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London, 1896. Hardcover. Good Condition. Light marks and scuffs to cover. Clean pages, free from notes or highlighting. Front and rear hinge cracked but holding firm, otherwise bindings intact. A good used copy with no major defects. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Vanbrugh, John, 1664-1726; Manners and customs; Marriage; Great Britain; 24.74; Add. Inventory No: 220224ROSD4-3-091. .

Brattleboro: Brattleboro Typographic Co, 1837. Third (?) ed. Thick quarto (27cm). Contemporary gilt panelled calf, marbled endpapers and page edges; vi,[7]-1275,[5]pp; engraved frontispiece, extra-title, and 22 inserted leaves of plates on thick paper, engraved on both wood and steel, of which four are maps. Two leaves of plates are printed on pink stock. Numerous vignette woodcut text illustrations. Front joint cracked through but holding; faint crazing to leather on spine; scattered foxing and soil; complete and quite Good. Compendious Bible dictionary assembled by Rev. John Newton Brown (1803-1868), a New Hampshire Baptist minister best remembered as the compiler of the New Hampshire Confession of Faith (1833). Of the current work, DAB states that though "...it has been superseded by later and larger works...for a time it was used widely." A quite lovely early American publisher's binding (binder not identified). RINDERKNECHT 43439, noting further editions in 1835, 1836, 1838 and 1839.

Kent: George Allen , 1876. Books measure 9 1/4 x 6 inches.Eleven volumes.All volumes published by George Allen. Orpington, Kent, except when stated. 1. Sesame and Lilies. Third edition. 1876. Munera Pulveris. 1872. 3. Aratra Pentelici. Second thousand. 1879. 4. The Eagle's Nest. Second thousand. 1880. 5. Time and Tide. Smith Elder. 1872. 6. The Crown of Wild Olive. Smith Elder. 1873. 7. Ariadne Florentina. 1876. 8. Val D'arno. 1874. 9. The Queen of the Air.New edition. 1874. 10. The Two Paths. New edition. 1878. 11. '' The Joy for Ever ''. 1880. Uniformly bound in period full vellum, red title labels, top gilt edges, gilt initials [ JB] on top board of each volume, marble endpapers. Vellum lightly dust marked, labels light rubbed/scuffed, one label with loss. Bindings in very nice clean firm condition. Internally, period previous owners bookplate to fixed endpapers, eight volumes have a very light stamp of base of half title or tile page, [ stamp of J. Wilkie & Co,… Read More

New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co, 1929. No. 56 OF 300 COPIES. 260 x 182 mm. (10 1/8 x 7 1/8"). XIV, [2], 167, [1] pp. LOVELY BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY STIKEMAN & CO. (stamp-signed in gilt on rear turn-in), covers with multiple straight and decorative rules, decorative cornerpieces, raised bands, compartments with central floral motif surrounded by foliate frame and double rules, gilt lettering, gilt ruled turn-ins, light blue watered silk pastedowns and endleaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a light blue cloth slipcase. With frontispiece and 23 plates, with original printed tissue guards. SIGNED by Markle on the limitations page, with an inscription (probably in a secretarial hand): To Karrick M. Castle / With my compliments. ◆Spine very lightly sunned, hint of rubbing to corners, but in very fine condition inside and out. This is a finely printed and beautifully bound biography of John Markle (1858-1953), one of the nation's most accomplished and affluent engineers and coal… Read More

Vista Books. London. 1962/3. THREE VOLUMES. Large 8vo. (8.1 x 6.1 inches). Book of Joy is a First Collected edition, the other two are early reprints. Each volume is illustrated throughout with 64 illustrations, many in full colour. A fine, clean set which have been finely bound, by Zaehnsdorf of London, in full green, brown and blue morocco. Spines with raised bands, each with gilt piping along the ridge. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with single gilt ruled borders, the front boards all with the book title stamped within a decorative border, all in gilt. Original decorative endpapers bound in. The inner boards edges have elaborate gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Housed in a blue cloth covered slip case. A little darkening to the spine of the Book of Delights but overall this is a fine trio, in beautiful leather bindings, of this interesting series of anthology volumes, each containing verse, essays, short stories and quotes. A wonderful presentation.

