fiNE SETS AND BiNDiNgS

Lots 255 - 276

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255 (FINE BINDINGS, KELLIEGRAM) GILBERT, W. S. Fifty “Bab” Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1876.

8vo, full blue morocco binding stamped by Kelliegram, featuring five inlaid color portraits of characters in Gilbert’s ballads (four on front board, one full figure on the rear board), with a giltdecorated border, a.e.g., silk endpapers. Wear to the edges of the spine; boards slightly bowed; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000

256 (FINE BINDINGS) HAYET, ARMAND Chansons de bord. Paris: Editions Eos, 1927.

4to, printed paper wraps, housed in custom chemise, folder and slipcase, 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, Art deco decoration to spine, uncut. Limited edition. With musical manuscripts and full lyrics of numerous sea ballads. Minor fading to spine; some wear to slipcase; otherwise fine. $200-400 257 (FINE BINDINGS) CRAIG, EDWARD GORDON De l’art du theatre. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1911.

8vo, red, pink, green, purple, white and blue morocco chevron designs to boards, marbled endpapers. Art deco binding by L. Roger-Maxime, in felt-lined slipcase. Limited. Fine. $100-200

258 (FINE BINDINGS) CAREY, DAVID Life in Paris. London: John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill, 1822.

4to, illustrated boards, engraved color frontispiece and title vignette, color plates throughout. Large paper copy. Housed in a leather clamshell case stamped Monastery Hill Bindery, with two straps and interior laid in silk. Straps broken; soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $400-600 259 (FINE BINDINGS, NATIONAL LIBRARY BOOK BINDERY) A group of five books bound in leather inlaid decorative binding by the National Library Bindery of East Cleveland.

Ben Holladay, The Stagecoach King: A Chapter in the Development of Transcontinental Transportation. By J. V. Frederick, (Glendale, 1940). With horseshoe and whip inlaid design to the spine. The Mound-Builders. By Henry Clyde Shetrone, (New York; London: D. Appleton, 1930). With Native American inlaid design to spine. The Antarctic Ocean. By Owen Russel, (New York; London: McGraw Hill, 1941). With penguin inlaid leather design to spine. Southern Lights. By John Rymill, (New York; London: Harper Bros., 1939). With starburst inlaid leather design to spine. The Indian Uprising in Lower California, 1734-1737. By Father Sigismundo Taraval, (Los Angeles: Quivera Society, 1931). With Native American inlaid leather design to spine. $800-1,200

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260 (FINE BINDINGS, NATIONAL LIBRARY BOOK BINDERY) LAUGHTON, L. G. CARR Old Ship Figure-Heads & Sterns. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1925.

4to, 3/4 green morocco over decorative boards, matching endpapers, gilt ship design to the spine. Bound by the National Library Book Bindery (East Cleveland, OH). Limited edition. Number 641 of 1500 copies. Fine. $200-400

261 (FINE BINDINGS, PAGNIER) WEYLAND, GENERAL Histoire de l’armee Francaise. Paris: Flammarion, 1938.

4to, full black morocco with blue and gilt inlaid leather design, marbled doublures, stamped Charles Pagnier, in matching slipcase, original wraps bound in. With color plates of battle scenes throughout. Minor wear to edges of slipcase; otherwise fine. $100-200

262 (FINE BINDINGS, PAPAL BINDINGS) A group of two books in papal bindings. Both 4to, full gilt-stamped red morocco, color inlaid leather coat of arms to center of front boards, a.e.g.

Vita di S. Rita da Cascia. By Tardi. Rome: Tipografia Vaticana, 1900. Vita del beato Padre Antonio Grassi. By Antici. Tipografia Vaticana, 1900. Minor darkening to spines; otherwise a fine set. $800-1,200 263 (FINE BINDINGS, RIVIERE) CHAUCER, GEOFFREY The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated after drawings by W. Russel Flint. London: Jonathan Cape and The Medici Society, 1928.

8vo, bound in elaborate pictorial binding by Riviere & Son, front cover depicting illustration for the Wyf of Bathe’s Tale, opposite page 350 in the book, in a color inlaid leather design, a.e.g., additional inlaid leather symbol on rear board, marbled endpapers. Minor soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $500-700

264 (FINE BINDINGS, SANGORSKI) ARISTOPHANES The Eleven Comedies. London: The Athenian Society, 1912.

2 vols. 8vo, full polished purple calf bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, marbled endpapers, spines gilt in compartments, in publisher’s slipcases. Limited edition. Sunning to spines; hinges starting; otherwise fine. $300-500

265 (FINE BINDINGS, KALMBACHER) HEDIN, SVEN My Life as an Explorer. New York: Garden City, 1925.

8vo, full yellow morocco with gilt crane by Kalmbacher, t.e.g. First American Edition. Minor soiling to boards and fore edge; otherwise fine. $100-200 266 (BINDINGS) A group of 14 books in leather bindings, all 12mo or smaller. $100-200

266A (BINDINGS) A group of 19 books in fine leather bindings, two of which are stamped by Sangorski and Sutcliffe and one by Riviere. $200-400

267 (BINDINGS) A group of 12 volumes in leather bindings. $100-200

268 (BINDINGS) A group of 14 leather bound books.

