1797réf. 1260411797. London: Printed for J. Bell 1797. 8vo 4 220 pp. Lacking front blank. Contemporary half calf gilt lettered label on backstrip skillfully rehinged; boards worn title page toned light stain in top margins but generally a sound copy with interesting marks of early provenance see below. § From the library of Lord Dunmore last royal governor of Virigina. A translation of Schiller's Cabale und Liebe by M.G. "Monk" Lewis the author of the Gothic novel The Monk published the year before. The front pastedown bears the ownership inscription of Lady Susan Thorpe dated 1797 her presentation inscription "Her gift to Lord Dunmore 1799" beneath and the Dunmore Library bookplate with shelf mark. The name "Susan" in the same hand appears again at the start of act one perhaps indicating Lady Thorpe read the part of Elizabeth Munster. Given the date of the gift it is most likely the recipient was John Murray 4th Earl of Dunmore the last royal governor of Virginia. Dunmore fled to New York after the burning of Norfolk in 1776. He was later Governor of the Bahamas but lost his post when his daughter eloped with the son of George III. By 1799 he was in retirement in England aged 69. He died in Ramsgate Kent in 1809. Lewis's advertisement for the play merits recording in full: "The following pages contain a Translation of Schiller's" Cabale und Liebe." A Play calling itself a Version of that admired Tragedy has already appeared in England but so extremely ill executed and in so mutilated a condition as to leave scarce a shadow of resemblance between the Original and the Copy. The Author has taken the liberty of omitting whole characters and scenes and in several places has thought proper to substitute his own sentiments for Schiller's; an alteration by which the Piece is very far from gaining. - Lest the present Translation should be mistaken for the former I have thought it right to change the Names both of the Characters and of the Play itself; in every other respect I have endeavoured to keep strictly to the Original: and when I offer my Translation to the Public it gives me some confidence to reflect that although this second attempt may be as bad as the first it is utterly impossible for it to be worse. M. G. LEWIS. unknown books
1910réf. 339351910. SCHILLER Friedrich. Works. Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: Francis A. Nicholls & Company circa early 20th century. Ten volumes. Octavo contemporary three-quarter blue crushed morocco gilt raised bands gilt-decorated spines marbled endpapers top edges gilt uncut and partially unopened. $1000.Limited ÒLyceum EditionÓ of SchillerÕs works number 263 of only 750 sets numbered for sale in the United States with numerous full-page illustrations throughout including full-color frontispieces.Includes the poems a life of Schiller by Heinrich Dntzer and the aesthetical and philosophical essays. This set specially bound for Ernst Mahler who helped transform Kimberly Clark into one of the largest paper corporations in the world.Interiors fine. Minor wear to corners of handsome bindings. A near-fine set. hardcover books
1900réf. 61932Leipzig und Wien: Bibliograpisches Institut 1900. 29 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary half brown morocco with red leather title labels. Very fine. 29 vols. 8vo. Bibliograpisches Institut unknown books
1923réf. 007650Berlin: Avalun. Text printed by Jakob Hegner. Lithographs printed by A. Rogall 1923. Limited Edition. First Edition thus. Quarter Vellum. Marbled Boards. Fine. Corinth Lovis. No. 215 of 280 limitation signed by Corinth. Folio 35 by 25 cm. 104 pp including six full-page lithographs by Corinth and fairly large Corinth illustration at beginning of each of the five acts. Vellum has light staingin and soiling. Otherwise tight clean fresh. Avalun. Text printed by Jakob Hegner. Lithographs printed by A. Rogall unknown books
1826réf. 450114Stuttgart und Tübingen: In der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. 18 volumes. A complete set in original turquoise paper-covered boards with contemporary paper spine labels titled in manuscript. Bookplate of the American painter Diana Heiskell on the front pastedown of Vol. 1 only. The front free endpaper of Vol. 1 is partly adhered to the facing pastedown contemporary pencil manuscript laid-in Vol. 3 small contemporary owner's name in Vols. 7 and 8. Rubbing and some wear to the edges of the boards and corners the spine labels are toned and rubbed including some that are partially illegible very good overall. Neatly housed in the original cardboard box covered with the same turquoise paper on the inside opening edges and marbled paper on the outer sides. The box measures about 15" x 5 ½" and is 4" deep in good condition with wear to the edges and some splitting along the seams. An early complete set in publisher's boards together with the exceedingly rare original box. In der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung hardcover books
