c h john hornby (4 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback, original russet calf, press device in gilt on upper cover, housed in original marbled paper covered slipcase, a little rubbed. 34 x 24cm. [10], 172pp. Number 280 of 390 copies signed by the author/printer C. H. St J. Hornby, printed in red and black in Ptolemy type, plates, illustrations and specimen leaves, some folding, a few with initials supplied by hand by Graily Hewitt, errata slip tipped in to rear. The spine is usually the weak point with this book and this example is no excexception, the leather on the spine fraible and prone to rubbing, Small split at tail of spine, binding remains firm and secure. Slight wear extremities. Contents clean and unmarked. Signed by Author.

Der letzte Druck der Ashendene Press, eines von 390 numerierten Exemplaren auf Bütten. Beschreibende Bibliographie sämtlicher Drucke der Ashendene Press, reich illustriert, teils mit eingebundenen Orig.-Musterseiten und Fotographien von Einbänden sowie einem Orig.-Blatt aus der nicht realisierten Japan-Pergament-Ausgabe von Daphnis und Chloe. Mit gezeichneten Initialen von Graily Hewitt in Grün und Blau. Das Werk, gedruckt in der Ptolemäus-Type und auf Batchelor-Bütten, ist eine der großzügigsten Bibliographien, die jemals gedruckt wurde. Mit den zwei Erratazetteln am Schluß. Das Impressum von John Hornby signiert. Sehr schönes Exemplar.

270 x 170 mm. (10 3/4 x 6 3/4"). Seven volumes. The set complete, plus seven cancelled leaves (the result of textual revision) bound in at the back of vol. IV. First work edited and with a Life of Milton by Rev. Henry John Todd. ESPECIALLY LOVELY OLIVE BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, HEAVILY GILT, BY FRANCIS BEDFORD (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine richly gilt in compartments with central lily sprig within a lozenge of small tools, curling cornerpieces, acorns at sides, gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt floral roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With three engraved portrait frontispieces (two in volume I, one in volume VII) and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 13 engraved plates, 12 of these those done for "Paradise Lost" by Burney (Proof Impressions) in volumes II and III, the other, of Queen Christina of Sweden, in volume VI. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown of volume I with round morocco ex-libris of John Delaware Lewis; front free endpaper of volume I and front pastedowns of other volumes WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF C. H. ST. JOHN HORNBY. Wickenheiser 1795. â Insignificant rubbing to extremities, half a dozen leaves with expertly repaired corners or short marginal tears, other trivial imperfections internally, but A VERY FINE AND HANDSOME SET, the text clean and fresh, with spacious margins, and in sparkling bindings that are extraordinarily pleasing on the shelf. This is a scholarly edition of Milton, very handsomely bound by a leading London workshop, enriched with additional illustrations, and with distinguished provenance. Our edition was edited by the erudite Anglican clergyman Henry John Todd (bap. 1763, d. 1845) and is characterized by DNB as his "magnum opus, a significant feat of scholarship which remained authoritative for fifty years." Todd included selected commentary and notes of earlier editors in addition to his own analysis, and provided what DNB deems "a thorough biographical study of Milton," along with an extensive verbal index to all of Milton's poetry, including the Greek, Latin, and Italian verse. For five years, our binder Francis Bedford (1799-1883) managed the firm of Charles Lewis for the latter's widow and then was in a partnership for 10 years with John Clarke before establishing his own bindery in 1851. He shortly became recognized as the leading binder in fashionable West-end London, and his firm enjoyed prosperity not only until his death, but for 10 years afterwards, under the ownership of Joseph Shepherd. Bedford bindings are almost always elegantly traditional in their design and very handsome in the execution--as can obviously be seen here. This set was once owned by Charles Harry St. John Hornby (1867-1946), bibliophile and a major figure in the Arts & Crafts movement as founder of the Ashendene Press, perhaps the greatest of the English private presses. Hornby printed Milton poems at Ashendene on three occasions. The fourth book of the press (issued in 1896) was "Three Poems of John Milton," containing "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," and "Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity." Milton's "Lycidas" was one of "Three Elegies," the 10th book of the press issued in 1899, and "Hymn" was reprinted in 1924 as the Hornby's Christmas gift for friends. First Todd Edition of the "Works"; Second Edition of the "Life and Writings.".

