Volck Adelbert (2 results)

Leather. Condition: Fine. No date. [1880]. Folio. Binding dimensions 35.5 x 27.5 cm. Index and 29 plates, without title-page, as issued, printed on fine India paper and mounted on thicker stock, with titles in light pencil to the bottom margins. The second edition, with the same collation as the first but with 29 plates, not 30, as issued. Only 100 copies were issued of this edition. Howes writes that "the original issue was probably suppressed by the author as the caricatures bordered on treason. The re-issued form was doubtless made up of the suppressed sheets or printed from the original copper-plates. One of the plates.had evidently been lost in storage, so does not appear in that issue" (V138aa). Striking design binding by Jeremiah Larkins (1833-1907). Signed "Larkins" on the front turn-in, c. 1900. Bound in navy morocco with fore-edges of boards stamped with the title in gilt, wrapped (front and back) with a Confederate battle flag mounted right on the leather, with leather paste-down endpapers, wide turn-ins, with gilt stamped devices to the corners, and navy & gold floral endpapers. The Confederate battle flag (the most recognized version with the diagonal blue cross and white stars on a red background), represent the States that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War. The flag typically has 13 stars, symbolizing the 11 states that officially seceded from the Union: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, plus Missouri and Kentucky, which had Confederate governments-in-exile but never fully left the Union in practice. The stars are meant to represent the unity of the Confederate states in their rebellion against the U.S. federal government. Some light scuffing to the leather endpapers, and very light rubbing to a piece of the flag cover at the spine, bookplate to first blank (v). This is an excellent copy, and clean and bright throughout. The book covered in thin linen and laid-in to a four-flap chemise with leather title mounted to the upper cover. The upper cover of the chemise is heavily damp-stained and damaged but the book is near perfect and the binding very attractive.

Very Good. Second Edition. Complete set of 29 plates and the plate list each a mounted India proof. One of 100 sets issued. "The original issue was probably suppressed by the author as the caricatures bordered on treason. The reissued form was doubltless made up of the suppressed sheets or printed form the original plates." Howes V-138. Complete set of 29 plates and the plate list each a mounted India proof. In original board portfolio as issued and housed in a beautiful 1/2 green morocco portfolio case. A few of the plates with minor edge stains and chips but a generally fresh and sound set of a very rare and fragile work.