ELIA. ESSAYS WHICH HAVE APPEARED UNDER THAT SIGNATURE IN THE LONDON MAGAZINE
by (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON). [LAMB, CHARLES]
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. FIRST EDITION, First State (imprint with single address for publisher). 200 x 125 mm. (8 x 5"). 2 p.l., 341, [1] pp., [3] leaves (ads). VERY PRETTY DARK GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, ELABORATELY GILT, BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with double frames formed of floral sprigs, drawer handles, and other small tools, raised bands, spine panels densely gilt with stippling, floral tools radiating from small central flower, gilt lettering, turn-ins... Read More
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ITALY, A POEM. [and] POEMS
by (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON, CHARLES MCLEISH, Finisher). ROGERS, SAMUEL
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1830, 1834. First Illustrated Editions. 202 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/2"). iv, [2], 284 pp.; viii, 295, [1] pp. Two separately published works bound in two volumes (but often found as companion volumes).. VERY ATTRACTIVE GREEN MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), BEAUTIFULLY GILT-TOOLED BY FINISHER CHARLES MCLEISH, covers with frame of two gilt rules, with gilt dots along the inner frame, raised bands, spine lavishly gilt in... Read More
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB
by (BINDINGS - FINELY BOUND SETS). LAMB, CHARLES
Boston: R. H. Hinckley Company, [ca. 1900]. Edmonton Edition. No. 56 OF 100 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 240 x 150 mm. (9 3/8 x 5 7/8"). 12 volumes.. HANDSOME DARK PURPLE CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, triple gilt-ruled border with sprays of flowers in each corner and along the sides, raised bands, compartments with gilt lettering and tooling, top edge gilt, RED MOROCCO DOUBLURES bordered in purple border, featuring several gilt rules and scrolling gilt tools in panel corners, red... Read More
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PEG WOFFINGTON
by (BINDINGS - SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE). READE, CHARLES
New York: Printed [by the De Vinne Press] for the Grolier Club, 1887. ONE OF 250 COPIES on Holland paper and two on vellum. 180 x 110 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 1/2"). Two volumes.. GRACEFUL BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), upper cover framed by multiple gilt fillets interlaced at corners, center panel with gilt lettering at head and foot, and a six-petalled gilt ornament with inlaid green morocco dot at... Read More
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CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN AND THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM AT ANTWERP
by (BINDINGS - SANFORD). (PLANTIN, CHRISTOPHER). (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED). DE VINNE, THEODORE L.
[New York]: Grolier Club, 1888. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 300 COPIES on paper (and three on vellum). 260 x 185 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 1/4"). 98 pp. ELEGANT DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT IN A GROLIERESQUE DESIGN, BY P. B. SANFORD (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with intricately interlacing strapwork forming compartments accented with gilt stippling and leafy fronds, raised bands, compartments with leafy sprig centerpiece, gilt lettering, pastedowns framed with decorative rolls and floral garlands, leather... Read More
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POÉSIES. [with] POÉSIES INÉDITES
by (BINDINGS - CATHEDRAL STYLE). SURVILLE, [CLOTILDE DE]
Paris: Nepveu, 1824; 1827. Nouvelle Edition of the first work; Second Edition of the second work. 238 x 155 mm. (9 3/8 x 6 1/8"). Two separately published but related works, uniformly bound.. LOVELY CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO BY HERING & MULLER (stamp-signed in gilt on backstrip of volume I), each cover with attractive gilt design resembling an elaborate gothic arch, with columns, two towers protruding at the top, and many onlays of yellow, green and purple morocco, surrounded... Read More
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THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE
by (BINDINGS - ARTS & CRAFTS-STYLE). PATMORE, COVENTRY
London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 165 x 106 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4"). 2 p.l., xii, 153, [1] pp. LOVELY COBALT BLUE MOROCCO, gilt in an Arts & Crafts design, covers with four decorative panels of four Tudor rose tools interspersed with radiating leaves enclosed and linked to one another by twining gilt rolls, the front cover titled in a central panel, similarly framed, raised bands, spine panels gilt with four leaves within interlocking lobe-shaped gilt... Read More
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THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS MORE BY HIS GREAT-GRANDSON, CRESACRE MORE
by (BINDINGS - CHAMBOLLE-DURU). (PICKERING IMPRINT). (SIR THOMAS MORE). MORE, CRESACRE
London: William Pickering, 1828. First Pickering Edition. ONE OF 12 LARGE PAPER COPIES. 230 x 140 mm. (9 x 5 1/2"). lxiv, 376 pp.With a biographical preface, notes, and other illustrations, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE MAROON MOROCCO, GILT, BY CHAMBOLLE-DURU (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with French fillet borders, raised bands, spine compartments with central flower bouquet, floral spray cornerpieces, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With coat of arms... Read More
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IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK
by (BINDINGS - MOSAIC BINDING, CURTIS WALTERS). ORCUTT, W. D.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1926. First Trade Edition. 228 x 160 mm. (9 x 6 1/4"). 8 p.l., 316 pp., [1] leaf. SPECTACULAR MOSAIC MOROCCO BY CURTIS WALTERS (signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers with animated repeating ogival pattern inlaid in several hues of morocco (black, navy blue, light blue, light brown and orange), separated into three panels by thin strips of red morocco and gilt rules, THE COVERS WITH APPROXIMATELY 662 INLAYS IN TOTAL, raised... Read More
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HAND AND SOUL
by (BINDINGS - ARTS & CRAFTS-STYLE). (VALE PRESS). ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL
London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [i. e., Vale Press], 1899. ONE OF 210 COPIES on paper (and 10 on vellum). 150 x 117 mm. (5 7/8 x 4 5/8"). 44, [4] pp. VERY PRETTY ROSY BROWN MOROCCO, GILT IN AN ARTS AND CRAFTS DESIGN, covers quartered by gilt tendrils emanating from a central four-pointed star, these blossoming into tulips that frame the cover, raised bands, spine compartments with tulip sprig and gilt lettering,... Read More
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LA VIE ET LES AVANTURES DE ROBINSON CRUSOË
by (BINDINGS - SIMIER). DEFOE, DANIEL
Paris: Chez la Veuve Panckoucke, An 8 [1799-1800]. 232 x 148 mm. (9 1/8 x 5 7/8"). Three volumes. Translated by Themiseuil de Saint-Hyacinthe and J. Van Effen, revised and corrected according to the Stockdale edition of 1790. With a life of the author by A.-G. Labaume. SPLENDID INDIGO STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, BY SIMIER (vol. I stamp-signed in gilt at foot of spine), covers with elegant botanical frame, raised bands, compartments with quatrefoil centerpiece radiating floral tools on... Read More
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NATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS ON AGRICULTURE, IN TWENTY-SEVEN ESSAYS
by (BINDINGS - JAMES COLQUHOUN OF LUSS LIBRARY). YOUNG, DAVID
Edinburgh: Printed for, and sold by the author, and by John Bell, Parliament-Square, 1785. FIRST EDITION. 215 x 127mm. (8 1/2 x 5"). xx, 412 pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf, cover with gilt catkin border, raised bands, spine panels with graceful floral sprig, red morocco label. With three engraved plates showing farm plans or machinery, one of these folding. Fussell, "More Old English Farming Books, 1731 to 1793," p. 127; ESTC T78088. See Holmes, Heather. "The Circulation of Scottish... Read More
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BOOK OF JONAH
by (BINDINGS - FRANKLIN MOWERY). (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). JONES, DAVID, Illustrator. BIBLE IN ENGLISH
