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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprinted as One Volume. Hardback. The English Charlemagne Romances. III and IV. Charles the Grete. Previous owners name to inside cover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Edited From the Unique Copy in the British Museum by Sidney J. H. Herrtage. Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press. Translateds From the French by William Caxton and Printed by Him 1484. 268 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of tyhe dust-wrapper.There is just a little light sunning to spine of the wrapper.Not price clipped.This copy once belonged to Vernon Scannell the poet and it bears his name to the front endpaper and there is also an original 4 line poem by him underneath his signature.It's a rather witty little ditty and reads. ' '' Poor Andrew Marvell,Poet from Hull,Witty,Elegant,Never dull,did nothing to deserve this heap of pedantry,inducing sleep VS '' with NO other previous inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Lovely clean copy internally with just one small light stain to the top section of the fore-edge of the book.No turned corners to the text.8vo 333pp First Edition 1st Impression [1979] . A Rather lovely Association Item and a great buy for any Vernon Scannell Collector.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. SCHAEFFER, Albrecht. Die Wand. Dramatische Phantasmorgie in einem Aufzug. Berlin, Otto von Holten, privately printed for Gotthard Laske, May 1922. 4to. 67 + [1] pages of text + colophon leaf with author s autograph signature in ink. First word of the title and the name of the recipient on colophon leaf printed in blue letters. Original publisher s half morocco binding with author s name and title in gilt lettering on spine; lightly worn. This dramatization of an interlude in Goethe's Italian journey is the first book privately printed for the noted Berlin bibliophile Gotthard Laske (1882-1936), a wealthy outfitter, who acted as a generous patron to authors, and commissioned a number of publications. Unique edition, beautifully printed in the New Elzevir type on hand-made paper, limited to 100 copies only: the present copy, number 10, was printed for Lilli Wolff, a member of a Berlin music publishing family. The subject of the play, written in 1919 by the wellknown German writer Albrecht Schaeffer (1855-1950), is Goethe s visit to his friend Heinrich Meyer at Stäfa on the Lake of Zürich in 1797 as part of his celebrated Italian journey. The action is set at the Alte Krone Inn, the main characters being Goethe, Meyer, and a young lady also lodging at the inn. Meyer, Privatdrucke von und für Gotthard Laske no 1; Katalog der Sammlung Kippenberg I,143; Wilpert & Gühring, Erstausgaben deutscher Dichtung 1600-1960, 36; for Laske, see Homeyer, Deutsche Juden als Bibliophilen und Antiquare, p.50.

Oxford, printed and published by A.R. Mowbray at his office in Saint Aldate's Street, 1869, in-4°, 29,5 x 25 cm, 33 unpaginated leaves, printed in Gothic type, all with a double red typographical fillet border. Bound in full bleached vellum , richly decorated with gilt and thick red fillets which surround a large losenge with gilt initials in the centre (LSU ?). The central losenge is surrounded by small losenges filled with stylized gilt lilies, all edges gilt, pastedown and flyleaves in cream coloured watery silk, smooth spine with decorated gilt lilies within a thick red fillet. This is a unique illuminated copy. 33 pages (out of 64) have been illuminated by a professional hand in the mediaeval style; 3 full page hand painted miniatures (of which the Cannon plate); 4 nearly full-page initials; 5 manuscript titles with initials; 21 pages with large full page ornamental borders. Some miniatures are heightened with gold (sometimes with oxidation). The high quality of the illumination might lead us to the supposition that this copy was in fact a design example which had to serve for a printed chromolithography edition, possibly in another size. We could not verify if A.R. Mowbry ever entertained such a project. If not it remains an interesting question who the artist was. Alfred Mowbray founded in 1858 in Oxford a bookshop specialised in religious books. A London branch was opened in 1873. In 2006 the business moved to Hatchards on Piccadilly.

Amstelodami (Amsterdam), 1681, in-12°, 18 x 10 cm, untrimmed copy. Title + (1)(bl) + (38) pp. Bound in old but not contemporary half leather, gilt title on back, marbled endpapers. Printed on laid-paper with watermark ( 'three spheres, diameter ca. 7 mm, touching each other and topped by a right-angled triangle with a height of ca. 10 mm). See Willems 20 ; Berghman 2002. The Berghman catalogue (note at n° 2002) estimates that only 4 or 5 copies are still in existence., We collated our copy against the BM copy. It looks as if our copy is from a previous imprint. It has been used as a proof copy and bears the manuscript ink marks of a professional corrector; e.g. pp A3 Bassecourt, Sermons de Pieté =/Piété ; Baxter.pecheurs =/pécheurs ; pp A4 Calvifii =/Calvisii. Page A9recto :*histoire de l'Eucharistie, 8. This last entry has been changed in (format) 4. (Correction as it appears in the BM copy). Most of the corrections have been taken over by the British Museum copy. According the previous owner, in the 19th century the catalogue belonged to a French collector named De Viry from the neighbourhood of Rodez. Willems (n°20) states in his description that this catalogue is extremely rare. As pointed out above our copy seems to be from an imprint which preceded Willems 20. We reckon this copy to be of the utmost rarety - perhaps unique !! We add to our copy the CD-Rom with the BM copy. We also add the very rare reprint made in 1823 by J. Motteley, printed by Firmin Didot, in 100 copies only. Incidently this reprint corresponds exactly with the BM imprint.