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 ALLEN, Charles Dexter.
Ex Libris Essays of a Collector
Boston, New York & London: Lamson, Wolffe, & Co., 1896. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Half title. 24 plates (comprising: 1 coloured frontispiece and 2 engraved plates not found in the regular limited edition of this work, 21 engraved plates). (Some light spotting). Original limp vellum, titled in gilt on spine, cloth ties (lightly soiled, ties defective). Provenance: J.A. Ripley (red morocco book-label).
One of fifty copies signed by the author and publishers.
The whole edition was limited to 800 copies, but this example (numbered 50) is from the smaller limitation of just 50 signed copies. which includes 3 plates not included in the regular limited edition. An interesting overview and survey of the bookplates of special interest produced in Germany, France, England and America.
#23412 $450.00  
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 American Art Association / Anderson Galleries Inc
The Renowned Collection of New York Views Formed by Robert Goelet New York
New York: 1936. (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches).
Rare catalogue for American Art Association/Anderson Galleries sale held January 16, 1936. 54pp, listing 151 lots of important 17th, 18th and early 19th century New York views from the collection Robert Goelet, several illustrations.Annotated with prices and notes in pencil and ink by previous owner. Paper wrappers. Good condition, some soiling and a few pencil annotations to cover, wear to edges.
#5985$20.00
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 ANDREWS, William Loring (1837-1920)
Paul Revere and his engraving
New York: [colophon: The Gilliss Press for] Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Octavo (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches). Half-title, printed in red and black. Engraved title by Edwin Davis French, engraved section title, frontispiece printed in colours, uncoloured portrait of Revere, 15 plates, 18 decorations or illustrations. Extra-illustrated with a loosely inserted proof of the engraved title page (printed before the addition of French's name and the date, signed by French in pencil) and a loosely inserted William Loring Andrews bookplate. Original paper-covered boards, engraved vignette incorporating the title on the uppper cover, engraved lettering to backstrip, pictorial pastedowns (tear to spine repaired).
Very rare: one of only 35 copies on Imperial Japan paper made by the Imperial Government Mill.
The whole edition was limited to 170 copies: 135 on Van Gelder paper and 35 on japanese vellum, as here. Andrews is both entertaining and informative and the work is beautifully-produced and illustrated with engravings and photogravures. This copy augmented by the presence of a proof of the title, signed by the engraver.
#23494$1,600.00
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ASHENDENE Press. - [Charles Henry St.John HORNBY (1867-1946) and Arundell ESDAILE (1880-1956), compilors]
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV
[London]: Shelley, House, Chelsea, 1935. Small folio (13 x 9 inches). Two small format errata slips tipped in at the rear. Title in red and black with printer's device, half-title, text in red and black, all printed on handmade paper. Numerous plates and illustrations (some double-page, some photogravure) including page specimens (many printed in two colours, some with initials supplied by hand by Graily Hewitt), examples of illustrations after Gwendolen Raverat, Noel Rooke, Charles M. Gere and others, examples of typefaces designed by Eric Gill, Graily Hewitt and Louise Powell, photogravure images of bindings designed by Katherine Adams, Douglas Cockerell, Elizabeth M. MacColl and others. Original brown morocco, upper cover decorated in gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the first, and dated in gilt at the foot of the spine, top edge gilt (the top panel expertly replaced), slipcase.
The most beautiful bibliography and the final work of the Ashendene Press.
Limited edition of 390 copies signed by Hornby, this copy numbered 172.
A spectacular production, this work now stands as a fitting memorial to both the Ashendene Press, but also the era that produced the first blooming of the private press. It covers every aspect of the press: it includes a history of its set up and progress by Hornby, detailed bibiliographical descriptions by Arundelle Esdaile of all the works it produced (enlivened by comments by Hornby), all "illustrated" with examples of pages, illustrations, typefaces and bindings, beautifully laid out and printed on hand-made paper, and finely bound.
#23356$2,600.00
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 BACHMANN, Friedrich
Die Alte Deutsche Stadt, Band IV. Baden Wurttenberg
Stuttgart and Berlin: Anton Hiersemann, 1961. 4to. Decorative Cloth, Dust Jacket.
Unpaginated.167 illustrations.
#1894$70.00
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 BENEDICT, Vida G. (binder). - [P.-R. ROLAND-MARCEL, and others]
Bibliothèque Nationale. Les Plus belles Reliures de la réunion des Bibliothèques Nationales. Catalogue de l'exposition Janvier-Mars MCMXXIX
Paris: les éditions G. Van Oest, [no date, but date code for 1928 on final page]. Small quarto (9 x 7 1/4 inches). 16 plates. Brown leather by Vida G. Benedict, the covers with an onlaid vellum panelled border, the spine divided into six unequal compartments with raised bands, lettered in black in the third and fourth compartments, stencil-patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, cloth slipcase.
