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Antwerp: Martin Nutium, 1638.
An elaborate period pig skin binding with magnificent detailed blind tooling made specifically for this volume with the IHS (Christogram) from the title page embossed in the center of the front board and the Virgin and child embossed on the rear board. Three works in Latin in one volume of the Flemish Jesuit (born Cornelis Cornelissen van den Steen, 1567 & 1637. Each volume with title page vignettes. Folio, x, 360, 36; 16, 376, 44; 336, 22. Seven raised bands with a hand written on pig skin title piece at the top of the spine. Some discoloration and rubbing of... more information
Price: 750.00 USD
Dourgne, Tarn: De L'abbaye d'En-Calcat, 1944.
No. 913 of 1000. 417 pp., plus 14 full-page medieval-style illuminated illustrations with gilt highlights. In addition, at the rear are several pages set up for filling-in with family tree information and several others, with decorative borders, for attaching, marriage, birth, death certificates, etc. Beautiful, rich, rust-brown leather binding by Bennett of New York. Covers have decorative, blind-stamped, bright gilt corners, rules and central geometric pattern. Spine has four raised bands, bright, blind-stamped gilt lettering and decoration. T.e.g. Other edges are unevenly cut and slightly age darkened. Marbled eps. Text is highlighted with red, black and white initial capital letters... more information
Price: 475.00 USD
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1959).
Nicely rebound by Maurin in 3/4 red morocco leather with two raised bands and a gilt-decorated and lettered spine. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of Frost by Clara Sipprell. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1819.
Henry Cary's critically acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's masterpiece in three volumes. The first volume contains the life of Dante and ''Hell'', the second a chronological view of the age of Dante and ''Purgatory'', and the third volume ''Paradise" and Index. 8vo, 3 volumes, 303pp, 309pp & 297pp, marbled end papers and all edges marbled, a beautiful clean copy. Handsomely bound in period full gilt stamped morocco with gilt titles and outer dentelles, raised black and gilt spine bands and red leather spine labels ("Carey's Dante"), gilt inner dentelles. Volume I with a small pencil owner signature at the ffep,... more information
Price: 1250.00 USD
London: Cassell and Company, 1914.
A very clean, bright and lovely copy of this desirable book. The first reprint edition. Dark green cloth with front board and spine elaborately decorated in red, green, torquoise and gilt. With 8 full page colored illustrations, including the frontis-piece, and dozens of black and white plates. Fine. more information
Price: 175.00 USD
London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1850.
8vo. Fine first edition with 15 tinted illustrated plates (title page included) by the author. Bound in full red crushed morocco with green onlaid corner pieces executed and signed by Zaehnsdorf. Original red cloth front cover bound in at rear. Lacking ads. Thackeray's fourth "Christmas Book." This publication marks the beginning of his new relationship with Smith, Elder and the termination of his affilliation with Chapman and Hall due to a financial disagreement. Fine. more information
Price: 425.00 USD
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1903).
Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4") bound in full tree calf with gilt-decorated borders and spine, contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, and all edges gilt. (xxi), 689 pages; frontispiece portrait of Longfellow. Contents crisp. more information
Price: 200.00 USD
London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders, 1899.
A fine copy of this delightful book, illustrated by Paul Woodroffe. This edition was limited to 100 copies on Japonese vellum, especially printed for the Guild of Women-Binders. Established by Frank Karslake, the Guild of Women-Binders, was not so much a guild as a business venture designed as an outlet for the work of certain groups of amateur female binders, which ran from 1898 to 1904. The binding, whilst distinctive of the guild's style, is uncharacteristically unsigned. (See Tidcombe, 'Women Bookbinders 1880-1920, and G. Elliot Anstruther 'The Bindings of Tomorrow - A Record of the Work of the Guild of... more information
Price: 500.00 AUD
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London: Oxford University Press, (1967).
Beautifully bound by Lauriat of Boston in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather and blue cloth with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt. xxiii, 918 pages. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940).
Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in full red morocco with double gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers; xxiv, 912 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and including two prefaces by Mary Shelley and an index to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet. more information
Price: 200.00 USD
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, (1940).
Octavo (4-3/4" x 7") bound in 3/4 green morocco and decorated boards, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with three raised bands, top edge gilt; xxiv, 912 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and including two prefaces by Mary Shelley and an index to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet. more information
Price: 150.00 USD
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1923.
Octavo (4-5/8" x 7") bound by Donnelly in full bright brown morocco with gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; xxiv, 912 pages. Edited with a preface by Thomas Hutchinson and including two prefaces by Mary Shelley and an index to first lines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
London: Folio Society, 1981.
