Authors starting with F from David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

1930. first edition. Seventeenth Century LoversSpecially Bound[FERRAND, Anne de Bellinzani]. [DULAC, Jean, illustrator]. Cléante and Bélise. Their Loves and Their Letters. Translated by Eric Sutton. Embellishments by Jean Dulac. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, n.d. [1930]. First edition in English, limited to 300 specially bound copies on hand made Montval out of a total edition of 320, this being copy 35. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 1/2 in; 187 x 115 mm). 239, [1, blank], [1, colophon, [1, blank] ... more information

1701. The Origin of Eighteenth-Century Dance Notation or ChoreographyFEUILLET, [Raoul Auger]. Choregraphie ou L’Art de décrire la dance, par caracteres, figures et signes démonstratifs, Avec lesquels on apprend facilement de soy-même toutes sortes de Dances. Ouvrage tres-utile aux Maîtres à Dancer & à toutes les personnes qui s’appliquent à la Dance. Par M. Feuillet, Maître de Dance. Second édition, augmentée. Paris: Chez l
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1752. first edition. There's Something About AmeliaFieldings' Favorite BookFIELDING, Henry. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752. First edition, first impression with dropped pagination to p. 22 of volume one, but with second impression correction to p. 191 line four ("at the Folly") of volume three. With the often lacking "Universal-Register-Office" advertisement at end of volume two (M12r). Four twelvemo volumes ( 6 9/16 x 3 7/8 in; 167 x 99 mm). xii, 285, [1, blank]; v... more information

1882. The Complete Novels by the Inventor of the Modern Novel in EnglishBound For and Sold By the Most Renowned Bookseller in GlasgowFIELDING, Henry. The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq, Edited with a Bibliographical Essay by Leslie Stephen. In Ten Volumes. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882. Limited to 1000 sets, this being set number 164. Ten large octavo volumes (8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 225 x 165 mm.). Frontispieces. Black and white illustrated plates with tissue guards throughout.Contemporary full panele... more information

1932. first edition. Specially Bound by Sangorski & SutcliffeFITZSIMONS, F.W. Snakes. by F.W. Fitzsimons, Director of the Port Elizabeth Museum and Snake Park. With 44 Illustrations. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1932].First edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 3/16 inches; 208 x 132 mm.). xiv, 15-286, [1, advertisement], [1, blank] pp. plus 12 pp. advertisements. Photographic frontispiece and fifteen double-sided photographic plates. A unique copy, specially bound (ca. 1975) by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stam... more information

1910-11. In the Rare Publisher's Vellum BindingFLINT, W. Russell, illustrator. MALORY, Thomas. Le Morte Darthur. The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. London: The Riccardi Press. Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society, 1910-11. Limited to 500 copies, this being copy 84. Four quarto volumes (10 1/2 x 7 7/8 in; 268 x 200 mm). [5, blank], [1, limitation], xx, 168, [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer's vignette], [5, blank]; [5, blank], [1, limitation], xvi,... more information

1793. Florian’s Imitation of Cervantes’s “La Galatea” with Four Color-Printed Engraved PlatesFLORIAN, Jean de. Galatée, Roman Pastoral. imité de Cervantes par M. de Florian, de l’Académie Françoise, &c. Édition ornée de Figures en couleur, d’après les Dessins de M. Monsiau. Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793.First edition with these color-printed plates. Large quarto (13 5/16 x 10 inches; 338 x 254 mm.). 125, [1, blank] ... more information

1617. With a Superb Fore-Edge Painting by John T. Beer[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. [BEER, John T., artist]. SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the other works of England's Arch-Poet...Collected into one volume, and carefully corrected. [London]: Printed for H.L. Lownes, 1617. Early reprint of the 1611 first collected edition, here with a magnificent fore-edge painting by John T. Beer, "Shepheard's Pastoral." Tall quarto, in sixes (10 1/2 x 6 7/8; 266 x 175 ... more information

1671. The Scarce, Controversial Latitudinarian Texts:Their Attack on the PuritansRepudiates Calvinism[FOWLER, Edward]. The Principles and Practices of Certain Moderate Divines of the Church of England, Abusively Called Latitudinarians (Greatly Misunderstood), Truly Represented and Defended, Wherein (by the way) Some Controversies, of no mean Importance, are Succinctly Discussed: in a Free Discourse between two Intimate Friends. in Three Parts. The Second Edition. London: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd; and are... more information

1701. Early English Edition of the Reynard Fables[REYNARD THE FOX]. The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged, from all grossness in Phrase and Matter. Augmented and Enlarged with sundry Excellent Morals and Expositions upon every several Chapter. To which may now be added a Second Part of the said History: As also the Shifts of Reynardine the Son of Reynard the Fox, Together with his Life and Death, &c. London: Printed by T. Ilive, for Edward Brewster, 1701.[Bound tog... more information