Ionica, Signed (5 results)

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. ITALIANO Coperta con punti imbruniti e con segni dovuti da fattore tempo. Tagli regolari ed imbruniti, pagine ben salde alla costa e con imbrunitura. Fascicolo completamente fruibile, pubblicato per cura della Clinica Oculistica della R. Università di Roma - Direttore: Prof. Cirincione. Estratto dal "Giornale di Medicina Militare, Fasc. III, 1920", numero pagine 22; da segnalare: presenti dedica autografa dell'autore a pag. 3.

estratto Memorie Accademia delle Scienze, pp.62 (252-314), brossura rifatta.

First edition. Contemporary red morocco by M.M. Holloway, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, sides panelled in blind with gilt device at corners, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Presentation copy to his youngest sister, inscribed by the author, "Ellen F Deane 1859". The recipient has made two marginal notes: by 'A Song' she has written "Given to me on M[othering].S[unday]., Eton 1853" and above 'A Study of Boyhood' she has noted "Father Congreve". Sometime neatly rebacked, preserving original spine; spine gilt dulled, fore-edge of boards lightly rubbed, else a very good copy. Ionica was published anonymously and at the author's expense in an edition of 500 copies, of which 311 had been sold by 1872. This copy, whose binding resembles the author's own, is almost certainly one of the ten copies that were apparently specially bound for him. Hayward 275.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 vols, the first published by Smith, Elder, London, 1858, in contemporary red morocco by E. Riley & Son, lettered in gilt on spine "IONICA / PART / I / 1858", all edges gilt; the second, printed at the University Press, Cambridge, 1877, in contemporary red morocco to match, by Johanna Birkenruth, lettered in gilt on spine "IONICA / PART / II. / 1877.", all edges gilt. Spine of the first rubbed and faded, edges of covers slightly rubbed, some spotting of prelims, pp. 91-2 slightly nicked at fore-edge; upper cover of the second slightly rubbed at top edge. The first comprises the primary collection of William Johnson Cory (né Johnson, 1823-1892), schoolmaster, scholar and poet, published anonymously, and prints at p. 7 his best-known poem, a version of Callimachus, "They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead"; inscribed, "Alfred Lambert from Charles David Williamson Oct 9. 1887", it bears a few marginal pencillings. In the text of the second are six manuscript alterations, four in ink (apparently in the author's hand - adding to Carter's named three, "brink" for "bank", p. [5]), two in pencil; inscribed on the blank facing the title-page are 16 lines of "Dream-life", printed in (and copied from?) Viscount Esher's Ionicus (1924). In a letter to the future Lord Esher, 13 November 1877, the author wrote, "I sent to the Cambridge University Press this week sundry rhymes, enough to fill forty-eight pages exactly; not published, but just to 'give' away for a shilling a copy privately, as I was tired of copying out, and at the same time I could never tell that there might not be a few, say ten pupils, who might like to see certain things." "This book [Ionica II] is a rare bibliographical curiosity," wrote A.C. Benson. "It has neither title-page nor index; it bears no author's name; and it is printed without punctuation, on a theory of the author's, spaces being left, instead of stops, to indicate pauses." Charles David Robertson Williamson (1853-1943) - known as "Chat" (for Chatterbox) - was a favourite pupil of the author's at Eton. To Johnson/Cory's dismay he converted to Catholicism at the age of 20 and became a Catholic priest, finally in his native Perthshire. The binding by Johanna Birkenruth (1853-1929) is attractively fresh. Inscribed by Author(s).

(39 x 28,5 cm). Mit gestochenem Titel und 29 (26 num. und 3 nn.) Kupfertafeln. Halbpergamentband des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zweite Ausgabe seines architektonischen Hauptwerkes, mit dem der aus Zürich stammende Kunstschreiner wichtige Prager Schreinerarbeiten seiner Zeit beeinflusste. - Krammer (1564-1606), der 1587 als Pfeifer bei der Trabantengarde in den Dienst von Kaiser Rudolf II. in Prag trat, war Kunstschreiner und Architekturtheoretiker. Seine 1600 erstmals erschienene "Architectura" war eines der erfolgreichsten "Säulenbücher" des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Krammer streift darin anfänglich kurz die Geometrie, um anschließend die "fünf Ordnungen" ausführlich zu behandeln, indem er für jede Ordnung die Konstruktion der Säule beschreibt und Beispiele für ihre Ornamentierung sowie mögliche Anwendungen an Portalen, Altären, Epitaphien etc. liefert. - Der Titel mit architektonischem Rahmen zeigt entsprechende Werkzeuge dieser Zunft. Auf den eindrucksvollen Tafeln sind neben den typischen Säulen auch Ornamente, Stelen u.ä. dargestellt. Sie sind nummeriert 1-26, dazu 2 nicht nummerierte und eine weitere zeitgenössische Kupfertafel ("Arco delle legationi") im Stil Krammers, die aber wohl nicht zu diesem Werk gehört. Die meisten Tafeln sind in der Platte von Krammer und Sadeler signiert, teilweise datiert 1598 bzw. 1599. - Ränder teilweise etwas fleckig und vereinzelt mit Quetschspuren. Zwei Tafeln mit gering restaurierter unterer Außenecke. Titel und letztes Blatt verso angeschmutzt. - VD17 23:300876Y; Millard III, 55; vgl. Ornamentstichkatalog 1944-45 (Ausg. 1600 bzw. 1610).