Resultados de búsqueda: Títulos que empiezan por I de Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Stuttgart: Greiner und Pfeiffer, [ca, 1887]. 197 x 140 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). 4 p.l., 200, VIII pp. Very pretty publisher's original blue cloth, covers with bevelled edges decorated in blind, upper cover with ornate central panel in black and gold, a spray of gilt roses bound by a small banner bearing the title in blue, the black background densely adorned with curling gilt vines, flat spine with decorative gilt title banner, gray moiré-textured endpapers, all edges gilt. IN THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET AND CARDBOARD SLIPCASE (the jacket backed with paper to repair chips at head edge, the slipcase slightly worn). With additional color-illustrated title page and numerous wood engravings by R. C. Kepler, 11 of these full-page. Page provided for "Dedication" inscribed to Pauline Spahlinger, dated Stuttgart, 20 Aug[ust] 1887. ◆One opening with faint offsetting (from old bookmark?), otherwise A PRETERNATURALLY FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally with a pristine binding, a still-appealing… Leer más

London: Elkin Mathews Ltd, 1944. No. 46 OF 160 COPIES Specially Bound and WITH A SIGNED PROOF ENGRAVING. 255 x 190 mm. (10 x 7 1/2"). xv, 196 pp., [1] leaf. Publisher's quarter vellum over royal blue buckram, upper cover with a gilt owl centerpiece, smooth spine with gilt lettering. In the (slightly foxed) original white cloth slipcase. With 187 black & white photographic reproductions of Gooden engravings and etchings; a signed proof engraving dated 1943 bound in at front. ◆As new. This is a retrospective look at one of the greatest book illustrators of the 20th century. Educated at Rugby and at the Slade School of Art, Gooden (1892-1955) served in World War I before becoming, in Dodgson's words, "the first young engraver of the twentieth century who attempted in England . . . to use the burin as an instrument for engraving romantic and imaginative compositions invented by himself." Fascinated from childhood with the idea of illustrating books, he began his career with the 1923 Nonesuch Press… Leer más

London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1,000 COPIES. 215 x 155 mm. (8 3/8 x 6"). 8 p.l., 213, [1] pp. Original lavender cloth decorated with gilt flourishes, smooth spine with gilt lettering, edges untrimmed and ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Mason 385. ◆Spine slightly sunned (as virtually always), but no wear to joints or hinges and, in all, A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED, OBVIOUSLY UNREAD COPY (because unopened), and without the soiling this edition is almost always found with. This is an exceptionally fine copy of Wilde's second hit play, successful like his other witty comedies, but with at least slightly more serious social and political content. Opening at the Haymarket Theatre in 1895 and continuing for 124 performances, it features as the title character a prominent politician in danger of losing his reputation because of a potentially damaging letter that the play's villain threatens to expose if the husband refuses to support the former's corrupt political agenda. The play moves… Leer más

Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008. No. 201 OF 980 COPIES. 216 x 152 mm. (8 1/2 x 6"). 136 leaves (in the facsimile). Three volumes (including two volumes of commentary, one in German and one in Italian).. SUMPTUOUS RED MOROCCO, central panel of each cover with thin open-work black leather in an ornate vine pattern laid over blue and gold silk, creating a stained glass effect, the leatherwork incorporating floral circles painted in red and gold, three large medallions arranged down the center of the panel, those at head and tail of red morocco painted in a black, gold, and blue pattern and with a large, round semi-precious stone at the middle, the central medallion comprising a miniature on silk, that on the upper cover of the Archangel Gabriel, that on the lower cover of the Virgin Mary; raised bands, spine diapered in blind, with a single gilt dot at the center of each lozenge; floral silver cornerpieces and two clasps, red morocco doublures framed in silver, doublure panels with intricate… Leer más

London: printed by T[homas]. S[nodham]. for Iohn Stepneth, and are to be sold at his shop at the west-end of Paules Church, 1612. FIRST EDITION. 205 x 155 mm. (8 x 6"). 18 p.l., 611, [1] pp. (601-08 misnumbered 561-68), [8] leaves. New unlettered limp vellum by Courtland Benson in imitation of the original binding. STC 1896; ESTC S124314. ◆Half a dozen gatherings a little browned, occasional mild foxing or small rust spots, additional trivial imperfections, otherwise an excellent copy, clean and very fresh, in a pleasing new binding. This conversation manual by an Italian teacher based in London offers an intriguing glimpse into the lives and concerns of the wealthier classes in 17th century Europe. An early effort to teach language through dialogue, the book is part cultural history, part guide to better health, and it is clear evidence of the importance of the study of Italian in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The seven dialogues cover subjects from health to travel to servants, with Italian… Leer más

