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Christlicher Busz-Wecker
Franckfurt am Mayn: Bey Johann Weissen, 1643.
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Approx. 4 by 6 inches. 27, (i)pp. Binding is stiff printed sewn wraps. Title page engraving "by a pupil of Mr. Bewick". The final leaf contains the Contents. No 3 in the Literary Miscellany series. The inner and outer rear wrapper lists other titles in the series. The first romance, Sir Bertrand, has the note that the author is Mrs. Barbauld. Wraps soiled and the fold at the spine is well worn but strng; light crease on rear wrap; else a very good copy. This pamphlet is dated ca. 1795 based on the known activity of two of the printers. Years of activity of Conder: 1795-1814; Lackington, Allen: 1793-1798. George Nicholson (1760 - 1825) published a number of educational and didactic works in England from 1793, initially at Manchester, then Ludlow, and finally Poughnill. The Romances are quite Gothic in substance. This title is exceedingly scarce. Housed in a quarter leather custom folder. ESTC T181423
Romances. Sir Bertrand. Sir Gawen. Edwin
London: Printed and sold by G. Nicholson, Poughnill, near Ludlow. Sold also, in London, by H. D. Symonds, Paternoster row; Champante & W, ca. 1795.
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Small 8vo. (8),269,(2)pp. Woodcut portrait on reverse of title page, probably of Geoffrey, though it may be Merlin as there are no episcopal indicia. First separately printed edition of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Arthurian prophecies of Merlin; although written earlier, it was soon incorporated as book seven of his Historiae Regum Britanniae, and is here edited by Alain de Lille. 19th century half calf; spine in six compartments, gilt rules; black lettering label, gilt; pebble-grain cloth sides. Binding rubbed else a very good copy. Early 20th century bookplate and inscription of the author and librarian Ernest A. Baker (1869-1941), first director of the University of London School of Librarianship. Additional bookplate of James Stevens Cox, and ownership names on the preliminaries, including one dated 1838. In Latin.
Prophetia Anglicana, Merlini Ambrosii Britanni, Ex Incvbo Olim (Vt Hominvm Fama Est) Ante Annos Mille ducentos circiter in Anglia nati, Vaticinia & prædictiones: à Galfredo Monumetensi Latinè conversæ ...
Galfredus, Monumetensis.; Merlinus (Geoffrey of Monmouth; Merlin)
Francofvrti: Typis Ioachimi Bratheringij, 1603.
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Four linen-backed chromolithographed alphabet books sometime bound in rust-colored cloth, without title page. The alphabets are illustrated by animals, birds, people and biblical characters, accompanied by a verse describing each character. Slight wear to binding; alphabets near fine, bright and delightful. Scarce.
The Child's Picture Book of Alphabets(?)
(ABC)
London(?): Nelson & Sons(?), n.d., ca. 1874.
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Octavo. Blue wraps printed in black; the text signature finely printed in red and black. A celebratory list of the first eleven books printed by the Press on the occasion of its thirty-first anniversary. Protected in a typrwritten paper cover. Ashendene Press Bibliography, Minor Pieces, No. X.
A Hand-list of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXV
(Ashendene Press)
Chelsea: Shelley House, 1925.
Price: $175.00
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8vo. 62, (1)pp. Handset in 'Subiaco' type and printed in black and red on Batchelor's hand-made 'Hammer and Anvil' paper. Initials drawn by hand in blue by Graily Hewitt.. Full limp vellum, spine titled in gilt. One of 150 copies on paper. A near fine copy. Housed in a custom blue slipcase. Ashendene Bibliography, No. 18.
A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.
(Ashendene Press) (Bible in English)
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1904.
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Folio. 230, (1)pp. Translated by W. Adlington. Printed in black and red, with initials in red and blue. Later custom full maroon morocco by Denny; spine lettered in gilt; maroon endpapers with morocco doublure; followed by marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. One of 165 copies on paper. A near fine copy. Ashendede Bibliography, No. 33.
The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse Containing The metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius Interlaced With Sundry Pleasant & Delectable Tales : With an Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupid & Psyches set out in the Fourth, Fifth, & the Sixth Bookes. ...
(Ashendene Press) Apuleius, Lucius
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1924.
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Folio. Two voloumes. Publisher's cloth-backed patterned paper boards, printed paper labels. One of 225 copies on Batchelor paper. Printed in red and black. Labels rubbed, cloth lightly soiled, inner hinges cracked but strong. A very good set of perhaps the most impressive productions of the Press. In a contemporary protective slipcase, lightly worn at edges. The first work to be printed in the new Ptolemy type. Ashendene Bibliography No. 36.
The First Part (and the Second Part) of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha
(Ashendene Press) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1927-1928.
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Folio. Full publisher's calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; gilt device blocked onto the upper board, gilt spine titles. No. 81 of 390 copies, signed by Hornby. viii, 172pp, Bibliographical descriptions, examples of woodcuts, specimen pages of most of the books of the press. BInding lightly rubbed else a fine copy. Ashendene Bibliography, No 40. The last book of the Press.
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV
(Ashendene Press) Hornby, Charles Harry St John; Ashendene Press
Chelsea: Shelley House (Ashendene Press), 1935.
Price: $2,500.00
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Folio. viii,364pp. Printed in Ptolemy type. Publisher's full white pigskin. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt titles. One of 240 copies on paper. A fine copy. Housed in a quarter morocco drop down clamshell case by D. F. Bogardus. With the publisher's prospectus laid in. Ashendene Bibliography No. 37.
