good . ".these poems from which it appears that 500 copies were printed the major part of which were destroyed. `My only consolation is says the author that the volume is exceedingly rare.'" Lowndes I 642. Privately Printed unknown
