Title: A COMPLETE | COURSE OF LITHOGRAPHY: | CONTAINING | Clear and Explicit Instructions | IN ALL THE | DIFFERENT BRANCHES AND MANNERS OF THAT ART | ACCOMPANIED BY | ILLUSTRATIVE SPECIMENS OF DRAWINGS. | TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A | HISTORY OF LITHOGRAPHY, | FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT TIME. | By ALOIS SENEFELDER, | INVENTOR OF THE ART OF LITHOGRAPHY AND CHEMICAL PRINTING. | WITH | A PREFACE | By FREDERIC VON SCHLICHTEGROLL, |Director of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich. | TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN, BY A.S. | London: | PRINTED FOR R. ACKERMANN, 101 STRAND. | 1819. ||
Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xxviii, [4] [1] 2-342.
Collation: 4to; [a]-d4, B-2U4 2X2, +14 lithographed plates by Ackermann (incl. 1 folding, 1 colour frontispiece and 1 portrait of A. Senefelder); plates opposite to pp. [i], [1], 193, 198, 203, 228, 232 (fold.), 256, 258, 264, 269, 290, 302, and 305.
Binding: By Anne Krawitz (Philadelphia, PA), 27.5 x 21 cm, modern full mottled calf, boards ruled in gilt, flat spine, compartments ruled in gilt, crimson label with gilt lettering to spine, printed on wove paper; round book-plate to front paste-down “TWM, The Whitehead Library”.
Edition: 1st in English.
Ref.: MET: Accession Number:Ref.20; RCT: RCIN 1195886; Contributors:
Alois Senefelder (German, 1771 – 1834) – author of the original and translator.
Friedrich Schlichtegroll (German, 1765 – 1822) – author of preface.
William Clowes (British, 1779 – 1847) – printer.
Rudolph Ackermann (German-British, 1764 – 1834) – publisher and lithographer.
Samuel Prout (British, 1783 – 1852)
Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria (German, 1756 –1825) – dedicatee.
Title: К 550-летию великой трагедии | ВИЗАНТИЙСКИЕ | ИСТОРИКИ | О ПАДЕНИИ | КОНСТАНТИНОПОЛЯ | в 1453 году | Под редакцией | Я. Н. Любарского, | Т. И. Соболь | Санкт-Петербург | АЛЕТЕЙЯ | 2006 ||
Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники.
Pagination: [1-5] 6-189 [3].
Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, map endpapers.
Print run: 1,000 copies.
ISBN: 5-89329-766-0.
Michael Critobulus [Μιχαήλ Κριτόβουλος; Михаил Критовул] (Greek, c. 1410 – c. 1470).
Doukas [Dukas; Дука; Δούκας] (Greek, c. 1400 – after 1462).
Laonikos Chalkokondyles [Laonicus Chalcocondyles; Λαόνικος Χαλκοκονδύλης; Лаоник Халкокондил] (Greek, c. 1430 – c. 1470).
Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003).
Title: МИХАИЛ ПСЕЛЛ | ХРОНОГРАФИЯ |Перевод, статья и примечания | Я. Н. Любарского | КРАТКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ | Перевод | Д. А. Черноглазова и Д. Р. Абдрахмановой | «АЛЕТЕЙЯ» | Санкт-Петербург | 2003 ||
Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники.
Pagination: [1-8] 9-396 [4], frontis.
Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, map endpapers.
Print run: 1,000 copies.
ISBN: 5-89329-594-3.
Михаи́л Пселл [Μιχαήλ Ψελλός; Michael Psellos] (Byzantine, 1018 – c. 1078).
Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003).
Title: А. П. КАЖДАН | ДВА ДНЯ | ИЗ ЖИЗНИ | КОНСТАНТИНОПОЛЯ | Научное издание | Издательство «АЛЕТЕЙЯ» | Санкт-Петербург | 2002 ||
Series: Византийская библиотека. Исследования.
Pagination: [1-5] 6-318 [2], il. in text.
Binding: 17 x 12.5 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering, border and serial device on black.
Print run: 1,300 copies.
ISBN: 5-89329-463-7.
Каждан, Александр Петрович [Пейсахович] [Kazhdan, Alexander] (Russian-American, 1922 – 1997).
