Cover (in red and black): BÉRANGER | CHANSONS | GALANTES | {vignette} ||
Title page (in red and black): BÉRANGER | CHANSONS | GALANTES | ORNEES DE 16 AQUARELLES | PAR | ROJAN | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS DE LA BELLE ÉTOILE | PARIS ||
Pagination: [2] – front wrapper, [2] – blank, [1-4] 5-157 [3] [2] blank, [2] – back wrapper; the total number of pages 168 + 16 plates, numerous in-text head- and tailpieces in black.
Collation: 4to; [1] 2-214, wrapped leaves included in collation; the total number of leaves 84 + 16 plates.
Colour illustrations: 16 full-page colour plates and 4 colour headpieces are produced by the so-called Duval-Beaufumé process (collotype and stencil) of reproductions after Rojan’s watercolours.
Tirage: Limited edition of 1500 copies, of which this is № 1434.
Binding: Publisher's French flapped cream wrappers with red and black lettering to front wrapper and black lettering to spine, wove paper (vélinNavarre), uncut.
Size: 243 x 195 mm.
Contributors:
Béranger, Pierre-Jean de (French, 1780 – 1857) – author.
Rojankovsky, Feodor [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist.
NOTE on technique:
Micro-photography reveals that this is not a collotype but some sort of photochemical reproduction method, such as a halftone screen. The colour was applied with a stencil, indeed.
Russian translation of: Alphonse Daudet. Trente ans de Paris à travers ma vie et mes livres; (Collection artistique Guillaume et Cie). — Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1888.Series: Книжки Недели, №2-4, 1888.
Title: ТРИДЦАТЬ ЛѢТ ВЪ ПАРИЖѢ. | Альфонса Додэ. | Переводъ съ французскаго. | {in waving rules} Изъ "Книжекъ недѣли". | {waving rule} | С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ. | Типографiя Н. А. Лебедева. Невскiй просп., д. № 8. | 1888. ||
Pagination:[2] [1] 2-108 [2] – back wrapper; total number of pages 112.
Collation: 8vo; π7 1-28 7-88 98 78 (six 8vo gatherings) ω1; total number of leaves 56.
Binding: 24 x 16.5 cm quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, blind lettering to spine; personal library stamp to a number of pages: “БИБЛИОТЕКА | АЛЕКСАНДРА ПЕТРОВИЧА | МАРТЫНЕНКО | №»; handwritten inscription to front flyleaf: «А. Мартыненко, г. Ленинград, 1943 г.»
Contributors:
Alphonse Daudet (French, 1840 – 1897) – author of the text.
Лебедев, Николай Афанасьевич (Russian, 1813 – 1896) – printer.
Гайдебуров, Павел Александрович (Russian, 1841 – 1893/4) – publisher.
Title page: Жанъ де Лабрюйеръ. | ХАРАКТЕРЫ | ИЛИ | НРАВЫ ЭТОГО ВѢКА. | (Les Caractères). | СЪ ПРЕДИСЛОВIЯМИ | Прево-Парадоля и Сентъ-Бёва. | ПЕРЕВОДЪ | П. Д. ПЕРВОВА. | {in waving rules} Изданiе журнала "Пантеонъ Литературы". | С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГ. | Типографiя Н. А. Лебедева. Невскiй просп., д. № 8. | 1889. ||
Pagination: [1-3] 4-371 [372] – handwritten contents, green ballpen; total 372 pages.
Collation: 8vo; 1-238 ¼242, total 186 leaves.
Binding: 24 x 16.5 cm, owner’s quarter cloth over marbled boards.
Contributors:
Jean de La Bruyère (French, 1645 – 1696) – author.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin (French, 1804 – 1869) – author of the foreword.
Prévost-Paradol, Lucien-Anatole (French, 1829 – 1870) – – author of the foreword.
Первов, Павел Дмитриевич (Russian, 1860 – 1929) – translator.
Лебедев, Николай Афанасьевич (Russian, 1813 – 1896) – printer.
Two volumes uniformly bound by Riviere & Son in full red marbled calf, triple fillet border stamped in gilt, elaborate gilt ornament and brown morocco labels with gilt lettering to spine, all edge gilt, gilt dentelles.
