Caxton Edition: Books, First Edition (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ. 1st British Edition. Caxton Editions 1999 1st British Edition Fine/Near Fine DJ Faint rubbing/overwriting to back of dust jacket o/w Fine. 240 pages. 9.7 ounces. Size: 7 x 4 1/2 x 1 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A charming first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in an alike dust-jacket; This book tells the story of the printing press and its impact on the development of English language and culture. It covers the life of William Caxton, the man responsible for the first English-language book, and the people and events that led up to and followed his invention.; 8vo ; 266 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper, pp.unnumbered but 62. Colour illustrations. The Caxton illustrated edition of Aesop`s Fables was published in 1484 and this is a selection which includes the same woodcut illustrations reproduced here. These are coloured but I do not know if the colouring is as done in the original handcoloured copies. The text is kept as close to the original as possible but modernised to permit current reading and understanding. A little edge wear to dustwrapper which has a very slightly sunned spine else a very clean and crisp copy. Near fine in VG dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper ( priceclipped ), pp.unnumbered but 62. Colour illustrations. The Caxton illustrated edition of Aesop`s Fables was published in 1484 and this is a selection which includes the same woodcut illustrations reproduced here. These are coloured but I do not know if the colouring is as done in the original handcoloured copies. The text is kept as close to the original as possible but modernised to permit current reading and understanding. A little edge wear to dustwrapper else a very clean and crisp copy. Near fine in clipped dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Barry Moser (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Very heavy Bible; spine lightly indented, light edgewear, covers slightly bowed; DJ has mild shelfwear, little bit of small wrinkles to edges, 1/4" tear to bottom front fold ; 1024 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition 1st Edition/1st Printing hardcover in Fine condition dust jacket. Slight foxing to outer page edges and endpages, else Fine condition inside and out. Dust jacket is in As-New condition. "The date for the introduction of printing into England has been variously fixed between December 1468 and November 1477 and celebrated accordingly. Equally, the identity of the first book to have been printed in England and the location of its printing has been subject to a variety of conflicting theories. In Caxton in Focus Lotte Hellinga outlines the history of Caxton studies over the past three centuries and conveys the fascination of current research methods, which combine the use of modern forensic equipment with painstaking detective work. The results, first revealed in the television programme The Printer's Tale (part of the BBC series Discoveries), indicate that The Canterbury Tales was the book with which Caxton chose to begin his career in England, although the date for the printing of the first folios at Westminster cannot be precisely determined. Thus the author builds up a new and coherent picture of Caxton's intentions when he established England's first printing house at Westminster." Will be bubble-wrapped to protect its corners and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Cream hardcover. Spine ends slightly rubbed, else fine. Dust jacket condition: Very slight edge wear to back cover, else fine. Not price clipped.

Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated, Percy Grassby (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original printed wrappers, near fine. Illustrations by Percy Grassby. One of 250 copies. "Describing various customs and manners such as prevailed through the festive season during the life time of this illustrious printer. Made up and presented with the season's greetings by the Caxton Company at Cleveland, Ohio. XMAS 1920." Scarce.

fest gebunden. XII und 122 Seiten, 1 Blatt. Orig. Halbleinwand (gering berieben und bestoßen, Einband leicht fleckig, sonst gutes und sauberes Exemplar). Gr.-8°. Erste Ausgabe. ----- BITTE BEACHTEN: Auf Grund der absurden und irrsinnig teuren staatlichen Regelungen für die Entsorgung der Versandpappen in den nachfolgenden Ländern, kann ich leider nicht mehr liefern nach: Österreich, Griechenland, Polen. Kunden in ÖSTERREICH können sich aber an die einheimische Post wenden, dort unter Alles Post Deutschland. --- PLEASE NOTE: Due to the absurd and insanely expensive government regulations for the disposal of shipping cartons in the following countries, I can unfortunately no longer deliver to: Austria, Greece, Poland. However, customers in AUSTRIA can contact their local post office, there under Alles Post Deutschland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good book structurally in rather dusty nondescript textured brown buckram covers with dulled gilt titles to spine and blind stamped to front. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; binding tight; no foxing; a few very tiny corner creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vintage 1860 edition of the original classic. This is volume 2 of 2 in the Library Edition. Hard cover edition. 581 pages. Dimensions: 5.5" by 8". Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York. 1st edition, 1860. Brown binding. 2 Pound Shipping Rate. Genre(s): Historical Fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Bump to top/right of boards - this has created mild rippling to corner of pages. Spine faded. No inscriptions. Internally clean. Sound binding.

