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			<description><![CDATA[CAPELLA, (Martianus), 5th century A.D.8vo. I. (8)ff. 397pp. (1)f. II. 349pp. (9)ff. Early 17th century vellum over thin paste-boards, titles lettered in ink at head of spine.I. An encyclopaedic work written in prose and verse, an allegory which celebrates grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music. It was written in the 5th century and enjoyed great popularity for at least 8 centuries; it was first printed in 1499 in Vicenza.    II. Early edition of this compilation of agricultural treatises, dating from the 6th and 7th centuries, covering all aspects of the agricultural year, but particularly strong on wine and the growing of vines, first printed in 1538.    I. Adams C585A. II. Adams G450.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[De nuptiis Philologiae, and septem artibus Liberalibus libri novem optime castigati. Lyon, apud haeredes Simonis Vincentii, 1539. (Bound with): (GEOPONICA). De Agricultura libri XX: desyderati diu and falso hactenus... (more)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES I. Circular woodcut world map (65mm. diameter), found on pp. 65 and 76, large woodcut printer's device at end, ornamental initials. II. Title printed within full ornamental woodcut border, large woodcut arms on verso of title of the dedicatee Alphaenus of Perugia.     2 works in one vol. 4to. (4)ff. 99pp. (2)ff.; 91ff. (lacking final blank). 18th century sprinkled, triple gilt fillet, fleuron at each corner, gilt and panelled back.I. The first appearance in Germany of the text of Honter's famous geographical handbook, the first such book for use in schools by a contemporary writer, which follows the geographical treatise of the first century writer Dionysius Periegetes is. Honter's Cosmographia was first printed in Cracow in 1530, a tiny pamphlet of 16 leaves rarely found. The text gives a concise account of cosmography, astronomy and geography, and there are numerous lists including those of the islands in the west, including America, Parias, Isabella, Spagnola and Gades. In 1542 the author produced a version in Latin hexameters with 13 double-page maps and the work became established as an important textbook throughout the 16th century.    Honter was born in Kornstadt (Brasso) in Transylvania where he developed their school system. He was a noted humanist and Lutheran supporter and in 1543 he issued his Formulatio Reformatio Ecclesiae which became a rallying call for supporters of Martin Luther who called Honter "God's evangelist in Hungary".    A few letters poorly printed on p. 67 and inked in by a contemporray hand.    II. Apparently the only edition of this study on the names of the gods, followed by two other similar treatises De sacris celebritatibus and De hostiis seu victimis antiquorum.     Provenance: From the Macclesfield Library with large armorial book-plate, and blindstamp on first two leaves.    I.Adams D649. VD16 H4773. IA 154.277. II. Censimento CNCE 23861.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[De totius orbis situ, Antonio Beccaria Veronensi interprete . . . Ioannis praeterea Honteri Coronensis de cosmographia rudimentis libri duo. Basle, Henricu Petri, Aug. 1534. (Bound with:) MONTEFALCO (Pietro Giacomo),... (more)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[VECELLIO, (Cesare) Decorative woodcut title-page border with cartouche embracing allegorical figures of America, Asia, Africa and Europe, 412 full-page woodcuts of costumes (with captions) and two section titles, all within full ornamental woodcut borders, 5 full-page woodcut views of Venice, one emblematic woodcut on a full-page (c8v).     8vo. (24) 499ff. (lacking final blank). Full green morocco richly gilt a la fanfare, spine gilt, g.e., by P. Ruban (c.1900).The first edition of this famous early costume book, an ambitious anthology of dress from all over the known world and "by far the largest, most diverse, and richest in commentary of all the costume books printed up to 1590" (Rosenthal and Jones). The woodcuts were designed by Cesare Vecellio (c. 1521-1601), a relative of the great artist Titian, who from a misleading statement on the title-page of the third edition of 1664 was falsely presumed to have contributed to the illustrations as well. Vecellio's sources for the costume plates were varied including, for example, the paintings of Bellini and Carpaccio for Venetian dress, and a whole host of visual materials in the private collections of his wide network of collectors and artists. He also used a variety of sources, ancient and contemporary, for his page or more of commentary on each costume which including a detailed description of the clothing represented. Vecellio is also justly famous as the artist of the fore-edge paintings supplied on books for his patron Odorico Pillone's family library in Belluno and also published a magnificent book of lace designs.    