London: Published by the Editor, printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, ca. 1837. FIRST EDITION. 277 x 208 mm. (10 7/8 x 8 1/8"). xvi, 152 pp. Contemporary purple pebble-grain morocco decorated in gilt and blind in the Romantic style, covers framed by triple blind-stamped fillet border with floral cornerpieces, blind-stamped floral roll around gilt frame with swirling scroll pieces, gilt titling in center surrounded by blind-stamped circular frame, raised bands, blind-stamped frame compartments with gilt borders, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Birch by J. F. Lewis. With four lithographed facsimiles of handwritten letters. ◆Spine sunned to lighter purple, a few trivial scratches, some foxing to frontispiece, facsimiles, and endpapers, otherwise internally clean with only a handful of small smudges, and THE BINDING IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION, with only the slightest signs of use. This charming memorial in a well-preserved, special binding gives us a glimpse into… Read More

Printed by R. Tullis, for A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh. 1804. TWO VOLUMES. 6mo. (7.32 x 4.3 inches). Vol.1; xii, 287pp - Vol.2; iv, 275pp. Bound in contemporary full tree calf with gilt ruling and red morocco volume numbers and title labels to spines. Trinity College Dublin arms in gilt to all four boards. Copper engraved College prize labels mounted onto the front pastedown endpapers of each volume. The books were presented to Gulielmo (William) Spedding in 1830. --- Reverend William Spedding (24th March, 1803 - 14th June, 1870) spent 25 years as the Military Chaplain to the Artillery Garrison, co. Cork, and then became the Rector of Killencoole, co. Louth, Ireland. ---- Some foxing to many pages and area of loss to the outer corner of one leaf in volume one, otherwise text complete. Rubbing to edges and chipping to the spines of the bindings but overall a good set.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1862. First Edition in Book Form. 177 x 110 mm. (6 7/8 x 4 1/4"). viii, 384 pp. HANDSOME MAHOGANY BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT IN A GROLIERESQUE STYLE, BY H. WOOD (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers flamboyantly gilt with strapwork, spiraling vines, and fleurs-de-lys, raised bands, spine compartments with lily centerpiece, gilt titling, turn-ins with gilt-ruled frame, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Title with woodcut border in the style of early printed Books of Hours, woodcut headpieces and initials of similar design. ◆A VERY FINE COPY, quite clean and fresh internally in a lustrous, unworn binding. Offered here in a binding sure to please any book-hunter, this is the collected form of an amusing series of related articles, originally appearing in "Blackwood's Magazine," on the various personal characteristics of the book collector, his functions (especially in terms of the betterment of society), and his organized associations or collecting… Read More

