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Paperback, 25 x 17 cm, publisher’s wrappers with red and black lettering in a pictorial frame by Vysheslavstev; pp.: [i-vii] viii-xv [xvi blank], [1-5] 6-348 [4]; collated 8vo: π8 1-228, total 184 leaves, 368 pages; gatherings 1-22 uncut. Because the author was banned, lettering on the spine was covered by a glued strip of blank paper; only the year 1922 was left visible. Front wrapper: ОЧЕРК | РАЗВИТИЯ | РУССКОЙ | ФИЛОСОФИИ | ГУСТАВА | ШПЕТА | ПЕРВАЯ | ЧАСТЬ | 1922 | ПЕТЕРБУРГ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО “КОЛОС” || Title-page: similar lettering in black only with no frame. Design of the front wrapper and the publisher’s device (π1) by Николай Николаевич Вышеславцев [N. Vysheslavstev] (Russian, 1890 – 1952). Title: Sketch on the development of Russian philosophy, Part one. [Part two was never published]. Author: Густав Густавович Шпет [Gustav Shpet] (Russian, 1879 – 1937) – executed by fire squad on 16 November 1937. -
![Гроций. О праве войны и мира // Общедоступная философия в изложении Аркадия Пресса. - СПб.: П. П. Сойкин, [1902].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-0905.2015-3-500x500.jpeg)
Front wrapper, t.p.: Общедоступная философiя | ВЪ ИЗЛОЖЕНИИ | АРКАДIЯ ПРЕССА | — | ГРОЦIЙ. | О ПРАВѢ ВОЙНЫ И МИРА. | Цена 40 коп. | [two medals] С.-Петербург | Изданiе П. П. Сойкина [two medals] | Книжный Складъ / Стремянная, 12 | Книжный Магазинъ / Невский, 96 || Verso to front wrapper: publisher's advert.; verso to back wrapper: publisher's advert.; back wrapper: Series advert. Series: Общедоступная философия в изложении Аркадия Пресса Pagination: [1, 2] – t.p. /censor's approval dated September 30, 1902 г., imprint, [3] 4-50 [2] – publisher's advert. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-38 42. Inscriptions: Handwriting to front wrapper "1902"; to title page "1902" and in Russian: "Ензику от Тышки 19/III-26г." Size: 19.5 x 12.3 cm. Binding: original publisher's wrappers, lettering, pp. 35-46 loose. Author: Hugo Grotius [Huig or Hugo de Groot] (Dutch, 1583 – 1645). Originally published by Nicolas Buon in Paris in 1625 in Latin under the title: De iure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace). Compiler/translator: Аркадий Германович Пресс [Аркадиус Пресас or Arkadius Presas] (Russian-Finish, 1870 – 1952). -
Title page: ГИЛЬГАМЕШЪ | ВАВИЛОНСКIЙ ЭПОСЪ | ПЕРЕВОДЪ | Н. ГУМИЛЕВА | ВВЕДЕНИЕ В. ШИЛЕЙКО | Изданiе З. И. Гржебина | С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ — 1919. Pagination: [1-4] 5-78 [2]; head and tail pieces (William Hayes Ward, The seal cylinders of Western Asia, Washington, 1910). Binding: Publisher’s wrappers, lettering, vignette. Contributors: Гумилёв, Николай Степанович (Russian, 1886 – 1921) – translator from the French. Шилейко, Владимир Казимирович (Russian, 1891 – 1930) – editor. -
Title: Издательство Путеводителей "Русскiй Бедекеръ" сущ. съ 1888 г. | Григорiй Москвичъ. | ИЛЛЮСТРИРОВАННЫЙ | Практический Путеводитель | по Одессѣ | с приложенiемъ: | очерка одесской выставки, плана Одессы, исполненнаго | в краскахъ, плановъ — порта, Куяльницкаго лимана, | расписанiя рейсовъ пароходовъ и тарифовъ, алфавита | и проч. | ИЗДАНИIЕ ШЕСТОЕ. | Цѣна 1 руб. (в переплетѣ) | ПРОДАЕТСЯ | во всѣх лучшихъ книжныхъ магазинахъ столицъ | и провинцiи. | ОДЕССА. | Типографiя и стереотипия И. Копельмана, Пушк. 34. | 1910. || Binding: Red cloth with gilt lettering to the front board: XXII-й ГОДЪ ИЗДАНIЯ XXII-й | ПУТЕВОДИТЕЛЬ | ПО | ОДЕССѢ | Г. МОСКВИЧА. | 6 изд. Цѣна 1 руб. | 1910. [Pictorial advert.], to the back board: Text. advert. in gilt; to spine: ОДЕССА. Pink end-papers with advertisement. Pagination: [i-ii - t.p. /advert.] [iii]-iv - preface to 6th edition; [v]-viii - content; [ix]-xvi - index; 11 leaves advert., unpag; [i]-xii - Odessa exhibition; [1] 2-240; [1] 2-8 - schedules; photo plates, 2 folding maps; in-16mo (numerical). Size: 16.5 x 10.5 cm. -
