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Published by Edward Moxon & Co., London, 1864
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Twelfth Edition. Size: 16mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Green gilt-stamped leather over boards, 5 raised bands, all edges gilt, beautiful foreedge painting of view of the East side of Regent Street, 183 pages. Spine sunned, covers stained, wear on corners, spine ends and edges, small scuffs on spine, foxing on first and last few pages, with some lighter foxing scattered on a couple other pages throughout. Overall a very good copy for its age. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 12 oz. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 011625.
Published by T. Nelson and Sons, London, 1866
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
leather_bound. Condition: Full black morocco. Aeg. Fine. 477 pages. 15.5 x 13 cm. Fore-edge painting of Stratford-Upon-Avon. This is her best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, Owner inscription free front endpaper dated 1891. Interior contents clean and fresh. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt.
Published by Macmillan, London, 1874
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
leather_bound. [lxiii] 536 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Fore-edge painting of Blarney Castle. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, latter slightly darkened. Owner inscription paste down front endpaper dated 1875. Full dark navy morocco. Very good.
Published by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1841
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo, viii, 288pp. Full red morocco, with gilt borders and spine, with titles and date to the spine in gilt, stamped right on the leather, all edges gilt. Corners bumped, boards a little scuffed and scratched, joints and spine ends rubbed. The second half of the plates foxed, one guard with a tear, but overall good and clean throughout and the binding tight and square. 16 steel-engraved plates after Thomas Allom and a fore-edge painting exhibiting a view of the city of Ghent, with sailboats in the foreground, with a note in ink to the engraved title verso. Thomas Roscoe was an author and translator whose original books include travels, histories, and poems. Thomas Allom is best known for his illustrations for travel books. Lowndes, III, p. 2127.
Published by G. Routledge & Co, London, 1858
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
leather_bound. [xviii] 466 pages. 15.5 x 11 cm. Fore-edge painting of Salisbury Cathedral. Steel engraved black and white lettered plates with tissue guards. Bookplate of Constance Waller, marbled endpapers, raised bands, multiple cover border panels, fleur-de-lys cover decorations in blind. and gauffered edges. Full dark green morocco. Aeg. Fine.
Published by Edward Moxon, London, 1861
Seller: Sean Fagan, Rare Books, Buford, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Leather. Condition: Near Fine/No Jacket as issued. Tenth Edition. Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Full morocco leather cover with gilt decorations and lettering and gilt page-ends. Fore-edge painting of a country house and church, with a lake and a man rowing in the foreground. Dimensions of book, as measured on the cover, are 4 1/4" wide, 6 1/2" tall, 1" thick. Light foxing on preliminary pages. Gift inscription from 1863 on front free endpaper. A nice, clean attractive copy of Tennyson's poems with a handsome and colorful fore-edge painting.
Published by Ball, Arnold, & Co., 1840
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Small Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New edition, revised (seventh edition and fourth edition, respectively). Both volumes feature idyllic fore-edge paintings: the first of a woman and a boy holding hands as they walk a road, with large trees on either side in the foreground, and copses of trees in the distance; the second depicts two figures rowing a canoe down a stream with a village in the distance. Each appears to be by the same artist. Corners a bit rubbed with evidence of minor restoration to spine head and foot, ink name on front endpaper of each volume. 1840 Small Hard Cover. xi, 171; 208, [12] pp. 12mo. Volumes one and two of what was ultimately a six-volume set of Montgomery's collected poems. The presence of fore-edge paintings on these volumes is somewhat unusual, as traditionally this was done on leather-bound volumes, often quite a bit larger than these, and the practice in general was considerably more common in the 18th century and earlier. That being said, these are ably done, so it is clear that they are not the work of an amateur, and it is possible someone commissioned a contemporary artist to do the entire set, and these are the volumes that remain. His poetry, while it sold well during his lifetime, is remembered best as the victim of excoriating reviews by John Wilson in Blackwood's, and Thomas Babington Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review.
Published by J. Murray, London, 1794
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
leather_bound. New Edition. [xlv] 256 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Fore-edge painting of Maidstone. Five full page color stipple engravings. Thomson, a precursor of the Romantic movement this work, the earliest 18th century blank verse poem, challenges the earlier classical ideal of poetry with truthful and romantic treatment of rural beauties. CHEL Vol 10, p.96. "The Seasons is his most important poem. Its form was suggested by the example of Virgil's "Georgics:" Thomson expressly reminds his readers of the similarity of this themes to those of Virgil." Owner inscription dated 1798 verso of front free endpaper, spine slightly darkened. Full red morocco, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. Aeg. Near fine.
Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A smartly bound, fore-edge painted copy of Sir Walter Scott's popular narrative poem 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel'. With an illustrated title page and frontispiece.Prior owner's inscription to the half title, Charlotte Pirr 1845 Albion Place. A second prior owner's inscription to the advertisement 'Edward Pirr Belford'.The painted fore-edge to this work of Hampton Court. A charming illustration, which shows three people outside of the Palace. Neatly written caption 'Hampton Court Palace'.In a beautiful full calf binding.A charming copy of this important narrative poem which is set in the Scottish Borders in the mid 16th century. In a full calf binding, with gilt stamped boards and spine. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the joints and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with just the odd spots. Very Good Indeed. book.
Published by Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, London, 1825
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Full leather. Condition: Very good. With fore-edge paintings depicting American sailing vessels, the New Edition of The Works of Thomas Gray. (illustrator). New Edition. Small octavo, [two volumes], cxiv, 228pp; xiii, 365pp. Full red morocco, four raised bands, gilt-embellished borders, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, green silk bookmark sewn into each volume. Marbled endpapers. Stated "New Edition" on the title page. Solid text blocks, light wear to corners and joints. Faint scuff marks to boards and along gilt edges. Touch of foxing to leaves throughout. Portrait frontispiece in Volume I. Fore-edge paintings depict the America's Cup Race from 1876, with sailing vessels flying the flag of the United States. A beautiful example.
