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1928Best.-Nr. 1409751Reading: Golden Cockerel Press 1928. Limited Edition #285/500. Hardcover. Octavo 151 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine red with black lettering. Bound in publisher's red fabric. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Top edge of text block gilt. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket small closed tears on spine. Three spots of discoloration on front dust jacket. Mild wear and rubbing front and back boards. Shelved in Case 9. Golden Cockerel Press is a curated private press started in 1920 in the Caxtonian tradition of editor-printer-publishers. 1409751. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1888Best.-Nr. 34259Stuttgart: J Engelhorn Circa 1888. Presumed from the unlettered series of plates celebrating German engravers. Very fine large engravings reproducing Italian paintings by the engravers Ludwig Kuhn Peter Halm Karl von Siegl Jakob Groh Wilhelm Krauskopf and Doris Raab. 43.3 x 30.4 cm plates heavy wove paper with wide margins each plate with a tissue guard captioned in red. Six folio plates. In very good condition some of the plates and tissues have a little edgewear or minor light soiling in no case effecting the printed images. A VERY HANDSOME COLLECTION OF GERMAN ENGRAVINGS BASED ON ITALIAN RELIGIOUS ART OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. The six plates included are: 1. Doris Raab 1851-1899—a fascinating female German engraver. The Christ with the Four Evangelists” aka “The Resurrection of Our Lord” after the painting in the collection of the Galleria Palatina Palazzo Pitti Florence executed in 1516 by Fra Bartolommeo. 2. Peter Halm 1854-1923. Madonna Enthroned aka Madonna and Child after a circa 1505 painting by Giovanni Bellini. 3. Ludwig Kuhn 1859-1936 Madonna of the Pesaro Family after the painting in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice executed by Titian circa 1519. 4. Jakob Groh 1855-1917 Madonna and Child aka "Pitti Tondo" by Michael Angelo Buonarroti reproduced from the marble bas-relief at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence executed sometime around 1504. 5. Wilhelm Krauskopf 1847-1921 Descent From the Cross "Espagnolet" reproduced from the original in the Museo Nazionale di San Martino in Naples by Jusepe de Ribera in circa 1588 6. Karl von Siegl 1842-1900 Adoration of the Three Kings Magi after the bas-relief by Venetian Baroque sculptor Giovanni Bonazza 1654–1736 located in the Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo Venice. [J Engelhorn] unknown
Best.-Nr. 51674Hamburg Carl Gassmann 1854. . Salamon 15a. - Der Himmel mit kleinen weißen Fleckchen. - Blick auf die Alsterarkaden die Lombardsbrücke mit Mühle und die Häuser zwischen Reesendamm Plan und Hermannstraße. Im Vordergrund der Platz auf dem 1885 bis 1897 das neue Rathaus erbaut worden ist. Eine Abordnung des Bürgermilitärs ist auf dem Rathausmarkt angetreten. - Im lackierten Mahagonirahmen 40 x 465 Hamburg, Carl Gassmann, ( 1854). unknown
Best.-Nr. 89806CREATIVE PRINTS WATARAI Jun'suke artist. KOROPOKKURU NO SHI. a little 9.8 x 7.4 cm leather wraparound box gold embossed with 13 copperengravings inside illustrating a text of POEMS OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE the little people being humanculi of Ainu legend who "take their ease under the trees" of the great northern forests. Though undated this copy is #9 of 50 copies and was produced by Sawamura Gallery probably in the 1970s. In perfect condition throughout with the original wraparounds the text pamphlet and the outer shipping box as well. unknown
1954Best.-Nr. 9407Lexington KY: Gravesend Press 1954. Vellum Binding. Near Fine binding. 18mo. 10 48 4 pp. illus. Limited edition number 9 of 200 copies. As issued in vellum-backed patterned-paper over boards. Lacking the slipcase. A handsome copy with only light toning to the perimeters of the boards; contents clean. This copy with 4-page prospectus. This work was the first book issued by the Gravesend Press that was actually printed using the Graves' press in their stable by Graves and Jacob Hammer. Kredel's charming engraved pressmark of a sleeping pressman graces the final page. Graves writes about this in his Bibliographical Confession the donkey in the window was their family pet Patience. Graves operated the press as a sideline from about 1949 