Histoire de la revolution francaise. By J. Michelet. Paris: Flammarion, (1893). 9 (of 12) vols. 8vo, quarter calf over marbled boards. Histoire de l’art pendant la renaissance. By Eugene Muntz. Paris: Hachette, 1891. Volume 2 (of 3) only. 4to, full black leather. L’Art du dix-huitieme siecle. Paris, 1880-1883. 2 vols. Third edition. Limited. With plates in two states. Bruxelles a travers les ages. By Louis Hymans. Bruxelles: Bruylant-Christophe et cie, 1885. 2 vols. 4to, full leather. Wear to spines with some loss; otherwise sound. $100-200

269 (FINE BINDINGS) A group of eight titles in ten volumes.

Pilgrim’s Progress. By John Bunyan. London: L. and J. Seeley, 1840. 8th edition. 8vo, green gilt-stamped morocco, a.e.g. Bound by Bayntun. Extra illustrated edition. The Adventures of Joseph Andrews. By Henry Fielding. London, 1832. Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman. By Oscar Wilde. Paris, 1903. One of 250 copies of this pirated edition. 8vo, full green morocco, gilt-stamped, matching slipcase. The Irish Dragoon. By Charles O’Malley. Dublin, 1841. 2 vols. Poemes choisis. By Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1947. 2 vols. 3/4 red morocco over decorative boards in matching slipcase. Trois contes: par les champs et par les greves. Paris, 1951. Full maroon morocco with gilt floral decoration to spine in matching slipcase. Boubouroche Madelon Margot. By George Courteline. Paris, 1927. Limited edition. Bound by Ed Kra. The Vicar of Wakefield. London, 1904. Bound by Bayntun in 2/4 blue polished calf with slipcase. $1,000-2,000

269A (FINE BINDINGS) A group of five books in fine leather bindings pertaining to British royals and diplomats.

Oliver Cromwell. By Samuel Rawson Gardiner. London: Goupil & Co., 1899. Limited edition. Number 951 of 1475 copies. 3/4 navy morocco over cloth boards, gilt coat of arms stamped to front cover (British), gilt decoration to spine. Charles II. By Osmund Airy. London, 1901. Limited edition, one of 1250. Bound by Durvand. Queen Elizabeth. By Mandell Creighton. London, 1896. One of 200. Full brown morocco with coat of arms and stamped “ER” gilt monogram, plates in two states, stamped “bound for William Brown.” V. R. I. Her Life and Her Empire. By The Marquis of Lorne. London, 1901. 3/4 blue morocco over purple silk boards, marbled endpapers. The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession. By Adolphus William Ward. London, 1903. Limited edition. Bound by wood, with Danish coat of arms. $800-1,200

270 (BINDINGS) A group of three titles in six volumes, circa 17th - 18th centuries.

The History of Justin, Taken out of the Four and Forty Books of Trogus Pompeius. London: printed for William Whitwood, 1688. 12mo, 3/4 red gilt-stamped morocco over cloth. Fifth edition. An Universal History from the Earliest Account of Time. Compiled from Original Authors; and Illustrated with Maps, Cuts, Notes & With a General Index to the Whole. London: printed for T. Osbourne, 1747. 4 (of 21) only. 8vo, full calf, gilt tooling to spines with red leather label. Constantine: A Tragedy. As Acted at the Theatre - Royal, in Covent Garden. London: printed for A. Millar, 1754. Thin 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards. $100-200

270A (BINDINGS) A group of 14 volumes bound by Bayntun Riviere. $400-600 271 (COLLECTED WORKS) A group of two sets of collected works/writings in 22 volumes.

The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison, Selected from the Original Manuscripts . . . By Anna Laetitia Barbauld. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. 6 vols. 8vo, 3/4 mottled calf over marbled boards. [The Works of James Whitcomb Riley.] New York: Charles Scribner’s and Sons, 1914. 16 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. $100-200

272 GARLAND, HAMLIN The Book of the American Indian. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923.

4to, brown and black boards with pastedown portrait and printed titles, matching dust jacket with color pastedown plate, original box with pastedown portrait. Inscribed note from Hamlen Garland laid in, dated March 19, 1928. Soiling to boards; minor foxing to interior; otherwise fine. $100-200

273 (COLLECTED WORKS) HOLMES, BURTON The Burton Holmes Lectures. Battle Creek, MI: The Little Preston Company, 1901.

10 vols. 8vo, full morocco with stamped floral designs, silk doublures, a.e.g., gilt lettering to spines. Limited edition, signed by Burton Holmes. Minor wear to spines; boards slightly bowed; otherwise fine. $200-400 274

269 (COLLECTED WORKS) Two sets of collected works finely bound in leather.

The Works of George Eliot. New York: The Nottingham Society, n.d. 8 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spines, blue spine labels, 5 raised bands. Edition Deluxe. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning, by Robert Browning and The Life and Letters of Robert Browning, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1891-1897. Bound as a set. 8 vols. 8vo, 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards. $100-200

275 (COLLECTED WORKS, SHAKESPEARE) The Works of Shakespeare. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1856.

12 vols. 16mo, quarter leather over marbled boards, marbled edges, gilt lettering to spines. A fine set with no exterior or interior flaws. $100-200

276 (COLLECTED WORKS, SHAKESPEARE) KNIGHT, CHARLES The Works of Shakespeare. New York: Virtue & Yorston, n.d.

2 vols. Folio, full red cloth-backed boards, giltstamped designs, gilt tooling to spines and boards, a.e.g. Contains numerous engraved plates. Front board vol. 1 detached; hinges reinforced; small tear to endpapers; wear to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200