Vol. 1:Title page: THE | LIFE AND EXPLOITS | Of the ingenious gentleman | DON QUIXOTE | DE LA MANCHA. | Translated from the Original Spanish of | Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. | By CHARLES JARVIS, Esq; | IN TWO VOLUMES. | {single rule} | VOLUME the FIRST. | {double rule} | LONDON: | Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and | R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. | {single rule} | M DCC XLII ||
Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xxxii, [i-iii] iv-vi, [2], [1] 2-90, [14], [1] 2-355 [356]; 500 pages total + ils.
Collation: 4to; 250 leaves; A4 a-b4 c-d2, A4, a-l4 m2 n4 o2, B-Z4, Aa-Yy4 Z2, ils.
Illustrations: 27 full-page copperplate engravings, incl. frontispiece (skillfully repaired), portrait of Cervantes by George Vertue After G. Kent and a fictional portrait of Don Quixote by George Vertue after John Vanderbank.
Vol. 2:Title page: THE | LIFE AND EXPLOITS | Of the ingenious gentleman | DON QUIXOTE | DE LA MANCHA. | Translated from the Original Spanish of | Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra. | By CHARLES JARVIS, Esq; | {single rule} | VOLUME the SECOND. | {double rule} | LONDON: | Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and | R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. | {single rule} | M DCC XLII ||
Pagination: [i-iii] iv-xii, [1] 2-388; 400 pages total + ils.
Collation: 4to; 200 leaves; A4 a2 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Ccc4 Ddd2, ils.
Illustrations:41 full-page copperplate engravings, pl. 29 (as frontispieces) precedes pl. 28.
Contributors:
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish, 1547 – 1616)Translator:Charles Jervas (British, 1675 – 1739)Author:Cervantes biography by Gregorio Mayans y Siscar (Spanish, 1699 – 1781)Translator:Cervantes biography by John Ozell (British, d. 1743)Illustrator:John Vanderbank, the younger (British, 1694 – 1739)
Artist: (Cervantes portrait): G. Kent (British, fl. 1738 – 1742)
Engravers:Gerard Vandergucht (British, 1696 – 1776); George Vertue (British, 1684 – 1756); Bernard Baron (French, 1696 – 1762); Claude Du Bosc (French, 1682 – 1746 or later)
Publishers: J. and R. Tonson (London); Robert Dodsley (British, 1703 – 1764)
Catalogue raisonné: Lewine p. 102
Reference: Metropolitan Museum (New York)
Five volumes, uniformly bound in marbled three-colour stained polished calf, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, crimson label with gilt lettering “CONTES DE BOCCACE”, cream label with volume number, marbled endpapers and all edges; bookplate pasted to first blank flyleaf “BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LAJUDIE” depicting a coat of arms over an anchor, anchors and tulips scattered in the upper section, globe in the lower section, in a frame.
Size: 21 x 14 cm.
Translated by Antoine Le Maçon (French, 1500? – 1559).
Vol. 1: [4] two blank leaves, portrait by Louis Lempereur after Hubert Gravelot, engraved t.p.: LE | DECAMERON | DE JEAN | BOCCACE. | TOME I. | Londres | 1757. | H. Gravelot Inv. […] T.P. N 21 […] J. Aliamet Sculp. ||, engraved frontispiece to Vie de Jean Bocace by Lempereur after Gravelot; Pagination: [i] ii-viii (Vie de Jean Bocace with head- and tail-pieces); [1] 2-320 [2] one blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; a4 A-V8, 164 leaves + 6 blanks + 24 plates (incl. portrait, frontis., and t.p.) extraneous to collation, 1 headpiece and 18 tailpieces.
Vol. 2: [4] two blank leaves, engraved t.p.: LE | DECAMERON | DE JEAN | BOCCACE. | TOME II. | Londres1757 | H. Gravelot inv. […] T.II. N.1. […] N. LeMire Sculp .||; Pagination: [1] 2-292 [2] one blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; A-S8 T2, 146 leaves + 3 blanks + 23 plates (incl. t.p.) extraneous to collation, and 18 tailpieces.
Vol. 3: [4] two blank leaves, engraved t.p.: LE | DECAMERON | DE JEAN | BOCCACE. | TOME III. | Londres 1757 | Gravelot inv. […] T.III. N.1. […] Aillamet Sc. ||; Pagination: [1] 2-203 [204] [2] one blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; A-M8 N6, 102 leaves + 3 blanks + 23 plates (incl. t.p.) extraneous to collation, and 18 tailpieces.
