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réf. 98401Paris Javal & Bourdeaux 1930. . Unique extra-illustrated example limited edition printed hors-commerce on japon imperial for Monsieur Dumouchel from a total edition of 525; 3 vols; 4to; illustrated with 25 monochrome etchings of which 22 are hors-texte by Charles Huard and with two original copper plates by Huard colour drawings throughout the text by Theodore van Elsen signed and dated 1933 also loose are 9 wash drawings and 4 watercolours signed by Huard and a set of prospectus; vol II contains a suite of 30 colour drawings to illustrate the work loose in an illustrated wrapper by van Elsen with each drawing with tissue guards and mounted on blue paper a suite of 20 original watercolours also to illustrate the work signed and captioned in pencil by Louis Ibels loose in an illustrated wrapper dated 1933; vol.3 contains over 100 original drawings signed by Carlo Farneti to illustrate the work 4 original watercolours by Louise Ibels and 2 signed watercolours by Leon Courbouleix; all house in modern maroon morocco boxes with gilt detail and lettering; a fine copy. A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings by multiple artists. A large collection from the publisher's Javal and Bordeaux of illustrations for Flaubert's novel. Flaubert's first published novel. 'Madame Bovary the story of the adulteries and suicide of a doctor's wife in provincial Normandy is notable for its rigorous psychological development and manifests the qualities that mark all his mature work: authenticity of detail an impersonal narrative method a precise and harmonious style. Certain passages having been judged to be offensive to public morals Flaubert his publisher and his printer were tried but acquitted' Drabble. Paris, Javal & Bourdeaux, 1930. unknown
1843réf. 140947309London: Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans 1843. First Edition. Near Fine. 1843 1845 1846 1846 1848. First editions of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books Smith II.4-6 II.8-9. A Christmas Carol is the first issue with title page printed in red and blue dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page 1. The Chimes first edition second issue with the publisher's name below the plate on the vignette title page. The Cricket on the Hearth first edition second issue with 2pp. ads. The Battle of Life first edition Todd's fifth state of the engraved title page with "A Love Story" in a scroll held by a cupid; terminal ads announce the publication in parts of Dombey and Son and the bound volume of Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man first edition first and only issue. All five volumes bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt seasonal stamping unique to each book. Morocco title labels to ribbed spines gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp in gilt to front turn-in of each volume. Original cloth covers and spines bound in rear of all volumes but the last. Housed in an open-ended slipcase moderately rubbed and toned covered in the same floral gilt-embellished paper used for endpapers. Near Fine with slightly rubbed spines. Light edge toning to interiors occasional thumbing and staining and spots of foxing. No writer is more closely associated with Christmas than Charles Dickens who began with the immortal A Christmas Carol in November 1843. It was published on December 19 and sold so well there were seven editions by the following May. The Chimes followed in December 1844 and three more books appeared in 1845 1846 and 1848 two of the title page dates follow the then-common practice of dating a book published in November or December with the coming year. The enduring appeal of Dickens' Christmas stories lies in his unmatched ability to combine sentimentality with melancholy or righteous fury a balancing act of light and dark. A Christmas Carol composed as Dickens walked weeping through the dark London streets was intended to draw attention to the plight of the working poor in London. The Chimes attacks the cruelty and hypocrisy of the rich and the protagonist of The Cricket on the Hearth contemplates murder. The Haunted Man the last novella emphasizes the need to remember past sorrows and hardships. Dickens wanted his Christmas books to be pretty - his specifications for the first cut severely into his profits - and it is appropriate that these copies have been given jewel-like bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe one of the most famous fine binderies in the English-speaking world. A beautiful set of beautiful stories illustrated by the leading artists of the day. Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans unknown
1843réf. 140947309London: Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans 1843. First Edition. Near Fine. 1843 1845 1846 1846 1848. First editions of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books Smith II.4-6 II.8-9. A Christmas Carol is the first issue with title page printed in red and blue dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page 1. The Chimes first edition second issue with the publisher's name below the plate on the vignette title page. The Cricket on the Hearth first edition second issue with 2pp. ads. The Battle of Life first edition Todd's fifth state of the engraved title page with "A Love Story" in a scroll held by a cupid; terminal ads announce the publication in parts of Dombey and Son and the bound volume of Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man first edition first and only issue. All five volumes bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt seasonal stamping unique to each book. Morocco title labels to ribbed spines gilt dentelles all edges gilt. Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp in gilt to front turn-in of each volume. Original cloth covers and spines bound in rear of all volumes but the last. Housed in an open-ended slipcase moderately rubbed and toned covered in the same floral gilt-embellished paper used for endpapers. Near Fine with slightly rubbed spines. Light edge toning to interiors occasional thumbing and staining and spots of foxing. No writer is more closely associated with Christmas than Charles Dickens who began with the immortal A Christmas Carol in November 1843. It was published on December 19 and sold so well there were seven editions by the following May. The Chimes followed in December 1844 and three more books appeared in 1845 1846 and 1848 two of the title page dates follow the then-common practice of dating a book published in November or December with the coming year. The enduring appeal of Dickens' Christmas stories lies in his unmatched ability to combine sentimentality with melancholy or righteous fury a balancing act of light and dark. A Christmas Carol composed as Dickens walked weeping through the dark London streets was intended to draw attention to the plight of the working poor in London. The Chimes attacks the cruelty and hypocrisy of the rich and the protagonist of The Cricket on the Hearth contemplates murder. The Haunted Man the last novella emphasizes the need to remember past sorrows and hardships. Dickens wanted his Christmas books to be pretty - his specifications for the first cut severely into his profits - and it is appropriate that these copies have been given jewel-like bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe one of the most famous fine binderies in the English-speaking world. A beautiful set of beautiful stories illustrated by the leading artists of the day. Chapman & Hall / Bradbury & Evans unknown books
réf. 111330Paris Gihaut Frères & Ernest Bourdin 1838-1848 & 1842 . Folio 52.8 x 34.5 c 2 vols; vol. I La Russie Meridionale 100 lithographed plates after Raffet a few plates with cropped margins; vol. II Voyage Pittoresque tinted lithographed title-page and 100 lithographed plates faint water stain to lower margin; both volumes bound in contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards spines in parts with gilt tooling large gilt Rothschild coat of arms on green morocco label in centre of upper boards some minor repairs and wear very good examples. A fine set of Demidoff's most sought-after illustrated books bound for Baron James de Rothschild. The rich industrialist Count Anatoliy Nikolaevich Demidov Prince of San Donato 1813-70 became a famous Russian art collector who assembled at his Villa di San Donato a large collection of Dutch Flemish and Romantic masterpieces as well as an impressive library. Before his short and stormy marriage to Princess Mathilde-Létizia Bonaparte he financed two scientific and artistic expeditions in Russia: the first in 1837-38 in Southern Russia and the second in 1839 in Northern Europe and European Russia. Although the account of the first one is significantly more common the views published in the present second album are the most famous since they included beautiful lithographs of the largest Russian towns and their celebrated places such as the Winter Palace and the Alexandrine column in St. Petersburg the banks of the Volga in Nizhniy-Novgorod the Kremlins of Kasan and Moscow. Brunet II col. 583-584 ; Carteret III p. 197 ; Vicaire III col. 167-168. Paris, Gihaut Frères & Ernest Bourdin, [1838-1848] & [1842], hardcover
réf. 140949009West Kingston RI & Hampton Falls NH: Donald M. Grant 2012. Signed Limited Edition; Publisher's Copies. Fine/Fine. Publisher's Copies. A signed limited deluxe edition set of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series all matching and uniformly marked Publisher's Copy PC. All signed by the author and each volume's illustrators respectively: Michael Whelan Phil Hale Ned Dameron Bernie Wrightson Darrel Anderson and Jae Lee. The Gunslinger is additionally signed by its publisher Donald Grant. Two copies of The Little Sisters of Eluria are included; one from the limited edition signed by both King and Whelan and the second from the Artist's Edition signed by Whelan only. All Fine in Fine dust jackets. Slipcases with light wear traycases close very slightly misaligned. Brooks A18.1b A34.1b A43.2b A61.2 A88.3 A89.2 A90.2. An extreme rarity as the maximum of only 12 possible sets of matching publisher's copies could ever exist. The Dark Tower series is not tethered to any specific genre instead fusing together a complex meta-textual universe of dark fantasy western sci-fi and horror. Equally inspired by Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns King modeled his anti-hero Roland Deschain on Clint Eastwood's character in Man with No Name and incorporated slow-burn sparse dialogue from The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Donald M. Grant unknown
réf. 140949009West Kingston RI & Hampton Falls NH: Donald M. Grant 2012. Signed Limited Edition; Publisher's Copies. Fine/Fine. Publisher's Copies. A signed limited deluxe edition set of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series all matching and uniformly marked Publisher's Copy PC. All signed by the author and each volume's illustrators respectively: Michael Whelan Phil Hale Ned Dameron Bernie Wrightson Darrel Anderson and Jae Lee. The Gunslinger is additionally signed by its publisher Donald Grant. Two copies of The Little Sisters of Eluria are included; one from the limited edition signed by both King and Whelan and the second from the Artist's Edition signed by Whelan only. All Fine in Fine dust jackets. Slipcases with light wear traycases close very slightly misaligned. Brooks A18.1b A34.1b A43.2b A61.2 A88.3 A89.2 A90.2. An extreme rarity as the maximum of only 12 possible sets of matching publisher's copies could ever exist. The Dark Tower series is not tethered to any specific genre instead fusing together a complex meta-textual universe of dark fantasy western sci-fi and horror. Equally inspired by Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns King modeled his anti-hero Roland Deschain on Clint Eastwood's character in Man with No Name and incorporated slow-burn sparse dialogue from The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Donald M. Grant unknown books