In his description of a Bolognese nobleman we learn from Vecellio that the illustration was cut by Christoforo Guerra (Christoph Krieger), of Nuremberg, and presumably he worked on the other woodcuts also. The illustrations show Krieger's considerable influence, since he had "trained in the professional traditions of the German Formschneider, and may well have imposed a certain calligraphic order on those drawings" (see: Rosand and Muraro, p. 267-8).    Most of the illustrations occur in the long first part and are devoted to the countries of the whole of Europe, ranging from those as far away as Russia, Sweden, Greece and Turkey, as well as Italy itself which naturally features strongly with costume from ancient Rome to modern Venice; in the second part are 59 woodcuts of the ruling class, warriors and women of Africa and Asia, including Pe]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due. Venice, Daman Zenaro,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HERODIANUS Large woodcut on title-page of Antoninus and Gordianus (with names in Roman type above), by Jorg Breu the Elder after Hans Burgkmair; large cut by Hans Weiditz on folio a1 of an emperor, two large ornamental woodcut tail-pieces by the Master DS, ornamental woodcut initials.     Sm. folio. (4) 70ff. 18th century vellum backed boards covered with German gilt embossed decorative paper (top of spine restored).First German edition, translated from the Greek into Latin by Angelo Poliziano and from Latin into German by Hieronymus Boner who describes himself in the dedication as a magistrate (Schultheys) in Colmar. The work is a history of the Roman Empire from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the beginning of the reign of Gordianus III (A.D. 120-128), and Herodianus states he is describing events during the period of his own life.    The bold title woodcut of Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Gordianus III is a copy from Burgkmair's illustrations for the Pappenheim Chronicle published in the previous year (see Dodgson II, p. 425). The large cut on the first page of text is by Hans Weiditz and shows an emperor on a throne granting an audience to a man in a fur tippet. One of the large woodcut initials is also attributed to Weiditz.    A little marginal watertstaining, and a few small round marginal wormholes; many 17th century annotations in German (sometimes cropped).    Adams H391. VD16 H 2503. Muther 1078. Fairfax Murray 1078.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO16387.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Der Furtrefflich Griechisch geschicht schreiber Herodianus, den der Hochgelert Angelus Politianus inn das Latein, und Hieronymus Boner in nachvolgend Teutsch pracht. Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 19 Aug.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[VEGETIUS, (Flavius) I. Wechel's device on title-page, large woodcut of a lansquenet (Germn foot-soldier) on verso and repeated twice more, one half-page diagram and 119 other full-page woodcuts of military men, arms and armour. Letter diagrams of military positions to text of Aelianus. Wechel's device on verso of last leaf. II. Woodcut printer's device at beginning and end and 85 near full-page woodcuts with 97 illustrations of military engines and demonstrations     2 works in one vol. Folio. (4)ff. 279pp.; (6)ff. 383pp. 18th century calf (rebacked).I. Third Wechel edition with illustrations from the first edition of 1532. Mortimer regards them as close copies of the cuts in Heinrich Steiner's Augsburg edition of 1529. With the exception of the two smaller cuts at the beginning, Steiner's series are free copies, the majority in reverse, of blocks used in the 1511 Erfurt edition printed by Hans Knappe. Following Vegetius are the texts of Frontinus, Aelianus Tacitus and Modestus. Among the more remarkable cuts are pneumatic beds, similar boots for walking in the water, diving suits, an "armoured train", impenetrable footwear, while on K4 (verso) is a farrier at work with an enlarged illustration of a horseshoe with nails and on 01 is a soldier using a flint and steel with a tinder box divided into three compartments.    II. Second Wechel edition. These fine military plates are reversed free copies of those in the 1483 Venice edition which in turn were reduced free copies of those in first edition printed in Verona in 1472. Three of the cuts appear with the Mercury sign of the artist Jean Jollat who has added small details to many of the illustrations, although Mortimer remarks that the strong outline characteristic of the Italian illustrations was retained in the French copies.    The illustrations include numerous military engines: catapults, rams, cannons, grenades, scaling ladders, water-raising machines, a clepsydra or water-clock (with 17 hours marked on the dial), bridges, rafts and paddle boats.    Inner marginal worming (some repaired) affecting ff. 229-289 of Valturius, but generally good copies with strong impressions of the woodcuts.    Adams V332 and 225. Mortimer 487 and 535.. Fairfax Murray 563 and 560.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19349.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[De re militari libri quatuor. Sexti Iulii Frontinu . . . de stratagematis libri totidem. Aeliani de instruendis rei militaris liber unus. Modesti de vocabulis rei militaris liber unus (Ed. G. Bude). Paris, apud... (more)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[COPPOLA, (Giovanni Carlo) Etched title-page and seven double-page etched plates by Stefano della Bella after Alfonso Parigi.     