Tom W. Ayling
Wallingford, GBR
More imagesPublished by Societe D'Editions Catholiques, Paris, 1892
- Hardcover
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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.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, Religious Books
Seller Inventory # 2097
More imagesPublished by Voyager, London, 2000
- Hardcover
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Add to basketFirst UK edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth, in the original pictorial dustjacket. Four black and white printed maps. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper.
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Seller Inventory # 2179
More imagesPublished by John Murray, London, 1903
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Add to basketFirst edition. Octavo. Two Volumes. Finely bound by Roger De Coverley and Sons in half red crushed morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. Lettered and decorated gilt. Top edges gilt. A near fine set. Bookplate to front free endpaper verso and contemporary gift inscription to first blank.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, PROVENANCE: Bookplate of the classicist Andrew Leicester Irvine (1881-1967) to front free endpaper verso. Inscribed for him in 1913 by Francis St John Thackeray (1832-1919).
Seller Inventory # 442
More imagesPublished by Printed For T. Cadell, Strand; And E. Moxon, Dover Street, London, 1834
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Add to basketAlfred De Rothschild's set of the first collected edition of Samuel Rogers Poems. This set unites his 'Poems' and 'Italy', previously separately published, but here issued with general title pages to each volume, followed by separate title pages for each. Two volumes. Octavo. Finely bound in full green morocco, spine in rich gil…t compartments, floral sprays to covers. All edges gilt. Frontispiece of portrait of Rogers to the first volume. Engravings after J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Stothard throughout. A very good set indeed, some very light rubbing to the binding. Some occasional foxing throughout.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, Interesting Provenance, PROVENANCE: Alfred De Rothschild (1842-1918), with his Halton House bookplate to each front pastedown.
Seller Inventory # 1163
More imagesPublished by Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, Fils Et Cie, Paris, 1869
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Add to basketFirst edition. Quarto. Bound in the originaly publisher's bright red morocco, richly decorated gilt to the covers and spine. All edges gilt. A fine copy, uncommonly fresh.
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Seller Inventory # 1146
More imagesPublished by John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1772
- Hardcover
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Add to basketBaskerville's first quarto edition. Quarto. Bound in contemporary red morocco, lettered and decorated gilt. All edges gilt. A very good copy indeed, one corner repaired.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings
Seller Inventory # 1619
More imagesPublished by Bodoni, Parma, 1785
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Add to basketFirst quarto edition, and the first published Bodoni edition, one of 50 copies on fine paper. Quarto. Printed throughout in Greek and Latin majuscules. Finely bound in contemporary full red morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt to covers and spine. All edges gilt. A near fine copy, spine very slightly faded, with some minor rub…bing to the joints. Brooks states that 250 copies were printed on 'blue' paper, 50 on fine paper (like this one), and 5 each on two types of superfine paper. 'The editions of 1785 and 1791 are printed in capital letters, and more elegant and exquisitely finished productions cannot be conceived' (Dibdin).
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, PROVENANCE: The Earl Of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain (1877-1953), his bookplate (engraved 1912 by J.F. Badeley) to front pastedown; sold at his sale, Sothebys, June 18th, 1934 (lot 39, £4 to Maggs).
Seller Inventory # 1069
More imagesPublished by Kelmscott Press, London, 1894
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Add to basketWalter Crane's copy of the first illustrated edition of The Story Of The Glittering Plain. One of 250 copies on paper. Quarto. Bound in the original limp vellum binding with gilt lettering to the spine and three silk ties. Twenty-three wood-engravings by Walter Crane alongside intricate woodcut borders and initials by William Mo…rris. A near fine example. A minor hole to the upper cover, a red mark to the binding, slightly foxed to foreedge. Walter Crane's own copy of the only Kelmscott Press book he illustrated. Peterson A22.
Also in these catalogs: Fine Bindings, PROVENANCE: Walter Crane (1845-1915), illustrator, with his bookplate to the front free endpaper.
Seller Inventory # 2342
