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1927Best.-Nr. 29063n.p.: n.p. 1927. About fine. Large fairy watercolor ink and tempera image used as the wrap-around cover image of TWINKIE TOWN TALES Book No. 2. Henderson adds a rainbow aplomb to this series of fairy-like creatures by author Carlyle Emery. Depicted is a grand feast of the Twinkies: 19 of the cherubic elves are sitting at a table feasting on cake and a cherry larger than their heads. The vibrant image is carefully laid out to consider the final format with the visible interest concentrated on the right-hand side which would become the front cover. The image appears greatly reduced on the book published in a small format 8.5'' tall by St. Louis by Hamilton Brown in 1927. 18'' x 26'' image; 27'' x 36'' frame. Original painting professionally matted and framed not examined outside frame. Title lettering in the upper right corner reading "Twinkie Town Tales BOOK 2." A couple minor scratches to frame; art beautiful. Accompanied by a first edition copy of the book. n.p. unknown books
1885Best.-Nr. 229257London: Chapman and Hall 1885. The Ashburton Edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume I numerous plates throughout the set. 17 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco and marbled boards gilt spines raised bands t.e.g. Fine handsome set. The Ashburton Edition". Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume I numerous plates throughout the set. 17 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall unknown
1885Best.-Nr. 229257London: Chapman and Hall 1885. The Ashburton Edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume I numerous plates throughout the set. 17 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco and marbled boards gilt spines raised bands t.e.g. Fine handsome set. The Ashburton Edition". Engraved frontispiece portrait to volume I numerous plates throughout the set. 17 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1837Best.-Nr. 015441London: James Fraser 1837. THREE VOLUMES uniformly bound. Inner dentelles red endpapers. A SIGNED BINDING by Riviere and Sons. French fillet borders with corner rondelles. Spine decorated in gilt. Gilt lettering has faded but can still be read. Top corners just a bit worn several lightly bumped. Please see photos. All three half-titles are present. Volume 1 is subtitled "The Bastille" Volume 2 "The Constitution' and Volume 3 "The Guillotine". One of the greatest treatises written on the french Revolution. See "Printing and the Mind of Man" #304. Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a Scottish historian essayist philosopher in the Victorian era. . First Edition. Lime Green Morocco. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octavo. James Fraser Hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 001016London: Chapman and Hall Thirty-four volumes complete n.d. c. 1888 - Volumes One to Ten - 'History of Friedrich II of Prussia Called Frederick the Great' viii 458pp; viii 490pp; vii 1 424pp; viii 407pp 1; viii 441pp 1; viii 453pp 1; vii 1 409pp 1; vii 1 393pp 1; vii 1 445pp 1; viii 392pp; Volumes Eleven to Fifteen - 'Cromwell's Letters' xvi 339pp 1; xi 1 344pp; xi 1 325pp 1; xi 1 311pp 1; viii 320pp; Volumes Sixteen to Eighteen - 'Translations From the German' xvi 351pp 1; 8 344pp; 8 419pp 1; Volumes Nineteen to Twenty-Four - 'Essays' 6 412pp; 6 416pp; 6 405pp 1; 6 460pp; 6 444pp; 6 423pp 1; Volumes Twenty-Five to Twenty-Seven - 'French Revolution' ix 1 359pp 1; 8 378pp; vii 440pp; Volume Twenty-Eight - 'Past and Present' vii 1 387pp 1; Volume Twenty-Nine - 'Sartor Resartus' vi 308pp; Volume Thirty - 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' 8 421pp 1; Volume Thirty-One - 'Life of John Sterling' vi 2 342pp; Volume Thirty-Two - 'Life of Friedrich Schiller' viii426pp; Volume Thirty-Three - 'On Heroes Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History' 6 303pp 1 and Volume Thirty-Four - 'Early Kings of Norway and Index' 8 380pp. Contemporary uniform half morocco and marbled paper over boards raised bands spines in six panels author in gilt to second panel sub-titles to fourth panel t.e.g. marbled endpapers. Spines slightly faded minor rubbing to extremities. Internally fairly bright and clean. Tarr notes that 'as supplies of certain volumes were exhausted they were reissued and apparently were arbitrarily either dated or undated. Since the records of Chapman and Hall have been destroyed it is impossible to ascertain the frequency of these reissues or to establish any pattern of dating". Tarr D7. Reprint. Half Morocco and Boards. Good. 8vo. Chapman and Hall Hardcover