Attractively matted. Rubrics in red, one- and two-line initials in brushed gold on a red or blue ground, EACH SIDE OF LEAF WITH A BRUSHED GOLD PANEL BORDER, WITH VERY PRETTY ILLUSIONISTIC FLOWERS OR COMPLEX KNOTWORK; WITH ONE SMALL MINIATURE (measuring approximately 40 x 25 mm.) depicting St. Anne. Headlines written in French in a later (18th century?) calligraphic hand. ◆A stain in about half the lower margin (not affecting decoration or text), light general soiling, rubrics faded and gold a little dulled in places, image of the young Mary a little rubbed in one place, but still a very attractive specimen with an especially touching miniature.From a charmingly decorated 15th century prayer book, this lovely leaf offers the opportunity to acquire a very nice miniature with considerable gold ornamentation at an attainable price. The image depicts St. Anne, venerated as the mother of the Virgin, shown here with daughter Mary at her side. This tender scene between mother and child is accentuated by the… Leer más

Rubrics in red, line fillers in pink and blue with gold accents, each leaf with one or more one-line initials in blue with red penwork or gold with blue penwork, each leaf with a two-line initial painted blue or pink and filled with fish, armorial patterns, or other motif, ONE OF THESE INHABITED BY A HUMAN HEAD, most on a gold ground, one side of each leaf with A FULL BORDER composed of pink and blue tendrils accompanied by spikey gold decoration and gold accents, often terminating in ivy leaves, and incorporating EXTRAORDINARILY CHARMING EXAMPLES OF MARGINALIA, INCLUDING ANIMALS, HUMANS, AND HYBRIDS. ◆Vellum sometimes a little soiled, some leaves with staining or smudging affecting parts of the text and decoration (including a few marginalia) as well as more minor instances of rubbing or smudging, but each leaf with at least one excellent example of a delightful figure in the margin that is very well preserved.Though diminutive in size, these leaves contain enormously appealing marginal decoration… Leer más

London: Illuminated and published by A. Prichard Harrison and Son, [1844]. FIRST EDITION. 284 x 225 mm. (11 1/8 x 8 3/4"). [17] printed leaves preceded by [3] leaves and followed by [44] leaves of illuminated manuscript. Handsome contemporary crimson straight grain morocco by C. Cross, Binder to the Queen (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with gilt French fillet border, raised bands flanked by multiple plain gilt rules, spine with gilt titling, turn-ins densely gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With illuminated gouache title page and dedication, EIGHT FULL-PAGE GOUACHE ILLUSTRATIONS (including a dramatic depiction of St. George slaying the dragon), AND 37 LEAVES EMBLAZONED WITH 726 COATS OF ARMS, ALL OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS DONE BY HAND AND HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Drummond, and with a manuscript letter to Drummond from A. P. Harrison postmarked 1844 tipped in at front. ◆A few very faint scratches on back cover, the… Leer más

Paris: Desgodets et Gérard [but not an actual imprint], 1901. n. This is at once a lovely and puzzling little manuscript that seems to have been designed for use in a way that never materialized. The text contains prayers used before, during, and after Mass as well as the complete Mass for celebrating a marriage, and since the latter section is preceded by a title with an escutcheon bearing the initials "S" and "L," it seems reasonable to speculate that the work might have been intended as a wedding gift for the bride and groom whose names began with those letters. Whatever the intention, it is entirely possible that this manuscript was not used for its envisioned purpose. Possibly our artist ran out of time to complete this project, as 15 pages are left uncolored, and the text in the Mass skips from the Epistle Prologue to the middle of the Creed, with two blanks in between. Perhaps the missing text was too big for the space left to fill, or perhaps those who commissioned… Leer más

London: Chapman and Hall, [1910]. 197 x 150 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 3/4"). 4 p.l., 293 pp. ESPECIALLY APPEALING CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO FOR TRUSLOVE & HANSON of Sloane Street (signed on front turn-in), covers with wide frame formed by two sets of double gilt rules flanking elegant blind-stamped leaf and berries ornaments that are joined by four parallel blind rules; raised bands, spine gilt in double-ruled compartments with blind-stamped circular cornerpieces, wide turn-ins with multiple gilt rules, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. ◆Slight offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins, but A VERY FINE COPY, the lustrous binding entirely unworn, and the text quite clean, fresh, and bright. This handsomely produced edition of the perennially popular devotional was the second work issued by the bibliophilic Verulam Club, and the elegance of its printing is matched here by the equally lovely binding, bearing the very uncommon stamped signature of Truslove &… Leer más

