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1896ref. 170545London: Henry Hughes & Son Ltd 1896-1910. With a scarce set of byelaws for navigating Tower Bridge First edition documenting the river and the trade it facilitated at the turn of the 20th century. Evans's map and index published in 1905 record the locations owners and businesses associated with each wharf and was released four years before the creation of the Port of London Authority. We have traced one institutional copy at the National Archives. As trade and commerce into London grew over the 19th century the wharves along the Thames became increasingly important. However as there was no central authority and each wharf was owned by a different business merchants and sailors required detailed guides to both the physical and human geography of the river. Evans worked for the Erith and Dartford Lighterage Company a shipping agent established in 1898 and incorporated in 1902. Alongside details of who owned each wharf his index also includes records of high and low water times tables of distances and a list of moorings. This copy was perhaps used as a reference for foreign ships. There is a loosely inserted typescript letter in French sent by the General Steam Navigation Company on 19 August 1910 to one Jules Lagache referencing the map and giving him information on navigating the Thames. Also included is the presumed first edition 1896 of the navigation byelaws for Tower Bridge opened in 1894. This pamphlet details the visual and audible signals that ships must use at day night and in fog while outlining penalties for ignoring them. We have traced one institutional copy at the University of Virginia. Colour lithograph map 1602 x 970 mm dissected into 20 panels and linen-backed as issued brown touchpaper covers folding away into original dark green patterned cloth boards 268 x 196 mm front board lettered in gilt bordered in blind. With loosely inserted correspondence blue typescript on recto only of 3 leaves 360 x 230 mm contemporary ink annotations and signature; text in French. Index: Landscape octavo pp. 30. Original blue boards dark blue cloth backstrip boards lettered in black. Bye-laws: Duodecimo pp. 8. Original light blue paper wrappers wire-stitched into wrappers as issued front wrapper lettered in black. Pencil underlinings throughout Index. Map bright light foxing especially on verso three panels toned on verso boards toned short tears at spine ends; Index foxed internally; Bye-Laws toned and lightly foxed on wrappers light vertical creasing: a very good collection. hardcover

RIVIERE, HenriBiblio.com

La céramique dans l'art d'Extrême-Orient.

1923ref. 146010Paris: Albert Lévy 1923. With an outstanding provenance First and sole edition number 106 of 300 copies of this impressive and important monograph. This copy with a fine provenance: from the library of A. W. Bahr internationally renowned authority on and collector of Chinese art with his ownership stamps to volume I half-title. Abel William "Billy" Bahr 1877-1959 born in Shanghai to a German father and Chinese mother was brought up in China and later established himself as a coal merchant and general importer. "He was fluent in Chinese he embraced various aspects of Chinese culture and he had a close circle of Chinese friends - by no means a common state of affairs in the Shanghai of the period" Pearce p. 6. Bahr was the moving force in the groundbreaking 1908 Exhibition of Chinese Art held in Shanghai "the first exhibition in China that was made up exclusively of art objects" ibid. p. 21. Three years later he published Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China London: Cassell & Co. 1911 the de facto catalogue of the exhibition. His papers are held at the Smithsonian. For the French artist and designer Henri Rivière 1864-1951 it was Japanese art that held a particular fascination and he was an avid collector of both prints and ceramics. The present monograph followed his similar study of Islamic art La Céramique dans l'art musulman 1913 and is similarly beautifully produced the plates printed in lavish colour. The Chinese Korean and Japanese ceramics were taken mostly from private French collections including that of Rivière himself the celebrated grand amateur Raymond Koechlin the antiquities dealer Garbis Kalebdjian and the fashion designer Jacques Doucet. The preface is by Charles Vignier "the expert on Asian arts at the Hôtel Drouot the principal auction house in Paris. a key figure in introducing early Chinese art and later African art to avant-garde collectors in Paris including Henri Matisse and Roger Fry" Dumbarton Oaks retrieved 18 January 2021. 2 vols large folio. With 100 mounted colour plates additional integral colour illustrations in text leaves. Loose sheets as issued in decorated cloth portfolios with cloth ties patterned pastedowns. Ownership stamps to half-title. Cloth of first volume soiled general light browning and foxing to contents but illustrations fresh. A very good copy. Nick Pearce "Shanghai 1908: A. W. Bahr and China's First Art Exhibition" in West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts Design History and Material Culture Vol. 18 No. 1 Spring-Summer 2011 pp. 4-25. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Reino Unido2000,00 GBP≈ 2388,69 €

[Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Samuel Pepys; Ernest H Shepard (illustrator)Biblio.com

Everybody's Pepys

1927ref. 6401London: Bell and Sons 1927. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. xxiv 570 pp. Fifty-seven full-page black and white plates and three text drawings. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1927 stamp-signed on front turn-in in full medium blue morocco with a very ornate multi-fillet gilt frame enclosing a vari-colored morocco onlaid illustration with painted highlights reproducing the black and white plate in the book "So To Bed" facing p.400. Gilt ornamented raised bands. Gilt framed compartments with ornate gilt centerpieces. Gilt tooled edges and turn-ins marbled paste-downs and end-leaves publisher's pictorial end-papers bound in at end all edges gilt. Minimal fading to spine light and almost imperceptible mark on rear cover otherwise fine. Samuel Pepys 1633-1703 was an English naval bureaucrat and member of Parliament who is now most famous for his diary. Hailed as a significant primary source for Restoration-era England the diary spans the years 1660-69 as Pepys ages from 27 to 36 years and was "written in Thomas Shelton's system of shorthand or tachygraphy with the names in longhand it extends to 1250000 words filling six quarto volumes." Britannica. Pepys was a highly inquisitive man and filled his pages with lively descriptions of people as well as documented his experiences living through "the Restoration and coronation; the horrors of the Plague; and the Fire of London" Britannica. In this edition of his dairy Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations enliven these first-hand experiences for readers. "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. Bell and Sons unknown

