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L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane pis a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, by Tobias Smollett in 1748.
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stable hand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he is forced to help robbers along the route and is faced with jail. He becomes a valet and, over the course of several years, is able to observe many different classes of society, both lay and clerical. Because of his occupation, he meets many disreputable people and is able to adjust to many situations, thanks to his adaptability and quick wit. He finally finds himself at the royal court as a favorite of the king and secretary to the prime minister. Working his way up through hard work and… Read More

GESSNER (Salomon);L. Duprat - Duverger, 1812. new edition. 4 Vols 24mo bound in contemporary ¼ brown paste grain Morocco, contemporary French / German style marble paper sides. Less than typical wear for its age very good condition and clean.Gessner was widely enjoyed in his time; reviver of the idyllic and pastoral genre, he was in the poetic genre side of Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint Pierre. –. good. Item #450

LINCOLN COLLECTOR: THE STORY OF OLIVER R. BARRETT'S GREAT PRIVATE COLLECTION. CARL SANDBURG. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company: New York. 1949. First Edition. 8vo., 344pp. With numerous illustrations and facsimiles of letters and other documents. Blue buckram, no dust jacket. First edition, in original slipcase, signed by Sandburg, number 1208 of 2425 copies. The story of the remarkable collection of Oliver Barrett, a Chicago attorney who started collecting as a child. For more than 50 years, Oliver Barrett, in his hometown of Pittsfield, Illinois, collected Lincoln letters, documents, relics and related source materials. It was Barrett's collection that Sandburg used to author his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln.

THE LADY OF THE LAKE; A POEM.
SCOTT, Sir Walter [1771-1832].Published by Edinburgh: Printed for John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh & Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, London, by James Ballantyne and Co., 1810. (1810)
SCOTT, Walter, Sir. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. A POEM. Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and others, 1810. 8vo. Contemporary full blind and gilt tooled calf, all edges marbled. Weak joints but still a strong binding with clean crisp text. (x), 433 pages. Second edition. Scott wrote The Lady in the Lake in 1810, and this is the fourth edition. It became such a popular work that it went through twelve editions that first year alone. He was drawing on the romance of the Arthurian legend but with an entirely different story set around Loch Katrine in the Trossachs of Scotland. STIJ011

Scott, William HenryLondon: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1818. Scott, William Henry. British Field Sports; embracing practical instructions in shooting, hunting, coursing, racing, cockingl, fishing, &c. With observations on the breaking and training of dogs and horses; also the management of fowling pieces, and all other sporting implements. 1818. London. Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones. Royal 8vo. 34 engraved plates including frontispiece. Original calf rebacked, spine label gilt, spine gilt. Provenance: Frederick J. O. Montagu (bookplate); Wilson (bookplates).[4] illustrated half-title [2] full page black and white frontice piece title page; B.3, ix-xi. pp.2-615. Full page advert for Cooke's Topography [4]. "The author's object has been, to present, in as compressed a form as real utility would admit, instructuions in all the various Field Sports in Modern Practice; thereby forming a book of General Reference on the subject and including in one volume, what could not otherwise be obtained… Read More

Very Good. First Edition. Contemporary calf, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label (5 raised bands); 3 volumes, 8vo (5 x 7.5 inches); pp. iv, [4], 364; 443; [4], 344, [88] (index, ads "Books Printed for, and Sold by William Taylor, at the Ship in Paternoster-Row"). All volumes: Spines a bit dry, and lightly chipped at tips; light bumping and scuffing along joints and edges of boards; text block a bit tanned along the edges, prelims, and terminals, but overall bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sam 1 Goodford of ye Inner Temple Esqr. 1737; later bookplate of Munson Havens and Hetty Jamon Havens, "Their Book." First Edition, a handsome set of one of the most influential English books of the 18th century, hailed for its prose style as well as for its philosophical contents.

COSWAY STYLE (BAYNTUN-RIVIERE)
SHAKESPEARES VENUS AND ADONIS... LUCRECE... THE PASSIONATE
PILGRIM... SONNETS...
Pericles... - Facsimiles of the original printings
Published Oxford, Clarendon Press 1905
5 volumes bound together. Edited by Sidney Lee, signed by him on the limitation leaf.24.5x19 cm (9¾x7½"). bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full Morocco, elaborately ruled ingilt, inset color portrait, raised bands, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, inner Moroccopanels, silk moiré endpapers, gilt dentelles, slipcase. No. 634 of 1000 copies.Photographic facsimiles with commentary of these five early printings of WilliamShakespeare, being the first editions of each text, issued between 1593 and 1609.

