TALL QUARTO LIMITED TO (500?) COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 31 INITIALED AND NUMBERED BY LECHTER WHO WAS MUCH INFLUENCED BY WILLIAM MORRIS. THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE PRESS BOUND IN FULL COBALT BLUE MOROCCO WITH FOUR DARK BLUE SQUARE INLAYS TO THE CORNERS BORDERED WITH HEAVY GILT DESIGNS ALL EDGES GAUFFERED AND GILT. 6 BLANK PAGES 22 PAGES. THE FOUR PAGE DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK INITIALED BY LECHTER IS LOOSE (ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THIS WAS ATTACHED TO THE BOOK – WAS IT PUBLISHED LOOSE?). THE LEATHER BLUE SPINE HAS FADED OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. A RARE WORK.
1ST EDITION. LARGE QUARTO IN BROWN BOARDS WITH SOME STAINING TO THE FRONT BOARDS. VERY GOOD COPY. NUMBERED AND LIMITED TO 350 COPIES THIS BEING NO. 72.
THREE VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. BEAUTIFUL COPY. LEATHER CORNERS AND LEATHER SPINE. MARBLED BOARDS. SERRATED EDGES TO PAGES. ONLY 100 COPIES PRINTED. TO:- CHARLES ABBOTT ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW – THE COMPANION & FRIENDLY COMPETITOR OF HIS INCIPIENT STUDIES. THE ASSOCIATE OF HIS BOYISH DAYS. THE CHOSEN JUDGE OF THE LITERARY EFFORTS OF HIS FIRST MANHOOD AND HIS LATEST ADVISER IN THE DISCHARGE OF AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC DUTY. THIS NEW EDITION OF DAVISON`S POETICAL RHAPSODY AS AN OFFERING TO THAT TASTE FOR THE SIMPLICITY OF OUR OLD LITERATURE WHICH THE MORE SERIOUS AND PERPLEXING OCCUPATIONS OF HIS TIME CANNOT EXTINGUISH IS DEDICATED BY SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES. MAY NEED EXTRA POSTAGE IF SENT OUTSIDE THE UK.
A VERY FINE COPY IN LIKE SLIPCASE. QUARTER BOUND IN BONDED LEATHER GREEN CLOTH SILK BOOKMARK. FACSIMILIE OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1843. WITH ORIGINAL PLATES SOME IN COLOUR.
OCTAVO FULL RED MOROCCO RAISED BANDS NEW ENDPAPERS GILT TITLE. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTDOWN OF FITZHERBERT MACDONALD THE REGISTRAR FOR THE DIOCESE OF SALISBURY. A VERY GOOD COPY. ILLUSTRATED WITH 13 LITHOGRAPHS AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY L HAGHE T LANDSEER AND S WILLIAMS FROM PAINTINGS BY WILKIE LANDSEER SIMPSON AND COOKE. A FINE BINDING (SLIGHT FADING OF RED COLOUR TO SPINE) AND CLEAN COPY OF THE WORK.
FOOLSCAP QUARTO. HALF VELLUM OVER RED MARBLED BOARDS GILT TITLE. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTDOWN. A VERY GOOD COPY. PUBLISHED UNDER THE SPORTMAN’S LIBRARY. ILLUSTRATED WITH LITHOGRAPHS AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY L HAGHE T LANDSEER AND S WILLIAMS FROM PAINTINGS BY WILKIE LANDSEER SIMPSON AND COOKE.
FIRST EDITION AN EXCELLENT COPY VERY ATTRACTIVELY REBOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS RAISED BANDS GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE. LIMITED TO 450 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 111 AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. WITH DRAWINGS BY BESSIE DUVAL AND N R DEAN. ORIGINAL SMALL TYPED CATALOGUE ENTRY NEATLY STUCK TO BOTTOM OF FEP.
TWO VOLUMES (WITH 8 PARTS). FINELY BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER RED BOARDS GILT TITLES RAISED BAND. LATIN TEXT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION SOME PENCIL ANNOTATIONS. FRONTIS OF CELSUS HEAVILY FOXED THEREAFTER CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. VERY GOOD.
A FINE COPY. BOUND IN QUARTER BLACK CLOTH PRINTED ON MOULD-FREE PAPER TOP EDGES GILT GLASSERINE WRAPPER EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER FORSTER. 112 PAGES. VERY SCARCE.
