Thomas f dibdin (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Both volumes present, in a custom slipcase. Hardcovers. These appear to be bound in the original gray/blue paper with paper spines. Both volumes in custom dustjackets made from the same cloth as the slipcase. Spines of these jackets stamped with gold labels, "Utopia/Dibdin Edition. Original Boards Uncut. London 1808. Volume 1. Clxxx + 141 pages. Frontispiece portrait of More. Binding is coming apart, with spine strip loose and several signatures detached. It's all still square and clean, but needs to be reassembled. Bookplate on inside front cover of William Charles Flack, and his signature above it. Volume 2. 320 pages. In about the same condition. Also with bookplate and signature. A scarce edition of the classic work, by a well respected printer.…

Three volumes. Royal 8vo. [4], xxv, [7], 462, lxxix, [1]; [iv], 555; [iv], 622, lxii pp. Numerous engraved plates and illus., bibliography, i.e., "Index of Manuscripts, and of Printed Books, Described, Quoted, or Referred To", supplemental; some offsetting, few stains, minor occasional foxing. Modern gilt-stamped green morocco, marbled fore-edges; head vol. II chipped, rubbed, faded, spine faded to natural tan, some light wear to extremities. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Complete with all listed 83 steel engraved full-page plates and all listed 63 half-page steel engravings (though a few miss-numbered or miss-placed). Plus, with an additional full page plate facing p. 586 of vol. III, titled, "The Prater, Vienna". Note: half-page illus. are engraved on fine India paper and mounted. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, (1776-1847), born in Calcutta, India, English bibliographer who helped to stimulate interest in bibliography by his own enthusiastic though often inaccurate books, by his share in founding the first English private publishing society, and by his beautifully produced catalog of Lord Spencer's library (which collection later became the nucleus of the John Rylands Library, Manchester). His father, the captain of a sailing ship, was the inspiration for his Uncle Charles Dibdin's song "Tom Bowling." Both of Dibdin's parents died on the passage from India to England in 1780, and at age four he became the ward of his mother's younger brother, Charles Compton. Educated at St. John's College, Oxford, Dibdin began a legal career but took holy orders in 1805. His Introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Latin Classics (1802) attracted the notice of Lord Spencer, through whose patronage Dibdin obtained a clerical appointment in London. His Bibliotheca Spenceriana (1814â"15) became famous for the high quality of its printing. Dibdin travelled widely in search of books and manuscripts, and his Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany (1821) is typical of his work in containing much lively anecdote, many factual errors, and some excellent engravings. His Bibliomania (1809) contributed to the public's interest in old and rare books. Among his many other works is the two-volume autobiography Reminiscences of a Literary Life (1836). - Britannica. …

Zustand: Very Good. Imperial octavo (oversized). Boards are 117/8" by 8 1/2", paper is 11"x 7 1/2" with wide margins. Lovely marbeled endpapers, with 2 new blank preliminary leaves in both volumes. Original half-titles in both volumes. Plate and specimen leaf (p. 166) present in vol. 1. Some foxing to first and last few original pages, diminishing quickly, a bit more noticeable on v 2. Light fingermarks on upper corners of some pages. vol. 1 xiii, 562 p. vol. 2 579 p. w/ 1 p. corrigenda. Large paper copies limited to 250 (Dibdin's Reminscences, p. 213). Considered the best of the editions of this work, adding the best of both Hebrew bibles and editions of the early church fathers. An attractive set. 3/4 modern brown leather with gilt lettering and 5 raised bands to spine, with 4 ornaments. Dark cloth over boards. Fourth Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Corrected.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. ix, lii, i, 383; 503; 509, [3]; vii, 509, lxxvii; viii, [6], lxii, 279; 322; x, 295 pp.; t.e.g., 4to. Recently professionally recased in maroon linen, gilt titles. Numerous linecuts and engravings. All plates called for in Windle and Pippin present; all half-titles present. A wide-margined, untrimmed set. "Libraries assembled by wealthy bibliophiles became very numerous during the nineteenth century and soon developed from the gentleman's library exemplified by the [Pierre Antoine] Crevenna collection . Like the Crevenna catalogue, the catalogues of such libraries are usually examples of luxurious printing and are sold at high prices, if they are sold at all. The descriptions of the books are often very detailed and often, in the most recent catalogues of this sort, deal with the history of the particular copy that is described. Perhaps Thomas Frognall Dibdin set the pattern for the modern bibliophile owner's catalogue by the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. This and many catalogues like it are naturally valuable to collectors, bibiographers, and scholars." (Taylor: Book Catalogues: Their Varieties and Uses, 8-9). DeRicci calls this catalogue "the handsomest and most elaborate catalogue of a private library yet issued" (English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts, 75). Very occasional spotting, with some chipping to edges. Stamp of a defunct library on title-pages, and occasionally elsewhere, but with no other library markings. Short closed tears to half-title of vol. 1; short tears/small pieces missing to top of several leaves in vol. 2, not affecting text; rear blank of vol. 3 tape-repaired; some offsetting from engravings and linecuts. Overall, a very good and attractive set. Windle & Pippin A25.…

3 pp. 12mo. Zustand: removed, some minor loss. 3 pp. 12mo. Reading in part: ".as I shall want £40 tomorrow at my banker's I am in full peparation for my farewell address on Friday.".