Title: HISTORY | OF | SECRET SOCIETIES, | AND OF THE | REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FRANCE | From 1830 to 1848; | CONTAINING SKETCHES OF | LOUIS-PHILLIPE AND THE REVOLUTION OF FEBRUARY; | TOGETHER WITH | PORTRAITS, CONSPIRACIES, AND UNPUBLISHED FACTS. | BY | LUCIEN DE LA HODDE. | Translated from the Paris Edition of 1850. | BY AN AMERICAN. | PHILADELPHIA: | J. B. LIPPINCOTT AND CO. | 1856. ||
Pagination: blank leaf, [i, ii] – ht / blind, [iii, iv] – t.p. / imprim., [v-vi] – preface / blind, [vii] viii-xv [xvi] [17] 18-479 [480], blank leaf.
Collation: 8vo; [1]-308.
Binding: 22.8 x 15 cm, publisher's purple blind-spamped cloth to boards, gilt lettering to spine.
Lucien de la Hodde (French, 1808 – 1865). Original title: Histoire des sociétés secrètes et du parti républicain de 1830 à 1848 : Louis-Phillippe et le Révolution de février, portraits, scènes de conspirations, faits inconnus. — Paris: Julien, Lanier, 1850.
Translated by John Wolcott Phelps (American, 1813 – 1885).
Title: L'ART | D'AIMER, | ET | POÉSIES DIVERSES | DE M. BERNARD.
Pagination: [2] – t.p. / stanza by Voltaire; engraved t. p., frontispiece, [1] 2-170; pp. 1-61 – L'art d'aimer; pp. 62-111 – Phrosine et Mélidore; pp. 112-170 – Poésies diverses; illustrations.
Collation: 8vo; π1 (letterpress t.p.), A-K8 L5; + 8 plates:
(1)* engraved title page facing the stanza by Ch. Baquoy;
(2) plate as a frontispiece by Ponce after Ch. Eisen, inscribed Chant I above the image, dated 1772, facing p. [1], chant 1er of l’art;
(3)* Ch. Baquoy after P. Martini, inscribed Chant II below the image, facing p. 22, chant 2nd of l’art;
(4) Ch. Baquoy after Eisen, inscribed Chant III above the image, facing p. 44, chant 3rd of l’art;
(5)* Patas after P. Martini, inscribed Chant Ier below the image, dated 1775, facing p. 62, chant 1er of Phrosine;
(6) Ch. Baquoy after Eisen, inscribed Chant II above the image, facing p. 74, chant 2nd of Phrosine;
(7)* C. Gaucher after P. Martini, facing p. 84, chant 3rd of Phrosine;
(8) Ch. Baquoy after Eisen, inscribed Chant IV above the image, facing p. 97, chant 4th of Phrosine;
* – images additional to 1772 edition by Le Jay [LIB-2706.2021] (i.e. plates 1, 3, 5, and 7 are new).
A counterfeit edition by an anonymous publisher.
Binding: brown pebbled morocco, triple fillet gilt-ruled boards, raised bands, gilt in compartments, gilt label lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, AMG; printed on laid paper, with tall 's'.
Catalogue raisonné: Cohen, De Richi (1912): p. 132: describes a counterfeit edition with 170 pages and 3 additional plates plus an engraved title. This seems to be a combination of Lejan [sic] Paris 1775 edition, which normally has 134 pages, 8vo, title engraved by Baquoy and three plates after Martini by Patas, Baquoy and Gaucher.
Contributors:
Nicolas Ponce (French, 1746 – 1831) – engraver.
Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721 – 1777) – engraver.
Jean-Baptiste Patas (French, 1748 – 1817) – engraver.
Charles-Étienne Gaucher (French, 1740 – 1804) – engraver.
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778) – artist.
Pietro Antonio Martini (Italian, 1738 – 1797) – artist.
Pierre-Joseph Bernard [Gentil-Bernard] (French, 1708 – 1775) – author of the text.
