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[Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Cruikshank, George (illustrator); William FraserBiblio.com

Coila's Whispers

1872ref. 6400London: F. Harvey 1872. Second edition. Number 6 of 50 copies printed. Small quarto 8 1/4 x 6 inches; 210 x 152 mm. ii blank vi 160 i 3 blank. Etched half-title drawing by William M. Thackeray. Five full-page etchings on india paper by George Cruikshank. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son stamp signed on verso of front endpaper in full dark blue crushed levant morocco. Both covers richly decorated in gilt with triple borders each surrounding one hundred and seventy nine floral tools in a geometric design; spine with five raised bands richly decorated and lettered in gilt with the same floral tools; double-ruled gilt board edges decorative turn-ins all edges gilt. Front and rear outer joints repaired. "Sir William Fraser 1816-1898 was a genealogist archivist and Scottish historian. Trained as a solicitor his professional involvement with peerage cases began a lifetime of research into the genealogy of Scotland's most prominent landed families" Edinburgh University Library. His Colia's Whispers is a collection of poetry inflected by Victorian tastes for historicism and revivalist styles. The text is accompanied by five George Cruikshank etching on India paper are five out of eight compartments of a large plate etched by G.C. for Sir William Fraser in 1870 for Poems by the Knight of Morar. "Only fifty numbered copies were issued of this edition and consequently it is scarce" Cohn. George Cruikshank 1792-1878 was one of the most famous British caricaturists and illustrators during the Regency period. He would form a friendship with Charles Dickens illustrating many of his books and later in life would be active in the temperance movement. "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. F. Harvey unknown

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[Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Cruikshank, George (illustrator); William FraserABAA

Coila's Whispers

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MILNE, AA; SHEPARD, Ernest H, illustrator; RIVIERE & SON, binders A ABiblio.com

Now We Are Six

ref. 06566London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1928. A Milne Classic in a Fine Rivière Binding "Christopher Robin Is Six" - A Superb Decorative Copy MILNE Alan Alexander. Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. 1928. Fourth edition. Small octavo 7 5/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 189 x 121 mm. xi 1 blank 103 1 1 printer's imprint pp. With numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Elegantly bound ca. 1928 by Rivière & Son in full blue polished calf covers double-ruled in gilt the upper cover pictorially stamped in gilt with five charming figures from the text surrounding the title all within a fine gilt frame. Spine with five raised bands richly tooled in gilt in compartments with two red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Blue marbled endpapers all edges gilt. The original peach pictorial endpapers printed in black bound in at front and rear. Spine very slightly mellowed otherwise an exceptionally fine copy. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. A most attractive and unusually well-preserved example of Now We Are Six the third volume in A. A. Milne's beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series published at the height of his literary partnership with Shepard. Issued two years after Winnie-the-Pooh 1926 the present volume continues the gentle poetic chronicles of Christopher Robin's imaginative world - poems that balance whimsy with a quiet often wistful awareness of childhood's passing. Shepard's illustrations - already inseparable from Milne's text by this date - appear here in their original black and white form capturing with remarkable economy the personalities of Pooh Piglet and their companions. The famous vignette of Christopher Robin "going on an adventure" appears on the cover in gilt lending this binding a particularly appropriate decorative coherence. The binding executed by Rivière & Son at the end of the 1920s is characteristic of their finest work of the period: crisp gilding harmonious proportions and a sensitive integration of illustrative motifs into the design. The retention of the original pictorial endpapers is an especially desirable feature preserving an important element of the book's first issue character within an elevated binding. A charming and highly desirable copy of one of the central works of 20th-century children's literature - both a cornerstone of the Milne canon and a beautifully presented example of English decorative binding at its best. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928 unknown

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MILNE, AA; SHEPARD, Ernest H, illustrator; RIVIERE & SON, binders A AABAA

Now We Are Six

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MITFORD, John; Riviere & Son; Cruikshank, Isaac Robert Williams, CharlesBiblio.com