![Адарюковъ В.Я. Добавленiя и исправленiя къ подробномусловарю русскихъ гравированныхъ портретовъ Д.А.Ровинскаго, СПб. 1889. — Издание журнала "Старые годы", 1911. — 89 стр. [Владимир Яковлевич Адарюков (1863 -1932). Добавления и исправления к подробному словарю русских гравированных портретов Д.А.Ровинскаго].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-1612-a-scaled-500x500.jpg)
Title: В. Я. АДАРЮКОВЪ. | ДОБАВЛЕНIЯ И ИСПРАВЛЕНIЯ КЪ ПОДРОБНОМУ СЛОВАРЮ | РУССКИХЪ | ГРАВИРОВАННЫХЪ ПОРТРЕТОВЪ Д. А. РОВИНСКАГО | СПБ. 1889 г. | ИЗДАНИЕ ЖУРНАЛА «СТАРЫЕ ГОДЫ» | 1911. Pagination: [1-4] – incl. orig. wrappers with engraved vignette, 5-89 [90 blank], illustr. Size: 27 x 18.7 cm. Binding: Hardcover; owner's half brown buckram over cloth, original wrappers bound in. Printed on laid paper. Edition: 1st edition, limited: №91 of 150. Inscription to t.p.: Крамарев, 27.5.39. Errata inserts on p. 29 and 77 -
Hardcover, 21.5 x 15 cm, green buckram with gilt border and gilt lettering to front board and spine, blind decorated in art nouveau style, T.E.G. Pagination: [26] 1-294, [4] 1-323 [324], [4] 1-255 [256] [4]; total 912 pages and photo portrait frontispiece. Title-page: THREE VOLUMES IN ONE | LEAVES OF GRASS| WALT WHITMAN | ISSUED UNDER THE | EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF HIS | LITERARY EXECUTORS, RICHARD MAURICE | BUCKE, THOMAS B. HARNED, AND | HORACE L. TRAUBEL | {device} | D. APPLETON AND COMPANY | New York […] London || For the Russian translation, see LIB-3103.2022 Уолт Уитмен. Листья травы / Пер. с англ. Вступ. статьи К. Чуковского и М. Медельсона. — М.: Государственное издательство художественной литературы, 1955. Contributors: Walter [Walt] Whitman (American, 1819 – 1892) Richard Maurice Bucke (Canadian, 1837 – 1902) Thomas Biggs Harned (American, 1851 – 1921) Horace Logo Traubel (American, 1858 – 1919) -
Title page: A | BIBLIOGRAPHY | OF | THE WRITINGS OF | JOSEPH CONRAD (1895–1920) | BY THOMAS J. WISE | ❦ | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY | By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. | 1920 || Pagination: [i-viii] ix-xiii [xiv-xvi], [1, 2] 3-105 [106-112], frontispiece with tissue guard in collation; 128 pages total. Collation: 8vo; [A]-H8, 64 leaves total. Binding: 22.5 x 18 cm; terracotta paper boards, black lettering to front and spine; uncut. The device on the recto of the last leaf inscribed: The Ashley library. Privately printed. 1920. Insert: ALS from Thomas J. Wise dated 22/3/21 on watermarked paper (King of Kent | Extra Fine) with letterhead “Kirkstead”, 25 Heath Drive, Hampstead, N.W.3. The letter is a response to a request for two copies of Volume II of Wise’s Swinburne bibliography, which Wise promises to supply the next day to Stevens & Brown (founded in 1864, Literary and Fine Arts Agents). Limitation: 150 copies, private printing. Contributors: Joseph Conrad [Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (British-Polish, 1857 – 1924) Wise, Thomas James (British, 1859 – 1937) – compiler, bibliographer. R. Clay & Sons Ltd. (London); Clay, Richard (British, 1789 – 1877) – publisher. The Ashley Library (London) – printer. -
NEWAnonymous manuscript half bound in green sheepskin, gilt lettering to spine, 382 x 325 x 65 mm, 424 pp. with pp. 368-400 blank, thick graph paper, tissue samples pasted throughout. According to the seller: “Important treatise on weaving decorated with numerous drawings, sketches, diagrams and samples of laminated fabrics (satin, silk, damask, velvet, etc.). Elegant work, beautiful writing in italics, all pages in a framing net. It contains chapters on the history of silk, the silkworm (hatching, transformation, etc.), silk spinning, dyeing, warping, folding, heddles, different types of mesh, satin, satin drifts, damask for dresses, royal damask for furnishings, velvet, etc. etc.” -