Title: ACADEMIE | DES | SCIENCES | ET DES | ARTS, | Contenant les Vies & les Eloges Historiques des | Hommes Illustres, | Qui ont excellé en ces Professions depuis environ quatre Siécles | parmy diverses Nations de l’Europe : |Avec leurs Pourtraits tirez sur des Originaux au Naturel, & plusieurs Inscriptions | funebres, exactement recueïlies de leurs Tombeaux | Par Isaac Bullart , Chevalier de l’Ordre de Saint Michel. | TOME PREMIER | {allegorical vignette, signed Abr. A Diepenbeke delineavit – Pet. Clouwet sculp.} | Imprimé par les soins de l’Autheur. | A AMSTERDAM, | Se vendent chez les Heritiers de Daniel Elzevier, 1682. ||
Vol. 1: Pagination: 2 blank end-leaves, [2] – Two-volumes h.t. / blank ; [2] – 1st vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette engraved by Pieter Clouwet (Flemish, 1629–1670) after Abraham van Diepenbeeck (Dutch, 1596 - 1675), book-label 'I. A. Aubert' pasted / blank; [7] – dedication to Jacques Theodore de Brias {Jacques-Théodore de Bryas (Dutch, 1630 – 1694)}, [9] – preface, [2] – table demonstrative / stanza by Guilielmus Riverius, [2] – vignette “Tardius sed grandius” with an elephant in ornamental frame / text; [2] – Advis au lecteur; [1, 2] – noms politiques / blank (A1), 3(A2)-416, 2 blank end-leaves; laking 8 last pages 417-424 if compared to Paris 2 in 1 vol. edition LIB-2676.2021, and lacking 4 last pages if compared with another Amsterdam edition LIB-2239.2019. These last 4 pages contain portraits and eulogies of François Primatici and Jacques Barozzi de Vignole.
Collation: 4to; [*]6, **8, A6 B-Fff4, lacking Ggg4, 118 plates (instead of 120) within a collation.
Vol. 2: Pagination: 2 blank end-leaves, [2] – tome second h.t. / blank ; [2] – 2nd vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette similar to vol. 1, with book-label 'I. A. Aubert' / blank; [4] – advertissement; [2] – f.t. Theologiens / blank; [2] – noms theologiens / blank 1-501 [3] – table eloges, 1 blank end-leaf.
Collation: 4to; [*]4, **2, A-Sss4, 159 plates within a collation.
Binding: both volumes uniformly bound in full contemporary cream vellum with blind double fillet over boards, raised bands, compartments tooled in black, brown calf labels with gilt lettering to spine. Printed on laid paper, with tall "s", all margins sprinkled red; the size of each vol.: 32.2 x 20.5 x 4.7 cm.
A full description of plates, as well as their images, presented in LIB-2676.2021.
Title: ACADEMIE | DES | SCIENCES | ET DES | ARTS, | Contenant les Vies & les Eloges Historiques des | Hommes Illustres, | Qui ont excellé en ces Professions depuis environ quatre Siécles | parmy diverses Nations de l’Europe : |Avec leurs Pourtraits tirez sur des Originaux au Naturel, & plusieurs Inscriptions | funebres, exactement recueïlies de leurs Tombeaux | Par Isaac Bullart , Chevalier de l’Ordre de Saint Michel. | TOME PREMIER | {allegorical vignette, signed Abr. A Diepenbeke delineavit – Pet. Clouwet sculp.} | Imprimé par les soins de l’Autheur. | A PARIS, | Se vendent chez Loüis Bilane, Marchand Libraire à la ruë S. Jaques, | & au Palais, M. DC. LXXXII. ||
Pagination : [2] – h.t. / blank ; [2] – 1st vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette engraved by Pet. Clouwet after Abr. Diepenbeke / blank; [7] – dedication to Jacques Theodore de Brias {Jacques-Théodore de Bryas (Dutch, 1630 – 1694)}, [9] – preface, [2] – table demonstrative / stanza by Guilielmus Riverius, [2] – vignette “Tardius sed grandius” with an elephant in ornamental frame / text; [2] – noms politiques / blank (A1 before f.t.), [2] – f.t. livre premiere, illustres politiques / blank, 3(A2)-421, [422-424] – table eloges; [2] – f.t. tome second / blank, [2] – 2nd vol. t.p. in black and red with vignette…, [4] – advertisement, [2] – livre premier f.t. / blank, [2] – noms theologiens / blank, 1-501, [3] – table eloges.
Collation : vol.1: [*]6, **6, A6 B-Ggg4; vol. 2: *4, **2, A-Sss4. (12 prelim. leaves, while in LIB-2239.2019 and in LIB-2675.2021 there is 14 prelim. leaves).
Binding: contemporary full calf, size: 34 x 23 x 7.2 cm; crimson label with gilt lettering separated.
Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Philip Crampton Smyly to the front pastedown; Stephen White Collection.
The title is drawn by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (Dutch, 1596 - 1675) and engraved by Pieter Clouwet (Flemish, 1629–1670).
