1945ref. 018525Valencia Del Cid Spain: Maria Amparo Soler and Vicente Soler Tipografia Moderna 1945. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Andres Lambert. Number 145 of f150 copies printed in English. The Spanish edition was 250. The French Edition 150. Edition based on the translation of Jmaes Mabbe made in 1640 and edited in 1900 by S. W. Orson. Ten etchings by Andrea Lambert tissues present. Many pages still uncut. Separate Spanish test of 55 pages also present. In box which is a little worn and has fosing. No foxing in the book. One small quarter inch tear to joint of spine and front cover. Maria Amparo Soler and Vicente Soler Tipografia Moderna paperback
1945ref. 179421945. Paris Editions de La Cit 1945. Un vol. au format pt in-4 troit 258 x 168 mm de 79 pp. Reliure de l'poque de plein chagrin maroquin havane semis de fleurons dors sur les plats dos lisse l'identique titre dor tÂte dore sur tmoins gardes de pleine moire havane sous tui bord couvertures et dos conservs. Exemplaire sous pleine reliure du temps. ''Intressante et charmante publication''. in Carteret. Un des 60 exemplaires du tirage sur Arches deuxiÂme papier aprÂs seulement les trois exemplaires de tÂte sur Japon. Outre les compositions originales graves - ici en premier tirage - par Paulette Humbert que l'ouvrage se doit de contenir ce dernier recÂle par ailleurs in fine une suite en noir desdites planches. ''Diplme de l'Union centrale des Arts dcoratifs et socitaire du Salon d'Automne Paulette Humbert a - entre autres - illustr Ren de Chateaubriand''. in Bnzit. ''Chateaubriand se plait ici dpeindre la mlancolie du hros-narrateur. Lequel narre ici sa vie passe en dcrivant les vnements qui l'eurent pu conduit ce mal de l'me ainsi que son habitude chercher refuge dans une rÂverie qui devient poison.'' in Espace franÂais. Carteret V Le Trsor du bibliophile / Illustrs modernes p. 47 - Bnzit V Dictionnaire des peintres p. 168. Frottements affectant le dos de l'exemplaire. Nonobstant trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1930ref. 042244Paris: G. Cres 1930. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Slipcase. Fine B/W Illustrations. 201 Ii Pp. Full Black Niger Gilt And Blind-Stamped In An Art Deco Design Top Edge Gilt Black Gilt And Blindstamped Turns With Blue Silk Doublures And Additional Blue Marbled Endpapers Matching Leather And Marbled Paper On Slipcase. Front Board Neatly Detached Long Ago Reattached With Nearly Invisible Silk Now Again Detached But Can Be Invisibly Reattached Using New Cords Without Any Rebinding. Slipcase With Wear At Corners Split Along One Top Edge. Tipped In Is A Calling Card Of Emile Rossignol With Handwritten Message "Avec Tous Les Voeux De Bonheur Pour L'an Qui Vient" Rossignol." Very Faded Abbreviated Signature At End Of Contents Page. Roland Dorgelès 1885 - 1973 Was A French Novelist And A Member Of The Académie Goncourt. Born In Amiens Somme Under The Name Roland Lecavelé He Adopted The Pen Name Dorgelès To Commemorate Visits To The Spa Town Of Argelès He Spent His Childhood In Paris. A Prolific Author He Is Most Renowned For The Prix Femina-Winning Wooden Crosses Les Croix De Bois A Moving Study Of World War I In Which He Served. It Was Published In 1919 In English By William Heinemann In 1920. Dorgelès Served As A Juror With Florence Meyer Blumenthal In Awarding The Prix Blumenthal A Grant Given Between 1919 And 1954 To Painters Sculptors Decorators Engravers Writers And Musicians. G. Cres hardcover
1940ref. 110021940. Paris Guy Leprat s.d. 1940. 1 vol. in-plano 443 x 318 mm de 11 pp. et 12 planches en feuilles sous chemise cartonne d'dition. Edition originale. Tirage unique 500 exemplaires seulement sur vlin d'Arches seul papier. Exemplaire numrot et sign la mine de plomb au colophon. ''Penser Paris. Comment songer vaincre rduire quelque forme intelligible un tel monstre de grandeur de rapports de diffrences concentres '' Paul Valry. Premier tirage des 12 dlicates eaux-fortes de FlorÂs donnant voir : La rue des Francs-Bourgeois - Notre-Dame et les bouquinistes - L'aiguille de Notre-Dame - Le Pont-Neuf et la Cit - Notre-Dame vue des Quais de Seine - La Sainte-Chapelle - Tour de l'Horloge et march aux fleurs - L'Eglise Saint-Germain-des-PrÂs - March rue Mouffetard - Rue Brise-Miche - Place de la Concorde - Arc de Triomphe / Place de l'Etoile. Chemise prsentant des marques d'usage parses dont deux manques de papier affectant tÂte et queue du dos. Feuillets de garde fortement roussis. Rousseurs affectant texte et planches quoique davantage concentres en marge. Du reste bonne condition. Rare. b42961 unknown
