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1969réf. 78970Jérôme Martineau | Paris 1969 | 14.50 x 21 cm | broché sous une boîte cartonnée
2005réf. 106Unique handwritten copy made by Bernard Noel for Els Baekelandt and Carlos Sánchez-Ãlamo. The book is decorated with three gestural calligraphies in color by Els Baekelandt. These 15 poems "were written in 1986 and 1987 . but have remained unpublished except for 3 or 4 that have appeared in magazines as a whole until now" author's disclaimer. Considered one of the great contemporary French poets Bernard Noël died on April 13 at the age of 90. Friend of Georges Perros "carrier of suitcases" at the time of the Algerian war he was the last author censored and condemned in 1973 for outrage to morality after the publication of his Château de Cène. This immense work of the pen. Bernard Noël "A man who sinks his teeth into the present and never accepts compromise. With his language he opens the trap doors of the world where it is advisable in all lucidity to go and see clearly even if the way is complex and if it requires efforts" confides Charles Tordjman his friend and stage companion. Yonnel Liégeois. Through his poems his stories his plays his historical or political books his texts on painting Bernard Noël is a writer of first importance whose number of readers in France but also abroad does not cease growing. Writing is his life his body his faith. He gives himself through it without counting the cost. If he is "outside the genres" and remains unclassifiable his originality makes that each of his pages is signed recognizable identifiable by a writing a voice a language . The unity of his work is however indisputable. It even defies any attempt of the critic to isolate a characteristic point of his writing. Calligrapher painter graphic designer Els Baekelandt was born in Belgium in 1963. She moved to Paris in 1986 after graduating from the Saint Luc School of Art in Ghent. She devotes much time to gestural painting and experiments with a multitude of different techniques. Former companion of the painter Claude Mediavilla she created with her husband Carlos Sanchez Alamo a calligraphy and bookbinding workshop. Unique handwritten copy of these unpublished poems by Bernard Noel made for Els Baekelandt and Carlos Sanchez-Alamo preserved in its superb binding made by Carlos Sanchez-Alamo. Els Baekelandt
1976réf. 39270Montpellier Editions Fata Morgan 1976 In-8 mont sur onglets, chevreau blanc orn sur les deux plats en passant par le dos d'une composition gomtrique dans l'esprit des gravures de Dado, mosaque en lger relief en chevreau noir et rehausse d'applications de bandes de papier dcor l'encre de Chine; noms des auteurs et de l'artiste ainsi que titre de l'ouvrage pousss en petites capitales l'oeser noir sur le second plat; dos sans nerfs; doublures et gardes de papier japon nacr, tte lisse, non rogn, couverture imprime. Bote-tui (Bernard Bichon).Edition originale. Tirage limit 333 exemplaires numrots. Un des 57 exemplaires sur vlin d'Arches, accompagns de 4 gravures originales hors texte signes de Dado. Trs intressante reliure mosaque de Bernard Bichon.
1986réf. 47241Sans lieu Editions Unes 1986 In-16, bradel reliure encadrement box noir, plats recouverts d'une composition abstraite reprographique imprime en noir sur un papier crme; noms de l'auteur et de l'artiste ainsi que titre de l'ouvrage en petites capitales pousses l'oeser crme sur le dos; doublures et gardes de papier crme, non rogn, couverture imprime. Chemise, tui (Claude Honnelatre, 1997).Edition originale, illustre de 14 gravures originales de Colette Debl. Tirage limit 123 exemplaires numrots. Un des 21 premiers exemplaires sur vlin pur fil de Rives, seuls comporter une aquarelle originale de Colette Debl, sur laquelle l'auteur a recopi et sign un de ses pomes. Exemplaire portant sur le faux titre un envoi autographe sign de l'auteur.