Vol. 4: [4] two blank leaves, engraved t.p.: LE | DECAMERON | DE JEAN | BOCCACE. | TOME IV. | Lond 1761 | Gravelot invenit […] T.IV. №.I. […] Alliamet Sculpsit. ||; Pagination: [1] 2-280 [2] one blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; A-R8 S4, 140 leaves + 3 blanks + 23 plates (incl. t.p.) extraneous to collation, and 20 tailpieces.
Vol. 5: [4] two blank leaves, engraved t.p.: LE | DECAMERON | DE JEAN | BOCCACE. | TOME V. | Londres 1761 | Gravelot, inv. […] T.V. N.1. […] Aillamet Sc. ||; Pagination: [1] 2 [3] 4-269 [270] [2] one blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; A-Q8 R7, 135 leaves + 3 blanks + 23 plates (incl. t.p.) extraneous to collation, and 22 tailpieces.
Total plates: 24+23+23+23+23=112; total vignettes: 19+ 18 + 18 +20 + 22 = 94; total etchings and engravings: 213.
Ref: MFA ACCESSION NUMBER 37.1371a-e; Cohen-de Ricci 160; Ray, French Illustrated Book, 15 / p. 39-41; Metropolitan Museum, NY (Accession Number:17.3.2641).Contributors:
Authors: Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian, 1313–1375); Filippo Villani [Philippe-Matthieu Villani] (Italian, 1325 – 1407)Illustrated by: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773).
Artists: Charles Eisen (French, 1720–1778); François Boucher (French, 1703–1770); Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils (French, 1715–1790), Jacques Aliamet (French, 1726–1788)
Engravers: Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721–1777); Jean Jacques Flipart (French, 1719–1782); Louis Legrand (French, 1723–1807); Noël Le Mire (French, 1724–1801); Louis Simon Lempereur (French, 1725–1796); Catherine Elisabeth (Cousinet) Lempereur (French, born in 1726); Jean-Jacques André Le Veau (French, 1729–1786); Pierre Etienne Moitte (French, 1722–1780); Jean Ouvrier (French, 1725–1784); Jean Jacques Pasquier (French, died in 1785); Pierre (Pitre) Martenasie (Flemish, worked in France, died in 1770?); Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, 1736–1807); Dominique Sornique (French, 1708 – 1756); Jacques Nicolas Tardieu (French, 1716–1791).
Publisher: Prault (French, 18th century)
Note: MFA copy has a slightly different collation: [v. 1] 152 leaves, plus plates; [v. 2] 136 ll., plus pls.; [v. 3] 98 ll., plus pls.; [v. 4] 131 ll., plus pls.; [v. 5] 124 ll., plus pls. This is their description: "First edition with these illustrations; a French translation (Cohen-de Ricci 160) appeared slightly later. Gravelot designed 89 of the 111 plates, and all 97 of the tailpieces, his largest single commission. Some 115 of his preliminary sketches by this series are in the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress; 131 of the final engraver's models are in the Widener Collection at the National Gallery of Art; and two other finished drawings are in the Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library. Ten plates were designed by Eisen, and Cochin and Boucher had six each. As some plates in the later volumes are dated as late as 1761, the actual issuing of the volumes apparently extended to that date."
Title page: Л. А. РАСТРИГИН | ВЫЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНЫЕ | МАШИНЫ, | СИСТЕМЫ, СЕТИ… | {Publisher’s device } | МОСКВА «НАУКА» | ГЛАВНАЯ РЕДАКЦИЯ | ФИЗИКО-МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | 1982 ||
Pagination: [2] 3-223 [224].
Collation: [1]16, 2-716; 11 unsigned.
Size: 20 x 12.5 cm
Binding: Pictorial wrappers with a gradient orange to brown background, and lettering on stylized computer screen Л. А. РАСТРИГИН | ВЫЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНЫЕ | МАШИНЫ, | СИСТЕМЫ, СЕТИ … ||
Print run: 100,000 copies.