Title: THE SLEEPING | BEAUTY | TOLD BY C S EVANS | AND ILLUSTRATED BY | ARTHUR RACKHAM | LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN | PHILADELPHIA J B LIPPINCOTT Co || T.p. verso: LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1920. Pagination: [1, 2] – h.t. / advert., [3, 4] – “WH” publisher’s device / frontis., [5, 6] – pictorial t.p. / publisher, year, [7, 8] – silhouette girls / Briar rose w/pasted offset ill., [9] 10-110 [2] – imprint / blank]. Collation: 8vo; B-G8, 3 double-leaf 3-colour woodcut illustrations extraneous to collation, in-text woodcuts. Illustrations: 25 full-page silhouettes, comprising 9 in colour (frontispiece and 4 double plates)--and 16 in black (including 4 double illustrations); one mounted coloured plate; silhouette head- and tailpieces and other silhouettes throughout the text, in black. Binding: Quarter cloth with black lettering, pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Size: 26 x 19.5. 1st edition. Inscription to h.t.: "To Dear Julia, Xmas 1947." -
Title: THE NEW LIFE | OF DANTE ALIGHIERI | TRANSLATED BY | DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI | {Publisher's device} | Portland, Maine | THOMAS B. MOSHER | Mdccccv Pagination: Ffl [i-viii] ix-xii [xiii] [xiv blank], [1, 2] 3-97 [98] bfl; frontis. w/guard; Note: “This fourth edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies”. Binding: Hardcover, 18.2 x 10.2 cm, full brown morocco possibly by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with embossed design elements, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, TMG, other untrimmed; printed on laid paper with watermark. -
Title (black and red in pictorial frame): The Fairy Tales | of the | Brothers Grimm | Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. | Translated by | Mrs. Edgar Lucas | Doubleday, Page & Co | New York 1909. Pagination: [i-iv] – h.t., t.p., frontis., v-xv [xvi], 1-325 [326] colophon., [1 blank sheet], bfl; 40 tipped-in color plates (offset chromolithograph) with lettered guards, numerous in-text woodcuts. Collation: 4to; a-b4, A-2S4. Edition: 1st deluxe American large-paper edition, limited to 50 copies, Rackham’s facsimile signature to h.t. verso. Binding: Original full limp suede binding with yapp edges, gilt-ornamented and lettered spine. Top edge gilt, other uncut. Moiré endpapers. Printed on laid paper. Marbled endpapers. -
In an owner’s quarter buckram cardboard folder with a vegetation diaper design, ms blue ink lettering to front: “Songes galantes | 12 dessins par | Margit Gaal” at the centre, “Arpad Rob Laszlo | à Paris | 1938” in the lower right corner. Loose sheets with the 1st leaf t.p. / table de planches, and then 12 leaves of lithograph plates. Title-page: SONGES GALANTES | 12 DESSINS PAR | MARGIT GAAL | ÉDITION PRIVÉE | PARIS 1920 ||, ms inscription in blue ink in the middle : “Collection par | Árpad Rob Laśzló | techn. d’avion | Paris 1937”. Limitation: Edition limited to 500 copies of which № 1-100 signed by the author. This is copy № 407. References: Dutel (1920-1970) № 1413 (published in 1921); Honesterotica (indicated the year of death as 1965, however, there is no proof). Contributors: Gaál, Margit (Hungarian, 1898 – 1920) – artist. -