1879ref. 271041879. Bourg / Lyon Imprimerie EugÂne Chambaud / Martin-Bottier / A. Brun 1879. Un vol. au format pt in-4 275 x 223 mm de 2 ff. bl. 1 titre grav n.fol. vi - 134 pp. 1 f. n.fol. et 1 f. bl. Reliure de l'poque de demi-chagrin maroquin vert-bronze coins filets dors ports sur les plats dos nerfs orn de filets gras froid filets maigres dors titre dor tÂte dore. Edition originale de cette soigneuse publication. Belle impression sur verg d'dition agrmente de 12 sur 12 eaux-fortes originales ainsi que d'un titre-frontispice grav ; signs Paul Morgon dans la plaque. Natif de Thoissey en 1852 Paul Morgon ''participe avec une douzaine dÕartistes dont Lon Dallemagne et Horace Fonville la fondation de la Socit des amis des arts de lÕAin dont la premiÂre exposition a lieu en avril 1878''. in Rhne Estampes. ''Nous ne craindrons pas au travers de cette publication de faire des excursions dans le domaine du pass et de rechercher ses lgendes et ses drames ; nous esprons lorsqu'il sera possible de redresser sur leurs fortes murailles les chteaux qui gardaient la valle ; nous pntrerons dans les glises nous fouillerons dans les archives des communes.'' Table : Journans - Tossiat - Montagnat - Saix - Bourg-en-Bresse - Challes - Viriat - Attignat - Craz - Malafretaz - La Baume - Jayat - Saint-Julien - Lescheroux - Chartreuse de Montmerle - Saint-Trivier-de-Courtes - Pont-de-Vaux. Angles lims. Petites altrations superficielles en marge des plats. Frontispice dsolidaris. Gardes taches. Quelques claires rousseurs dans le corps d'ouvrage. Du reste belle condition. Peu courant. b42961 unknown
1899ref. 49449Philadelphia: The Walpole Press 1899. Grand Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Very good condition. 7/1000. Octavo. 365pp. 10 plates in two states with printed tissue guards. Three-quarter red leather over red cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece in two states with tissue guards. Title page printed in red and black Beautiful publication of this novel by Alphonse Daudet 1840-1897. Delightfully illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Eugene Abot and Albert Duvivier as well as b/w reproductions of drawings by Stanislas Rejchan. Engravings in two states protected by captioned tissue guards. This edition printed on Japanese vellum paper. Some scuffing along edges of binding. Ex-libris of Seymour Nebenzal on inside of front cover. Block lightly age-toned. The Walpole Press hardcover
1985ref. 39383Torino Turin: Edizioni d'Arte Tuttografica Torino 1985. Giacomo Soffiantino. A privately-printed livre d'artiste in which the author recounts one of his experiences as a hunter. ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO FULL-PAGE HORS TEXTE ETCHINGS BY GIACOMO SOFFIANTINO BOTH OF WHICH ARE SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies printed on extremely fine wove paper this copy printed for noted artist Franco Ghisotti and his wife Carla. Folio. Bound in the original handmade paper boards and dustjacket. Housed in the original folding board slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT with no defects. Edizioni d'Arte Tuttografica Torino hardcover
1883ref. 058370New York: Henry Holt and Company 1883. First American Edition . Green Stamped Cloth. Very Good /No Dust Jacket. 8" Tall. Xlvii 339 Pages . Green Cloth Lettered In Gilt Decorated In Red And Black And Gilt. First American Printing With 1883 Date On Title Page. Some Slight Foxing. Previous Owner's Bookplate On Front Pastedown "Young Folk's Library Of The New Jerusalem San Francisco #13 ". . Gilt Lettering And Stamped Cover Designs All Clean And Bright. An Attractive Copy. Contents Crisp A Little Light Foxing On Some Pages. The Two Etchings By Tadema Are Plates Without Plate Marks And Are The Frontispiece And Another Facing P. 49 As Called For In The Table Of Contents. Henry Holt and Company hardcover
ref. 20668211Thames & Hudson London 1956 first UK edition . 29.0 x 23.0cms 100 b/w plates very good hardback with very good dustwrapper small chips at top of spine and edges Ambroise Vollard the art dealer and publisher commissioned Picasso to execute these etchings between 1930 and 1937. The first 27 are on heterogenous subjects and the rest fall into specific groups: the battle of love: Rembrandt; the sculptor's studio; the minotaur; the blind minotaur 3 portraits of Vollard. Scarce edition Thames & Hudson London 1956 (first UK edition) hardcover
