Friends and Colleagues. This is an illustrated catalogue of 43 sets of Poetry and Literature in leather sets - some standard bindings, some extraordinary, some extra-illustrated.
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Paris: Rombaldi, (1936-37). Each volume numbered from a limitation of 3000 copies. Five volumes containing from the collection. Uniformly bound with three in red and two in black with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g. Original wrappers bound in. Titles:D'Aurevilly. Les Diaboliques. 7 plates after Lobel-Riche. Verlaine. Bonheur Liturgies Intimes. 5..... More
Paris: Editions Rombaldi, [1950's]. Each volume numbered from an unspecified limitation. Five volumes from the collection. Each volume with five "Illustrations Originales En Couleurs" reproduced after the original editions. Uniformly bound in maroon crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and heart shaped designs in series..... More
Philadelphia: Barrie, (1895). "Edition on Holland Hand-Made Paper", limited to 1000 copies, this no. 10. Eight volumes. Illustrated with photogravures after De Los Rios, Prodhomme Wagrez, etc., the plates in two states. Bound in half purple morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines in two uneven panels..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1900. Autograph Edition. Limited to 500 copies, this no. 236. Signed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1851-1926), second daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorn, and by Houghton Mifflin Co., and with a tipped in bank check dated October 4th, 1861 SIGNED BY NATHANILE HAWTHORNE..... More
![Item #14932 RECORD OF A GIRLHOOD [with] RECORDS OF LATER LIFE [with] FURTHER RECORDS. 1848-1883....](https://first-folio.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14932.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1535066455)
London: Richard Bentley, 1878, 1882, 1890. First editions. Eight volumes. Uniformly bound by Mudie in quarter brown morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and rules. Quite scarce with all eight volumes assembled. Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was author of the famous antislavery Journal of a...... More
Paris: Editions Rombaldi, (1943-47). Each volume numbered from limitations ranging from 910 to 990 copies. Eight volumes containing seven titles from the collection. Beuatifully illustrated. Uniformly bound in maroon crushed morocco, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and overall stylized crosshatched gilt designs. Original wrappers bound in. Titles: La Varende..... More
Paris: Leconite, Libraire, 1828. Eight volumes. Illustrated with two folding maps and a folding plan. Beautifully rebound in quarter black crushed morocco with marbled sides and edges, the spines in uneven panels with gilt titles and elaborate ornamentation. More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. Ten volumes. Small 8vo. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and extra title pages engraved. Bound in quarter green morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and panel ornaments. More
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
New York: Society of Shakespearean Editors, (1909). Ten volumes. Color frontispiece. Bound in quarter blue-gray morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and gilt device of a coat-of-arms in the center spine panel. More
![Item #18987 OEUVRES [with Autographed Letter Signed]. Paul Valery](https://first-folio.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18987.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1535066459)
Oxford: Editions du Sagittaire (and N.R.F.), 1930-38. First edition. No. 70 of 150 copies on Arches paper (total edition of 1225 copies). Printed by Maurice Darantiere. Eight volumes. Quarto. L'Ame et la Danse, Eupalinos of l'Architecte, Paradoxe sur l'Architecte (1931); Monsieur Teste, La Soiree, Lettre d'Emilie, Le Log-Book Quelques Epitres..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909-12. "Autograph Edition" SIGNED by Mrs. Ward. 16 volumes. Illustrated. Bound in full tan crushed morocco, t.e.g, gilt spine titles and rules in the panels and on the bands, red morocco doblures with fancy gilt corner pieces, watered silk flyleaves, the upper and lower covers with sets..... More
Edinburgh: George Allen, 1900. Edition De Luxe. No. 33 0f 160 copies. Three volumes. Two volumes of the monograph, the third volume with the extra suite of 91 plates. Folio (15 3/4"). Printed by the Ballantyne Press on Arnold linen fiber paper. Illustrated with 91 full-pages plates on India paper..... More