Search Results: Authors starting with B from E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC]

Limited facsimile edition. Small 8vo, 82pp, 2 coloured folding maps, red cloth backed printed Orange/brown boards. This facsimile edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. The original edition was published to coincide the first modern day Olympics in Athens in 1896 and is extremely rare. This well produced facsimile even has authentic foxing on the upper board .Limited to 500 numbered copies this copy is un-numbered and inscribed from the publisher.

Limited facsimile edition. Small 8vo, 82pp, 2 coloured folding maps, red cloth backed printed Orange/brown boards. This facsimile edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. The original edition was published to coincide the first modern day Olympics in Athens in 1896 and is extremely rare. This well produced facsimile even has authentic foxing on the upper board.

The Ingoldsby LegendsBAYNTUN OF BATH; [BARHAM, Richard Harris]Published by London: Richard Bentley, 1855[Fine Binding] Ingoldsby, Thomas (Richard Harris Barham)The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and MarvelsLondon: Richard Bentley, 1855. In three volumes. Tenth edition. 8vo. Each volume illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, vignette title-page, and numerous plates. Full blue crushed levant, stamped in gilt, multicolor leather on-lay depicting different characters from the stories, spines darkened, front hinge of volume one slightly worn; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; by Bayntun; original navy-blue cloth covers bound in at rear of each volume; prelims in each volume lightly foxed.

3 Volumes. BARTHOLINI Thomae & Caspar (BARTHOLIN Thomas) (BARTHOLINUS), 1676. First Complete Edition. Paper Boards. Three tomes (16), 114, (14) pp. and a c. of table folded several times, 40 pp., (16), 148, (2), 17, (9) pp. Bound in publishers brown boards. Beautifully described and illustrated works, First complete edition, a previous edition where only the first volume was present, came out in 1647 and also lacked part of the illustrations. Bartholin Thomas and Ole Worm were two of Denmark's most famous doctors and professors of the seventeenth century making great contributions to world medicine. Bartholin in particular carried on Harvey's research on blood circulation and became one of the pioneers of the analysis of the lymphatic system. But uniting the two great scholars was the passion for history and archeology by putting together two of the largest and most interesting collections of archaeological finds and curiosities in Europe. The work presented here, complete with all its parts, is one… Read More

Le Barbier de SevilleBEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Auguste Caron (1930) Limited Edition Published by Paris, Librairie des Amateurs A. Ferroud (1930) Limited Edition Hand coloured frontice and plates. Color illustrations by Gustave-Adolphe Mossa. Octavo limited to 970 copies. This one no.77 of the 60 on Japon. Initialed by the publisher. Bound by DUHAYON, Henri, binder. in fine 1⁄2 teal morocco, Paris, Librairie des Amateurs. A. Ferroud - 1930 - 177 pages. Original wrap- per bound inn, complete with an extra suite of all illustrations, all hand coloured plates, black and white copies of the couloured illustrations including all small coloured and black and white illustrations that are also found throughout the text. Gustav-Adolf Mossa (1883-1971) is a French symbolist painter, late in the movement of Gustave Moreau, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Ed- gar Maxence or Émile-René Ménard. Steeped in his readings, Mallarmé, Baudelaire, Huysmans, he was inspired by the masters of the Quattrocento, the Pre-Raphaelites,… Read More

THE VARIORUM AND DEFINITIVE EDITION OF THE POETICAL AND PROSE WRITINGS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD: INCLUDING A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INTERESTING PERSONAL AND LITERARY NOTES. GEORGE BENTHAM AND EDMUND GOSSE. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1902. First Edition and signed. Seven volumes. Hardback. Tall 8vo. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered in black on paper spine labels. All volumes clean and free from foxing or marks, all seven volumes still in the publisher's glassine wrappers/dust jacket, Glassine jacket on volume one only is damaged, the rest are perfect. Limited edition of 250 sets, this set being no. 59 of 100 sets on hand made paper, signed by the publisher.

