{"title":"Fine Bindings","description":"\u003ch5\u003eA collection of traditional fine bindings by Bayntun, Riviere, Stikeman, Zaehnsdorf, et al, many of which are rare and in pristine condition\u003c\/h5\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-of-dante-alighieri-1842-1843-finely-bound-ugo-foscolo-illustrations","title":"THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI 1842-1843 FINELY BOUND, UGO FOSCOLO ILLUSTRATIONS","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. \u003cstrong\u003eLa Commedia. Illustrata da Ugo Foscolo.\u003c\/strong\u003e Londra [London]: Pietro Rolandi, 1842-1843.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition thus. Complete in four volumes. Full leather. Octavo (230 x 140mm), pp. (8), [xxx]-[i.e. xxviii], (4), 468; (8), 395; (8), 560; (8), 418. Italian text. Exquisite contemporary full morocco, bound and signed by Wiseman, with intricate gilt ruled and tooled covers, edges and inner dentelles. All page edges gilt. Half-titles present. Illustrated by Ugo Foscolo with 10 plates outside the text (portrait of Foscolo, view of the Chiswick cemetery, where Foscolo was buried, portrait of Dante, interior of Dante's tomb, Dante's tomb in Ravenna, and plans of Hell, Purgatory and Paradiso, portrait of Dante at the age of 25 and a facsimile of a manuscript by Foscolo). \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: A near immaculate set and exquisitely bound. Collated complete. The covers are excellent with all hinges intact, and gilt remaining bright. The textblock is largely very clean, with some light toning and foxing restricted mostly to initial and terminal leaves. Contemporary owner signature neatly inked to front endpaper of each volume. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eListing note: This wonderful edition is due to the endeavours of Giuseppe Mazzini, who signed in the introduction \"Un' Italiano\" [\"An Italian\"]. In 1825 Foscolo had published, also in London, for the publisher Pickering, the \"Discourse on the text and on the different opinions prevailing on the history and critical amendment of Dante's Comedy\", it was to be a large edition of the \"Commedia\", designed in five volumes. Foscolo presented the commentary on the \"Inferno\" to the editor, but as regards \"Purgatorio\" and \"Paradiso\" he handed over incomplete manuscripts and in some parts barely sketched. Foscolo's death in 1827 finally brought the project to a halt, and the manuscripts remained in Pickering's warehouses. Ten years later, Mazzini came into possession of Foscolo's papers and, after a long process of reworking, was able to publish the work: the first volume (1842), contains the 1825 \"Discourse\", preceded by an unpublished \"Prefazioncella\" by Foscolo; the second (1842) the \"Inferno\"; the third (1843) \"Purgatorio\" and \"Paradiso\", in a single volume, given the smallness of the Foscolian notes; the fourth (1843) the chronology, the life of Dante, the list and description of the codes found in bookshops and libraries, and the index. [I Ottolini, Foscoliana Bibliography, n. 585; Collection Foscoliana Acchiappati, n. 155].\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pietro Rolandi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37635181969579,"sku":"DANTE184243","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_5008_2.png?v=1606256328"},{"product_id":"1566-henri-estiennes-poetae-graeci-principes-heroici-carminis-homer-et-al","title":"1566 HENRI ESTIENNE'S POETAE GRAECI PRINCIPES HEROICI CARMINIS (Homer et al)","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ESTIENNE, HENRI]. \u003cstrong\u003ePoetae Graeci Principes heroici carminis, \u0026amp; alii nonnulli. Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus, Callim. Aratvs, Nicand. Theocrit. Moschvs, Bion, Dionysivs, Colvthvs, Tryphiodorvs. Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagorae aurea carmina. Fragmenta Aliorum. Henrici Stephani tetrastichon de hac sua editione Quæ facie inuitat plures inuitat ocellos quum cultu corpus compta decente nitet Natiuo prius hi nos illexere decore, Illecebras dat nouus iste nouas.\u003c\/strong\u003e [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus. Anno M. D. LXVI. [1566].