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1891réf. 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
1895réf. 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
1857réf. 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
1900réf. 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
1911réf. 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
1907réf. 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
1907réf. 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
1868réf. 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
1995réf. 16926Washington DC: National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press 1995. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. Blue cloth blue DJ. 372 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. These are the papers presented at the American and Dutch symposia a lovely volume that offers a wealth of information. Symposia was held in Washington DC: National Gallery of Art Dec. 1 1995 one other date and location. Contents as follows: Valuing Vermeer / Ivan Gaskell -- Vermeer : malice and misconception / Ben Broos -- Vermeer and Thoré-Bürger : recoveries of reputation / Frances Suzman Jowell -- "To finde the mindes construction in the face" / J.M. Nash -- Not to be confused with the Sphinx of Delft : the Utrecht painter Johannes van der Meer Schipluiden 1630-1695/1697 Vreeswijk / Martin Jan Bok -- Utrecht and Delft : Vermeer and Caravaggism / Leonard J. Slatkes -- Recent archival research on Vermeer / John Michael Montias -- Camera obscura and painting in the sixtenth and seventeenth centuries / Jean-Luc Delsaute -- Perspective anamorphosis and illusion : seventeenth-century Dutch peep shows / David Bomford -- Where did Vermeer buy his painting materials Theory and practice / Koos Levy-Van Halm -- Study of the materials and techniques of Johannes Vermeer / Nicola Costaras -- Scientific examination of Vermeer's Girl with a pearl earring / Karin M. Groen and others -- Painting light : recent observations on Vermeer's technique / E. Melanie Gifford -- Contours of Vermeer / Jørgen Wadum -- Vermeer and the limits of interpretation / Ivan Gaskell -- Antiek and modern in Vermeer's Lady writing a letter with her maid / Lisa Vergara -- Phenomenon of time in the art of Vermeer / Irene Netta -- Vermeer fame and female beauty : the Art of painting / Eric Jan Sluijter -- Jan Vermeer's Art of painting / Hessel Miedema -- Vermeer's use of the picture-within-a-picture : a new approach / Gregor J.M. Weber -- From sexuality to civility : Vermeer's women / Nanette Salomon -- Interpretation of dress in Vermeer's paintings / Marieke de Winkel -- Vermeer's private allegories / Daniel Arasse -- On balance / Eddy de Jongh. National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press hardcover books
2008réf. 1825Bisbee Arizona : Pequeno Press 2008. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 179 pp. 2 x 2 1/2". Limited to 50 copies this 1/50 bound in deep purple leather over boards with lavender paper label on spine dimensional silver plate on front cover. Printed on Neenah recycled paper in Baskerville Old Face and Harrington types hand sewn and signed by the publisher on the colophon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810 - 1865 an English writer whose works explored the detailed life of the Victorian society wrote a biography of Charlotte Bronte shortly after Bronte's death in 1855. Here a distillation of the text. Pequeno Press hardcover books
1916réf. 1409713Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1916. Hardcover. Small Quarto viii ix x 222 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have moderate wear including slight sunning some scuffs/scratches and slight edge wear. Slight cocking to the spine. Ex-library marking to the spine. Text block has slight plus wear including slight age toning to the edges and mild age toning to the interior. Previous owner's name to the front pastedown and to the front end paper. Several instances of ex-library markings to the interior. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Quarto and Folio Case. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for international/expedited orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire about rates. 1409713. FP New Rockville Stock. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
2001réf. 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
1998réf. 217776North Miami FL: Museum of Contemporary Art 1998. First edition. Softcover. 26 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 18 through December 6 1998 in North Miami and then traveled to two other locations for additional dates. Features text by Bonnie Clearwater. Includes color images by Gaskell brief biographical information and a list of a previous exhibitions. A fine copy stapled wrappers. Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
2001réf. 213855New York: powerHouse Books 2001. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 155 pages. Gaskell's first monograph. Features text by Thom Jones and an essay by Nancy Spector. Includes numerous color photographs by Gaskell. A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. powerHouse Books unknown books
1893réf. 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
réf. 623060Kendal Westmorland: Printed by Titus Wilson & Son no date. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by William Force Stead. 12mo. 12pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Foxing on front cover very good. Laid in is an Autographed Noted Signed from Gaskell sending the book along to a friend. Uncommon. Printed by Titus Wilson & Son) unknown books
1857réf. 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
1857réf. 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
1857réf. 217460New York: Appleton 1857. Hardcover. Good. Good Volume One Only book has fraying of spine edges and corners of cover bend in cover corners staining of front and back cover writing on front endpaper. Appleton hardcover books
1923réf. 9030710London: Macmillan and Co 1923. Hardcover. Very good. Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Bound in half blue calf with marbled boards and with red leather labels stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Text block in excellent condition. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 297 pages. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1900réf. RGASLIF00fpHarper & Brothers 1900. Very Good. Gaskell Elizabeth. Life of Charlotte Bronte. New York: Harper & Brothers 1900. xxxvi 670pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Front hinge cracked but holding. Former owner's name on front free end sheet and top of title page. Nice bright copy. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1998réf. UGASNOR00acmfOxford University 1998. Very Good. Gaskell Elizabeth. North and South. Oxford: Oxford University 1998. 452pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and yellowing. Oxford University paperback books
1905réf. 185241Edinburgh: John Grant 1905. Hardcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt bw frontispiece with protective tissue guard; xvi 526 pp; 13 unnumbered leaves of plates; bw illustrations. Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B.W. Willett. John Grant hardcover books
1978réf. 017160New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 231pp. Sharp First Edition First Printing with full number sequence. Anthology of one poem and six classic stories. Bound in black cloth with lettering in gilt on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear . Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket $9.95 is fresh and bright with no chipping creases toning or tears. . A gorgeous collectable copy of a somewhat uncommon item particularly in such nice condition and at a great price. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1907réf. 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