Half-title: AQUATINT ENGRAVING || Title: AQUATINT ENGRAVING | A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY | OF BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY | S. T. PRIDEAUX | ILLUSTRATED BY AN ORIGINAL AQUATINT, TWO COLLOTYPE PLATES | AND NUMEROUS HALF-TONE PLATES | [Prideaux device] | LONDON | DUCKWORTH & CO. | 3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. || Pagination: ffl, [i, ii] – h.t. / blank, [2] – blank / frontis. w/guard, [iii, iv] – t.p. / coloph. "First Published, December 1909", [v, vi] – dedication "TO MY FATHER" / blank, vii-xv [xvi], [1] 2-434, bfl, + 24 pl. (incl. port). Collation: [a]6 b8 A-Z8 2A-2C8 2D4 Binding: Original navy cloth, gilt-ruled and lettered front board, gilt lettering to spine, a blind device to back board; upper margin gilt, free margin untrimmed. Author: Sarah Prideaux. "Engravers and the books they illustrated": p. 388-405. "Publications by Ackermann with aquatint plates": p. 374-378. "Biographical notices of engravers whose names appear on the plates": p. 358-371. "Books published before 1830 with aquatint plates": p. 325-357. -
Portfolio 265 x 225 mm, black half-buckram over diapered cardboard with flaps, black with gilt lettering in frame to front “R. KELLER | MÄRCHEN”, t.p. printed on wave paper, the folder and engravings printed on laid paper, 10 loose plates, 240 x 210 mm sheet, 135 x 110-115 mm plate; re-issue of ten plates of the first edition of 16 plates published in Austria in c. 1910s. Title-page: EROTISCHE | MÄRCHEN | 10 RADIERUNGEN | VON | RUDOLF KELLER | PRIVATDRUCK 1919 || Die Mappe enthält folgende originalradierungen: 1. Aschenbrödel; 2. Dornröschen; 3. Zwerg Nase; 4. Froschkönig; 5. Der gestiefelte Kater; 6. Hänsel und Gretel; 7. Der fliegende Koffer; 8. Schneewittchen mit den 7 Zwergen; 9. Die kleine Seejungfer; 10. Der kleine Daumling Dieses Werk wurde in einer einmaligen Auflage von 250 numerierten Exemplaren hergestellt und darf nur an Gelehrte und Sammler abgegeben werden. Die Platten wurden vernichtet. Nr. 1—50 sind vom Künstler signierte Vorzugsdrucke. Dieses Exemplar erhielt Nr. 0153. Translation: The folder contains the following original etchings: 1. Cinderella; 2. Sleeping Beauty; 3. Dwarf nose; 4. The Frog Prince; 5. Puss in Boots; 6. Hansel and Gretel; 7. The Flying Trunk; 8. Snow White with the Seven Dwarfs; 9. The Little Mermaid; 10. Little Thumbling. This work was produced in a one-time edition of 250 numbered copies and may only be sold to scholars and collectors. The copperplates were destroyed. Nos. 1-50 are special prints signed by the artist. This copy was given number 0153. Seller's description: Erotische Märchen. S.l., Privatdruck, 1919. In-8, en feuilles, sous chemise demi-chagrin vert recouverte de papier japonais. Recueil de 10 eaux-fortes originales de Rudolf Keller. Ces eaux-fortes érotiques dans les teintes brunes s'inspirent des contes de fées traditionnels comme Cendrillon, La Belle au bois dormant, Hansel et Gretel, Blanche-Neige, Le Petit Poucet etc. Tirage à 250 exemplaires. Chemise défraîchie. Jacob Grimm (German; 1785 – 1863) Wilhelm Grimm (German, 1786 – 1859) Charles Perrault (French, 1628 – 1703) Hans Christian Andersen (Danish, 1805 – 1875) -
Of the limited edition of 1150 copies, this is №54 (on Japan paper, signed by Bartsch and by von Bayros). Owner's binding imitating quarter-morocco, a red label with gilt lettering to spine (possibly by Ms Hunt, who was an amateur bookbinder). Bookplate on front pastedown: "Ex libris Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt | S. B. Hill Dec 1913 | A.J. Downey Sc." Alfred James Downey (1882-1944). Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963). Sarah B. Hill had done lettering for Ms Hunt. On back pastedown: Stamp "Hunt Libraries CMU" and sticker "Gotham Book Mart | 128 West 45th street | New York". This is from an edition of Carcassonne:
