THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON; OR, TEN DAYS PLEASANT DISCOURSE UPON ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, AND SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH EARLY ENGRAVING, TYPOGRAPHY, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dibdin, T[homas] F[rognall]
Published by Shakespeare Press, London, 1817
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First edition. Three volumes. Royal 8vo, 250 cm. (vi), vi, (ii, corrections and additions), ccxxvi, 410p, (ii); (iv), 536p, (ii); (iv), 544p, (ii, additional erratum). Copiously illustrated with wood and copper engravings including 35 full-page plates. Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery in full brown morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and triple-ruled panels, the raised bands extending onto the covers and terminating in fleurons in blind. Beautifully printed by William Bulmer at his celebrated Shakespeare Press. "[Bulmer] spared no pains to render the typography of his press the most correct and beautiful England had hitherto known." (Talbot Baines Reed. A History of the Old English Letter Founderies). A beautifully printed, beautifully illustrated, handsomely bound wide-margained copy. A true collector's copy. Windle and Pippin A28. With the bookplate of Julie Parker Whitman, collector and Pierpont Morgan Library benefactor. Seller Inventory # 22516
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Title: THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON; OR, TEN DAYS ...
Publisher: Shakespeare Press, London
Publication Date: 1817
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Edition: First edition.
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The Bibliographical Decameron; Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon Illuminated Manuscripts, And Subjects Connected With Early Engraving, Typography, And Bibliography.
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London: Printed For The Author, By W.Bulmer And Co., Shakespeare Press; And Sold by G. and W.Nicol, Payne And Foss, 1817., 1817
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Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
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3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 3 p.l., vi, [1 leaf]errata, ccxxv, 410, [1 leaf]colophon; 2 p.l., 44, [1 leaf], 45-535, [1 leaf]errata; 2 p.l., 544, [2 leaves]errata & colophon. with half-titles. 37 engraved & woodcut plates (1 double-page). numerous engravings & woodcuts in the text (incl. 36 prints on india paper, mounted). later full red morocco by F.Bedford, gilt-tooled spines & inside dentelles, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (Vols. I-II front covers detached & rear joints cracked, rear cover of Vol. III stained, intermittent foxing). First Edition. The Bibliographical Decameron, written in the same dialogue manner and with the same interlocutors as the Bibliomania, "is perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works and, especially in the Large Paper copies, the best printedIts publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania." (Windle & Pippin) Dibdin destroyed the plates for the book at a meeting of the Roxburgh Club. "This work forms one of the monuments of typographical bibliography. As in the style of its production it is the most sumptuous, so in the nature of its contents it may be said to be one of the most interesting books relative to ancient and modern printing" (Bigmore & Wyman). The estimated number of copies printed of this regular paper issue ranges from 750 to 900 plus 50 on large paper. As usual this set is without the rare ninth plate listed by Windle in Vol. I, which was not ready at the time of publication and occurs in only a few copies. Bigmore & Wyman pp. 169-170. Jackson 40. Windle & Pippin A28. Seller Inventory # elala189
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THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON;; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography
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Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, London, 1817
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Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
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Three volumes. 8vo, pp. ccxxvi, 410; [iv], 536, [ii]; [iv], 544, [iv]. 37 engraved plates, two double-page; 35 text illustrations printed on India paper and mounted on pages; one mounted gilt lettered specimen of red pared calf; and hundreds of engraved and woodcut text illustrations, several colored. (including plate 9 in the first volume) Bookplates. Bound in later 3/4 brown morocco, all edges marbled. Some minor foxing, soiling and offsetting. A handsome copy. Hart 186. Jackson 40. Lowndes (1885 edition), II, p. 640. Windle & Pippin A28. "In 1817 appeared the most amusing and the most successful (from a pecuniary point of view) of his works, the 'Bibliographical Decameron,' on which a great sum was spent for engravings and woodcuts. The reader will find a great deal of gossip about books and printers, about book collectors and sales by auction." (DNB). Perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works.Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania." Jackson 4. Lowndes says of this work: "From the information which it contains, and the splendor of the decorations and printing, it will ever be considered as a model of excellence and good taste in typography and the arts." First and Only Edition, evidently limited to 750-800 regular and 50 large-paper copies. Seller Inventory # 38193
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