4to. (240 x 175mm.). 104pp. Recently bound in vellum over boards.First edition of the libretto for this fantastical, allegorical masque of the wedding of Vulcan and Venus, written by Coppola, the Bishop of Muro, to commemorate the 8 July 1637 marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinando II de Medici to Vittorio della Rovere of Urbino. This book represents one of the first major undertakings by Stefano della Bella for the Medici court, where he had succeeded Jaques Callot as artist and printmaker. His vibrant etchings after the designs of Alfonso Parigi, are the only surviving record of the remarkable staging of this production, performed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.    "The play was written in seven days, at the command of Duke Ferdinand, who ordered that it include spectacular scenes of the Heavens, the Seas, and the Infernal regions. The text was cut for performance but is printed in its entirety." (Clubb). Della Bella's title-page offers a perspective of the curtained stage, while the seven plates depict stage settings as varied and extravagant as the woods of Diana, the gardens of Venus, the cave of Vulcan, the sea (where a ballet choreographed by Agniolo Ricci took place), and concludes with heaven and hell.    Provenance. Bookplate of Professor John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll (1894-1976), theatre historian and founding director of the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham.    Berlin Katalog 4116. Clubb 311. Cicognara 1445. Nagler Theater Festivals of the Medici (1964), pp. 162-74. Watanabe 1285.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO20045.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Le Nozze degli Dei: favola... rappresentata in musica in Firenze nelle reali nozze de Serenissimi Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinando II e Vittoria Principessa d'Urbino. Florence, Amadore Massi e Lorenzo Landi,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CALENDAR LEAFTwo-line illuminated "KL" initial in burnished gold, full-length border of coloured flowers and gold leaves on hair-line stems.    Size of leaf; 164 x 120mm. Gothic script in red and brown ink, ruled for 17 lines.Calendar leaf for the month of October, with text in French. The French saints include Remy, Leger, Fois (Faith), and Denis.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[Illuminated leaf from a calendar. France (?Paris), c.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CALENDAR LEAF Panel border on each side of the page, each containing a small minature (a man digging the land, and a ram), and with decoration of acanthus and flowers and leaves.     Size of leaf: 150 x 110mm. 16 lines of gothic text written in burnished gold, blue and red.A leaf from the calendar of a Book of Hours, for the month of March.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17435.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Illuminated leaf from a Calendar of a Book of Hours. Paris, c.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[PLATO De Tournes' "viper" device on each title and "prism" device on each final leaf.     5 vols. 16mo. 19th century brown morocco (some joints and headcaps restored).A good copy of this scarce de Tournes edition of Ficino's excellent Latin translation of Plato, here carefully edited by Simon Grynaeus. This important Latin translation was made by the great neo-platonist Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) at the request of Cosimo de Medici and provided the impusle for platonic studies at the end of the 15th century and remained the standard Christianised version throughout the 16th century.    Some side-notes just cropped.    Cartier 179. BMSTC (French), p. 353. Not in Adams.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO20076.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Opera a Marsilio Ficino tralatorum. Lyon, apud Ioan. Tornaesium,]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CALENDAR LEAF Illuminated square miniature at foot of recto which shows the task for the month, a man looking after pigs who search for acorns, and at foot of verso a miniature which depicts Sagittarius; "KL" initial in pale grey and mauve on a liquid gold ground, panel border composed of blue and gold acanthus, and coloured flowers and leaves on hair-line stems; text written in blue, pink and burnished gold.     Size of leaf: 160 x 115mm.A beautifully illuminated calendar leaf; this must have been a truly luxurious manuscript; there is a profuse amount of gold which is also used for much of the text as well as blue and red.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Continental Books, Illuminations and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/CO17789.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Illuminated calendar leaf, for the month of November, from a Book of Hours. France (Normandy), c. 1470-]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[TURGENEF, (Ivan Sergeiwvitch).First edition in the English language. 