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. Two parts in one volume. Full leather. Thick folio (365 x 220mm), pp. 20, [lxxii], 410, [4], 411-781; [3], [lvii] [i.e. 56], 489 [i.e. 494] - errors in pagination (misnumbering). Signatures: *5 **4 A-D8 E4 a-2b8 c6 Aa10 Bb-Ii8 Klz8 Ll-Yy8 Zz6 Zzz4; a-g4 2A-2Z6 3A-3R6 3S4 3T3. Eighteenth century calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt floral designs in the compartments and red morocco title plate. Gilt rules to boards. A.e.g. and marbled. Endpapers and pastedowns marbled. Title transliterated. Greek and Latin text. Single column in lines of 40-50. Foliated initials. Shoulder notes. Estienne device on title-page (Schreiber 9). Five calligrams (or examples of concrete poetry) at the cc. 3A6, 3B1 \u0026amp; 3B2 of the second part. Unnumbered blank leaf and special title-leaf to the Odssey between p. 410 \u0026amp; 411. Initial and terminal blanks present. Bound in before the title page are three folio leaves containing pasted in leaves from other old Estienne printings on Homer, Hesiod, and Theocritus, one on vellum. The recto of the first leaf contains a pen and ink drawing, in a very accomplished hand, of a floral wreath enclosing the title of the book 'Poetae Graeci', similar but smaller illustrations in the same hand adorn the following five pages. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure. Expertly re-backed with the majority of the original spine laid down. New head and tail band. Occasional light spotting. A few leaves browned. Light water staining in the final gutter margins. Occasional small insignificant paper repairs in the margins. Moderate surface marking to covers. Rare.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This is Henri Estienne's monumental assemblage of the Greek poets and is recognised as his 'Typographic Masterpiece'. The letterpress is in Latin and Greek throughout, the Greek printed in the two largest sizes of the \"grecs du roi\", modelled on the handwriting of the Cretan copyist Angelo Vergecio, it had been brought from Paris to Geneva by his father Robert Estienne in 1551. The first part of the work is focussed only on the Homeric poems, at the end Estienne adds 57 pages of Annotations (P. 1 - P. LVII). The second part includes much improved texts of Theocritus, Hesiod, Bion and Aratus etc; and the first editions of the fragments of a number of early Greek poets - Solon, Tyrtaeus and Mimnernus. Overall a very good, complete, and well preserved copy of one of the most typographically pleasing books of the Sixteenth Century. Adams P1699. Schreiber 160 - ' This is unquestionably Henri Estienne's Typographic Masterpiece '. Renouard p. 126. 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Condition: GOOD. Bumped at edges, slight scuffs, some splits at spine, but solid in binding, slight discolouration and a few small spots throughout.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This is a curious volume in that its humble contents do not on first impression sit easily with the grandeur of its royal binding. The main contents of this volume are those of a late seventeenth-century scholar (excerpts from Cicero, Coriolanus, with sections on the Roman wars with Carthage, the ancient kings of Prussia and Bithnia, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, Attila the Hun, Nero’s crushing of a revolt in Roman Britain, as well as the animal fables Cicada et Formica, Vulpes et Felis, Vespersilio et Mustella, Vulpes et Hircus, Felis et Simia, and Canis cum Lepore). There is also topical material on the Duc de Chaulnes and the public display of the corpse of St. Francis Borgia (1510-72, canonised 1670). Some material on St. Genevieve, including an account of the procession of her relics in 1694, points towards Paris, and verses on King Louis XIV’s attacks on heresy, perhaps point towards the royal court. The final part, which contains a lengthy Geographia ascribed to the Jesuit Joseph de Jouvancy (1643-1719), adds that the geographic text was written in 1694 in Paris in the royal college or lycée of Louis XIV. This book may have come from the royal library, alternatively it may once been part of the library of the royal lycée. The school was founded by the Jesuits in 1563 as the Collège de Clermont, but renamed in Louis XIV’s honour after he extended it his direct patronage in 1682.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scholar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37669382848683,"sku":"CLASCOM17TH","price":2950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_84b4efc4-9094-46de-9b46-96bfdafed4fe.jpg?v=1606712758"},{"product_id":"almanacks-for-the-year-1688-contemporary-red-morocco-binding","title":"ALMANACKS FOR THE YEAR 1688, Contemporary Red Morocco Binding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALMANACKS - 1688\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollection of 13 almanacks for the year 1688 bound in one volume, including: COLEY, Henry: Merlinus Anglicanus Junior, [R407], J. Maycock; COLEY, Henry: Nuncius Sydereus or the Starry Messenger, [R15440], A.G.; ANON: The City and Countrey Chapmans Almanack; DAVIS, William: A New Ephemeris Made in Wiltshire, R.R.; GADBURY, John: Ephemeris or a Diary