London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1735. FIRST EDITION. 207 x 123 mm. (8 1/8 x 4 7/8"). Two volumes.. Fine 19th century polished calf by Francis Bedford (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with gilt French fillet border, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with birds-and-chalice centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools, floral sprays at corners, one red and one green morocco label, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. With engraved frontispiece portrait in volume I, and four engraved plates. Front pastedown with book label of John Porter, and his notes regarding provenance laid in at rear of volume I. ◆Intermittent mild foxing, additional trivial imperfections, but a fine set, clean and fresh internally, with comfortable margins, in a virtually unworn binding. This is a handsomely bound copy of selected works by writer and librettist John Hughes, whose literary output included poems, translations of Greek and Latin… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1867-69, 1860. Seventh Edition of volume I; Fifth Edition of volume II; Second Edition of volumes III and IV; FIRST EDITION of volume V.. 257 x 175 mm. (10 1/8 x 7"). Five volumes.. HANDSOME 19TH CENTURY BROWN MOROCCO, covers with gilt Greek key roll border, raised bands, compartments with gilt rules, central floral ornaments, and gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Volumes III-V each with frontispiece plus a total of 84 steel-engraved plates (a few in color), eight wood-engraved plates, and several wood-engraved illustrations in the text by the author, J. M. W. Turner, and others. ◆A touch of rubbing to extremities, spines slightly sunned, covers with a few negligible blemishes, but the bindings very well preserved with only minor signs of wear; isolated light foxing to perhaps a score of leaves in total (mostly confined to upper margins and only once touching a plate), a few instances of faint thumbing, but the contents clean and fresh, without the… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1865. FIRST EDITION. 170 x 117 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 3/4"). 2 p.l., 196 pp. Very pretty teal blue crushed morocco, elaborately gilt, by Charles Elsden Gladstone (signed in gilt "C. E. G." on front turn-in), covers with intertwining gilt vine forming a lattice design, the compartments formed containing a Tudor rose or gilt lettering, raised bands, spine compartments tooled with a swirl of gilt vine, wide turn-ins with spray of gilt leaves at corners, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Printed in black and red. Rear free endpaper with cut signature of "F. T. Palgrave 1865" mounted below manuscript notes in pencil. ◆Spine evenly sunned to gray-brown, faint freckled foxing to flyleaves, but an excellent copy, clean and fresh internally, and the binding with few signs of wear. This is the first printing of Ruskin's famous lectures addressing what to read, the education and obligations of women in the monied classes, and the ultimate mystery of life, offered here in a binding by a… Read More

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… Read More

London or Boston, 1847-78. Octavos of varying sizes. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, (later) glassine dust wrappers, TWO VOLUMES UNOPENED. In excellent matching burgundy morocco-backed clamshell boxes by W. Root & Son, backs with raised bands, gilt compartments with central floral sprig and gilt titling, marbled lining. ◆Half the spines a little sunned, occasional small spots or dents to boards, but THE ORIGINAL BINDINGS ESSENTIALLY UNWORN, UNUSUALLY CLEAN, AND WITH THEIR EMBOSSED DECORATION ESPECIALLY SHARP. Leaves a shade less than bright because of paper stock, but very clean, with only isolated trivial spots; overall A VERY FINE GROUP, especially well preserved in their attractive boxes. This is an excellent selection of the more substantial poetry and prose publications by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92), attractively presented and well protected in their bespoke clamshell boxes. The titles here are: "The Supernaturalism of New England" (1847); "Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal in the… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1855. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Nine volumes, in matching full gilt olive green morocco fine bindings by H. Sotheran & Co. London. Published 1855 (Seven Lamps) and 1873 (remainder). Some scattered foxing to paper. Otherwise all clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a fine, handsome set. .

London: The Folio Society, 2004. 227 x 157 mm. (9 x 6 1/8"). xiv, [2], 222 pp. Edited by Alan Powers. WHIMSICAL PALE GREEN REVERSED GOATSKIN BY JO BIRD, covers and smooth spine with meandering lettering stamped in black, green endpapers and edges blind-stamped repeatedly with author and title, free endleaves with several circles cut out. In a gray hand-dyed sheepskin chemise with round cut-outs and blind lettering and a matching sheepskin-backed clamshell box lined with pale green goatskin. Illustrated with black & white photographs and with numerous color drawings by Peter Bailey in the text. Binder's statement and care instructions laid in. ◆A couple of tiny, faint spots to lower board, otherwise in mint condition inside and out. This appealing binding was awarded First Prize and the Mansfield Silver Medal in The Bookbinding Competition of 2005. Its creator became a licentiate of Designer Bookbinders the following year, and was elected a Fellow in 2010. Bird received a post-graduate diploma in… Read More

