Fine Bindings
THE DECORATIVE ARTS IN ENGLAND DURING THE LATE XVIIth AND XVIIIth CENTURIES.
London: Batsford, 1923. First edition. Unpaged, 256 figures from photos. Tall 4to. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Introduction by J. Starkie Gardner. Includes a section on book bindings. More
THE LADY OF LA GARAYE.
Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862. Thin 8vo. 128p. Frontispiece. Bound by Bickers in full green crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and elaborate gilt designs in the panels of leaves and vines with built up dot grounds, single fillet on the covers and board edges, double-ruled dentelles..... More
A NEW SELECTION FROM THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
Westminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1976. First edition thus. 8v0. xxxix, 136p. Translated by John Charles Edward Bowen. With an illustration at the head of each quatrain by [Phyllis Mackenzie] including Persian script by Sharafuddin Khorassani Sharaf and a color frontispiece. Issued in paper and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe..... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
London: George G. Harrap, (1930). Edition limited to 750 copies for the English issue, this no. 505 signed by Willy Pogany on the limitation statement and on the extra etched frontispiece ( 500 copies were printed for the United States). Tall octavo. 173p. Illustrated by Willy Pogany with 12 mounted..... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
London: George G. Harrap, (1930). Tall octavo. 173p. Illustrated by Willy Pogany with 12 mounted color plates and 45 small mounted illustrated labels in black on gold paper. Bound in full brown morocco, t.e.g. the spine with stylized gilt titles on a black ground, remainder of spine with gilt designs..... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
Porland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. "Old World Series". Third Edition on Van Gelder paper. 925 copies. 12mo. 125p, colophon. Bound in period style in full blue crushed morocco, t.e.g., the spine and cover borders with series of small gilt circles and dashes, the circles repeated on the dentelles. The..... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM: RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY EDWARD FITZGERALD; WITH THE ADDRESS OF JOHN HAY AT THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB, LONDON.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, (1898). Oblong 8vo. 67p. Includes two quatrains by Charles P. Nettleton. Colored initials. Bound in full tan limp suede with decorative gilt title on upper cover, green silk endpapers. One of the earliest of many Roycroft Rubaiyats. Potter 223. More
THE WORKS OF THOMAS OTWAY, CONSISTING OF HIS PLAYS, POEMS AND LETTERS. With A Sketch of His Life.
London: Rivington, Payne, Wilkie and Robinson, et. al, 1812. Two volumes. 13p, (iii), 478p; (iv),466p. Frontispiece. Bound in quarter blue calf with cloth sides with marbled endpapers and text block edges, the spines with red and brown title labels gilt,, the volumes numbers on small oval onlays, the panels with..... More
![Item #20423 P. OVIDII NASONIS OPERUM. Tomus primus [-tertius]. Ovid, Publii Ovidii Nasonis](https://first-folio.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/20423.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1535070106)
P. OVIDII NASONIS OPERUM. Tomus primus [-tertius].
Amsterdam: J. Wetstenium, 1751, 1751,1750. First edition thus. Three volumes. 24mo (4 5/8"). (xl, 248p; (1)-2839, (x, index); (1)-301p. Half-title and engraved title page in each volume. Beautiful nineteenth century bindings in full calf, a.e.g., the spines densely gilt with red title labels. Spanish bookseller's ticket in each volume. Scarce..... More
FOLK SONGS.
New York: Charles Scribner, 1861. Publisher's presentation copy. Tall 8vo. xxxi, (iii), 466p. "Illustrated from Original Designs" after engravings. Bound in full black straight-grained morocco over beveled boards with patterned endpapers highlighted in gilt, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and tripled ruled panels, the covers with stylized titles. Penciled..... More
THE WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS;
London: John Sharpe and Stuuaby, Evance, and Fox, 1818. First edition. 54 volumes. 12mo. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Bound in full drab green straight grained morocco, a.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and densely gilt panels, the covers with rolled gilt frames and inner frames in blind. More
LE SATYRICON DE T. PETRONE
Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1834-1835. New translation by C. H. D. G. Two volumes. Tall 8vo. (iv), vii, 398p; (iv), 436p. Texts in French on the rectos facing Latin on the versos. Bound by Belz-Niedree in full red levant morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spines gilt in six panels with..... More
AUTOBIOGRAPHY LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI (THRALE).