1952Copies of this wonderful title are rare, but to find a copy in such wonderful condition as this is almost too much to hope for. Book is clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear and a minor bump to the upper back corner of the backstrip. Dust jacket is clean and unmarked with light wear and no chips or tears. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and is now preserved in a clear protective sleeve. Original price on each flap of dust jacket has been overlaid with what may be a distributor's small sticker stating a new price of 4'- net. Truly a premium copy. Book
1924réf. 129278London: Oxford University Press 1924. In two volumes. Pp. xvi282last blankx283-580 coloured frontispiece with tissue guard Volume I plus 128 black & white plates including the frontispiece to Volume II 2 folding tables appendices index; impl. 8vo; rebound in later dark green half morocco the spines lettered and ruled in gilt between raised bands dark green cloth boards; a.e.g. others uncut Volume I partly unopened; later endpapers; a few tiny edge splits or chips occasional minor pencilled marginalia a little light foxing and soiling; Oxford University Press London 1924. First edition limitation not stated. Apparently limited to about 800 copies of which nearly half were subsequently pulped according to records in the Oxford University Press archive. A comprehensive history of the game including sections on the Literature of Tennis Laws of Tennis Construction of Courts etc. Oxford University Press unknown
1995réf. C102815Arthena. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 717 pages; approximately 800 illustrations including 32 in color. Hallé Noël Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'Œuvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1995. Arthena hardcover
1995réf. C128844Arthena. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 717 pages; approximately 800 illustrations including 32 in color. Hallé Noël Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'Œuvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1995. Arthena hardcover
2001réf. 514471Anchor Doubleday 2001. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. As pictured. Lot of 93 titles in the Anchor Bible Series. Some volumes have the owner's name on the front endpaper but all volumes are clean unmarked and with sound bindings; a few volumes lack the dust jackets; some dustjackets show some fading and/or staining to the spines. Uncommonly seen in this quantity since the series was never sold as a set but individually. This set includes a substantial number of the new and revised second series. Since being taken over by Yale most of the volumes in this series are no longer being printed in hardcover and have become quite scarce thus. Shipped professionally in sound sturdy boxes. Expedited and international delivery will require additional fees. Anchor Doubleday hardcover
1981réf. C91516Hales & Iremonger. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 168 pages; illustrated with both black and white and with color images. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1981. Hales & Iremonger hardcover
2004réf. C102556ARTHENA. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 167 pages; well-illustrated with many black and white and 45 color illustrations. Noël-Nicolas Noel Nicolas Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'Œuvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 2004. 2903239312 . ARTHENA paperback
1767réf. 73681767 A Paris: Le Clerc, 1767-1771. Quatre volumes in-4 reliés: 19, 5 x 26 cm. I/ 2 ff. n. ch., cx pp. [Préface et Vie d Ovide], 264 pp. [L. I-III] + 47 pl. grav.; II/ 2 ff. n. ch., 355 pp. [L. IV-VII] + 33 pl. grav. III/ viii-360 pp. [L. VIII-XI] + 37 pl. grav. IV/ VIII-367 pp. [L. XII-XV] + 22 pl. grav. Très belle édition illustrée de la traduction de l abbé Banier (1673-1741) comprenant près de 140 figures hors-texte, 30 vignettes en-tête de chapitre et culs de lampe, gravés par Pierre-François Basan et Noël Le Mire, d après les oeuvres de Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Leprince, Monnet, Moreau, Parizeau et Saint-Gois. (Ref. Cohen, II, 434-435). 1 frontispice (tome 1) , 4 fleurons sur les titres differents sur les quatre tomes , 3 planches de dédicace (à son Altesse sérénissime Monsieur le Duc de Chartres Reliures uniformes en veau raciné de l époque. Dos à cinq nerfs avec pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin bordeaux, caissons aux petits fers. Trois filets en encadrements des plats, deux filets aux coupes, roulette sur les chasses. Toutes tranches dorées.A regretter , une gouttière fissurée (sur 5 cm , mais reste tres solide et ne nuit pas à l'esthétique ) papier bruni sur quelques pages (sans gravité ) Cet exemplaire possède les remarques de tout premier tirage , la treizieme planche qui de Gravelot porte à tort le nom d'Eisen comme dessinateur ..Le livre 9 est marqué livre huitieme ... Les corrections seront effectuées sur les editions plus tardives ....L'interéssant avis de souscription est relié à la fin du quatrieme volume : tres rare ...