Best.-Nr. 166272Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 1998. Revised Draft script for the 1999 film seen here under the working title "Bond 19." Copy belonging to visual effects technician Brian Smithies with his name in manuscript ink on the first page of the script and his annotations on several script pages denoting scenes utilizing visual effects. Numeric watermark on each script page. During an assignment to protect a late billionaire's daughter from her father's killers James Bond uncovers an international scheme to increase petroleum prices by way of a nuclear disaster. The nineteenth film in the James Bond series and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the titular MI6 agent. Shot on location throughout Spain France Azerbaijan Turkey and the UK. Self wrappers. Title page replaced with a memo revision page dated December 4 1998. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with 16 pink revision pages bound in at the beginning of the script dated December 4 1998. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with light rust near the binding and moderate dampstaining on the first page of the script. Pinewood Studios unknown
Best.-Nr. 166272Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 1998. Revised Draft script for the 1999 film seen here under the working title "Bond 19." Copy belonging to visual effects technician Brian Smithies with his name in manuscript ink on the first page of the script and his annotations on several script pages denoting scenes utilizing visual effects. Numeric watermark on each script page. During an assignment to protect a late billionaire's daughter from her father's killers James Bond uncovers an international scheme to increase petroleum prices by way of a nuclear disaster. The nineteenth film in the James Bond series and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the titular MI6 agent. Shot on location throughout Spain France Azerbaijan Turkey and the UK. Self wrappers. Title page replaced with a memo revision page dated December 4 1998. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with 16 pink revision pages bound in at the beginning of the script dated December 4 1998. Pages Very Good plus bound with a silver prong with light rust near the binding and moderate dampstaining on the first page of the script. Pinewood Studios unknown books
1837Best.-Nr. 56314London: James Fraser 1837. First Edition in Original Condition The first edition of Carlyle's classic study of the French Revolution complete with all half titles and the integral advertisement leaf in the second volume in its original contemporary binding and with all edges untrimmed. Carlyle arranged his work in three parts the first subtitled "The Bastille" the second part "The Constitution" and the final part "The Guillotine." "Of the three great political upheavals which have altered the face of the earth - the American French and Russian Revolutions - only the French has stimulated literary masterpieces which in turn have made their impact direct and indirect upon millions of readers who would have and have left unread the productions of dispassionate scholarship. They are Carlyle's book and the 'History of the French Revolution' by Michelet. Carlyle wrote his French Revolution as a secular 'tract for the times' and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German romanticism were his lodestars; 'History is the essence of innumerable biographies' was his historical creed. The result is not a work of scholarship but a prose epic teeming with colorful scenes of dramatic events and imaginative portraits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at once captured the English-speaking world and has outside France moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day" - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN. Copies of Carlyle's work rarely appear in original condition as here. Three volumes. vii404; vii4222; vii448pp. Uniform half brown patterned cloth and drab paper-covered boards printed paper labels. Edges and corners rubbed front joint of second and third volumes partially split labels worn and darkened. Bindings somewhat shaken with all hinges cracked but cords holding strong; occasional gatherings standing proud. Bookplate on each front pastedown minor scattered foxing to first few and last few leaves of each volume. Withal a very good set in contemporary bindings. Untrimmed. In a red half morocco clamshell case spine gilt. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 304. DYER p.85. TARR A8.1. hardcover
1837Best.-Nr. 56314London: James Fraser 1837. First Edition in Original Condition The first edition of Carlyle's classic study of the French Revolution complete with all half titles and the integral advertisement leaf in the second volume in its original contemporary binding and with all edges untrimmed. Carlyle arranged his work in three parts the first subtitled "The Bastille" the second part "The Constitution" and the final part "The Guillotine." "Of the three great political upheavals which have altered the face of the earth - the American French and Russian Revolutions - only the French has stimulated literary masterpieces which in turn have made their impact direct and indirect upon millions of readers who would have and have left unread the productions of dispassionate