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PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

1820réf. ST20970London: C and J Ollier 1820. FIRST EDITION Second Issue with "Miscellaneous" spelled correctly on the contents leaf. 225 x 143 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". 222 2 pp. including half title and final leaf of ads. PRETTY OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY THE DOVES BINDERY stamp-signed and dated 1895 on rear turn-in covers ruled in gilt corners with gilt lily and heart-shaped leaves on a stippled ground raised bands spine compartments with tulip sprig on a stippled ground gilt lettering gilt-ruled turn-ins with tulip and four leaves at corners all edges gilt joints renewed with outstanding skill. Granniss 54; Wise pp. 55-56. For the binding: Tidcombe "Doves Bindery" 187 Pattern 354 book 720 tools 4d E6 E7 and 3b. Rear board faded to two shades of brown front cover with a hint of fading at two edges upper margin with a hint of darkening right at edge a dot of foxing here and there but an extremely appealing copy nevertheless clean and fresh internally with excellent margins and the very expertly restored binding lustrous and glittering with gilt. This is a winning combination of a Shelley masterwork in a fine early binding from the premier English Arts & Crafts bindery. According to Day "Prometheus" and the important appended shorter poems here comprise "the poet's single greatest volume and most of the poetry upon which his popular reputation is based." It also happened to be Shelley's favorite of his own works. Inspired by Aeschylus' tragedy "Prometheus Bound" about the Titan punished by Zeus for giving humans fire it is a "closet drama"--poetry written in the form of a play but not intended to be performed. Shelley uses this framework to express his belief in the free creative spirit of man writing to his publisher that the poem is "of a higher character than anything he had yet attempted" and he stated elsewhere that it was "the most perfect of his productions." Also contained in the volume are some of Shelley's most famous short poems including "Ode to the West Wind" "Ode to Liberty" and "To a Skylark." Our elegant binding is the work of one of the most influential English bookbinders of the modern era. In 1882 Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson 1840-1922 was a 42-year-old lawyer longing to do creative work with his hands when the wife of his friend William Morris encouraged him to try bookbinding; after having bound books on his own for about nine years he founded the Doves Bindery in March of 1893 because his worsening health prevented him from continuing to work with his own hands. Although Cobden-Sanderson did not hand-bind many books his impact on bookbinding in England cannot be overstated. Tidcombe's detailed and exhaustive catalogue lists just 167 examples of bindings produced by him but through this small corpus of work he "rejuvenated English binding" with his theories of design "and set it on a new course of development." Morgan Library Exhibition catalogue He continued to design bindings after 1893 and established the Doves Bindery to execute them hiring Charles McLeish from Riviere and Charles Wilkinson from Zaehnsdorf as finishers Bessie Hooley also from Riviere as sewer and Douglas Cockerell as apprentice. Our early production of the bindery strikes a happy medium between the very animated all-over tooling the bindery sometimes displayed in the 1890s and the more austere style that typified the workshop's 20th century bindings the bindery continued in operation until 1922. The delicate stippling gracefully tooled fillets and simple but pretty flowers provide just the right amount of adornment for the lustrous leather. Although the joints of the volume have been renewed the work is so well done as to defy certainty about its repair. C and J Ollier unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis15 600,00 $US≈ 13 937,29 €