325 x 220 mm. (12 3/4 x 8 3/4"). [185] leaves. Single column, 17 lines in a fine italic book hand.IMPRESSIVE CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO, EXTRAVAGANTLY GILT, BY MORENO (stamp-signed at foot of spine), covers framed with multiple decorative and floral rolls, square cornerpieces with cornucopias at corners, wreathed monogram at center, central panel with oblique vase tools at corners, raised bands, spine compartments with either multiple decorative rolls, floral spray centerpiece with cornucopias at corners, or bead-and-patera swag, turn-ins with guilloche roll, sky blue watered silk endleaves with floral gilt roll border, leather hinges, all edges gilt.
Each text page with two triple-ruled frames in red and blue, some lettering heightened with gold, 14 major family names given decorative acanthus and floral borders, 14 LARGE DECORATIVE INITIALS FILLED WITH LANDSCAPES AND CASTLES and many incorporating snakes and bird motifs, title page with intricately decorated border, followed by A FULL-PAGE FAMILY… Leer más

London: Bernard Smithers and Co, 1899. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1,000 COPIES. 228 x 157 mm. (8 1/2 x 6 1/4"). 8 p.l., 151, [1] pp. Original lavender cloth decorated with gilt designs by Charles Ricketts, edges untrimmed and UNOPENED. In a modern black morocco clamshell box by R. Patron with gilt decoration replicating that on the original cover, gilt titling to back. Mason 381. ◆Spine lightly sunned (but far less faded than usual with this binding), but AN UNSURPASSABLY FINE COPY, with no signs of use or wear. This is Wilde's best-known work and a justly celebrated play that sparkles from beginning to end with pre-eminent sophisticated wit. Day says that "the play's lasting appeal arises from some of the most brilliant dialogue of the English stage," and it is generally accepted as one of the two or three best modern comedies ever written. Wilde, who gave the play the subtitle, "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," said that "the first act is ingenious, the second beautiful, the third abominably… Leer más

London: Typis Jac. Bettenham, 1742. 210 x 132 mm. (8 3/8 x 5 1/4"). 15, [1], 319, [13] pp.Latin translation by J. Curtenius. Edited by R. W. [i.e., Richard Warren]; notes by Charles Ashton. REFINED RED MOROCCO, GILT, BY DEROME LE JEUNE (his ticket on verso of front flyleaf), cover with French fillet border, smooth spine elegantly gilt in compartments separated by multiple rules, each compartment with diagonal dotted lines creating a lozenge at center containing a bird on an elaborate perch, volute cornerpieces, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Verso of front free endpaper with morocco bookplate of Michel Wittock and book label of "C. L."; title page with ink stamp of E. Boisgelin. Schweiger, p. 148; Lowndes II, 1066; Brunet III, 155; Graesse III, 272. ◆A little browning to blank flyleaves, but AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY, with clean, fresh, smooth text in a nearly pristine binding. From a distinguished library, this is a respected edition of a commentary by… Leer más

London: Vale Press, 1900. ONE OF 320 COPIES on paper (another 10 were issued on vellum). 232 x 145 mm. (9 1/8 x 5 5/8"). cxxv, [i] pp., [1] leaf. ENTRANCING CONTEMPORARY OLIVE CRUSHED MOROCCO PRESUMABLY BY FLORENCE PAGET (stamp-signed "F P" and "1901" on rear turn-in), covers beautifully gilt with wide frame of scrolling floral vines around a central panel blank (except for titling on front board), raised bands, spine gilt with floral vine twining through the panels, front turn-in with the motto (in handsome capitals) "In great trials solitude is of assistance but I pray nevertheless that friends may be close at hand," floral paste-paper endpapers printed in greens and browns, with repeating pattern of circles containing a rose, a tulip, and a carnation (reminiscent of 17th century Dutch work), all edges gilt. With printer's device on final leaf facing colophon, two large foliated woodcut initials and full leafy border on first page, all designed by C. S. Ricketts and engraved by C. E. Keates. Recto… Leer más

[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. 318 x 229 mm. (12 1/2 x 9"). xii, 163, [1] pp. FINE GREEN MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with single gilt fillet border, upper cover with gilt titling; raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments, turn-ins with single gilt fillet, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt. WITH 26 COLOR PLATES BY KAY NIELSEN tipped onto gray stock with decorative frames, each with captioned and decorated tissue guards. ◆Two leaves with short closed tear to fore margin, slight browning to edges of leaves, additional trivial defects, but QUITE A FINE COPY, clean internally and in an unworn binding. This is an attractively bound copy of Quiller-Couch's third collection of fairy tales, with consistently winning illustrations by Nielsen. It appears to be a variant of the Edition De Luxe, with two more plates than the trade edition, but it is not signed by Nielsen, as the 500 copies of that edition were supposed to be. The cheeky, somewhat campy… Leer más