3 Riviere fine bindings. To include: 1) Poems by Percy Shelley. London: Robt Riviere & Son Ltd. Small loss to cap of spine. With slipcase. 2) Poems by Robert Burns. London: Robt Riviere & Son, Ltd. With slipcase. 3) The Poetical Works of John Keats. Notes by Francis Palgrave. London: Macmillan and Co, 1927. Front hinge worn slightly. With slipcase. Each about 6.25 x 4.25in. Very nice matching style bindings beautifully bound in polished calf. By Revier's.

THE GOLDEN CRUCIBLE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CALIFORNIA 1850-1905. Published by Paul Elder & Co.: San Francisco, 1930. First edition, first printing. Published in a limited edition of a total of 1125 copies, 97 pp. Good condition in dark green boards with a tan spine, and gilt lettering. Some rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards. The binding is tight. A work which was awarded first prize in the James D. Phelan Historical essay contest.

Blunt (Wilfred Scawen) The Love Lyrics & Songs of Proteus, limited to 300 copies, all on paper, printed in red and black in Golden type, 2 woodcut borders, each poem opening with a woodcut initial by Hooper after Morris, woodcut press device after Morris on colophon leaf. Original vellum with light green silk ties, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt.
The only Kelmscott book with the initials printed in red, at the author's request. Morris wrote to Jenny Morris, "'...it looks very gay & pretty with its red letters, but I think I prefer mine in style of printing'".
The book was shown at the Wolverhampton exhibition, 1902.

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Boswell, James
Cosway style binding
Published by George Bayntun, Bath, 1925
2 Vols Cosway Style Bindings by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, England.
Beautiful, first edition, illustrated two-volume edition of the most celebrated biography in the English language. Quarto, Published by George Bayntun. bound in full Brown morocco, spines slightly sunned, Cosway Style binding extra gilt, with gilt titles and gold and blind tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, Silk deblures, all edges gilt. Housed in 2 separate cloth slipcases. Complete with 576 illustrations, facsimiles and maps including 13 plates in photogravure. Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen.
Boswell excelled in insight into human nature and in ability to dramatize a situation. It was a crucial part of Boswell's magic to give significance and vitality to the apparently trivial; it is this trait, together with his notable accuracy and unparalleled completeness of portraiture, that made him the… Read More

BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson and Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides...[Edited and] with a bibliographical introduction by Clement Shorter. New York: printed for Gabriel Wells by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922."Temple Bar Edition" limited to 785 copies, 10 volumes, 8vo, many fine illustrations throughout; original art vellum-backed brown paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine; fine set, retaining all the original brown paper dust-jackets, paper labels on spines. Esteemed edition, beautifully printed.

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LLD. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published, the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain for Near Half a Century During Which He Flourished by James Boswell, with Copious Notes and Biographical Illustrations by Malone, In Four Volumes. JAMES BOSWELL. London, 1823. Printed for J Richardson and Co et al. 8vo, First of this edition. Contemporary polished olive calf, spines richly gilded, inner dentelles gilded, morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers & edges; joints rubbed & joint repairs professionally done to Vol. II. With portrait, 2 fold facs plates; offsetting on title. Otherwise internally clean and tidy. Vol I: portrait engraving opposite title page, dedication, advertisements for the first, second and third editions + 416 pgs; Vol II: 472 pgs;… Read More

James Boswell's biography of the noted English author Dr. Samuel Johnson has been described as "the greatest biography written in the English language." This 6-volume set was edited by George Birkbeck Hill, and published in 1891 on the centennial of the first publication of this work. With various frontis portraits of Dr. Johnson and James Boswell, and with fold-out facsimile letters and miscellaneous engraved illustrations. --- In blue cloth-covered hardcovers w/gilt-stamped spine titling; top edges gilt. some wear of cover edges, else a clean untrimmed on lower and fore-edge, TEG, firm, unmarked set.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 604,551,527,514,524,lxxi,323 pages.

