Search Results: Authors starting with S from MOSHER BOOKS

Patavii (Padua, Italy): Apud Paulum Frambottum Bibliopolam, 1652. FIRST EDITION. ________ Folio (about 12 3/4 x 8 1/2") in contemporaneous calf, professionally and sympathetically rebacked using original gilt spine compartments and label and original endpapers; six raised bands; all page edges sprinkled red. Portrait (dated 1651) and engraved title by G. Georgi. (The engraved title is often catalogued as a frontispiece) Imbellished with numerous decorative head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials. ________ PAGINATION & COLLATION: [xxiv], 352, [30] pp. (indices and errata form last 30 pages). Collation follows that of the Getty copy: [par.]6, 2[par.]2, a4, A-3A4 3B4(-3B4 which is blank). ________ Text in Latin; illustrated with engravings of monuments, markers, headstones and other Roman antiquities. ________ U.S. copies located at Penn State, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Getty Research Institute (Besterman Collection). ________ Rough count of the engravings: at least 66 part… Read More

Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1967. FIRST EDITION (all published). Printer Wrapper. As New/N/A. Original wrappers. 16 pages. With a three page introduction by Strouse. Covers each of the 14 series of Mosher books. Attractive front cover with Mosher's publisher's device. A very attactive and quite informative publication on the Mosher Press. Outstanding "as new" condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Privately Printed.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. First Thus, and First American Edition. Paper over boards as issued. Fine. One of 450 printed on Van Gelder paper over boards, as issued. Fine in VG printed dust wrapper. First thus, and First American Edition. ________ The unsigned preface (pp. vii-[x]) is by the publisher. Swinburne’s text, reprinted from the first edition published by D. White (London, 1872), runs from pp. 1-[85], which is then followed by three appendices. All but one of the selections are by Robert Buchanan, most famous for his pamphlet, 'The Fleshy School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day' (London: Strahan, 1872), a work attacking Rossetti and Swinburne and prompting Swinburne’s rejoinder in 'Under the Microscope'. ________ T. J. Wise notes: "In 1899 a handsome but unauthorized edition... was published by Thomas B. Mosher...", Colbeck calls this "a handsome but unauthorized reprint of the book first printed in 1872.", and… Read More