Numbred. Limp Vellum. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. London: (Chiswick Press for the Reed Pale Press), 1935. Small, slim quarto, original full limp vellum, top edge gilt, uncut, blue silk ties.Limited edition of Shelley's moving tribute to his fallen friend, the poet John Keats. Number 180 of 250 copies, printed in red and black by the Chiswick Press and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.Composed as a pastoral elegy, specifically in the tradition of Milton's beautiful Lycidas, it was first published in the spring of 1821, immediately after hearing of Keats's death."Shelley's use of the classical pastoral elegy form was natural enough. He had studied and translated many classical elegies himself; he had also read and admired Milton's 17th century interpretation of the form in Lycidas. Most critics believe Shelley modeled Adonais upon Virgil's tenth Eclogue, Bion's elegy on the classical hero Adonis, and the anonymous elegy o Bion himself. It is a beautiful work and… Read More

THE BIG GAME OF NORTH AMERICA
By Men Who Have Hunted it. It Habits, Habitat, Haunts, and Characteristics; How, When, and Where to Hunt It.
Shields, G. O. (Editor)
Published by Rand, McNally, Chicago & New York (1890)

Rand, McNally, Chicago & New York, 1890. Handsomely bound in brown cloth with beveled edges. The front boards are stamped brightly in gold with a ram's head and two rifles. With gilt lettering and rules on the spine. A touch of rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine ends and light wear at the corners. Light library marks on fly leaf mild and light occasional foxing to verso of the plates very clean and tight. With Flower pattern end papers adorned with 2 newspaper clippings with very amusing little stories "Just Wonderful"
Slight spine cockle. With 27 full-page plates, including the frontispiece; and 14 other illustrations of various animals, including a cougar, elk calf, and wolverine. A very attractive and collectible copy of this splendidly illustrated book on hunting big game.… Read More

NARRATIVE OF THE BRITON'S VOYAGE TO PITCAIRN'S; INCLUDING AN INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE BRAZILS AND OF SPANISH SOUTH AMERICA. J. Shillibeer. Law and Whittaker; 1817. Second edition. 8vo; 180 pp.; 12 plates, two enfolded. Recently rebacked into tree calf boards with full gilt spine to period. Interior text has light scattered foxing throughout. Some areas with underlining and marginalia. Enfolded plates have been repaired and refolded neatly back into the book. Frontice and title page have been gently washed along with the final two pages

LEGENDARY BALLADS SIDGWICK (Frank) - editor Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1908 Chatto and Windus, Arden Press, [London], 1908. HC. Byam Shaw (illustrator). 4to. Limited Edition xvi, 180 [4]pp Paintings Limited Edition of 265 copies of which 250 are for sale; his is No. 88. Vellum with gilt titles and raised embossed figure of St. George and the Dragon on front panel. Top gilt edged, green marbleized end papers. Two-colour title illustration, full colour frontispiece plus 9 full colour ill. with tissue guards. A beautiful collection of popular ballads. Housed in Recent Cloth Slip Case.

Hardcover (Purple and patterned boards). Condition: Very Good condition. Decorative gilt spine elements with gilt lettering on a green text block. Sangorski & Sutcliffe Bindery stamp to head of verso of FFEP.
The covers are very good, clean and the lettering is clear. The binding is tight and the interior is clean for age. Text is clear and sharp. Minor rubbing to spine and edge of boards.

ENGLISH BOOK ILLUSTRATION OF TO-DAY. Sketchley, R.E.D. Published by Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co Ltd London, 1903. First edition. Narrow 4to. xxix + (1) + 175 + (1)pp. Top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed. 41 black and white illustrations, including 2 plates. Publisher's original green cloth with black lettering on front. The spine has nice and bright gilt lettering. Very faint foxing to endpapers. This is comenserate to many of the publications by this publisher seen in their' Books on Books' series.

THE OLD HOUSE. FEODOR SOLOGUB. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1916. First American Edition. Novelette and ten stories by the Russian Symbolist novelist, poet, and essayist. Translated from the Russian by John Cournos. Uncommon. First US Printing, with the cancel title page tipped into sheets from the British edition published the previous year. Small 8vo; original hunter green cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; black topstain. No dust jacket.

Bound by John Frederick Grabau. Inscribed by both the Author and Illustrator…
Tall 8vo, 144 pages including many Wonderfully illustrated, black-and-white and partially coloured drawings throughout; A humorous book of poetry for children.
John Frederick Grabau was born in Wisconsin in 1878. He trained as an artistic bookbinder, apprenticing in the printing shop of Gies & Co. and at Peter Paul's bookbindery. In 1902, Grabau became the protégé of Louis H. Kinder at the Roycroft community bindery. Kinder founded the Roycroft Bindery in 1896 and attracted many talented young artists, including Grabau, Harry Avery, and Charles Youngers. The Roycroft community produced some of the finest hand-crafted books, furniture, lamps and metalwork of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Grabau left Roycroft in 1905 to found the Derome Bindery in Buffalo, New York. He named the bindery after Nicolas Derome, who was noted for his dentelle borders. Grabau died in Aurora, New York, in 1948.
$500.00USD

Illustrated with 15 engraved portraits by John Cook.
Novelist and social historian, Stone was raised in Manchester, UK. She wrote several social novels as well as this work and another on needlework (1840). Mrs. Stone discusses all facets of fashion and taste, from banquets and food to attire to theatre to fashionable watering places. Much attention is devoted to the lives and habits of the rich and famous, with descriptive vignettes of numerous "stars of fashion.".
Bound in full polished calf full gilt spines and marble endpapers.