Publication Date: 1877
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. London 1877 Henry S. King. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo (4-1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 161pp., 4pp. (ads). Finely bound in Full leather with fancy gilt border and gilt design on spine. On front fore-edge--the closed page ends-- (about one inch high by 6 inches long) there is an ORIGINAL full-color PAINTING showing a green field with fence and sheep and a man with a black hat fornicating (a soldier? a bishop?) with a mostly clothed maiden on top of a drum. THE PICTURE IS TOTALLY INVISIBLE until one slightly fans or bends the text block - then the image suddenly appears. The painting itself is Fine and of high quality with surprisingly fine detail. Book itself is Very Near Fine, one half-inch closed tear on front blank end paper and a small spot on end paper from glue residue. No owner marks. Text is clean and bright as new. Amazing--has to be seen! The painting is totally invisible until the spine is slightly tilted. Pictures sent on request.
Published by John Pine, London, 1757
Seller: Arader Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. THE FINEST ENGRAVED CLASSICAL BOOK OF THE XVIIIc. First edition, second printing. London: John Pine, 1733-1737 (i.e., 1757). Octavo in 2s (i.e., quarter-sheets printed in folio; 8 3/8" x 5 5/16", 213mm x 135mm). [Full collation available.] Bound in extra-gilt red morocco. On the boards, an extra-gilt border surrounding a gilt lozenge, filled with gilt ornaments. On the spine, five raised bands with a gilt roll between two gilt fillets left and right. Panels gilt within a triple gilt fillet border top and bottom, double left and right. Title gilt to green morocco in the second panel. Number gilt to green morocco in the third panel. Gilt chevron roll to the edges of the boards and the inside dentelle. Marbled end-papers. All edges gilt, with concealed fore-edge paintings of floral scrollwork. Green silk marking-ribbons. Both boards of vol. I starting at the head. Chips and loss to the head and tail. First free end-paper of vol. I reinforced but still loose. Fore-corners bumped and turn-ins splitting a little. General scuffing to the extremities. Internally quite bright with a strong impression in both volumes. Occasional mild tanning and very rare foxing. Altogether quite a magnificent set. Cancelled armorial bookplate of Portsmouth Cathedral library to the front paste-down of both volumes (nos. 8618 and 8619). Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-27) was the great poet of the dying days of the Roman Republic; Augustus, the first emperor, was his heir. His verses were standard fare for Latin learning from the Carolingian Renaissance right through to the present. As such his influence on European poetry is perhaps greater than any other's. The printing history of his verse matches this stature, and as such Pine's task was to distinguish his publication from others'. John Pine was England's pre-eminent engraver in the first half of the XVIIIc. With his great friend William Hogarth (who did the famous portrait of him qua Rembrandt) he championed Engravers' Copyright act of 1734, which extended the protections of printers to engravers -- an absolutely crucial moment in the history of illustrated books in Britain. Pine's Horace is among the most celebrated of XVIIIc books; nearly every scholar and critic from its publication has praised its elegance and beauty. Indeed, the text itself is almost an afterthought. Founded on Talbot's 1701 Cambridge text, its real ancestor is Tonson's 1699 quarto edition using an earlier Talbot recension. The value of the book and reason for its unparalleled popularity -- nearly 1,000 subscribers, including the kings of England, France, Spain and Portugal, and the Holy Roman Emperor -- is the integration of text and image. There is also a superabundance of (germane) illustrations: coins, statues and vases all illuminate the text. Indeed, as Michael Suarez argues in his first Lyell lecture (28 April 2015), the value of the book was really as a florilegium of antiquary volumes in the libraries of English virtuosi. The standard point, recognized as early as Dibdin (1804) identifying this as a second printing is the medallion of Augustus Caesar on p. 108 of vol. II; the legend in the first printing reads "POST EST" but it was corrected, as in the present copy, to "POTEST." Suarez demonstrates in his Lyell lecture that the original seven shareholder booksellers bought from Pine's widow (Pine died in 1756) the remaining shares in order to recoup their losses from the original plates. Thus they readvertised and reprinted (with the noted correction being the only substantive change) the work in 1757, rather misleadingly, as remaining copies of the original. Although the poems are deeply blasphemous, the present copy belonged to the Virtue and Cahill collection of the library of Portsmouth Cathedral (the bookplate is Victorian in design). The bookplate is rather dramatically cancelled. Brunet III, 320; De Ricci-Cohen pp. 497-8; Dibdin I, 419; ESTC N504923; Lowndes 1113; Printing and the Mind of Man2 105; Rothschild 1548.
Published by Thomas Tegg, London, 1824
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
xxx, 368pp. 8vo. With a foreedge painting of City Hall by Miss Currie, with a calligraphic notation signed by Currie on the front blank: "This is No. 33 of the Books with Foreedge Paintings by Miss Currie. The Painting under the gold is a view of CIty Hall New York" xxx, 368pp. 8vo. With a Foreedge Painting by Miss Currie. Carl J. Weber Fore-Edge Paintings 1966 pp. 150-152 Late nineteenth century full straight grain blue morocco gilt, by H. Sotheran, spine gilt with raised bands With a foreedge painting of City Hall by Miss Currie, with a calligraphic notation signed by Currie on the front blank: "This is No. 33 of the Books with Foreedge Paintings by Miss Currie. The Painting under the gold is a view of CIty Hall New York".