Sir Roger Lestrange Translator (7 results)

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Good. No Jacket. Juvenile Library No. 19, Copyright Edition. 159 Fables + Last Fable, Jupiter and the Herdsman. . Undated Edition, circa 1920s.Presentation label on Endpaper, dated 1934. Paper-Covered Boards illustrated with a the Fox and Grapes on the front, Red Title above. Blue Lettering to spine. Nestle advert on the back. 252 Pages, 260g, 6 7/8" Tall. Small piece of Backstrip missing from top of spine ( about 1") which removes most of the title. 3 very small closed tears down sides of spine.(see photo). Pages slightly age darkened an an occasional spot of foxing or fingermark. No inscriptions apart from the label. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stephen Gooden (illustrator). Fine condition except for "shadow" on back boarad where price tag placed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Eleventh edition 12mo, fair to good. Full leather , gilt on morocco, raised bands to spine, Abraded wear. small losses to spine end, front hinge virtually detached fep detached, back hinge cracked, binding else sound, small marks to title page, , the odd spot, else good page condition. At the back a list of other books published by R Sare.

Hardcover. Condition: fair. Tenth Corrected. 8vo. 282 + 2 pp. of advertisements. Leather boards with decorative etching and raised bands on spine. Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (1580 - 1645) poet and master satirist of Spain's Golden Age, who, as a virtuoso of language, is unequaled in Spanish literature. -(Encyclopedia Britanica Online). He was born in Madrid and his political vocation as well as colorful life contributed to the forming of his complex and contrasting personality. His poetry reflects the most spiritual tendencies along with the most base and crude feelings. Jokes appear alongside more serious attitudes, and moral philosophy alongside the most ingenious vulgarity. Orphaned by the age of six, he was able to attend the Imperial School run by the Jesuits in Madrid. He then attended university at Alcalá de Henares from 1596 to 1600. In 1601, Quevedo, as a member of the Spanish Royal Court, moved to Valladolid, where the Court had been transferred by the King's minister, the Duke of Lerma. There he studied theology, a subject that will be a lifelong interest, and on which in later life he will compose the treatise "Providencia de Dios" (God's Providence), against atheism. He was also a political moralist. His works included comedies, satires, poetry and novels. Much of his work is related to religion, or at least had religion or metaphysical overtones, probably because his education in theology, logic, metaphysics, and physics. A polyglot, among the many languages he could speak were Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, and English (aside from Spanish, of course). A fair amount of scuffing to boards due to age, front board is detached but present. Lovely decorative endpapers. Binding in poor condition, interior in good - very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NUMBERED. (1931). 4to. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, 1/665 copies. From the collection of Andy Warhol, with his ex-libris. Housed in loose red boards with spine label reading 'Fables of Aesop,' with a few letters rubbed away. Dust jacket is made of a pulpy blue paper wrapped over the p.d.'s. 'Paper Knife For Fables of Aesop' laid-in.Very slight damage to front hinge of book. Joints of red boards cracking and frayed, some spots of rubbing to boards. VG/VG in VG loose red boards.

8vo [27cm x 19.5cm], 314pp. 11 Plates by STEPHEN GOODEN. Limited Edition of 525 copies of which this is number 462. Signed by the artist Stephen Gooden. Printed on hand made paper. Bound in Vellum, gilt to covers & spine. Marbled Endpapers. Top Edge Gilt. Fore-edge & bottom edge untrimmed. A Nice copy with Slipcase in Very Good condition.

Fourth Edition. 182 x 108 mm. (7 1/8 x 4"). 18 p.l., 113, [9], 115-335, [3], 331-408, 209-32, [8], 241-397, [3], 1-13 pp. ATTRACTIVE ELABORATELY GILT CONTEMPORARY BINDING, POSSIBLY BY THE QUEENS' BINDER, covers with complex design formed by drawer-handle tools and pointillé flower tools bordered by a floral roll, raised bands, spine compartments with central eight-petalled flower, curling tendrils at corners, gilt lettering, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece depicting the suicide of Seneca. Front pastedown with ex-libris of E. M. Cox; front free endpaper with book label of John Hely-Hutchinson, Chipping Lodge, Ely, with handwritten date 1946; title page with early ink inscription, "Ann Pullen her Book." Wing S-2517; ESTC R21852. For the binding: Nixon, "English Restoration Bindings," p. 32. âCorners lightly bumped, extremities a little worn, endpapers with stains from binder's glue, small chip and short closed tear to tail margin of frontispiece, other insignificant imperfections, but all the defects minor, and an excellent copy in general--clean and fresh internally, and the very decorative binding extremely well preserved. This is an uncommonly seen edition of an important classical text, offered here in a vigorously decorated period binding. Roman statesman, philosopher, and dramatist Seneca (ca. 1 B.C. - 65 A.D.) has the unusual distinction of being popular with both the Medieval church--which believed him to be a Roman converted to Christianity, perhaps by St. Paul himself--and with Renaissance humanists like Erasmus, who produced an edition of his works. He appears as a character in Dante's "Divine Comedy," where he resides in Limbo with other "virtuous pagans," and his works greatly influenced Petrarch, who adopted Seneca's rhetorical style in his own essays. The present work is a 17th century English abstract of Senecan philosophy, which is heavy on practical advice for finding fulfillment through virtue, rationality, self-control, and a willingness to handle adversity. The frontispiece here shows the death of Seneca, who had been accused of conspiring against the emperor. The philosopher sits calmly outside his villa, dictating final letters to a scribe, while blood pours from multiple cuts into a large basin. (His wife, who joined in the suicide, is unaccountably absent in the depiction.) Our exuberantly decorated binding is similar in design and tooling to ones attributed by Nixon and Davis to the celebrated Queens' Binder A. This clumsily named binder is actually one person within a collective identity given to the group of artisans (dubbed Queens' Binder A, Queens' Binder B, and Queens' Binder C) who produced finely decorated volumes for Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena, the queens consort of Charles II and James II. Giving the feeling of great swirling animation, our binding employs design elements that also appear on a 1675 edition of Allestree's "Government of the Tongue" attributed by Nixon and Foot to Queens' Binder A: compartments formed by drawer handle tools that are filled with floral ornaments tooled in pointillé lines, a background effervescent with tiny dots or circle tools, and a distinctive flower-and-palmette-roll border. Nixon has tentatively identified "A" as William Nott, an identification based on a passage in Pepys' diary which recounts a visit to that famous binder, during which Pepys purchased a book "only that [he] might have one of [Nott's] bindings" (i.e., entirely for the binding, no matter the contents of the book). The only elaborately bound volume in the Pepys library at Cambridge that is neither a book of great personal value nor a book dedicated to Pepys is a work on the succession to the Crown of England, which bears the tools of Queens' Binder A.