Isaiah Taber (42 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Isaiah West Taber (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is a first edition (1994) of the Reader's Digest edition of Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks, by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It is about a boy who is rescued from drowning off Newfoundland's Grand Banks, and how he survives trials and adventures. It was originally published in installments in 1896-1897 and is the only Kipling novel set in North America. It was originally illustrated by the American daguerreotypist Isaiah West Taber, and all of his illustrations are in this book. 164 pages. It never had a dust jacket--it's pale green boards with gilt lettering and a gilt design on the cover. The original owner read to page 25, dog-eared it, and didn't return to it. So near-mint condition. No shelfwear, no other marks in or on it. Lovely book.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is an extensive photographic collection capturing the stunning landscapes of the American West. From the bustling streets of San Francisco to the serene beauty of Yosemite Valley, the author's lens unveils the region's grandeur in the late 19th century. Through breathtaking vistas and intimate portraits of indigenous peoples, the book offers an extraordinary glimpse into a pivotal era of American history. Its pages provide a unique window into the untamed spirit of the American Frontier, preserving a legacy of its natural wonders and cultural heritage. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Condition: A bright Nr Fine example. Ca 1880s. Card with gilt stamped Taber imprint under photograph; verso with elaborate Taber advertisement, printed in lavender ink. Albumen photograph, portrait of a young lad from the shoulders up. Photograph: 5-3/8" x 3-15/16". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16" A very nice Taber cabinet card photograph, which, with the verso's advertisement, essentially doubles as a trade card. Card with slightly rounded corners, edge gilded. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

Condition: A bright Nr Fine example. Ca 1880s. Card with gilt stamped Taber imprint under photograph; verso with elaborate Taber advertisement, printed in lavender ink. Albumen photograph of a young lad in a casual pose. Photograph: 5-3/8" x 3-15/16". Card: 6-1/2" x 4-3/16" A very nice Taber cabinet card photograph, which, with the verso's advertisement, essentially doubles as a trade card. Card with slightly rounded corners, edge gilded. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

White card mount. 9 x 7.5 inch image on x 10 x 8 inch card. Albumen photograph. "6359 State Capitol, Sacramento, Cal." in negative at lower edge. Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912) bounced between the east and west coasts as a youth. After opening his first studio in Syracuse, New York, he returned to California where he eventually established the "Taber Gallery" at No. 12 Montgomery Street in 1871. His business was quite successful with a stock of over 30,000 Western views, though many were the unacknowledged works of others. When the San Francisco earthquake led to the destruction of his vast collection, his business folded. This image is not at Berkeley nor on Calisphere, but is similar to "The Capitol, Sacramento, Cal. B 2369," (at Berkeley)except this image is taken closer to the entrance, with people in the distance at the steps, and provides a more powerful view. Very good, very faint fading, mainly to the sky.

Condition: Good. B&W Photograph mounted on board, 7 x 9.75 inches. Good with losses at corners of photograph and board, minor abrasions to surface of photograph, marginal tears, else VG. Taber had moved his studio to 121 Post St. in San Francisco by this time.

Ca late 1880s. Taber imprint in photograph bottom band; verso with large Taber imprint, including woodcut of his building, 8 Montgomery Street. Photograph: 4-7/8" x 8". Card: 5-5/16" x 8-3/8" This an image of the original Palace Hotel, which "was built by San Francisco banker and entrepreneur William Chapman Ralston, who heavily depended on his shaky banking empire to help finance the $5 million project. Although Ralston's Bank of California collapsed in late August 1875, and Ralston himself drowned in San Francisco Bay on the same day that he lost control of the institution, it did not interfere with the opening of the Palace Hotel two months later on October 2, 1875. Ralston's business partner in the project was U.S. Senator William Sharon, who had helped cause the collapse of the bank when he dumped his stock in the Comstock Lode. Sharon ended up in control of the hotel as well as both the bank and Ralston's debts, both of which he paid off at just pennies on the dollar. With 755 guest rooms, the original Palace Hotel (also known colloquially as the "Bonanza Inn") was at the time of its construction the largest hotel in the Western United States. At 120 feet in height, the hotel was San Francisco's tallest building for over a decade. The skylighted open center of the building featured a Grand Court overlooked by seven stories of white columned balconies which served as an elegant carriage entrance. Shortly after 1900 this area was converted into a lounge called the "Palm Court". The bartender, William "Cocktail" Boothby, was a fixture at the hotel for some years. The hotel featured large redwood-paneled hydraulic elevators which were known as "rising rooms". Each guest room or suite was equipped with a private bathroom as well as an electric call button to summon a member of the hotel's staff. All guest rooms could be joined together to create suites, or to make up large apartments for long-term residents, and the parlor of each guest room featured a large bay window overlooking the street below." [Wiki] This grand dame of San Francisco would not survive the 1906 quake, succumbing to the fires that ravaged so much of the city. Sligh yellowing to image, and a slight bow to the card. Faint vertical crinkle to the left side. Very Good. Card mount with slightly rounded corners. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