réf. 124387London Imprinted at London in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge printer to the Queenes Maiestie 1568. . First edition five parts in 1 vol.; large folio 40.5 x 29 cm; black letters text in double columns in 57 lines calendar printed in red and black general title with xylographic word panel in woodcut architectural border and an engraved medallion portrait of Queen Elizabeth the royal arms and allegorical figures 2 further engraved portraits comprising: Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester to the divisional title of Part 2 and Sir William Cecil to the recto of A2 in Part 3 all attributed to Franciscus Hogenberg woodcut New Testament Title the text further illustrated with 131 narrative woodcuts of 133 missing those on E2-3 in Part 1 which are lacking in this copy after Virgil Solis 5 woodcut maps and numerous diagrams woodcut printers device to verso of final f. contemporary annotations in pen including note dated '1590' to recto of Q8 in Part 2 with 19th-century transcription on blue paper tipped-in at fore-edge further note in same hand to foot of X3 recto also in Part 2 general title trimmed and mounted in the 18th-century with calligraphic dated ownership inscription in pen to verso some early underlining and marginalia in pen throughout tear to head of E6-7 in Part 1 repaired with glue with resultant residue to head of E7 pen marginalia to Part 1 K6 smoke damage to lower corner of N4-5 of same part paper brittle with tear repaired in archival tape small hole with loss of text to O6 also in Part 1 dampstaining to final 2ff causing minor loss to text both ff with early paper repairs at gutter margin as mentioned lacking ff E2-3 in Part 1 numbered XXXXIV-V comprising final chapter of Genesis and opening chapter of Exodus lacking final blank f. otherwise complete with some ff possibly supplied form other copies; 20th-century gilt-panelled calf the centre of the covers with jewelled cross formed of red green and purple morocco onlays modern endpapers minor wear very good; collation: A-Q8-E2-3 A-Y8 Z10 A-E8 F6 G-Z8 2A8 2B12 A-O8 P6 A-T8 V5. The editio princeps of the Bishop's Bible the second authorised English translation. A rare near complete example of the 'most sumptuous' and lavishly illustrated English pulpit Bible of the sixteenth century with over 130 narrative woodcuts and maps and three engraved portraits. The Bishop's Bible so-named for the numerous bishops and Biblical scholars involved in its production was the brainchild of the Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker 1504-1575. The translation was intended to counter the Calvinist influence of the Geneva Bible which had come to prominence following the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 and the return shortly thereafter of the Marian exile community into England and supersede the earlier Great Bible as the official authorised version of the scriptures in the Church of England. The text mainly follows that of the 1539 Great Bible but both Hebrew and Greek originals were consulted as well as the Geneva version. At least eleven bishops were involved in the revision with Parker himself contributing the lion's share of the work and the whole was completed by September 1568. 'In April 1571 the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury ordered that copies of this edition should be placed in every cathedral and as far as possible in every church; and enjoined every ecclesiastical dignitary to exhibit a copy in a prominent place in his house for the use of his servants and guests' Darlow & Moule. When Whitgift became Archbishop in 1583 he attempted unsuccessfully to enforce the sole use of the Bishop's Bible in churches and chapels across England. 'The Bishops' Bible was a success in that it replaced the Great Bible last reprinted in 1569 in churches to the exclusion of the Geneva version. But the latter continued to be read in Protestant homes and became the foundation of the Authorized Version' ODNB. The woodcut illustrations were mostly copied from designs by the Nuremberg artist Virgil Solis 1514-1562 for a picture series Biblische Figuren des Alten and Neuen Testaments that was first published in Frankfurt in 1560. The three engraved portraits depict Queen Elizabeth her favourite Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester and the Secretary of State Sir William Cecil and are attributed to Flemish artist Franciscus Hogenberg 1535-1590. 'While title-page portraits of the monarch were an established feature of English Bibles contemporary portraits within the text were a startling departure. The engravings of Dudley and Cecil prominently placed at the beginning of Parts 2 and 3 respectively flatter by association with the immediately following books. Dudley portrayed in armor mirrors the warrior-hero Joshua. Cecil is position as a new David at the head of Psalms with an open book in one hand other other grasping the large initials B of the psalm's opening line "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsell of the ungodly"' Luborsky & Ingram. This edition is also sometimes known as the 'Treacle Bible' for the rendering of 'balm' as 'triacle' in Jeremiah 8:22. A lovely example with early annotations including a note in pen to the foot of the first book of Chronicles dated '1590' with a 19th-century transcription on tipped-in blue paper: 'As thou shalt understand oute of this testamente the tru godlynes and the salvasion of ouer soules both by hearing of it and laying up as a storehouse in the harte. With a true and sinsear loue and so take up the crose of Christe Jesus and folowe hime that is to suffer afflictiones and fornes and scurges as Crist did when he suffered afflicksiones for ouer sines. 1590'. With a further note in the same hand to the second book of Esdras. ESTC S122070; STC 2099; Herbert 125; DM 89; Luborsky & Ingram B:2099. London, Imprinted at London in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, [1568]. unknown
