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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. An interesting overview and survey of the bookplates of special interest produced in Germany, France, England and America.

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
 
 
ARENTS Jr., George (1875-1960). - Jerome E. BROOKS, Sarah Augusta DICKSON and others

Tobacco its History Illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. together with an introductory essay a glossary and bibliographic notes by ... Brooks

New York: The Rosenbach Company (vols.I-V), New York Public Library (supplemental parts I-X), 1937-1952, November 1958 - June 1969. 7 volumes (volumes I-V, supplemental volumes I and II in 10 original parts), small folio (13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches). Five frontispieces (3 coloured, one of these folding), numerous plates and illustrations (a few coloured). Volumes I-V: original red cloth, dark red lettering-piece to spines; Supplemental volumes I and II: original red thick paper wrappers, lettering to bnackstrips and upper covers.

A fine complete set. Volumes I-V are limited to 300 numbered copies, this set is numbered 277.

"The George Arents Collection on Tobacco, the product of over one hundred years of collecting by George Arents and a succession of curators, is a comprehensive collection on the history, literature, and lore of tobacco. Over the years, the collection has grown to include books and manuscripts in more than twenty languages. Although the collection is devoted to tobacco and includes almost every important work dealing with the subject, it also contains many historical, literary, and artistic works in which tobacco appears only incidentally. [Volumes I-IV was privately printed in New York between 1937 and 1943 in an edition of just 300 sets, and is the catalogue of the ]... the private library of George Arents and it represents the books [arranged by date of printing] that were in the collection before it was donated to The New York Public Library. In 1944, George Arents's collection was received by The New York Public Library where it became known as the George Arents Collection on Tobacco.... Volume 5, the Index by Anne M. Nill, was published in 1952. It was arranged in two sections: Author Index and Subject Index. The Author Index lists author's names and titles for those works that lacked an author. ... A published supplement was prepared by Arents Librarian Sarah Augusta Dickson and Curator Perry O'Neil to cover additions to the collection after 1942. It was printed from 1958-1969...." (NYPL website).

#23128$3,000.00
 
 
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 calf, upper cover decorated in gilt, expertly rebacked to style, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the first compartment, top edge gilt.

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.

#23356$2,250.00
 
 
AUCTION CATALOGUE, 19th century - M. Bachelin-Deflorenne, expert.

Catalogue des Livres Rares et Precieux Provenant des collections de MM. Leon D..., G., et Moreau C... Le Lundi 9 Avril et les quatre jours suivant ...M. Delestre, commissaire-priseur

Paris: Librarie Anc. & Mod. Bachelin-Deflorenne, 1877. 8vo (9 3/8 x 6 inches). [4], 188 pp. Partially priced in pencil. Early red pebbled morocco, covers bordered in gilt, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, others with a repeat decoration in gilt (ink stain on upper cover). Provenance: Rowland Gibson Hazard II (bookplate).

19th century French auction catalogue

#24564$150.00
 
 
BATTERSHALL, Fletcher

Bookbinding for Bibliophiles being notes on some technical features of the well bound book for the aid of connoisseurs Together with a sketch of gold tooling ancient and modern

Greenwich, Connecticut: The Literary Collector Press, 1905. Small octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches). Title in red and black, half-title. Photogravure frontispiece. Original grey paper-covered boards, paper labels ruled in red and lettered in black on upper cover and backstrip (slight discolouration of backstrip, small splits to joints).

First edition, limited to 350 copies, this number 237 of 300 copies on Enfield plate paper. The book is intended for 'those who love the book as a physical being, as an objet d'art, apart from the literary value of the thought expressed' (introduction).

#24451$100.00
 
 
BAUR COLLECTION. - John AYERS and others.

The Baur Collection [Vols 1-3]

Geneva: Collections Baur, 1968-1984. 3 volumes (vols. 1-3), quarto (11 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches). Text in English and French. Numerous plates, most coloured, some folding. (vol. 3 with minor marginal waterstaining affecting first 16 leaves but not affecting text or illustrations). Original cloth, dust-jackets (slight wear to dust jackets).