Astrological, Astrological, Meteorological, J.D.; PARTRIDGE, J.: Annus Mirabilis, R.R.; ROBIN, Poor: An Almanack of Old and New Fashion, Company of Stationers; ROBIN, Poor: A Prognostication, Company of Stationers; SAUNDERS, Richard: Apollo Anglicanus [R25239], M. Clark; Saunder; TANNER, John: Anglicus Britannicus an Ephemeris [R170248], W. Horton; STRUT, Thomas: The Weavers Almanack [part I], R. Holt; STRUT, Thomas: The Weavers Almanack [part II], Company of Stationers; WOODWARD, Daniel: Vox Uraniae An Almanack Astrological, Astrological, Meteorological, J.D.; PERKINS, F.: A New Almanack [parts I \u0026amp; II], R. Everingham for the Company of Stationers, titles mostly in red and black, portrait illustration, diagrams, tables and charts, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, contemporary red morocco, covers gilt panelled with corner tools, spine similarly gilt in compartments, a.e.g., thick 12mo, unpaginated, 1687-88. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, covers somewhat stained, very slight wear to rear joint, tears to blank endpapers, lightly toned, lacking some leaves. A scarce collection.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes on sections: (1.) Merlinus Anglicanus, A-E8, [80] pp, complete; (2.) Nuncius Sydereus, A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (3.) Chapmans, A-C8, [48] pp, lacking A2 \u0026amp; A3, ends on C4; (4.) News out of the West, A-C8, [48] pp, ends on C3; (5.) Ephemeris (Gadbury), A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (6.) Annus mirabilus, A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (7.) Poor Robin, A-C8, [48] pp, in two parts, each with a title, register continuous, lacking A2 \u0026amp; A3; (8.) Apollo Anglicanus, A-B8, A8, [48] pp, lacking B8; (9.) Angelus Britanniucs, A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (10.) Saunder; consisting of three leaves (A2,A3,A4), lacking the title; (11.) Weavers, A-C8, [48] pp, in two parts with separate titles, register continuous, lacking B8; (12.) Vox Uraniae, A-C8, [48] pp, complete; (13.) Perkins, A-B8 C4, [40] pp, complete in two parts with separate titles (t.p.'s without illustration), register continuous, illustration in the text on B2 of first part.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Almanacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37674754113707,"sku":"ALMA1688","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_7e5b2a36-dabb-4774-a012-a6407a673301.jpg?v=1606777600"},{"product_id":"david-copperfield-by-charles-dickens-1850-first-edition-bayntun-riviere-binding","title":"DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS 1850 FIRST EDITION, BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Personal History of David Copperfield.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Bradbury \u0026amp; Evans, 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover. First edition [in book form], second issue. Leather-bound. Octavo (215 x 135mm), pp. [xiv], errata, 624. Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. 40 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (a.k.a. \"Phiz\") including frontispiece and vignette title-page (earlier state with date). Bound without 8pp. of publisher's advertisements at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: NEAR FINE. A superb copy, internally remarkably crisp and clean, without previous ownership markings, however there is some light foxing to prelims. The binding is tight, the hinges perfectly preserved. Gilt fresh and bright, the covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote: A NEAR FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND BEST LOVED WORKS. David Copperfield first appeared in nineteen monthly parts between May 1849 and November 1850. This book edition was published in late 1850. The most autobiographical of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield had enormous personal importance to its author. Many of the most painful episodes of his life were only thinly veiled in the book, leading Dickens to speak of the difficulty of 'dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world.' In his preface to the 1869 edition, Dickens writes: 'Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first book edition of \"David Copperfield\" has 9 of the 10 points of reference contained in the first issue: 1. No half-title. 2. Six-line errata leaf on page xv. 3. Chapter xxvii listed in table contents at pp. 283, instead of pp. 282. 4. \"recal\" line 1 on pp. 16 and on pp. 225 line 22. 5.\"chapter;ut\" on pp. 19, 12 lines from bottom. 6. \"coroboration\" is 6 lines up on pp.387. 7. No quotes at end of pp 13. 8. Page viii, preface, has the final \"i\" misaligned. 