1997réf. 31741Paris chez l'Artiste 1997 In-8, 7 feuillets monts en accordon et assembls une couverture rigide illustre. Etui illustr.Edition originale de ce texte recopi la main par l'auteur lui-mme 7 exemplaires numrots sur papier vlin, dont la couverture et chaque page sont ornes par Bertrand Dorny de compositions originales en couleurs, l'aquarelle et l'encre, rehausses de collages originaux faits partir de tirages photographiques, de papiers argents avec des effets optiques, de billets et d'horaires de trains, etc. Les 7 exemplaires ont t signs et justifis par l'auteur et l'artiste.
1932réf. 9076New York City London 1932. Green paper wrapss with color illustration pasted to front cover string bound bifolium printed in black and red ink on Vidalon paper signed by Rackham on the first page very good. John Barry Ryan Jr. was the grandson and heir of prominent financier Thomas Fortune Ryan. In 1928 he married Margaret Nin Kahn daughter of Otto Kahn whose wealth and mustache were the inspiration for "Mr. Monopoly" and was sometimes known as "the King of New York." The Ryans were both collectors and patrons of the arts. A limited number of Rackham's The Night Before Christmas were printed with an extra leaf tipped in to the the front of the book that reads "A Merry Christmas from Mr. and Mrs. John Barry Ryan Christmas 1931" and supposedly distributed to friends and family. This is their Christmas greeting from 1932. Printed inside is Church's "Yes Virginia There is a Santa Claus." It seems to be a sort of prenatal gift as their daughter Virginia was born on February 9 1933. Virginia Ogilvy Countess of Airlie was the first American to be a lady-in-waiting serving Elizabeth II until her death in 2022 and was a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. The Santa Claus illustration on the cover seems to be specially commissioned by Ryan for the occasion as "Copyright 1932 by John Barry Ryan" is printed right beneath it. This image was not included in Rackham's illustrations for The Night Before Christmas and is stylistically different enough that it isn't believed to be an abandoned plate for that project. Arthur Rackham signed this copy on the bottom of the first page. Scarce with one holding in OCLC and no previous sales records. . unknown
1900réf. 3527Boston: Francis A Niccolls & Co 1900. Connoisseur Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Connoisseur Edition. Leather Bound. 14 vols. Lord George Noel Gordon Byron The Works of Lord Byron. Connoisseur Edition Limited Edition of 150 copies of which this is no. 35 certified and signed by the Editor. With his letters and journals and his life by Thomas Moore. Edited and with an introduction by Richard Henry Stoddard. With illustrations and frontispieces in two states. Bound in 3/4 black Morocco leather with blue marbled boards and gilt borders. Gilt frames embellishment and lettering on spine panel compartments. Raised bands on spine top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Published Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co. 1900. H: 9" W: 6 1/4" D: 1 1/2". Francis A Niccolls & Co unknown
1982réf. 51679Penguin Books. As New. 1982. Paperback. 0140063137 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine clean & unmarked - 210 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Penguin Books paperback
1969réf. 17183Sainte Croix de Quintillangues, Fata Morgana, 1969. In-8 de 147-[5] pages en feuilles, couverture à rabats imprimée de l'éditeur.
réf. 90969London Paul Jerrard n.d. circa 1860. . First edition. 8vo. Hand-coloured pictorial title-page hand-coloured presentation page 10 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates text printed in red with decorative borders of grasses printed in gold. Contemporary green morocco gilt covers with fancy gilt borders and decorative gilt centre panel panelled spine in 6 compartments red morocco lettering piece with gilt to second others richly gilt raised bands all edges gilt. 'A scarce treasure for the collector' Dunbar. Published in Paul Gerard's series Cream and Gold Presents appropriate for marriage birthday and festive occasions for all seasons these were the ultimate in Victorian drawing-room books. Originally brought out in a gutta-percha binding copies easily fell apart and few have survived. The present copy is extremely fine. Dunbar p56. London, Paul Jerrard, n.d. circa 1860. hardcover
