Titles starting with M from The Book Block

London Geo. Bell, 1843. [Bound with] THE HAND-BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE: being a concise account of the different styles of architecture, which have been or are in use in England. London (Tayas), N.d.8vo. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches), full dark green straight grain morocco with gilt borders on the cover, the title (“British Architecture”) in gilt on the upper cover; smooth spine with gilt bands. Fine.In this "custom-made" volume on British architecture, the original owner had h... more information

Leipzig (Weidmann), 1798. Lg. 8vo., full crushed, black, fine-grained morocco. Both covers decorated with an all-over, geometric design forming different size compartments, achieved entirely in blind; spine with four raised double bands, title in gilt in three of the compartments, the other two decorated in blind. Board edges gilt, elaborate inner gilt dentelles, glazed marble endleaves, a.e.g.; signed on one of the free endleaves: E. RAU, PHILA.A handsomely printed edition with a long (150 pp.) ... more information

London & New York Duckworth and Scribners, 1904. 8vo. (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), bright crimson morocco with the covers divided into nine panels; the binder has filled each corner square with an elaborate combination of tools that almost resembles a flower head; the four central panels (which now form a cross) are left undecorated. Spine with five raised bands and tasteful gilt decorated that complements the cover design. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., signed on the lower front turn-in: T... more information

London Printed for and Sold by The Author, N.d. [1791]. 8vo. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches), nineteenth century tree calf with a narrow leafy border on the covers; spine with five raised bands and gilt decoration within the compartments, except for the one that contains the title information. All edges marbled to match the end leaves. The half title is wanting.First edition of a frequently reprinted autobiography (by 1793 there were copies with the words 13th edition on the title), the DNB calls it, &quo... more information

Boston Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. Tall 8vo., publisher's gray cloth with a paper spine label, a little chipped. First edition, moderate handling wear. The title piece, based on an incident related in the Mémoirs of the Duchess d'Abrantes, is a love story, which was dramatized by the author and produced in 1894. BAL 325. ... more information

N.p. Chez le Auteur, 1922. 8vo. (7 x 5 inches), bound in simple boards with the title information in black on the upper cover and spine. Slightly hand soiled, spine a little darkened. One of 600 copies for America, SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.The Belgian printmaker, illustrator, draughtsman and painter, Frans Masereel, was born in Blankenburg in 1889 and died in Avignon in 1972. He worked in Paris but moved to Switzerland during the great war where he associated himself with a circl... more information

Vienna A v. Schmid, 1836. 8vo., full crimson straight-grained calf; the covers are decorated in a neo-classical style with four triangular green corner onlays and an oval green onlay in the center, all elaborately gilt bordered and tooled. The smooth spine also has two onlays, one for the title and one for the volume number, and is heavily gilt decorated. Bright green coated paper endleaves; a.e.g.A very handsome example of Viennese period bookbinding, on one volume (of two) of a utilitarian Pray... more information

Philadelphia Henry Carey Baird, 1871. 8vo., publisher's brown ribbed cloth with minimal wear to the extremities. Bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. A very BRIGHT CLEAN COPY.Second edition of the first American bookbinding manual with twelve full-page plates of binding designs, decorations and tooling plus seven examples of marbled paper, in addition to the illustrations in the text. The work reproduces specimens of rolls and hand-stamps made by the early American bookbinder tool... more information

London Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. 8vo., "Cottonian" binding of "basket weave" fabric printed in red and green, now somewhat faded and stained. Spine with a hand-written paper label with a wide Scotch border, rebacked and restored. Some occasional marginal staining at the very front and rear; front free endleaf with two presentation inscriptions restored at the inner margin. Page edges entirely untrimmed.First edition, doubly inscribed. First, from the Author,... more information

Turin Augustae Taurinorum, 1889. Folio (15 x 10 1/4 inches), full brown crushed morocco with a quarter-inch high-inch-wide curvilinear border decorated in gilt on both edges, on which are mounted (in the four corners) three-dimensional deaths heads atop crossed bones. Recessed in the large central field is a rough hewn cross covered in brown leather with the initials, INRI, in gilt on a swag at the top; draped on the cross itself is a white shroud covered in white leather. The rear board is almost complet... more information

London Printed for Randal Taylor, 1691 [but 1780]. 8vo., contemporary calf with plain sides; spine with five raised bands each surrounded by double gilt fillets and a morocco title label. All edges sprinkled red. An altogether UNSOPHISTICATED copy in WONDERFUL CONDITION..This is a reprint of the Randal Taylor’s 1691 edition with a false imprint. It was translated and abridged from the Latin translation of Prospero Intocetta, Philippe Couplet and others or from an intervening French transla... more information