scholarship. They are Carlyle's book and the 'History of the French Revolution' by Michelet. Carlyle wrote his French Revolution as a secular 'tract for the times' and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German romanticism were his lodestars; 'History is the essence of innumerable biographies' was his historical creed. The result is not a work of scholarship but a prose epic teeming with colorful scenes of dramatic events and imaginative portraits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at once captured the English-speaking world and has outside France moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day" - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN. Copies of Carlyle's work rarely appear in original condition as here. Three volumes. vii404; vii4222; vii448pp. Uniform half brown patterned cloth and drab paper-covered boards printed paper labels. Edges and corners rubbed front joint of second and third volumes partially split labels worn and darkened. Bindings somewhat shaken with all hinges cracked but cords holding strong; occasional gatherings standing proud. Bookplate on each front pastedown minor scattered foxing to first few and last few leaves of each volume. Withal a very good set in contemporary bindings. Untrimmed. In a red half morocco clamshell case spine gilt. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 304. DYER p.85. TARR A8.1. hardcover books
1865Best.-Nr. 82811865. Engraving of a photograph of the great writer and historian by Elliott and Fry taken approximately 1854. Signed and dated by Carlyle in 1865 as he finished his great work on Frederick the Great. Signed images of Thomas Carlyle are very uncommon this being the first we have carried. unknown
1865Best.-Nr. 82811865. Engraving of a photograph of the great writer and historian by Elliott and Fry taken approximately 1854. Signed and dated by Carlyle in 1865 as he finished his great work on Frederick the Great. Signed images of Thomas Carlyle are very uncommon this being the first we have carried. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 61321London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1814. French-to-English Dictionary EX LIBRIS JANE CARLYLE INSCRIBED BY THOMAS CARLYLE with an autograph letter from Alexander Carlyle tracing the provenance. A New Revised edition. Duodecimo in half-sheets 17 x 11cm pp.2 40 unpaginated. Black ink ownership of Jane Ballie Welsh Haddington to flyleaf. Further black ink inscription from Thomas Carlyle also to flyleaf: 'To William Fingland Thornhill: T.C. Templand 29 March 1842.' Also with an autograph letter dated 28th February 1924 on headed note-paper from Alexander Carlyle 1843-1931 nephew of Thomas loosely inserted. Contemporary brown morocco recently rehinged and repaired to spine with gilt titles to red label. Housed in a fleece-line orange buckram-covered slipcase. Bookplate of James Fingland son of the recipient William Fingland to front pastedown. Clean and complete with a touch of light occasional spotting. Wear to boards and spine now carefully restored to an attractive robust condition. Very good. Alexander Carlyle who acted as his uncle's chief advocate on the public stage after his death in 1881 building a formidable archive of correspondence later gifted to the National Library of Scotland here deftly unravels the provenance of this French dictionary: Gifted by Thomas just after the death of his mother-in-law Grace at her home in Templand near Dumfries in March 1842 to "a poor boy of Dr. Russell's whom she Mrs. Welsh liked who staid here three nights when one of her miserable servants failed a Tardy's Dictionary and an old Livy; I remembered the Tardy and thought a charitable orphan heart best deserved it. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 unknown
1889Best.-Nr. 6403London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co 1889. Fine. Sixteenmo 6 3/16 x 3 5/8 inches; 157 x 93 mm. vi 306 1 imprint 5 blank pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son stamp signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full antelope crushed levant morocco covers decoratively ruled in gilt surrounding a very elaborate floral design in pointillé spine with five raised bands similarly decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt-ruled board edges full dark blue morocco liners elaborately decorated in gilt blue watered silk end-leaves top edge gilt. A wonderful example of the art of 'pointillé'. The Scottish author critic and thinker Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a major influence on Victorian society. His novel Sartor Resartus translated as The Tailor Re-tailored among other variations is a satirical look at the work of a fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. Intriguing in its form the book is structured from the prospective of a skeptical English reviewer consumed by Teufelsdröckh's book Clothes Their Origin and Influence. In crafting Sartor Resartus Carlyle drew on a range of literary influences: Goethe Hegel Sterne and Switft. Carlyle's complicated text not only critiques academic writing and materialism but offers meditations on the meanings of symbols and the search for truth. Although first started as an essay the project eventually developed into a novel which was first published serially in Fraser's Magazine 1833-34. Fine. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co unknown