Oxford: Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club [by F. Hall, Oxford University Press], 1922. ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 40 COPIES for club members only. 312 x 212 mm. (12 3/8 x 8 1/2"). [xii], 46 pp., [1 leaf], followed by plates.Described by Montague Rhodes James. Presented to the Roxburghe Club by Charles Harry St. John Hornby. EXCELLENT OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY SYDNEY COCKERELL (stamp-signed in blind "19 SC 79" on rear pastedown), covers with octagonal design composed of 90 gilt or black stamped triangles, raised bands, gilt lettering, blind-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In the original velvet-lined tan buckram drop-back box, matching olive green morocco label on its back. Facsimile frontispiece, and 97 numbered pages of facsimile plates from the Bodleian manuscript, two with color miniatures. Printed in red and black. Verso of front free endpaper with bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel; Grolier Club invitation to Cockerell lecture on "Repairing of Books"… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 395 x 303 mm. (15 1/2 x 11 7/8"). 69 pp., [1] leaf (additional plate). EXQUISITE FULL VELLUM BY JAMES BROCKMAN (stamp-signed and dated 1979 in gold on rear turn-in), covers with extensive gilt maze-like design in the form of an electric circuit, the lines emanating from and connecting to painted multi-colored "resistors," FULL VELLUM DOUBLURES, the gilt lines carried over from covers to become parallel rules joining long, colorful waves resembling light passing through a prism, smooth spine with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Original printed glossy wrappers bound in. Housed in a (slightly worn) blue cloth drop-back box. With four maps in black & white, and 46 maps printed in color, showing the geographical distribution of various minerals throughout England and Wales. With two clear overlays tucked into folder at rear; final free endpaper with book label of Lord Wardington. ◆A short, very light mark on upper board, otherwise in perfect condition. In a meeting of… Read More

London: [Printed at the Chiswick Press for] George Bell & Sons, 1901. 208 x 132 mm. (8 1/8 x 5 1/4"). xxv, [5], 338 pp., [1] leaf. Introduction by Walter Raleigh. EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY DARK GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, LAVISHLY GILT AND INLAID, covers with outer frame lettered with verses from "Endymion," wide inner frame densely stippled in gilt and tooled with floral vines bearing inlaid red morocco blossoms, the vines emanating from inlaid morocco hearts at each corner, central panel diapered in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments with inlaid and gilt floral spray on a stippled ground (covers and spine with a total of 107 inlays), gilt titling, CRIMSON MOROCCO DOUBLURES tooled with intricately entwined gilt floral vines framed by green morocco, leather hinges, crimson watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. With illustrations by Robert Anning Bell, including double-page title opening, dedication, and three section titles, numerous vignettes in the text, and 20 full-page plates. Verso of… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. FIRST EDITION. 170 x 111 mm. (6 5/8 x 4 1/4"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 183, [1] pp.With a preface and explanatory notes by Symonds. LOVELY DARK GREEN MOROCCO, ELEGANTLY GILT, INLAID, AND BEJEWELLED, BY ALFRED DE SAUTY (stamp-signed on front doublure), covers with double gilt fillet border, central panel with myriad swirling vines emanating from three recessed medallions, all with light green backgrounds inlaid with an interwoven strapwork wreath in dark green morocco and gilt, the larger medallion at center set with five cabochon garnets, the smaller medallions above and below it set with one, all three enclosed by pointillé gilt frames, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt tulips and leaves radiating from a central circlet, gilt titling, ESPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES with three gilt medallions framed by strapwork and densely tooled with leafy fronds on a mille-point background, these enclosed by an undulating frame similarly gilt-tooled and… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-17. Second Series. Limited Large Paper Edition. No. 148 OF 500 COPIES. 220 x 125 mm. (9 5/8 x 9 3/4"). Eight volumes.. HANDSOME DEEP BURGUNDY MOROCCO by the Riverside Press (ink stamp on versos of flyleaves), covers with double gilt-ruled panel with gilt flowers and swirling vines at each corner, raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments tooled in gilt and with gilt lettering, FULL MOSS-GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES framed in burgundy morocco, each corner with gilt floral decorations, gilt-turn-ins with repeating flower tool, green silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, and ALMOST ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Each volume with five portraits (including frontispieces) as called for, all with original tissue guards, an additional engraved title page tipped-on to a larger leaf, and title page vignette. A Large Paper Copy. EACH VOLUME CONTAINING AN INSERTED LETTER OR DOCUMENT SIGNED BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN STATESMAN, INCLUDING THREE U.S. PRESIDENTS (see below).… Read More