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1953ref. 17977Cambridge: University Press 1953. cord-tied stiff paper wrappers. Baskerville John. 8vo. cord-tied stiff paper wrappers. 11 pages. Paper written by Gaskell on the presentation of the surviving Baskerville punches to the University. Facsimile of three pages of the 1760 Prayer Book printed by Baskeville present. A near fine copy of this rare pamphlet. University Press unknown books
1893ref. 57569Chicago: U. S. Publishing House 1893. Second U. S. Publishing House printing. Hardcover. Fair. 250pp. Quarto 25 cm Brown cloth over boards with a decorative front board. The covers are worn and the text block has almost entirely come away from the spine. With a color illustration entitled "Diagram of the Principal High Buildings of the Old World" at the front. U. S. Publishing House hardcover books
1990ref. 326772London: Sotheby's Publications 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarto. 552pp. General Editor: Simon De Pury. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Sotheby's Publications hardcover books
1901ref. 441068New York: Harper & Brothers 1901. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated "The Haworth Edition". Introduction and notes by Clement K. Shorter. Thick octavo. Volume seven only of seven from Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte. 670pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Rare in jacket. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1874ref. 9028213London: Smith Elder 1874. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine and cover decorated in black rear cover stamped in blind. Front and rear inner hinges weak but holding well. Light wear at head and heal of spine and at extremities. An earlly edition originally published by Smith Elder in 1857. Smith, Elder hardcover books
1891ref. 27824London: Macmillan and Co 1891. Large paper copy. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Original brick red cloth. Spine faded label a little rubbed else very good. Large paper copy. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown books
2001ref. 609027No place: Intervisual Communications Inc 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine. Artist's book. Accordion format printed photographic images with a die cut hole in a purple cloth sleeve with white satin ribbon. Sunning at the extremities else near fine. Intervisual Communications, Inc hardcover books
1857ref. 56178New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. A Fine copy but with spine faded as usual. Signed by Alfred Schermerhorn on endpapers. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1912ref. 7834New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1912. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1912 1st edition in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG in its lavishly gilt-decorated front panel and spine. Light foxing to the endapers tender but still perfectly sturdy inner hinges. In a bright VG dustjacket with light chipping to the spine ends and the tips and light wear along the flap folds. Still though a very presentable copy. Thick 12mo 646 pgs. nicely illustrated in color and black-and-white by M.V. Wheelhouse. Dodd, Mead & Co unknown books
1897ref. 178916Chicago: Donohue Henneberry & Co 1897. New and revised edition. Hardcover. VG case worn at edges and bumped at corners interior very tight and clean. Brown leather binding with 5 raised bands gilt lettering and borders and black labels. Marbled endsheets and edges. xxvi 656 pages. Engraved capitals illustrations and half-titles; color tables/diagrams. "Embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping and aid to English composition together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette and business laws and commercial forms. A political dictionary the government of the U.S. the states and territorial governments colored charts etc. also a manual of agriculture mechanics and mining and a guide to parliamentary practice the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference" - from title page. Donohue, Henneberry & Co hardcover books
1857ref. 21489New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American Edition. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm.; original blind-patterned brown cloth gilt-lettered spines yellow glazed endpapers; viii28516;viii26917-14pp.; engraved frontispieces tissue-guarded. Boards a bit rubbed especially at spine ends spine gilt almost entirely perished though cloth itself remains unfaded textblocks rather foxed especially at preliminaries else a Very Good sound set complete with original publisher's advertisements including one leaf bound before the front free endpaper of Vol. I. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1857ref. 19321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1900ref. 0000219Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. 