Illustrations Bible, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Not marked; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author.

361 S. 4°, Orig.-Pappbd. m. illustr. Orig.-Schutzumschlag. Widmungsexemplar des Künstlers. - (=Französisch.) - Edition commentée et dirigée par Helmut Friedel. Textes de Rudi Fuchs, Susanne Gaensheimer, Friedhelm Mennekes, Gabriele Reisenwedel. - Gut erhalten. 1800 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: g+ to vg. Later edition. Folio. LIX, [1], 1167, [1], 64pp. Contemporary full blind-stamped morocco, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. Ribbon marker. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Moses protected with a tissue-guard. Additional engraved title hand-colored. This remarkable Victorian Family Bible is magnificently illustrated throughout with numerous full-page engravings depicting Bible scenes, views, maps and plans (including 24 stunning chromolithographic plates). Text in two columns. Binding signed by Blackie and Son*. Moderate and sporadic rubbing on binding. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. * Blackie and Son was founded in 1809 by John Blackie, snr. (1782-1874) as a partnership with two others and was originally known as 'Blackie, Fullarton and Company'. It began printing in 1819 and was renamed 'Blackie and Son' in 1831, becoming a public limited company in 1890. The business had quarters at 16/18 William IV Street, Charing Cross, London and 17 Stanhope Street, Glasgow, Scotland, and opened offices in both Canada and India. The company ceased publishing in 1991. Blackie and Son initially published books sold by subscription, including religious texts and reference books. Later the firm published single volumes, particularly educational texts and children's books, taking advantage of compulsory education from 1870. Notable books from The Kennett Library, a graded series of classics retold for schools, include: Kidnapped, Little Women, Westward Ho!, The Black Arrow, Wuthering Heights and Ben-Hur. The firm published the many Flower Fairy books of Cicely Mary Barker beginning in 1923. In 1902, Walter Blackie commissioned the building of a new house on a plot at Helensburgh to the West of Glasgow. At the invitation of their illustrator Talwin Morris, the architect was his friend Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This house became Hill House, regarded as one of Mackintosh's finest works.

4to. Unpaginated. (88)pp. With 19 orig. coloured woodcuts and 1 loosely inserted orig. pencil drawing signed "Pierre 48". Orig. boards with orig. dustwrapper. One of only 20 (total 25) numbered copies, colophon signed by the artist, Pierre Stampfli. Text entirely engraved in wood. - Mint copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition, thus. Two tomes (each in two parts), bound in one volume, folio: [6], lxxix, [1, blank], 544; [1, title], [1, blank], [545]-957, [1, blank], xx (Cantique des cantiques), 96 (La sagesse; Ecclesiastique de Jesus fils de Sirach); [1, title], [1, blank], 468; [1, title], [1, blank], 430, 16 (Oratio Manassae; Liber Esdrae - tertius et quartus) pp. Main titles for each tome in red and black; secondary titles in black only (all four titles with engraved printer's device; each dated 1701). Text in two columns (Latin and French). Illustrated with 6 engraved plates: frontispiece (Johann Friederich Karg von Bebenburg); folding plate with 16 vignettes (4x4) depicting well-known biblical scenes; 4 folding maps (The Holy Land; The Promised Land Apportioned by Tribe; Jerusalem in the Second Temple Era - after Lamy; The World Known to the Evangelists). Quarter-page engraved vignettes at the head of each of the 30 biblical books; historiated initials; printed marginalia. Exquisitely bound in the 19th century in levant morocco extra over wooden boards, with mosaic compartments in crimson, ochre; and dark brown bordered in fine gilt line; spine with raised bands (lightly rubbed); pair of brass mounts, finished in black, with steel rivets at both covers (clasps and catched perished). All edges gilt and elaborately gauffered in textured floral motif; gilt inner dentelles; decorative endleaves (renewed) in orange and black; crimson silk ribbon marker. The work of a master binder. Expertly repaired at spine caps. Occasional faint embrowning; marginal dampstains beginning in second half (mostly at outer corners; expanding to fore-edge and darkening considerably in final 20 leaves). Overall a very good copy, with crisp text throughout, though incomplete: lacks Antoine Arnould's "Concorde des quatre Evangélistes," along with its accompanying Latin version and the concluding index. Amply margined copy of this sumptuous edition of the Bible, comprising the Latin Sixto-clementine Vulgate and the Port-Royal French translation printed in parallel columns. Isaac-Louis Lemaistre de Sacy (1613-1684) was the principal translator of the French version, which was edited and completed after his death by Pierre Thomas du Fossé (1634-1698) and Henri-Charles de Beaubrun (1655-1723), who also provide annotations throughout. According to Barbier, the French controversialist Thierry de Viaixnes (1659-1735), who found himself often at odds with his superiors, was the principal editor of the work; at the time of its preparation he was serving as director of an academy at Hautvilliers in the diocese of Rheims (McClintock & Strong). Dedicated to Johann Friederich Karg von Bebenburg (1648-1719), whose signed portrait was drawn and engraved by C. Gustav of Amling. An advocate of maximal papal power, Karg served as Privy Councilor of the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg, Peter Philipp von Dernbach, then of Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria. He served as Dean of Our Lady in Munich, and was entrusted by Emperor Leopold I with a legation to Pope Innocence XI. By these efforts he secured in 1688 the election of Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria as Archbishop of Cologne, as a result of which he was made Chancellor and Minister of State (here noted on the frontispiece). Provenance and annotations: Bookplate of Herman Blum (Blumhaven Library & Gallery), with his ticket below; two gilt-stamped ex-libris morocco labels: Henry W. Poor (oval); Adolph Lewisohn (octogonal). References: Darlow & Moule 3779; Deleveau & Hillard, Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIe siècles conservées è Paris, 605; ADB 15 (1882), "Karg: Johann Friedrich;".