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Robertsw, 1861. Second edition. Two volumes. xiii, 375p; vi, 479p. Engraved frontispieces after Roche and Hogarth. Bound by Worsfold, London in half dark blue morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and panel ornaments. More
AUTOBIOGRAPHY LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI (THRALE).
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Two volumes. (viii) 358 pp , 22 pp ads; (viii), 407p. . Engraved frontispiece after Roche and Adlard. Bound in quarter brown crushed morocco over brown cloth sides with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and floral panel ornaments..... More
THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]. Edition de luxe of 750 copies SIGNED BY DULAC, this no. 729. Unpaged. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 28 tipped-in color plates. 4to. Bound in original publisher's full vellum with gilt titles and all over designs of bells on spine and upper cover, t.e.g., ribbon..... More
HENRY VIII.
London: Goupil & C0. 1902. Limited to 250 copies on Japanese paper, this No. XVI. Tall 4to (13"). vii, 302p. Illustrated with plates in two states engraved by Manzi, Joyant & Co., the frontispiece brilliantly colored. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf for William Brown, Edinburgh in full red crushed morocco, t.e.g...... More
THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; As they were Delivered to the Editor a little before his Death: Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton.
London: J. and P. Knapton, H. Linton, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751. First Warburton Edition and first posthumous edition. 9 volumes. 8vo. Illustrated with 24 copper engraved plates after Sam Wale, N. Blakey, Ant. Walker, and F. Hayman. Nicely bound in twentieth-century quarter black morocco with marbled..... More
HISTORY OF MANON PREVOST AND OF THE CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. Quarto. xx, [iv], 205p. Illustrated by Maurice Leloir with 225 vignettes at the top of each page with decorative surrounds trailing down the outer margins and 12 full-page engravings. Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) in half blue crushed morocco with pattern paper sides and endpapers..... More
POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharinde-Street in the Strand, and John Barber uopn Lambeth-Hill, 1718. "Superfine" issue of the First Folio large paper Subscription Edition, with the watermark of a shield surmounted by a fleur-de-lys. Folio (18.5"). (xvi, title and dedication) (iv, preface and postscript) (xx..... More
LE COSTUME HISTORIQUE. Cinq Cents Planches, Trois Cents ed Couleurs, or et Argent, Deux Cents en Camaieu.
Paris: Libraire de Firmin-Didot Et Cie, 1888. "Petite" first edition. Six volumes. Square 8vo. Illustrated with 500 plates, 300 in vivid chromolithography printed by Didot, and 200 in camaieu (monochrome) - complete. Bindings marked Brentano's Paris. Bound in half royal blue crushed morocco with gold-veined marbled sides and marbled endpapers..... More
A WONDER BOOK.
London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [1922]. Deluxe Edition Limited to 600 Copies Signed by Rackham, this no. 128. Quarto. viii, 207p. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 24 full-page color plates, 16 of which are tipped-in with lettered tissue guards, and 20 text drawings. Bound in an unsigned..... More
COSWAY BINDINGS, Catalogues With Notes.
United Kingdom: Stephen Ratcliffe, 2009. No. 20 of 21 copies. Two volumes. 4to bound in gilt-titled black cloth. Fully illustrated with many in color, reproducing bookseller's catalogues. Color prospectus laid in. Includes Sotheran catalogues A - V, featuring Ms. C. B. Currie. More
VAINES PALABRES D'UN BUVEUR D'EAU.
Paris: Imprime Pour l'Auteur par les Soins de Jules Augry, 1899. No. 14 of only 20 copies on Imperial Japon paper and printed on the limitation statement with the reciepient's name. This copy for M. L. Lecomte. Small 8vo. 86p. Illustrated with five original watercolors by Jacques Callot - only..... More
![Item #18812 ITALY, A POEM [with] POEMS. Samuel Rogers](https://first-folio.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18812.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1535070033)
ITALY, A POEM [with] POEMS.
London: T. Cadell, 1830, 1834. Two volumes. vii, 284p; viii, 295p. Bound in Cedric Chivers vellucent binding of tan levant with marbled endpapers, t.e.g, the spine with gilt titles and simple gilt ornaments with small onlays, the covers with gilt ruled border, the upper cover with round central paintings under..... More