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An album of bookbindings
Book ID: 4095More details Price: £40.00 -
Charles II.
Goupil & Co, 1901. First edition Thus. Full red morocco. Signed binding. Bound by Riviere & Son. Gilt raised bands, gilt tooled panels and gilt top edge. A limited edition of 1250 - this is #808. Complete with stunning colour portrait frontispiece, and 49 b/w plates - with tissue guards. Corners of boards are bumped, spine is starting to split at the head. It is a heavy book, and our guess is that the book may have been dropped at some point. Binding is still tight though. Internally very clean and tidy. v, 283 pp. 330 x 260 mm (13 x 10¼ inches).
Book ID: 3921More details Price: £140.00 -
Contes de Boccace (Le Decameron). Traduit de l'italien et précédés d'une notice historique par A. Barbier. Vignettes par MM. Tonz Johannot, H. Baron, Eug. Laville, Célestin Nateuil, Grandville, Geoffroi, etc.
Paris: Barbier, 1846. A beautiful copy of this first edition. Full green leather with fabulous gilt designs to the spine. Burgundy label. Blind stamped detail and gilt lines to the boards. A touch of rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy throughout, with light foxing only. [4],viii,505,[3] pp. 32 engraved plates. 260 by 180mm (10¼ by 7 inches). Bel exemplaire de cette édition originale. Plein cuir vert avec de fabuleux motifs dorés sur le dos. Etiquette bordeaux. Détail estampé à l'aveugle et lignes dorées sur les planches. Une touche de frottement sur les plats uniquement. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé, avec de légers rousseurs seulement. [4],viii,505,[3] pp. 32 planches gravées. 260 par 180 mm.
Book ID: 3471More details Price: £200.00 -
Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1869. First Edition. In an attractive Zaehnsdorf binding. Three quarters blue calf and marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt to spine. Bookplate of Lord Battersea (Cyril Flower) to front pastedown. This book of social and political criticism was, at its time, seen as quite controversial. Binding is a little rubbed. Foxing to front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and not foxed. lx + 272pp. 21 x 15 cm.
Cyril Flower, first Baron Battersea (30 August 1843 – 27 November 1907) was a British Liberal politician and patron of art. His bookplate shows his favourite motto: Flores curat Deus (God cares for the flowers).
Book ID: 2923More details Price: £250.00 -
Dialogues des Vivants
Book ID: 4036More details Price: £350.00 -
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Segunda Edicion en Miniatura
Book ID: 4044More details Price: £1,400.00 -
La Farce du Cuvier. Comédie du moyen âge. Arrangée en vers modernes. Avec sept compositions en taille-douce, hors texte par J. Geoffroy.
Book ID: 3909More details Price: £125.00 -
La fontaine aux acanthes. Etretat, L'Isle-Adam, Taormina.
Book ID: 4037More details Price: £275.00 -
Le Chandelles Éteintes: Contes Normands
Book ID: 4040More details Price: £250.00 -
Le diable au corps. Compositions en couleurs de Paul-Émile Bécat.
Book ID: 3843More details Price: £400.00 -
Le Livre de La Jungle / le Second Livre de la Jungle
Book ID: 4039More details Price: £275.00 -
Mohammed et L'Amour.
Book ID: 3557More details Price: £125.00 -
Narratives of Peril and Suffering. In two volumes.
London: Thomas Tegg, 1840. First edition. Complete two volumes, with engraved frontis to each. Signed Morrell of London binding. Three quarters tan calf, with waxed cloth boards. Gilt to spine and boards still clean and bright. Very light rubbing to corners. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Fresh and without foxing inside. A very nice set. Contents include essays on the Duchess of Berry, Charles II, the escape of the Earl of Nithsdale, The Black Hole of Calcutta, The escape of Casanova, Daring enterprises of Spanish troops etc. etc. vi [i] 424; iv, 459 pp. 160 x 105 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3839More details Price: £125.00 -
Poems. With upwards of one hundred engravings on wood from designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, etc.
London: David Bogue, 1852. Scarce true First Edition. In an attractive blue Leighton, Son & Hodge blocked cloth gilt case-binding of the period. Design by John Leighton; signed JL in gilt at the base of the spine. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Frontis portrait of Longfellow. Beautiful condition. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown. 334 pages. 210 x 145 mm (8¼ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3851More details Price: £650.00 -
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
London: Siegle, Hill & Co, 1910. Attractive full cloth binding elaborately stamped in gilt with a peacock motif. Spine title in gilt in a floral motif. Poetry, beautifully illustrated with 12 magnificent colour plates and illuminated letters by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe. Unpaginated. 310 x 235 mm (12¼ x 9¼ inches). Text in English. Boards rubbed at corners, spine skillfully repaired, light foxing throughout. Overall in a very good condition.
Book ID: 2587More details Price: £325.00 -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
London: Harper Collins, 2016. A beautiful, contemporary full leather Italian binding. Unique black leather binding featuring a silhouette of Holmes. Below that his famous pipe in gold, with white smoke in which a face is also visible. Title and author in gilt to front and spine. A small label has been tipped on to the title page saying 'Rilegato a mano' (hand bound). The book itself is a paperback reprint from 2016, which is in fine condition. Text in English. 290 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2204More details Price: £100.00 -
The Book of Common Prayer: And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1294More details Price: £50.00 -
The Poetical Works of John Milton in Vellucent Binding With Introductory Memoir, Notes, Bibliography Etc.
Book ID: 4011More details Price: £2,000.00 -
The Preacher. Bound by Remnant, Edmonds and Remnant.
Book ID: 2592More details Price: £500.00 -
Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor
Book ID: 2048More details Price: £400.00