A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities Concerning the Most Noble and Renowned English Nation de Verstegan, Richard - 1605

Covici Friede, 1937 Original oatmeal covers. Book has some toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and tight. DJ has 1/2" chip to spine, slight edgewear, some tape residue on top of front and back. Closed tear on spine bottom. Protected in mylar. Original price intact (2.00). A nice copy of this rare version.

Philadelphia: American S.[unday] School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, 1853. Good with foxing, prior owners name in ink twice and final leaf torn a bit but not affecting text.. Brief chapbook with one woodcut illustration and the ominous warning to the presumably impressionable young audience, "take warning in from these examples, and remember that life and health are given thee only to prepare for the tremendous and important hour of death". 32mo. [2], [3]-8pp. Not in Rosenbach. In publisher's wraps, but this appears to be a variant as the rear wrapper has different wording that OCLC 950909583.

London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).

17 volumes with frontispieces, illustrations and indexes. Royal octavo (9 3/4"" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's light green cloth with labels to spine. and gilt head end pages with deckled edges. Bassorah edition, number 129 limited to 1000 copies.Burton's translation was one of two unabridged and unexpurgated English translations done in the 1880s; the first was by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–1884, nine volumes). Burton's ten volume version was published almost immediately afterward with a slightly different title. This, along with the fact that Burton closely advised Payne and partially based his books on Payne's, led later to charges of plagiarism. Owing to the sexual imagery in the source texts (which Burton made a special study of, adding extensive footnotes and appendices on "Oriental" sexual mores) and to the strict Victorian laws on obscene material, both translations were printed as private editions for subscribers only, rather… Leer más

Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd. London. 1920. FIRST 2 VOLUME EDITION. Small Crown 4to. (9.3 x 6.8 inches). xxx, 439; xxii, 531 pp. Originally issued as four slim quarto volumes in a limited edition in 1910-11, this is the first issue in this format and is complete in 2 thicker volumes. Beautifully Illustrated with 36 fine full colour plates by Russell Flint. Publishers green cloth with elaborate blind tooled decoration to the front boards and spines, which are also ruled and lettered in gilt. In the original scarce dustwrappers with colour plates mounted onto the front panels. The cloth boards are a bit dulled and there is a near one-inch tear, without loss, to the top of the spine of volume one, but the gilt is still strong and bright. The dustwrappers are faded to the spines, which have a few very minor chips to the extremities, but are generally in very good condition and sets with them present are uncommon. Overall a very good set of this interesting and beautiful… Leer más

Covici Friede, 1937 Original oatmeal covers. Book has some toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and tight. DJ has 1/2" chip to spine, slight edgewear, some tape residue on top of front and back. Closed tear on spine bottom. Protected in mylar. Original price intact (2.00). A nice copy of this rare version.

Philadelphia: American S.[unday] School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, 1853. Good with foxing, prior owners name in ink twice and final leaf torn a bit but not affecting text.. Brief chapbook with one woodcut illustration and the ominous warning to the presumably impressionable young audience, "take warning in from these examples, and remember that life and health are given thee only to prepare for the tremendous and important hour of death". 32mo. [2], [3]-8pp. Not in Rosenbach. In publisher's wraps, but this appears to be a variant as the rear wrapper has different wording that OCLC 950909583.

London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).

17 volumes with frontispieces, illustrations and indexes. Royal octavo (9 3/4"" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's light green cloth with labels to spine. and gilt head end pages with deckled edges. Bassorah edition, number 129 limited to 1000 copies.Burton's translation was one of two unabridged and unexpurgated English translations done in the 1880s; the first was by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–1884, nine volumes). Burton's ten volume version was published almost immediately afterward with a slightly different title. This, along with the fact that Burton closely advised Payne and partially based his books on Payne's, led later to charges of plagiarism. Owing to the sexual imagery in the source texts (which Burton made a special study of, adding extensive footnotes and appendices on "Oriental" sexual mores) and to the strict Victorian laws on obscene material, both translations were printed as private editions for subscribers only, rather… Leer más

Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd. London. 1920. FIRST 2 VOLUME EDITION. Small Crown 4to. (9.3 x 6.8 inches). xxx, 439; xxii, 531 pp. Originally issued as four slim quarto volumes in a limited edition in 1910-11, this is the first issue in this format and is complete in 2 thicker volumes. Beautifully Illustrated with 36 fine full colour plates by Russell Flint. Publishers green cloth with elaborate blind tooled decoration to the front boards and spines, which are also ruled and lettered in gilt. In the original scarce dustwrappers with colour plates mounted onto the front panels. The cloth boards are a bit dulled and there is a near one-inch tear, without loss, to the top of the spine of volume one, but the gilt is still strong and bright. The dustwrappers are faded to the spines, which have a few very minor chips to the extremities, but are generally in very good condition and sets with them present are uncommon. Overall a very good set of this interesting and beautiful… Leer más