Search Results: the banquet of plato by percy bysshe shelley

Cassell, 1887. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1887. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative brown cloth with gilt lettering. Pages 15-18 detached but present. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and front hinge causing some looseness to binding but pages other than aforementioned remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.

GB: Cassell (Cassell's National Library), 1887. 144 x 95 mm; 3d; standard designed cover with floral motifs etc. Spine bit worn.. 1st Thus. Paperback. G++.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

White Press, 2014. Paperback. New. 158 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.37 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Peter Pauper, c.1965. 1st edition. Nice copy. tall small octavo. hardback in decorated cloth 78pp., illusts., Nice copy in nice heavy card slip-case as issued

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston and New York: Riverside Press/ Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. Brown paper boards with paper spine label, spare label included at end. One tiny spot to the front board, and very lightly rubbed spine tips, else a fine and fresh copy. Yapp edges, fore-edge not trimmed. Edition of 440 numbered copies, this being no. 260. Designed by Bruce Rogers. No slipcase. Very near fine copy.

Houghton Mifflin | Printed at The Riverside Press, 1908. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A most handsome production designed by Bruce Rogers for the Riverside Press, this is copy #178 of 440. In dark gray laid paper over boards with yapp edges; white paper title label at the spine, with an additional label tipped in at the rear of the book. An outstanding example of the typographer's art. With the glassine wrapper folded and taped on the folds (not on the book). The slipcase is separating at the bottom edge. (Warde 87). Near Fine binding.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Book. VG+. Cloth. First Edition This Publisher. Book has minor wear. Plain paper Dj has edgewear. Slipcase is poor. Extra spine label is laid in, Limited edition #148 of 440..

Chicago: Way and Williams, 1895. First edition. First edition. 5 x 7" Publisher's dark reddish brown buckram with gilt lettering to spin. Limited to 75 copies printed on French hand-made paper, of which this is #48. Title page, two initial letters and tailpiece by Bruce Rogers, all of which have been colored by hand. "[Way & Williams'] most notable book of 1895 was an edition of Shelley's translation of Plato's Banquet designed by Bruce Rogers in an obvious imitation of the Kelmscott Press style. The intent of the firm to establish themselves as publishers of fine books in limited editions was clear" (Kraus, who never examines a copy of this limited edition). Some soiling to edges of title page extending to verso of facing free fly. Corners slightly bumped, light rubbing to edges, general wear to cloth. Bookplate to front pastedown. Kraus 9. Warde 5.