Titles starting with S from The Book Block

The Hague Joannes van Duren, 1755. Sm. 4to (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches), full period style burgundy crushed levant with a half inch blind blocked roll border, set between double blind fillets. Spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration within the compartments, except for the two reserved for the title information, which are stamped in gilt onto two black morocco labels.FIRST EDITION with two title pages each printed in black and red; the first in Dutch, the second in French. The polyglo... more information

London J. Creswick & Co., 1794. Sm. 8vo. (6 1/4 x 4 1/16), full acid calf with a single narrow floral border on the covers; spine with five raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. (by Zaehnsdorf). This exceptionally well printed edition with its six engravings by W. Bromley after drawings by M. Archer employs excellent typography and a few well chosen head and tail pieces, making it highly attractive and readable. The unfinished narrative att... more information

Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Head Press, 1906. Six vols. Sm. 8vo. [3 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches], quarter gray morocco with four raised bands and a hand-lettered paper spine label, over mottled brown boards (undoubtedly the work of an amateur bookbinder), with the bookplate of Anna Blakiston Day on the front pastedown.Ransom [Selective Check Lists of Press Books. I, 9] "This item is known only from a set bound together; no other specimens or records have been found. The titles are: I, Ancient Car... more information

London Sam. Buckley, 1722. Tall 8vo. (9 x 5 1/2 inches), contemporary crimson morocco with a double gilt fillet border surrounding a decorative floral/architectural border; in the center of the cover is a large fleuron composed of complementary tools. The spine, which has been almost invisibly rebacked, has six raised bands and appropriate gilt tooling and titling within the compartments. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. A large margined copy in a very handsome binding.Mead's bo... more information

N.p. [New Haven] Stinehour Press, 1972. Sm. 4to., publisher’s decorated flexible boards with a translucent vellum-paper wrapper; title in blue type on the spine. An attractively designed and printed book of poetry in Finnish, with chapter openers utilizing the “justly formed Roman letter” a la Fra Luca Pacioli and Albrecht Durer, printed in blue. The titlepage is printed in black and blue. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front free endleaf. See: the Stinehour Press: A Bibliograph... more information

London T. Nelson and Sons, 1859. 8vo., publisher's patterned purple cloth, faded, with elaborate gilt and blind decoration; a.e.g. The book consists of 280 pages of short prose and poetry, illustrated by eight full-page color plates, printed by the innovative firm, Thomas Nelson and Sons, in Edinburgh, who, according to Joan Friedman (Color Printing in England 1486-1870): "began producing color work in the 1850's." Nelson's innovative color printing is a major subject of Bamber Gascoi... more information

Paris Bechet & Labé, N.d. [1840]. Tall 8vo., full 19th century vellum over stiff boards, decorated with a double black fillet outer border, surrounding a central border composed of two black lines spaced about half an inch apart, except where the lines swell (once along each side), to allow for the placement of a black-stamped skull and crossed bones, each about an inch tall. Near the top of the central panel the title, Syphilis, is stamped in black and afterwards canceled. There is a small blac... more information

London Bliss, Sands & Co., 1897. 8vo., full russet oasis morocco with a single gilt fillet border on both covers, with three gilt bullets in each corner; spine with five raised bands extended in blind onto both covers, with gilt titling and gilt fillets within the compartments. Board edges gilt, inner gilt fillets, a.e.g. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Marshall Field.A beautifully bound, attractively illustrated, exact reprint of the first edition (1768), with numerous full-page illus... more information

New York Scott & Seltzer, 1919. 8vo., crushed dark burgundy morocco du cap with two gilt fillet borders and elaborate corner pieces made up of groupings of individual floral tools; spine with five raised bands and similar floral decoration within the compartments. Board edges gilt, inner dentelles, t.e.g.; stamped with the name of the binder on the lower front turn-in: THE ATELIER BINDERY.First edition. With a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION on the flyleaf tO THE DEDICATEE, D. George Derry, Esq., da... more information

London Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1895. 8vo. (7 x 5 inches) full green marbled calf sides with two spaced gilt fillets forming the borders; spine with five raised bands with elaborate gilt decoration within four compartments, the other two with red morocco labels on which the title information has been stamped in gilt. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a.e.g. Original decorated cloth cover and spine bound in at the back. Stamped name of the bookseller, Charles Sessler—Philadelphia, on th... more information