Contributors:
Растригин, Леонард Андреевич (Russian, 1929 – 1998)
А. Тьюринг. Может ли машина мыслить? / С прил. ст. Дж. фон Неймана "Общая и логическая теория автоматов"; пер. с англ. Ю. А. Данилова; ред. и пред. С. А. Яновской. — М.: Физматгиз, 1960.
Title page: А. ТЬЮРИНГ | МОЖЕТ ЛИ | МАШИНА МЫСЛИТЬ? | С приложением статьи ДЖ. фон НЕЙМАНА | ОБЩАЯ И ЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ТЕОРИЯ АВТОМАТОВ | Перевод с английского | Ю. А. Данилова | Редакция и предисловие | проф. С. А. Яновской | {Publisher’s device «ФМ» | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ФИЗИКО-МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА 1960 ||
Pagination: [2] 3-110 [2].
Collation: [1]8, 2-416; 11 (t.p./contents, imprint.) unsigned.
Size: 20 x 13 cm
Binding: Softcover, front pictorial wrapper – yellow background and radio lamp, lettering: А. Тьюринг. Может ли | машина | мыслить | ? | {publisher's device white on blue "ФМ"} ||
Contributors:
Turing, Alan Mathison (British, 1912 – 1954) – author of the text.
John von Neumann (American-Hungarian, 1903 – 1957) – author of the text.
Данилов, Юлий Александрович (Russian, 1936 – 2003) – translator.
Яновская [Неймарк], Софья Александровна (Russian-Jewish, 1896 – 1966) – author of preface, editor.
Front wrapper: Историческая библиотека | Хроника трех столетий | Петербург – Петроград – Ленинград | И. Троцкий | III-е Отделение при Николае I | 3 | июля | 1826 года ||
Title: И. Троцкий | III-е Отделение при Николае I ||
Faux title (p. 75) : Жизнь | Шервуда-Верного ||
Pagination: [1-5] 6-317 [3]; 320 pages.
Collation: 16mo; [1]16 2-1016; 160 leaves.
Binding: Softcover, original pictorial wrappers.
Print run: 150,000 copies.
Contributors:
Исаак Моисеевич Троцкий (Russian-Jewish, 1903 – 1937) – author of the text.
Яков Аркадьевич Гордин (Russian-Jewish, b. 1935) – foreword, preparation.
Half-title: STANDARD NOVELS. | № XLIII. | {6 lines of citation} | THE BETROTHED | COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. | LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY | (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN) : | BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; | CUMMING, DUBLIN. | 1834 ||
Illustrated title page: THE BETROTHED, | FROM THE ITALIAN | OF | ALESSANDRO MANZONI. | {vignette by S. Smith after F. Pickering} | LONDON: | RICHARD BENTLEY | (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN.) | CUMMING, DUBLIN, – BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH, | GALIGNANI, PARIS. |1834. ||
Title page: THE | BETROTHED. | FROM THE ITALIAN | OF | ALESSANDRO MANZONI. | LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, 8 NEW BURLINGTON STREET | (SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN): | BELL & BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; | AND CUMMING, DUBLIN. | 1834 ||
Frontispiece: vignette by S. Smith after F. Pickering.
Pagination: [i-v] 6-xii, [1] 2-452 [2 blank] + 2 plates.
Collation: [A]6 B-Z8 AA-FF8 GG2 + 2 leaves of plates; Note: A1, A2, A4, GG2 – unsigned; both frontispiece and illustrated title are extraneous to collation.
Binding: 2/3 black calf over marbled boards, raised bands w/gilt elements, gilt lettering in compartments and gilt title on a crimson label to spine; contemporary, but not the original publisher's binding; size: 16.5 x 10.5 cm
Bookplates: Yellow sticker to front pastedown “J. K. Higgins, Northampton” (unknown); Ex libris to the front flyleaf: “Hilda Moore” (probably Hilda Mary Moore (British, 1886 – 1929) – a British stage and film actress.
Series: Bentley's Standard Novels, № 43, first series.
Catalogue raisonné: Michael Sadleir (1951): p. 101.
Original title: ALESSANDRO MANZONI : I PROMESSI SPOSI
Contributors:
Manzoni, Alessandro (Italian, 1785 – 1873)
Pickering, Ferdinand (British, 1810 – 1889) – artist.
Smith, Samuel S. (British, 1810 – 1879) – engraver.