1924réf. 878F18London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford 1924 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 8.5". Not Stated. The two volume first edition of this beautifully and richly illustrated study of the history of tennis. The two volume first edition of this work. While eight-hundred copies of this work were produced it is thought that between three and four hundred copies were destroyed and only around four hundred sets put in general circulation.Illustrated with one-hundred and sixty illustrations across two volumes over one hundred and twenty-six plates. Including a colour frontispiece to volume I. Collated complete.Volume I examines the history of tennis from 1800 onwards alongside tennis in Australia and America and the history of amateur and professional champions while volume II contains sections on the laws and literature of tennis alongside discussion of the construction of courts and handicaps. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip head and tail with fading to spines. Minor light rubbing to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford hardcover
réf. 110639First edition first issue. London Printed for John Murray 1815. 2 blank 8 53 1 blank pp. 6 pp. publisher`s adverts with announcement of Jacqueline; a Tale and 2 titles and half-titles for The Works of Lord Byron at end. Bound with original wrappers in later brown half calf. Bookplate Gilbert Compton Elliot at front pastedown. Top edge gilt. Gilt spine. Uncut. . unknown
1996réf. mon0000135681Babbling Bard 1996-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Clean copy in good condition. Babbling Bard paperback
1828réf. 194445London: John Murray vols I-IV; J. F. Dove vols V-VI 1828-30. Second-generation Romantics A finely bound association set with the ownership signatures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's nephew John Taylor Coleridge and inscribed by him with an extract from his close friend John Keble's The Christian Year 1827. Keble's popular collection adapted Romantic sensibilities to Anglican devotional poetry. The set remained in the Coleridge family passing to John's grandson Bernard who has added his bookplates. John Taylor Coleridge 1790-1876 met Keble 1792-1866 as an undergraduate at Oxford and later published a memoir of his old friend 1869. He edited the Quarterly Review in 1824 and in the present set has annotated verses 85-87 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage recording Thomas Hardy's opinion that the stanzas on Lake Geneva were "unsurpassed in descriptive poetry". The inscribed quotation is dated 1852 while Coleridge's ownership inscriptions are dated 1830. 6 vols octavo 144 x 94 mm. Engraved frontispieces. Late 19th-century blue calf red and yellow morocco labels compartments elaborately gilt double gilt fillet to boards gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers top edges gilt fore and bottom edges uncut purple bookmarkers. Bindings a touch rubbed a couple of patches of stripping the odd spots of foxing. A near-fine set. hardcover
1662réf. 00547"PERHAPS THE GREATEST SCANDAL.IN FRENCH THEATER" --- A composite volume containing six rare comedies from the age of Molière: Thomas Corneille. Le festin de pierre; comedie mise en vers sur la prose de feu Mr de Moliere. Paris: Sign of St. Louis Thomas Guillain and/or Jean Ribou 1683. 4 115 1 p. pi2 A-I6 K4. First edition. --- Noël Le Breton de Hauteroche. Crispin musicien; comedie. Paris: Pierre Promé 1674. 6 136 p. pi4-pi4 A-L8/4. First edition. --- Le soldat Poltron; comedie. Paris: Jean Ribou 1668. 48 p. A-D6. First edition. --- Jean de Rotrou. Les sosies; comedie. Paris: Gabriel Quinet 1668. 2 92 p. pi1 A-G6 H4. Possibly the second edition after the first of 1638 but one of three editions or issues published in Paris the same year. --- François Doneau. La cocue imaginaire; comedie. Paris: Jean Ribou 1662. 12 35 1 p. ã6 A-C6. Probably the third edition after Ribou editions of 1660 and 1661; another edition of 1662 based on the present has VIII 26 p. --- Charles Chevillet de Champmeslé. Les grisettes; comedie. Paris: Pierre Le Monnier 1671. 4 77 1 p. pi2 A-F8/4 G4-G4. Second edition but sometimes called the first having been so reduced from its three-act first appearance that one might reasonably consider it a different work. --- The headliner here is the first edition of Corneille's Festin de Pierre first performed in 1677.Corneille younger brother of the much more famous Pierre adapted his Festin de pierre from Molière's Dom Juan. In truth it's a rather family-friendly version stripped of its more risqué exchanges. Thus it stands as "perhaps the greatest scandal in the history of the French theater" DeJean. Elements of Molière's original production incensed the censors—which of course did nothing to quell popular demand. "In 1674 a year after Molière's death the long suppressed work was obviously still hot property." But nobody could get their hands on a copy. It didn't appear in print until 1682 and even then heavily censored. Thomas Corneille however managed to obtain a manuscript copy from Molière's widow "the one play whose publication had never been allowed." Corneille struck the offensive bits and found great success with it. "Indeed until the mid nineteenth century it continued to be staged