Translated Sir Roger Lestrange (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback, blue cloth with printed spine label, marks on covers, head, tail and corners rubbed and bumped, former owner's name and blind embossed stamp on front end-paper and name on title-page, tear to fore-edge of page 303 repaired, some light marks throughout. Please contact me for photographs or further information if required.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. N.D. [c1900] 8vo, pp,xxxii,364, with 110 original illustrations, gilt titled navy cloth, uncut, foxing to fore-edge, hinges are cracked but tight, light age-toning. Chandos Classics.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition for age of the book. Hard cover in very good condition, evidence of rubbing, bumping, tanning and spotting across external board. Minor rips on the top and bottom of spine. Internally, front and backboard spine crease is exposed. Slight rubbing bumping on internal front and back boards. Brown and gold spine. Internal pages in very good condition for age of book. Tanning and spotting on pages internally and externally. Handwritten inscription on front page. Black and white illustrations. Includes frontispiece. 364pp. Overall very good condition.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. [4] 284pp, contemporary calf, boards appear to have been subjected to heat and restored, recent skilfull reback and corner repairs, some foxing throughout (heavier on the first few pages including the title), armorial bookplate on front pasredown, 8vo (16.5x10cm), ESTC T88975.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition, being number 57 of 525 copies, signed by the illustrator Stephen Gooden. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange and featuring an engraved title page, 11 engraved plates and pictorial initials. Bound in the original full velum, decorated in gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. Publisher's original vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, device in fourth compartment gilt, fox device on front cover gilt, covers bordered with gilt rules and cornerpiece, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; pp. 313, [1]. A very good or better copy. Minor shelfwear to boards with a light bump to top front corner, traces of soiling to boards. Spine a touch toned, rubbing near spine crown, near imperceptible slip along one spine compartment. Foxing to prelims, else internally clean. A very nice copy of this beautiful volume. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Full Leather Hard Back. Condition: Good. blank + Licensed page + Title page + blank + Title page (yes a duplicate title page) + blank + iii + blank + 344 pages, antique full leather binding fair/good, worn, some minor leather loss, spine title label mostly missing, covers attached to spine very good. Contents mostly good, clean & tight. A couple of inscriptions to a only a few pages inc title, some ageing/handling of pages, contains blank endpages front/rear. Size: 11 x 18cm. Approx.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The seventh edition corrected. [12], 29, [xi], 549, [1] pp. with frontispiece portrait of the translator. Hardcover, bound in full calf, rebacked; with calf backed slipcase. The binding scuffed. Light foxing; marginal damp staining. [Of-C1-S4].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION of 533 copies of which this is number 354. Signed in the colophon by the artist, Stephen Gooden. Hand-numbered copy printed on handmade paper. 312, (2) pages. 7.25 x 10.25 x 1.75 inches. 12 copper engravings by Stephen Gooden, including title and tail-piece, and 198 large historiated engraved initials. Original full vellum. Stamped in gold with double fillets, a fox in the center of the upper cover and grapes and vine-leaves in the angles of both covers. Cambridge University Press for George G. Harrap. With engraved title, 11 original full page copper engravings on plates, and many decorative woodcut initials by Stephen Gooden. Gilt-lettered spine and ornate covers with double gilt fillets, grapes on corners and jumping fox in the center of front cover. The slipcase is not the original one from 1936 but was created by a later master bookbinder. Re-impression of the seventh corrected 1724 edition of L'Estrange's (1617-1705) translation. Stephen Gooden's (1892-1955) masterpiece. The animals are rendered with such plasticity in every detail that they seem to jump out of the leaf. - Bodemann 434.1. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, No inscriptions, no spotting. Gilt titles to spine, gilt rule to boards, with small pictorial decorations to corners and center. Gooden, Stephen (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s). …