Thomae Creech (4 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Binding Copy. Binding copy still partly attached to the spine but hanging by binding threads with some signatures free from binding.209 pp. Title page has some edge discolour but the rest of the book is quite bright and clean but for the odd notation. Spine cover missing a little at the bottom but mostly still attached to the boards. A digital image can be made available.

Full Calf. Condition: Very Good Plus. Later Edition. xi, (1), 209, (3) pp., with a final leaf of advertisements. Bound in contemporary full calf, five raised bands bordered in gilt rules, leather label, tooled edges. Very Good Plus, end pages toned at edges, covers lightly rubbed, text quite clean and fresh. A quite handsome and well-bound copy of this uncommon edition of Lucretius's classic work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. xi, [1], 209, [3] pp. With a final leaf of advertisements. First Foulis edition. Grangerised copy with the six plates and extra engraved title (engraved by Wandelaar after Frans van Mieris) from the 1725, 4to edition of Janssonios Van Der Aa, all bound-in on stubs. In contemporary full mottled calf, spine and edges gilt. An attractive copy marrying the elegant letterpress associated with the imprint and Wanderlaar's wonderful engravings of Frans van Mieris illustrations. Joints split in places but holding firm, and a little old worm damage to spine and boards. Later letter-piece gilt. ESTC. T50369. Gordon,18. Gaskell,135.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. Thick quartos. Full contemporary calf; lightly worn and rubbed; tear to top of spine. Beautiful decorative endpapers. Rare edition printed in just 820 copies numbered on subscription. It should be noted that this is the first work a press published with an explicit print run, with the run numbered and signed by the publisher and printer. A handsome set.