Rare limited issue, in an attractive American designer binding, of an important French exhibition on book binding
"As valuable for its text as for its superb reproductions" (Hobson). Limited edition of 110 copies on "papier d'Arches à La Cuve," this copy number 93. The catalogue of an exhibition of 377 bindings, is preceded by an authorative preface by Roland-Marcel. Vida G. Benedict, of Buffalo, NY, a skilled designer binder, is listed by L.S. Thompson in his survey "Hand Bookbinding in the United States since the Civil War" pp.97-121 of vol.5, issue 2 of Libri, (January 1954).
#23827$300.00
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 BENEDICT, Vida G. (binder). - Charles HOLME (editor), [Bernard H. NEWDIGATE, Douglas COCKERELL, William Dana ORCUTT and others] (contributors)]
L'Art du Livre [Numéro Spécial du "Studio" Printemps 1914] étude sur quelques-uns des dernières créations en typographie, ornamentation de textes, et reliure, exécutées en Europe et en Amérique
London, Paris and New York: [printed for the proprietors by Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. and Edmund Evans Ltd., published at the offices of] "Le Studio" Ltd, 1914. Small folio (11 1/4 x 8 inches). Numerous plates and illustrations (5 coloured, others printed in two or more colours, 1 double-page). Brown morocco by Vida G. Benedict, the covers with an overall gilt open lattice-work design, the intersections marked with small neo-gothic crosses, the spine divided into three unequal compartments by two wide raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, original paper wrappers bound in, cloth slipcase.
An attractive American designer binding on an important early-20th century survey of the book-arts in Europe, and America.
This is the French edition of a work which was also published by The Studio in English under the title The Art of the Book (London: 1914). In the present copy the section dealing with America and some of the images from the Swedish section are bound at the front of the book rather than the rear (as published). The work is divided into eight sections: typography in England; binding in England; the art of the book in Germany; France; Austria; Hungary; Sweden; and America.
In an apparent acknowledgment of the source of her inspiration for the decoration of the present binding, an image of a binding by Greta Morssing has been moved to a position towards the front of the book by the binder. Vida G. Benedict, of Buffalo, NY, a skilled designer binder, is listed by L.S. Thompson in his survey "Hand Bookbinding in the United States since the Civil War" pp.97-121 of vol.5, issue 2 of Libri, (January 1954).
#23811$400.00
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 BONSER, Wilfred
A Romano-British Bibliography (55 B.C. - A.D. 449)
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964. 2 volumes (including index volume), 8vo (9 5/8 x 6 1/8 inches). Half-titles. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: Eric Sexton.
A fine set of this important work on the subject: Eric Sexton's copy.
The sub-headings include: history; army, fleet and defence; social and economic; religion; geography; general archaeology; numismatics; art. Detailed bibliographies of numerous Roman sites in Britain are broken down by region and listed in the latter part of the book.
#20569$40.00
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 BONSER, Wilfrid
A Bibliography of Folklore as contained in the first eighty years of the publications of the folklore society
London: published for the Folk-Lore Society by William Glaisher, Ltd, 1961. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches). General title. Original cloth, blocked in black and gilt.
Issued as vol.121 of the "Publications of the Folk-Lore Society": a fine copy
#20499$30.00
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 BORDEN, Matthew Challoner Durfee (1842-1912)
A Catalogue of the Printed Books, manuscripts Autograph Letters, etc. collected by Matthew C.D. Borden
New York: Privately Printed, 1910. 2 volumes, quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). Engraved title vignettes, half titles. 3 engraved plates, each volume extra-illustrated with a loosely inserted related 2ll. flyer from the American Art Association, dated November 1912. Contemporary dark red half morocco over red cloth by Stikeman & Co for Charles Scribner's Sons, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second and third compartments, with place of publication and date in gilt at the foot of each spine, the other compartments with repeat decoration in blind, marbled endpapers, Borden's bookplate on each front pastedown (as issued), gilt edges, contained in a single cloth slipcase.
Rare: a fine presentation set of the deluxe catalogue of Borden's library, limited to 50 privately printed copies, this set numbered 33.
The beautifully-produced catalogue includes plates depicting the interior of the library, but the flyers make clear that the catalogues were presented to carefully selected clients as a way of announcing the February 1913 auction of Borden's library, paintings and porcelain.
Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden, a millionaire collector was (according to the New York Times) "the largest cotton manufacturer and printer in the world" at the time of his death in May 1912. His library was an excellent example of the type of collection formed by an educated man at the end of the 19th century, with finely bound copies of most of the great 19th-century literary figures; an extensive Cruikshank collection; a collected set of the first editions of Charles Dickens, with extra illustrations, original drawings and autograph material; a collected set, in first editions, of the works of Thomas Hardy; a set of the Kelmscott press publications; sets of first editions by Kipling, Charles Lever, Frederick Marryat, Scott, Thackeray, etc. In addition, the library also included albums containing substantial collections of autograph material (the monarchs of France from the library of the Duchesse de Berry, etc).
#23409$1,650.00
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