1889Best.-Nr. 6403London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co 1889. Fine. Sixteenmo 6 3/16 x 3 5/8 inches; 157 x 93 mm. vi 306 1 imprint 5 blank pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son stamp signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full antelope crushed levant morocco covers decoratively ruled in gilt surrounding a very elaborate floral design in pointillé spine with five raised bands similarly decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt-ruled board edges full dark blue morocco liners elaborately decorated in gilt blue watered silk end-leaves top edge gilt. A wonderful example of the art of 'pointillé'. The Scottish author critic and thinker Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a major influence on Victorian society. His novel Sartor Resartus translated as The Tailor Re-tailored among other variations is a satirical look at the work of a fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh. Intriguing in its form the book is structured from the prospective of a skeptical English reviewer consumed by Teufelsdröckh's book Clothes Their Origin and Influence. In crafting Sartor Resartus Carlyle drew on a range of literary influences: Goethe Hegel Sterne and Switft. Carlyle's complicated text not only critiques academic writing and materialism but offers meditations on the meanings of symbols and the search for truth. Although first started as an essay the project eventually developed into a novel which was first published serially in Fraser's Magazine 1833-34. Fine. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 140947580Hammersmith London: Doves Press 1907. Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 315 copies. 341 1 pp. Bound in publisher's limp vellum with spine lettered in gilt. Printed in black and red by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Very Good. Covers curled with red spotted staining to rear cover and light foxing to fore edge. Bookplate of famed bibliophile Decherd Turner 1922-2002 on the front free endpaper with transfer mark from previously pasted bookseller's ticket at front pastedown. A stunning Doves Press production of Carlyle's comic novel first printed serially in Fraser's Magazine from 1833 to 1834. The Scottish essayist and historian had intended this to be a new kind of novel with varying paradoxical themes that intertwined fact and fiction speculation seriousness and satire. The book is a parody of German Idealism and of Hegel in particular. Books printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity "dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type the excellence of the layout and the perfection of the presswork" Cave 147. They reflect Cobden-Sanderson's passion for the "ideal book" in its entirety. Doves imprints are scarce because when the press closed in 1913 Cobden-Sanderson cast all the type off the Hammersmith Bridge into the Thames- to remain "untouched for other use" Ransom 59. Ransom Doves 13. Doves Press unknown
1874Best.-Nr. 3586London: Chapman and Hall 1874. First Thus. Near Fine. Library Edition. Thirty-four octavo volumes 207 x 133 mm uniformly bound by Morrell ca. 1930 in three-quarter crushed brown levant morocco over brown cloth ruled in gilt. Occupying approximately 51 1/2 inches 131 cm. of shelf space. Spines with five raised bands decoratively gilt lettered and tooled in compartments. Two volumes professionally repaired at top of spines. Engraved frontispieces and plates. The Library edition originally issued in 30 volumes 1869-71 with three additional volumes translations from the German added in 1871 and also a thirty-fourth volume as General Index . A near fine set. "In literature Carlyle was the pioneer who explored and made known the work of modern Germany. His literary judgments were penetrating and when he had a congenial subject just; and on men like Voltaire Burns and Johnson he gave verdicts that approached finality. At a historian he is in the highest rank. Bating certain unimportant errors of detail he illumined the past with astonishing insight and made his personages actual and his scenes dramatic. His style is an extraordinary farrago leaping not flowing coining strange words and performing extravagant evolutions; yet cumulatively it impresses as a great style suffused with humor irony and passion; impossible to imitate utterly personal burning and convincing" British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. Beautifully bound by W. T. Morrell on London established c. 1861 as successor to the firm begun by Francis Bedford who in turn had assumed control of the esteemed bindery of Charles Lewis. Sarah T. Prideaux in Modern Bookbindings states that Morrell had a very large business that supplied "all the booksellers with bindings designed by his men" bindings that were "remarkable for their variety and merit." Near Fine. Chapman and Hall unknown