8vo., endpaper, blank, (1p.), (1p.) publishers' catalogue, (3pp.), iv-viii, 248pp., (1p.), (9pp.) publishers' catalaogue, blank, endpaper, in the original green cloth, titles and ruling on spine, ornament on upper board, all in gilt. New York, Leypoldt and Holt,A very tight, clean copy, dusty top-edge, slightly worn cloth. Scarce.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49511.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fathers And Sons. A Novel. Translated From The Russian With The Approval of The Author by Eugene Schuyler, Ph. D..]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HAWTHORNE, (Nathaniel).Pictorial title page and 6 plates, First edition, original green cloth blocked in gilt and blind, Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.BAL 7614. The first printing with Boston Stereotype Foundry only on the imprint page, lacking the adverts. Head and tale of spine rubbed, covers a touch used.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO50375.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tanglewood Tales. Another Wonder-Book.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CHESTERTON, (G.K.).First edition, 8vo., cloth, advert leaf, London, Cassell and Co.The first issue, with no full stop after G.K and the publisher's initials on the spine. Covers spotted.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO50623.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Man who was Thursday.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BASILISK PRESS]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO51262.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kelmscott Chaucer facsimile]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LAWRENCE; KENNINGTON]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO52387.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cheshire Cat]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HOCKNEY, (David),Edited by Nikos Stangos and with an introductory essay by Henry Geldzahler. Illustrated throughout. 4to., original red cloth gilt, dust jacket. London, Thames and Hudson.The title page with a rapidly drawn but very handsome double page spread of a Mexican palm thronged veranda, and the inscription "For Nicky David Hockney".]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO52388.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[David Hockney by David Hockney.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LOGUE, (Christopher).First edition. Narrow 8vo., original quarter black calf with multi-coloured cloth covers based on Vorticist designs by Wyndham Lewis from Blast , lettered in gilt on spine. London, Turret Books.Number 8 of 24 numbered copies signed by the author, from a total edition of 50. Ramsden A. A fine copy.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO52418.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Girls.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[PLATH, (Sylvia).First US edition. 8vo., original green cloth, dust jacket. New Yor, Alfred A. Knopf.From the library of Richard Murphy, signed by him on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in dust jacket.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO200411.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Colossus and Other Poems.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CLOVER HILL EDITIONS.; JONES (David).13 wood-engravings by David Jones, title printed in green and black, half title in gold. One of 10 copies on vellum lettered A to J (this F), with three extra sets of Jones's wood-engravings printed on vellum, japon and hand-made paper, all in a separate green morocco backed, green cloth box. Sm. folio, a fine copy in original full green morocco, device and title in gilt on upper cover, this and the box holding the separate engravings are housed in a green cloth slipcase with morocco and gilt spine label. London, Clover Hill Editions, Douglas Cleverdon.A superb deluxe copy printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lion Press and the engravings on an Albion hand-press by Ian Mortimer at I.M. Imprimit. Jones's engravings were first printed in 1926 at the Golden Cockerel Press.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO33633.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Book of Jonah taken from the Authorised Version of King James I.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CRAIG, (Edward Gordon).; DEFOE (Daniel).Ten original prints by Edward Gordon Craig, initialled by the artist, mounted and bound in at the rear, 15 illustrations by Gordon Craig in the introduction. One of 25 copies with ten original prints bound by Tony Miles (this number 7). Small folio, original full dark-blue morocco with gilt tooled decoration. Designed by Bernard Roberts and printed at The John Roberts Press on Van Gelder mouldmade paper. London, The Basilisk Press.A fine copy in the original linen backed box. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO39726.