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1996rif. x09067Paris: Editions de La Fenetre 1996. 4to. Unbound sheets in blue cloth portfolio in cloth slipcase. Fine in Near Fine slipcase. Slight fading and shelfwear to slipcase. Two engravings by Vilato. Number 21 of 90 printed signed by Verdet and Javier Vilato. This copy additionally inscribed with a drawing by Verdet. First Edition. Fine. Editions de La Fenetre hardcover
rif. 51-4225A Paris chez Henri Sara et Jean PasleÌ 1647 or 1648. 24 x 18cm. on old laid paper. 12 engravings from the suite of 33.OCLC Number: 457068224François BIGNON d'après Anselmus van HULLE OU ZACHARIE HEINCE - Lot de 12 portraits tirés de la série « Les Pourtraictz au Naturel avec les armoiries et blasons noms et qualitez de Messieurs les Plénipotentiaires assemblez à Munster et Osnaburg pour faire la Paix générale. » XVIIe siècle./- 204 x 168 mm au TC. Belle condition. [A Paris, chez Henri Sara et Jean PasleÌ [1647 or 1648] unknown
1928rif. 1403491Paris: Edward W. Titus 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 6 49 7 pages plus 5 illustrated plates. In Very Good minus condition. In brown cloth binding with red lettering on paper labels to front board and spine. Boards are moderately soiled most heavily on spine with faint stains on boards near the joints. Rubbing along board edges fore corners lightly bumped. Label on spine is heavily sunned and scuffed. Text block shows light wear and foxing to deckled edges. Also foxed sparsely throughout most prominently on endpapers. Stain in gutter of first free endpaper. Small pencil annotation on page 7 indicates a typo in the text. SH consignment. Shelved in Room A. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound Ernest Hemingway James Joyce William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933 when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection having been carted by him from Paris where he stayed until 1940 to Spain Tangiers and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403491. Special Collections. Edward W. Titus hardcover
2011rif. 47394Berkshire: Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty 2011. Facsimile edition after the original. Hardcover. Fine condition. 477/1250. Folio. 309 2 48pp. Original black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on cover and spine gilt edges with companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. Red initials. Historiated endpieces. Black ribbon marker. Companion volume with frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster 1927. Exquisite publication and beautifully illustrated in margins with large drawings by Eric Gill. These drawing were perceived by the public as erotic. Modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece printed on Rigoletto Panna felt-merked paper. "Troilus and Criseyde was originally printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-7 using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum for the Folio Society on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. Colophon. The companion volume "Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition with minor emendations. " Imprint. Contains notes at rear. Memminger Medien Center for the Folio Sociaty hardcover
1875rif. 4432One of 170 numbered copies on Hollande paper. Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards gold gilt top edges silk bookmarks. In very good condition sturdy and sound decorative bookplates on front pastedown of each volume some wear at spine and edges small chip at edge of half title page of volume 2 Édition Jouaust hardcover
1984rif. 297104Marlborough Wilts: Paulinus Press 1984. Limited Edition. Near Fine binding. Small quarto; in morocco-backed vellum with spine lettered in gilt; housed in slipcase with portfolio in the slipcase containing a set of nineteen wood engravings by Simon Brett printed on japon and signed by the artist; the morocco spine is a bit sunned; this edition with the portfolio is limited to 25 copies; of the engravings in the portfolio this is number 18 of xxv; signed on the colophon by Michael Justin Davis and Simon Brett. Near Fine binding. Paulinus Press unknown
1940rif. 2156New York N.Y. William Edwin Rudge 1940-1948. 4to. Vol.I-Vol. V. Number 1-4 of each year plus Vol. V Number 4. 1940-1948. Printed wrappers for each volume. 1st Edition. All in fine condition each year encased in a blue paper covered sleeve. Vol. I: 1940 Vol 1-4 A mutitude of articles on prints and books as well as numerous illustrations. Vol. II: 1942 #1-4 "Aristocracy in Prints" American engraver Vol. III: #1-4 1943 t. Vol. IV: 1946 #1-4Vol. V:1948 #4 only. On request I will provide a detailed list of articles included. The journal was founded by William Edwin Rudge to demonstrate "the far reaching importance of the graphic arts" including art prints commercial printing wallpaper etc. Contents were eclectic covering typography book making book printing fine prints as well as the trade journal aspects of printing candy bar wrappers.8 Initially the publication included original prints such as the frontispiece for Vol 1 #1 Jun 1940 a two color woodcut by Hans Alexander Mueller and Vol 1 #3 December 1940 a black and white wood engraving by Paul Landacre. By Volume 8 1953 the focus of the periodical had shifted to a trade journal. William Edwin Rudge
rif. 3971897. Lithograph. From the suite "Chansons des femmes" in which there were 15 images of women represented. Crauzat 189. Image: 7 x 5. unknown
1963rif. 003294CThe Stone Wal Press Iowa City 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A very fine hardcover copy in a near fine slipcase. Limited Edition of 300 no. copies. This is copy no. 112. Owner's signature appears on front endpaper with additional info "sent me from the publishers at the request of Beatrice Roethke." Slipcase is very sound with just a touch of rubbing. A nice copy. The Stone Wal Press, Iowa City hardcover