1907Best.-Nr. 140947580Hammersmith London: Doves Press 1907. Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited Edition. One of 315 copies. 341 1 pp. Bound in publisher's limp vellum with spine lettered in gilt. Printed in black and red by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Very Good. Covers curled with red spotted staining to rear cover and light foxing to fore edge. Bookplate of famed bibliophile Decherd Turner 1922-2002 on the front free endpaper with transfer mark from previously pasted bookseller's ticket at front pastedown. A stunning Doves Press production of Carlyle's comic novel first printed serially in Fraser's Magazine from 1833 to 1834. The Scottish essayist and historian had intended this to be a new kind of novel with varying paradoxical themes that intertwined fact and fiction speculation seriousness and satire. The book is a parody of German Idealism and of Hegel in particular. Books printed by Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press are characterized by a stark simplicity "dependent for their beauty almost entirely upon the clarity of the type the excellence of the layout and the perfection of the presswork" Cave 147. They reflect Cobden-Sanderson's passion for the "ideal book" in its entirety. Doves imprints are scarce because when the press closed in 1913 Cobden-Sanderson cast all the type off the Hammersmith Bridge into the Thames- to remain "untouched for other use" Ransom 59. Ransom Doves 13. Doves Press unknown books
1874Best.-Nr. 3586London: Chapman and Hall 1874. First Thus. Near Fine. Library Edition. Thirty-four octavo volumes 207 x 133 mm uniformly bound by Morrell ca. 1930 in three-quarter crushed brown levant morocco over brown cloth ruled in gilt. Occupying approximately 51 1/2 inches 131 cm. of shelf space. Spines with five raised bands decoratively gilt lettered and tooled in compartments. Two volumes professionally repaired at top of spines. Engraved frontispieces and plates. The Library edition originally issued in 30 volumes 1869-71 with three additional volumes translations from the German added in 1871 and also a thirty-fourth volume as General Index . A near fine set. "In literature Carlyle was the pioneer who explored and made known the work of modern Germany. His literary judgments were penetrating and when he had a congenial subject just; and on men like Voltaire Burns and Johnson he gave verdicts that approached finality. At a historian he is in the highest rank. Bating certain unimportant errors of detail he illumined the past with astonishing insight and made his personages actual and his scenes dramatic. His style is an extraordinary farrago leaping not flowing coining strange words and performing extravagant evolutions; yet cumulatively it impresses as a great style suffused with humor irony and passion; impossible to imitate utterly personal burning and convincing" British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. Beautifully bound by W. T. Morrell on London established c. 1861 as successor to the firm begun by Francis Bedford who in turn had assumed control of the esteemed bindery of Charles Lewis. Sarah T. Prideaux in Modern Bookbindings states that Morrell had a very large business that supplied "all the booksellers with bindings designed by his men" bindings that were "remarkable for their variety and merit." Near Fine. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 179594London: Chapman and Hall 1880. hardcover. very good. 34 volumes 30 original 1 volume Index 3 volumes of Carlyle's Translations from the German. Frontispiece illustrations in some volumes. 8vo handsomely bound in 3/4 tan polished calf; gilt-decorated spines with raised bands and red and black leather labels marbled boards and edges three volumes slightly chipped. London: Chapman and Hall no date circa 1880. A very good set. The Library Edition. Chapman and Hall unknown
1880Best.-Nr. 179594London: Chapman and Hall 1880. hardcover. very good. 34 volumes 30 original 1 volume Index 3 volumes of Carlyle's Translations from the German. Frontispiece illustrations in some volumes. 8vo handsomely bound in 3/4 tan polished calf; gilt-decorated spines with raised bands and red and black leather labels marbled boards and edges three volumes slightly chipped. London: Chapman and Hall no date circa 1880. A very good set. The Library Edition. Chapman and Hall unknown books
Best.-Nr. 337133London: doves press. hardcover. near fine. 8 blank ;4 5-341 1 10 blankpp. Printed in red and black. Large 8vo Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown crushed morocco with watered silk textured end-papers 5 raised bands gilt decoration & dentelles top edge gilt London: The Doves Press 1907. Near fine in a cloth slipcase. Beautifully printed book. One of 300 copies printed on paper of a total of 315. doves press unknown
