She Stoops To Conquer or The Mistakes of A Night by Goldsmith, Oliver - 1978

London: Printed by T. Newcomb, 1679. Exotic. Near Fine. 8 x 9 1/2 inches; 4 unnumbered + 108 numbered pages. Pages generally bright and clean, with light soiling at margins. Bound by John Field (with binder's ticket) in modern full African Springbock with hair and new endpapers. Provenance: Library of Henry and Virginia Walton. ESTCR228432. Harry and Virginia Walton were lifelong residents of Covington, Virginia, a small town in the Allegheny Mountains. Harry was a graduate of Lynchburg College, and Virginia was a graduate of the Lynchburg General School of Nursing. Although largely unknown to the general public, the Waltons' reputation as collectors was widely respected in bibliophile and academic circles, and items from their collection were exhibited at numerous colleges, universities and art centers. After their deaths, the original Walton collection was the subject of a series of very successful auctions in New York and London. John Field was an expert leather bookbinder associated with… Read More

ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN ON PARCHMENT, Northern Italy, c. 1440-1470. 203 x 153 mm. 70 folios, complete (collation, i-vii10), remnants of quire and leaf signatures, flourished vertical catchwords, written in a humanist minuscule on 30 long lines (justification, 147-149 x 95-100 mm), horizontal lines ruled very lightly in ink, single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, prickings remain in top and bottom margins on some leaves, rubrics and paragraph marks in pale red, two-line red or blue initials with contrasting pen flourishes in violet or red, two five-line blue initials, ff. 29v and 35, infilled and on square grounds of elaborate penwork; f. 64v, seven-line polished GOLD INITIAL with white vinestem decoration extending along twenty lines of text and into the upper margin, infilled and edged in deep red and blue with numerous tiny silver dots; f. 1, five-line polished GOLD HISTORIATED INITIAL of St. Jerome, bearded and dressed in red, standing before a Crucifix, with a hilly… Read More

Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to [the] Kings most Excellent Majesty for Great-Britain and for [the] University, 1716. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Royal folios (measuring 55cm. in height, or 14.5" x 21.5"). The rarer of two known states (the other bearing a 1717 imprint): Volume 1 (Old Testament and Apocrypha) issued with the illustrated engraved title page engraved by John Sturt and dated 1716; and Volume 2 (New Testament) issued with an engraving of the Annunciation on the letterpress title page and dated 1716. A rare copy of the magnificent ‘Vinegar Bible', in a presentation binding of black levant leather with the Royal Cypher of King George III (surmounted by a crown) stamped in gold in five compartments on the spines of each volume, and the Royal Arms (with "G.R. III" above the crown) embossed at the center of all four covers. Both volumes have early marbled endpapers and wove paper fly leaves, royal blue silk ribbons, all edges gilt. According to an early bookseller's… Read More

London : Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1760-1754. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 parts bound as 1. Part I: 1760 and Part II: 1762, 3rd edition. Part III, 1754, 1st edition. Fine binding. Bound in modern tree calf leather. Cover leather has been acid stained to approximate a lightning strike. Gilt spine, red and green moroccan leather spine labels. Gilt dentelle. Housed in a custom-made electric blue leather clamshell case. A silver key has been inlaid into the front board of the case. Silver lightning shoots out of the key. Beautiful hand made marbled endpapers in both the book and case. Collated: 86, 1plate., 87-109, 110-154 pp, 1 illustration. Marginal chipping with loss to of title page and end page. Contemporary notations in the margins of Part I reflecting Franklin's later corrections. 4 leaves are in facsimile: p. 13-14, 85-86, the ad page, and the plate in Part I. <br><br> Printing and the Mind of Man calls Franklin's work "the most important… Read More

London: Printed by T. Newcomb, 1679. Exotic. Near Fine. 8 x 9 1/2 inches; 4 unnumbered + 108 numbered pages. Pages generally bright and clean, with light soiling at margins. Bound by John Field (with binder's ticket) in modern full African Springbock with hair and new endpapers. Provenance: Library of Henry and Virginia Walton. ESTCR228432. Harry and Virginia Walton were lifelong residents of Covington, Virginia, a small town in the Allegheny Mountains. Harry was a graduate of Lynchburg College, and Virginia was a graduate of the Lynchburg General School of Nursing. Although largely unknown to the general public, the Waltons' reputation as collectors was widely respected in bibliophile and academic circles, and items from their collection were exhibited at numerous colleges, universities and art centers. After their deaths, the original Walton collection was the subject of a series of very successful auctions in New York and London. John Field was an expert leather bookbinder associated with… Read More

ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN ON PARCHMENT, Northern Italy, c. 1440-1470. 203 x 153 mm. 70 folios, complete (collation, i-vii10), remnants of quire and leaf signatures, flourished vertical catchwords, written in a humanist minuscule on 30 long lines (justification, 147-149 x 95-100 mm), horizontal lines ruled very lightly in ink, single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, prickings remain in top and bottom margins on some leaves, rubrics and paragraph marks in pale red, two-line red or blue initials with contrasting pen flourishes in violet or red, two five-line blue initials, ff. 29v and 35, infilled and on square grounds of elaborate penwork; f. 64v, seven-line polished GOLD INITIAL with white vinestem decoration extending along twenty lines of text and into the upper margin, infilled and edged in deep red and blue with numerous tiny silver dots; f. 1, five-line polished GOLD HISTORIATED INITIAL of St. Jerome, bearded and dressed in red, standing before a Crucifix, with a hilly… Read More

Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to [the] Kings most Excellent Majesty for Great-Britain and for [the] University, 1716. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Royal folios (measuring 55cm. in height, or 14.5" x 21.5"). The rarer of two known states (the other bearing a 1717 imprint): Volume 1 (Old Testament and Apocrypha) issued with the illustrated engraved title page engraved by John Sturt and dated 1716; and Volume 2 (New Testament) issued with an engraving of the Annunciation on the letterpress title page and dated 1716. A rare copy of the magnificent ‘Vinegar Bible', in a presentation binding of black levant leather with the Royal Cypher of King George III (surmounted by a crown) stamped in gold in five compartments on the spines of each volume, and the Royal Arms (with "G.R. III" above the crown) embossed at the center of all four covers. Both volumes have early marbled endpapers and wove paper fly leaves, royal blue silk ribbons, all edges gilt. According to an early bookseller's… Read More

London : Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1760-1754. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 parts bound as 1. Part I: 1760 and Part II: 1762, 3rd edition. Part III, 1754, 1st edition. Fine binding. Bound in modern tree calf leather. Cover leather has been acid stained to approximate a lightning strike. Gilt spine, red and green moroccan leather spine labels. Gilt dentelle. Housed in a custom-made electric blue leather clamshell case. A silver key has been inlaid into the front board of the case. Silver lightning shoots out of the key. Beautiful hand made marbled endpapers in both the book and case. Collated: 86, 1plate., 87-109, 110-154 pp, 1 illustration. Marginal chipping with loss to of title page and end page. Contemporary notations in the margins of Part I reflecting Franklin's later corrections. 4 leaves are in facsimile: p. 13-14, 85-86, the ad page, and the plate in Part I. <br><br> Printing and the Mind of Man calls Franklin's work "the most important… Read More