| | HOLY BIBLE, KING JAMES VERSION, REMBRANDT EDITION
| light shelf wear. Titles in gilt, Rembrandt Edition on spine, all edges gilt, 95 full page color plates, family record pages (blank) and Sermon on the Mount illuminated by Fritz Kredel. 18 colored maps, 3 marker ribbons. Index to maps, Biblical Encyclopedia, Reader's Aids, Harmony of the Gospels, The Lord's Prayer. Front cover depicts Christ with a cross. New York: Abradale Press, 1959
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| | STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT SCRAPBOOK OF ORIGINAL SKETCHES FOR SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY MURAL, SPONSORED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS OF ART PROJECT,1934.
| 30 pages with 40 pencil drawings, plus 14 pages of photographs of paintings by Macdonald-Wright and clipped news articles. Scrapbook is ca.15 1/2 x 11 inches. The drawings, mounted on album pages, range ca. 9 x 6 to 11 x 8. In 1934 noted American painter Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890-1973) was hired to paint a series of murals for the Santa Monica Public Library under the federal government's Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), predecessor to the WPA Federal Art Project. According to art historian Marlene Park: ""Macdonald-Wright was associated with the Federal art projects from 1934 to 1943. When he painted an extensive mural cycle for the new Santa Monica Public Library (1934-35), the Public Works of Art Project helped raise money for the materials and paid the salaries of two assistants. The subject is the two-fold artistic and technological development of mankind, in which the two streams flow together in the creation of the three-color motion picture. >From his olympian viewpoint, he emphasized the interchanges between eastern and western cultures, and pictured great fields of energy as well as portraying individual inventors."" Macdonald-Wright went on to be director of the Southern California Federal Art Project in the late 1930s. Macdonald-Wright's Santa Monica murals are presently in the care of the National Museum of American Art in Washington and will be re-installed in the new Santa Monica Public Library next year. The scrapbook belonged to Colorado painter Archie Musick (1902-1978). Musick studied with Macdonald-Wright in Los Angeles in 1930-31 and remained a friend for the rest of his life. In 1934 Macdonald-Wright gave him this book of sketches. One of the sketches is signed: ""To Archie ~ S Macdonald-Wright '34."" The drawings are figure studies and details of hands, faces, etc. Some titled figure studies for the Santa Monica Library mural include ""Copernicus,"" ""Galileo,"" ""Alexander,"" ""Alexander's hand,"" ""W. H. Carter's hand"" [Santa Monica city councilman], ""Achilles,"" ""Wolf-boy"" and ""Socrates."" Nine of the sketches are signed (7 signed with initials ""S. M. W.""). Three bear the notation ""by J. R."", probably an assistant on the mural project. There are written notations on several of the drawings--""demasiado"" on one. There is no cover to the scrapbook. Most of the sketches are in very good or better condition, some with slight wear or mild staining. Many of the pages on which they are mounted are frayed at the edges. A list of the contents will be sent upon request.
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| | SPECIMENS: A STEVENS-NELSON PAPER CATALOGUE.
| Unpag. 107 samples of fine printing and art papers, most 2 pp. each, designed by noted designers and printed by noted printers. Illus., many color. Index. Marbled boards and gilt leather. Large 4to. More than 150 designers, printers, and papermakers contributed to this book. Designers and printers include Bruce Rogers, Thistle Press, Anthoensen Press, Lakeside Press, Spiral Press, Press of A. Colish, Golden Cockerel Press, Anderson & Ritchie, The Plantin Press (Lillian Marks), Mourlot Freres, Meriden Gravure Co, and many others. N.Y.: The Stevens-Nelson Paper Corp., n.d. (ca. 1950).,
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|  | MARCH 9. SELECTIONS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF TWO LONG ISLAND COLLECTORS WITH A FEW ADDITIONS . . . BINDINGS, FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS. . . LIBRARY SETS . . . ILLUMINATED MSS. AMERICAN ART-ANDERSON (NO. 3,956).
| [2] 1., 41 p. plates, facsims. 206 lots. 1932
Copies: A (p, n), C, G, N (p), P, Y.
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|  | DEC. 16. ACHELIS, JOHN (NEW YORK). JEWELLED AND ELABORATE BINDINGS, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, STANDARD SETS; GROVES, JOHN STUART. FIRST EDITIONS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS; AND OTHER PROPERTY. AMERICAN ART-ANDERSON (NO. 4,009).
| [3] 1., 52 p. illus., facsims. 286 lots. 1932
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| | 1895 CATALOGUE OF ART ETCHINGS IN CALENDARS AND STUDIES FOR HIGH CLASS ADVERTISINGER
| Folio. 50pp with about 80 plates, mostly half-tone. A large folio in green cloth/boards, the upper cover blind stamped on the borders with a Greek key design and the title in the center. WITH a second book by Thomas Murphy "The Art Calendar Industry, Thje Story of the Early Struggles of the Founders with a short history of the Thos D.Murphy Company" 1921. 71pp, small octavo Re Oak was the birthplace of the calendar art industry. Both volumes are scarce trade industry ephemera. Red Oak, Iowa: The Osborne & Murphy Co Art Publishers, 1895
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| | L'HISTORIAL DU JONGLEUR, CHRONIQUES ET LEGENDES FRANCAISES, PUBLIEES PAR FERDINAND LANGLE ET EMILE MORICE; ORNES D'INITIALES, VIGNETTES ET FLEURONS IMITES DES MANUSCRITS ORIGINAUX. IMPRIME PAR FIRMIN-DIDOT, IMPRIMEUR DU ROI, POUR LAMI-DENOZAN, LIBRAIRE
| cxxxvi, 64pp. Seven magnificent han-illuminated pages, 7 illuminated initials and tailpieces. The heavily gilt illuminations are fine and delicate illustrating the old folk tale of the juggler. French text. Bound in full morocco, gilt lettering on spine. Very good condtion,. Paris: Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1829, 1829
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| | THE LIBRARY OF H. BRADLEY MARTIN (IN 8 VOLUMES).