Ca late 1880s. Taber imprint in Mission photograph bottom band; verso with Adobe image [uncaptioned], and top of a cropped second photograph [tops of palm trees showing]. Mission Photograph: 5" x 8". Mount: 5-11/16" x 8-1/4" The San Jaun Capistrano mission "was founded in 1776, by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni de Capistrano, a 15th-century theologian and 'warrior priest' who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782. Known alternately as 'Serra's Chapel' and 'Father Serra's Church,' it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that Junipero Serra celebrated Mass. One of the best known missions in Alta California, and one of the few missions to have actually been founded twiceâ"others being Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and Mission La PurÃsima Concepcià n." [Wiki] A curious gathering of these 3 images, obviously not a commercial mount, with the 3rd image [Palm Trees], having been cropped, with loss. The first time we've ever seen such a format. A bit of waviness to mount. Slight yellowing at left edge of Mission image. Very Good. Mount now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Fine Vernacular Photograph Album of (Mostly) Southern CaliforniaLa Jolla - Coronado - Sunset Cliffs - PasadenaRare Photographs of Flooded Tia Juana (San Ysidro) in 1891A wonderful album of high-quality original phot. Oblong quarto. Contemporary pebbled burgundy cloth photo album (Howard Album, patented 1889). With 112 original photograph prints, mounted on card album leaves. Photographs range in size up to 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, with most 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches or 4 x 6 inches. A bit of foxing to the first couple of album leaves, images not affected. The photographs are all excellent, sharp prints in fine condition. Fine Vernacular Photograph Album of (Mostly) Southern CaliforniaLa Jolla - Coronado - Sunset Cliffs - PasadenaRare Photographs of Flooded Tia Juana (San Ysidro) in 1891A wonderful album of high-quality original photographs made in the early 1890s, including rare early San Diego views of La Jolla, Coronado, Sunset Cliffs, and most notably the American town of Tia Juana on the Mexican border (current day San Ysidro). Most of the images in the album are the work of an unidentified but skilled amateur who traveled through Southern California circa 1891. The compositions of the photographs are of a high order and go far beyond the typical amateur productions often seen in albums from this time. A few of the photographs (mainly those related to northern California, especially the Lick Observatory), are cabinet card-size prints from the famed San Francisco photographic establishment of Isaiah West Taber.San Diego Floods of 1891Some of the San Diego photos were almost certainly taken either in February or the summer of 1891, when major storms flooded towns throughout the county. During the summer of 1891, a thunderstorm inundated parts of the San Diego Mountains with 11.5 inches of rain in 80 minutes. In February 1891, San Diego County experienced what many call the most violent storm in its history. It started to rain on February 19 and continued for a solid week: 30 inches in 37 hours in Escondido to the north; 18 inches in 48 at Cuyamaca to the east. By the 23rd, every road in the county had been damaged; a flash flood twisted the California Southern railroad line from Temecula station to Fallbrook so far beyond recognition it had to be abandoned.Rare Tia Juana (San Ysidro) ViewsA flooded town scene photograph in the present album shows the offices of Messinger & Lane, a mercantile business operating on the San Diego side of the Mexico Border, within in the community now known as San Ysidro. At the time there were only 34 residents in Tia Juana. The firm's name is listed in the Tia Juana section of the 1889-90 edition of Monteith's Directory of San Diego and Vicinity, as are the two partners, Joseph Messinger and William Lane. In 1866, William Lane, a native of Wales, purchased 160 acres at the border crossing and also entered into a general merchandise business. Messinger & Lane also appear 3 times in the National City Record in the 1890s. Intriguingly, in April 1890, the proprietors were reportedly arrested and taken to Los Angeles on charges of smuggling Mexican cigars and liquor. The San Diego Union reported on April 29, 1890: "Mr. Lane was discharged and Mr. Messenger [sic] was released under bonds to await the action of the Grand Jury." By September 24, 1891, the firm was noted as in the process of moving its store to "the new townsite" in Tia Juana (perhaps following the flooding shown in the photograph). The five or six original photographs of Tia Juana, especially the image showing the flooding of business and shops, stand as among the earliest extant photographs of the border section of San Diego. Although an early townsite for the town of Tia Juana was mapped advertised in 1887, the area languished for dec. Book.