A. Spottiswoode (London); Spottiswoode, Andrew (British, 1787 – 1866) – printer.
Bentley, Richard (British, 1794 – 1871) – publisher.
For the Russian edition see [LIB-1333.2017]: Алессандро Манцони. Обрученные. Повесть из истории Милана XVII века / Перевод И. И. Шитца. (Итальянская литература). — М.-Л.: Academia, 1936.
Titlepage: АЛЕССАНДРО МАНЦОНИ | ОБРУЧЕННЫЕ | ПОВЕСТЬ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ | МИЛАНА XVII ВЕКА | ПЕРЕВОД И КОММЕНТАРИИ | И. И. ШИТЦА | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | А. К ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ACADEMIA | 1936 ||
Frontispiece: ИТАЛЬЯНСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ПОД ОБЩЕЙ РЕДАКЦИЕЙ А. К ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | АЛЕССАНДРО | МАНЦОНИ | 1785 — 1873 | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ЛЕНИНГРАД ||
Titleverso: ALESSANDRO MANZONI | I PROMESSI SPOSI | Иллюстрации — автолитография | Е. Д. Белухи | Титула и переплет | по его же рисунку ||
Pagination: [i-vii] viii-xxxviii [2] [2] 3-946 [8] + 15 leaves of illustrations.
Collation: [I]8 II8 III4 1-598 ⅛605 + 5 leaves of plates + 10 leaves of plates (lithography by Е. Д. Белуха).
Binding: 19.5 x 14.5 cm; Publisher’s blue cloth, lettering and design to cover and spine (by Е. Д. Белуха).
Print run: 5300 copies.
Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №832, p. 279.
Contributors:
Мандзони, Алессандро [Manzoni, Alessandro] (Italian, 1785 – 1873) – author of the original text.
Шитц, Иван Иванович (Russian, 1874—1942) – translator from the Italian into Russian.
Дживелегов, Алексей Карпович (Russian, 1875 – 1952) – editor.
Белуха, Евгений Дмитриевич (Russian, 1889 – 1943) – artist.
For the first English edition see: [LIB-1332.2017]: Alessandro Manzoni. The betrothed / (Standard novels). — London: R. Bentley, 1834.
Dust jacket: Pictorial floral ornament, lettering in a central medallion: ЖИЗНЬ | БЕНВЕНУТО | ЧЕЛЛИНИ | {ACADEMIA} ||
Title page in black and red in a pictorial frame: ЖИЗНЬ | БЕНВЕНУТО, | СЫНА МАЭСТРО | ДЖОВАННИ | ЧЕЛЛИНИ, | ФЛОРЕНТИНЦА, | НАПИСАННАЯ | ИМ САМИМ | ВО ФЛОРЕНЦИИ |{√}| ПЕРЕВОД, ПРИМЕЧА | НИЯ И ПОСЛЕСЛОВИЕ | М. ЛОЗИНСКОГО | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ | СТАТЬЯ | А. К. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА~ЛЕНИНГРАД | M.CM.XXXI ||
Frontispiece: ПАМЯТНИКИ | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОГО | И ОБЩЕСТВЕННОГО | БЫТА |{√}| ЖИЗНЬ | БЕНВЕНУТО | ЧЕЛЛИНИ |{√}| ACADEMIA | МОСКВА~ЛЕНИНГРАД | M.CM.XXXI ||
Title verso: LA VITA DI BENVENUTO DI Mo GIOVANNI | CELLINI FIORENTINO | scritta per lui medesimo in Firenze | […] | Рисунки титулов, переплета и супер-обложки И. Ф. Реберга |[…]| 6 – 10 тысяча ||
Pagination: [1-5] 6-735 [736], 30 photomechanical plates (incl. portrait)
Collation : [1]8 2-468 + 15 leaves of plates extraneous to collation, total 383 leaves.
Binding: publisher’s burgundy cloth, gilt-stamped to front, blind-stamped to back board, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial DJ.
Print run: 5,250 copies.
Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): №473, p. 220 (in 1932 section).
Contributors:
Benvenuto Cellini (Italian, 1500 – 1571) – author.
Алексей Карпович Дживелегов (Russian, 1875 – 1952) – editor.
Михаил Леонидович Лозинский (Russian, 1886 – 1955) – translator.
