Translated Elizur Wright (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dore, Gustave (illustrator). New Edition. New edition first printing Quarto. Hardback. 224 pp. Many black and white illustrations throughout by Gustave Dore. Very Good condition in Good unclipped dust jacket ( some edge nibbles and tiny closed tears) No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 224pp; contents clean and textually unmarked. No library stamps. Gift inscription written on front blank endpaper. Red cloth HC with silver lettering. 30 cm x 22.5 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No DJ. Sunned spine. Shelf wear to cover edges. Name stamped on front free page: Louis R. Spencer. I guess Louis never read it because it's unread. Binding is fine. No other markings in book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. J. J. Grandville (illustrator). Second Edition. Fables in poems with splendid illustrations. The verses in this edition are all in English. 245pp. Front pastedown cracked with tape mark down hinge. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Back cover almost detached with tape marks down hinge. Wear to head and foot of spine with small loss at head. Cover corners worn. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First Grandville-illustrated edition in English. Extra-illustrated! 8vo. 240 by 14.5 cm. xlvii, [1], 244, [4], 339 pp. With 60 Grandville plates from the Fournier first edition of 1839, fifteen of which have been hand-colored especially for this copy, and with Grandville's head and tailpieces and numerous text vignettes. With the extra-illustration, there are an additional 36 hand-colored plates plus 17 B/W engravings by Massard, Collyer, Schroeder, etc. See Gordon Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book, no. 191. Also Grand Carteret II, 357-358. Bound in full red crushed Levant morocco. Double gilt fillets. Five gilt ruled raised bands. Six double gilt bordered compartments. Gilt tooled edge corners. Scattered foxing -- most leaves unaffected, but occasionally somewhat heavy. Light wear to the binding. Still a highly attractive and unique copy.