19.7x27.8 cm, (oblong large octavo), pp. [1-2] 3-96, illustrations, original cream wrappers printed in gold, brown cloth tape spine. First edition. An elaborate souvenir book commemorating the opening of the new Cliff House and the adjoining Sutro Baths, illustrated throughout with photographs by I. W. Taber and advertisements on facing pages for local businesses, most connected in some way with the Sutro project. The old Cliff House, a San Francisco destination opened in 1863, was destroyed by fire 25 December 1894. The Cliff House was rebuilt by Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and enormously popular Mayor of San Francisco (1894-1896), who also built the Sutro Baths on a small beach inlet below it. The Sutro Baths, opened to the public on 14 March 1986, was the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment. The baths struggled for years, mostly due to high operating and maintenance costs. A fire in 1966 destroyed the building while it was being demolished. Both the Cliff House and the former baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the United States National Park Service. A major pictorial record of a world famous San Francisco entertainment complex made by the most prominent San Francisco photographer of the period. Rocq (1970) 12407. Wrappers dusty, several spots on front cover, a very good copy. Provenance: Marilyn Blaisdell Collection. (#167055).

26.5x35.3 cm (10 1/4 x14 inches) (oblong folio), 15 parts, each 16 pages, profusely illustrated, original mustard wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. A complete set of the "Monarch" souvenir of the California Midwinter Fair. The photographs depict both the fair itself, and scenes throughout the state. The fair, held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, was extremely successful: it made money while promoting winter travel to the Golden State. "The plan of the work is to present a series of photographic views of the Midwinter Fair, interspersed with select views of the natural wonders of the State . The descriptions of California Scenes . which treat of places outside of San Francisco, were written by J. M. Hutchings, the 'Father of the Yosemite'" (wrapper copy). All but one part (# 14) has at least one photograph of the Sierra Nevada, mostly scenes in Yosemite Valley. There are several photographs of Lake Tahoe and one photograph of the High Sierra taken by Theodore H. Solomons. Each part has a double-page panoramic photograph at the center. Several of these are stunning images, but the most spectacular photographs are Taber's photographs of the Midwinter Fair after dark illuminated by electric light. And, in case you wondered why "Monarch" is part of the title, "Monarch" is the Examiner's mascot, a stuffed Grizzly Bear exhibited as part of the 'Forty-nine Mining Camp, one of the more popular venues at the fair. "The California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 was the state's first international event and as such, was a landmark in her history. Purposely held in winter, it showcased the glorious climate of the Golden State and followed on the heels of the vastly successful World's Columbian Exhibition held in Chicago in 1893 . The fair did much to attract visitors to California . To document this major event, fair organizers chose Isaiah Taber as official photographer . Documenting the entire evolution of the fair, Taber took pictures from beginning to end, from the grading of the site to the finished environment. Taber's splendid views show the event in all its glory, from its architectural playfulness to its exotic attractions and are noteworthy for their clarity and composition. Realizing that the fair was ephemeral, Taber made his photographs the permanent record of the event . The Midwinter Fair was extremely successful and had a lasting impact not only in San Francisco but also in the state's southern realm . San Francisco was host to another international event two decades after the Midwinter Fair: in 1914, one of the most important events in California history took place there -- the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Although the PPIE was larger and grander that its predecessor, its heritage may be traced to the pioneering Midwinter Fair of 1894" (Victoria Dailey, California's First International Exposition: The Midwinter Fair of 1894). Kruska, Hutchings 108. Rocq 11359. Not in Cowan (1933; 1964). A fine copy. This book is uncommon in the original parts, especially in nice condition. This is a spectacular copy and is rare thus. By the way, the subscription price of $24 per year was serious money in 1894, so the number of subscribers to the parts issue was probably not huge. (#167050).