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOKS.31 handcoloured engravings, each once folded into three with the title and folding frontispiece of each volume of Punch's Pocket-Books for 31 years. All tipped into a large 4to. album of green cloth with the world "Album" in gilt on upper cover (rebacked, corners rather bumped and worn at extremities with the world "Album" in gilt on upper cover). 1851-An extraordinary collection of these fine frontispieces by John Leech, John Tenniel, Charles Keene et al. - including Keene's famous parody of Long's painting of the Babylonian Marriage Market - which are witty and often wry observations on society of the time, including the scramble for gold in 1850s Australia, the opening of the Serpentine, the scramble for matrimony, women's rights, ladies cricket, the development of the bicycle *c.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42020.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Album of Coloured Folding Frontispieces for the Years 1851-1881.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DICKENS, (Charles).5 volumes comprising:    1. A Christmas Carol . Coloured illustrations by John Leech. First edition, first issue with "Stave 1" and green endpapers which are bound in together with the front and back cloth covers and spine all laid on paper. London, Chapman and Hall. 1843.    2. The Chimes . Illustrated by Stanfield, Maclise, Leech and Doyle. First edition, first state with publisher's name on the frontispiece. Original cloth covers and spine laid onto paper and bound in. London, Chapman and Hall, 1845.    3. The Battle of Life . First edition, second issue of engraved title with an additional fourth issue of engraved title bound in at the front. Original cloth covers and spine laid onto paper and bound in. London, Bradbury and Evans. 1846.    4. The Cricket on the Hearth Illustrated by Dalziel, Thomson &c. First edition. Original cloth covers and spine laid onto paper and bound in. London, Bradbury and Evans. 1846.    5. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. Illustrated by Stanfield, Leech, Tenniel and Stone. First edition. Original cloth covers and spine laid onto paper and bound in. London, Bradbury and Evans. 1848.All uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorff in fine red morocco bindings, with three gilt borders, spine elaborately gilt in compartments with raised bands, very fine gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g.    Each volume with the book label of Sir David Salomons Bart. of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells. Salomons (1797-1873) was Lord Mayor of London and created a Baronet in 1869 in recognition of excellent public service.    A very handsome set.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO42660.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Christmas Books. Full set of first editions, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorff.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ASHENDENE PRESS.; BOCCACCIO.One of 105 copies. Folio, in a very handsome, suitably restrained binding by Donald Glaister, signed and dated 1987, of full black morocco, two borders in blind, silver lettering on spine with spectacular doublures in his trademark sanded aluminium sheeting, producing metallic iridescent patterns, suede free endpapers. Chelsea, The Ashendene Press.Donald Glaister bound this to commission with the remit that the binding should fit the aesthetic restraint of the book - beauty from simplicity. This he achieved: the binding complements the austerity of the book to a very high degree, and in fact could be said to complete it. Like scarlet underwear to be seen only by invitation, the barely adorned covers give no hint of the irridescent doublures inside.    He says of himself - "Donald Glaister is a book artist now living and working on Vashon Island, Washington. He began his bookbinding career after taking degrees in painting and sculpture from San Jose State College in California, and studying binding privately with Barbara Hiller in San Francisco, and Pierre Aufschneider and Roger Arnoult in Paris. His over twenty-five year professional career in design bookbinding has centered on the exploration, development and use of unexpected binding materials, visual humor, and spontaneous expression, while working within the classical framework of the European binding form." ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO44981.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Il Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(PEACOCK, (Thomas Love).).3 volumes. First edition. 12mo., rebound in half tan calf, gilt, marbled boards, the flat spines decorated with alternating bands in black, red morocco labels, volume two the gilt decoration not quite uniform. D6 in volume 1 is a cancel. London,T.Hookham and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy.Volumes 1 and 2 both have half inch repairs to the title page where a name has been clipped, the half title in volume two has a minor repair, the joints in all three volumes have been strengthened, but a very good copy of Peacock's only three volume novel, his most overt satire on contemporary politics whose hero Sir Oran Haut-Ton is an orang-utan elected as MP for the rotten borough Onevote.