Fine Binding
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[Embroidered Binding]. Eckartshausen, Hofrath von. Gott ist die reinste Liebe. Mein Gebeth und meine Betrachtung. Siebente verbesserte, und mit sehr schönen Kupfern vermehrte Auflage. Hildesheim: Jacob Sieger, 1799.
![[Embroidered Binding]. Eckartshausen, Hofrath von. Gott ist die reinste Liebe. Mein Gebeth und meine Betrachtung. Siebente verbesserte, und mit sehr schönen Kupfern vermehrte Auflage. Hildesheim: Jacob Sieger, 1799.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_5304.jpg)
8vo. [8 including frontis.], 216 pp. Illustrated with five engraved plates including frontispiece, plus an engraved title-page vignette. Bound in white silk over boards, bordered with green and gold thread and sequins, the same materials sewn to frame the initials CJ, in silver thread, on front cover and 1827 on rear cover, pink silk endpapers,…
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Bob Haak, Rembrandt: his life, his work, his time, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1969.
A tour-de-force of book-making and -binding, a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound most handsomely in a folio-size format, in full brown Morocco leather over boards, with a large “R” stamped in gilt…
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SHELLEY. PERCY BYSSHE.. — Fine Binding by Ramage. POEMS OF SHELLEY. Selected and arranged by Stopford A. Brooke. —- The Golden Treasury series.
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1897 Reprint of the 1880 Brooke edition. Small 8vo. (6.2 x 4.1 inches). Engraved image of Shelley’s birthplace, by Roffe, on the title page. Finely bound, by Ramage of London, in beautiful early twentieth century full red crushed morocco, extra gilt. The spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. Compartments…
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Shelley’s Poetical Works
Sumptuously Bound by Bayntun of Bath SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. London: Edward Moxen, 1839. Four volumes. Octavo, xvi, 380; 347; viii, 314; 361 pp. All half- titles present. Late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century full crushed blue Morocco by Bayntun of Bath, covers ornately gilt-stamped, spines decoratively gilt-stamped…
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MILNE. A. A. — E. H. Shepard, Illustrates. SET OF WINNIE THE POOH AND CHRISTOPHER ROBIN FIRST EDITIONS. 4 Volumes.– When We were very young. — Winnie the Pooh. — Now We are Six. — The House at Pooh Corner.
Methuen and Co. London. 1924 – 28 FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Illustrated throughout with wonderful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. When We Were Very Young second state with page number ix present. Fine, crisp and clean copies throughout. Uniformly bound by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath in mid to late…
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HAND PAINTED BINDING. — KEMPIS. THOMAS, A. OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. Translated by C. Kegan Paul and Rev. Thomas A. Pope.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd. London. 1907 Small 8vo. (6.2 x 4 inches). Fine early twentieth century full vellum hand painted binding. Fine binding decorated with a painted scene on the front cover depicting a woman and two children in a rustic garden scene, the spine is decorated with a matching design of…