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. No. 48 OF CLXXV COPIES. 258 x 195 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 3/4"). 15, [3] pp. Understated black crushed morocco by J. Franklin Mowery (stamp-signed "JFM 94" on rear turn-in), wraparound design of blind-stamped L-shaped panels of intersecting lines, smooth spine with vertical gilt lettering, leather hinges, edges untrimmed. Original illustrated upper cover of dust jacket (repaired at one corner) bound in at rear. In a matching morocco-lipped slipcase. Title... Read More
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SATYRAE
by (BINDINGS - ROGER PAYNE). JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS, [and] AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS
Dublin: Typographia Academiae, 1746. 202 x 122 mm. (8 x 4 7/8"). 2 p.l., 136 pp. ATTRACTIVE NEAR-CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, VERY PROBABLY BY ROGER PAYNE, covers with single gilt rule border, raised bands, top and fore edge gilt, other edge untrimmed, yellow endpapers. Housed in a later black cloth slipcase. Title page ruled in red, and with engraved vignette. Pastedown with armorial bookplate of Joseph Neeld; front free endpaper with armorial bookplate of Vincent Lloyd-Russell. Dibdin II,... Read More
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LE NEVEU DE RAMEAU
by (BINDINGS - MAYLANDER). DIDEROT, DENIS
Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1924. No. XXI OF 355 COPIES. 310 x 225 mm. (12 1/4 x 8 3/4"). 3 p.l., XI, [1] (blank), 197, [5] pp. SPLENDID INDIGO CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ÉMILE MAYLANDER (stamp-signed on front doublure), covers with elegant gilt frames featuring flowers and acanthus leaves, raised bands, spines richly gilt in compartments with pomegranate sprig centerpiece, MOSAIC MOROCCO DOUBLURES with inlaid frame of maroon morocco and gilt-latticed cornerpieces of blue morocco on a caramel-colored background, maroon... Read More
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COLLOQUIA NUNC EMENDATIORA
by (BINDINGS - BOZERIAN). (ELZEVIER IMPRINT). ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS
Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden]: Bonaventura Elzevier and Abraham Elzevier, 1643. Second Elzevier Edition. 137 x 78 mm. (5 1/2 x 3"). 12 p.l., 672, 44 pp., [2] leaves. ELEGANT EARLY 19TH CENTURY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, VERY ELABORATELY GILT, BY BOZERIAN (unsigned, but see below), covers framed by bead-and-star roll enclosed with double gilt fillets, leaf tools at corners. smooth spine in compartments with large central fleuron of floral lancets emanating from central circlet in a richly stippled ground, small... Read More
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DEMOSTHENIS ET AESCHINIS PRINCIPUM GRAECIAE ORATORUM OPERA
by (BINDINGS - 16TH CENTURY, DE THOU). DEMOSTHENES
Basileae: Ex officina Heruagiana, per Eusebium Episcopium, 1572. 385 x 250 mm. (15 1/4 x 10"). 18 p.l., 744 pp., [16] leaves; 368 pp.; 218 pp., [13] leaves.Edited by Hieronymus Wolf and Vincentius Opsopäus. IMPOSING CONTEMPORARY CALF, COVERS WITH GILT FRENCH FILLET BORDER, CENTRAL COAT OF ARMS OF JACQUES AUGUSTE DE THOU (as a bachelor) within a laurel wreath, raised bands, spine gilt in double-ruled compartments with de Thou's cipher at center (older repairs to front joint and... Read More
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HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL
by (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). (TRAVEL IN BRITAIN, DEVON AND CORNWALL). NORWAY, ARTHUR H.
London and New York: Macmillan Company, 1897. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 140 mm. (8 x 5 1/2"). viii, 391 pp. VERY PRETTY OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO, GILT IN AN ARTS & CRAFTS DESIGN, BY ZAEHNSDORF (stamp-signed on front pastedown and with exhibition stamp on rear pastedown), covers abloom with stylized flowers and twining vines, gilt lettering on upper cover, raised bands, spine compartments with similar flower-and-leaves designs, gilt lettering, turn-ins tooled with gilt leaves, red silk pastedowns and endleaves,... Read More
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POINT DE LENDEMAIN. [bound with] FRANCE, ANATOLE. NOTICE HISTORIQUE SUR VIVANT DENON
by (BINDINGS - MEUNIER). DENON, DOMINQUE VIVANT, BARON
