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Title in black and red: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH | OF | BOOKBINDING | BY | S. T. PRIDEAUX | WITH A CHAPTER ON EARLY STAMPED BINDINGS | BY E. GORDON DUFF. | {Publisher’s device} | LONDON: LAWRENCE & BULLEN | 16 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN | 1893 || Pagination: [i, ii] – h.t. / blank, [2] – blank / frontis. w/guard, [iii, iv] – t.p. / colophon, [v], vi – preface, [vii, viii] – contents / blank, [1] 2-303 [304 blank]. Collation: 8vo; [A]4 B-U8. Binding: Grey cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and publisher’s device to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, blue floral ornamental endpapers, free margin untrimmed; printed on laid paper. -
Title: BIBLIOGRAPHIE ET ICONOGRAPHIE | DE TOUS LES OUVRAGES | DE | RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE | COMPRENANT | LA DESCRIPTION RAISONNÉE DES ÉDITIONS ORIGINALES | DES RÉIMPRESSIONS | DES CONTREFAÇONS, DES TRADUCTIONS, DES IMITATIONS, ETC. | Y COMPRIS LE DÉTAIL DES ESTAMPES | ET LA NOTICE SUR LA VIE ET LES OUVRAGES DE L'AUTEUR | PAR SON AMI CUBIÈRES PALMÉZEAUX | AVEC DES NOTES HISTORIQUES, CRITIQUES ET LITTÉRAIRES | PAR P. L. JACOB, BIBLIOPHILE | {Publisher’s device} | PARIS | AUGUSTE FONTAINE, LIBRAIRE | 35, 36 ET 37 PASSAGE DES PANORAMAS, ET GALERIE DE LA BOURSE, 1 ET 10 | 1875 || Pagination: ffl, 1 leaf with owner’s engraved ex libris, orig. tan wrapper w/lettering, 1 blank leaf, [2] – h.t. / tirage, 453 of 500, frontis. Portrait, [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] ii-xv [xvi blank], [1] 2-510, [2] – imprint / blank, [1] 2-8 advert., 1 blank leaf, orig. back wrapper, orig. spine, bfl. Note: pp. starting from p. 76 and up to p. 455, between every two leaves of text, there are leaves of grid paper bound in, some with the reader’s handwritten ink remarks. Collation: Prelims., 8vo; a8, 1-328 + advert. Binding: ¾ brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, peacock marbled endpapers. Original wrappers preserved. Size: 23.5 x 14 x 8 cm. Provenance: Juan Hernandez bookplate engraved on a laid and watermarked paper sheet and including a library storage № 2272 The catalogue is produced by Paul Lacroix (French, 1806 – 1884) under the pseudonym of P. L. Jacob; the essay of Restif de La Bretonne biography – by Barbier Michel Cubières de Palmeseaux (French, 1752 – 1820). Frontispice: engraved portrait of Nicolas-Edme Restif de La Bretonne (French, 1734 – 1806) by Eugène Loizelet (French, 1842 – 1882) after Louis Berthet (French, fl. 1775 – 1808) after Louis Binet (French, 1744 – c. 1800). -
A three-volume set. VOL. 1: ENGRAVING IN ENGLAND | IN THE | SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES | A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE | WITH INTRODUCTIONS | BY | ARTHUR M HIND | Sometime Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum | and Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Oxford | PART I | THE TUDOR PERIOD | WITH 319 ILLUSTRATIONS | {The coat of arms of the University of Cambridge} | CAMBRIDGE | AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1952|| Pagination: ffl, [i-vi] – h.t. / blank, frontis., t.p. / colophon, dedication / blank; vii-xxx; 1-333 [334 blank] [2] – the plates / blank; 1-156 pp. of plates. Collation: a-b8, 1-218 + 78 leaves of plates at the end. VOL. 2: ENGRAVING IN ENGLAND | IN THE | SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES | A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE | WITH INTRODUCTIONS | BY | ARTHUR M HIND | Sometime Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum | and Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Oxford | PART II | THE REIGN OF JAMES I | WITH 618 