instead of any text more closely linked to Molière's despite the fact that more authentic texts soon became available." ¶ While the others may be more obscure they surely have their own places in the history of French drama. Hauteroche's Crispin was among a small group of plays that "prefigure the parodic procedures that inform Dancourt's opera parodies" a successful series of farces and "alluded to the shift of power that had taken place in the Paris opera scene" Powell. ¶ Le soldat Poltron still mystifies scholars. A note on our title page calls Claude de La Rose aka Rosimond the author but this seems to have been debunked. "Fournel concludes that the play is so poor that the question of its authorship has no importance" Lancaster. The play's context is the 1667-1668 War of Devolution when France invaded territories in the Northeast held by Spain. ¶ Les sosies which takes as its subject the Greek legend of Amphitryonis the oldest play in the group first performed in 1636 and a theme Molière later explored in his own Amphitryon. Rotrou's play was tapped for related stage productions in 1650 and 1653 refreshed with elaborate stagecraft and a new ballet context respectively. "These precedents showed the vitality of the theme and also its adaptability which offered Molière the further possibility of producing scenes relying heavily on clever machinery—the 'pièce en machine' had become quite popular and Molière was always ready to utilize the latest techniques" Forehand. ¶ Our Cocue imaginaire was Ribou's shameless attempt to profit from the success of Molière's Sganarelle ou Le cocu imaginaire. "This Cocuë imaginaire which was never performed was thus a new fraudulent calculation of Ribou. F. Doneau was content to render démarquer Sganarelle scene by scene and often verse by verse and even hemistich by hemistich" Mongrédien. ¶ The final play in the volume Champmeslé's Les grisettes is perhaps the least familiar in the group. "The principal merit of Champmeslé's comedies" according to 19th-century bookseller J. Techener "consists above all in the faithful portrait of the little absurdities of bourgeois society." The play did draw on some elements of Molière's Dom Juan so perhaps it's fitting closure. ¶ All of these are scarce. We find a few North American copies of Corneille's Festin de pierre and this Crispin musicien at Harvard but none for the other four plays. Of Les sosies in fact we find no copies at all. --- PROVENANCE: An early owner has inked on each title what they seem to have thought was the date of the play's first performance. Crispin with faint penciled markings throughout. Early list of contents handwritten on a front fly-leaf. Old description of the volume clipped from a bookseller's catalog and tipped to a rear fly-leaf. Front paste-down bears the bookplate of Dr. Ernest Desnos 1852/1853-1925. --- CONDITION: Early brown leather the spine tooled in gold and with a leather label Festin de Pierre; marbled endpapers; red edges. ¶ All plays cropped close occasionally shaving a headline; E gathering of Pierre dampstained in the lower right and maybe half a dozen leaves with large tears affecting text A4 perhaps the worst more than 3" long partially repaired and with minor textual loss; Cocue dampstained and a bit ragged at the edges the lower margin wormed sometimes touching text; upper corner of Grisettes title torn away affecting a single letter. Extremities worn with the tailcap mostly chipped away the headcap partially so; leather covering the joints split about an inch from the bottom but all cords intact and the binding remains very strong; superficial surface crackling in the leather perhaps just dry perhaps a mottling solution gone wrong; once used as a coaster with a ring on the rear board. --- REFERENCES: Joan DeJean "The Work of Forgetting: Commerce Sexuality Censorship and Molière's Le Festin de Pierre" Critical Inquiry 29.1 Autumn 2002 p. 59-65; Mouhy Abrége de l'histoire du théatre François 1780 v. 1 p. 195 Festin de Pierre "performed on 12 February 1677 printed in 1683 in-12"; John S. Powell "The Opera Parodies of Florent Carton Dancourt" Cambridge Opera Jounral 13.2 July 2001 p. 88-89 on Crispin: "In this play the master of the house is both a singer and harpsichordist and his household servants display varying degrees of musical talent"; Henry Carrington Lancaster A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century: Part III the Period of Molière 1652-1672 Johns Hopkins 1936 v. 1 p. 334-335 on Poltron: "The play is a farce written with apparent haste for an audience that had recently witnessed preparations for the War of Dévolution had seen officers providing their own equipment soldiers who lacked the valor of which they boasted and girls who were temporarily attracted by dreams of military prowess. The plot is slight."; Walter E. Forehand "Adaptation and Comic Intent: Plautus' 'Amphitruo' and Molière's 'Amphitryon'" Comparative Literature Studies 11.3 Sept 1974 p. 205; W.L. Wiley "Molière and Plautus: The Legend of Amphitryon" Romance Notes vol. 15 suppl. 