ref. 20668259Thames & Hudson London 1956 first UK edition . 29.0 x 23.0cms 100 b/w plates very good hardback & dustwrapper Ambroise Vollard the art dealer and publisher commissioned Picasso to execute these etchings between 1930 and 1937. The first 27 are on heterogenous subjects and the rest fall into specific groups: the battle of love: Rembrandt; the sculptor's studio; the minotaur; the blind minotaur 3 portraits of Vollard. Scarce edition Thames & Hudson London 1956 (first UK edition) hardcover
ref. Arkö, Jordi, Karl HaskelIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1923ref. 212181923. S.l. Les Bibliophiles comtois 1923. Un fort vol. au format in-4 292 x 226 mm de 258 pp. en feuilles sus couverture titre rabats remplis et tui-chemise cartonn dos lisse piÂce de titre contrecolle. Tirage unique 140 exemplaires seulement dont 15 seulement furent mis dans le commerce. Celui-ci comptant parmi les 115 sur Arches seul papier rservs aux membres de la Socit et ce titre imprims nominativement pour Charles EstÂve. ''Edition bien illustre''. L'ouvrage renferme - ici en premier tirage - les eaux-fortes originales de Lucien Madrassi. ''ElÂve des peintres Raphal Collin Gervais et Grme Madrassi exposa au Salon des Artistes franÂais. En 1924 il est Cracovie o il tudie sur place les moeurs et les types juifs pour Un Royaume de Dieu des frÂres Tharaud dont l'diteur Lapina lui avait confi l'illustration. Il fit cette occasion 86 eaux-fortes''. in Osterwalder. ''Membre de la Socit des Artistes FranÂais depuis 1906 Madrassi a entre autres illustr Un royaume de Dieu de Jean et Jrme Tharaud''. in Bnzit. ''Lamartine peint avec une apparente justesse l'tat des esprits en 1814 et pendant la premiÂre Restauration. Oeuvre mconnue dont l'intrÂt documentaire est certain.'' Absent de Mah Rpertoire des ditions de luxe - Carteret IV Le Trsor du bibliophile / Illustrs modernes p. 230 - Osterwalder II Dictionnaire des illustrateurs p. 732 - Bnzit VII Dictionnaire des peintres p. 55 - Tulard Bibliographie critique des Mmoires sur le Consulat et l'Empire pour l'originale de 1870. Petites marques d'usage affectant le dos de la chemise ainsi que les angles et coupes du coffret ; dont un plat prsente quelques marques d'eau sans gravit. Quelques rousseurs affectant les trois premiers et derniers feuillets. Nonobstant belle condition. Peu courant. b42961 unknown
1976ref. 50105Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press 1976. Fine/Very Good Condition. Lincoln MA: Penmaen Press 1976. First Trade Edition. Slim octavo 23cm; publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 45pp.; two full-paged etchings. Light edge wear to jacket margins else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Inscribed by both authors though only signed by Eberhart to the late collector and bookseller Burt Britton on half title page: "For Burt Britton / from the Author with best wishes for his tranquility & prosperity / January 4 1979" and "For Burt too and with all best wishes Richard Eberhart / January 30 1979." Title page continues "An explanation by Allen Ginsberg of his publication Howl and Richard Eberthart's New York Times article 'West Coast Rhythms' together with comments by both poets and relief etching by Jerome Kaplan." . Penmaen Press unknown
1896ref. 013618Edinburgh: T.C. and E. C. Jack 1896. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. The Centenary Burns four volumes 8vo tan cloth decorated in gilt in the MacKintosh/ Art Nouveau style volumes 1 and 2 published 1896 3 and 4 in 1897 gte sides untrimmed each in near fine condition. Set owned by Victorian author Ella Napier Lefroy 1854-1919 with her bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. A Glasgow native and eldest daughter of merchant and politician Alexander Hastie of Luscar in 1873 she married Thomas Charles Perceval Lefroy an Irish businessman who worked for the brewers Guinness and Bass. The couple lived in London and had four children. In the 1890s Lefroy wrote two novels - "A Scots Thistle" 2 vols. London: Bentley 1892 and "Janet Delille" 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett 1894 under the pseudonym "E. N. Leigh Fry." Thereafter it appears she gave up literature. Her husband died in 1893 which may have influenced her decision. T.C. and E. C. Jack hardcover