Иван Фёдорович Рерберг (Russian, 1892 – 1957) – artist.
Frontispiece: ИНОСТРАННЫЕ МЕМУАРЫ Под общей редакцией | И. Т. Смилги | ОММЕР ДЕ ГЕЛЛЬ | «Academia» | Москва—Ленинград ||
Titlepage: ОММЕР ДЕ ГЕЛЛЬ | ПИСЬМА и ЗАПИСКИ | Редакция, вступительная статья и примечания| М. М. Чистяковой | ACADEMIA | 1933 ||
Title verso: Супер-обложка и переплет | по рисункам Н. П. Дмитревского ||
Pagination: [1-6] 7-464 [8], ill.
Collation: 8vo; [1]-298, 304 + 8 plates (photomechanical), one of them folded.
Binding: 17.5 x 13.5 cm, original purple cloth, white lettering to spine, vignette to front board, pictorial DJ.
Print run: 5300 copies.
Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 564, p.236.
Вяземский, Павел Петрович (Russian, 1820 – 1888) – author.
A famous literary forgery and mystification in the history of Russian literature. The fictitious author – Оммер де Гелль – was an existing human being: Adèle Hommaire de Hell, née Hériot (French, 1819 — 1883), a French writier. The fictitious matter of the book was not proven before 1935. The details can be found here.
Half-title: АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК СССР | Литературные памятники | {serial device} ||
Title page: ФЕОФРАСТ | ХАРАКТЕРЫ | ПЕРЕВОД, СТАТЬЯ И ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ | Г. А. CТРАТАНОВСКОГО | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО «НАУКА» | Ленинградское отделение | Ленинград | 1974 ||
Frontispiece: ΘΕΟΦΡΑΣΤΟΥ | ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΕΣPagination: [1-5] 6- 123 [124].
Collation: 8vo; [1]-68, 76, 88 (total 62 leaves); signed ¼7, ½7.
Binding: publisher’s serial green wrappers, lettering on a scroll.
Contributors:
Theophrastus [Θεόφραστος, Theόphrastos, Теофраст, Феофраст] (Greek, c. 371 – c. 287 BC) – author.
Стратановский, Георгий Андреевич (Russian, 1901 – 1986) – translator.
Title page: ФРАНСУА ДЕ ЛАРОШФУКО | МАКСИМЫ | • | БЛЕЗ ПАСКАЛЬ | МЫСЛИ | • | ЖАН ДЕ ЛАБРЮЙЕР | ХАРАКТЕРЫ | ПЕРЕВОД С ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО | {publisher’s device “ИХЛ”} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА» | МОСКВА • 1974 ||
Content:
В. Бахмутский. / Французские моралисты. / Франсуа де Ларошфуко. Максимы. Пер. Э. Линецкой. / Блез Паскаль. Мысли. Пер. Э. Линецкой. / Жан де Лабрюйер. Характеры. Пер. Ю. Корнеева и Э. Линецкой. Примечания В. Бахмутского, И. Малевич, М. Разумовской, Т. Хатисовой.
Pagination: [1-5] 5-541 [3], 13 illustrations (unpag.)
Collation: [1]16 2-1716 + 13 photomechanical plates extraneous to collation.
Binding: serial design red cloth, gilt-stamped cover with a serial device, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket.
Contributors:
Blaise Pascal (French, 1623 – 1662) – author.
François La Rochefoucauld (French, 1613 – 1680) – author.
Jean de La Bruyère (French, 1645 – 1696) – author.
Эльга Львовна [Лейбовна] Линецкая [Фельдман] (Russian-Jewish, 1909 – 1997) – translator.
Юрий Борисович Корнеев (Russian, 1921 – 1995) – translator.
Владимир Яковлевич Бахмутский (Russian, 1919 – 2004) – author/foreword.
Hardcover volume, 24 x 18 cm, pictorial paper over cardboard boards, pictorial endpapers, and pictorial DJ; pp.: [2] – pictorial t.p. / copyrignt+imprint + [26] unpaginated pages (13 leaves); in-text photomechanical b/w and coloured illustrations after Feodor Rojankovsky.
