Search Results: Titles starting with E from Temple Rare Books

Munich: Privately Printed at the Bremer Press, 1923. 455pp, [1], original quarter cloth and boards with original paper label to spine. Spine slightly dulled, label browned, minor splits to joints at head of spine, minor chipping to foot of spine, covers slightly faded to edges, corners bumped. Internally bright and clean. Number one hundred and eight of one hundred and fifty-five copies, 'numbered and signed' according to the colophon, but I can see no evidence of it being signed (presumably as issued?). Printed on Zanders handmade paper by The Bremer Press in Munich, with five hand-coloured double-page landscapes by Annette von Eckardt. First Edition. Quarter Cloth and Boards. Good+. Illus. by Lear, Edward. Folio. Limited Edition.

London: MacMillan, 1918. ix, [1], 341pp, [1], sixteen colour illustrations. Original full vellum, gilt to spine and upper cover, t.e.g., with illustrated endpapers. Spine rubbed with slight loss to gilt affecting a few letters, lower cover discoloured and with a large scratch running from head to foot. Previous owners book plate to reverse of front endpaper, occasional hint of foxing, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. With sixteen tissue guarded colour plates and forty-two illustrations to text by Rackham. Number four hundred and eighty-eight of five hundred copies, signed by Rackham to limitation leaf. Riall, page 132. Signed by Illustrator. First Thus. Full Vellum. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 4to. Limited Edition.

Parisiis (Paris): Antonium Cellier, 1680. [28], 793, [3], 59, [1], 168pp. Full vellum, raised bands, spine in seven panels, title in ink to second panel, covers with central arabesque inside a two line panel with fleuron corner pieces inside a double fillet border. Small amount of loss to first panel, some creasing and browning to spine, covers slightly splayed. Internally slightly browned and very lightly dust-stained to edges. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown and another name to title page. Additional engraved title. Usual attractive Delphin edition. Brunet III:1492, Schweiger 599. First Edition. Full Vellum. Good. 4to.

Londini (London): M. Ritchie and J. Sammells, 1790. [6], 484pp, slightly later full morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, bands bordered by single gilt rules, covers with single fillet border, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., with stormont pattern marbled endpapers. Spine faded, rubbed to extremities especially outer joints and spine ends, corners bumped. Internally quite bright and clean. Ex-library, but no evidence of this. Moss II:497, "very elegant and accurate edition"; Schweiger:810; Dibdin II:333, "this is one of the most beautiful and correct editions of the text of Pliny that has ever appeared". Reprint. Full Morocco. Good. 12mo. Ex-Library.

London: W. Tweedie, 1862. viii, 216pp, original green ribbed cloth, title and author in gilt to spine, primrose endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, corners bumped, small repair to head of spine. Lightly browned with sporadic light damp staining mainly to margins, previous owners name to front pastedown (George Henson - presumably related to the W. Henson in the list of subscribers). Leatherland was Secretary of Kettering Chartists for a short period. Uncommon. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.