Congreve b (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0718301897.…

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:051033671X.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved biographical portrait in the style of a miniature. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Boards. Zustand: Very Good +. DJ Flap Only. First Edition. 88 Pp. An Attractive Example, Well Preserved, Age Toning To Spine And Top Edge Of Boards, Unfaded, Hinges Tight, Small Loss Along Top Edge Of Spine. Inscribed By Almost All Cast Members "To Dorothy"; From A Collection Of Books From The Estate Of Dorothy Gish, Who Had A Role In The Play. Original Drawing By Robert Edmond Jones (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xviii, 69. Original publisher's white cloth over pale blue paper boards, lettered blue on spine and front cover. Percy reprints; no. 5. Ownership signature of Ronald Fuller (Merton College, Oxford) on the front endpaper, with his distinctive Rex Whistler bookplate on the front pastedown. Fuller was a close friend and correspondent of Rex Whistler. Occasional pencil margin lining in the text (all erasable), with slight browning to endpapers and slight tanning at spine, otherwise sound, close very good in slightly used and slightly creased, sound, very good minus dust jacket, with a repair at the lower spine and slight weathering.…

3 Vols., royal 8vo (234 x 140 mm), wide margin copy, xxiv, [16], 358, [2]pp., 2 engraved plates; [12], 17-514, [2]pp., 2 engraved plates; [12], 514, [2]pp., 2 engravings, some minor spotting but generally very clean, marbled endpapers, contemporary long grained red morocco by Roger Payne, spine with raised bands with gilt thin lines, boards with gilt triple frame lines, Geek-key tooling to turn-ins, all edges gilt, a fine set. A fine set of John Baskerville's edition of William Congreve (1670-1729), the English Restoration playwright and poet. The portrait (slightly offset) is engraved by T. Chambers after Kneller and the plates are engraved by C. Grignion after F. Hayman. Roger Payne (1738-1797), the most accomplished and influential of the eighteenth-century English bookbinders. Payne was an outstanding craftsman, his books are very well forwarded and his style of finishing displays not only a high level of skill but also very good taste. The splendid simplicity of his bindings give them a individuality which strongly appeals today. Provenance: From the firm of Payne and Foss, with "N.O.X. Payne Foss 1843" in the upper corner of the rear fly leaf. Engraved armorial bookplates of William Gott, Bishop of Truro (1830-1906) and Einar Josefson (who bought it in 1956). Loosely inserted is a part letter from The Rosenbach Company to Harris E. Kirk where they send the copy on approval. "This is a large paper in a red straight morocco by Roger Payne and was formerly in the collection of the Rt. Rev. John Gott, D. D. Bishop of Truro. Of course I do not need to tell you that books printed at the Baskerville Press are much more desirable in a morocco binding than in calf, and Roger Payne bindings are among the most esteemed." Gaskell, 16; The Rothschild Library, 2636.…