| Small quartos. Green cloth over boards with titles stamped in gilt on spines and front covers, and mounted color reproductions on front covers. Volumes are: 'John James Audubon Magnificent Books and Manuscripts', 'Magnificent Color-Plate Ornithology', 'The Original Watercolors of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology', 'Highly Important Illustrated and Scientific Ornithology', 'Highly Important American and Children's Literature', 'Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana', 'Highly Important English Literature', and 'Highly Important Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts'. All volumes in Near Fine condition. Lacking the fourth volume, for the sale held in Monaco. New York Sotheby's, 1989
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| | BOOK BINDING: A LIVING ART.
| Broadside for exhibition. Engraving (original was 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches) from the book The Sister Arts, London, 1809. Blown-up to 16 1/2x 12 inches. Overall size 20 x 16 1/2. Printed in sepia ink. Very good Houston: Museum of Fine Arts June 11 - September 7, 1980, 1980
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| | LITTLE BO-PEEP
| N.D. circa 1885 "Ancient Illuminated Rhymes" series - words and music for Little Bo-Peep. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated. Four splendid, gilt & colored chromolithographs. Pictorial wrappers, covers frayed and detached, plates VERY GOOD. New York,
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| | "THE STUDIO" YEAR BOOK OF DECORATIVE ART 1916
| 8"x11.5". Tile cloth library binding with gold spine title; "The Editor desires to draw attention to a new and important feature which will be found in the present issue of The Studio Year Book. In addition to dealing with the work of English and American architects, he has decided to devote considerable space to the Domestic Architecture of the British Colonies.."; The paper used is uneven in that some is brittle pulp and some has high clay content; A good ex library copy with the first few brittle leaves cracked or broken along the gutter; 182 pages.
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| | ABRAMS ART BOOKS. 1980-1981
| 4to. This catalogue of Abrams Art Books contains a 2-page article on Selma G. Lanes' THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK with 3 black & white illustrations. The Glossy cover, front & back. reproduce an illustration from Where The Wild Things Are.from the cover of the book. Hanrahan B28b. A scarce Sendak item. New York, 1981
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| | HISPERICA FAMINA. THE GARDEN OF GOD. THE PROLOGUE AND A PART OF THE BOOK OF DAYS TRANSLATED BY WINTHROP PALMER BOSWELL
| First edition thusxxiv, [2], 56 pp. Color lithographic title page illustration, additional text illustrations. Prospectus and erratum sheet laid-inCloth-backed decorated boards, as issued, with printed paper spine label San Francisco:: Privately printed,, 1974.
One of 400 copies printed at the Press of Andrew Hoyem and signed by the translator. A book exhibiting the best goals of modern craft printing and binding, a work of fine art in itself. The text is a translation of portions of a long Latin poem, a monastic cryptographic work of which only a single manuscript copy has survived (in the collection of the Vatican Library). The work is printed in Latin with facing English translation, and concerns prophecy, occultism, astrology, Irish history, and much else.
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| | A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. CONTAINED IN THE LONDON MERCURY, VOLUME 25, ISSUE 145
| Edited by J. C. Squire. Pages: 128. 7" x 10". Binding: Black wrappers with white design and titles at front, white titles at spine; color advertisement at rear wrap. (Also contains Tuppence Coloured by Patricia Lewis-Hart, Some Book Pages and Examples of Woodcutting by George W. Jones. Six Woodcuts: Rivers by G. Raverat. ). Some nicking at wrapper extremities, otherwise a clean and tight copy. : London Mercury, November 1931. Added sample pages & engravings., 1931
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| | PROCESSIONAL, FOR THE USE OF DOMINICAN NUNS
| PROCESSIONAL, for the use of Dominican nuns, in Latin and French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, c.1520 and 1674] 225 x 158mm. 69 leaves: iv +18, 23(ii a singleton), 310 (vii and viii a bifolium), 42, 5-64, 72, 88, 96, 10-144, pagination 1-132 followed here, pp.i-iv, pp.35-40, pp.65 and pp.83-134 are all part of the 1674 remodelling, when pp.133 and 134 were left blank, nine lines of music of square notation on a four-line stave of red between nine lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand, justification: 193 x 108mm, rubrics in red, capitals touched yellow, original leaves with two-line initials of liquid gold on grounds of brick-red or blue and gold decoration within the rubrics, antiphons opening with either fine two-line illuminated initials with monochrome staves against grounds of liquid gold, usually with a flower-sprig as an infill, or with two-line black calligraphic initials with yellow wash, TWELVE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS with staves of liquid gold against grounds of red and blue, the biblical scenes in full colour and highlighted with liquid gold, TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUMINATED BORDERS, one of renaissance architectural forms, the other containing the standing figures of saints between flower-sprays against a liquid gold ground; the later leaves of the same format but with up to 28 lines on text-only pages, and restricted to two-line initials of red (borders rubbed, three historiated initials smudged, text erased and replaced, some text alterations made by pasting on updatings). Contemporary calf, panelled in blind with spine gilt in six compartments and with red morocco lettering-piece (some rubbing). CONTENT: Prefatory instructions ff.ii-iv; Table of contents ff.iv verso; chants for the processions on the following feasts: Purification of the Virgin, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, Dedication of the Church, St Dominic, Assumption, St Louis, King of France, St Matthew, All Souls' Day, St Adrian, St Roch pp.1-97; Offices for taking the veil, for the burial of the Dead and the Office of the Dead, Antiphon of St Barbara pp.97-132; chants in honour of the Virgin added in a slightly later hand pp. 133-134. The Processional has undergone extensive remodelling from its original form. This may have been to bring it into line both with post-Tridentine usage and the liturgical requirements of S. Mathieu at Rouen. Sections of text and music have been erased and replaced with detailed instructions and rubrics in French, often evoking a vivid picture of the ritual of religious