Search Results: Fable and Emblem Books from Abbey Antiquarian Books

Vienna & Nurnberg Germany: Georg Lehmann, 1721. Hardcover. Good. Frontispiece with a party of six sitting under a tree near their hut with a cook preparing a meal in a tent beyond +29 Floral & other initial letters 30 x 30mm + a few large handsome tail-pieces.. 4to brown leather on 4 raised bands with gilt rules and light tan spine label gilt titled [edges worn /lacking approx. 1cm at the head and foot of spine/ hinges cracking but both covers held by all cords and head-bands/ covers are thus well attached] Frontispiece + titlepage in red and black +[8pp = approbation, Privilege and Preface} + [4pp =contents] + 473pp + [37pp =index] The front free endpaper has a tearout to remove and inscription and the foot of the page there is a marginal worm tack which decreases until it ends with the last page of the contents. It just touches three letters of one word of the privilege however it just encroaches on the fore-ground of the frontis.where it makes a 1cm V shaped track not touching any of the figures,… Read More

London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy second edition, 1823. Hardcover. Good. Engravings (70 oval vigngnettes on 35 plates) plus full page frontis of Aesop on trial before the animals.. Duodecimo (172x100mm) gilt ruled roan spined marbled boards (head/foot of spine leather chipped/spine slit to lower compartment of spine) iv;127pgs Inscription to pastedown dated 1859 another inscription to fly leaf. Some offsetting of the illustrations onto the facing text page. Contents leaf nearly detached and has a few spots the largest 2cm. Also has a neat inscription to top margin. About 4 other leaves have small marks but not fingered nor foxed and no tatty edges or tears (Osborn 570 has imperfect copy). Charming illustrations.

Amsterdam: J.Oosterwyk en H vande Gaete 1st edition, 1714. Hardcover. Good. frontispiece + copperplate to titlepage +8 threequarter page copperpaltes w.verses below by L. Wanelaar [frontis.} + J.Schijnvoet.. sm.8vo vellum laced-through (tips worn/vellum sl. darkened) half title + engraved title +printed titlepage +[30pp incl.dediction + to reader +laudatory poems etc.] +128pp +half title leaf +[2p =poem] + 65pp [1p=blank] +[4p index] +(2p=blank] front fly leaf cut into half & loose half laid in.Small stamp [=2.by 0.8cm] ["Verwiu??no kun.biel.] to back of titlepage but it is rather feint so not sure of words]. The end papers are a bit marked and edges of pages are pale tan or sl.foxed and there are some other signs of use but the paper is crisp and strong with a watermark that includes a lion? And a armorial bearing but since only part of the watermark is visible at the gutter edge we cannot determine the origin of the paper. The illustrations are in a variety of frames with a title to the bottom of… Read More

London: Bulmer (2nd Bulmer Bewick edition), 1802. Hardcover. Good. Woodengrsavings (13) by John & Thomas Bewick. Octavo 235x160mm tan calf (very worn to edges/neatly rebacked) (xxiii)+105pgs EPs and 3 first and last leaves browned at foot but not touching printed area thereafter clean and tight. "The best specimens of John Bewick's abilities as designer .. drawn by him ...engraved by Thomas .. who rec'd 60 pounds for the work.." The illustration at p.93 represents George III at Windsor.

London: J.Harris, Longman and Co., Scatcherd & Co. & Rivingtons 11th edition., 1812. Hardcover. Very Good-. Woodcuts (64) of which some are probably by John Bewick (see Hugo 13).. 136x86mm green roan spined marbled boards spine gilt titled and ruled (tips & marble paper rubbed). Half title + titlepage +dedication (2 leaves) +Introduction (2 leaves) +poem to author (2 leaves) +Contents (3 leaves) +[35] +36-224pp. Lacks fly-leaf, neat copperplate ownership inscription of Mary Ann White dated 1822 on half title. *These are re-engraved cuts from some of the Bewick illustrations. A few signs of use but a pleasing neat tight copy of this emblem book published without author's name. Each emblem has an oval illustration taking up about one third of the page.

Amsterdam: Erven van F. Houttuyn, 1772. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (pictorial engraved Title + Portrait + 51 more than half page) by Jan Luiken. {or Luyken]. Small octavo calf-spined boards, spine on 5 raised bands decorated gilt with rubbed gilt label (label slightly damaged, hinges starting to split but sound). Engraved titlepage (splits without loss repaired by mounting on old paper) + printed title (small repair at top) + [10]pp prelims +[20]pp life of author etc. +103pp +[7]pp including further poems by Luiken + plate list + publisher's book list - complete. Rear pastedown has an old bill 1914 for auction purchase. Minor signs of use, several small marginal tears without loss, but neat, tight and paper crisp. *A lovely Emblem book by the Dutch engraver Luiken. The emblematic plates show children's games - dolls, knucklebones, jacks, tops, kites, archery (cross bow), skip rope, soap bubbles, hoops, sling shot, hobby horse - also GOLF (Kolf) in great detail and charming domestic scenes -… Read More