through to the end of his life in 1960 issuing scarcely more than half a dozen books. While less known that some of his contemporaries he took his place amidst a vibrant mid-century printing and illustrating scene—friends with Victor Hammer Carolyn Reading Fritz Kredel John DePol John Fass and others. H. Richard Archer in a history of the Graves and his press published in The Kentucky Review Spring 1987 summarizes Graves's work thus: "All of the books whether pamphlets or bound books reflect the taste and high standards of a true amateur craftsman and as such they certainly qualify as choice examples from one of this generation's most distinguished private presses." Press historian Roderick Cave notes that this was "probably the most successful Gravesend book" p. 263. Cave The Private Press 2nd edition; Graves The Gravesend Press: A Bibliographical Confession p. 11-13. Gravesend Press unknown
1839Best.-Nr. 030612London: William S. Orr & Co. 1839. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xxiii 356 Pp. First Printing 1839. Quarter Calf Calf Tips Over Marbled Boards Marbled Endpapers And With Matching Marbling To Edges Of Page Block. Captions Printed On The Tissue Guards. Binding Is Early Or Original Wear But Nicely Refurbished New Morocco Spine Label Hinges Intact And Solid. Contents Very Clean Light Foxing To A Few Plates But Almost All Are Entirely Clean And With Clean Intact Tissue Guards. Wordsworth Was The Youngest Son Of The Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth Master Of Trinity And A Nephew Of The Poet William Wordsworth. He Was The Younger Brother Of The Classical Scholar John Wordsworth And Charles Wordsworth Bishop Of Saint Andrews Dunkeld And Dunblane. He Was Educated At Winchester And Trinity Cambridge. Like His Brother Charles He Was Distinguished As An Athlete As Well As For Scholarship. He Won The Chancellor's Gold Medal For Poetry In 1827 And 1828. He Became Senior Classic And Was Elected A Fellow And Tutor Of Trinity In 1830; Shortly Afterwards He Took Holy Orders. He Went For A Tour In Greece In 1832-1833 And Published Various Works On Its Topography And Archaeology The Most Famous Of Which Is "Wordsworth's" Greece 1839. In 1836 He Became Public Orator At Cambridge And In The Same Year Was Appointed Headmaster Of Harrow A Post He Resigned In 1844. In 1844 Sir Robert Peel Appointed Him As A Canon Of Westminster 1844-1869. He Was Vicar Of Stanford In The Vale Berkshire 1850-1869 And Archdeacon Of Westminster 1864-1869. In 1869 Benjamin Disraeli Appointed Him Bishop Of Lincoln Which He Retained Until His Death In 1885. William S. Orr & Co. hardcover
1901Best.-Nr. 2111902160200698Mizusawa Miki 1901. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Mizusawa Miki paperback
1919Best.-Nr. 62005Paris: Chez l’imprimeur Leon Pichon 5 Rue Christine 1919. 12mo. 6.5 x 6.5 3 leaves unnumbered. title w/ woodcut borders & printer’s device 20 numbered woodcut engraved plates. Softcovers minor shelfwear w/ woodcut-decorated jacket folded over the covers minor spotting foxing on back cover very minor bumping to corners still VG copy numbered on colophon & ownership markings on ffep. First edition No. 353 of 400 copies printed of the noted engraver’s first major post-World War I work as a Dance of Death depicting Death’s passage in the blighted and stricken era and a firm protest against modern mechanized warfare. Hermann-Paul 1864-1940 rose to fame during the Belle Epoque with his cutting satiric depiction of the foibles of French Society was a noted defender of Alfred Dreyfus whom after the war departed from his previously leftist ideals of the Parisian art scene and spent much of the between-the-wars period as an outsider. Chez l’imprimeur Leon Pichon, 5, Rue Christine, paperback
1795Best.-Nr. 0009005York UK: E. and R. Peck 1795. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo vi 153 pages full tree calf tender joints red morocco spine label. Ex libris with the motto "Gaudet Tentamine Virtus Strength Rejoices in the Challenge ". This was engraved by John Thomson d. 1847 the principal engraver at Belfast. Note: this aristocratic bookplate in a break with tradition states "Drawn & Engraved by J. Thomson Belfast adding the first four words ". Discreetly signed on the title-page by William Legg likely the master of Malone House in Belfast and High Sheriff of County Antrim . Blind Jack blind since the age of 6 was in the public notice as "a most EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER." Remarkably hew was the first professional road builder in the industrial Revolution. Undaunted he also drove stagecoaches twice a week although I do not know how. This was the only 18th century edition of this biography. E. and R. Peck hardcover