life. ILLUMINATION: The historiated initials are the work of the illuminator known as the Master of Girard Acarie from his work in the splendid copy of the Roman de la Rose that Acarie presented to Francois I around 1525: Margareta Friesen, Der Rosenroman fur Francois I. New York Pierpont Morgan Library M.948, Graz 1993. The Master, along with the Master of the Ango Hours -- with whom he sometimes collaborated -- was part of the final phase of illuminated manuscript production in Rouen, where the trade in luxury manuscripts continued to flourish well into the 16th century, benefitting from the patronage of Cardinal d'Amboise, Louise of Savoy and other members of the court of Francois I. On a more modest scale, as befits its liturgical and monastic provenance, the present manuscript is, nonetheless, a characteristic demonstration of the Master of Girard Acarie's decorative and suave style. The subjects of the historiated initials are as follows: p.1 Presentation in the Temple with full-page border; p.7 Entry into Jerusalem; p.18 Agony in the Garden; p.22 Christ washing Peter's feet; p.41 Resurrection with full-page border; p.44 Transfiguration; p.49 Ruler offering bread and wine; p.55 Dedication of a Church; p.61 St Dominic; p.67 Assumption; p.73 St Louis; p.77 Apostle. Provenance: 1. The presence of three Dominican saints in the border of p.41 and the provision for the procession on the feast of St Dominic, p.61, suggest that the manuscript was originally made for the use of a Dominican convent. The style of illumination indicates that the manuscript was made in Rouen around 1425. 2. The title-page identifies the manuscript as 'Pour le Chantre du Royal Monastere de S. Mathieu dit les Eminurees ... Rouen' in the year 1674. The manuscript does contain the chants for the feasts of the Dedication of the Church and St Louis of France -- founder of S. Mathieu -- processions that the introduction says are specific to that convent, but it is unlikely that it was originally intended for the use of the precentress there. The manuscript was extensively modified in order to customise it, and other feasts specifically marked with a procession at the convent of S. Mathieu are part of the later additions, or, in the case of St Matthew, an adaptation of the feast for the Common of an Apostle. 3. M. Ribard, rue Morand [Rouen]: his label inside the upper cover. 4. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Ms 4393 (spine label and inscribed on flyleaf), bought from Royez; British Library, Loan 36/18. : ,
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| | <B>BIBLE.</B> MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM OF THE VULGATE IN LATIN.
| The text includes one volume of what must have once been a six- or seven-volume set, of which the other vols. have not survived, according to Prof. Marrow who is completing the <I>Corpus of Dutch Manuscripts</I> and who was kind enough to verify this finding. <B>Text:</B> Proverbs of Salomon (ff. 1-17v); Ecclesiastes (17v-23v); Song of Salomon (24r-26v); Wisdom of Salomon (26v-38v); Jesus Sirach (38v-71v), Job (71v-92r); Tobias (92r-99v); Judith (99v-108v); Esther (109v-119r), Maccabees I-II (109v-158v), f. 159 blank. These texts are accompanied by the Stegmuller prologues 457, 462, 468, 26, 344, 357, 332, 335, 343, 551.<B><I>Our codex has a really dazzling provenance,</I></B> including William Morris, H.P. Kraus, P.Ludwig and the Getty Museum: 1) written in the important House of the Brothers of the Common Life at Hulsbergen near Hattem, St. Hieronymusberg, which was founded in 1407. Early copies of the Vulgate are localized in Hattem and the revision of the Vulgate for which the Windesheim Congregation is famous, is also sometimes localized there. Localization of the present manuscript in Hattem has been confirmed by Prof. Marrow (Princeton University) on the basis of comparison with a two-volume Bible in Liege (Bibl. Univ., Mss. 189, 222, which is securely localized and dated 1429) As a consequence Prof. Marrow proposes the earlier date (1420-30) for the present Bible, instead of the date in the middle of the fifteenth century given by Von Euw & Plotzek; (2) William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, with his ex-libris on the inside pastedown; (3) Richard Bennett, whom purchased most of Morris's manuscripts en bloc in 1897; his sale London, Sotheby's, 1898, no. 172), to Sladen; (4) Judge Granger Sale (London, 17 December 1919, nr. 736) to G.D. Smith (his sale, New York, 28 April 1921, VI, nr. 208). (5) Mrs. Milton E. Getz, Beverly Hills, Calif. (De Ricci, Census, I, p. 12, nr. 4); her sale Cat. Manuscripts and Early Printed books, Perke-Bernet, New York, 10-11 November 1964, lot 49; (6) H.P. Kraus, Catalogue 111, 1965, nr. 39 (for $ 2.800); (7) P. Ludwig, Aachen, Ms. I 12 (A. von Euw & J.M. Plotzek, Die Handschriften der Samml. Ludwig (Cologne, Schnutgen Museum, 1979), I, pp. 112-6; (8) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Calif., Getty Ms Ludwig I, 12 (de-accessioned).Apart from this provenance, its high quality decoration and script, and its excellent condition, the importance of the present manuscript lies mainly in its text. The North Netherlands with its 'Devotio Moderna', like Bohemia and England, participated in early reform movements, leading eventually to the Reformation, that entailed translations and revisions of the Bible itself. The scholarly monks and brothers of the Congregation of Windesheim eventually arrived at a complete Bible, 'our Bible' which included corrected Hebrew expressions, punctuated and emended for monasteries and houses in the entire chapter (see Greitemann for some of the textual variants of the Octateuch). In this respect any manuscript from Hattem must be taken very seriously in terms of the Dutch interest in the text of the Bible, since the brothers in Hattem wrote about 10 copies. Two related copies of the Vulgate revision produced in Hattem are found today in Zutphen, GA, Ms. 4-5, dated 1434. The fact that these manuscripts just postdate our version underscores the importance of our copy, which would constitute an important contribution to the study of the Dutch Bible revision of the Congregation of Windesheim. The interest of the present Bible, along with that attributed to Thomas a Kempis, is that both were produced in the Eastern Netherlands, in the very heartland of the 'Devotio Moderna'. The additional fact that the re-dating of the present manuscript with its early border decoration and initials places it within the category of the earliest illuminated manuscripts of the Netherlands, enhances its importance. <B><I>It is probably the earliest copy of an illuminated Dutch Vulgate to appear on the market in more than thirty years, and the last of only two manuscripts of the Dutch Latin Bible known to exist in private hands.</I></B> (North Netherlands, almost certainly Hattem, , ca. 1420-30).