1927rif. 0005209Chicago: A. Ackermann & Son Inc 1927. First Limited edition. Very Good. Image measures approx. 15.5 inches by 21.25 inches; unframed but mounted on fiberboard dark "tidal stain" at lower left margin maskable with matting. Perhaps the most vivid illustrations created of 1860 Chicago were published by Jevne and Almini in France. Raoul Varin of Paris France re-created the original paintings in the mid-1920s. "The differences between Mr. Varin's paintings and the original prints were subtle. He engraved a variety of signed limited edition numbered prints . in the 1920s and 1930s. They were published by A Ackermann & Son . His views took a historical perspective . often based on extant classical works." Only 100 signed prints of the finished work were published. This is apparently a Proof State of the print and thus unnumbered but it is signed by Varin in pencil in the lower right corner. . A. Ackermann & Son Inc unknown
1859rif. 140940505Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson 1859. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition first printing. Follows the original French and some multi-volume British editions with ghostwritten material tacked on. 580 2-12 1 pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth front stamped in blind gilt spine lettering yellow ad endpapers. A Very Good copy with cloth worn away along head and tail lettering a little oxidized and rubbed light sporadic foxing penciled name on first blank erased pencil on title page plates toned. The autobiography of the first private detective Eugene Francois Vidocq a former criminal and father of criminology. His exploits inspired Edgar Allan Poe to create detective fiction as a genre. T.B. Peterson unknown
1984rif. 297106Marlborough Wilts England: Paulinus Press 1984. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s pink silk bonding with a cream label to the spine lettered in gilt with slipcase; 55 pages with illustrations and a set of proofs; signed by the author Walter Shewring; the engraver Simon Brett the engraver; Christopher Skelton the printer; and Clare Skelton the binder.~~This edition limited to twenty-five special copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper with additional pages bearing impressions of the engravings printed direct from the wood blocks; in the rear of the book is a loose set of proofs of the engravings on japon printed and signed by the artist.~~This special edition is signed by the author the engraver the printer and the binder “in recognition of its being the last book produced at Skelton’s Press under Christopher Skelton’s ownership”. Fine binding. Paulinus Press unknown
rif. AQ20609London and Stuttgart Und Tubingen: J. H. Bohte and in der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung 1824 and 1823. Three volumes within publisher's folder with paper title label. 10; 4 11pp 1; 8 full-page engravings. Two text volumes sewn with small cloth strip glued to spine the plates stitched as issued. Occasional spotting. The beautifully illustrated first illustrated edition of Schiller's 'Fridolin or the Road to the Iron Forge' - a ballad which the German poet Schiller 1759-1805 composed for a poetry competition against Goethe in 1797 with the text volume of the parallel German-English edition published in London by Bohte ‘foreign bookseller to his majesty’. The engravings by Moritz Retzsch 1779-1857 German painter and draughtsman were much praised: accompanied by the illustrations the ballad 'assumes a new and more exalted character' provided by Retzsch's ability to give them 'an airy dimness that softens what is beautiful and deepens all that is terrific' Monthly Review 1825 p.522. OCLC locates a single copy in the British Isles BL and three in North America. . Oblong quarto. J. H. Bohte [and] in der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1824 [and] 1823. hardcover
2003rif. BECKETTS002141Kickshaws Paris. 2003. First edition thus: an alternative English version by John Crombie. Small square octavo. Loose folded sheets printed with characters of varying sizes. Wrappers. One of ''a handful of copies. printed for the translator's personal pleasure''. Originally not commercially available no doubt due to the unauthorised nature of the translation.Fine. Rare. [Kickshaws, Paris.] unknown
1932rif. 2092902141302789white and black company 1932. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 white and black company paperback
1869rif. 007490Wissembourg; Paris: Fr. Wentzel 1869. Near Fine -. Lithographie et typographie de Ch. Wentzel." 2 10 p. 6 leaves of hand-colored lithographed plates; 27 cm. Title page and each page of text within decorative border. "Contes Illustrés pour Enfants" -- at head of title page. Frédéric Charles Wentzel 1839-1877 and Charles Frédéric Wentzel 1833-1911 took over the lithographic and publishing business begun by their father Jean Frédéric Wentzel after his death on 27 July 1869. This title part of their series Contes Illustrés pour Enfants is not in WorldCat. The Perrault tale of Bluebeard is accompanied by beautiful and richly colored plates. Extremely scarce. Lacking original wrappers; otherwise in Near Fine- Condition: lower corners are creased; minimal soiling in margins; plates are striking and bright. Fr. Wentzel unknown
1766rif. 26551Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. An aquatint in terracotta on a black background with highlighting in light rose showing a man leading three children they are all wearing laurels and bearing leaves for sacrifice. As they approach the altar two objects hover above one of which is likely a basin or kylix the other resembles a stylized head of a horned animal. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 14" the image approximately 5.5" X 7.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes. While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
1766rif. 26547Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows three maidens one of which is brandishing a sword. The middle female holds a paten in her left hand. The image may be part of a bacchanal scene. The background is black the image coloured with shades of tan brown terra-cotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 15" the image approximately 9.5" X 7.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes. While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
