Tom W. Ayling
Wallingford, GBR
More imagesPublished by L. Curmer, Paris, 1890
- Hardcover
Seller: Tom W. Ayling, Wallingford, United KingdomTom W. Ayling
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Add to basketDuodecimo. Finely bound in contemporary burgundy morocco, richly decorated gilt. Gilt initials "L.P." to upper cover. Silk moire endpapers. A near fine copy.
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Seller Inventory # 2101
More imagesPublished by Societe D'Editions Catholiques, Paris, 1892
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Tom W. Ayling, Wallingford, United KingdomTom W. Ayling
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Add to basketFirst edition. Octavo. Finely bound in contemporary purple morocco, lettered in blind to the spine, with large silver initials to the upper cover. Silk moire endpapers. Deep turn-ins elaborately decorated gilt. Beautifully illustrated with decorative borders to each page, and full page plates. A fine copy.
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Seller Inventory # 2097
More imagesPublished by John Murray, London, 1896
Seller: Tom W. Ayling, Wallingford, United KingdomTom W. Ayling
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Add to basketA new edition. Octavo. Two volumes. Finely bound in full olive morocco, decorated in the Arts and Crafts style, very much in the manner of Douglas Cockerell. A near fine set.
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Seller Inventory # 471
More imagesPublished by Johann Turetschek, Leitomischl, 1823
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Add to basketOctavo. Bound in a contemporary Bauerneinband of vellum over thin wooden boards, stained blue and pink and gilt to a panel design, each board with central hand-coloured stipple-engraved cartouche depicting a female saint. All edges gilt and gauffered at ends. Full-page woodcut frontispiece printed to half-title verso, woodcut he…ad- and tailpieces. A very good copy, somewhat duststained and rubbed, very short split at head of front joint. An unrecorded prayerbook printed in Leitomischl (now Litomyl, Czechia) in an attractive Bauerneinband incorporating printed figures of Saints Barbara and Lucy. An ostentatious but affordable style popularised in the late eighteenth century, Bauerneinbände or 'peasant bindings' such as this were fashionable among the working class, but attracted criticism on the grounds that they were acquired more for public display than for pious devotion: Gregorius, a near-contemporary writer on binding, complains that 'in these spoiled times, every peasant girl wants to have purely for show a hymn book with gilt edges' (Foot, p. 76). Most likely intended as a cheap means of adorning books, the use of printed images in the decoration of bindings is very rare indeed. No copies traced in OCLC or KVK.
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Seller Inventory # 878