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1898. First Rackham Edition. 200 x 135 mm. (7 7/8 x 5 3/8"). 2 p.l. (including the frontispiece), xxiii, [i], 638 pp., [1] leaf. VERY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE BINDING OF RUSSET NIGER GOATSKIN, LAVISHLY GILT, covers with central panel of gilt ruled squares within wide frame of flowers and foliage, raised bands, spine compartments densely gilt with tooling repeating the cover frame design, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, other edges gilded on the rough. Title page with green ornamental border, numerous black and white illustrations, and 12 color plates (including frontispiece), all by Arthur Rackham. Latimore & Haskell, p. 11. ◆Faint, even darkening to the spine, covers with minor soiling, title and frontispiece rather foxed, text with small dots of foxing at fore edge, but a very attractive copy nevertheless, the animated gilt of the binding still bright, the leather with only insignificant wear, and the text clean and fresh. The work between the covers… Leer más

London: Robert Triphook, 1824. FIRST EDITION. 233 x 143 mm. (9 1/8 x 5 3/4"). 2 p.l., v, [3], 206 pp., [1] leaf (ads). HANDSOME SCARLET MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), front cover WITH FIVE MINIATURE PORTRAITS OF SHAKESPEARE on ivory under glass ALMOST CERTAINLY BY MISS C. B. CURRIE, surrounded by delicate gilt tooling, rear cover and spine compartments framed by double gilt fillets, raised bands, gilt lettering to two compartments, gilt-ruled turn-ins, olive green silk endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In a maroon fleece-lined slipcase. With five engraved plates reproducing portraits of Shakespeare. Jaggard, pp. 586-87. ◆Slight wear to silk endleaves at front hinge, isolated small printing smudges or other trivial defects, final leaf (ads) with short closed tear at head, otherwise A VERY FINE COPY, the text with no signs of use, and the splendid binding in perfect condition. This analysis of portraits purporting to depict Shakespeare is the perfect… Leer más

Lugd. Batav. et Roterodami [Leyden and Rotterdam]: Ex Officina Hackiana [Johannes Hackius], 1665. 195 x 118 mm. (7 5/8 x 4 3/4"). Two volumes. Edited by Cornelis Schrevelius and Johann Friedrich Gronovius. Pleasing late 18th century reddish brown morocco, gilt (unsigned, but plausibly attributed to Charles Lewis in a pencilled note on front flyleaf), covers with triple fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with central floral sprig surrounded by small tools, rose sprigs at corners, gilt lettering, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Each volume with extra engraved title page with allegorical illustration. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Paul and Lucia Waterhouse. Dibdin II, 368. ◆Spines and head of two boards sunned to a soft tan, back cover of first volume with inconsequential scratch, occasional minor foxing, but a really excellent copy--clean and especially fresh--with few signs of use inside or out. In handsome morocco attributable to a noted binder, this is… Leer más

London: Prostant venales apud T. Deighton, J. Cooke, Oxon, et W. H. Lunn, Cantabrig, 1792. 243 x 153 mm. (9 1/2 x 6"). xx, [8], 401, [31] pp.Edited by Henry Homer, from the edition of Charles Rollin. SUPERB CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, covers with frame of shells, flowers, and volutes, arms of Henry Homer at center, smooth spine divided into compartments by plain rules and chain rolls, compartments with cornucopia centerpiece overflowing with wheat sheaves, volutes at corners, gilt lettering, Greek key roll on turn-ins, pale blue watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. With engraved frontispiece portait of Henry Homer after Sylvester Harding, dated 1791. Front pastedown with late 19th century Jolliffe armorial bookplate; front flyleaf with ink Latin inscription presenting this volume to Charles Jolliffe, as a school prize for diligence at Reading School, signed by headmaster Richard Valpy and dated 15 Nov. 1799. ◆Spine uniformly darkened to maroon, rear board just a little… Leer más

Amsterdam: Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn, 1650. First Edition of this Translation of "Institutues.. 372 x 240 mm. (14 5/8 x 9 3/8"). 26 p.l., 315, [11] leaves; 2 p.l., 54 leaves. Two works in one volume. Institutie translated into Dutch from Latin and French by Wilhelmus Corsmannus; "Supplicatie" translated by Carolus Agricola. With a life of Calvin by Theodore Beza. HANDSOME 18TH CENTURY BURGUNDY MOROCCO, GILT, BY THE BAROQUE FLOWER BINDERY, covers with central gilt lozenge composed of two vases (Storm van Leeuwen tool 18), four flower-and-rocaille ornaments (tool 2), and four flower baskets (tool 3) and framed by a floral roll (roll I) with oblique flora sprig (tool 15) and flower basket (tool 3) at corners, all enclosed in a thick, lacy gilt border formed by Storm van Leeuwen roll II and repeated tool 4, raised bands tooled in gilt, compartments with floral lozenge at center, scrolling cornerpieces, green morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With… Leer más