Rare books from E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC]

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.

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. NORDHOFF, Charles (1878-1947). -- HALL, James Norman (1887-1951). Mutiny on the Bounty. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932.

8vo. 20th-century blue crushed levant gilt, upper cover with central illustration of a ship in white, red and green morocco on-lay, edges gilt, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of the H.M.S. Bounty and a ship of mutineers at sea; quarter morocco gilt slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of the first work in the Bounty Trilogy, based on the 1787 mutiny in Tahiti. Throughout history, few voyages are as infamous as that of the bounty. Even before the doomed sailing, the naval exploits of Lieutenant William Bligh and his participation in the third and final voyage of Captain James Cook, were quickly becoming legend. Sailing with such a distinguished officer should have been an honour but this was not the case.

On April 28th, 1789, the HMS Bounty was taken over by disgruntled crew members, led by acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian. The mutiny came on the heels of… Read More

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet and literary critic who's tales of the macabre have terrified and inspired millions. A pioneer of the short story and detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe is often viewed as a tragic figure in his own right.
Poe was one of the first American writers to find great success in Europe than he would at home, initially. It was with the help of translations by Baudelaire that Poe found fame in France. These translations became the definitive texts across Europe. Poe's poignant, gloomy and sometimes terrifying tales have gone on to inspire countless other fiction writers such as Jules Verne and H.P. Lovecraft.
True to fashion, Poe's death is as mysterious as his stories. Found wandering the streets of Baltimore, completely disoriented and wearing another man's clothing, the author died shortly after his discovery.
The Valdeman Edition gets its name from The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. The short story centres around a hypnotist who places a man in… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press, 1951. first Facimilie. full Morocco. THE FORSYTE SAGAJohn GalsworthyFORE-EDGE PAINTINGPublished by William Heinemann Ltd / Windmill Press 1951This is the 1951 reprint from 1922 including folding family tree chart as frontice.1042pp not illustrated as per the original 1922 edition. Bound in full red straight grain Morocco for Henry Sotherans, Ltd. With tipped in signature of John Galsworthy dated March 11 1916.Fore-Edge painting is the view of Richmond Bridge, London. Beautifully painted showing the bridge and its quaint surroundings.The Forsyte Saga was first published in its entirety in 1922; the illustrated single volume edition with Anthony Gross's highly acclaimed drawings was first published in 1950. The Forsyte Saga earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, and his tales of the vicissitudes of a large upper-middle-class English family have been adapted under various guises for film and television, including the 1949 Hollywood film… Read More

QUEEN MARY
Tennyson, Alfred
London, Henry S King & Son.
1875 1st ed
[BINDING] GRABAU Tennyson, Alfred., QUEEN MARY., London, Henry S King & Son. 8vo viii, 278pp [9] Full blue morocco, front cover with elegant on-laid and gilt interlacing floral designs of green leaves and cherries accenting with a Jade cabochon as a center piece, spine gilt ruled in six compartments, gilt titles and date, gilt turn-ins. TEG. Signed [John F] Grabau. in fine condition.
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… Read More

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

Full Green straight-grained morocco marbled end papers. Gilt Spine, Engraved frontispiece portrait of George III. All edges gilt. Collated: xxxi, iii, 380 pages, 12 engraved portraits.Fore-Edge of Yarmouth Isle of WhiteThe Foredge is of outstanding intricacy a detailed painting of Yarmouth showing sail boats and the port in the background, and a small tri mast sailboat in the foreground under full sail and crew battling the strong off shore winds of the Isle of white.Yarmouth is a town, port and civil parish in the west of the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river. The town grew near the river crossing, originally a ferry, which was replaced with a road bridge in 1863. Yarmouth has been a settlement for over a thousand years, and is one of the earliest on the island. The first account of the settlement is in Æthelred the Unready's record of the Danegeld tax of 991, when it was called Eremue, meaning "muddy… Read More

Folio (12 3/4 x 9 1/2"). 6 p.l., 151, [3] pp. With double sided bifold of additions and corrections laid in at rear. Mid green crushed morocco by Leighton-Straker (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers exuberantly gilt à la fanfare, the design inspired by the 16th century bindings described in the book, smooth spine ruled in gilt, with gilt titling and small floral ornaments, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Spine evenly sunned to green/brown as common in this edition. Housed in original slipcase, with complete suite of extra plates in its original envelope. With numerous figures in the text, 37 plates (29 black & white, three of these folding; eight in color), all with tissue guards. No. 28 of 30 printed on Batchelor paper, SIGNED by the author, from a total edition of 215 copies.Glaister describes the main feature of the fanfare style as interlacing ribbons that form "compartments of various shapes, with emphasis given to a central compartment. This interlacing ribbon is bounded by a double… Read More