Hardcover. The product is a vintage hardcover book titled "Singing Sails" by Claire Peabody, published in 1951 by Caxton Printers in Caldwell, Idaho. This 1st edition, 2nd print book is an original, illuminated and illustrated work in English language, making it a valuable addition for collectors of historical and biographical literature. With special attributes such as being ex-library, this North American edition of the book is a unique piece for those interested in antiquarian and collectible books.; 10.00 x 8.00 x 4.00.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket. A nice copy from Caxton Printers in Idaho.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean and tight in brown cloth with gilt and black designs. Pages tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Pages unnumbered, illustrated in B&W. Text in (old) English. - le Morte D' Arthur - By Sir Thomas Malory - Printed By William Caxton 1485 - Reproduced in Facsimile from the copy of Piermont Morgan Library, New York, with an introduction by Paul Needman - Numbered Edition - this is number 443 - in a very fine as new condition. Size: 293 x 230 x 85 Mm. Book.

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good quarto 4 + (304)pp., col. & b/w pls., With 152 full-page cartoons, most in colour. Each cartoon is accompanied by a full-page short essay on German barbarism by a range of writers inc. H. de Vere Stackpole, Edmund Gosse, G. K. Chesterton, Eden Phillpots, Dean Inge, Horace Annesley Vachell, & Arthur Morrison. One loose page & boards rather worn & faded o/w a very good copy of a fascinating item. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by Barry Moser, 12 x 8.5", gilt-lettered and gilt-dec cloth, 994pp in double columns, minor finger soiling to foredge of textblock else a nice copy in a rubbed, lightly soiled dustjacket with light edge-wear. FIRST PRINTING (full number line).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of this facsimile edition, bound in quarter maroon leather. This edition published from the copy sold from Ripon Minster.

[18], 994, [12] pp. Illustrated by Barry Moser. 4to. 12" x 8-1/2" Fine / Nr Fine (faint wear & soiling/few faint stains tp front panel). Linen cloth binding. Dust jacket 1st trade printing. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION by Moser on affixed bookplate to h-t page.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Carolyn Blackmore (illustrator). 1st Edition. Landscape format thread bound booklet consisting of a re-setting and re-printing of the earliest dated item printed by William Caxton in England. Introductory text by the publisher (Claire Bolton) and calligraphy by Carolyn Blackmore. One fawn sheet and nine white sheets of paper bound within red covers. Black design from Caxton's work on front cover. Printed in a limited numbered edition of 125 copies. This is copy #55. Measures 350mm x 275mm. In fine condition. Protected within a clear archival envelope and card backing.

Leather. Condition: FINE. First Edition. Copy #73 of an edition limited to 400. 2 Volumes. Folio, 11.5x16', bound in full limp vellum by Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton, with gilt stamped lettering, housed in linen clamshell cases with paper printed labels. Printed on Zerkall paper with deckled edges. Illustrated throughout with over 200 woodcuts that are letterpress printed here directly from Moser's 'resingrave' originals. Both volumes FINE; Slipcases show some faint sunning to the spines, entirely clean and sound otherwise.