Paris: P. Rouquette, 1889,1890. First work: ONE OF 75 COPIES on Japon, and No. 98 of a total edition of 505. Second work: FIRST EDITION. 240 x 155 mm. (9 1/2 x 6"). 1 p.l. (half title), 38 pp., [1] leaf; XII pp. Two volumes bound in one. . LOVELY CELADON GREEN MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID TO A ROCOCO DESIGN, BY CHARLES MEUNIER (stamp-signed in gilt and dated 1908 on front doublure), covers with ornate frame featuring onlaid... Read More
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LES JOLIES VALLÉES DE L'ILE DE FRANCE
by (BINDINGS - CREUZEVAULT). PILON, EDMOND
Paris: Les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1944. No. 98 OF 112 COPIES, this one printed for Georges Wendling. 333 x 258 mm. (13 1/8 x 10 1/8"). 2 p.l., vii, [1], 148, [6] pp.Preface by Georges Duhamel. GRACEFUL ECRU MOROCCO BY CREUZEVAULT (stamp-signed on front turn-in) covers tooled with fern fronds in gilt, black, and ochre, smooth spine with gilt lettering, fawn-colored suede pastedowns and flyleaves, the pastedowns framed by black and ecru morocco, all edges gilt. Original wrappers bound... Read More
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LE PETIT FAUNE AUX YEUX BLEUS
by (BINDINGS - CHAMBOLLE-DURU). MALASSIS, EDMOND, Illustrator. SAMAIN, ALBERT
Paris: A. Blaizot, René Kieffer, [1909]. UNIQUE COPY, WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. 258 x 185 mm. (10 x 7 1/4"). 67 pp. SPLENDID GARNET RED CRUSHED MOROCCO, EXUBERANTLY GILT AND ONLAID, BY CHAMBOLLE-DURU (stamp-signed in gilt on front doublure), covers framed by onlaid dark brown morocco strapwork with ornate rocaille gilt side ornaments, central panel with onlaid cornerpieces tooled with gilt latticework, raised bands, spine compartments with onlaid black frame tooled in gilt, a mandorla of garnet morocco... Read More
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THE WORKS
by (BINDINGS - SETS). SPENSER, EDMUND
London: Bell and Daldy, 1862. 229 x 152 mm. (9 x 6"). Five volumes. Edited by John Payne Collier. VERY ATTRACTIVE DEEP BLUE PEBBLE-GRAIN MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT, covers with frames of one dogtooth and three plain rules, raised bands, spines in antique-style compartments with delicate scrolling cornerpieces and intricate central fleuron surrounded by small tools, densely gilt floral turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With frontispiece portrait of Spenser in volume I. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of... Read More
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
by (BINDINGS - THE CLUB BINDERY). ROSTAND, EDMOND
Paris: Armand Magnier, 1899. No. 42 OF 500 COPIES, this ONE OF 20 ON JAPON WITH ENGRAVINGS IN THREE STATES. 300 x 207 mm. (12 x 8"). 4 p.l., ELEGANT SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND INLAID, BY THE CLUB BINDERY and LEON MAILLARD, Finisher (both names stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins), covers framed by curling gilt vines bearing citron morocco blossoms (a total of 104 inlays on each cover), raised bands, spine panels with gilt vine circlets... Read More
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NIGHT THOUGHTS BY EDWARD YOUNG, D.D. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES CRITICAL & EXPLANATORY
by (BINDINGS - HERING). YOUNG, EDWARD
London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798. 254 x 156 mm. (10 x 6 1/8"). 1 p.l., 22 pp., [1] leaf, 364 pp. CONTEMPORARY ACID-TREATED CALF BY CHARLES HERING [SR] (his ticket on verso of front free endpaper), covers framed by onlaid black morocco tooled with gilt floral rolls, central panel with large stencilled urn on a speckled ground, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt rule border and foliate cornerpieces as well as an oval urn-and-palm-frond... Read More
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ELGAR O. M. A STUDY OF A MUSICIAN
by (BINDINGS - DELRUE). (ELGAR, EDWARD). YOUNG, PERCY M.
London: Purnell Book Services, Ltd, 1973. Second Edition, Book Club Edition. 207 x 135 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4). 447 pp. STRIKING OLIVE CRUSHED MOROCCO, INLAID AND ONLAID, BY PAUL DELRUE (signed in ink and dated 1973 on front flyleaf), covers and smooth spine with wraparound design composed of the word "ELGAR" in maril onlay of multicolor leathers near foot of boards, and above it a swath of flying birds inlaid in russet leather, RUSSET MOROCCO DOUBLURES... Read More
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