The volume illustrated throughout with 279 portraits of important scientists, artists, thinkers, explorers, printers, and others of the period by a variety of artists.
Tome 1: 120 plates of which 30 engraved by Esme de Boulonois (French, 1645 – 1681), 87 by Nicolas de Larmessin I (French, 1632 – 1694)Lavinia Vecellio (Italian, 1530 – 1575) engraved by Lamerssin after Titian, Portrait of Jacques Auguste de Thou engraved by de Boulonois after Daniel Dumonstier (French, 1574 – 1646).
Tome 2: 159 plates of which 63 by Esme de Boulonois, 79 by Nicolas de Larmessin, 15 unsigned, 1 by Pieter Clouwet, and 1 by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, 1607 – 1677). Portraits of Knelme Digby, Juste Lipse, Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Michel Mirevelt, Jacques Calot, Martin Richart, Pierre Paul Rubens, Venceslas Coberghe, Theodore Rombouts, Adrien Brouwer, Simon Vouet, Gerard Segers, Gaspar de Crayer, Antoine Van Dyck himself, and his wife Mary Ruthven – after Anthony Van Dyck. Young Man with a Skull engraved by Esme de Boulonois after Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, c. 1494 – 1533). Portrait of Louis Arioste engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin after Titian. Portrait of Balthasar de Castillon engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin after Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, 1483 – 1520). Petrarch's Laura – by Larmessin after Palma Vecchio (Italian, c. 1480 – 1528). Vittoria Colonne – by Larmessin after Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian, c. 1485 – 1547). The portrait of Albert Durer is engraved by Esme de Boulonois after Tommaso Vincidor (Flemish, 1493 – 1536).
Vol. 1, Book 1. Politicians
Title: OVID'S | METAMORPHOSES | IN | FIFTEEN BOOKS. | Translated by the most Eminent Hands. | Adorn’d with Sculptures | London: | Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespeare’s–Head | over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand. | M DCC XVII. ||
Physical description: Folio, laid paper, engraved title as frontispiece, letterpress title-page, portrait of the dedicatee, the Princess of Wales, engraved by George Vertue (British, 1684 – 1756) after Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, 1646 – 1723), [4] – dedication with headpiece vignette engraved by Elisha Kirkall (British, 1682 – 1742) after Peter Berchet (French, 1659 – 1720 London), [i]-xx – preface, [4] – contents, 1-548; collation: π3 a-f2, B-Zzzzzz2, +15 full-paged engravings, one heading each book; bound in full contemporary tan English calf blind-tooled with a darker panel, raised bands, crimson label with gilt lettering, sprinkled compartments with blind tooling, rebacked, later endpapers, 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 in (39.5 x 26 x 5 cm).
Contributors:
Author:Ovid (Roman, 43 B.C. – A.D. 17)Translator:Sir Samuel Garth (British, 1661 – 1719)
Translator:John Dryden (British, 1631 – 1700)Translator:Joseph Addison (British, 1672 – 1719)Translator:John Gay (British, 1685 – 1732)Dedicatee / Sitter: Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales, Queen of England (German-British, 1683 – 1737)Engraver: Elisha Kirkall (British, 1682 – 1742) Artist: Peter Berchet (French-British, 1659 – 1720)
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, 1646 – 1723)Engraver:George Vertue (British, 1684 – 1756)Engraver:Louis Du Guernier, the younger (French, 1677 – 1716)Engraver:Michael Vandergucht (Flemish, 1660 – 1725)Engraver:Elisha Kirkall (British, 1682 – 1742)Engraver:R. Smith (British, fl. early 18th century)Engraver:Matthys Pool (Dutch, 1670 – c. 1732)Publisher:Jacob Tonson, the Elder (British, 1655 – 1736)
THE | POETICAL | WORKS | OF | Mr. John Milton. | Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, | Sampson Agonistes, and his Poems | on several Occasions. | TOGETHER WITH | Explanatory NOTES on each Book of the | PARADISE LOST, and a TABLE | never before Printed. | LONDON: | Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Judges-Head near Inner-Temple-| Gate in Fleet – street , M DC XC V. ||
Pagination: [6] 1-343 [5] 1-66 [4] 1-57 [5] 1-60 [2] 321 [1], frontispiece and 12 plates, one before each book of Paradise Lost.