A. von Euw & J.M. Plotzek, Die Handschriften der Samml. Ludwig (1979), I, pp. 112-6; cf. N. Greitemann, De Windesheimsche Vulgaatrevisie in de Vijftiende eeuw (1937); K. Grubbe (ed.), Chronicon Windeshemense (1886), esp. pp. 311-3; Moderne Devotie, figuren en facetten (Exh. Cat. Nijmegen 1984), nr. 92-4 (on revised Vulgates at Hattem); R.R. Post, The Modern Devotion (1968), esp. pp. 304-8 (on the use and revision of the Vulgate).
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| | ORIGINAL DIES FOR BOOKSELLER'S TOKENS/ BIRD & BULL PRESS.
| ¶<I>A set of original dies and other items involved in the production of "Trade Tokens of British and American Booksellers & Bookmakers," compiled and edited by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, 1989, in an edition limited to 300 copies. Morris has also written a 3-page hand-written letter, "Everything one might want to know about the dies for Booksellers' Tokens," with excerpts quoted below. The participants, whose tokens are included here, are: Bird & Bull Press, The Book Press, Dawson's Book Shop, Detering Book Gallery, Enterprise Books, Joseph J. Felcone, Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, George Frederick Kolbe/Fine Numismatic Books, G.T. Mandl (English papermakers), Iris Nevins (marbler), and Oak Knoll Books; the tokens (w/9 duplicates), along with a rough flan, were made under the supervision of Meyer Katz at the Unity Mint in Ambler, PA, from dies engraved by Kenneth Douglas at the Green Duck Co., in Olive Branch, MS. The set of 11tool-steel dies (22 pieces), now coated with a protective lacquer, cost Morris $9800 in 1988, which he considered a bargain: "His work was excellent and his price was much less than I would have had to pay locally." Also enclosed are 4 rubber molds, and a complete set of the original lead proofs, "which the die-makers submitted prior to striking, like a printer's proof, but in metal." The lot is contained in a box of Honduras mahogany made by Morris from boards he purchase in 1956, to make molds, when he started making paper. "This was a great project, and in addition to all the pleasure and challenges I had from producing it, I have these unique artifacts--the dies themselves...I have written this note to be kept in the box so that someone at some future time knows the main details of the contents, also to know that the contents, as described, are complete."</I> Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press (not published), 1988
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| | THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE REV. DR. RODERICK TERRY OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND. PART ONE
| First Edition. Paperbound. 361 page illustrated auction catalogue for the sale of books, manuscripts, letters, rare Americana, illuminated manuscripts with miniatures, notable autographs, and documents from the collection of Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry of Newport, Rhode Island. Very good lightly used and dust soiled copy in printed wrappers. New York:American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1934
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|  | FIVE EXHIBITION AND BOOKSELLER'S CATALOGUES ON ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
| Quartos, wrappers. . Six items. All Illustrated. 1) Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art January 27-March 13, 1949. The Walters Art Gallery. Spine sunned; 2) Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, November 25, 1953-January 9, 1954. Los Angeles County Museum; 3) Important Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Illuminated Manuscripts and Illuminated Leaves. (Bookseller's Catalogue) Akron, Ohio: Bruce P. Ferrini, 1987; 4) Illuminations, Catalogue 1298. [Bookseller's Catalogue] London, Maggs Brothers, n.d.; 5) Illuminations, Catalogue 1319, [Bookseller's Catalogue] London: Maggs Brothers, n.d.; 6) Illuminated Leaves and Historical Documents, Catalogue 1262. London: Maggs Bros., Christmas 1998 1949-c.2000
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|  | THE SONG OF SONGS WHICH IS SOLOMON'S
| Quarto, red morocco, pictorially blind stamped, spine lettered in red, illustrated endpapers, red board slipcase (slightly dust soiled and lightly rubbed at edges). . . Illustrated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo. New York: Heritage Press, , 1935
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|  | THOMAS JEFFERSON'S LIBRARY FOR AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN
| An 18th-Century Library of Books Recommended by Jefferson for an American Gentleman, as described in a letter to Robert Skipwith. No place, 1771.
More than 375 volumes. 17th and 18th-century bindings, virtually all in significant editions and in attractive original condition.
This magnificent collection of 18th-century books was assembled according to Thomas Jefferson's recommendations in his famous letter to his future brother-in-law Robert Skipwith. Jefferson's letter begins, "I sat down with a design of executing your request to form a catalogue of books amounting to about 30 [pounds] sterling but could by no means satisfy myself with any partial choice I could make." Instead, Jefferson laid out an ambitious plan for buying 148 titles in agriculture, government, philosophy, classics, aesthetics, history, criticism, drama, poetry, fiction, etc. The present collection comprises nearly 85% of that list, virtually all in period bindings and significant editions published in or before 1771, the year that Jefferson made his recommendations. Wherever possible the collection contains either the very editions Jefferson owned or the first editions of the books he recommended.
The visual impact of this library is tremendous, and of course the intellectual and historical implications of Jefferson's recommendations are obvious. This wide-ranging library includes classics of literature such as Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, Canterbury Tales, Tristram Shandy, Pope's translation of Homer, Dryden's translation of Virgil, and the works of Shakespeare, Swift, Voltaire, and Moliere. Jefferson had good taste in popular fiction, as seen in his recommendations of works by Smollett, Sterne, Le Sage, Fielding, and Richardson. Jefferson enjoyed the classics above all else, and thus the library includes editions of Cicero, Plutarch, Seneca, Tacitus, Epictetus, and others. Jefferson incorporated the latest in reference works into the library, such as Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, present here in an excellent copy of the first edition.