ILLUSTRATIONS| {The coat of arms of the University of Cambridge} | CAMBRIDGE | AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1955|| Pagination: [i-iv] – h.t. / blank, t.p. / colophon; v-xiv [xv] [xvi blank]; 1-396 [397] [398 blank] [2] – the plates / blank; 1-252 pp. of plates. Collation: a-b8, 1-268 + 126 leaves of plates at the end. VOL. 3: ENGRAVING IN ENGLAND | IN THE | SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES | A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE | WITH INTRODUCTIONS | PART III | THE REIGN OF CHARLES I | WITH 466 ILLUSTRATIONS | COMPILED FROM THE NOTES OF | THE LATE A. M. HIND | BY | MARGERY CORBETT & MICHAEL NORTON | {The coat of arms of the University of Cambridge} | CAMBRIDGE | AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1964|| Pagination: [i-vi] – h.t. / blank, frontis., t.p. / colophon, dedication / blank; vii-xxx; 1-333 [334 blank] [2] – the plates / blank; 1-214 pp. of plates. Collation: [a]8, 1-258 + 107 leaves of plates at the end. Each of three volumes bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, residuals of library stickers, dark spotting to the top and lateral edges; tan DJ with title lettering in a frame to front, lettering to spine, advert. to back, with cut off stickers to spine; ‘The Francis Bacon Foundation’ ink stamp to front pastedown. -
Title: GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE | FERNAND FLEURET LOUIS PERCEAU | L'Enfer | DE LA | BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE | ICONO-BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIE | DESCRIPTIVE, CRITIQUE ET RAISONNÉE, | COMPLÈTE A CE JOUR | DE TOUS LES OUVRAGES COMPOSANT CETTE CÉLÈBRE COLLECTION | AVEC UN INDEX ALPHABÉTIQUE | DES TITRES ET NOMS D'AUTEURS | PARIS | MERCVRE DE FRANCE | XXVI, RVE DE CONDÉ, XXVI | MCMXII || Pagination: ffl, [1-5] 6-415 [416], bfl. Collation: [1]8 2-268. Binding: Original tan wrappers, lettering to covers and spine. Edition: First edition of which this is №952. Ref.: BnF -
Softcover, 242 x 165 mm, French flapped wrappers with black and red lettering to front and spine, top edge trimmed, pages uncut, printed on wove paper watermarked BFK Rives in italic script; illustrations in colour. Title: JEAN DE LA FONTAINE | LES AMOURS | DE | PSYCHÉ ET DE CUPIDON | ÉDITION CONFORME AUX TEXTES ORIGINAUX | ÉTABLIE PAR | LOUIS PERCEAU | ET ORNÉE D’ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | PAR | CARLÈGLE | LE LIVRE DU BIBLIOPHILE | GEORGES BRIFFAUT, ÉDITEUR | 4, RUE DE FURSTENBERG, PARIS | 1932 || Limited edition: 1230 copies of which this ic copy № 247. Collated 8vo: π4 1-24 3-48 58 *58 6-168 χ2, total 134 leaves, incl. frontispiece. Pagination: [8] 1-253 [254] [6]. Colophon: Le volume des Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon de La Fontaine a été achevé d'imprimer le quinze juin mil neuf cent trente-deux sur les presses du maitre imprimeur Coulouma, a Argenteul, H. Barthélemy étant directeur. Coloris de E. Charpentier, Paris. -
Vol. 1: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. I. | DUBLIN: | PRINTED FOR R. CROSS, W. WILSON, P. WO-| GAN, L. WHITE, P. BYRNE, A. GRUEBER, J. MOORE, | W. JONES, W. M’KENZIE, H. WATTS, J. RICE, | AND G. FOLINGSBY. | 1792.|| Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / blank, [2] - f.t. / blank, [3] 4-61 [62] - blank, [2] - f.t / blank, [4] contents, 65-580, 1 blank leaf. Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8 Aa-Oo8 Pp4. Vol. 2: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. II. | DUBLIN: | Printed by William Porter, | For R. Cross, W. Wilson, P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, W. M’kenzie, J. Moore, A. Grueber, W. Jones, H. Watts, J. Rice, And G. Folingsby. | M.DCC.XCIII.|| Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / cont., [2] - f.t. / blank, [3] 4-655 [656 blank], 2 blank leaves. Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8 Aa-Tt8. Vol. 3: THE | WORKS | OF THE | RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE, | COLLECTED IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. III. | DUBLIN: | PRINTED FOR R. CROSS, W. WILSON, P. WO-| GAN, L. WHITE, P. BYRNE, A. GRUEBER, J. MOORE, | W. JONES, W. M’KENZIE, H. WATTS, J. RICE, | AND G. FOLINGSBY. | 1792.|| Pagination: 2 blank leaves, [2] - t.p. /blank, [2] - contents / blank, [2] - f.t. / blank, 3-602, 3 blank leaves. Collation: 8vo; A-Z8 Aa-Pp8. Binding: Full contemporary calf ruled in gilt, leather spine labels gilt, gilt scrollwork in compartments framed in Greek–key rolls, marbled endpapers, hinges cracked, central vertical split to spine panel to vol. 1 and 3, early ownership signature to titles. -
Vol. 1: A | BIBLIOGRAPHICAL | Antiquarian and Picturesque | TOUR | IN THE | NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND | AND IN | SCOTLAND. | BY THE REVEREND | THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D. | CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY. | VOL. I. |{device} motto: DEI OMNIA PLENA | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE : | AND SOLD BY JAMES BOHN, 12 KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, LONDON : | LAING AND FORBES, EDINBURGH : JOHN SMITH AND SON, | GLASGOW : AND E. CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE. | MDCCCXXXVIII.|| Pagination: ffl, frontispiece by W. Douglas after T. M. Richardson, [i-ii] t.p. / blank; [iii-iv] - dedication to Frances Mary Richardson Currer (British, 1785 – 1861) / blank, [v] vi-xv – preface, [i] ii-xxx – supplement & index, [2] – corrections / colophon, [2] list of plates, [2] – contents, [1] 2-436, bfl; 11 plates extraneous to collation (incl. frontis.), lacking one plate (facing p. 213. “Thos. Bridges…”), in-text woodcut vignettes, head- and tailpieces. Collation: 8vo; π8 a-b8 [c2] B-Z8 2A-2E8 2F2. Vol. 2: Similar title but "VOL. II." Pagination: ffl, frontispiece portrait of Hugh Stewart, Aged 84 by Robert Bell after Alison (nothing known); [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] – contents / cont., [437-8] f.t. / blank [439] 440-1090, bfl; 453/4 misprinted 449/50; lacking list of subscribers. Collation: 8vo; π2 [2F3-2F6] 2G-2Z8 3A-3Z8. Binding: By J. Leighton, Brewer Street. Later half dark brown morocco over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt fillets, gilt titling and fillets in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Edition: 1st edition of Dibdin’s last major work and the only edition of this title. Size: 24.5 x 15.5 cm Provenance: Lord Ronald Gower (British, 1845 – 1916); Frank Hird (British, 1873 – 1937). Catalogue raisonné: Jackson 89; Windle & Pippin A65, pp. 179–188 [LIB-2669.2021]. Artists: Abraham, [I.] Frederic Henry (British, 1790 – 1845) Carmichael, James John Wilson (British, 1800 – 1868) Geikie, Walter (British, 1795 – 1837) Harraden, Richard Bankes (British, 1778 – 1862) Hill, David Octavius (British, 1802 –1870) McLea, John Watson (British, fl.1832-1861) Nixon, James Henry (British, b. c. 1808) Reynolds, Sir Joshua (British, 1723 – 1792) Richardson, Thomas Miles (British, 1784 – 1848) Scott, J. (British, fl. 19th c.) Wilkinson, T. M. (British, fl. 19th c.) Engravers: Aikman, Alison [spouse of George Aikman?] (British, 1788 – 1865) Bell, Robert Charles (British, 1806 – 1872) Byfield, Mary (British, 1794/5 – 1871) Douglas, William (British, 1780 – 1832) Harraden, F. (British, fl. 1838) Horsburgh, John (British, 1791 –1869) Johnstone, John (British, fl. 1835 – ) Leith & Smith, Lithogrs (Edinburgh) Lizars, William Home (British, 1788 – 1859) Miller, William (British, 1796 – 1882) Penny, William (British, fl. 19th c.) Prior, Thomas Abiel (British, 1809 – 1886) Robinson, H. (British, fl. 19th c.) Smith, Charles John (British, 1803 – 1838) Thomson, James (British, 1788 – 1850) -