DJ and front cover (pictorial): JUST SO STORIES SERIES | RUDYARD KIPLING | THE | ELEPHANT'S | CHILD | PICTURED BY F. ROJANKOVSKY ||
Title-page (pictorial): JUST SO STORIES SERIES | THE | ELEPHANT'S | CHILD | RUDYARD KIPLING | ILLUSTRATED BY | F. ROJANKOVSKY | GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, N. Y. ||
Contributors:
Rudyard Kipling (British, 1865 – 1936)
Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970)
Title page (with tall “s”): THE | ACCOMPLISHMENT | OF THE | PROPHECIES, | OR THE | Approaching Deliverance of | the CHURCH. | A work, wherein it is proved, that the Papism | is the Antichristian Empire; that that Empire is not far | from its ruin ; that the present persecution may end in | three years and a half. After which, the destruction | of Antichrist shall begin, which shall be finished in the | beginning of the next Age ; and lastly, the Kingdom | of Jesus Christ shall come on the Earth. | — | The second Edition Corrected and Enlarged by almost | a third part, and the explication of all the Visions of the Re- | velation, and of many Chapters concerning mystical Theology. | — | 2 vols. In 1, | — | Written in French by Mr. PETER JURIEU , the present | Minister of the French Church at Rotterdam. And from | this second Edition faithfully Englished. | — | LONDON , Printed in the Year 1687. ||
Pagination: ffl, [48] 1-271 [272 blank] + 3-99, 200-396, bfl. Note: part 2 starts with page 3, page 99 recto is paginated 200 on verso, instead of 100; total number of pages in part 2, thus, is 294. Collation is uninterrupted.
Collation: *-**8 A-S8 + Aa7 Bb-Ss8 Tt4. Note: no leaf Aa1, leaf Tt4 unsigned; 307 leaves total.
Binding: Full brown calf, boards ruled blind with double-fillet, flat spine stamped blind with a diaper, double-fillet ruled compartments, black label with gilt lettering. Printed on laid paper, with marginal notes. Yellow sticker to front pastedown G. Batenham, Bookseller, Northgate, Chester.
Author: Pierre Jurieu (French, 1637 – 1713). Translator unknown. Publisher unknown.
English translation of the book:Pierre Jurieu. L'accomplissement des Propheties ou la delivrance prochaine de l'Eglise. —Rotterdam: Acher, 1686.
Vol. 1.Title : VOYAGES | ET MÉMOIRES | DE | MAURICE-AUGUSTE, | COMTE DE BENYOWSKY, | Magnat des Royaumes d’Hongrie et de | Pologne, etc. etc. | Contenant ses Opérations militaires en | Pologne, son exil au Kamtchatka, son Evasion | et son Voyage à travers l’Océan pacifique, au | Japon, à Formose, à Canton en Chine, et | les détails de l’Etablissement qu’il fut chargé | par le Ministère François de former à Mada- | gascar. | TOME PREMIER. | A PARIS, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue | Hautefeuille, no 20. | (1791.)
Pagination : [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] ii-viii, [1] 2-466.
Collation: 8vo; [π]2 a4, A-Ff8 Gg1.
Vol. 2.Title: Similar, but TOME SECOND.
Pagination: [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [1] 2-486.
Collation: 8vo; [π]2 A-Gg8 Hh3, Hh3 unsigned.
Binding: both volumes uniformly bound in half brown calf over speckled beige boards, crimson label with gilt lettering to flat spine, volume number in garland, florets in compartments. Bookplate to front pastedown: "C. De Oetting." Ink stamp to t.p.: "Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek".
Provenance: Oettingen-Wallerstein library (Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek) is the former library of the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, now part of the collection of Augsburg University library.
Title: ПОЭЗИЯ И ПРОЗА | ДРЕВНЕГО ВОСТОКА | [blank] | {Publisher’s device “ИХЛ”} | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА» | МОСКВА • 1973 ||
Pagination: [1-4] 5-734 [2], ils.
Collation: 16mo; [1]16 2-2316, 16 illustr. extraneous to collation.
«О все видавшем» со слов Син-Леке-Уннинни, заклинателя – перевод И. Дьяконова : стр. 166-220: Эпос о Гильгамеше.
Print run: 303,000 copies.
Binding: Uniform serial binding, yellow cloth with the gilt series device to front cover, gilt lettering to spine; pictorial dust jacket.
Size: 20.5 x 15 cm
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.