Best.-Nr. 337133London: doves press. hardcover. near fine. 8 blank ;4 5-341 1 10 blankpp. Printed in red and black. Large 8vo Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown crushed morocco with watered silk textured end-papers 5 raised bands gilt decoration & dentelles top edge gilt London: The Doves Press 1907. Near fine in a cloth slipcase. Beautifully printed book. One of 300 copies printed on paper of a total of 315. doves press unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. ST20842Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press 1898. ONE OF 525 COPIES on paper and 12 on vellum. 210 x 150 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". 4 p.l. including two blanks 70 pp. 1 leaf colophon. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES of "Pysche Borne off by Zephyrus" ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM MORRIS elaborate borders around this and first page of text designed and cut by Morris large decorative woodcut initials device on last page of text and one full-page woodcut of ornaments used in the Kelmscott edition of "Love is Enough." Printed in red and black in Golden Troy and Chaucer types. With errata slip laid in at title page. Front pastedown with Arts & Crafts-style bookplate of Edmund Bulkley dated 1893; a list of the Kelmscott books in E. W. Buckley's collection listed by the number assigned to them in this book recorded in pencil on a translucent piece of paper laid in here. Morris & Cockerell 53; Peterson A-53; Ransom 53; Tomkinson p. 121. Some wear to lower corners just a hint of soil to covers otherwise a very fine copy--exceptionally fresh clean and bright internally. Owned by two collectors with a special interest in Morris this is a very pleasing copy of one of the key Kelmscott Press books and the last one to be issued by the press. Morris tells us here about his admiration for 15th century printed books saying that "they were always beautiful by force of the mere typography even without the added ornament with which many of them are so lavishly supplied." And he says that "it was the essence of his undertaking to produce books which it would be a pleasure to look upon as pieces of printing and arrangement of type." This is the most important contemporaneous source of comment on the founding operation and publications of the Kelmscott Press. Peterson quotes Newdigate who says that this is "one of the three books that every student of English book-production ought to read." The original owner here was American private press collector Edmund Bulkley who according to the list laid in at the rear of this volume owned 42 Kelmscott books. Evidently prepared after Bulkley's death the list also marks with a "0" the books sold before 1950 and notes at the end the books including this volume that remained in the possession of "M A B B." this might refer to a relation possibly art collector M. A. B. Bulkley who bequeathed a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1996. Bulkley's distinctive bookplate perhaps created by one of the private presses is found in a number of press books which when listed at auction are in notably fine condition. In 1883 Morris & Company took out a full-page ad in the Official Catalogue of the Boston Foreign Exhibition announcing the appointment of Elliott & Bulkley of 42 East 14th Street New York City as U.S. agents for the sale of Morris & Co. "Decorative Manufactures" including wallpaper fabrics and "the celebrated Hammersmith carpets made only by Morris & Company." It is tempting to speculate that Edmund Bulkley was associated with this firm and became aware of the Kelmscott Press via this connection with Morris & Company. Although without additional signs of ownership our book was later sold as part of the library of Clive Wilmer 1945-2025 English poet and scholar of John Ruskin and William Morris. He wrote and lectured extensively on both men and from 2009 to 2019 served as Master of The Guild of St. George a charity for arts crafts and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in 1871. The Ruskin Society of North America presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Copies of this work appear with some regularity in the marketplace but specimens in attractive condition are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Kelmscott Press unknown