MISCELLANEOUS AND POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. Published by Parker, Son, and Bourn: London. 1861. 7 volumes in 3 titles. Beautifully bound in half red Morocco full gilt spines, with burgundy gold vein marble sides and ends, top edge gilt by Riviere & Son. 'History of the Civilization in England, In 2 Volumes'. Published by Parker, Son, and Bourn: London. 1861. 'Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, In 3 Volumes'. Published by Longmans: London. 1872. 'The Life of H. T. Buckle, In 2 Volumes'. Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: London. 1880. All bindings are in very good condition: no bumping of corners or chipping of head and tail, and all the joints are sound. The text is clean, bright, and sharp, with no foxing. A handsome set.

Bulleit, C.J. VENUS CASTINA. Famous Female Impersonators, Celestial and Human. With Illustrations by Alexander King. New York: Covici Friede, (1928). First Edition. 4to. Black cloth and patterned boards (diamonds), housed in the publisher's original slipcase with large label and title, etc. One of 960 numbered copies, #754 with wonderful full page black and white illustrations by Alexander King. Issued without dust jacket. 309pp. The book to dedicated to "To you who laugh in the Theatre when a male moron puts on a grass skirt and dances a burlesque, to you who giggle when the handsome young preacher pitches high his voice and mimics a hoyendish Maiden, to you who find delight in the Girlish Pranks our college boys are playing on each other, to you who have closed your Houses of Prostitution and bade young men forget sexual desire…." A very good copy to near fine with occasional spotting on pages. A couple of snags to slipcase spine.

Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies; Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1801 Second edition, revised. 4 Vols, 8vo Original full tree calf bindings, marble end papers, Frontice portrait; four different woodcut vignette title-pages. Very clean and bright text and endpapers, minimal to no foxing. The first attempt at a posthumous collected edition of Burns' works, edited by James Currie and first published in 1800 in Liverpool for the benefit of Burns' widow. Included is Currie's substantial life of Burns, which was reprinted throughout the 19th century; extensive selections of Burns' correspondence; tributes to Burns; and previously unpublished poems and songs, most notably "Auld lang syne" on page 122 of volume 4. With the book plate of Julian Wood Glass. Julian Wood Glass Jr. was a descendent of Mary and James Wood, who settled the site now called Glen Burnie in the late 1730s and founded the city of Winchester then called Frederick Town in 1744. Julian and his half-sister, Sunny, grew up in Nowata,… Read More

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1904. Riverside Press. Edition: Riverby Edition. 1/2 Brown Morocco Gilt Spines. The Writings of John Burroughs. Author: Burroughs, John. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company. Publication Date: Copyright 1904. Printer: Riverside Press. Edition: Riverby Edition. Individual title(s): Vol. I. Wake-Robin (251 p.), Vol. II. Winter Sunshine (261 p.), Vol. III. Birds and Poets (269 p.), Vol. IV. Locusts and Wild Honey (255 p.), Vol. V. Pepacton (263 p.), Vol. VI. Fresh Fields (309 p.), Vol. VII. Signs and Seasons (289 p.), Vol. VIII. Indoor Studies (287 p.), Vol. IX. Riverby (354 p.), Vol. X. Whitman (299 p.), Vol. XI. The Light of Day (248 p.), Vol. XII. Literary Values (205 p.), Vol. XIII. Far and Near (287 p.), Vol. XIV. Ways of Nature (279 p.),Bound in ½ Brown Morocco, elaborate gilt spines marble sides and endpapers very good condition.Consecutive volumes, I-XVIII of XXIII, the Riverby Edition, an ongoing publication of Burroughs' writings was completed in 1923 with a total of… Read More

17 volumes, octavo Finely bound by Root & Son in ½ light blue Morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Very good condition, Vol I has signs of light water stain to first few leaves including portrait, it is lightly stained not affecting text, spines are uniformly sunned yet still a handsome set. Engraved half-titles and title pages. A very attractively bound library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. As well as the sympathetic biography written by his friend and literary executor Thomas Moore. DNB admires "the skill with which Moore constructed his portrait" and proclaims his biography "indispensable for students of Byron." (The memoir Byron had entrusted to Moore for publication after his death was determined to be too scandalous to see print and was burned in the… Read More