Paris: Glady Freres Editeurs, 1875. Full Leather. Language: French. No owners' marks; pages are clean, though there is some scattered foxing, as well as a tap at the top right corner of pp. 153-174 which has caused some wrinkling in margins; binding is square and tight; the hard cover is..... More
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. Cloth Hardcover. Clean pages save for a bookplate at the front fixed endpaper and toning at the half-title; the front hinge is relaxed and showing stitches before the title, but the binding is otherwise sound. The full blue cloth cover bears a few pale..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition - Later Issue. Cloth Hardcover. Clean except for a fingerprint on the dedication page, a droplet mark on the heel edge of the page block, and mild toning in margins througout; netting shows between some signatures, but binding remains square and secure;..... More
Paris: Tessier et Cherbuliez, 1835. Half-Leather. Language: French. Complete in two volumes (viii + 462, 464 + 59pp.), half leather with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, the original soft covers bound in despite fairly dark gray smudging and some foxing. Pages bear modest toning and foxing; each half-title page has binding..... More
Des Moines: Iowa Printing Company, 1902. Cloth Hardcover. Clean pages except for a prior owner's name on the first blank page, a few sparse and scattered brown specks, and mild toning in margins throughout; binding somewhat relaxed, and pp.99-110 are partially detached from the stitching, otherwise sound; the full cloth..... More
Paris: E. Dentu, Editeur, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Lettres, 1864. Illustrated by Beaumont, E. de. Third Edition. One-Quarter Leather. Language: French. Prior owners' names are penned on the second page, the title page, and page 165, nine small margin marks, and one soulignement; pages are also foxed..... More
Berlin: Winckelmann & Söhne, 1856. Cloth Hardcover. Language: German. Pages remain bright, though foxed throughout and bearing three owners' names on the reverse of the frontispiece; binding is square and tight, though with an internal repair fixing the bound edge of the front free endpaper to the following (blank) page..... More
New York: John Lane Company, 1898. Illustrated by Beardsley, Aubrey. Cloth Hardcover. Pages bright and clean except for a few small handling prints to the initial leaves, toning at the endpapers, and a touch of dust staining along the head edges; binding square and secure, full blue cloth turned inward..... More
Paris: Manzi, Joyant, 1906. First Edition. Original Wraps. Language: French. There is a prior owner's stamp and signature on the first (blank) page and another small stamp on the half-title; some noticeable foxing on the first and final signatures, otherwise pages are clean and neatly preserved. The signatures remain securely..... More
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, Libraire-Editeur, 1904. One-Quarter Leather. Language: French. No owners' marks; the top page block edge bears some dust-spotting, and the page edges are toned from age, otherwise clean; binding is somewhat relaxed, but secure; the spine is slightly canted and creased beneath the cloth, and there is rub-through..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. Cloth Hardcover. As one would expect from The Grolier Club, a beautifully printed, deeply researched celebration of 400 years in children's books, to accompany the exhibit held December 10, 2014 through February 7, 2015; this volume is also part of the highly collectible "Grolier..... More
Philadelphia: The National Publishing Company, 1874. Half-Leather. Pages clean except for some foxing to preliminaries and edges and prior owners' names at the front endpaper and first leaf (Shadrack Tipton of Baltimore County, Maryland), as well as heavy foxing to the tissue guard between the portraits of Washington and Lincoln..... More
London: B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, 1639. Calfskin. Full original calf, with both fixed endpapers freed from the boards but still attached to the page block; the front hinge is now covered by the large bookplate of Hugh Cecil Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, accompanied but not obscured by a...... More
Milano: Nella Stamperia del Giornale Italico, 1803. First Edition. Half-Leather. Signed by both authors opposite the index. Language: Italian. There is a prior owner's name written on the top left corner of the front endpaper, as well as an attached bookplate; there is also a small stamp on the title..... More
Tours: A. Mame & Cie, 1839. Hardcover. Language: French. A bookplate at the front pastedown identifies this as having been the property of un grand maître d'escrime. The front free endpaper is absent, but the hinge remains covered; each set of endpapers has one small, white adhesion; some foxing scattered..... More
Paris: Ed. Rouvevre & G. Blond, 1884. Half-Leather. Language: French. Pages are crisp and clean except for occasional foxing, two shallow brown spots on the foreedge, and gentle toning in the margins; binding is square and tight; half-leather cover bears some surface scratching to the marbled paper front and rear..... More
