Moncrieff, A. R. Hope
London, 1906
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. First edition. Cover bright and fine, in the rare dust jacket with some chips, scattered foxing, especially to text block edge. First edition. 8vo. xi (i), 252p., (iv ads). Illustrated with 75 color plates after paintings by Sutton Palmer and a folding map. In the publisher's blue cloth, the spine and upper cover with gilt titles with decorative designs of grapes and vines in red, brown, light blue and gilt, t.e.g.
Seton, Walter W., ed
Chelsea, 1921
Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1921. Limited to 236 copies. Normal light ageing to covers, text fresh - quite a nice copy. Limited to 236 copies. Half-sheet octavo. xvi, (iv), 95p (i). Four-page facsimile of the original manuscript of 1496 precedes the text. Printed in Subiaco type with red side-notes, headings and paragraphs, first initial in blue. Bound in full vellum with gilt spine title, and with green ribbon ties. "Another neglected Ashendene book: owners should take more interest than to close it after admiring the type. Seton's Introduction tells the romantic history of the manuscript in Hornby's collection, printed in this volume, written for the nuns of St Clare who invited it at the end of the fifteenth century... This and Omar Khayyam are the two Ashendenes which rank as serious critical editions." (Colin Franklin. The Ashendene Press, p. 240).
Lang, Andrew
London, 1900
London: Goupil & Co, 1900. No. CIII of CCCL copies on Japanese vellum. Fine, a brilliant copy. No. CIII of CCCL copies on Japanese vellum. Tall quarto. vii, 300p. Illustrated with hand-colored frontispiece and 41 plates, 38 in two states, all with tissue guards. In a sumptuous binding by Durvand in full red crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and panel ornaments, the covers with a series of geometric frames with cornerpieces, fancy dentelles. Bookplate of Walter Phelps Bliss and Katharine Baldwin Bliss.
Bensusan, S. L.
London, 1904
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Edition de Luxe limited to 250 copies, this the "Printer's Copy. About fine with minor rubbing to the covers. Edition de Luxe limited to 250 copies, this the "Printer's Copy" Quarto. xv(i), 231p. Illustrated with 74 color plates after paintings by A. S. Forrest. In the publisher's binding of ivory cloth over beveled boards, the spine and upper cover with gilt titles and vibrant design in red, blue, green and gold in an overall Persian design, t.e.g.
Shakesperae, William
London, 1891
London: British Literary Society, 1891. No. 1 of 10 copies. Crown Edition. "Extra Illustrated Edition of the Aldine Poets". Printed at the Chiswick Press. Fine. No. 1 of 10 copies. Crown Edition. "Extra Illustrated Edition of the Aldine Poets". Printed at the Chiswick Press. Two volumes. 16mo (1 1/2" taller than the original Aldine series.) lxxxix, 288p; viii, 493p. Illustrated with eight plates: seven hand-colored engraved plates and an original watercolor. In super deluxe bindings of full scarlet crushed morocco, a.e.g., the spines in uneven panels with gilt titles and floral designs in gilt in the larger panels, the flower petals of green and ivory onlays, the covers with large designs of gilt flowers, the stems of green onlays, the flower petals of black and ivory surrounded by a double-ruled frame with corner pieces, the doublures are of green morocco with central design of a rose stem with red onlays within an oval frame, elaborate dentelles featuring crown corner pieces, green watered silk flyleaves, a.e.g.
Broomhead, Frank
Middlesex, 1986
Middlesex: Private LIbraries Association, Zaehnsdorf Limited, 1986. No. 9 of 100 copies bound by Zaehnsdorf and signed by the author (total edition 2250 of which 1000 for sale). A perfect copy, as new. No. 9 of 100 copies bound by Zaehnsdorf and signed by the author (total edition 2250 of which 1000 for sale). Tall 8vo. 109p. Fully illustrated including two of the plates in full color. In Zaehnsdorf's binding of full green crushed morocco with green crushed morocco flyleaves, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and panel ornaments of repeating curvilinear ornaments with Zaehnsdorf's "Z" at the foot on a red onlay, covers with ornamental borders with elaborate gilt designs on the center and corners, the doublures are in red morocco with ornamentation similar to the covers, the front doublure with the binder's "Z" in the center on a green onlay, the rear with Zaehnsdorf's symbol for their special bindings.
Milton, John
London, 1891
London: British Literary Society, 1891. No. 1 of 10 copies. Crown Edition. "Extra Illustrated Edition of the Aldine Poets". Printed at the Chiswick Press. Fine. No. 1 of 10 copies. Crown Edition. "Extra Illustrated Edition of the Aldine Poets". Printed at the Chiswick Press. Two volumes. 16mo (1 1/2" taller than the original Aldine series.) lxiv, 337p; xvi, 387p. Illustrated with eight plates: seven hand-colored engraved plates and an original watercolor. In super deluxe bindings of full scarlet crushed morocco, a.e.g., the spines in uneven panels with gilt titles and floral designs in gilt in the larger panels, the flower petals of green and ivory onlays, the covers with large designs of gilt flowers, the stems of green onlays, the flower petals of black and ivory surrounded by a double-ruled frame with corner pieces, the doublures are of green morocco with central design of a rose stem with red onlays within an oval frame, elaborate dentelles featuring crown corner pieces, green watered silk flyleaves, a.e.g.