Collation: 4to, folio; blank leaf, π3 B2, C-Z4, Aa-Yy4, A-H4 I2, [A]-D2 †D2 E-Q2 [A]1 B-Z2 Aa-Zz2 Aaa-Zzz2 Aaaa-Mmmm2 [N]1, 2 blank leaves, + frontis. portrait and 12 plates extraneous to collation.
Plates:
Portrait of John Milton (British, 1608 – 1674) engraved by Robert White (British, 1645 – 1703) after William Faithorne (British, 1616 – 1691)
11 plates engraved by Michael Burghers (Dutch, c. 1640 – c. 1723) after John Baptiste de Medina (Flemish, 1659 –1710); 1 plate (for Book IV) engraved by Peter-Paul Bouché (Dutch, 1646 – c. 1697) after Bernard Lens (British, 1659 – 1725).
Binding: Folio, bound in full contemporary English panelled and speckled calf, tooled in blind, re-backed, corners repaired, the lines in Paradise Lost numbered; title pages of Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes dated 1695; without a list of subscribers after the general title; with the Table for Paradise Lost; printed on laid paper, with tall "s", margins sprayed red.
Provenance: near-contemporary ex libris of Sarah Bugg inside front board; along with that of Sam Bontham, 1726; later owned by forger Osborne Charles Vyse Aldis (1843 – 1916), with his signature on general title, with a nine-line note in his hand and initialled on page 343.
Catalogue raisonné: Gordon N. Ray, Illustrated book in England (1976): p. 3.
Ref: National Gallery of ArtContributors:
Bouché, Peter-Paul (Dutch, 1646 – c. 1697)
Burghers, Michael (Dutch, c. 1640 – c. 1723)
Faithorne, William (British, 1616 – 1691)
Lens, Bernard (British, 1659 – 1725)
Medina, John Baptiste de (Flemish, 1659 – 1710)
Milton, John (British, 1608 – 1674)
Tonson, Jacob, the Elder (British, 1655 – 1736)
White, Robert (British, 1645 – 1703)
26 x 18 cm, black cloth, white lettering to cover and spine, pictorial DJ, pp. [1-4] 5-207 [208 colophon], 233 b/w illustrations; essay by Wilhelm M. Busch.
Pictorial title by von Bayros: Die | Bohème. | Scenen aus dem Pariser | Künstlerleben | von | Henri Murger | Leipzig im | InselVerlag | 1906. | F. Bayros ||
Pagination: [2] – pictorial frontispiece, [2] – pictorial t.p., 1-280 [2] – inhalt, [2] – colophon, [2] – blank, + 4 plates drawn by Franz von Bayros and reproduced as photogravure, with guards.
Binding: 23.5 x 15.5 cm, cream parchment, raised bands, gilt-lettered orange morocco label to spine; text printed on laid paper (Linden Paper watermark), untrimmed, illustrations on wove paper as photogravure. Bookplate: “Ex libris Walter Schniewind” engraved by C. L. Becker.
Original title: Henry Murger. Scenes De La Vie De Boheme. — Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1851.
Tirage: 50 copies on laid paper, of which this is № 14 (per Sarkowski: 50 numerierte Ex. auf Bütten. Pergament mit Goldschnitt).
Author: Murger, Henri [Murger, Louis-Henri, Henry] (French, 1822 – 1861).
Translator: Grove, Frederick Philip [Greve, Felix Paul] (German-Canadian, 1879 – 1948).
Illustrator: Bayros, Franz von (Austrian, 1866 – 1924).
Printer: Drugulin, Wilhelm Eduard (German, 1822 – 1879); Offizin W. Drugulin (Leipzig).
Provenance: Schniewind, Walter (German, 1870 – 1927).
Catalogue raisonné: Heinz Sarkowski (1999): № 1175 VA, p. 195; Bayros Zeichnungen, pp. 43-46.
Title page: PHROSINE | ET | MELIDORE, | POËME | EN QUATRE CHANTS. | A MESSINE, | Et se trouve A Paris, | Chez Le Jay, Libraire, au Grand Corneille, | rue S. Jacques. | M. DCC. LXXII. ||
Pagination : ffl, [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] t.p. / blank, [1] 2-55 [56 blank], bfl ; 4 copperplate engravings by Nicolas Ponce (French, 1746 – 1831) after Charles Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778), one before each chant.
Collation: 8vo; π2 (h.t., t.p. ) A-C8 D4.
Binding: 20.5 x 14 cm, full mottled calf, gilt-ruled with triple fillet, flat spine, gilt in compartments, black label with gilt lettering, printed on laid paper, all edges red.