Paris: Jean Baptiste Loyson, 1659. Hardcover. Fair. full-page copperplate engravings (65 of 67 -the missing plates are laid in in facsimile) Emblems are numbered but number 52 IS SKIPPED & it is also omitted in the contents list ) Many plates are signed Briot or Marie Briot + there are decorative intitials. 8vo speckled roan on 4 raised bands spine gilt (edges and corners worn (abime)/hinges held by cords/missing half of the lower compartment and quite some leather loss along hinges however covers are still well attached) Frontispiece + titlepage +(10p=Preface) +(8p contents) +half title to verso of first emblem.LACKS emblem 5 and the text on its recto. plate 19 is damaged but verso is blank at this point so no loss of text. Page 249 faces plate 19 and is stained where the damage was repaired but is still well readable. Plates are numbered from 1 to 68 but there is no number 52 and the contents list also omits any number 52 but the pagination & signatures follow through without a gap. The title has… Read More

Amsterdam: Pieter Meijer, 1781, 1782, 1774. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved frontisplate + 3 titlepages with engraved vignettes totalling 153 engravings [vol.1 has 55 plates +vol. II 62 plates + vol. III 33 plates + 3 engravings.. 3 VOLUMES 8vo half tan leather on 5 raised spine bands with gilt flower to each compartment and gilt rules & red title labels. [corners worn more to some than to others/edges rubbed] Pages untrimmed to all 3 volumes. VOLUME I =Frontispiece +titlepage with engraved vignette + Preface +166pp +plate list VOLUME 2 =Titlepage with engr. vignette + 168pp + plate list + VOLUME 3 =Titlepage with engr.vignette + Preface + 155pp + plate list + error lists. The fine illustrations are printed by J.Allart but from illustrations after J.Buys and then engraved by Meer. A beautiful copy of all three volumes without any foxing, tears or marking. Each volume has a sepia bookplate by Doesburgh for Carl Viol with a stamp from the University of Amsterdam.

Tours, France: Mame new edition, 1871. Hardcover. Good. Woodengravings + frontis signed Piaud to the text by K. Girardet, some signed Sargent.. 138x84mm cloth spined printed pictorial boards (tips worn/foot of spine split/spine label chipped/edges with paper loss to boards) 400pp. slight browning to edges and new endpapers. Except for ink name at top of half title which has bled through to margin of frontis and marginal repair to foredge of this page the contents are V.G. Many charming vignette engravings with good details (see Rochambeau 898 "reimpression of 1862 ed").

Paris: Duchesne, 1754. Hardcover. Very Good. 70x70mm copperplate illustration to titlepage +3 copperplate vignettes by Eisen engraved by Petre-Martinasie or Aliamet or Sornique.. Duodecimo handsome brown wide spined boards red and dark green gilt spine lables and 5 raised bands, marblked endpapers. Nice bookplates of Antoine Danyau (surgeon 1803-1871), G.H. and Hilarii Grésy (sc Alès 1868) lxvii (half-title, title, interesting & learned Discours Préliminaire on the Fable works of Gellert, Gay, Fontaine et al.) +129pp +[14]pp Explication des Vignettes, Avis de l'Editeur, Table & Privilege. *First French translation of the Fables of Gellert, Gay and Moore (Cohen col.182 "Edition originale et premier tirage sur papier verge").

London: Blackie 1st thus illustrated, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations ( circa 24 f-p + text) by Cyril Deakins. 16mo blue boards in price clipped dust jacketwith color illustration of the fable of the tortoise and the hare (jacket rubbed to edges else V.G) 128pp No inscriptions, no loose pages a very good copy.

Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 2nd edition., 1823. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved title vignette + 380 ovals in rectangular shaded frames by Thomas Bewick, many reworked to improve graphic clarity of cuts in this edition (Bewick had been dissatisfied with 1st Edn).. Demi octavo (in 4's) 216x132mm paper size, gilt calf (rebacked with leather label & part of original spine) xxiv +376pp collated complete. Occasional light spotting/light browning else lovely clean copy. THUMB PRINT RECEIPT no.65 with 18s receipt, vignette & coloured seaweed on thumb print page. Watermarked paper 1823 Fine Demy + ? Makers mark.Very clean fine copy with the strong impressions and a very low number attesting to an early copy of this edition.

London: Fredreick Warne and Co., 1887 by inscription. Hardcover. Good. Woodengraved illustrations (80) in text - these are not the Croxall illustrations, they are unsigned but in the style of Harrison Weir but NOT by him Weir although not by him.. Post octavo red pictorial cl oth (tips worn/vent to foot) viii + 152pp. Using the Croxall translation of Aesop the Rev. George Fyler Townsend added morals and applications thus The Fox & The Crow moral is Flattery Finds Favour and the Application Compliments cost nothing but many pay dear for them.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Colour illustated (21 full page including frontispiece) by Arnold Lobel.. Folio pictorial boards (slight wear to corners, bit marked). Frontis + titlepage + contents leaf + 40pp + [1]p plate.