1900-1910. Later printings but one. Nine volumes 16mo 6.75" x 4.5" variously paginated uniformly and exquisitely bound by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons signed in blind on the recto of the rear free endpaper ca. 19-teens. Full dark brown crushed morocco the spines in five compartments separated by raised bands lettered in gilt in one compartment with elegant tooling in black wrapping the spines onto both boards mimicking coptic fastenings tied up with fleur-de-lys fasteners. Top edges gilt floral blind-tooled inner dentelles brown laid-paper doublures and brown satin-ribbon page-markers bound in with velvet-lined tan cloth over board slipcase. A few ribbon markers frayed occasional light rubbing mostly at the joints otherwise about Fine in slipcase which is soiled & stained mostly at the back of the box. A lovely set of "Love in Leather" as we like to call it which is perhaps more aptly characterized courtesy Raymond Carver as "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." The publisher provides a running title for most of the volumes of "Tales from Foreign Lands." Includes: Pushkin Alexander translated by Marie H. de Zielinska. Marie: A Story of Russian Love 1906; Galdos B. Perez. Marianela: A Story of Spanish Love 1907; Mrs Gaskell. Cousin Phillis: A Story of English Love 1910; Alphonse de Lamartine translated by James B Runnion Graziella: A Story of Italian Love 1905; Drachmann Holger. Nanna: A Story of Danish Love 1901 first printing; Charlot Francis Madeleine: A Story of French Love 1906; Krejsa Antonie translated by Caroline Svetla Maria Felicia: A Story of Bohemian Love 1900; Jensen Wilhelm. Karine: A Story of Swedish Love 1909; Muller Max Memories from the German of Max Muller 1909 A.C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
1907ref. 26417Edinburgh: John Grant 1907. Very Good. Edinburgh: John Grant 1905-07. Thornton Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations principally showing places associated with the Bronte family and their novels. Green cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edges gilt. A mismatched set with Wuthering Heights the only title from 1905 and slightly shorter. Bookplate of Lady Diana Duff Cooper to front pastedown of all volumes except Wuthering. Boards show light rubbing to edges toning to spine and edges white spotting to a few volumes Gaskell volume split at bottom of front joint. Bindings sound and pages unmarked; about Very Good. Author actress and aristocrat Lady Diana Cooper was a member of the pre-WWI group of intellectuals known as The Coterie most of whom were killed in the war. A Very Good set enriched by Cooper's evocative neoclassical bookplate. John Grant unknown books
1868ref. 24615London: n.p. Chapman and Hall 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First volume edition. 16 volumes for Household Words; 20 volumes for All the year Round; 36 8vo volumes in all. All but two of the volumes are ex-college library in modern buckram gilt spine titles. Library markings are: shelf numbers on spines; pencil numbers on upper left corners of titles pages; two line rubber stamp on textblock edges. Volumes 14 and 16 of Household Words are contemporary half leather marbled paper boards similarly ex-library. Generally very good to near fine but with occasional foxing and staining. First appearances of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations and The Moonstone the first detective story. Shipping at cost. . n.p. (Chapman and Hall) hardcover books
1911ref. 9028033Edinburgh: John Grant 1911. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Thornton Edition edited by Temple Scott. Bound in half green leather with green cloth boards and five raised bands spines stamped in illustrated gilt and marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with engravings and photographs. All pages clean and bright. Minimal wear to corners heads and heels of spine. Slight uniform sunning to spines. Bookplate of previous owner on front paste-down endpapers. Includes Villette Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Jane Eyre The Professor Wuthering Heights Shirley and Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë with introduction and notes by Scott and Willett. A beautiful set. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. John Grant hardcover books
1907ref. 004264London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1907. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Beautiful Kelliegram full morocco inlay binding with gilt detailing both front and rear cover. 8vo. 18 by 12 cm. xxx 297 1 pp. The front depicts Mr. Jenkyns strolling down a lane the rear a sedan chair. Kelliegram bindings such as this one were produced by the English bookbinding company Kelly & Sons at the turn of the twentieth century. The gilt stamp of the bindery can be found on the inside lower edge of the rear board. Light sunning of the spine. Otherwise fine condition. Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1895ref. 6453London: Macmillan 1895. Later printing. Near Fine. Early reprint of the 1891 first Thomson illustrated edition. A Near Fine copy. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. Frontispiece xxx 297 1 pp. With 110 black and white illustrations in the text. Occasional foxing or staining especially on pp. 16/17; 104/105; 144/145 and 270/271. Bound in an 'Exhibition' binding by Zaehnsdorf executed in 1897 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full crimson crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt and decoratively tooled in gilt and pointille in an elaborate floral design front cover lettered in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt ruled board edgeswide and elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins ochre silk liners and end-leaves top edge gilt others uncut. The rear liner has the Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' stamp in gilt. Joints expertly and almost invisibly repaired one corner a little bumped still a very early and excellent example of a Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' binding housed in a red morocco edged felt-lined red cloth slipcase. Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 was an important proto-Feminist writer who often tackled unorthodox subjects in her novels. Cranford for example is an episodic book concerning a country village community of lower and middle class unmarried older women and the social changes coming to an industrializing Victorian Britain. "The greatest charm of Cranford which has kept it unfailingly popular is its amused but loving portrait of the old-fashioned customs and 'elegant economy' of a delicately observed group of middle-aged figures in a landscape" Oxford Companion to English Literature. "Elizabeth was an active humanitarian; her novels convey many messages about the need for social reconciliation for better understanding between employers and workers and between the respectable and the outcasts of society. Her writing was carefully researched and she took particular care in reproducing northern dialects accurately" Gaskell Society. Gaskell was part of a wide literary circle: she was friends with Charlottee Bronte and John Ruskin and clashed with Charles Dickens when he edited Cranford for serialization in the magazine Household Words. In this lovely copy are images by Hugh Thomson 1860-1920 famed at the turn of the century for illustrating works by luminaries including Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The Austro-Hungarian-born Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 trained with binders in Stuttgart and in Vienna before moving to Germany Switzerland France and eventually settling London. He worked for various shops before opening his own bindery in 1842. In the face of industrializing production Zaehnsdorf embraced craft and eventually gained recognition for his talent. He was known for his precise finish and elegant design. The firm would continue in his son John William's capable hands; it employed binders like Louis Genth Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. Family run until 1947 it was eventually acquired by Asprey of London in 1983 Gertz. Near Fine. Macmillan unknown books
1907ref. 54768Edinburgh: John Grant 1907. Thornton Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Twelve volumes octavo 20.7 by 13.8 cm. Half titles and titles in red and black; each volume with frontispiece and tissue guard; 50 illustrations reproduce photographs prints and drawings. Royal blue polished calf boards triple ruled in gilt; gilt tooled spine with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces; inner dentelles; top edge gilt other edges untrimmed as issued. Light wear and minor defects to covers; light to moderate foxing mostly at the first and last several leaves else a very good set handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. Finely bound early Thornton Edition first published by Downey and Co. at London in 1898 named for the village on the outskirts of Bradford West Yorkshire best known as being the birthplace of the Brontë sisters: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre Villette The Professor and Shirley; Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey; E. C. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. John Grant hardcover books
1933ref. 371693London: Smith Elder and Co.; John Murray 1933. Hardcover. Good. Magazine. 105 bound volumes and 98 individual issues in wrappers. Octavos. A long run from 1860–1933 of this famous Victorian literary magazine known for debuting the works of many important English writers. The set includes volumes 1-29 January 1860-June 1874 34-114 July 1876-December 1916 and volumes 125-129 January 1922-June 1924 bound in contemporary publisher's cloth or full linen boards. Also included are 98 monthly issues numbers 337-450 in the original printed wrappers July 1924-December 1933 lacking July 1930 and May November and December 1931. Among the many complete works included in this long run are the first appearances of Framley Parsonage The Claverings and two other novels by Trollope as well as Thackeray's The Adventures of Philip and his complete column: "Roundabout Papers." Other works from the 1860s include Romola by George Eliot Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell Armadale by Wilkie Collins Unto This Last by John Ruskin Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and Tennyson's "Tithonus." Works from the 1870s and 1880s include The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James The Pavilion on the Links and The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson and the first 29 chapters of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement was first published anonymously by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1884 and The White Company first appeared under his name in 1891-92. The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad appeared in 1897. Cornhill maintained its high reputation up through the 1930s. Works from the early 20th Century include poems and prose pieces by Robert Bridges Thomas Hardy W.B. Yeats Ford Madox Ford and Katherine Tynan. The magazine also featured illustrations by George du Maurier Frederic Leighton Edwin Landseer John Everett Millais and other leading artists. Most were engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel and include numerous full-page and folding plates. Most volumes from 1860 to 1901 are bound in contemporary publisher's cloth with some rebound in full cloth volumes from 1902 to 1924 are rebound in full cloth most with the original wrappers included and single monthly issues from the 1920s and early 1930s are in the original printed wrappers. Ex-library set with bookplates most 19th Century volumes with a small embossed stamp on the title pages and a perforated stamp on the plates. The earliest volumes are chipped at the spines and edges a few with split spines and detached boards else overall a good set of bound volumes; the single issues in wraps are unmarked and very good or better. A very nice assemblage of notable 19th Century literature and illustrations. Smith, Elder and Co.; John Murray hardcover books