Catalogue raisonné: Cohen de Ricci p. 132; J. Lewine: p. 53.
Contributors:
Nicolas Ponce (French, 1746 – 1831)
Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721–1777)
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778)
Pierre-Joseph Bernard [Gentil-Bernard] (French, 1708 – 1775).
Front wrapper and t.p.: THE | INTERNATIONAL | JEW | The Truth About | "The Protocols of Zion" | By ERIC D. BUTLER | ∞ | Hitler’s Views on “The Protocols”: | “I SAW AT ONCE WE MUST COPY IT.” | “The question of the Jews and their influence on the world, past and present, cuts to the root of all things and should be discussed by every honest thinker” | — Dr. Oscar Levy, Famous Jewish Writer. | Price — 2/6 || (T.p.: same with the full stop (.) after 2/6.
Stamp to t.p.: Women’s Voice | 537 SO. DEARBORN ST. | ROOM 800 | CHICAGO 5. ILL. ||
[2] 3-167 [168].
Binding: Lettered publisher’s wrappers, 18 x 12 cm.
Butler, Eric Dudley (Australian, 1916 – 2006)
Osborne, Robert Martin (British-Australian, 1862 – 1931) — Australian printer and publisher.
Levy, Oscar (German-Jewish, 1867 – 1946)
Hitler, Adolf (German, 1889 – 1945)
Title page (in Gothic script): Peter Schlemihl's | wundersame Geschichte | mitgetheilt | von | Adelbert von Chamisso. | {vignette} | Nach des Dichters Tode neu herausgegeben | von Julius Eduard Hitzig. | Stereotypausgabe mit Holzschnitten. | Nürnberg, | Johann Leonhard Schrag. ||
Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xvi, [1] 2-82 [2], 15 woodcut vignettes by Unzelmann after Menzel.
Collation: 8vo; π8 1-58 62.
Binding: 21.5 x 13.5 cm, blind olive wrappers.
Year of publication inferred from the foreword. This is the first posthumous edition of Chamisso's novel.
Personae:
Chamisso, Adelbert von (German, 1781 – 1838). — Author of the text.
Hitzig, Julius Eduard [Itzig, Isaac Elias] (German-Jewish, 1780 – 1849). — Author of the foreword.
Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von (German, 1815 – 1905). — Artist of the vignettes.
Unzelmann, Friedrich Ludwig (German, 1797 – 1854). — Engraver of the woodcuts.
Schrag, Johann Leonhard (Germany, 1783 – 1858). — Publisher.
Cover and title page: Н. Л. | ФРАН-МАСОНСТВО | И | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ИЗМѢНА. | Изданiе В. П. | С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ | Типографиiя газеты «Россiя». Бассейная, 3. | 1906 г. ||
Pagination: [1-3] 4-77 [3]; collation: [1]8 2-58; 23 x 15.5 cm, in publisher’s lettered wrappers, library and bookstore stamps.
A reprint of an article published in № 4 of the magazine "Море и его Жизнь", January 1905. Allegedly a translation and a brief exposition of La franc-maçonnerie et la Révolution française by Maurice Talmeyr [Marie-Justin-Maurice Coste] (French, –
Title page: ТОРКВАТО ТАССО | ОСВОБОЖДЕННЫЙ | ИЕРУСАЛИМ | ПЕРЕВОД С ИТАЛЬЯНСКОГО | РОМАНА ДУБРОВКИНА | {publisher’s device} | САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ИВАНА ЛИМБАХА | 2020 ||
Frontispiece recto: Torquato Tasso portrait by Aegidius Sadeler; verso: TARQUATO TASSO | GERUSALEMME | LIBERATA ||
Pagination: [1-4] 5-607 [608], il. in text by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the Younger (French, 1715 – 1790).
Hardcover, pictorial paper board, lettering to spine, 25 x 15.5 cm. Print run: 1,000 copies.
Original: Torquato Tasso. La Gerusalemme liberata (it.)
Translation from the Italian and a foreword by Roman Doubrovkine [Роман Дубровкин] (Russian-Swiss, b. 1953).
Published in 2020 by Издательство Ивана Лимбаха in St. Petersburg.
In this collection: LIB-2639.2021 with illustrations by Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773); LIB-2636.2021 with illustrations by Bernardo Castello (Italian, 1557–1629), and another translation into Russian by В. С. ЛИХАЧЕВ LIB-2654.2021.