Jefferson's fascination with political theory is reflected in his recommendations of Locke's Two Treatises of Government, Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, and Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government, which he considered the best elementary work on government ever published. No American gentleman of this period could be without Blackstone's Commentaries, and this collection includes a splendid set.
Science is represented with Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity and a splendid set of Buffon's Natural History, illustrated with hundreds of finely engraved plates. Travel and exploration are represented by Anson's Voyage and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's celebrated Letters. The day's greatest works on art and aesthetics, Burke's Sublime and Beautiful and Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty are also present, as are leading 18th-century periodicals such as The Tatler, The Spectator, and The Guardian. This library of literature, philosophy, and history also shows a practical side of 18th-century life. As a farmer, Jefferson called for books on agriculture and husbandry, and this the library includes standard works such as Tull's Horse-Hoeing Husbandry and Miller's Gardener's Dictionary.
This is a beautiful library worthy of the finest home and the most discriminating reader and lover of history. Please inquire for a detailed inventory.
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|  | BIBLE IN LATIN, MANUSCRIPT. DECORATED MANUSCRIPT BIBLE
| A FINE 13TH-CENTURY PORTABLE BIBLE IN A RENAISSANCE BINDING. 180 x 120 mm. 405 leaves, fine, thin vellum. Without the Interpretation of Hebrew Names sometimes found in Bibles of this format. Two columns of 53 lines written in a small gothic bookhand. Running-titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue, 49 initials painted in blue, green, burgundy, ochre, and white. 37 large illuminated initials in the same colors, often depicting birds, flowers, and dragons. The second leaf of Genesis includes a fine single panel full page illustration showing God on each of the days of creation, the entire panel resting on a man sitting on a dragon. Binding: a Renaissance binding, probably Venetian: 16th-century leather, richly decorated with green silk and dark green morocco onlays, extensive gold tooling and arabesque decoration, some minor loss, gilt-decorated doublures of citron morocco, arabesque cutouts revealing blue silk. Binding a bit worn, some minor cropping and creasing. An attractive Renaissance survival of great character. A FINE 13TH-CENTURY BIBLE. The portable Bible of the 13th century represents one of the most important developments in the history of medieval bookmaking and the dissemination of knowledge. Before the 13th century, Bibles were cumbersome objects written on enormous sheets of parchment and bound in heavy boards, often in several volumes. Then in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the Bible was transformed into something much like the object we know today. Leaf sizes were greatly reduced, and the text was put into a single volume unburdened of the Gloss, the editorial matter often found in earlier Bibles. The order of books, formerly variable, was standardized, and the text was divided into the numbered chapters we still use today. Running-titles allowed the reader to navigate the volume quickly, and color and decoration made visual sense of the closely-packed text. This is a lovely example of this epoch-making Bible in an important Renaissance. The rise of the University of Paris created demand for this newly standardized, inexpensive, and portable Bible, now commonly called "The Paris Bible." The 13th-century rise of the Franciscan and Dominican friars (who required an easily carried, readily available, and searchable Bible for their peregrinations) helped spread it throughout Europe (de Hamel, The Book: A History of the Bible, pp. 131-139). A SPLENDID RELIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Complete medieval manuscript Bibles are increasingly scarce, and this example in a handsome early binding is the finest manuscript Bible we have ever offered. : [Northern Italy or France mid-13th century], 1300
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| | [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator].
RECONTRES PARISIENNES. MACEDOINE PITTORESQUE. CROQUéE D'APR'ES NATURE, AU SIEN DES PLAISIRS, DES MODES, DE L'ACTIVITé, DES OCCUPATIONS, DU DESOEUVREMENT, DES TRAVERS, DES VICES, DES MIS'ERES, DU LUXE, DES PRODIGALITéS, DES HABITANS DE LA CAPITALE DANS TOURS LES RANGS ET DANS TOUTES LES CLASSES DE LA SOCIETé. PAR HENRY MONNIER.
| Oblong, small 4to., (8 1/8 x 10 9/16 inches; 206 x 270mm), forty plates containing forty-four hand-coloured lithographs by Senefelder, original green diaper-grain paper boards, rebacked and recornered with dark green hard-grain morocco, upper cover lettered in gilt, original front lithographed wrapper bound in (cut and mounted), occasional light foxing, five plates (first, seventeenth, twenty-first, thirty-first, and thirty-eighth) with neatly repaired tears, just affecting image, several additional plates with marginal repairs, overall a very good copy of this extremely rare album. Paris: Chez Gihaut Fr'eres, , [n.d., ca. 1826].
Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami is what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he records the manners and humours of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and coloured by hand. For each design he himself coloured a master print and carefully supervised its subsequent preparation ... Some of the salient titles in his human comedy may be mentioned. There are potpourris like Recréations du coeur et de l'esprit, Paris vivant, and Rencontres Parisiennes. Macédoine pittoreque. There are more closely focussed surveys like Les grisettes, Moeurs administratives, Galerie théâtrale, Boutiques de Paris, and Siz Quartiers de Paris (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199).
Hiler, p. 627 and Lipperheide 3665 (both calling for twenty-six plates, nine of which are hand-coloured).
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| | [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator].
RéCRéATIONS.
| Oblong 4to. (8 7/16 x 11 1/2 inches; 214 x 293mm), hand-coloured lithographed title ("No. 1") and thirty-three hand-coloured lithographed plates, four plates in two states, one uncoloured. Plates lithographed by Bernard, Bove, C. Motte, and F. Noël, all mounted on guards. Nineteenth-century marbled boards, red morocco gilt lettering label on spine. Occasional minor marginal soiling, a few small marginal tears, some neatly repaired. An excellent copy. Paris [and London]: Publie par Giraldon Bovinet, , 1826.