(The Peloponnesian War) Thucydides Translated into English by Benjamin Howett, M.A., Late Master of Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
(Ashendene Press) Thucydides
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1930.
Price: $7,500.00
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8vo. xvi + 95pp + colophon. Introduction by Walter W. Seton. Original full limp vellum with silk ties. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with untrimmed edges.Title in gilt on the spine. Facsimile reproduction of the first four pages of the original manuscript written at Florence in the year 1496. Blue initials and main text in red and black. One of 286 copies on paper. A fine copy. Housed in a protective chemise and a slipcase of blue cloth with marbled paper sides. Ashendene Press, No. 30..
Vita Di Santa Chiara Vergine Composta Per Vgolino Verino Cittadino Florentino
(Ashendene Press) Verino, Ugolino
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1921.
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Small 8vo. (2),66,248,59,(1)pp. Contemporary full polished sheep. Spine in 6 compartments, tooled in gilt, and with a leather lettering piece, gilt, in the second compartment. Lacks preliminary and ultimate blank pages; tip of spine lightly worn, leaves A5-8 have some worming with occasional slight loss,and leaves A7&8 have been remargined, else a very good copy. The probable date of printing (1697) is from Wing; OCLC, however, notes that it must have been printed before 1743, by which time John de Cock was dead, and suggests a date of about 1700-1724. Wing R2235A; ESTC R182955. Rare.
The Rule of the Great S. Augustin Expounded by the Venerable Doctor Hugh of S. Victor. Translated into French by the R. Father Charles de la Grangé, Canon Regular of S. Victor. And now Publish'd in English for the use of the English Augustin Nuns
(Augustinian Rule)
At Bridges (i.e., Bruges): John De Cock, n.d. (1697?).
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Refutation of the Mistatements and Calumnies Contained in Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart....
(Ballantyne, John Alexander)
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, 1838.
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Four volumes. Large 4to's. Volume 1 contains an engraved frontispiece, three full page engraved plates and six leaves of ancient coins; volume 2 is illustrated with seven leaves of ancient coins. Contemporary marbled calf; spines intricately gilt. Marbled endpapers. Nicely rebacked with the original spines laid on. Some wear and chipping but a very good set with fine text blocks. Two engraved early bookplates, one armorial. A wide margined copy. "The most beautiful edition of Addison ever published,"--Gaskell, Baskerville, #17.
The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.: With a Complete Index
(Baskerville Press) Addison, Joseph
Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1761.
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Some Memorials of Renee of France
(Bell, Mary I. M. Ottley)
London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1859.
Price: $125.00
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"Editio prima Americana". Thick 8vo. 8, 561(i.e., 171)pp. Pp. 568-571 incorrectly numbered 558-561. Bound to style in full sheep, red leather lettering label, gilt, simple blind rules on spine and boards. The earliest Greek/Latin Testament printed in America, preceded only by the Greek printing of 1800 by Thomas. See Hall, p. 22: "[T]his can be the 'editio prima Americana' only as a Leusden edition; for it is the second of the Greek Testament absolutely." A fine copy. Early American imprints.; Second series no. 9974.
He Kaine Diatheke (in Greek, then): Novum Testamentum cum Verisone Latina Ariae Montani Auctore Johanne Leusden, Professore
(Bible in Greek and Latin)
Philadelphiae: Imprensis S. F. Bradford, 1806.
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First edition. 12mo. (i)-xii; (9)-212pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts as well as a folding, hand-colored map of ancient Greece. Original binding of red leather spine with gilt rules; paper over boards. The leather is crazed, board edges and one corner worn, else very good, with occasional faint foxing and offsetting to the text pages. Neat ownership inscription dated 1826. Extremely scarce in the first edition, perhaps explained by the publisher's note on the reverse of the title: 'A small edition only of this work is printed; after having been submitted to several experienced teachers for their improvement, a new edition will be published to which questions for examination will be added.'
Blair's Outlines of the History of Ancient Greece Embracing its Geography, Mythology, and Antiquities on a New and Interesting Plan for the Use of Schools
(Blair, John and Samuel G. Goodrich)
Hartford: S. G. Goodrich, 1826.
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8vo. xiii,(1),153pp. Original cream-colored limp vellum binding, gilt titles, Yapp edges, yellow silk ribbon ties. One of 125 copies printed on handmade paper, from a total edition of 150 copies. Introduction by Richard le Gallienne. Prose and poetry in honor of St Valentine, and published on his day in 1893. Vellum beautifully preserved, but yawning as it will; the fragile silk ribbon ties and somewhat soiled and frayed but still able to keep the covers shut. A near fine copy. Laid in is a penny post card posted February, 1893, typewritten, in which the author, Frank E. Bliss, notifies the New York recipient that the book had been shipped. Also laid in is a letter to Beverly Chew from the author, handwritten and signed. With the engraved bookplate of Beverly Chew on the front pastedown.
In Praise of Bishop Valentine
(Bliss, Frank; Richard le Gallienne)
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1893.
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Padlocks and Girdles of Chastity: An historical and descriptive notice
(Bonneau, Alcide)
Paris: Isidore Lideux, 1892.
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Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau
(Bryant & Thoreau) (Westinghouse, Mrs. George)
Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1907.
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