Giulio Giannini (8 results)

Condition: Very good. light shelf wear. 0 Includes illustrations.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. Oblong 32mo; pp; 18, including self wrappers; illustrated with ten plates on five inserted leaves; original decorated sel wrappers lettered in red and black; This catalogue describes Christmas, Easter & Birthday Greeting Post Cards; Christmas Cablegrams; Decorated leather Christmas Presents as bookmarks, card cases etc; Stationery products in "old fashion italian paper; Bridge Scores & Dinner Cards; & The Post Card Library" , short selections from English & American authors. OCLC does not locate any copies. This copy founded in 1856 may still be visited today in Florence.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Giannini Jr., Giulio (illustrator). First Edition. 10.5 x 7.5 in. Unpaginated [32 pp.] Green and gold block printed paper wrappers with pasted on title label. Some puckering and fading to inner pastedowns and toning to facing pages. Deckle bottom and fore edge. XIV Pen and Ink Drawings by Giulio Giannini Jr., printed in bold brown and beige ink and captioned in pale orange, each image measuring 4.5 x 4.5 in. Few faint soil marks scattered throughout, otherwise near fine.

In 8°, cartonato con etichetta al piatto. Pp. 32 n.n. con la riproduzione dei disegni in seppia, solo al verso.

Condition: near fine. unpaginated. Quarto. Orginal decorative paper, french folded wrappers with title label to front panel. Corners slightly bumped; light shelf wear to crown and foot. Bookplate to front pastedown; ink inscription to front freefly, dated 1945. Illustrated with 9 single page plates from reproductions. Finely printed on heavy paper, each page with printer's colophon on rear. Textblock untrimmed; a beautiful, ornamental copy. near fine Text in English and Italian. Finely printed collection of sketches of Florence, published by the author's personal press. A very unique piece; an artful publication.

Condition: Good. Business Card. 14 x 11 cm. Letterpress on wove, black and red ink, Very Good +.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Peter Paul Rubens (illustrator). First Edition; Fifth Printing. Light soil, page wrinkling, cover tie missing, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Striking artistic Florentine vellum binding by Giulio Giannini - Firenze re-covers this 1906 printing of photographic pictorial book of Rubens art. ; Gowans's Art Books; Vol. 1; Photographs; 64 pages.

FIRST EDITION (but see below). 216 x 130 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/8"). Two volumes. REMARKABLY ANIMATED SCARLET MOROCCO, GILT, BY GIULIO GIANNINI (stamp-signed on foot of spine), covers with mitered frame of double gilt rules enclosing a foliate roll, the central compartment with floral scroll cornerpieces and a central gilt-ruled lozenge surrounding a scrolling mandorla, all studded with small floral tools and annular dots, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with floral tools, turn-ins gilt, leather hinges, crimson endpapers in a leather-grain pattern, all edges gilt. Forman 165; LeMire A80.02. Spines evenly darkened to crimson, a handful of small stains in the text, but A BEAUTIFUL SET, nearly pristine internally, in still gleaming bindings. This first printing of Morris' fantasy novel was very handsomely bound by an esteemed Florentine workshop currently in its 170th year. Pietro Giannini (1811-82) founded his business in 1856 as a stationery store with a sideline in bookbinding. In 1878, he was joined by his son, Giulio (1853-1931), who chose to concentrate exclusively on fine bindings and other luxury leather goods, a move that transformed the business. When his son Guido Giannini Sr. (1877-1956) joined the firm in the 1890s, he commissioned a large number of bronze stamps that would allow the Gianninis to create bindings tooled in a wide range of historical styles. Some of the stamps have been put to fine use on the covers here. According to the firm's website, by the late 19th century, Florence had a substantial community of wealthy and cultured English expatriates who appreciated fine craftsmanship; this provided Giulio with "a large and faithful clientele." It seems likely that it was one of these expats who had this English novel bound by an Italian master. Today, the fifth and sixth generation of Giannini family binders operate the Giulio Giannini e Figlio in its original location in Piazza Pitti. The present printing of "Well at World's End" is considered by bibliographers the true first edition. Battling his way through the bibliographical weeds, Sparling indicates that the production of our trade edition was actually completed before the limited Kelmscott edition, even though the latter was issued first. He says, "The ordinary edition was . . . being printed for Longmans at the Chiswick Press, and the Kelmscott Press edition was set up from the sheets of this, which was ready for publication in 1894, though not actually published until October 1896, being held back in order that the Kelmscott Press edition might be the first" to appear.