An Account of the National Anthem Entitled GOD SAVE THE KING!...Selected, Edited, and Arranged by
by Clark Richard
London Printed for W. Wright, 1822. 8vo. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), three quarter acid calf over marbled sides; spine with four raised bands, green title label; t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. FINE. The author, a Gentleman or His Majesty's Chapels Royal, relied upon original material from Sion College as well as the records of the Merchant Tailor's Company and the manuscript check book in His Majesty's Chapel in compiling voluminous record of this instantly recognizable melody. The plates include... Read More
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THE RETROSPECT...and an Address to Naval Officers. By Alquis, Formerly a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy
by Marks Richard
Boston Armstrong and Crocker and Brewster, 1822. 8vo., contemporary printed gray boards. An uncut and untrimmed. REMARKABLE SURVIVAL of a fragile binding, with minimal wear. This second American edition (after the seventh London edition), follows by a year the Philadelphia edition (which was after the fourth London edition). It was a very popular, albeit, pseudonymously written book in which the author, now a Minister of the Established Church, retells his travels to foreign lands as an officer in the... Read More
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The Course of Time, a Poem
by Pollok Robert
New York Charles Wells, 1833. 12mo., brown polished calf with a repeated blind stamped design of YORK CATHEDRAL WEST FRONT on both covers; spine also stamped in blind with the addition of the author's last name in gilt. The relief remains very high, deep enough to easily read the legend describing the scene at the bottom of the plate. The Course of Time must have been a popular title. Two copies (one published in 1831 and the other in 1833)... Read More
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A Book of the Poster.
by Rogers, W.S.
Hardcover light green cloth decorated with female portrait in brown. Includes a preface by the author. t.e.g. 13 colored poster plates and 54 b/w reproductions. 146 pp. All plates are unmarked and in good condition. Sections include English, French, Spanish, German, American, Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and other posters.
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[Collection of Special Products, Ancient and Present; Cloths]
by KOKINMEIBUTSU RUISHU
Tokyo Tsugiharaya, 1791. Two vols. 8vo. (9 x 6 1/4 inches), green wrappers, each with a paper label; bound in the traditional style (printed on one side of the sheet only). Ex-library stamp on the verso of the title. More than 160 color woodblocks of textiles and cloth, closely registered block printing using many colors for each design. The volumes are bright and in excellent condition. 18TH C. JAPANESE COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTING
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The Story of the Parrot and the Merchant. Interpreted By Zahra Partovi With Drawings By Don Kunz
by Rumi, Jalaluddin Mohammad
Small 4to. (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), 36 pp. with five woodblock prints. Number 39 of 50 special copies signed by the artist and translator and containing an extra bound suite of the five woodblock prints, all housed in the publisher’s gray slipcase. The total publication run was 200 copies, each on Rives paper. The letterpress text was printed at The Kelly/Winterton Press in Arrighi, Bembo and Rhapsodie types. Bound in tan wrappers, with the title printed in purple on... Read More
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A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three Acts
by Shepard Sam
San Francisco Arion Press, 1993. Tall 4to. (13 x 10 inches), half blue morocco over decorated boards; accompanied by a CD recording of the music for the first production of the play by the Red Clay Ramblers. One of 300 copies printed in Erhardt type on French mould-made paper with black and white drawings by STAN WASHBURN, the well-known Bay Area painter and printmaker, who, along with Mr. Shepard, signed the book's colophon. Mr. Shepard was awarded the Pulitzer Prize... Read More
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Geöfnete Schreib-Schule oder deutsche, lateinische, und französische Vorschriften…
by Schirmer, Johann Michael
Oblong small 4to. (10 ¼" x 8 ¼") Engraved title and all 54 writing sample boards, engraved by H. Cöntgen in Mainz. The plates cover a wide range of calligraphic material including cyphers, alphabets, flourishes, designs and scripts. Schirmer was a "school, writing and arithmetic master" in Frankfurt am Main. An uncommon writing book.