London: Rivington, White & others printed Darton & Harvey, 1793. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate engravings (67 ovals on 34 plates & Engraved TP & frontis by G. Neagle (bound after Life of Gay).. Octavo (207x124mm) 2 Parts in 1 volume gilt calf (rebacked with old spine laid on - pine lacks labels & has some flaking & darkening, tips worn) xvi+256pp. Occasional minor spotting else clean and crisp throughout. *Based on Kent, Wooton & Gravelot engravings, some on Stockdale/Blake edition, others differ from both (eg. Fable 9).

Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krausen 1st edition of the 1st work., 1706 at preface + 1715. Hardcover. Good. full page copperplate frontispiece + quater page copperplate engraving to titlepage and quarter page headpiece to Preface + Illustration to PART TWO +full-page frontis to this Twenter [sic] Theil +120 Full page copperplates + copperplate frontis to 1715 S. folio [315 x 203mm] black morocco spine on 5 raised bands gilt titled & gilt decorations to raised bands & compartments ruled in gilt small leather tips to corners. Black cloth sides. [rubbed to head and foot of spine & all edges/ two small cloth losses else sound and neat] Half-title in large decorative script + frontis. + titlepage + [4pp=Preface dated 1706 by Kraus] + [1p =Register] + 1p=blank + 70 copperplates + Copperplate title with large illustration to Second Part + Second, different frontispiece +plates numbered 71 - 120. BOUND WITH copperplate titlepage by Kraus dated 1715 + fullpsge frontispiece + 30 further plates.The printed… Read More

Amsterdam: Isaak Tirion (1705-1765), 1730. Hardcover. Very Good. frontispiece + portrait + 8 full-page emblems + 2 folding plates by Goeree + Vignette to title +8 headpieces + 4 hieroglyphic plates. Octavo laced through blindstamped vellum [sl soiled] All eges rouge, Engraved title of Nepture playing the harp while riding a dolphin through stormy seas +titlepage printed in red & black with copperplate vignette, full page engraved with Laurensz`s portrait+[4p=dedication with large headpiece] + [22p=To Reade] + [18pp=life of author] + [16pp=halftitle +laudatory verse/etc+to reader+list of works] +half title +364pp + 2 folding tables & plates ex collation. Some foxing and off-setting from the emblems [here called hieroglifica & the two folding plates], but all in good condition. The paper strong and crisp, with a little staining and foxing, though no impact on text. Landwehr (Emblem & fable books) 753. *HERTSPIEGHEL is a summary and compedium of more complex works by Spieghel. A later more complete… Read More

Antwerp: Joannes Van Soest 13th edition, after 1688 before 1741. Hardcover. Fair. Engraved pictorial titlepage +copperplates (26 of which many are nearly full page and three are in two scenes divided by a frame-line).The emblematic plates have one signed Boutatts + half a dozen mainly floral woodcut tailpieces. 8vo contemprary brown leather on 5 raised bands with gilt in the compartments [lacks spine label/scuffing to covers and a few pin holes and one lacuna to spine/lower corners worn] first 19 pages un numbered 20-372pp LACKING Oorlof [=p373] & 374-5[=Liedeken] These three pages supplied in Facsimile. Index is missing. Title page is dusty and some fingering throughout. The two pastedowns have inscriptions "Desen Bock Joc aen joannes Van Poppel den 18 February Anno 1757" & "Desen Bock hoor tot aen Matthys Lambertus van Poppel woonende in de been houders straedt in Sinte cristoffel anno 1745 tot antwerpen" There is also a Bibliotec stamp below the front inscription and a few pencil notes.

Paris: Chez Le Pan, Rue S. Guillaume la premiere porte Cochere a droite en entrant par la rue S. Dominique, 1791 from editor's note in another vol.. Softcover. Good. Finely engraved plates (49 of 50) + engraved titlepage. Plates all "del" or "invenit" by Gravelot or Cochin, with various engravers named.. 232 by 153mm Volume III (of IV) octavo "en brochure", uncut thus edges dusty with all illustrated plates loosely laid in but all text pages in gatherings of 8 leaves. Half title + engraved titlepage + 48 plates but the first plate lacking its text [ie pages 1 & 2] + 100pp + partial index (index lacks A-N pp101-4 but p105/6 present covering letters N to Z). The plates are not within the collation and loose (as from the publisher) and only some are numbered but numbers are not sequential and several have the same number although the plates are not the same. All plates face a text page with the subject that matches the title opposite. *An outstanding collection of engraved emblematic figures for the… Read More

Boston & New York: Silver,Burdett & Co, 1911 approx). Hardcover. Good. Color illustrations by Harry E. Wood. Square duodecimo buff ribbed pictorial cloth (tips worn/some darkening) 168pp Some signs of use, mainly marginal smudges or fingermarks, but neat and tight, no torn pages, no scribbles, no loose pages, no turned down corners. Quite neat with good illustrations featuring animals dressed in and imitating humans in pleasant coloring style.