Whitmore Rare Books · Estados Unidos2850,00 US$≈ 2546,24 €

[Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]; Samuel Pepys; Ernest H Shepard (illustrator)ABAA

Everybody's Pepys

Whitmore Rare Books · Estados Unidos2850,00 US$≈ 2546,24 €

(BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON, CHARLES MCLEISH, Finisher). ROGERS, SAMUELBiblio.com

ITALY A POEM. and POEMS

1830ref. ST17640vLondon: Printed for T. Cadell 1830 1834. First Illustrated Editions. 202 x 135 mm. 8 x 5 1/2". iv 2 284 pp.; viii 295 1 pp. Two separately published works bound in two volumes but often found as companion volumes. VERY ATTRACTIVE GREEN MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-in BEAUTIFULLY GILT-TOOLED BY FINISHER CHARLES MCLEISH covers with frame of two gilt rules with gilt dots along the inner frame raised bands spine lavishly gilt in compartments with complex design formed by trefoils sprouting from a central branch along with clusters of berries the background with gilt pointillé gilt lettering gilt-rule-and-dot frame repeated on turn-ins maroon endpapers all edges gilt. The two volumes with a total of four plates 20 illustrations in the text and more than 100 fine steel-engraved headpieces and tailpieces after designs mostly by J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard. Italy with A HANDWRITTEN NOTE SIGNED BY ROGERS bound in at front. Ray 13 15. Spines evenly sunned to a light brown as usual with green morocco a hint of sunning to top inch of three covers faint offsetting from engravings other trivial imperfections but A FINE SET clean and fresh internally IN LUSTROUS UNWORN BINDINGS. In handsome morocco finished by one of the finest binders of the day this is an extremely appealing set of two poetic works with illustrations of considerable interest. Born in 1859 finisher Charles McLeish was apprenticed to Andrew Grieve in Edinburgh then came to London to work for the prestigious Riviere firm. When Cobden-Sanderson founded the Doves Bindery in 1893 he hired McLeish as the firm's finisher; McLeish held that estimable position until 1909 when he left to go into partnership with his son also named Charles who had apprenticed under Roger de Coverly. McLeish's expertise in applying the gilt decoration to bindings is evident here in the intricate tooling of the spine compartments which required applying individual small tools dozens of times and doing so with such exactness that only the most careful inspection will spot a couple of minute variations between one compartment and another. The scion of a wealthy banking family Samuel Rogers 1763-1855 first achieved fame with the publication in 1792 of "The Pleasures of Memory." After Italian travels during which he met Shelley and Byron in Pisa Rogers produced a first version of "Italy" in 1822 and issued a sequel in 1826 both of which sold poorly. He destroyed the unsold copies revised the poems and published them at his own expense in the present edition of 1830 our first volume embellished this time by illustrations. These were the work of two artists with very different propensities--Stothard 1755-1834 who did demure figure scenes and Turner 1775-1851 who provided landscape vignettes. The success of this edition was perhaps due as much to the artists as to the poet. Britannica describes Rogers as a "witty conversationalist" who "maintained an influential position as a leading figure in London society and as a generous host to brilliant company." Bound in here is an invitation to tea at his lovely home at 22 St James's Place: "Dear Katherine / If you & Miss Mallet / & Wm. have nothing better to do / pray come & drink tea with me / next Sunday the earlier the better. / Yours very truly Saml Rogers / St. James's Place / Thursday Evg." It is possible "Katherine" was London socialite Katherine Jane Canning daughter of British diplomat Stratford Canning 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe; Rogers inscribed a copy of the 1845 edition of his poems to her according to auction records. Printed for T. Cadell unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Estados Unidos3016,00 US$≈ 2694,54 €

(BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON, CHARLES MCLEISH, Finisher). ROGERS, SAMUELABAA

ITALY A POEM. and POEMS

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · Estados Unidos3016,00 US$≈ 2694,54 €

FIELDING, HENRY (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON)Biblio.com

THE HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH ANDREWS AND HIS FRIEND MR. ABRAHAM ADAMS

1742ref. ST18426London: Printed for A. Millar 1742. FIRST EDITION. 165 x 98 mm. 6 1/2 x 3 7/8". With four pages of ads at the end of volume I; one leaf of ads at the beginning and two pages of ads at the end of volume II. Two volumes. VERY PRETTY TAN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-ins covers with French fillet border raised bands spine compartments with central fleuron within a lozenge of dots curling cornerpieces gilt lettering lacy gilt turn-ins dark green endpapers all edges gilt. Housed together in a brown buckram slipcase. Front pastedown with morocco bookplate of Robert Hoe. Cross III 305; Rothschild 844; Tinker 1034. ◆Occasional mild browning or faint foxing but AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET clean and fresh internally in unworn bindings. This is a handsomely bound copy with superior provenance of the first appearance of a breakthrough work in the field of English literature. Fielding had a profound influence in determining the development of the novel and this was the first great instrument of that influence. Although some of the names of the characters are facetious the events personalities and settings are all characterized by convincing verisimilitude. The book was begun as a spoof of Richardson's sentimental "Pamela" but it ended up on its own as one of the best novels of the period. The beautiful bindings by the leading English workshop Riviere and the sparkling condition here are characteristic of books from the collection of our earlier owner Robert Hoe 1839-1911 founding member and first president of the Grolier Club. According to Beverly Chew Hoe's library was "the finest America has ever contained." Hoe acquired illuminated manuscripts early printing French and English literature and very fine bindings; when his library was sold in 1911-12 it fetched nearly $2 million a record that held until the Streeter sale more than 50 years later. Printed for A. Millar unknown