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Hammersmith: Kelmscott, 1892. leather_bound. Finely bound in full tan morocco, elaborate acanthus leaf pattern stamped in brown, with borders of gilt and brown rules, matching full morocco doublures with acanthus leaf devices at corners, ruled borders, morocco endleaves with ruled borders, untrimmed. Aeg. [2], viii, 249, [1] pp. 21x14.5 cm. Woodcut border to first leaf of text; woodcut… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris & Versailles: Chez l'Autheur, 1690. leather_bound. Later full brown calf. Aeg. Near fine. 260 pages. 18 x 12.4 cm. Later variant printed by Hansy. Dedication and with head-piece of sirens on p.210 revealing their breasts covered in later, our issue -- Second state headpiece on page 210, finely engraved throughout with ornamental borders, vignettes, head- & tail-pieces… Saber más sobre este artículo

Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, yapp edges and cloth ties. Near fine. 287 pages. 20.8 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 printed in red and black in Golden type. Woodcut ornaments and initials designed by William Morris. Transcribed after the autograph manuscript of the author, now in the British Museum. PETERSON… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Societe D'Editions Et De Librairie Henri Reynaud, 1926. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff printed wrappers with original glassine over wrapper. Fine. 203 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 319 of 343. Twenty miniature pochoir plates by Arthur Szyk produced by Jean Saude, master of pochoir. Title page and cover printed in red and black, all plates… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black cloth spine and decorated boards with front cover paper label. Near fine. 26 pages. 18 x 13.5 cm. Title page with wood-engraving in red and eight total-engravings, three by David Jones and six by Eric Gill. No.40 of of St. Dominic's Press publications. GILL 87. TAYLOR &… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth spine and dark buff boards. Very good. 69 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 200 on batchelor hand-made paper. Wood engravings by David Jones, et al. Jones served in World War I. After the war he embraced Roman Catholicism and joined a small community… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: James Round, Jacob Tonson and William Taylor, 1716. leather_bound. Orig. cambridge style full brown calf rebacked. Very good. 3 Vols. 783 (5), 381 (7), 390 (6) pages. Folio, 36 x 24 cm. Vol. II, the 4th edition corrected and Vol. III, the 3rd edition corrected. In 1660 Barrow was ordained and appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Cambridge. In… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Day & Son, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Aeg. Very good. Jones, Owen. Small folio, 28 x 22 cm. 52 chromolithograph plates on twenty-six leaves by Owen Jones and Henry Warren, on stone by Albert Warren. Each illustration and accompanying text in a distinct decorative… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon linen cloth. Teg. Fine in fine beige linen slipcase. 149 pages. Folio, 51 x 36 cm. With twelve color plates, 192 black and white text illustrations. Limited edition, copy 384 of 1000. This work presents an exhaustive study of how two twelfth-century Winchester bibles were designed and produced.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Heganau: Thomas Anshelm for Johann Koberger, 1520. First edition. leather_bound. Later full vellum. Very good. 102 leaves (35 leaves) (1 leaf). Folio, 29.5 x 22 cm. General and diviinional titles within woodcut borders. The author, born in modern day Tunisia in 462. He became a monk writing works to help instruct the Chrisitans of Africa. As bishop of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Thielman Kerver, 1539. Hardcover. 19th century quarter maroon decorated morocco and marbled boards. Very good. 673 pages. 15.5 x 11 cm. Lacks title page. Printed in double columns in miniscule Gothic type, 58 lines in length. Ludolphus of Saxony 1295 - 1378), also known as Ludolphus de Saxonia and Ludolph the Carthusian, was a German Roman Catholic… Saber más sobre este artículo

Edinburgh, London, And Dublin: A. Fullarton & Co, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher cloth, yapp edges. Aeg. Very good. 231 pages. 30 x 25 cm. The word "kirk" is a Saxon term, and "manse" is an abbreviation of mansion, both are household terms in Scotland. The twenty-five tinted plates are bright and clean as is the text.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Venice: Np, 1588. Wraps. Very good. 4 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Text in Latin. Five hand colored images (6 x 8.5 cm) with gilt halos and gilt decoration to costumes. Images sharp and clean.

NP: Philip Hofer, 1947. Reprint. Wraps. Orig. decorated stitched red wrappers. Very good. Four unnumbered French leaved pages. 15.5 x 11 pages. Christmas greeting noting "These pages are reproduced, with one slight reconstruction, from a French calligrapher manuscript of Capuchin prayers which came into our possession this fateful year, 1942. Printed in two colors, red and gray. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. leather_bound. Orig. navy morocco covers decorated in gilt. Aeg. Fine. 63 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Illustrated with drawings. Printed on "Antiqua" paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and bound by Albracht. As new copy. backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.

Np: Np, 1900. leather_bound. Orig. brown leather. Very good. 185 unnumbered pages. 3 x 2 cm. Illustrated. As miniature as one can possibly imagine.

Cambridge: Baskerville & B. Dod, 1762. Third edition. leather_bound. Full brown morocco, gilt at fore-edge faded. Very good. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 11 cm. Three works in one volume. Title page and contents toned, lacks free front endpaper, some minor chipping at lower fore-edge, no loss of text. Handsome Cambridge style contemporary binding, raised bands, head of spine nicked,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth spine, decorated boards, front cover with gilt design, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 182 pages. 28 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1030 copies printed at the Riverside Press, designed by Bruce Rogers. Title page printed in red and black, ten photogravure… Saber más sobre este artículo

Torshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper in the original decorated slipcase. 134 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Color and black and white illustrations present richly decorated church furniture from the first half of the 15th century of the Faroe Islands. The motifs on the furniture are especially associated with… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1851. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Aeg. Very good. 770 (54) (18). 30 x 25 cm. Illustrated with steel engravings of biblical events. Tissue guards of latter foxed with offsetting to text, affecting borders of the plates but not the images. "The Resurrection" plate from original by C.Vanloo. Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths of the… Saber más sobre este artículo