1991Best.-Nr. 23986Greenbrae: The Allen Press 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's small exlibris label to front free endpaper else fine. 71 pp. illustrated with 4 wood engravings by John DePol; 8vo. 11 x 7.5 inches bound in brown cloth and hand-blocked Fortuny fabric. Text set in Goudy's Italian Old Style and printed in 2 colors on handmade Whatman cotton rag paper. Acetate jacket. Edition of 116 copies The Allen Press hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 36979Paris: A Parole Donnee 1976. Fine. Paris: "A Parole Donnée" 1976. First Edition Limited to 72 copies of which this is no. 9 of 12 hors commerce copies. Small square quarto 16.5cm; loose as issued in grey printed dust jacket housed in bright blue cloth chemise and slipcase; 16pp.; two leaves of color engravings signed with limitation in pencil by the Japanese printmaker Shoichi Hasegawa. A Fine example additionally signed by the poet and artist on colophon in rear. Issued as the second volume in the poet's A Parole Donnée series. No copies located in OCLC as of October 2025. A Parole Donnee unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 36978Paris: A Parole Donnee 1976. Fine. Paris: A Parole Donnée 1976. First Edition Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 34. Small square quarto 16.5cm; contents loose as issued in original printed dust jacket housed in scarlet cloth chemise and slipcase; 16pp.; two color engravings with tissue guards both engravings signed with limitation by the artist in pencil along bottom edge. A Fine example additionally signed by the artist and poet on colophon in rear. French artist's book of poems issued as the first volume in the "A Parole Donnée" series. We find no copies in the trade or OCLC as of October 2025. A Parole Donnee unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 9695New York: Hammer Creek Press 1953. Unbound. Near Fine binding. Portfolio. 6.5" x 4.25." 4 folded leaves. Limited edition number of copies unknown. As issued 4 bifolium leaves laid into portfolio. Only light rubbing to the portfolio; leaves are fine. Comprises as title page with printing on the recto of the first page only; and three engraving on three bifolium with title of engravings in red on the recto of the first leaf and the engraving occupying the recto of the second leaf. Engravings are of "The Hell-Box Press" "The Hammer Creek Press" and "Along the Hammer Creek." An additional pressmark by DePol on the title page. Cohen 24; DePol Catalogue Raisonne p. 41. Hammer Creek Press unknown
1840Best.-Nr. 177838circa 1840-1850s. Pair of hand-coloured lithographs highlighted with gum arabic 32.2 x 25.1 cm trimmed spotting to the upper corners affecting the sky only paper adhesions on the verso but the images in very good bright condition. Two finely coloured lithographs one of a Turkish Sultan in military costume with the skyline of Constantinople in the background and another of lower rank perhaps issued in the period of the Crimean War. Trimmed and possibly from an album or scrapbook. . unknown
Best.-Nr. MA12F-00007The Golden Cockerel Press. Collectible - Good. London: The Golden Cockerel Press 1949. Limited edition. First thus first with these illustrations. Sm 4to Hardcover 349pp. B/W illustrations. No. 370 of 500 copies. Good Book. Corners slightly bumped. Spine rubbed. Quarter leather. Red boards with gilt spine lettering and design on front cover. Top edge gilt. In polypropylene bag. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front pastedown. middle ages historical fiction fantasy fiction allegories Inquire if you need further information. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. 007446Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar 1771 c1979 1979. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 3 volumes :160 plates including facsimiles maps music; some folded ; 27 cm ; by a society of gentlemen in Scotland.; LC: AE5.E3631771 ; OCLC: 277954529 ; 5 raised bands spine labels in red and black leather with decorations and lettering in gold rubric textblock ; an exact facsimile of a 3-volume set of the 1st edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica reproducing the plates with foxing ; "For three years sections of the encyclopaedia were issued periodically. The first two numbers came in December 1768 . The first volume 'Aa' to 'Bzo' was completed and bound in 1769 the second 'Caaba' to 'Lythrum' a year later and the third 'Macao' to 'Zyglophyllum' in 1771"--Herman Kogan The great EB./ Edited by William Smellie who was employed by Colin Macfarquhar publisher and Andrew Bell engraver./ "In order to give some idea of the materials of which this dictionary is composed we shall conclude the preface with a list of the principal authors made use of in the compilation."--Preface.; thick heavy volumes ; FINE Edinburgh : A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1771, c1979 hardcover
1956Best.-Nr. BOOKS071031IKyoto: Red Lantern Shop 1956. HC. good paper covered boards accordian fold-out hardcover. B&W and color illustrations. Published to display the art of Japanese color woodblock printing and how it is done in a progressive series of fold-out pages on one continuous sheet. Shows how each of the nine colors is added one at a time and concludes with the finished plate. Full detail on our website - ask for the link. UNCOMMON. Red Lantern Shop unknown
1823Best.-Nr. 002813London: John and Arthur Arch 1823. Hardcover. Very Good . Published for the Author by John and Arthur Arch . . . R. Triphook . . . and J. Major . . . ." 8 15 1 p. 53 leaves of plates 1 leaf with copper-engraved dedication to Lavinia Countess Spencer signed Hewitt 52 leaves of mounted plates numbered 1-60 drawn and engraved by G.R. Lewis; 29 cm. Contemporary half red morocco with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between gilt-rules and raised bands with gilt-tooled decoration. Black morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Lewis's Etchings. Red morocco label on front board with double gilt-ruled border gilt corner rosettes and title "Etchings of the Physiognomy Manners & Character of the People of France & Germany." All page edges marbled to match boards and endpapers. Remains of a small circular label on front fixed endpaper reading "Abbey" along lower edge. The plates were issued for insertion in T.F. Dibdin's Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany 1821. Included are directions for placing the plates in Dibdin's work. Lewis made hundreds of drawings while accompanying Thomas Frognall Dibdin on his tour of France and Germany some of which were used to illustrate Dibdin's book. A disagreement about how much Dibdin owed Lewis for the drawings developed after the tour and the additional plates presented here were undoubtedly published by Lewis to generate some extra income from his work. In Very Good Condition: leather and boards are rubbed most heavily at head of spine and corners; corner of title page lightly soiled; light foxing primarily affecting the leaves on which the plates are mounted rather than the plates themselves; plates are clean and crisp. John and Arthur Arch hardcover
1825Best.-Nr. 007775London: H. Berthoud 1825. Hardcover. Good . 72 p. frontispiece and 19 leaves of plates; 36 cm. Contemporary black leather spine with plain grey paper over boards. The publisher intended the plate of Mrs. Siddons to be bound as the frontispiece but here the plate of Mr. Kean was bound as the frontispiece and that of Siddons before the text about her. Contains 20 engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and dancers including Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth Edmund Kean as Richard III Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen dancers Lisa Noblet Felicite Hullin and Etienne Le Blond opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis and Henry Gattie Maria Theresa Bland Sarah Booth Frances Copeland and Charles Young. The plates have not been hand-colored. In Good Condition: front board and frontispiece are detached but present; lacking leather over spine; foxing primarily in margins of plates; otherwise clean and solid. H. Berthoud hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 17082110London: Jonathan Cape Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press Cambridge 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Gill Eric. No. 129 of 160 octavo size 206 pp. signed by Eric Gill. Clothing has long been an integral part of society and can be used to reflect diverse religious and cultural identities. In this essay Eric Gill 1882-1940 discusses the significance of clothes in society and argues for a more egalitarian approach to clothing; for example Gill advocates the suitability of men's clothing trousers for women as a way to liberate the sexes and create a more equal society. Gill provides wood engravings for the book illustrating his concepts and showcasing his masterful rendering of the technique; his illustrations have a slightly satirical slant while evoking the pathos of his arguments. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown pigskin with marbled paper boards gilt rules and lettering on the spine top edge gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut illustrations include title page device "Woman Dancing" P712; "Art and Prudence" P714; "Clothes as Houses" P715; "Clothes as Workshops" P716; "Clothes as Churches and Town Halls" P717; "Clothes for Special Parts" P718; "The Tyranny of Tailors" P719; "Nature and Nakedness" P720; "Trousers" P21; and a tailpiece of "Trousers and Spats" P722; octavo 7.5" by 5.25" pagination: i-vii 1-2 3-196 197-198 1 colophon one of 160 copies this number 129 signed "Eric G" on the colophon. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some slight rubbing to the bottom edges of the boards and to the corners a faint stain to the gutter of Contents page and very slight cracking to the gutter at pages 128 and 129 but hinges are still tight. ___CITATION: Gill 22. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Jonathan Cape [Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge] hardcover
Best.-Nr. 027280Chicago: Dunlap School of Finger Prints. Stapled. Good. Eight pamphlet collection. Publisher dates noted on two books: 1921 & 1922. With pencil notation top right corner of title page. Pamphlets in good or better condition half missing covers 8-64 pages most under 10. Lecture Nine has 7 lines of ink writing on title page. Secret Service: Lecture One Two Nine Ten. The Science of Finger Prints: Lesson Three Four Five and Lecture Five. Dunlap School of Finger Prints unknown
Best.-Nr. BN370214Pietro Sarto. Catalogue Raisonné des gravures et lithographiesLes Estampes 1947-1992 Album Album Pietro Sarto. Catalogue Raisonné des gravures et lithographiesLes Estampes 1947-1992 Album Album Pietro Sarto. Catalogue Raisonné des gravures et lithographiesLes Estampes 1947-1992 Album Album unknown
Best.-Nr. 522031887. . Salamon AUT 69. - Unten links SIGNIERT. - Blick von der östlichen Straßenseite des stark belebten Neuen Walls auf das gegenüberliegende beflaggte Stadthaus u. benachbarte Häuser mit der Turmhaube der Michaeliskirche im Hintergrund. - Zu dem Hamburger Lithographen Christian Ludwig Wilhelm Heuer 1813-1890 siehe Der Neue Rump S. 188. - Schwach gebräunt. [ 1887]. unknown
1843Best.-Nr. 88170New York: Burton 1843. First Edition. Original steel engraving on heavy art paper; 13-1/2" x 11-1/4" plate; ca. 20" x 15" sheet. Marked "Proof" in type below title. Margins of sheet once folded for framing now unfolded; some soil mended tears and foxing to extremities much fainter within plate marks; printed area remains clean and unfaded; Very Good. A finely engraved bust portrait of Jackson; a portion of the image was later re-used for the famous "Black Jack" 2-cent postage stamp of 1863. Burton unknown
Best.-Nr. 17494New York: Edmond Jones & Co. Hardcover. Very good overall. The color plates in fabulous condition providing an intimate look at this great city during the Civil War. Particularly beautiful plates include the color engraved frontispiece the US Ironclad Steam Ship the Metropolitan Police Headquarters at Mulberry St. the Old Bowery Theatre 1860 the Clendening Mansion the Interior of the Somerindyke House Greenwich Street below Thames Street the Theological Seminary the Ladies Union Aid Society Part of the House where Talleyrand lived Somerindyke Estate the Jackson Ferry Old Storehouses Corner Pearl and Chatham View of Harlaem from Morisania Residence of Late Mayor Tieman's Father View of Baxter late Orange St. between Hester and Grand and the Junction of Canal and Walker Street near Centre St. Thick 8vo xii 852pp three folding maps at frontis. With many color plates some folding and duotones. Spine ends rubbed top of hinge at spine w short split. Internally very good the plates are immaculate. Edmond Jones & Co hardcover