Alfred Baur (1865-1951) gave his collection to the foundation which bears his name shortly before he died. He began collecting in about 1907 and continued right up until his death, but little was known of the breadth and quality of his collection until the present catalogues were published:

The individual catalogues present here are as follows:
1. John AYERS. The Baur Collection ...Chinese Ceramics volume one (with Korean and Thai wares). Geneva 1968. One of 1000 copies.
2. John AYERS. ... Chinese Ceramics volume two (Ming porcelain, and other wares). Geneva: 1969. One of 1000 copies.
3. John AYERS. ....Chinese Ceramics volume three Monochrome-glazed porcelains of the Ch'ing dynasty. Geneva: 1972. One of 1000 copies.

#25966$4,500.00
 
 
BRIVOIS, Jules

Guide de l'Amateur Bibliographie des Ouvrages Illustrés du XIXe siècle principalement des livres a gravures sur bois

Paris: Librairie P. Rouquette, 1883. Octavo (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Title in red and black, half title. Expertly rebacked to style, over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.

An unusual copy of this important work: an "Exemplaire d'auteur" initialled by the author.

The regular limited edition consisted of 900 copies on papier vergé and 50 copies on grand papier de Hollande - all initialled by the author. The present copy is printed on papier vergé, but was one of an unspecified number of copies reserved for the author. A valuable work, being a continuation of Cohen/ de Ricci's work on the French 18th-century illustrated books.

#23544$300.00
 
 
CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). - Charles SORLIER and Fernand MOURLOT, Charles SORLIER, and Julien CAIN

The Lithographs of Chagall

Monte Carlo, Boston and New York: André Sauret (Monte Carlo, vol.II), Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc. (vols.II & III) and Crown Publishers, Inc. (New York, vol.IV), 1963-1969-1974. Volumes II-IV only (of 6), large quarto (12 31/2 x 9 5/8 inches). 13 original lithographs after Chagall, 517 illustrations after Chagall (coloured where the originals are coloured). Original grey cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black, variously coloured dust-jackets, those to vols. III and IV with an integral original lithograph by Chagall, each with a glassine chemise.

Fine copies of the standard work on the subject, with original lithographs

A good representative sample of the English-language edition this great fully-illustrated catalogue raisonné of Chagall's lithographs.

Freitag 1561 (Vols 1-4); Rigg p. 170.

#23826$2,250.00
 
 
CHIVERS, Cedric (binder). - Charles HOLME (editor)

The Genius of J. M. W. Turner, R.A.

London, Paris and New York: Offices of 'The Studio', 1903. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches). Mounted coloured frontispiece, one 2pp. facsimile autograph letter, numerous plates (15 coloured), the majority after Turner. (Occasional spotting). Contemporary brown morocco gilt by Cedric Chivers of Bath, the covers with a gilt-ruled border, the upper cover with a central circular inset vellucent panel featuring the title in blue within a shaped art nouveau border of stylised rose blooms amd foliage, the inset panel surrounded by gilt tooling to an art nouveau design with flowing gilt lines, rose flower-heads and small hearts, the flat spine with an overall design using the same rose and small heart tools with the title in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers.

A 'Studio special number' on Turner in a fine binding by one of the great British binders of the time.

Chivers developed the vellucent technique in about 1903: a drawing is produced on paper, attached to the boards of the binding and then covered (and protected) by a layer of transparent vellum. The present example very successfully combines the possibilities offered by the vellucent technique with the traditional discipline of gilt tooling. The Studio , an important magazine devoted to the arts, would periodically offer 'special numbers', often monographs on individual artists, as here. The present work, edited by Holmes, is made up from a group of four essays on different aspects of Turner's genius by Robert de la Sizeranne ("The oil-paintings of Turner"), Walter Shaw Sparrow (Turner's monochromes and early water-colours" and "The later water-colours") and C.F. Bell ("Turner and his engravers").

#24139$750.00
 
 
COLLIER, J. Payne

A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, alphabetically arranged, which during the Last Fifty Years have come under the Observation of J. Payne Collier F.S.A

New York: David G. Francis and Charles Scribner, 1866. 4 volumes, small 8vo (7 5/8 x 5 inches). Half-titles. . Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. (spines and joints dry and split or chipped, corners rubbed).

First American edition.

The core of this bibliography, the first edition of which had appeared in London in two volumes in 1865, is the work that Collier had carried out whilst working on his 1837 catalogue of the Earl of Ellesmere's collection (the "Bridgewater catalogue"), and lists about 750 works from the 16th and 17th centuries. The short-title bibliographic descriptions are accompanied by informative and lengthy annotations which often include short excerpts.

Cf. Besterman 917; cf. Sabin p.xxxvi.

#20502$150.00
 
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