Second Printing/Unique Binding. Full Leather. Art binding by Julie H.B. Stackpole, a fine hand bookbinder based in mid-coast Maine. After getting a BA at Kirkland College, Julie Beinecke Stackpole studied bookbinding with Kathryn Gerlach in Vermont, in Ascona Switzerland, at the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts in London, and with Roger Powell in England. She established her studio, the Merlicorn Bindery, on Nantucket in 1975, which she moved to Maine in 1985. She specializes in one-of-a-kind creative ne binding, all aspects of rare book restoration, and general hand bookbinding. A elegant example of this binder's earlier work. Hint of... more information
Price: 1500.00
Chevreuse, France: Biennales Mondiales de la Reliure D' Art, 2006.
Limited Edition/Unique Binding. Hardcover. Text in French. This binding was produced for an international competition/exhibition in France for which this textblock was specially produced (the signatures provided to the binders "in sheets"). The artist chose collage as a means to bring the various tales to light, the endpages (and balancing block in the front) was chosen as the various colors and feeling of the marbled papers tie all the various panels together. The stories/panels are: Front Board: "Red Riding Hood": Red wool cloth & wolf/coyote fur. "Sleeping Beauty": William Morris paper. "The Faries": Snakeskin, ostrich skin (for the toads), Redoute... more information
Price: 2650.00
London/Philadelphia: Freemantle/Lippincott, 1900.
First Edition/Fine Binding. Hardcover. An exceptional copy of this classic work. In producing this fine binding set, the original very thick volumes were split between the letters/background and the Antiquities and Kalaendar sections. The result is a love set of a much more manageable size. A very handsome set. Very minor shelf/edge wear, rebound, touch of sun at spines, else tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, blue leather spine and tips, blue cloth boards, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, blue paper endpages, tipped-in fold-out facsimile letters, teg, frontispiece(s). 8vo. xxiii, [185] 427pp; xv, [205] 441pp. Illus. (b/w plates).... more information
Price: 1250.00
Portland, ME: Baxter Society/Stinehour Press, 1992.
First Edition/Limited Fine Binding. Hardcover. Presswork by David Wolfe, Wolfe Editions. Includes contributions by May Sarton, Eliot Stanley, Francis O'Brien, John Vincent Healy and many others. This being one of four copies exceptionally bound by Grey Parrot. Tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, green leather spine, gilt lettering, hand-marbled paper boards, frontispiece. 8vo. 55pp. Illus. (b/w plates). more information
Price: 450.00
Portland, ME: Ascensius Press, 2002.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Half-leather by Daniel Gehnrich, with beautiful handmade pastepaper board. Printed on handmade paper by Mac-Gregor and Vinzani (Whiting, ME) in 12 point Linotype Janson. Exceptionally designed by Scott Vile of Ascensius Press, this volume is the perfect marriage of fine press work and an elegant binding. It appears to be the only true private/letterpress edition of Wharton's Ethan Frome. A simply stunning work. Tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase tight and clean. Halfbound, brown leather spine and fore-edges, custom made pastepaper boards, gilt lettering; green cloth clamshell box, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering. 8vo. Numbered, limited edition,... more information
Price: 1200.00
London: Printed for Clementi & Co, 1825.
First Edition. Hardcover. A renowned classic in exceptional condition. Finely bound in signed Root binding. "[I]t has seldom been our good fortune to rise from the perusal of three volumes so much instructed and amused. The editor speaks of his labors with diffidence, although it is obvious that these must have been considerable. He has availed himself of the best sources of information, in addition to his own recollections and those of his friends, for forty years, to render his work pleasing and useful. It is avowedly nothing more than a collection of biographical notices of the most distinguished musicians... more information
Price: 1500.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 1997.
First Edition/Limited Edition. Stringbound Wraps. Letterpress printed by David Wolfe. Wonderful plumbing illustrations. Tight, bright and unmarred. Green paper wraps, black ink lettering and decorative elements, black string binding. 12mo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 104 of 126 copies (100 in wraps, 26 lettered copies handbound by Zygot Bookworks). more information
Price: 45.00
Goole, East Yorkshire: The Chevington Press, 2005.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Seven etchings illustrate the unsuccessful Virginia slave rebellion of 1831. Nat Turner and his conspirators are captured in these remarkable colour etchings, two as double page fold-outs. All text and imagery printed by the artist on his antique press in Goole, E. Yorkshire. Etchings printed on hand-made paper from Wookey Hole. Text is printed on Magnani Acqueforte mould made paper. Binding by Gray Parrot who also made the the paste paper on the boards. Tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, brown leather spine, gilt lettering, hand made paste paper over board, frontispiece. 4to. np. Illus. (color and b/w... more information
Price: 2000.00