Suite d'un classement incertain, numérotage avec lacunes, plusieurs pieces non numeerotées. Le catalogue de Champfleury en mentione 33; la plupart des réunions ne dépassent pas 37 ou 38 planches (Marie). Between 1825 and 1827 Monnier passed much of his time in London, where he collaborated with Lami is what was to become the Voyage en Angleterre. On his return to Paris he embarked on a series of albums in which he records the manners and humours of the city with unprecedented profusion. Between 1826 and 1830 he satisfied the insatiable demand for his designs with almost 500 lithographs, nearly all of which were drawn with a pen and coloured by hand. For each design he himself coloured a master print and carefully supervised its subsequent preparation ... Some of the salient titles in his human comedy may be mentioned. There are potpourris like Recréations du coeur et de l'esprit, Paris vivant, and Rencontres Parisiennes. Macédoine pittoreque. There are more closely focussed surveys like Les grisettes, Moeurs administratives, Galerie théâtrale, Boutiques de Paris, and Siz Quartiers de Paris (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 199).
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| | [PIERSON, Christoffel.]
[ STAINED GLASS ] EXPLANATION, OF THE FAMOUS AND RENOWNED GLAS-WORK. OR PAINTED WINDOWS, IN THE FINE AND EMINENT CHURCH AT GOUDA. FOR THE USE AND COMMODITY OF BOTH INHABITANTS, AND FOREIGNERS THAT COME TO SEE THIS ARTIFICIAL WORK.
| Second edition in English. 8vo (9.5 x 15.5cm) [32]pp., title with woodcut arms, a very good copy, bound after: HOEY, Abraham van. Lettres et negociations ... Londres, Nourse [i.e. Amsterdam?] 1743. xii, 168pp., in attractive eighteenth century calf-backed marbled boards. Gouda, printed by Andrew Endenburg. , [1750?]
This scarce guide to the stained glass windows in the Sint Janskerk in Gouda appears to have been the only work printed in English at Gouda in the eighteenth century. Another edition dated 1718 bears the imprint "printed by John & Andrew Endenburg". It is translated from the Dutch work by Christoffel Pierson: "Uitlegginge van de wyd-beroemde en vermaarde glazen". Clearly, even at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the church, which contains the most important examples of sixteenth century Dutch stained glass in the Netherlands, must have drawn foreign visitors: "Information for strangers. He that has a mind duely to behold this artificial creation, must go according to the directions in this little book ... what you don't understand, you may learn by this book, which makes a beginning from the north-side of the steeple". Thirty one windows are described in detail with notes on the artists responsible and the historical circumstances of their creation. At the end is a note that "the artificial painter and poet Christopher Pierson hath curiously drawn every one of the draught of these glasses on a sheet of parchment, which are kept in the church wardens chamber, are worthy to be seen by all lovers of curious arts".
Evans, Bibliography of stained glass, p.65. ESTC records only 4 copies of this edition (DFo, C, O, GOT).
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| | [TRADE PLATES]
THE BOOK OF USEFUL TRADES AND LIBRARY OF THE USEFUL ARTS.
| 12mo bound in sixes, with 65 engraved plates (lacking 5 plates), very occasional light spotting and offsetting onto text, contemporary morocco gilt, very worn, covers almost detached, sold as a collection of plates. For Richard Phillips, London, , 1818.
An interesting work which went through many editions. It contains engraved plates and descriptions of the various English trades of the time in aphabetical order from 'Apothecary' to 'Wool Comber'.
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| | BROWNE, Thomas.
URNE BURIALL AND THE GARDEN OF CYRUS.
| Number 29 of an edition limited to 215 copies, 4to. (31.5 x 23.5cm. approx.), xx, 146pp., 32 hand-coloured pochoir illustrations by Paul Nash (15 full-page), original Nash-designed binding by Nevetts of full vellum with leather and vellum inlays and a quincunx tooled in gold, all edges gilt, original slipcase, spine slightly darkened, light discolouration to lower cover. Curwen Press for Cassell, London. , 1932.
Nash's masterpiece of book illustration regarded as one of the finest illustrated books of the twentieth century. Herbert Read called it one of the loveliest achievements of contemporary English art, and Oliver Simon, who was responsible for the typography, wrote to Nash saying that he felt it would enter the small category of magnificent books. Only the first eighty copies of the book were bound at the time by Nevitt, most copies offered for sale are in the later Sangorski & Sutcliffe rendering of the same design. Browne's work was originally published in London in 1658, the first part detailing the discovery of a haul of ancient urns in Norfolk, the second part exploring the horticultural practices of antiquity.
Colvin, Paul Nash book designs, 19.
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|  | Horace.
THE LYRIC POEMS OF HORACE.
| 8 vols. 4to. Full grey morocco with red, orange and green onlays. Covers with elaborate floral design in gilt, a.e.g. A fine set. Boston: (Bibliophile Society), [1902]
Edition: Edition des Horace; Limited to twelve sets of which this is Copy Number 2.
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| | Kieffer, Rene.
COLLECTION OF TWENTY ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DESIGNS FOR BOOK BINDINGS , ONE BOOK COVER FOR A BOOK PUBLISHED BY KIEFFER.
| Various sizes, one in water colours, others in black ink and wash or white paint, with pencil or ink instructions in the margins, a few margins slightly frayed but with no loss of matter, loose in cloth backed folder, ties Paris , c. 1920.
Kieffer was an Art Nouveau book binder, who moved from Germany to Paris, working as a book binder and editor in France.
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| | MONNIER, Henry.
MOEURS ADMINISTRAIVES DESSINéES D'APRéS NATURE PAR HENRY MONNIER EX-EMPLOYé AU MINIST'ERE DE LA JUSTICE.
| Oblong folio (9 1/16 x 11 1/2 inches; 231 x 292mm), lithographed vignette title and eighteen hand-coloured lithographed plates by Delpech (the first twelve cariacture the daily life of government employees in Paris, the last six cariacture the professional hierarchy from the office boy to the director), slightly later green boards, minimal wear to extremities, occasional mainly marginal light foxing or browning, an excellent copy of this extremely scarce suite of plates. Paris: Delpech, , 1828.