1898Best.-Nr. ST20842Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press 1898. ONE OF 525 COPIES on paper and 12 on vellum. 210 x 150 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4". 4 p.l. including two blanks 70 pp. 1 leaf colophon. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES of "Pysche Borne off by Zephyrus" ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM MORRIS elaborate borders around this and first page of text designed and cut by Morris large decorative woodcut initials device on last page of text and one full-page woodcut of ornaments used in the Kelmscott edition of "Love is Enough." Printed in red and black in Golden Troy and Chaucer types. With errata slip laid in at title page. Front pastedown with Arts & Crafts-style bookplate of Edmund Bulkley dated 1893; a list of the Kelmscott books in E. W. Buckley's collection listed by the number assigned to them in this book recorded in pencil on a translucent piece of paper laid in here. Morris & Cockerell 53; Peterson A-53; Ransom 53; Tomkinson p. 121. Some wear to lower corners just a hint of soil to covers otherwise a very fine copy--exceptionally fresh clean and bright internally. Owned by two collectors with a special interest in Morris this is a very pleasing copy of one of the key Kelmscott Press books and the last one to be issued by the press. Morris tells us here about his admiration for 15th century printed books saying that "they were always beautiful by force of the mere typography even without the added ornament with which many of them are so lavishly supplied." And he says that "it was the essence of his undertaking to produce books which it would be a pleasure to look upon as pieces of printing and arrangement of type." This is the most important contemporaneous source of comment on the founding operation and publications of the Kelmscott Press. Peterson quotes Newdigate who says that this is "one of the three books that every student of English book-production ought to read." The original owner here was American private press collector Edmund Bulkley who according to the list laid in at the rear of this volume owned 42 Kelmscott books. Evidently prepared after Bulkley's death the list also marks with a "0" the books sold before 1950 and notes at the end the books including this volume that remained in the possession of "M A B B." this might refer to a relation possibly art collector M. A. B. Bulkley who bequeathed a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1996. Bulkley's distinctive bookplate perhaps created by one of the private presses is found in a number of press books which when listed at auction are in notably fine condition. In 1883 Morris & Company took out a full-page ad in the Official Catalogue of the Boston Foreign Exhibition announcing the appointment of Elliott & Bulkley of 42 East 14th Street New York City as U.S. agents for the sale of Morris & Co. "Decorative Manufactures" including wallpaper fabrics and "the celebrated Hammersmith carpets made only by Morris & Company." It is tempting to speculate that Edmund Bulkley was associated with this firm and became aware of the Kelmscott Press via this connection with Morris & Company. Although without additional signs of ownership our book was later sold as part of the library of Clive Wilmer 1945-2025 English poet and scholar of John Ruskin and William Morris. He wrote and lectured extensively on both men and from 2009 to 2019 served as Master of The Guild of St. George a charity for arts crafts and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in 1871. The Ruskin Society of North America presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Copies of this work appear with some regularity in the marketplace but specimens in attractive condition are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Kelmscott Press unknown books
1837Best.-Nr. 219681London: James Fraser 1837. First edition first printing. Bound by The Club Bindery in full red crushed morocco marbled endpapers teg. french fillet border front boards spine titled and gilt in compartments with floral centerpieces lavish inner dentelles binding signed by The Club Bindery 1908. A few surface nicks to boards some sparse spots of foxing a uniformly fine set. Duodecimo. 404; 422 2 ads; 448pp. 7.75" x 4.75" HISTORIOGRAPHY REDEFINED Before Thomas Carlyle English historiography lent itself to dry documentary narration over literary vitality. With The French Revolution Carlyle chronicled the death of Louis XV through the fall of Robespierre and the aftermath of the Terror in vivid near novelistic prose bringing presence and emotion to one of the most important periods in European History. Published in an edition of just 1000 copies The French Revolution was not an immediate success. However its reputation steadily grew in Britain and America and its delayed success allowed for the publication of Carlyle's later masterpieces. Carlyle's engaging narrative style made The French Revolution one of the defining historical works of the Victorian era influencing writers such as John Ruskin Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Dickens who kept a copy close at hand while writing A Tale of Two Cities. The copy presented here is a finely bound first edition from the library of Robert Hoe 1839-1911---cofounder of The Club Bindery and the first president of the Grollier Club--each copy retaining his extravegant red morocco ex libris bookplate. Dyer 85. James Fraser unknown