Title: MEMOIRS OF M. THIERS | 1870—1873 | Translated by | F. M. ATKINSON | {publisher’s device} | LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. | RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. Pagination: [6] 7-384. Collation: 8vo; [1]-248. Size: 23 x 15 cm Binding: Blue cloth, top and bottom ruled in blind, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Original: Adolphe Thiers. Notes et souvenirs de M. Thiers, 1870-1873: voyage diplomatique, proposition d'un armistice, préliminaires de la paix, présidence de la République. — Paris : [s.n.], 1901. — 465 p. The preface and editing signed "F. D." [Félicie Dosne]. Félicie Dosne (French, 1823 – 1906) was Thiers's sister-in-law. -
Vol. 1. Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. I. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED || Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sala by Boussod, Valadon & Cie. w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p./blank, [iii, iv] – dedication/blank, [v]-x – preface, [xi]-xvi – content, [1] 2-442, [16] advert. Collation: A-Z8 AA-BB8 CC5 [Advert.]8. Vol. 2. Title: THE | LIFE AND ADVENTURES | OF | George Augustus Sala | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF | In Two Volumes | VOL. II. | (WITH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORS MOTHER) | CASSEL AND COMPANY, Limited | LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE | 1895 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED || Pagination: frontispiece portrait of Sal’s mother w/guard tissue, [i, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv-viii – content, [1] 2-457-[460], [16] advert. Collation: A-Z8 aa-cc8 dd6 [Advert.]8. Binding: two volumes in uniform green publisher’s pebbled buckram, gilt lettering to spine, contemporary newspaper clippings to front and back pastedowns, vol. 2 uncut. Note: George Augustus Sala's mother was an actress Henrietta Simon Sala, known as Madame Sala, (Guyanese, British, 1789 – 1860). Here she is depicted by an engraver Thomas Alfred Woolnoth (British, 1785 – 1857) after a portrait painted by Rose Emma Drummond (British, fl. 1820 – 1840). -
THE | ADVENTURES | OF | TELEMACHUS, | THE SON OF ULYSSES. | Translated from the French of | Messire François Salignac de la Mothe–Fenelon, | Archbishop of Cambray. | BY | JOHN HAWKESWORTH, L. L. D. | — | LONDON: | Printed for the AUTHOR, by W. and W. Strahan, | M DCC LXVIII. || Binding: half polished brown calf over marbled boards, wave ruled blind, gilt fillet ruled compartments, black label with gilt lettering to spine; 29.5 x 24.5 cm; marbled endpapers. Pagination: 2 blank leaves (wove paper), [I, ii] – t.p. / blank, [iii] iv – dedication, [v] vi-xv – subscribers, [xvi] blank, [xvii] xviii-xix – preface, [xx] xxi-xxxv – contents, [xxxvi] – errata, subscribers omitted, [1] 2-462, printed on laid paper, 2 blank leaves (wove paper). Collation: 4to; A4, a-c4 d2, B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Mmm4 Nnn3; 24 head- and 24 tailpieces engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder (British, 1721 – 1810) after Samuel Waly (British, 1720 – 1786). Original: François Fénelon. Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d’Ulysse. See № LIB-2522-2020 in this collection. Not in Lewine, 1898; Not in Cohen De Ricci, 1912. -