Hiler, Lipperheide, and Ray all call for twelve hand-coloured lithographs. The only copy located in OCLC and RLIN (New York Public Library) has only six plates. "In this album, 'drawn after nature by Henry Monnier, former employee at the ministry of Justice,' the artist shows a typical government office hour by hour from eight to four and concludes with four salient scenes outside this time scheme. His principle themes are the inactivity of the staff, their lack of individual character, and their entire submission to superior authority. The curve of supple obsequiousness in terms of which Monnier depicts the hierarchy 'going to compliment a New Excellency' (no. 12) shows how far he was from being a 'senographic copyist' or a 'mirror'" (Ray).
Hiler, p. 627; Lipperheide 3662; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 136.
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|  | (Dickens's copy.) Defoe, Daniel
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
| CHARLES DICKENS'S COPY OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. 620 pp. Turn of the century full brown morocco, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Some rubbing, some foxing. A very good copy. Half morocco case. CHARLES DICKENS'S COPY, with his bookplate as well as the June 1870 Gadshill Dickens Library sale book label. This is a particularly handsome edition of Robinson Crusoe illustrated with 6 hand-colored lithographs. Inscribed in an unidentified hand "Charles Dickens from W. M. Thackeray." London: Cundall, 1845
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|  | (Kennedy, John F.) Raymond, E. T
PORTRAITS OF THE NINETIES
| 319 pp. 20 plates. Original salmon cloth. Very good. Half morocco case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. John F. Kennedy's copy, with his presidential bookplate bearing his name and the presidential seal. This volume is one of a handful of books bearing the JFK bookplate from the famous Jacqueline Onassis sale (this volume also bears the Onassis sale bookplate). This volume contains biographical essays on 28 leading figures in British politics and culture in the 1890s including Oscar Wilde, William Gladstone, George Meredith, Lord Randolph Churchill, Herbert Spencer, Cecil Rhodes, and Thomas Hardy. : New York: Scribner's, 1921
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|  | (Paul, Evelyn)
THE ROMANCE OF TRISTAM OF LYONES & LA BEALE ISOUDE
| 8vo. (iv),160pp. One of 35 numbered copies in full vellum, gilt, signed by the artist. Top edge gilt. Color printed endpapers. Four pp. of color frontismatter embellished with gold ink; 12 color plates and numerous line drawings and decorations printed in either black or brown. Trace of soil else a fine, bright copy. The first Paul-illustrated edition, being one of only 35 copies printed on vellum paper, bound in vellum and signed by the artist. The tragic romance of Tristam and Isoude is beautifully captured in Paul's lush illustrations. Notable for the decorative initials in Celtic style. Rare. London:George R. Harrap & Company, [1921]
Arthurian King Arthur Illustrated Signed Fine Printing Rare Books Evelyn Paul
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|  | (Sarah Stickney, Mrs.) Ellis
ENGLISH WOMAN'S FAMILY LIBRARY. A COLLECTION OF FOUR TITLES: WOMEN OF ENGLAND, DAUGHTERS OF ENGLAND, WIVES OF ENGLAND, AND MOTHERS OF ENGLAND.
| 4 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in full dark green morocco, ornately decorated in gilt on front and back panels, the spines similarly decorated with six compartments. There is a steel engraved frontispiece in The Daughters of England (Vol. II). All edges are gilt. All four volumes are in fine condition and are contained in a contemporary brown wooden box with hinged glass front, surmounted by a gilt-lettered pediment reading ��Englishwoman�Es Family Library��. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1839-1843
Edition: First edition as a complete set, with the handsome box making a very charming object. Volumes I and II were originally published in 1839 and 1842 (included here are later editions, presumably printed for this set). The preface in Vol. I is dated 1839, the preface in Vol. II is dated 1842. Volumes III and IV are first editions. The preface in Vol. III is dated 1843, the title-page of Volume IV is dated 1843 as is the preface. Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1799-1872, is best known for the Women of England and her her other conduct manuals. Her books disseminated the Victorian ideal of womanhood. The Wives of England, their Relative duties, was dedicated by permission to the Queen. The volumes are not numbered-we have followed the chronological sequence as recorded in XIX Century Fiction by Sadleir p. 125, 821, a-d.
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|  | (Twain) Timbs, John
A MAJOR <I>PRINCE AND THE PAUPER</I> SOURCE BOOK.
| Curiosities of London exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis; with nearly sixty years' personal recollections.
viii, 871 pp. Early 20th-century polished calf, spine gilt, top edge gilt, by Riviere. Joints restored. Very good.
<b>SAMUEL CLEMENS'S COPY, signed "S. L. Clemens Hartford Conn." and extensively annotated by him in pencil. This revealing volume contains nearly 800 words in Clemens's hand, and more than 120 other pages are heavily marked up with underlining, marginal rules, and other markings.</b>
This is one of Twain's major source books for <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i>. "Mark Twain's desire to be taken seriously, coupled with his theory of fiction,that literature based on fact is superior to imaginative writing, explains his extensive research for <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i>. He displayed much of this research in the printed volume by quoting from his sources or referring to them in footnotes. . .for information on the streets, landmarks, and customs of London, he consulted John Timbs's <i>Curiosities of London</i> (Salamo, introduction to the Iowa-California edition of <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i>).
The first two of Twain's explanatory endnotes in <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> cite Timbs, and Twain surely was indebted to this source in many other instances. For example, in Chapter 10 the fugitive prince is captured by the drunkard Canty and is forced to perform a burlesque version of the loving-cup ceremony. Though no footnote is given, Clemens has marked a description of the ceremony on page 395 of Timbs's <i>Curiosities</i> and written "Loving Cup" in the upper margin. A reading of <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> and study of this volume undoubtedly will reveal many other connections.