ref. 96510Paris circa 1805 through 1814. . Very good. - A suite of 18 plates by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux engraved on creamy white stock measuring between 10-1/2 inches by 8 inches and 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches with large margins there is one smaller exception. The images depict the various cries of Paris merchants. All but three are signed "JDB" in the plate. Most of the images are identified and titled in French in pencil by a previous owner. The collection is as follows: "Marchand de gravures etalagiste" portrays street vendors of engravings offering their merchandise to customers some of whom are handling the prints. Several prints hang from a wire stretched between poles in the background and a large blank canvas hangs from the center of the pole. In some editions what is here a blank canvas bears the printed title "Suite de Marchands ambulants de Paris par J.D. Bertaux" and serves as frontispiece to the work. The image measures 3-1/4 inch high by 2-1/4 inch wide within 4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. The edges are very slightly creased with two tiny tears to the left edge and a couple of tiny stains or spotting to the bottom margin of the page. "Decrotteur et ramoneur" portrays a man shining the shoes of an officer as chimney sweeps and other shoe-shiners are pictured in the background. A small dog stands at the side of the officer. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/4 inch high by 4 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor faint foxing. "Parade de comediens ambulants" portrays traveling actors performing and parading on the porch of a house with spectators in the foreground. The image measures 2-3/8 inch high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/2 inch high by 4-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There is light foxing throughout. "Colleur d'affiches" portrays a bill-poster perched on a ladder pasting a poster or bill to the corner wall of a building. Another worker stands around the corner and a family looks on with their dog. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There are some minor faint stains and minor foxing to the margins. "Gagne petit" portrays a knife grinder or sharpener carrying his grinding wheel on his back with a dog at his side. Another knife grinder wheels his equipment in a wheelbarrow. A house and people are pictured in the background. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is minor foxing to the margins. "Remouleur" although the title differs the image is identical to the prior one. "Gagne petit" and "remouleur" both translate to knife grinder or sharpener. There is some scattered foxing and the paper is lightly darkened. "Titre" possibly the title page to the work. The image portrays men filling water containers from a city's monument fountain with water pouring from the mouth of a troll. The image measures 2-1/2 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. The edges of the plate are darkened with a short tear to the top edge and just a hint of foxing to the margins. "Serrurier" portrays a locksmith grinding keys near the open gate leading to a mansion. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is a minor crease to the bottom right corner with just a hint of foxing to the margins. "Cardeuses de matelats" portrays mattress carders. 3 women are seated with their carding tools and sections of stuffed fabric. The image measures 3-3/8 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4-1/4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There are minor creases to the corners with a couple of faint specks to the margins. "Menuisiers" portrays carpenters working on furniture at their work table. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is light scattered foxing mostly to the margins. "Marchands de parapluies et de soufflets" portrays an umbrella merchant carrying several on his back and a bellows merchant with several fireplace bellows attached to this clothing. The image measures 3-1/4 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. "Batteurs de platre" portrays plaster beaters. A man is beating away at plaster spread out upon the ground as another carries a basket of plaster to spread over it. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/4 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor foxing to the margins. "Charrons" portrays wheel builders constructing wooden carriage wheels. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor faint foxing throughout. "Scieurs de bois" portrays sawyers at work as an empty horse-drawn cart rides away and another stacks wood upon a ramp leading to a barn's loft. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 4 inch wide plate marks. There are some minor sports of foxing or browning to the print. "Lingere au petit crochet" portrays an elderly woman cloth merchant carrying her linens in a basket on her back. Several dogs are near her and another cloth merchant can be seen speaking to a man in the background. The image measures 3-3/8 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4-1/8 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There are minor creases to the edges. "Porteur d'eau" portrays a water carrier and his wife pulling a large barrel of water on a cart. Another water cart and houses are depicted in the background at left. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/4 inches high by 3-7/8 inches wide plate marks. There is creasing to the bottom right corner and some foxing to the margins. "Tomeliers" portrays coopers at work constructing wooden barrels to which they affix metal rings. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-3/4 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor foxing throughout. An untitled image portrays barbers working on customers hair and beards and a wigmaker at her loom. Several wigs hang from the wall. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/2 inch high by 4-7/8 inch wide plate marks. This print is engraved on a sheet which is slightly smaller than the others measuring 7-3/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. There is a piece chipped from the bottom left corner with some foxing and darkening to the margins. The artist's name here spelled "Duplessis-Berteaux" by an early owner is penned on the verso. The engravings are in overall very good condition with a paper tab mounted along one edge of the verso of each print. The French painter and draughtsman Jean Duplessis-Bertaux 1747-1819 produced etchings and burin engravings. Having taken part in the French Revolution Duplessis-Bertaux produced a series of prints entitled "Scenes de la Revolution" followed by "Campagnes de Napoleon" which illustrated scenes from Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian campaigns engraved after paintings by Carle Vernet. He also produced a series of engravings portraying the street cries of Paris "Cris de Paris". Duplessis-Bertaux also collaborated on some prints with Jean-Louis Delignon and produced several pornographic prints many of which were printed anonymously but were later re-attributed to him. The work entitled "Recueil de cent sujets de divers genres" published in 1814 gathered together in one volume 100 of Duplessis-Bertaux' engravings from eight of the suites including military scenes and those from his Cries of Paris which had previously been distributed seperately. Paris, circa 1805 through 1814. hardcover
1989ref. 38629Barcelona: Antonio Agra 1989. Poems by Gras Balaguer and FIVE ORIGINAL ETCHINGS with aquatint BY ROUGEMONT. Edition limited to 75 numbered copies plus ten artist's proofs and ten hors commerce all printed on extremely fine wove paper. 4to. Two booklets: poems loose as issued in original wraps; etchings also loose as issued in original wraps. House together in folding paper case SIGNED on the colophon by the author and the artist. FINE AND BRIGHT. Antonio Agra paperback
1884ref. D11324London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary full morocco ornately gilt-stamped on boards and spine a.e.g.; 4to; pp. viii 304 plus frontispiece and 24 plates. Translated from the French. Spine and edges of boards scuffed and lightly bumped; small chip at fore-edge of upper board. Small ink scribble in margin of p. 3; some foxing here and there but overall internally nice and clean. A lavish production. J. C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover
ref. 20538477Odana Editions & Josef Lebovic Gallery Sydney 1998. 32.0 x 25.0cms 480pp b/w & colour illusts fine hardback & dustwrapper The contents cover: the Mitchell Library folios & copper plates; Norman & Rose; unpublished etchings; etched bookpltes; books illustrated with original etchings; notes on the unpublished etchings catalogue raisonne; unpublished etchings catalogue raisonne; published etchings; notes on the published etchings catalogue raisonne; published etchings catalogue raisonne; galleies exhibitions & reviews; sales & marketing; facsimile etchings; glossary of etching terms; selected exhibitions; private collections; selected bibliography. Odana Editions & Josef Lebovic Gallery Sydney 1998 hardcover
ref. 20715519Odana Editions & Josef Lebovic Gallery Sydney 1998. 32.0 x 25.0cms 480pp b/w & colour illusts fine hardback & dustwrapper author's inscription: Helen Glad's signature The contents cover: the Mitchell Library folios & copper plates; Norman & Rose; unpublished etchings; etched bookpltes; books illustrated with original etchings; notes on the unpublished etchings catalogue raisonne; unpublished etchings catalogue raisonne; published etchings; notes on the published etchings catalogue raisonne; published etchings catalogue raisonne; galleies exhibitions & reviews; sales & marketing; facsimile etchings; glossary of etching terms; selected exhibitions; private collections; selected bibliography. Odana Editions & Josef Lebovic Gallery Sydney 1998 hardcover