SET OF 14 ALMANACKS, 1883 - 1895 (COMPLETE RUN) AND 1897 ALMANACK & DIARY
London: George Routledge and Sons; J. M. Dent & Co, 1883 - 1897. First editions, one variant! (1894)
A very good, complete set of Greenaway works which embody the spirit of illustration for children. The Almanacks appeal also lay in each new year's choice of decorations for the seasons. Although the Almanacks popularity was a bit more erratic than her major works, in America they had sales of almost twice the British market; the 1883 was the best-selling year, with more than 90,000 sold. The Greenaway craze inspired imitations and spin offs and even a line of clothing based on the clothing shown in her illustrations. Ultimately, Greenaway's works constitute one of the primary influences on children's illustration and children's publishing.
The first set consist of 14, 24mo volumes, 1883, 1884 in stiff printed pictorial wrappers.
1885, 1886, 1887 oblong 24mo, 1888,1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 with original postal wrapper, 1894,… Read More

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.

Limited Edition. Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches (207 cm x 140 mm); pp. [2] + xviii + 256; Limited Edition of 250 copies; on Flower paper, Woodcut title within an elaborate woodcut border, first page of text within a similar border, numerous woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device. Printed in red and black in Golden type. Full limp vellum with beige broken ties. A fine copy.
COLOPHON: HERE endeth The Book of Wisdom & Lies, a / Georgian Story-book of the eighteenth century, / by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani: translated, with / notes, by Oliver Wardrop. Printed by William / Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 14 Upper Mall, / Hammersmith, in the County of Middlesex; / & finished on the 29th day of September, 1894. / [printer's mark 1] / Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, W.
[Peterson A28; Tomkinson p. 114 no. 28; Ransom p. 328, no. 24]. One of the most famous works by the 17-18th century Georgian diplomat and man of letters, containing Sufic and other narratives, tales and anecdotes. "Racy, clear and… Read More

Malory, Thomas LE MORTE DARTHUR 4 Vols London: Published by Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, 1910 - 1911. Sir William Russell Flint. Limited, Numbered Edition. Limp Vellum. LE MORTE DARTHUR by Sir Thomas Malory / Sir William Russell Flint (Illustrator) Malory, Thomas Published by Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, London, 1910 - 1911 The Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. In four volumes. London, Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society 1910-1911. With 48 color plates after watercolors by William Russell Flint. Flexible original parchment bindings with ties. Title on spine and front covers embossed in gold, gilt head section. Copy 331 of 500 on Riccardi laid paper, another twelve were printed on parchment. – Revised by Alfred W. Pollard from the text version of the Caxton edition. – Set from the type designed by HP Horne based on Venetian models. – The title font and the initials were designed by M. Engall. – Printed by Charles T. Jacobi at Chiswick… Read More

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS; A NARRATIVE OF 1757
Cooper, James Fenimore.
Published by London: John Miller, 1826,
First English Edition; three volumes; published about a month later than the Philadelphia edition of the same year. Vol. I. TP Preface [v,xi] 287pp, Vol. II. 276pp, Vol. III. 295pp. Bound in ½ reddish brown Morocco, in very good condition, no half title in Vol I. but present in vols. II and III exceptional condition internally housed in a clamshell box. Very Good…
At the time of Cooper's writing, many U.S. settlers believed and perpetuated the myth that Native Americans were disappearing, believing they would ultimately be assimilated or killed off entirely due to the genocidal structure of settler colonialism. Especially in the East, as Native Peoples' land was stolen and settled on in the name of U.S. expansion and Jeffersonian agrarianism, the narrative that many Native Peoples were "vanishing" was prevalent in both novels like Cooper's and local newspapers. This allowed settlers to view… Read More

COSWAY STYLE (BAYNTUN)
THE POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS
London Methuen & amp; Co. 1896
xlvi, 667 pp. With frontispiece portrait. 21x13.6 cm (8¼x5½"), bound by Bayntun in fullcrushed Morocco with elaborate decorative rule in gilt, green, and red, with inset colorportrait of Robert Burns, raised bands, spine tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, inner panelsruled in gilt, silk moiré endpapers, custom full Morocco Solander Box.
An exquisitely bound collection of Burns & 39; poems and songs.
Price (Usd) $6,800

THE TALE OF KING COUSTANS THE EMPEROR. THE HISTORY OF OVER SEA.
One of a total edition of 545 copies
Kelmscott Press – (Morris William) Hammersmith 1894
Translated out of the ancient French into English by William Morris. Hammersmith 1894. With ornamented woodcut double title and numerous initials by William Morris. Original holland-backed blue-gray paper boards, black lettering on upper cover, untrimmed edges One of 525 copies on Batchelor laid paper (total edition 545). – Typeset from the Chaucer Type, the running titles and the publisher's imprint were printed in red. This is a particularly charming little anthology of two Medieval French romances translated by Morris into his special brand of archaic-sounding English. The love stories involve, first, a commoner's marriage to the daughter of the pagan emperor of Byzantium and, second, the adventures that befall French lovers who are taken prisoner by Saracens during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Peterson A 26. – Tomkinson 114, 26 (with full-page… Read More