Cover (in blackletter): H. L. Rosegger. | Von Königen u. Jakobinern | {vignette by von Bayros} | Verlag C. Seifert | • Köstritz u Leipzig • || Title (blackletter): Von Königen | und Jakobinern | Von | Hans Ludwig Rosegger | mit vier Vollbildern und Buchschmuck | von Marquis F. von Bayros | {publisher’s device} | 1913 | C. Seifert Verlag, G.m.b.H. | Köstritz und Leipzig || Pagination: [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] – contents / blank, [1-3] 4-263 [264 vignette, colophon], 4 plates extraneous to collation, 2 vignettes. Collation: 8vo; 1-168 174. Binding: Hardcover, pictorial paper boards, lettering to spine, lettering and vignette by von Bayros to cover. Owner's inscription to ffl: "T. Lewe. März, 1919." -
Title page (black and red): ГУГО ГРОЦИЙ | О ПРАВЕ | ВОЙНЫ | И МИРА | ß ТРИ КНИГИ ß | В КОТОРЫХ ОБЪЯСНЯЮТСЯ | ЕСТЕСТВЕННОЕ ПРАВО | И | ПРАВО НАРОДОВ, | А ТАКЖЕ ПРИНЦИПЫ | ПУБЛИЧНОГО ПРАВА | {device} | Перевод с латинского | А. Л. САККЕТТИ | Государственное издательство | ЮРИДИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | МОСКВА 1956 || Verso t.p.: Под общей редакцией профессора С. Б. КРЫЛОВА Pagination: [1, 2] – t.p. / editor, [3] 4-867 [868] – contents, errata slip, 4 plates extraneous to collation: frontis. portrait, t.p. Amsterdam edition of 1646, t.p. Russian edition of c. 1710, Lovensteyn castle. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-548 552. Binding: Publisher’s brown cloth, blind-stamped lettering to front board, elements of design in black and gilt lettering to spine. Вступительная статья А. А. Желудкова. 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). Editor: Сергей Борисович Крылов (Russian, 1888 – 1958). Translator: Александр Ливериевич Саккетти (Russian, 1881 – 1966). -
Title: AN ESSAY | ON THE | PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION; | OR, | A VIEW OF ITS PAST AND PRESENT EFFECTS | ON | HUMAN HAPPINESS; | WITH | AN INQUIRY INTO OUR PROSPECTS RESPECTING THE FUTURE | REMOVAL OR MITIGATION OF THE EVILS WHICH | IT OCCASIONS | BY T. R. MALTHUS, A. M. | Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Professor of History and Political Economy in the East-India College, Hertfordshire. | IN THREE VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [or II. or III.] | THE FIFTH EDITION, | WITH IMPORTANT ADDITIONS. | LONDON: | JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. | 1817. || Pagination and collation: Vol. 1: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii] iv-xvi, [1] 2-496, bfl; A-Z8 2A-2I8. Vol. 2: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii]-iv – contents, [1]-2-507 [508], bfl; [A]2 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2K6. Vol. 3: ffl, [i, ii] – t. p. / imprint., [iii]-iv – contents, [1]-2-500, bfl; [A]2 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2K2. Binding: Three volumes printed on wove paper, uniformly bound in quarter brown polished calf, blind-ruled, black label, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine, green buckram boards; 22.2 x 13.5 cm. Edition: 5th edition, corrected with a new preface, an updated appendix of Malthus’ responses to his critics, and addition of several chapters to the whole: on France, England, and on the poor laws. Lifetime edition. Ref.: Einaudi 3670; Goldsmiths’ 21761; Kress B.6974; Mattioli 2210. Printed by W. Clowes: William Clowes Ltd. (London). Clowes, William (British, 1779 – 1847). Malthus, Thomas Robert (British, 1766 – 1834). Murray, John (British, 1737 – 1793) Murray, John II (British, 1778 – 1843) John Murray (publishing house) -