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Description: hardcover, 25.2 x 19.2 cm, 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt lettering in a frame to cover and gilt lettering to spine; captured leather samples pasted to front and back pastedowns, grey endpapers, colour frontispiece, 10 colour plates, multiple in-text b/w illustrations. Collation: a1 blank, a2 h.t./imprint, colour frontis. pasted in, a3 t.p./blank, a4 committee/blank; b2, (no A), B-H8, I5 (10 leaves H1 – I2 with colour plates pasted in, I5 colophon/blank); pagination starts at B2: [1] 2-120 [2]; total a4 b2 B-H8 I5 =67 leaves, 11 colour plates, incl. frontispiece. Title-page: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE | ON | LEATHER FOR BOOKBINDING. | EDITED FOR | THE SOCIETY OF ARTS | AND | THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF LEATHERSELLERS | BY | THE RT. HON. VISCOUNT COBHAM | CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE | AND | SIR HENRY TRUEMAN WOOD, M.A. | SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY | LONDON : | PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ARTS | BY GEORGE BELL & SONS, | YORK HOUSE, PORTUGAL STREET, W.C. | — | 1905 || Contributors: Authors:Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Charles George Lyttleton Cobham (British, 1842 – 1922)
Henry Trueman Wood (British, 1879 – 1917), Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts (1879–1917).
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Half-title: THE WORKS | OF | GEORGE CRUIKSHANK | CLASSIFIED AND ARRANGED.|| Title: (in black and red) THE WORKS | OF | GEORGE CRUIKSHANK | CLASSIFIED AND ARRANGED | WITH REFERENCES TO REID'S CATALOGUE | AND THEIR APPROXIMATE VALUES| BY | CAPTN. R. J. H. DOUGLAS | WITH A FRONTISPIECE | (a facsimile of the frontispiece to the rare Holiday Grammar) | LONDON | PRINTED BY J. DAVY & SONS AT THE DRYDEN PRESS 137 LONG ACRE | AND SOLD BY MESSRS. H. SOTHERAN & CO. 140 STRAND AND 37 PICADILLY ; PICKERING & CATTO | 66 HAYMARKET ; ROBSON & CO 23 COVENTRY STREET ; F. T. SABIN 118 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE ; | W. T. SPENSER 27 NEW OXFORD STREET ; AND CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK. | MDCCCCIII || Imprint (title verso): One Thousand Copies of this book have been printed and the type distributed. This is No. 205. Bookplate to recto ffl: Reference Library of Francis Edwards Ltd. Not for sale. Inscription to recto ffl: “With the author’s compliments”. Pagination: ffl, [i, ii] – h.t. / blank, [2] – blank / frontis., [iii, iv] – t.p. (black and red) / Print run, [v] v-vi –preface, [2] – contents, [2] – f.t. / note; [1] 2-301 [302] – colophon; insert one sheet with type writing on Francis Edwards letterhead, bfl. (OCLC: ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm) Collation: [A]5 B-T8 U7 Binding: Hardcover, burgundy cloth gilt-stamped with title and publisher’s device to front board and gilt lettering to spine. -
Quinze poèmes d'Emile Verhaeren. Illustrés de 57 gravures sur bois dessinées et gravées par Frans Masereel et suivis d'un 'Souvenir à Verhaeren' par Octave Uzanne. — Paris: Éditions Georges Crès, 1917. Authors: Emile Verhaeren (text), Frans Masereel (illustrations), Octave Uzanne (text). Publisher: Éditions Georges Crès. [Georges-Célestin Crès (1875 - 1935) was a French publisher and bookseller. Address: 116 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris]. Printer: Sonor S.A. - Geneve, under the direction of Auguste Jordanis. The number of copies printed: 1555 of which 15 (1-15) on Japan paper, 190 (16-205) on Fabriano paper, and 1350 (206-1555) on English paper (1506-1555 not for trade). This copy № 1312. Pagination: [i] - front cover, [ii] - half-title, [iii] - title, [iv] - printrun justification, [v] - table of contents, [vi] - blank, [i-vii] viii-ciii, [civ] - printer statement, [cv] - back cover; one-side (recto) printing and pagination. Owner's contemporary red half-Morocco with marbled boards; spine with four raised bands, gilt lettering and design elements. Original printed paper wrappers preserved. Marbled endpapers. Trimmed unevenly.