My Cousin in the Army: or Johnny Newcombe on the Peace Establishment

ref. 06530London: Printed for J. Johnston 1822. Johnny Newcome Returns: The Soldier's Comic Progress A Spirited Sequel to the Celebrated Naval Satire - With Fine Cruikshank Plates MITFORD John. My Cousin in the Army: or Johnny Newcome on the Peace Establishment. A Poem. By a Staff Officer. London: Printed for J. Johnston 1822. First edition. Octavo 9 x 5 5/8 inches; 228 x 143 mm. 4 316 pp. Sixteen hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and Charles Williams. Plates watermarked 1821. A short marginal tear 3/4 inch to title slight creasing to plates opposite pp. 173 and 285 and a neatly restored outer blank margin to the plate opposite p. 313 loss minimal. Light offsetting from plates as usual and a few minor smudges. Handsomely bound in mid-twentieth-century full burgundy levant morocco by Rivière & Son stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper covers with gilt double fillet border spine richly tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Harry Bradfer-Lawrence on front pastedown. An excellent copy. A lively and richly illustrated military satire My Cousin in the Army forms the companion volume to Mitford's earlier and highly successful Johnny Newcome in the Navy 1818 transferring the comic misadventures of the naïve recruit from sea to land. Cast in brisk octosyllabic verse the poem offers a vivid and often irreverent portrait of army life in the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars blending anecdote caricature and social observation in a manner closely aligned with the Regency taste for humorous narrative. The hand-colored aquatints by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and Charles Williams - both central figures in the golden age of British caricature - provide much of the work's enduring appeal. Their plates animated and theatrical capture the follies vanities and absurdities of military life with a sharp eye and a lively palette placing the work firmly within the tradition of illustrated comic narratives popularized by contemporaries such as the Doctor Syntax series and Life in London. Mitford himself remains one of the more colorful and tragic figures of the period: a former naval officer present at major engagements of the French Revolutionary Wars later reduced by dissipation and instability to a precarious literary existence. His writing - energetic unpolished and often drawn from lived experience - retains an immediacy that lends authenticity to the comic episodes described. A pleasing copy of a work that stands among the more engaging illustrated satires of the post-Napoleonic period enhanced by an attractive Rivière binding and distinguished provenance. Abbey Life 370; Tooley 166. London: Printed for J. Johnston, 1822 unknown

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MITFORD, John; Riviere & Son; Cruikshank, Isaac Robert Williams, CharlesABAA

My Cousin in the Army: or Johnny Newcombe on the Peace Establishment

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Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719-1796) translated by Ercole del RioBiblio.com

The Incomparable Games of Chess Developed after a New Method of the Greatest Facility from the First Elements to the Most Scientific Articles of the Game. Translated from the Italian of Dr Ercole Dal Rio

1820ref. C8881xvi17-340 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the Italian of Ercole dal Rio by J S Bingham. To which is prefixed an Essay on the origin of the game by Eyles Irwin. Whyld: 1820:14 Translated from Il guioco incomparablile degli schcchi 1769 by Ponziani here erroneously attributed to Ercole del Rio. J S Bingham is a pseudonym of Captain John Smith RN "Quotes and queries" British Chess Magazine November 1978 page 523. Irwin's "Essay on the origin of the game is a paper on Chinese chess cited as Whyld 1795:3. Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing. Ponziani was friends with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli and collectively the trio are known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi The Incomparable Game of Chess. As Ponziani did not include his name in the work Opera d'Autore Modenese it was identified to the Anonymous Modenese. The second edition in 1782 was much improved and laid out the principles of the Italian school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as Gioachino Greco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition the 1820 translation by English naval officer J. B. Smith using the pen name J. S. Bingham The Incomparable Game of Chess attributed the work to del Rio. Ponziani's work is the best practical guide produced by the Modenese Masters. Like writings by del Rio and Lolli Ponziani deals only with the opening and endgame with no discussion of the middlegame. Murray H. J. R. 1913 A History of Chess Condition: End papers renewed former owners solutions to problems tipped in at gutter next to problems. Point rubbed with some rubbing to boards. A very good copy of a scarce item. J J Stockdale hardcover

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Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719-1796) translated by Ercole del RioBiblio.com

The Incomparable Games of Chess Developed after a New Method of the Greatest Facility from the First Elements to the Most Scientific Articles of the Game. Translated from the Italian of Dr Ercole Dal Rio

1820ref. BOOKS008881xvi17-340 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the Italian of Ercole dal Rio by J S Bingham. To which is prefixed an Essay on the origin of the game by Eyles Irwin. Whyld: 1820:14 First English edition.Translated from Il guioco incomparablile degli schcchi 1769 by Ponziani here erroneously attributed to Ercole del Rio. J S Bingham is a pseudonym of Captain John Smith RN "Quotes and queries" British Chess Magazine November 1978 page 523. Irwin's "Essay on the origin of the game is a paper on Chinese chess cited as Whyld 1795:3.Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing. Ponziani was friends with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli and collectively the trio are known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi The Incomparable Game of Chess. As Ponziani did not include his name in the work Opera d'Autore Modenese it was identified to the Anonymous Modenese. The second edition in 1782 was much improved and laid out the principles of the Italian school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as Gioachino Greco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition the 1820 translation by English naval officer J. B. Smith using the pen name J. S. Bingham The Incomparable Game of Chess attributed the work to del Rio. Ponziani's work is the best practical guide produced by the Modenese Masters. Like writings by del Rio and Lolli Ponziani deals only with the opening and endgame with no discussion of the middlegame. Murray H. J. R. 1913 A History of ChessCondition:End papers stained previous owner's old signature on front end paper. Spine renewed with original spine label to spine. Points rubbed and bumped some soiling to else a very good copy of a scarce item. J J Stockdale hardcover

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