1880rif. 52357London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 17/50. Large Folio. 51 leaves. Original three-quarter blue leather over textured blue cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Top edge gilt. Decorative floral endpapers rendered in lithography. Frontispiece engraving. Title page with engraving. Decorative initials. Black ribbon marker. Signed "Edition limited to 50 copies No. 17 C. O. Murray" in blue handwriting on half-title. illustrated with nineteen etchings including frontispiece and title page. All but the title page etching with C. O. Murray signature in plate and reference to the respective stanza. All plates tissue guarded with heavy paper plates. Contains list of etchings at front. Light wear along edges of binding some rubbing along hinges of spine. Offsetting to outer edges of endpapers from cover leather. Some offsetting of engravings to guards. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington hardcover
rif. Lie, BjørnIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1880rif. 17628Colt Publishing Co. . Very Good. Late 19th century original lithograph view of Hyde Park. The margin has staining with light chipping at the extremities and several tears in the bottom margin one of which extends 3/4" into the left side of the lithograph. The lithograph itself is toned with modest faint foxing. Dimensions: 24" x 18". Lithograph: 20.25" x 14.5". .; Prints . c. 1880. Colt Publishing Co. unknown
1865rif. 036424New York: Johnson Fry And Co. 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1865. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 620 660 642 Pp. Three Volumes. Various Copyright Dates From 1861 To 1865 On Plates And Copyright Pages But Text Goes Through End Of War So Actual Publication Date Presumably 1865. Three Massive Volumes The Deluxe Issue In Full Brown Embossed And Gilt Morocco Five Bands Spines Stamped In Gilt Covers Stamped In Dark Brown Beveled Edges All Edges Of Page Block Gilt. Wear Fraying At Corners Gilt Bright. Volume I And Volume Ii Have Front Boards With New Cords. No Marks Or Stains Or Other Damage Text Block Square And Unworn. General Refurbishing By A Binder Made This An Exceptional Set. Johnson, Fry And Co. (1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865) hardcover
2011rif. 38447London: The Folio Society 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 459 of 1250 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society. There were also 25 lettered copies that were not for sale. This folio sized work was originally printed b Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-27 using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This is an exquisite modern edition of this classic work by Chaucer that is beautifully illustrated with drawings by famed artist and illustrator Eric Gill. It is a facsimile edition after the original of 1898. Bound in black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on front cover and spine gilt edges accompanied with a companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. With a companion volume that has a frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster 1885-1959 a self-styled photographer of men taken in 1927. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum for the Folio Society on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. The companion volume here Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition with minor emendations. " from the imprint. Contains notes at rear. A beautiful production fine condition in a near fine solander box. 309 2; 48 pages. Measures 7.75 x 12.25 inches. PRI/101826. The Folio Society hardcover
1766rif. 26548Naples 1766-1776. A single aquatint plate drawn and engraved after the original pieces in the Hamilton collection. The colour aquatint shows a seated muscular long-haired man he holds the head of a dwarf or murdered reveler in his left hand his right hand holds a spear. In front of this man there stands a satyr holding a spear and wine bucket. The background is black the image coloured with shades of tan brown terra-cotta and gold. Printed on a single folio sheet measuring approximately 20" x 13" the image approximately 11.25" X 11.5". Now presented in cream mounting boards 22" x18" behind clear mylar. A very fine plate in an excellent state of preservation. A BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE PLATE FROM A MASTERPIECE OF CLASSIC ART RENDERINGS AND PUBLICATION. Hamilton served as British envoy to the court of Naples where he began collecting Greek vases and other antiquities immediately upon arriving at his post. In 1766–67 he published a volume of engravings of his collection entitled A Collection of Etruscan Greek and Roman antiquities from the cabinet of the Honble. Wm. Hamilton. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. Josiah Wedgwood the potter and porcelain maker drew great inspiration from the reproductions presented in Hamilton's volumes. While widely recognized for their beauty the reproductions from Hamilton's vases have become evidence of the irreconcilable problem of neoclassicism in the Romantic period. Significant changes in the way the vases were engraved over a span of thirty or forty years demonstrate how an immutable collection of objects is subject to radical shifts in representation in response to the social and artistic styles of the time. hardcover
rif. 0411B948288Leather Bound. Good. Philadelphia: George W. Gorton 1843 first ed. Full leather edgeworn slightly raised bands worn down all edges creamy fading marbled gilt titling on black leather compartment. 165 engravings all present pages with engravings toning. Front hinge starting though all signatures tight and complete. PAWLING's contemporary signature on title page and a marginal note at foot of page describing Pawlings family of Montgomery County. Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania Containing a Copious Selection of the Most Interesting Facts Traditions Biographical Anecdotes etc. Relating to the History and Antiquities.with Topographical Descriptions of Every County. 708 pps. including index. hardcover