Hardcover volume in 8vo, 21.2 x 15.4 cm, tan cloth with black on gilt background circular publisher’s device "TFU" to front cover, gilt-stamped compartments and burgundy labels with gilt lettering to spine. Ink inscription to fep verso dated Jan 18, 1907. Publisher's device and serial device to h.t. Title-page: ❦❦❦ THE MEMOIRS AND | TRAVELS OF MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS COUNT DE | BENYOWSKY | IN SIBERIA, KAMCHATKA, JAPAN, THE LIUKIU ISLANDS AND FORMOSA | FROM THE TRANSLATION OF HIS | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT (1741–1771), | BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, F.R.S., 1790 | EDITED BY CAPTAIN | PASFIELD OLIVER | ILLUSTRATED | LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, | PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCIII ❦❦❦ ||. Collation/Pagination: [1]-258 plus 7 plates, incl. frontispiece and 1 map. [1, 2] – serial h.t. "The Adventure Series" / advert. THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s. 17 titles, [3, 4] – t.p. / blank, [5] 6-9 contents, [10] blank, [11, 12] illustrations/blank, [13] 14-52 introduction, 53-399, [400] colophon: THE GRESHAM PRESS, | URWIN BROTHERS, | CHILWORTH AND LONDON. Contributors: Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin (London); Thomas Fisher Unwin (British, 1848 – 1935). Author: Maurice Auguste count de Benyowsky [Мориц Август Бенёвский] (Polish-Slovak-Hungarian, 1746 –1786). Editor: Samuel Pasfield Oliver (British, 1838 – 1907). Translator: William Nicholson (British, 1753 – 1815). Originally published in 1790, in London (I have not seen it anywhere) and in Dublin by P. Wogan [etc.], and in 1791 in French, in Paris by Buisson; see LIB-2742.2021. For another copy of the same edition, see LIB-3139.2023. For the 1904 edition, see LIB-2703.2021. -
![Adelbert von Chamisso. Peter Schlemihl's wundersame Geschichte. Nach des Dichters Tode neu herausgegeben von Julius Eduard Hitzig. Stereotypausgabe mit Holzschnitten. — Nürnberg: Johann Leonhard Schrag, [o.J.], [1839]. — XVI + 83 S.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-1100.2016-b-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
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: Освободительная библiотека. | П. А. КРОПОТКИНЪ. | Парижская коммуна | В. СИМКОВИЧЪ | Послѣдние годы борьбы Россiи | съ самодержавiемъ | {publisher’s device} | ИЗДАНIЕ В. Д. КАРЧАГИНА. | Москва—1906. || Publisher’s lettered wrappers, pagination: [1-5] 6-83 [84], collation: 8vo, [1]8 2-58 62; size: 10.5 x 14 cm. Contents: П. А. Кропоткин. Парижская коммуна / Пер. Т. Брона — pp. 3-31; В. Симкович. Последнии годы борьбы России с самодержавием / Пер. Л. П. Данилова — pp. 33- 83. Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich [Кропоткин, Пётр Алексеевич] (Russian, 1842 – 1921) — author of the text. Simkhovitch, Vladimir Gregorievitch [Симкович, В.] (Russian-American, 1874 – 1959) — author of the text. Кушнерёв, Иван Николаевич (Russian, 1827 – 1896) — printer. -
Cover: УС 1918 УС | ПЕРВЫЙ ДЕНЬ | ВСЕРОССIЙСКАГО | УЧРЕДИТЕЛЬНАГО | СОБРАНIЯ | СТЕНОГРАФИЧЕСКIЙ | ОТЧЕТЪ | 5-6 ЯНВАРЯ […] ПЕТРОГРАДЪ […] 1918 г. Title page: УЧРЕДИТЕЛЬНОЕ | СОБРАНIЕ | СТЕНОГРАФИЧЕСКIЙ ОТЧЕТЪ | ПЕЧАТАЕТСЯ ПО РАСПОРЯЖЕНIЮ ПРЕДСѢДАТЕЛЯ | УЧРЕДИТЕЛЬНАГО СОБРАНIЯ. | ПЕТРОГРАДЪ | Пятая Государственная типография, Стремянная, 12. | 1918. || Pencil inscription to t.p.: "Москва 1923 г. С. Варшавский". 23 x 16.5 cm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, woodcut to front cover, pp.: [1-3] 4-112; collation: [1]8 2-78. -
Title page: L'AN DEUX MILLE QUATRE CENT QUARANTE. | Rêve s'il en fût jamais. | Le temps présent est gros de l'avenir... | Leibnitz. | {letterpress device} | A LONDRES. | MD CCLXXII. || Pagination: [i-iv] v-xii, 1-402 [2]; Collation: 8vo; π6 A-Z8 Aa-Bb8 Cc2. Binding: 19 x 12 cm, full mottled calf, rebacked, spine with gilt-lettered red label, compartments ruled gilt, with gilt fleuron ornament, marbled endpapers and all edges; printed on laid paper, with tall “s”. Probably published in Paris, anonymously. Handwritten nut-ink inscription to the title "Par Mercier". See also: LIB-0979.2016
