Titles starting with E from The Book Block

London R. Ackermann, 1815-1816 & 1817. Three vols. Lg. 8vo. (9 1/4x 5 1/2 inches), in nineteenth century mottled calf with gilt decorated spines and morocco title labels. Bindings with worn spots but very solid, joints and all. Bound by Riviere & Son. (who placed the Indexes at the back of each volume); a.e.g.36 hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson in each volume of the Dance of Death, and 24 in the Dance of Life, plus engraved, hand-colored titles and frontispieces for each title.... more information

London R. Ackermann, 1815-1816 & 1817. Three vols. Lg. 8vo. (9 3/4x 6 1/4 inches), in the publisher’s remainder binding of orange vertical ribbed cloth, with blind blocked decoration on the covers and gilt decoration (featuring a large femur and a country Church graveyard on the Dance of Death volumes, and dancing figures on “Life”). Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. In very nice condition with a just a minimum of handling wear. With binder’s ticket of Remnant & Edmonds in... more information

Venice Tolomeo Janicolo, 1529. Sm. folio, polished black 19th century calf with blind cover decoration; applied labels on the spine. The bottom margin of two leaves are shaved, affecting the last line of text; the final leaf lightly spotted. An attractive copy of a TYPOGRAPHICALLY SIGNIFICANT book.The second edition of Trissino's letter to the Pope offering suggestions for orthographic reform of the Italian language, along with the First Edition of his more important Dubbii Grammaticali in wh... more information

London William Pickering, 1851. 8vo., publisher's green grained cloth with blind decoration on both covers; spine with the title stamped in gilt. Minor rubbing at the spine ends but an excellent, fresh copy preserved in a cloth clam-shell case.FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, a Platonic dialogue on how contemporary education warps the minds of young men; it was published anonymously. Except for a few contributions to periodicals, Fitzgerald had nothing published until 1849 when... more information