1 1973 p. 112 "There are certainly some similarities between Rotrou's Les Sosies especially in its pièce à machine adaptation and Molière's Amphitryon as Paul Mesnard has pointed out; but it is doubtful that Molière's 'first thought was of Rotrou his second of Plautus' as H.C. Lancaster has suggested"; Georges Mongrédien "'Le Cocu imaginaire' et 'La Cocuë imaginaire'" Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 72.5/6 Sep/Dec 1972 p. 1028 cited above but the entire article offers a fascinating account of the dramatic fraud; Librairie J. Techener Description bibliographique des livres choisis en tous genres Paris 1858 v. 2 p. 367 #10861; Lancaster History of French Dramatic Literature v. 1 p. 767 "When Champmeslé brought out a second edition of his play he reduced it to one act and changed the title"; M. Fuchs Review of Joseph-Frédéric Privitera's Charles Chevillet de Champmeslé Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 46.3/4 1939 p. 247 "Les Grisettes M. Privitera tells us was inspired by the Précieuses with the addition of elements taken from Don Juan from Bourgeois Gentilhomme from Avare" hardcover
1807réf. 008488Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge 1807. First edition first issue. Leather. This is the first edition first issue of Lord Byron's first published volume of poetry. First issue is confirmed by: repetition of "where" at page 5 lines 2-3; absence of a footnote at p.22 and the line "Those tisses of falsehood which folly has wove"; the misprint "thnndr" at page 114 line 4; the misprint "Thc" at page 181 line 21. The full deep red Morocco goatskin binding features raised spine bands terminating in blind-stamped triangular hinge designs on the covers blind-rule bordered compartments and triple blind-rule bordered covers. The contents are bound with gilt top edges and hand-marbled endpapers framed by triple gilt-ruled turn ins. Gilt print on the lower turn-in of the front pastedown attributes this binding to HATCHARDS 187 PICCADILLY. Hatchards is reputedly Londons oldest bookshop established in 1797 a mainstay of Piccadilly for more than two centuries counting among its customers the royal households of Britain and Europe. The binding remains square and unfaded with minimal overall wear to the boards. Nonetheless the joints show appreciable abrasion the front joint quite tender though still holding. The contents bound without the half title are notably clean with only a trivial hint of spotting. Faint moisture stains to the fore edges penetrate only slightly into the blank fore edge margins of the text between pages in the latter part of the text. The front pastedown features the printed bookplate of "James L. Weil Publisher". Weil 1929-2006 was an American poet and small press publisher and founder of the Elizabeth Press 1963-1981 an important publisher of American poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. Reference: Yale Archives A more recent gift inscription is inked on the upper blank recto preceding the title page. The book is housed in a quarter deep red Morocco solander box with dark oatmeal cloth sides and fine paper-lined interior. Condition of the solander box is near fine unfaded with no appreciable wear and just a touch of soiling to the upper front cover. Poet George Gordon Noel Byron sixth Baron Byron 17881824 produced this his first regularly published volume of poetry at age 19 early even given the abbreviated span of his short romantic and romanticized life. It proved more significant than its literary quality. Byron was "devastated by an ad hominem attack in the Edinburgh Review" by Henry Brougham "which ridiculed the vanities of the author of the preface to Hours of Idleness. This infamous review is important in the development of Byron's writing for two reasons. First it led directly to the publication of his first major poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers in 1809. Second it exposed a number of contradictions which Byron experienced and registered in himself and in contemporary society." References: ODNB; Yale Archives Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge hardcover
1847réf. 1267London: Longman & Company 1847. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Superbly bound in full black impressed morocco binding over beveled boards by Hayday. 31 chromolithographed full-page illustrations chromo title page text borders and initials all by Noel Humphreys. A monumental production of this most notable and sought-after early Victorian landmark in book binding and color production. A fne copy with almost no signs of wear seldom seen in this condition. Longman & Company unknown