Clemens's humorous and revealing annotations abound. Underlining a passage on the deaths of Edward V and the Duke of York, he writes, "It is pleasant to believe these old traditions, & hanged if I don't believe <i>all</i> of them. They have found 2 sets of bones of the young Princes." When Timbs claims there were but twelve Jews in England in 1663, Clemens makes a note on a potential episode in his book ("a Jew could have been exhibited for money as a curiosity, picture it and describe"). He then takes exception to Timbs's assertion that London's first synagogue was built in 1656: "This old fool is unreliable. 12 couldn't build a synagogue."
The longest annotation concerns Lady Jane Grey, who plays a small role in <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i>. "A real curiosity in the British Museum is an autograph letter from Lady Jane Grey to the Lord Lieut. of Surrey announcing her entry into possession of the Kingdom of England & requiring her allegiance against the 'fayned & untrewe clayme of the Lady Marge, bastard daughter to our uncle Henry th'eight.' . . . Poor girl, was only queen 9 or 10 days, & perished within the only enclosure that knew her as such."
This important source for <i>The Prince and the Pauper </i>is one of the finest books from Clemens's library ever to come to market.
Gribben, <i>Mark Twain's Library</i> 705. Provenance: Samuel L. Clemens; Anderson Galleries, 7 February 1911, lot 458.
London: Hotten, [1871]
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| | [Architecture]. Hoskins, George Gordon [1837-1911]. [Chimneypiece designs].
DESIGNS FOR CHIMNEYPIECES.
| : Darlington: Published by the Author, at His Offices, Northgate, 1871.,
Title-page, preface page, and 56 lithographed plate pages. Folio. Original green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, a.e.g. First, only? edition. OCLC Acc.#35600422 with Lib. of Congress and Victoria & Albert only; NUC lists only the Library of Congress. OCLC lists 36 plates (likely a typo). Hoskins, known as "Gee-Gee" in Darlington, County Durham, where he set up his architectural practice in 1864, was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, twice President of the Northern Architectural Association, and for 2 years President of the Darlington School of Art. Known primarily for his design of mansions, banks, hotels, libraries and other major buildings, this work on chimneypieces is both ambitious and uncommon. Professionally re-backed maintaining original spine material and lettering; bookplate on front pastedown; fore-edge of boards and some pages slightly damaged where one of our customers dropped the book, damage is minimal and about 1 1/2 inches with no text damaged; else in very good condition. Edition: F
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| | [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]
THE OLD TESTAMENT [NEW TESTAMENT], EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS, FROM PICTURES AND DESIGNS BY THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH ARTISTS.
| First edition, subscriber Richard Westmacott's copy. Six large folio volumes (18 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches; 464 x 368 mm). With sixty-seven (of seventy) copperplate engravings, engraved dedication page, and over one hundred engraved head- and tailpieces throughout. Two columns of twenty-nine lines, printed in very large type. Contemporary full black paneled morocco, borders elaborately rolled in gilt and blind around a central rectangular blocked in blind, spines elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, wide gilt-topped bands, all edges gilt. Bookplate of the Peter White Private Library in each volume. Manuscript notes on volume 1 and 2 endpapers. Occasional light foxing throughout, as is usual. Expert, nearly invisible joint restoration to volumes 1 and 6. Overall a very good copy of this important early nineteenth century Bible. A lovely copy of one of the largest Bibles ever printed, comprising six broad folio volumes uniformly bound in contemporary full black morocco. In addition to being a striking example of letterpress composition and type design by renowned British printer Thomas Bensley, the Macklin Bible is probably best known for its magnificent full-page illustrations. Painted by the greatest British artists of the time, including Fuseli, Hamilton, Loutherbourg, Opie, Reynolds, West, and others, the illustrations were also undertaken by Britain's most accomplished engravers, including Landseer and Bartolozzi. As Thomas Dibdin wrote nearly two decades after its publication, these elements as much as its enormous size were what made Macklin's Bible a production of singular enthrallment among Britons at the turn of the nineteenth century: "[A] sumptuous folio edition of The Bible ... came regularly before the public with every fascination which a bold type, raven-glossy ink, and Whatman's manufactured paper, could bestow upon it. [And] The engravings ... were, in the main, worthy of the vehicle by which they were ushered into public notice" (The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography (London: 1817); vol 2, p. 398). Sir Richard Westmacott (1775-1856) was a British sculptor whose best-known works include the reliefs on the north side of London's Marble Arch, the Waterloo Vase in Buckingham Palace Gardens, and the first statue of Lord Nelson in Britain (in Birmingham); he became a Royal Academician in 1811 and was knighted in 1837. The present copy of the Macklin Bible belonged to Westmacott (as one of the original subscribers, he is included in the printed list in volume I), and it was subsequently passed down as a Westmacott family heirloom. Macklin's Bible is not particularly rare at market, with ABPC reporting six copies coming up at auction in the past decade. However, among these, few were in as good condition as the present copy, and few had as many plates. Darlow and Moule 982. Herbert 1442. London: Printed for Thomas Macklin by Thomas Bensley, 1800
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| | [DICKENS, Charles (association)]. [FROISSART, Jean (subject)]. HUMPHREYS, H.N
ILLUMINATED ILLUSTRATIONS OF FROISSART. SELECTED FROM THE MS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
| First edition. Octavo (9 1/2 x 7 inches; 240 x 178 mm). [72] pp. Complete with thirty-six chromolithograph plates, all with contemporary hand coloring, and the majority of which have been highlighted in gold. With half-title and chromolithographic added title. Letterpress title printed in red and black. Contemporary full green morocco, multiple fillet and foliate borders rolled in gilt to a panel design, spine lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt board edges and turn-ins, green endpapers, all edges gilt. With four bookplates total, including the engraved bookplate of Charles Dickens, and another letterpress bookplate ("From the Library Of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June 1870") affixed to front pastedown. A few instances of light marginal foxing. Some stains to fore-edge of text block, unaffecting text or images. Overall a very good copy. A handsome book that contains some of the earliest facsimile reproductions of the illuminations of Jean Froissart, foremost chronicler of medieval France, this volume also belonged to novelist Charles Dickens in the late nineteenth century. London: William Smith, 1844
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