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Fine Bindings From A Private Collection |
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[Dante]. Gustave Doré, illus. Dante Aligheri. [The Divine Comedy]: The Vision of Hell. The Vision of Purgatory. The Vision of Paradise. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1904 Together Six quarto volumes, 340 x 268 mm. Each volume has a watercolor frontispiece signed by noted artist Walter Saterlee (1843-1908) after Gustave Doré. Full red morocco gilt extra with dark green, light green, white, orange and blue onlays; front doublure with a central brass medallion surrounded by an elaborate design of multi-color onlays, rear doublures in colored “Cuir-ciselé”, green watered silk endleaves, t.e.g., others uncut. Signed on front inner dentelle “La Belle Sauvage Bindery”. The “Autograph Edition”, number 35 of fifty-five copies signed by Sir Henry Irving, the dedicatee. Profusely illustrated by Gustave Doré. Housed in a finely crafted amateur slipcase of embroidered green silk. For more images click here |
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Alfred Tennyson. Maud, And Other Poems. London: Edward Moxon, 1855 8vo. Full morocco gilt extra with red and green onlays. a.e.g. Inner rear cover dated 1899 and with ciper: “DC”, undoubtedly Douglas Cockerell. Small ink mark on bottom edge of rear cover, virtually indecipherable fading. Bookplate of Dorothy Gertrude Quick. A handsome binding by Douglas Cockerell, master bookbinder and important figure in the Arts and Craft movement. After apprenticeship with T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (founder of the Doves press and bindery). Cockerell started his own bindery in 1897 or 1898. His book, “Bookbinding and the Care of Books” (1901) remains a standard text of the trade. First edition, this collection includes the famous poem “Charge of the Light Brigade”. For more images click here |
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[John Keats] Sydney Colvin John Keats; his life and poetry... London: Macmillan, 1917 8vo. Cosway style binding by Bayntun-Riviere, full brown morocco gilt with yellow-gold onlays, hand painted ivory portrait miniature of Keats on the front cover; watered silk doublures and endleaves, a.e.g. Fine. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. For more images click here |
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[Shakespeare] Henry Noel Humphreys Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. A Classified Sleection Of Similes, Definitions, Descriptions, And Other Remarkable Passages In The Plays And Poems Of Shakespeare. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851 8vo. Paper-maché binding in high relief. Rebacked, with repairs to board edges, corners worn. One full page full color chromolithograph. For more images click here |
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Robert Burns Poetical Works. London et. al., Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1919 8vo. Full red morocco gilt extra by Riviere. Fine. For more images click here |
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Charles & Mary Lamb Mrs. Leicester’s School: Or, The History Of Several Young Ladies, Related By Themselves. London: Printed for M. J. Godwin..., 1809 8vo. Full blue morocco gilt extra with red onlays on both covers and spine, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Bookplate of notable binding collector Paul Edward Chevalier. Fine in 1/2 blue morocco folding box. 4pp. ads at end. First edition, first issue. Mrs. Leicester's School was first published in 1809 by William and Mary Jane Godwin. It had gone through eight editions by 1823 and at least eleven by 1836. The authors were initially anonymous, but they were soon revealed to be the brother and sister Charles and Mary Anne Lamb (1775-1834 and 1764-1847).Of the ten tales in the volume, Mary wrote seven and Charles wrote three which appear towards the end of the volume - 'The Effect of Witch Stories', 'First Going to Church' and 'The Sea Voyage'. For more images click here |
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[Dante] Maria Francesca Rossetti A Shadow of Dante. London, Oxford and Cambridge: Rivington’s, 1871 8vo. Full purple morocco, front cover gilt with with green onlays forming a grape vine motif. Silk doublures and endleaves, t.e.g. Binding signed “G. P. Putnam’s Sons” inner front cover, “Knickerbocker Press” inner back cover. Cloth slipcase. Bookplate of notable binding collector Paul Edward Chevalier. For more images click here |
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[Marcus Aurelius] Marcus Aurelius. London: Arthur L. Humphrey’s, 1902 8vo. Full brown morocco gilt extra. Nearly fine. For more images click here |
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[Queen Margot] H. Noel Williams Queen Margot. Wife of Henry of Navarre. London and NY: Harper and Brothers, 1911 Cosway style binding of full blue morocco by Bayntun, portrait miniature inset in front cover surrounded by pearl-like stones and green stones (three missing). Extra-illustrated including several hand colored plates. Watered silk doublures and endleaves. But for the missing stones, very fine in a cloth slipcase, a.e.g. Bookplate of Paul Chevalier. For more images click here |
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[Italian Poetry] Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Early Italian Poets. From Cuillo D’alcamo To Dante Aligheri (1100-1200-1300) In The Original Series Together With Dante’s Vita Nuova. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861 8vo. Full brown morocco gilt by H. Wood. For more images click here |
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[Shakespeare] William Winter Shakespeare’s England. NY and London: Macmillan and Company, 1892 8vo. With a watercolor frontispiece and numerous marginal pen and ink drawings by W. J. Wilson (the title inscribed and signed “with pen and ink drawings by W. J. Wilson”). Full red morocco elaborately gilt, green watered silk doublures and matching endleaves, a.e.g. Binding signed “G. P. Putnam’s Sons” on inner front cover and “The Knickerbocker Press” on inner rear cover. Nearly fine. A handsome production with approximately forty delicately executed drawings in the margins. For more images click here |
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Thomas A. Kempis The Imitation Of Christ. London: Arthur L. Humphey’s, 1897 4to. Full brown morocco gilt, by Morrell for Charles Scribner’s Sons. Nearly fine .For more images click here |
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Percy Bysche Shelly To A Skylark. Illuminated by S. S. Frackelton | Inscribed by G. Frackelton. 8vo. An illuminated manuscript on vellum, fourteen leaves.Full slate blue-gray morocco, spine and front cover decorated in black and gilt with small yellow and red onlays; the doublures more elaborately so, blue embroidered silk endleaves. Bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery and signed on the inner lower doublure with an “SL” cipher. Very fine. For more images click here |
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Mathew Arnold Essays. London: Arthur L. Humphrey’s, 1906 12mo. Full orange morocco gilt with red dot onlays. Upper and lower front joint rubbed, few stains to pastedowns, bookplate of Roderick Terry. For more images click here |
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Lynd Ward Madman’s Drum. New York: Jonathan Cape Harrison Smith, 1930 8vo. Full red morocco decorated with gilt, green, and yellow onlays forming circular patterns, stamp signed Vida G. Benedict, t.e.g., others uncut. Profusely illustrated. In slipcase. A fine copy. First edition. The second, crucial work from one of the titans of twentieth century illustration, this novel tells the tale of a man driven by intellect, but marred by the primitive world he exists in. His unavoidable journey towards death is depicted exclusively through stark illustration. For more images click here |
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S. Barring Gould [Life of] Nero. London: Arthur L. Humpheys, 1907 Small 8vo. Full blue morocco gilt extra by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Corners and head of spine rubbed, else fine. For more images click here |
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