Tall 8vo. Limited edition. #122 of 160 copies. Original oasis green morocco-backed vellum, with geometric decorative border and title in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Transparent wrappers, together in a brown board slipcase, with morocco tips, and preserved in modern brown cloth folder and another slipcase. Text in Latin, Italian and English. Printed on Magnani mould-made paper with goose watermark (like that of the original edition). List of woodcuts and prospectus loosely inserted. 68 (of which 66 are full page) woodcut illustrations by Anna Bramanti after Liberale da Verona, all hand-coloured after a copy of the 1479 edition in the British Museum by the Atelier Daniel Jacomet of Paris. Fine. 'Giovanni Alvise, the third early printer in Verona, was active between 1478 and 1480. With his Aesop he produced one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the fifteenth century. He was also the inventor of the first typographic ornaments, cast like letters in lead and so distinguishing his books from others. Newly cut by Charles malin, they recur in our edition, whose essential attraction are sixty-eight woodcuts which in a masterly re-cutting by Anna Bramanti illustrate the fables [.]The delightful illustrations which adorn the text were hand-coloured after printing. A copy in the British Museum, which is by far the most beautiful among the few surviving coloured ones, served as the model. Its woodcuts were not merely coloured with a few strong accents in the primitive manner customary in the fifteenth century, but with a rich scale of colours and shadings that remind one of illuminated miniatures. Only a great master can have created the designs for the vivid scenes, and from the outset he must have had colours in mind that would bring the linear woodcuts to life.' Giovanni Mardersteig, The Officina Bodoni (1980) p.173. 'In many respects this work was the culmination of Mardersteig's endeavour during half a century as a printer, art historian, and discoverer.' Hans Schmoller in his Introduction to the above. From the collection of Eric Sweet (1929-2024) a keen collector of Fable and Private Press books from his youngest years until his 90s, and a lifelong student of the book arts: paper, type, illustration and bookbinding. His career began at Brighton College of Art in the 1950s. He then spent some years in London as a lettering artist and typographer for various advertising agencies before a move to Birmingham where he became head of the Birmingham School of Printing. The folder and outer slipcase are by him.

Vellum. Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket. 1st Thus. frontis; FABLES OF AESOP, as First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio, now again edited and induced by Joseph Jacobs. With History of the Aesopic Fable. 2 volumes. Edited by Joseph Jacobs. Frontispiece illustrations. 25.2x15 cm (10x6") , original publisher's binding of vellum-backed boards, deckle edges. No. 48 of an edition limited to 50 of 60 copies on large paper. Rare Large Paper edition of Caxton's Aesop, critically edited and with a long historical essay about the Fables and their origin in Vol. I. Bindings somewhat worn, with some scuffing and cracking, but fundamentally sound. Internally very clean and attractive.

First critical edition. Volume one text, volumes two and three bound together comprise notes and commentary. From the library and with the bookplate of William Dudley Oliver, author of "Crags and Craters, 1896. Some light rubbing to joints, light wear spine foot volume one, overall still near fine. Volume 1 half brown morocco over marbled boards, volume 2 more recent half brown calf over marbled boards, title and author gilt, marbled end papers, teg.

1st ed. - 49 pages. - Halfleather, good ex-library.

First edition of the first truly scholarly edition of Malory's Arthurian epic, number 14 of 108 copies numbered and signed by Nutt, this set from the library of a notable San Francisco family and handsomely bound by the Californian binders Hicks Judd. The 861-page first volume (bound here as two) prints word-for-word the preface and full text of the first edition of Caxton's Morte Darthur (1485). The editor, Oskar Sommer, worked from the Althorp copy in the British Library, one of only two then known. The latter two volumes comprise much bibliographical and critical discussion, including an essay by Andrew Lang, a list of names and places, and a glossary. Provenance: bookplates of both the poet and 28th Mayor of San Francisco, Edward Robeson Taylor, and his eldest son, the printer and artist Edward DeWitt Taylor. 3 vols in 4, quarto (333 x 266 mm). Facsimile plate in vol. 1, 5 charts (4 folding) in vols 2 and 3. Contemporary red half morocco by Hicks Judd, titles gilt to spines, raised bands tooled in blind, blind rules extending to covers, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Two bookplates in each vol. Extremities occasionally bumped, a little recoloured, negligible marks to boards of vol. 2, light foxing to edges, occasionally extending to text. A very good copy indeed.