1885réf. 252654Philadelphia: George Barrie 1885. hardcover. very good. 18 volumes 10 volumes of Goethe and 8 volumes of Schiller. Profusely illustrated with numerous head and tail pieces 648 in-text illustrations 128 full-page wood engravings and over full-page mounted steel engravings. 4to 3/4 black morocco over green silk moire boards decoratively gilt spine top edges gilt. Philadelphia New York & Boston: George Barrie 1885. A fine set with some slightly rubbed spines. George Barrie unknown books
réf. 4833One large folding facsimile plate. 16 pp. Small 8vo orig. printed wrappers stitched as issued and bound in modern wrappers. Berlin J.A. Stargardt 1859. One of a very few surviving copies of this bookseller’s catalogue of a significant portion of the library of Friedrich von Schiller 1759-1805 the German poet philosopher historian and playwright. In 1851 the bookseller and auctioneer Stargardt acquired this part of Schiller’s library from his son Karl. It proved difficult to sell and in 1859 he produced the present catalogue selling the collection in 1860 to the Hamburg bookseller I.S. Meyer. Meyer also had difficulties selling the collection and in 1862 he held a lottery which was won by a merchant named Helmcke who received the 156 books and the manuscript list as his prize. Helmcke gave the collection to the Hamburger Stadtbibliothek in 1867 where it was absorbed into the general collections and the duplicates dispersed. In 1905 the remaining 114 volumes were reassembled and shelved separately. The engraved folding plate is a facsimile of a manuscript list of the books in Schiller’s hand. Fine copy preserved in a green morocco slipcase. ⧠Roland Folter Deutsche Dichter- und Germanistenbibliotheken 664. unknown books
réf. 06937West Hatfield Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press 1985. Barry Moser's Remarkable Wonderful Wizard of Oz One of the Great Pennyroyal Press Books - Limited to 350 Copies Signed by Moser MOSER Barry illustrator. PENNYROYAL PRESS. BAUM L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Illustrated by Barry Moser. With an Appreciation by Justin G. Schiller. West Hatfield Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press 1985. One of 350 numbered copies this being No. 153 signed by Barry Moser. Large quarto 12 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; 327 x 302 mm. 6 blank 5 1 blank 1 1 blank 1 1 blank 3 1 blank 1-7 8-268 1 1 blank 1 colophon 1 blank 8 blank pp. Illustrated with sixty-two wood engravings by Barry Moser. Printed in five colors by Harold P. McGrath on Mohawk Letterpress paper in Van Dijck type. The hand composition was executed at the Press by P. Chase Twitchell with calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge of Hayward California. Bound by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery in Barcham Green Dewint paper over boards the front cover embossed with the title design and lettered in gilt the rear cover similarly embossed and lettered in blind; beige cloth endpapers. A mint copy. Housed in the original beige cloth clamshell case the lower corners slightly bumped. A very fine copy in a near fine clamshell case. Moser's Wonderful Wizard of Oz is among the most imaginative productions of the Pennyroyal Press. Rather than attempting to imitate W.W. Denslow's celebrated illustrations for the 1900 first edition Moser created an entirely new visual interpretation of Baum's story through sixty-two finely worked wood engravings combining traditional book illustration with distinctly contemporary imagery and satirical allusion. Moser deliberately populated Oz with visual references to twentieth-century American life and politics. As he later explained: "Few texts lend themselves to contemporary parody as well as does the Wizard of Oz." Having previously portrayed Richard Nixon as Humpty Dumpty in his Through the Looking-Glass Moser found in Baum's story an even broader opportunity for political and cultural satire directing what he described as "humorous but none-the-less serious darts" at the Reagan administration corporate America and the Moral Majority. Among the most celebrated examples is his transformation of the Wicked Witch into Nancy Reagan. The photographs vividly demonstrate the range of Moser's conception: the familiar inhabitants of Oz are transformed into startlingly individual characters while other illustrations introduce consciously modern elements into Baum's fantastic landscape. The resulting book is not simply an illustrated edition of Baum but a distinctly 1980s reinterpretation of an American classic. Laid in is the separately published companion pamphlet: Barry Moser Forty-Seven Days to Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press 1985. First edition. Octavo 9 x 6 inches; 229 x 153 mm. 32 pp. The pamphlet provides Moser's own day-by-day account of the creation of the sixty-two illustrations. As he explains in his Author's Note the text was taken directly from the day book in which he recorded the progress of his work making it an especially appropriate accompaniment to the finished volume. The completed book is an impressive example of the modern American private press at its most ambitious: Baum's great American fantasy interpreted by one of the foremost American book illustrators and wood engravers of the late twentieth century conceived illustrated printed and bound as a unified work of book art. Dwyer Pennyroyal 43. West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press, 1985 unknown books
1923réf. 178667Hellerau: Avalun 1923. hardcover. Illustrated by Lovis Corinth with 12 original b/w lithographs 7 full-page. 107pp of German text printed in stylized font and rubricated throughout. Folio vellum-backed marbled boards t.e.g. Boards lightly shelfworn otherwise a fine copy but lacking the original slipcase. Hellerau: Avalun-Verlag 1923. Limited edition - one of 130 copies total printing of 280 signed in pencil by Corinth on the limitation page. Avalun unknown books
1923réf. 50388Berlin: Hoveve ha-Shirah ha-Ivrit 1923. Deluxe limited first edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/200. Quartos. Vol.1: 364 pp. Vol.2: 333 pp. Vol.3: 329 pp. Vol. 4: 185 pp. Full modern vellum boards with gilt lettering and decorative tooling on the front covers. Gilt ruling on the spines. Top edges of book block in gilt. Each volume housed in a custom tan cloth slipcase with a gilt-lettered brown leather label pasted on the spine. Yellow ribbon markers. All volumes of this deluxe limited edition are hand-numbered and signed in pencil by both Bialik and Budko at the bottom of colophon on the final page. This is copy #14 in Hebrew numerals from a total of 200 copies. Woodblock devices preceding title pages. All title pages with decorative woodblock borders in black. Illustrated frontispiece portrait lithograph after an etching of Bialik by artist Max Lieberman 1848-1935 signed in pencil underneath. This set is comprised of all of the original writings of the acclaimed Hebrew-language poet and writer Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1873-1934 until 1923. Also included are two of his more significant translations; Cervantes' "Don Quixote" and Friedrich Schiller's "William Tell". The first two volumes contain all of Bialik's poems "Shirim" Vol.1 and prose writings "Sipurim Divrei Sifrut" Vol.2. The third volume contains his translation of Don Quixote illustrated throughout with b/w reproductions after images from the 1859 Barcelona edition of Don Quixote including an illustrated frontispiece portrait of Cervantes. Bialik's translation of the famed novel was first published in Odessa in 1912 and was the first edition in Hebrew. The final volume contains his translation of William Tell first appearing here and not subsequently issued individually until three years later in 1926. Table of contents at the rear for the first two volumes. The finely printed deluxe edition contains woodcut designs and illustrations throughout by acclaimed artist Joseph Budko 1888-1940. These include countless decorative woodblock initials and borders for all volumes as well as decorative vignettes as tailpieces. Most notable are Budko's b/w woodcut illustrations in the first two volumes totaling 25 images including 4 larger full page images in vol.2. This set is special in that 10 of the illustrations in vol.2 are signed underneath in pencil by Budko. Text throughout in Hebrew. Slipcases with a few light smudges. Bindings with some minor to light foxing smudges and/or markings to the covers. First and fourth volumes with some rubbing along the spines. Volumes 1-3 with some minor cracking along the hinges of the spine which has been repaired. First and third volumes with starting at interior covers and loosening of the binding. Interiors quite clean overall with only the most sporadic minor smudges and small stains to a few pages. Images throughout vibrant and clean. Light foxing and smudges to a few of the interior covers. Minor age toning to edges of pages throughout. Bindings protected in modern mylar. Slipcases in near fine bindings in very good- interiors in good to very good condition overall. "El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha". Barcelona Tomás Gorchs 1859. Hebrew title: כתבי ח.נ. בי×ליק ומבחר תרגומיו. ×רבעה ×¡×¤×¨×™× Author: בי×ליק ×—×™×™× נחמן Publication: ברלין חובבי השירה העברית תרפ״ג Alternate transliteration: Chovevei Hashira Ha'ivrit Hovevei Ha-shira Ha-ivrit. Hoveve ha-Shirah ha-Ivrit hardcover books