19.7x27.8 cm, (oblong large octavo), pp. [1-2] 3-96, illustrations, original cream wrappers printed in gold, red cloth tape spine. First edition. An elaborate souvenir book commemorating the opening of the new Cliff House and the adjoining Sutro Baths, illustrated throughout with photographs by I. W. Taber and advertisements on facing pages for local businesses, most connected in some way with the Sutro project. The old Cliff House, a San Francisco destination opened in 1863, was destroyed by fire 25 December 1894. The Cliff House was rebuilt by Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and enormously popular Mayor of San Francisco (1894-1896), who also built the Sutro Baths on a small beach inlet below it. The Sutro Baths, opened to the public on 14 March 1986, was the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment. The baths struggled for years, mostly due to high operating and maintenance costs. A fire in 1966 destroyed the building while it was being demolished. Both the Cliff House and the former baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the United States National Park Service. A major pictorial record of a world famous San Francisco entertainment complex made by the most prominent San Francisco photographer of the period. Rocq (1970) 12407. Wrappers dusty, short tear in front wrapper repaired, a very good copy. (#166861).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1888 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 52 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 52 Language: English.

Original black & white photograph of "Elisabeth Porter Gilbert, Grannie" (handwritten on verso), printed on heavy cream cardstock (5" x 4") with bevelled edges; "Taber S.F" blindstamped in lower right corner. The Taber name and business address of 121 Post Street, San Francisco stamped on verso. Lower left corner lightly bumped; list spotting. Elisabeth Porter Gilbert was borni in 1869 (maiden name Elisabeth Porter Russel) and died in 1949 in Carmel, CA. She was married to Charles Ransom Gilbert. Ms. Gilbert is a striking young woman in the photograph so it most likely was taken circa 1890.

Condition: Very good. Albumen photograph, 4-13/16 by 7-15/16 inches, of the interior of a Chinese restaurant, showing the entry hall opening out into the dining room, which has tables and chairs but no people. This view is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. This image is listed in Taber's ca. 1889 catalog. The upper portion of the restaurant view is washed out (as usual with this image), not affecting any important details. The mount has been trimmed close to the image. The verso of the mount has glue residue, perhaps due to removal from an album.

Condition: Good. An albumen silver print of Dupont Street in San Francisco with the Hang Fer Lo restaurant in the center. This was the leading Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above Columbo & Co. Cigars, at 713 Dupont St., on the border of Little Italy and Chinatown. The Columbo sign is just legible in the image (it can be matched to Taber photo 4764, which offers a close-up view of the restaurant). This image includes the street-level sign in Chinese characters, which appears to offer vegetarian meals in addition to standard Chinese cuisine. 4-7/8 by 7-15/16 inches on a slightly larger modern(?) thin paper mount. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. Two cracks in the image are colored in to minimize the breaks; the lower right corner of the image is a bit washed out. Good only.

Condition: very good. Original cabinet card view of San Franciisco, Ca. Mounted on studio card. Light rubbing. very good Original albumen view of San Francisco prior to the 1906 Earthquake. Taber photo. B 1802.

Condition: Near fine. An albumen photograph, 4-13/16 by 7-15/16 inches, of the exterior of a Chinese church in San Francisco. The building is two stories, with a central entrance up a short flight of stone stairs. The second floor has a narrow balcony decorated with hanging plants and paper lanterns. This is one of several images by Isaiah Taber of this temple. This view is taken at a slight angle to the front of the building. The sign over the door identifies this as a temple to many Cantonese deities, ??? (transliterated as Leishenggong, Lit Sing Gond, Lie Sheng Gong, etc), meaning joss house. This view is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. This image is included in Taber's ca. 1889 catalog of the images available for purchase in his gallery. Nice image; mount trimmed.

Condition: Near fine. Albumen photograph, 4-7/8 by 8 inches, of a large Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake, probably the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street. The restaurant may have been called Chun Sun; a restaurant with that name operated at 826 Washington Street in 1892, according to a San Francisco Examiner newspaper notice about a small fire there (14 July). This view is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. This image is not included in Taber's ca. 1889 list of images available at his gallery and thus likely dates from the early 1890s. A fine example on a slightly larger modern cardstock mount.