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THE POETICAL WORKS

1892réf. ST18713London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Reeves & Turner 1892. Third Edition with the Notes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 188 x 122 mm. 7 3/8 x 4 3/4". Two volumes. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. PARTICULARLY FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND ONLAID BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE stamp-signed on front turn-in covers framed by multiple plain and decorative rolls cornerpieces with the gilt torch of liberty extending obliquely from an onlaid green morocco heart bracketed by volutes front boards with central onlaid citron morocco medallion stamped with the poet's gilt monogram rear boards with onlaid citron morocco pansy surrounded by a gilt collar with the quote "Pansies let my flowers be" from "Remembrance"; raised bands spine compartments with onlaid green morocco quatrefoil at center volutes at corners volume I with FRONT DOUBLURE OF BROWN MOROCCO semé with rows of alternating quatrefoils and dots at center A MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF SHELLEY UNDER GLASS framed by a laurel wreath inlaid with four red morocco cinquefoils navy blue moiré silk endleaves all edges gilt and delicately gauffered. Housed together in a fleece-lined red cloth drop-back box. Frontispiece in each volume vignette title pages. Front flyleaves with engraved bookplates of Edward Laurence Doheny and Carrie Estelle Doheny. A FLAWLESS AND SPARKLING SET. This is the outstanding Doheny copy in lovely bindings of a body of literature graced with a lyricism Day asserts is "unmatched elsewhere in English verse in its ethereal ideal beauty." While the notes of Shelley's wife appended here have aroused considerable denigration she is accused among other things of making her husband's verse less political than it actually was her editorial work is nevertheless professional and has remained an essential source for the study of Shelley's work. As Betty T. Bennett explains "biographers and critics agree that Mary Shelley's commitment to bring her husband the notice she believed his works merited was the single major force that established Shelley's reputation during a period when he almost certainly would have faded from public view." Thanks to her efforts Shelley 1792-1822 is one of the best-known English poets and an icon of the Romantic movement. According to DNB our editor Henry Harry Buxton Forman 1842–1917 "channelled a general enthusiasm into a minute study of textual details for which his careful and exacting temperament was ideally suited. His patient application produced impressive editions of Shelley" who was along with Keats Forman's main literary interest. After studying under and then working for Douglas Cockerell Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe founded their own bindery in 1901 and continued in a successful partnership until 1912 when Francis tragically drowned. Despite this loss the firm grew and prospered employing a staff of 80 by the mid-1920s and becoming perhaps the most successful English bindery of the 20th century. The "Cosway" binding with painted miniatures inlaid in handsome morocco apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909 the year G. C. Williamson's book entitled "Richard Cosway" was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway"--referring to the British miniature painter Richard Cosway 1742-1821--was then used to describe any book so treated whoever its author. This set was bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for book dealer J. W. Robinson of Los Angeles who supplied many books for the superb collection of Estelle Doheny 1875-1958 one of the most distinguished women book collectors of the 20th century whose magnificent library was especially rich in fine bindings. Volumes from her collection are sought after for their especially fine condition. [Printed at the Ballantyne Press for] Reeves & Turner unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis10 400,00 $US≈ 9 291,53 €

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THE REVOLT OF ISLAM; A POEM IN TWELVE CANTOS

1829réf. ST17129-039London: Printed for John Brooks 1829. 229 x 152 mm. 9 x 6". xxxii 1 leaf section title 270 2 pp. without the initial blank. LUXURIOUS OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO VIGOROUSLY AND SPLENDIDLY GILT BY ZAEHNSDORF stamp-signed on front doublure and with the firm's oval exhibition stamp on rear endleaf covers framed by multiple plain and decorative rules and garlands of palm and olive branches large central panel densely tooled with 13 horizontal rows of either four or five elegant floral sprigs of various shapes some within flower-framed ovals others on a stippled background; flat spine gilt in similar fashion gilt titling TAN MOROCCO DOUBLURES with intricate central gilt arabesque on a field semé with gilt dots and daggers tan morocco endleaves with gilt border top edge gilt and beautifully gauffered to match the floral design on the covers. From the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck though apparently with his bookplate removed. Granniss 45. Spine sunned toward brown a ubiquitous problem with green morocco very slight rubbing to joints top inch of rear joint a little more significantly so front flyleaf with small closed tear at fore edge title page with small mended half-inch tear in the same place but a very desirable copy nonetheless the text clean and pleasing and the riotously embellished binding almost flaming with gold. With distinguished provenance this is a glittering exhibition binding that makes a memorable display with its fine and dense pointillé ground its exquisitely gauffered top edge and its especially refined floral and leafy ornamentation being particularly notable. A spiritual odyssey of lovers divided and seeking reunion "The Revolt of Islam" is Shelley's longest work despite its title the poem has little if anything to do with Islam though religion is generally addressed. The work was issued late in 1817 as "Laon and Cythna" but certain passages of that piece disturbed the publisher who demanded that they be changed or removed. Shelley reluctantly agreed and his alterations included the substitution of the present title. We have the Brooks edition with a new title page using the text of the first edition second issue with the fly title correctly bound as d1 and the preface ending on p. xxi. As Granniss indicates "the original quires and cancel leaves of the work fell into the hands of John Brooks who issued them in 1829 with a new title." Our volume comes from the illustrious collection of Cincinnati businessman arborist and philanthropist Cornelius J. Hauck 1893-1967 whose fortune was made in the family brewery; the auction of his library at Christie's in 2006 totaled more than $12.4 million this item was lot #593 selling for $3360. Printed for John Brooks unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis9 360,00 $US≈ 8 362,37 €

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