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO49324.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Melincourt.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[WHITMAN, (Walt).3 Portraits, First collected edition limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 500, signed, hand written limitation statement on verso of second leaf, large 8vo., original brown buckram gilt, (Camden), (printed for the Author by Ferguson Brothers in Philidelphia).Myerson A2.7.m, binding C. Signed by Whitman on the Leaves of Grass title page. Front cover split and almost detached, corners bumped, covers dusty, ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO50283.asp</link>
			<guid>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO50283.asp</guid>
			<title><![CDATA[Complete Poems and Prose.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(IRVING, (Washington).). as; CRAYON (Geoffrey). 7 parts in 2 volumes, First editions, 8vo., modern full blue crushed morocco, gilt, New York, printed for C.S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich-street.BAL 10106, first issues, bound without the wrappers. The introduction to readers of Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Joints rubbed.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO51462.asp</link>
			<guid>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO51462.asp</guid>
			<title><![CDATA[The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LARKIN, (Philip).First edition. Small 8vo., original black cloth, lettered in gilt, cranberry dust jacket. London, The Fortune Press.From the library of Richard Murphy, signed by him on the front free endpaper. Bloomfield A1. An excellent copy in a price-clipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed at the extremities, with a short tear to the upper spine.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO200264.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The North Ship.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[(BEARDSLEY, (Aubrey)).; EGERTON (George), (i.e. Mary Chavelita DUNNE).Binding and title-page designs by Aubrey Beardsley.One of 600 copies. First edition, second issue 8vo., original decorated green cloth, uncut. London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane.A very good copy indeed. The first issue was issued in pink wrappers in a printing of 500 copies. Lasner 25.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO33923.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Keynotes.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ASHENDENE PRESS.; RAVERAT (Gwendolen).Translated by J. Amyot, edited and corrected by Paul-Louis Courier. 26 illustrations drawn and cut on wood by Gwendolen Raverat. Initials hand-drawn in blue by Graily Hewitt and assistants, printed in Ptolemy type with marginal notes in red. One of 290 copies. 4to., original vellum-backed green paper covered boards with stamp designed by Raverat in gilt on upper cover, in original patterned paper covered slipcase, uncut. Chelsea, The Ashendene Press.Hornby's second attempt at this work, the first being printed on Japanese vellum. Due to the ink's very slow drying on the paper, the sheets were packed before they were ready, leading to very bad off-set on most of them. Hornby declared that he destroyed all except 10 copies of this edition (we have since discovered the eleventh survivor). At the second attempt he abandoned the Japanese paper in favour of the easier Batchelor paper used here.    An extremely good copy, with only a tiny chip to the paper of the lower cover, of a handsomely illustrated Ashendene. Raverat's illustrations were, as Colin Franklin points out, "the only worthwhile original illustrations in an Ashendene book". This was a fitting end to the Press as this was the last book, other than the bibliography, to be printed there. Franklin, "The Ashendene Press", pp. 242-3.    (Colin Franklin: The Ashendene Press pp.242-3)]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO35245.asp</link>
			<guid>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO35245.asp</guid>
			<title><![CDATA[Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CHAGALL, (Marc).; CAIN (Julien).Introduction by Marc Chagall, notes and catalogue by Fernand Mourlot. 12 original lithographs, over 190 plates in colour and black and white. First English edition, translated from the French by Maris Jolas. Sm. folio, original beige cloth, dust jacket (very mild chipping at extremities), couple of loose gatherings. Monte Carlo, Andre Suaret.With a drawing and inscription in blue biro by Marc Chagall filling the front free endpaper. The picture is of an angel playing the violin with a large sprig of flowers and it reads "Pour Diana et Yehudi Menuhin, Marc Chagall, Vence 1961".]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<author>Modern Books and Manuscripts</author>
			<link>http://www.maggs.com/title/MO36736.asp</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Lithographs of Chagall.]]></title>
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