312 x 212 mm. (12 3/8 x 8 1/2"). [xii], 46 pp., [1 leaf], followed by plates.Described by Montague Rhodes James. Presented to the Roxburghe Club by Charles Harry St. John Hornby. EXCELLENT OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY SYDNEY COCKERELL (stamp-signed in blind "19 SC 79" on rear pastedown), covers with octagonal design composed of 90 gilt or black stamped triangles, raised bands, gilt lettering, blind-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In the original velvet-lined tan buckram drop-back box, matching olive green morocco label on its back. Facsimile frontispiece, and 97 numbered pages of facsimile plates from the Bodleian manuscript, two with color miniatures. Printed in red and black. Verso of front free endpaper with bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel; Grolier Club invitation to Cockerell lecture on "Repairing of Books" laid in at front. â About half of the black triangles with (intentionally?) mottled coloring, a couple of minute marginal rust spots, but A VERY FINE COPY, near-pristine internally, in an unworn binding. This facsimile of a 13th century manuscript in the collection of the Bodleian library was produced for the world's oldest society of bibliophiles at the suggestion of member C. H. St John Hornby, and was handsomely bound a half century after publication by the grandson of Hornby's fellow club member, former Kelmscott Press secretary Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. Son of the legendary Douglas Cockerell, our binder Sydney Morris "Sandy" Cockerell (1906-87) trained and worked with his father, and took over the Cockerell bindery on Douglas' death in 1945. According to DNB, "Adept with his hands, Cockerell was also of a highly practical turn of mind. Many of his tools he made himself, and the hydraulic ram (adapted from an aeroplane's wing flaps), with which he impressed gold leaf into his bindings, gave any visitor immediate notice of his ingenuity. Like his father, Cockerell insisted on the best materials appropriate to their purpose, paying special attention to leathers (especially goatskins) and to papers with a neutral pH value, and of the right weight and fibre structure. In the 1920s his experiments on marbling paper for bindings soon led to its regular production by his workshop." His bindery made the marbled paper for the present volume in hues that match and complement that of its morocco exterior. A skilled conservator as well as a talented binder, Cockerell trained British librarians to preserve the nation's treasures. DNB notes that his book, "The Repairing of Books (1958), was "offered as a further means of closing the gap between the librarian or collector and the craftsman." It was on this subject that Cockerell addressed the Grolier Club, according to the inlaid invitation. Founded in 1812, the Roxburghe Club is, according to its website, "the oldest and most distinguished society devoted to printing unpublished documents and reprinting rare printed texts, among them unknown or neglected works of English literature and history. The list of publications now runs to almost three hundred volumes that range from medieval manuscripts in facsimile and important works in Early and Middle English, to more modern texts, unpublished Jacobite documents, the correspondence of Garrick and the Countess Spencer, and Disraeli's letters." Ideas for books are presented to the club by one of its 40 members, and are produced to the highest standards, often employing innovative techniques for reproducing facsimiles. The present work was the inspiration of Ashendene Press founder St John Hornby, a member from 1911-46. The manuscript of the Revelation of St. John reproduced was bequeathed to the Bodelian Library by Francis Douce in 1834. The text describing the manuscript for this edition is the work of medievalist Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), provost of Eton College. Former owner Stuart B. Schimmel (1925-2013) was a member of the Grolier Club for 52 years, serving as a councilor and chairing committees on Audit, Public Exhibitions, Special Functions, and Finance from 1972-86. In this capacity, he must have helped to arrange for Cockerell's lecture to the club. ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 40 COPIES for club members only.