Condition: Near fine. Albumen photograph, 4-7/8 by 8 inches, of the exterior of Hang Fer Lo, the leading Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above Columbo & Co. Cigars, on Dupont Street, between Sacrament and Clay Streets in Chinatown. The entrance is located under a small "restaurant" sign to the left of the image on the ground floor. A Chinese language sign is visible at the center of the third floor. The Colombo cigar factory was one of the larger Chinese-owned cigar-making operations in the city. This view is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. A fine example on a slightly larger modern cardstock mount.

25x32 cm (9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches); on a thin paper mount, matted, 36.4x43 cm (14 1/2 x 17 inches). The Geysers is the world's largest geothermal field. It spans an area of around thirty square miles in Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino counties, approximately 72 miles north of San Francisco, centered in the area of Geyser Canyon and Cobb Mountain. Unlike most geothermal resources, The Geysers is a dry steam field which mainly produces superheated steam. The Geysers were first seen by European Americans and named in 1847 during John Frémont's survey of the Sierra Mountains and the Great Basin by William Bell Elliot who called the area "The Geysers," although the geothermal features were not technically geysers, but fumaroles. Between 1848 and 1854, Archibald C. Godwin developed The Geysers into a spa named The Geysers Resort Hotel, which attracted tourists including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain. The resort declined in popularity in the mid 1880s, and rebranded itself to appeal to lower-income people. The first geothermal wells drilled in Geyser Canyon were the first in the Western Hemisphere. The first power plant at the Geysers was privately developed by the owner of The Geysers Resort and opened in 1921, producing 250 kilowatts of power to light the resort. Today, The Geysers draws steam from more than 350 wells and produced 20% of California's renewable energy in 2019. A stunning scene that only a large size print like this one does justice. (#167127).

Hard Cover (no dust jacket). Mysell & Rollins. 1895. San Francisco. Hardcover (no dust jacket). Folio (quite large). Fair. All pages are still intact, but there is the beginning of a separation (at spine, between the two sheets) on an early page. There is a 'skinned' area at bottom of front cover, about the size of a toddler's hand, where the surface part of the burgundy-colored cover has worn off. There is fairly substantial edgewear to bottom edge of front cover and significantly less to bottom ede of back cover. Outer, right corner of front free endpaper has multiple creases. The last two (blank) pages each have 2 lengthwise vertical creases. Book has a bit of the 'old book' smell. Chronicles the California International Midwinter Exposition, held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Book is comprised entirely of full-page photographs of scenes at the fair and cultural, historical, and agricultural, and mountain scenes of California - each photograph with explanatory text. Unpaginated - a guess would be between 240 and 300 pages.

Photograph. Condition: Very Good. Photograph [4 7/8 x 7 7/8"] on a gray mount [12 1/2 x 18 3/4"]. Tiny loss to the top fore-edge corner of the mount. Two short closed tears with a 1 1/2" crease between them to the top edge. I. W. Taber (1830-1912) opened his gallery on San Francisco's Montgomery Street in 1871. His business was well known for portraiture and and a plethora of California and Western views- quite a few of which were the unacknowledged works of other photographers. Taber enjoyed success outside of California as well. He was sent to London in 1897 to photograph the pageant of the Queen Victoria Jubilee. Tragically, Taber's career came to a halt when he lost his gallery and negative collection in 1906 due to the San Francisco earthquake and fire. (Information from Online Archive of California).

Condition: Near fine. A brown toned albumen silver print of one of one of Taber's most enigmatic views of San Francisco's always bustling Chinatown?an improbably empty alley with a ghostly image of a child at the intersection of two streets. Taber obviously retouched the negative to remove figures from the upper part of the alley, leaving faint ghosts behind and indistinct details. The child appears to have been added to insert an element of drama to the scene. The business sign, on the left side of the street, was enhanced in the negative by someone who did not know how to write Chinese characters. 4-7/8 by 8 inches on a slightly larger modern(?) thin paper mount. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image. This image has brown tones, with good contrast.

Ephemera. Condition: Very good. A medium format photograph, possibly a gelatin silver print, of an altar with a bearded god statue. The statue is decorated with peacock feathers placed on a carved wooden altar. Pots and urns of various sizes sit on the altar in front of the idol. 7-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches. The photograph is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. This image is not listed in Taber's ca. 1889 catalog of images. The image is sharp and has good gray tonal range. It is mounted on thin white cardstock, possibly contemporary with the photograph but trimmed in recent times near the edge of the image. The mount and photograph are somewhat wavy.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1889 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 80 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 80 Language: English.