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Works
by SUETONIUS TRANQILLUS, GAIUS
Leyden Samuel Luchtman & Sons, 1751. Two vols. Tall 8vo., full burgundy turkey morocco with triple gilt fillet borders that cross at the corners; flat spine divided by horizontal gilt bands (a thick fillet surrounded by two thinner lines), with assorted gilt fleurons in each compartment--stars, flowers, etc. A large gray-green title label, hand lettered, and a smaller one at the bottom with the name of the publisher and the date of publication. Marbled endleaves, board edges gilt, inner... Read More
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The Silver Age
by Scott Temple
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., dated... Read More
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A GENERAL HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS
by Bewick Thomas
Newcastle upon Tyne Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick, 1811. 4to., newly bound in period style quarter green polished calf over marbled boards; spine with simple gilt decoration and a red morocco title label; t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. A TALL COPY in a handsome binding by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine.Bewick 326 engravings include most of the animals from A (Adive) to Z Zorilla) listed in the five-page index of this sixth edition. In addition, there are four proof... Read More
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THE IMITATION OF JESUS CHRIST, Translated...with Introduction and Notes by T. F. Dibdin
by Á KEMPIS THOMAS
London William Pickering for John Major, 1828. 8vo. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), full dark navy crushed morocco with a triple gilt fillet border; within the large cover panel is an over all blind blocked design composed of arabesque scrolls with intricate turns and whorls. Spine with five raised bands and triple gilt rules in the five compartments, inside of which there is complicated blind decoration; the remaining compartment is reserved for the title information, which is gilt... Read More
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![THE ALPHABET [1517] Followed by a Comparison with the Alphabet of FRA LUCA PACIOLI](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/124/750/1474750124.0.l.jpg)
THE ALPHABET [1517] Followed by a Comparison with the Alphabet of FRA LUCA PACIOLI
by TORNIELLO, FRANCESCO
Sm. 4to., T.e.g., other edges untrimmed; in a matching board slipcase. As new!Number 14 of 160 copies in English (translated by Betty Radice), printed in Dante type on Amalfi handmade paper, with an Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig giving an account of those who collaborated in the work: Torniello who designed the alphabet and described its construction; Guillaume le Signerre who engraved the author's portrait, the decorative opening initial and probably the xylographs of the letters, and finally Gotardo da Ponte,... Read More
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BIG GAME HUNT IN JAVA
by ] Rhemrev [pseud.]. Trans
[Leiden] , 1884. 8vo., publisher's yellow wrappers. Printed in Leiden in Javanese, the work deals with a big game hunt in Java. There are four double-page color lithographs (signed in the stone P. J. Mulder) that help tell the story. They are printed in green-brown-red-blue tints and depict (1) The campsite; (2) The hunter and his guide in thick cover aiming at a tiger at close range; (3) The hunter holding his rifle watching the dogs flush out a... Read More
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![EPISTOLA DE LA LETTERE NUOVAMENTE Aggiunte ne la Lingua Italiana. [and] DUBBII GRAMMATICALI](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/236/750/1474750236.0.l.jpg)
EPISTOLA DE LA LETTERE NUOVAMENTE Aggiunte ne la Lingua Italiana. [and] DUBBII GRAMMATICALI
by TRISSINO, [GIOVANNI GIORGIO]
Sm. folio. 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 which these proposed changes are spelled out. With Janicolo's Golden Fleece device on the title-page with the initials PT and IA... Read More
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Four Portrait Busts by Francesco Laurana
by Kennedy Ruth Wedgwood
Northampton Gehenna Press, 1962. Sm. 4to., parchment paper spine over Fabriano paper sides with the title gilt stamped on the spine. One of 500 copies printed in black and red in Centaur and Arrighi types on Amalfi hand-made paper; the photographic plates were printed on English Tovil hand-made paper. It was Baskin's idea to publish (and of course design) the Gehenna Essays in Art and combine serious scholarly writing with well printed, well illustrated, relatively inexpensive books in relatively luxurious... Read More
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Cyphers, Alphabets, etc.
by Westcott, A
Small 8vo. (7 ¾" x 5 ¼"). Worn marbled paper boards over cloth with heavy wear to head of spine; front hinge cracked. Calligraphic manuscript of Mr. Arthur Westcott of 90 Park Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Roughly 30 pages of alphabets, cyphers, intricate designs, full page illustrations, flourishes, and the like. Black ink throughout with exception of single page to which gilt liberally applied. Though undated, the year 1901 appears in a single page. That date is consistent with the... Read More
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Alphabets, etc.
