Search Results: Fine Bindings from Zetetic Books

London: A. Lowndes for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1709. [10], 580pp. Contemporary full morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, each panel with central gilt seed head lozenge tool, roundels and volute corner pieces, covers with gilt double fillet border, enclosing a double panel design, the outer panel a single fillet with fleuron corner pieces and a pyramid volute tool to the middle of each side, the inner panel composed of a triple fillet with flower head corner pieces, the two panels joined by mitres, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., combed marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, corners bumped and worn. Internally frontispiece and title browned, lightly browned throughout, previous owners name to reverse of frontispiece. Title in red and black. Horneck (1641-1697) became chaplain to William III. Sixth Edition. Full Morocco. Good+. 8vo.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1889. xxiii, [1], 284pp, contemporary full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, raised flat bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author to fourth, remaining panels with two repeated butterfly tools, covers with single fillet border and the same butterfly tools repeated, inner edges gilt, t.e.g. with marbled endpapers. Small bump to head of spine, slightly rubbed to extremities, spine slightly dulled. Internally quite bright and clean. Title in red and black. Zaehnsdorf binding with their medallic gilt stamp to lower pastedown which Broomhead notes was "apparently used, along with other similar stamps, as a quality mark on the sperior bindings produced by the firm" (Broomhead, The Zaehnsdorfs, page 73). Selections from several eighteenth century periodicals including Tatler, Spectator and Connoisseur. Not in Alban Dobson's bibliography of books by Austin Dobson. First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. 12mo.

Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Joannis Baskerville, 1773. [5], 2-317pp, [1]. Contemporary full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, author lettered directly to second panel with a small number of fleuron tools to foot, covers with single line border, single line to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., shell patterned marbled endpapers. Rubbed to outer joints and extremities, corners lightly bumped. Some light browning and occasional light foxing internally, but generally fairly bright and clean. Moss regarded this as "one of the most beautiful of Baskerville's editions, and by far, the most elegant one we have of this historian" (Moss, 'Manual of Classical Bibliography', Volume II, page 561). Gaskell 51; Harwood, pg 160, Moss II:561; Schweiger, page 883. First Thus. Hardback. Good+. 4to.

London: Richard Bentley, 1885. [9], x-xi, [6], 2-350pp, [2], slightly later, full straight grain morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered direct to second panel, with illustrator to third, each with volute corner pieces, remaining panels with central floral spray, volute and flower head corner pieces and small roundels and stars, date to foot, all in gilt, covers with gilt triple border, double line gilt roll to edges, inner edges with varying gilt rolls, a.e.g., plain endpapers. Outer joints slightly chipped with small amounts of surface loss, joints still holding well, slightly rubbed to extremities. Half-title nearly detached and now sitting slightly proud, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. With the thirty-three Cruikshank steel engravings called for, but also with what an old pencil note calls "a set of Cruikshanks's original impressions" bound in opposite each book illustration. These are presumably originals from 'Bentley's Miscellany',… Read More

London: Edw. Score and John March and Samuel Birt, 1724. [2], iii, [1], 25, [26], 50-59, 62-63, 62-63, 64-69, [1], 213pp, [67] Later full morocco, spine in six panels, lettered direct to second panel, remaining panels with single fillet border around a central knot work frame device, covers with single fillet border surrounding a knot work frame made up of four double fillets in turn surrounding another single fillet frame, two lines to edges and inner edges, a.e.g. Spine very slightly faded, very minor wear, slight rubbing to gilt to foot of lower panel, but generally attractive externally. Date on title page has been over written in ink (from 1724 to 1752), signature D is browned, some other light browning, especially to edges, very occasional spotting, otherwise fairly bright and clean. With a frontispiece and folding plan of Excester by Nicholls and a folding plate of the Cathedral Church of Exeter by J. Harris. Effectively the fourth edition, after the Richard Izacke editions of 1677 and 1681 and… Read More

London: Andrew Clark for Samuel Mearne, 1675. [4], 132pp, late nineteenth century or early twentieth century full morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, title label to second panel, remaining panels with central flower tool and volute corner pieces, covers with uneven triple fillet border, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, floral patterned endpapers, probably Italian, but nothing similar in Kopylov's 'Dominotes Italiens', a.e.g. Rubbed to extremities, otherwise quite attractive externally. Lightly browned throughout, occasionally slightly heavier with a few small light stains, text trimmed to head throughout, occasionally quite tightly to running title. Lacking *1 and *2, (the translators dedicatory epistle signed T.R.), lacking the errata leaf (I4), which has been cut down with partial loss of text, and stuck to the foot of page 132, obscuring text (other errata?) beneath. The engraved frontispiece has been laid down with some loss to margins with a closed tear from foot to near… Read More

Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Jodocum Jansonium, 1649. 1-88, [3], 85-320pp, plates. Later, probably early nineteenth century, full morocco by Cape, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, place and date to third with volute corner pieces, remaining panels gilt, volute corner pieces and central lozenge shaped floral spray surrounded by small stars, covers with triple fillet border, and an inner panel made up of a triple fillet with volute spray corner pieces, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g. with combed marbled endpapers. Very minor spotting to covers, small ink stamp of the Selborne library to foot of reverse of title and once to bottom margin of text, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. From the library of James Toovey, with his gilt bookplate to front pastedown (see De Ricci, 'English Collectors', pages 156-7). With eight portrait plates and the folding (here bound as a double page) plate showing the execution of Charles I. For Cape see Ramsden,… Read More