1922ref. 56032Berlin: Eigenbrödlerverlag GmbH 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. 83/100. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original cream-colored pigskin with gilt embossed decor of covers gilt lettering on black leather label and gilt decor on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Cream ribbon marker. Heavy decorative endpapers. Title page printed in blue and black. Signed "Münchhausen" and Kolb" on limitation page. Includes seven etchings with tissue guards all signed by the artist. Story of the legendary horse Bayard in medieval tales of knights. Text in German Gothic script. Binding with light wear along edges and minor scuffs and very light staining of covers. Eigenbrödlerverlag GmbH hardcover
1895ref. H4417New York: Dodd Mead 1895. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Two volumes 'new edition revised and enlarged' no. 11 of 50 copies with various original pencil signatures of author and illustrators; with etchings in two states signed in pencil by artists and one frontispiece also signed by Austin Dobson. Frontispieces in Vol. I by William Strang both signed in two states; plus several etchings by Adolphe Lalauze also in two states the first of each of which is signed by Lalauze who also supplied the frontispiece which is signed for the second volume. Cloth-backed boards in rare original dust jackets books very good bindings a little soiled especially to edges and spine ends with some foxing to deckled fore edges contents fine with decorated endpapers text printed on thick cream japanese vellum paper some pages unopened uncut; dust jackets show slight soil and toning darkening to spines light wear to spine ends one volume with chip to spine and both dust jackets a good half inch shorter than the books — probably made that way one of the fashions of that early period in modern dust jacket production. A distinctly uncommon set in the limited signed edition with no recent copies at auction. Dobson was a modernist and a pioneer in adapting French verse forms -- the villanelle rondel rondeau ballade etc. -- for use in the English language. Dodd, Mead hardcover
1884ref. 19249London & New York: J. C. Nimmo and Bain 1884. hardcover in full black leather. Good. Thick quarto oversized. Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Gilt top edge. Corners bumped. Some wear to joints. 2 inch tear in leather joint at lower front board and a one inch tear at top joint. First and last hinge reinforced with green tape. Gift inscription on a card glued in on the first pastedown. Black leather with gilt boirder detailing at edges on both sisdes of the boards. though the title page notes 24 illustrations this is the extra illustrated edition with 50 attractive detailed b&w etchings by Delierre. J. C. Nimmo and Bain hardcover
1819ref. 001587London: J. Bumpus 1819. Very Good. 8vo. xvii 384 pp. With nine of ten hand colored aquatint plates. Since there is no evidence in the form of offsetting of the missing plate it may never have been bound into this particular copy. Notwithstanding its omission the scarcity of this work of English caricature and illustration from Regency England make this a desirable copy. Prideaux 348. Small repair to the top of one plate a tiny chip on another and and a few text pages with a repair. Heavy offsetting onto text pages of plates. Otherwise internally quite clean. Attractively bound in three quarter red morocco. J. Bumpus unknown
1906ref. 35294New York: Edwin C. Hill Company 1906. Limited edition. Vellum. Good. L. Alma Tadema. Limited edition of 206 this hand numbered 17 and signed by the Edwin C. Hill Company 1906. A Good copy. 4to. 312 pp. with 2 etched plates bound in decorated full vellum with top edge in gilt. Overall light wear and soiling to vellum. Upper spine is partially detached. Spine is tanned. Front and rear hinges starting to crack. Tear and small loss to the paper covering the rear board End papers are lightly toned with some finger soiling to title page otherwise text is clean and unmarked. Edwin C. Hill Company unknown
ref. 2492published at the Punch Office Fleet Street. HB NODJ ISSUED Red Morocco LEATHER Trimmings with decorated Boards 1st edition 1847-48 2 Volumesminor rub VG NODJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. published at the Punch Office, Fleet Street hardcover