by Westcott, A. Cyphers
Small 8vo. (7 ¾" x 5 ¼"). Calligraphic manuscript of Mr. Arthur Westcott of 90 Park Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. Roughly 30 pages of alphabets, cyphers, intricate designs, full page illustrations, flourishes, and the like. Black ink throughout with exception of single page to which gilt liberally applied. Though undated, the year 1901 appears in a single page. That date is consistent with the strong Art Nouveau influences found throughout. A unique item that reminds us of how people spent... Read More
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[The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax] The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. A poem. 1812. [With:] The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation; A poem. 1820. [And:] The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife. A
by [Combe William]
London R. Ackermann, V.d. [1812, 1820 & [1821]. Three vols. 8vo. (9 x 5 1/2 inches), full burgundy chagrin morocco with double gilt fillet borders on the covers; spine with five raised bands and gilt titling within two of the six compartments, barely lightened; board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Signed by Riviere & Son on the verso of the marbled free endleaf. First edition of all three volumes. The Tour is the second issue with the text beginning... Read More
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THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX in Search of a Wife. A Hudibrastic Poem
by [Combe William]
Philadelphia J. Clarke, Printer, 1829. 8vo., full tan sheep with plain sides; spine with a black morocco label and gilt decoration. Light occasional foxing. First American edition, reprinted from the last London edition. The frontispiece, a Rowlandsonesque engraving, shows the good doctor astride his horse setting out in search of a wife. First published in England in 1821, this tour of the clergyman-schoolmaster was Combe's third Syntax parody of those popular books and picturesque travels of the day (and... Read More
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THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH FROM THE DESIGNS OF THOMAS ROWLANDSON. And THE DANCE OF LIFE
by [Combe William]
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... Read More
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Grace and Truth; Or, the GLORY and FULNESS of the REDEEMER Displayed. In an Attempt to explain, illustrate, and enforce the most remarkable TYPES, FIGURES, AND ALLEGORIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
by M'EWEN WILLIAM
Edinburgh John Gray & Gavin Alston, 1763. 8vo., full polished tan calf with a double gilt fillet border on both covers; spine with five raised bands and fanciful gilt decoration within the compartments, including diagonal crosses, typical of the bindings of the FOULIS PRESS. Title on a red morocco label; a.e.g. This attractive volume is divided into three books: Typical Persons, Typical Things, Typical Places, followed by the author's Thoughts on Various Subjects. Nice 18th century bookmaking. BOUND BY... Read More
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PSALMS AND HYMNS FOR the Use of the Chapel of the Asylum, Or House of Refuge for FEMALE ORPHANS
by Riley William
London For sale at the Asylum and by the Editor, N.d. [18th C.]. Sm. 4to., three quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards; extremities rubbed, spine partially perished, sound. Wonderful calligraphic title-page and dedication (Dent, scuplcit), followed by nineteen psalms and eight hymns, the music and lyrics nicely engraved. The effort was undertaken to raise monies for the Orphanage for Female Children. VERY NICE. ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT
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Tiger
by Bynner Witter
New York Mitchell Kennerely, 1913. 8vo., crimson publisher's cloth; tiny piece missing from the bottom of the free end leaf, and a sketch (of a stage from above) in one margin. First edition of this one-act play set in New York near Times Square. Bynner was also known for his poetry and translations, some of which were from the Chinese. ONE OF HIS EARLIEST PUBLISHED BOOKS
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Louis Herman Kinder and Fine Bookbinding in America A Chapter in the History of the Roycroft Shop
by Wolfe, Richard J. and McKenna, Paul
Small 4to (10\' x 6 1/2\"). Quarter morocco over decorated magenta boards. Number 29 of 325 copies. Kinder was a bookbinder well known for his work at the Roycroft Press, which was founded by Elbert Hubbard based upon the model created by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press. With 32 illustrations, 14 in color, featuring Kinder\'s work. Fine.
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