Lamb, Charles
Troy, NY, 1902
Troy, NY: Pafraets Book Company, 1902. Library Edition" No. 297 of 1000 sets printed at The Merrymount Press, Boston. Small chips to three of the paper labels, else quite fine and largely unopened - as good as it gets. Library Edition" No. 297 of 1000 sets printed at The Merrymount Press, Boston. Twelve volumes. Edited with introduction by Alfred Angier. Title pages in red and black. Various portrait frontispieces in each volume. In the publisher's bindings of quarter tan buckram over blue ribbed cloth boards with paper spine labels, t.e.g. (Smith. Merrymount, 150).
Moncrieff, A. R. Hope
London, 1909
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition. Cover bright and fine, in the rare dust jacket with minor chips, preliminaries and text block edge foxed. First edition. 8vo. xii, 262p., (ii ads). Illustrated with 75 color plates after paintings by L. Burleigh Bruhl and a folding map. In the publisher's brown cloth, the spine and upper cover with gilt titles with decorative designs including swords and wheat in orange, green and silver, t.e.g.
Dante Alighieri (Maunscript by Daniel Henry Holmes)
1887. Cover with some rubbing and scratches, but sound, text fine. Unique.. Quarto. 68p. Original manuscript in Italian in an very neat and beautiful hand in black ink, each line beginning with a letter in red ink. Bound in full calf with marbled endpapers, the spine with red leather title label gilt, the panels with gilt ornaments, double ruled borders on the covers, dentelles. Dedication page also in manuscript in ink: "To Georgine Holmes is Dedicated this labour of Patience by Her Father D. H. Holmes, Holmesdale December 1887".
The flyleaf with penciled inscriptions from the daughter: "This over precious book given to me by my most dear revered father, whilst writing, how many of his own pangs and sorrows were woven into the lines of The Immortal poet! 1887: [and] "Dear Dear papa! It is only when the loved one is gone forever from our side That we begin to appreciate and value what Providence so generously bestowed upon us ungrateful ones! 15 May 1903".
Daniel Holmes 1816-1898 of Ohio, owner of D.H. Holmes Department Store.
Milton, John
London, 1931
London: The Cresset Press, 1931. No. 134 of 195 copies (both volumes). All quite fine and bright, but for faint toning to flyleaf of Vol II., likely from material laid in. An excellent and beautiful private press work.. No. 134 of 195 copies (both volumes). Two volumes. Folio (14 5/8"). xii, 442p, colophon; vi, 88p, colophon. Illustrated with 20 wood engravings, including head- and tail-pieces, by D. Galanis. Title-page and initial letters designed by Anna Simons. Printed by Bernard H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press on Batchelor's hand-made paper. Bound in full ivory cloth with gilt spine titles. Housed in custom brown cloth slipcase. Text based on the second edition, revised and augmented by the author and printed in 1674.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70 B.C - 19 B.C.)
Weimar, 1927
Weimar: The Cranach Press, 1927. No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition. Occasional light spotting to the text, else fine with slight bumps to outer corners. No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition. Folio. 116p. Printed on Maillol-Kessler paper hand-made from pure hemp fibre and linen, and sold by Emery Walker. Eric Gill designed and cut the title and lettering around and fourteen initials ornamented by Maillol. With forty-three illustrations drawn and cut in wood by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Set by Erich Dressler and Walter Tanz in Jensen roman and Johnston italic. Bound in full crimson crushed morocco with simple vertical gilt spine title of artist and author, t.e.g. (The binding is signed in blind on the rear turn-in which is hard to decipher, but we believe it to be W.L. Smith & Sons). The Book as a Work of Art, The Cranach press of Count Harry Kessler, no. 67; The Artist & The Book, no. 172.
Jones, Owen
[London], 1862
[London]: [Day & Son], 1862. First edition. VG. Preliminaries and final blanks foxed, some plates with a bit of foxing in the margins. he covers with just minor rubbing to the spine extremes, edge gilt with minor rubbing. The volume has been recased retaining all of the orignal covers. Increasingly hard to find with the covers well preserved.. First edition. Tall folio (17 1/4") An illuminated edition of the psalms of 104 pages on 53 leaves ornately chromolithographed in gold, three reds, three blues, and black on heavy cream stock, every page with different borders. Bound in full relievo leather over beveled boards with overall patterns and with central devices, the upper cover displaying the title in the center oval, a.e.g. Armorial bookplate of John Deakin Heaton, M.D.
A superb example of Victorian chromolithography and binding. Perhaps Owen Jones' masterpiece.
McLean. Victorian Book Design, p. 129;.
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