9. Engraved title page is dated 1850. However, \"screamed\" has been corrected to \"screwed\" on pp. 132, line 20. This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with engravings by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), the celebrated English artist well-known by his pen name, Phiz, who illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. It contains the second of Browne's so-called \"dark plates\" (\"The River,\" at page 482 - the first dark-plate appeared in Dombey and Son), created by a machine process that tints the etched plate so as to heighten the contrast between black and white, anticipating some of the techniques of white-line engraving (Johannsen, Phiz, 309). 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Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. 40 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (a.k.a. \"Phiz\") including frontispiece and vignette title-page. Bound without publisher's advertisements at the end. Condition: NEAR FINE. A superb copy, internally remarkably crisp and clean, however there is some light offsetting, notably without previous ownership markings. The binding is tight and secure, the hinges perfectly preserved. Gilt fresh and bright, the covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Although many of Dickens most famous works are crawling with crime, it is just this title that can be firmly placed in the murder mystery category. 'Bleak House' is essentially a classic whodunit, professionally solved, which became only the second entry (after Poe's 'Tales') in the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of crime fiction. Dickens returned to crime fiction for his highly-rated final story, the 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' but this was unfinished and the case unsolved. Within 'Bleak House' the author experiments with dual narrators and the story ranges from the dark and filthy Victorian slums to the landed aristocracy; Inspector Bucket is one of the earliest detectives to appear in fiction and was probably based on C.K. Field of the recently formed Scotland Yard. An essential mystery novel, originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. All Walter Smith first edition issue points present including: elgble on page 19 line 6; chair for hair on page 209, line 23; counsinship on page 275 line 22; plus 5 line errata on page xvi. References: Sadleir (682); Smith (82\/83); Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue (1913); Collins; Dickens and Crime (1962); Queen's Quorum; Book Collector No.273, p34; Graham Greene \u0026amp; Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37676304531627,"sku":"CHARDICBLEHOUS1850","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_4a94e712-2bd3-4c3d-9d43-4d7cd5637a52.jpg?v=1606780843"},{"product_id":"the-jungle-book-i-ii-by-rudyard-kipling-fine-riviere-binding-fore-edge-painting","title":"THE JUNGLE BOOK \u0026 SECOND JUNGLE BOOK BY RUDYARD KIPLING 1978 FINE RIVIERE BINDING WITH VANISHING FORE-EDGE PAINTING","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKIPLING'S CLASSIC WORKS OF FICTION BOUND TOGETHER BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE WITH VANISHING FORE-EDGE PAINTING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[KIPLING, RUDYARD]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Jungle Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Macmillan \u0026amp; Co., 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound together with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[KIPLING, RUDYARD]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Second Jungle Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Macmillan \u0026amp; Co., 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. Reprints. Two books in one. Full leather. Thick octavo (195 x 130 x 55mm), pp. [vii], 277; (4), 299. Stunning full blue morocco binding, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England; five raised spine bands; compartments and bands gilt tooled and lettered; both covers with gilt tooled vignette; turn-ins gilt ruled; all page edges gilt; hand-marbled pastedowns and endpapers; initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present; beautifully illustrated throughout by J. Lockwood and W. H. Drake with full page and in-the-text drawings, head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. Fore-edge with a spectacular hand-painted image by an unknown but skilled artist incorporating Mowgli and other Jungle Book characters, which displays well when the pages are splayed and is hidden when the book is closed. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy presented in an exquisite binding, without previous ownership markings. 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