Full Morocco

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882. Full morocco, 6 inches tall. A beautiful little volume printed on hand-made paper, in full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with gilt raised bands and delicate gilt and blind tooling to the panels and boards. With gilt dentelles and all edges. A fine anthology of French lyric poetry in French but with the introductions and annotations in English. Frontispiece. Tipped in bookplate. In pristine condition.

London: Strahan and Co., 1870. 10 volume set, 5 1/4" . An usually heavy sumptuous morocco binding with gilt raised bands and gilt and onlayed calf tooling. With dentelles and all edges gilt . The text is decorated with initials and headings. A really lovely little set.

London: J. M. Dent & Co., c.1900. Full morocco, 5 3/4 inches tall. A wonderful example of one of Ramage's luxurious full morocco bindings (see our extensive selection), in pristine condition. With gilt raised bands, extraordinary extra gilt tooling to the panels and boards. With wide gilt doublures, watered silk 'end papers', and all edges gilt. Portrait and decorated title page. From the recently dispersed library of a Dorset Country House.

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820. 2 volume set, 10 inches tall. An impressive early Victorian full hard grain morocco binding by the great firm of Wright. With raised bands, gilt pallets and twin gilt fillets framing the boards. The initials J.R. are on the tail of both spines. All edges gilt. Embellished with 2 engraved vignettes on the title pages and 20 full page engravings, as called for, by Thomas Stothard. A little foxing to several plates, overall in pristine condition. A very handsome set of Defoe's early 18th century tale, which remains one of the most popular adventures ever written.

London: Shakspeare Printing Office, 1804. Full morocco, 9 inches tall. A superb later crushed morocco by the great firm of Bedford. With gilt raised bands and very fine gilt tooling to the panels. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Slight rubbing. With delightful full page engravings and engraved vignettes by Bewick. With lives of Goldsmith and Parnell, Parnell's greatest poem, 'The Hermit' and Goldsmith's 'The Traveller' and 'The Deserted Village'.

London: John Murray, 1869. Full morocco, 8 1/2 inches tall. A splendid heavy Victorian full hard grain morocco with the coronet and initials of Baron Saye et Sele of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family in the top panel. With gilt raised bands and very fine gilt tooling to the panels, gilt dentelles and all edges. With a gilt blocked crest on both boards and prize bookplate on the paste down endpaper. Foxing to the preliminaries, then clean. Slight rubbing. An impressive copy of this biography of the great Roman statesman and philosopher.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1874. 2 volume set, 8 1/4 inches tall. A stunning dark pink hard grain morocco binding with gilt raised bands, extra gilt panels and magnificent gilt tooling to the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Book plate. Illustrated throughout. A fine set of this classic work by the Dublin born art historian, Mrs. Jameson.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1879. 3 volume set, 8 inches tall. A superb crushed morocco by Andrew Grieve of Edinburgh with gilt bands and delightful gilt floral tooling to the panels on a smooth back. Gilt top edges. From a limited to 485 copies. Sir David Lyndsay was a 16th century knight and herald whose poetry is still celebrated today.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1826. 8 volume set, 9 inches tall. A superb, if slightly faded, full William IV hard grain morocco with raised bands, gilt titles, dentelles and all edges. With the armorial bookplate of Laurence Currie. Slight rubbing but a very handsome and clean set of Clarendon's great 'History of the Rebellion'.

London: G. Virtue, 1830. Full morocco, 10 inches tall. An exceptionally tall copy in a beautiful later full straight grain morocco binding by Sotheran of Piccadilly. With gilt raised bands, a superb boxing centre tool within an ornate cartouche in the panels and the boards, gilt dentelles and top edges, the remaining edges untrimmed. With 2 armorial bookplates. Embellished with all 36 hilarious hand-coloured aquatints from designs by Robert Cruikshank. A pristine example of this great comic work, in which our heroes continue with their debauched adventures around London.

London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society, 1912. Full morocco, 10 1/4 inches tall. A wonderful and unique binding by Bumpus with raised bands and onlays on the panels. The crushed morocco on the boards is framed with a beautiful gilt border with a green Greek key design and further onlays. Watered silk doublures and all edges gilt. Printed on hand-made Riccardi Paper in a limited edition of 500 copies. With 12 superb illustrations in colour by William Russell Flint. A unique volume, in pristine condition, of Kingsley's great retelling of the Myths and Legends of Greek Mythology.

London: Printed by C. Wittingham for J. Sharpe et al., 1809. 4 volumes, bound in 2, 5 1/4 inches tall. A delightful little set in a full Regency straight grain morocco with gilt raised bands and very fine gilt tooling to the panels. A wide floral gilt roll and blind fillet frame the boards. All edges gilt. All 4 volumes have an engraved frontispiece. Slight rubbing. These volumes also contain Homer's Batrachomuomachia, or, the Battle of the Frogs and Mice as well as his Hymns, Epigrams and Odes, all done into English. Alexander Pope's translation was celebrated during his life and has been ever since, with his use of heroic couplets being the model for all future translations of Homer's epic poem.

London & New York: The Grolier Society, 1909. Full morocco, 9 1/4 inches tall. A remarkable binding with gilt raised bands and floral gilt tooling and green calf onlays in the Art Nouveau style to the panels and boards. Splendid gilt tooled doublures and watered silk free endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Henry von Beyr. Illustrated with 6 etched portraits by C.X. Harris. Signed by the author in an edition limited to 1250 copies of which this is number 2. The spine is faded by the sun and there are a few superficial marks to the blanks and limitation page, and there is some minor scratching to the back board, but overall still a lovely copy.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874. 4 volume set, 8 inches tall. A superb full crushed morocco by the great Edinburgh firm of bookbinders Andrew Grieve. With gilt bands, splendid gilt tooling to the panels and a green label on a smooth back. Triple gilt fillets and corner tools frame the boards. Gilt dentelles and top edges. Illustrated. Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld was a Scottish poet of the late 15h and early 16th centuries whose major literary achievement is the Eneados, a translation of Virgil's Aeneid into Scottish, completed in 1513, it is the first full translation of a major poem from classical antiquity into any modern Germanic language. His translation is faithful throughout. A fine and beautiful set.

Edinburgh: Silvester Doig et al. and London: Longman et al., 1812. 2 volumes bound in 1, 7 inches tall. A lovely full crushed morocco by Ramage with gilt raised bands, superb extra gilt panels and a gilt 'Cambridge ' panel to both boards. Gilt dentelles and top edge. With the armorial bookplate of Robert Kirk M.D.. On the dedication page and the title page of volume II is the neat ink stamp of Hill (booksellers of) Perth. Embellished with 2 portrait frontispieces and a further 6 engraved plates.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877-79. 6 volume set, 9 inches tall. A superb late Victorian full straight grain morocco binding by Kerr & Richardson with gilt raised bands, delicately gilt framed panels and a gilt bust of Burns in the top panels. Twin gilt fillets frame the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. The text block is exceptionally clean. Profusely illustrated with portraits, plates and vignettes. A first edition of the the great William Scott Douglas edition in which the poems are arranged chronologically and in which the text and notes are the most complete and correct. A splendid set of this great edition in a fine binding by a great firm of Glasgow binders.

Edinburgh: Constable and London: Vernor & Hood, 1801. 2 volume set bound as 1, 7 1/2 inches tall. A later Victorian beautiful full crushed morocco binding by the great firm of Ramage with gilt raised band and ornate gilt tooling to the panels. Gilt fillets frame the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Bound with the glossary, errata and advertisements. Sir John Graham Dalyell was a Scottish advocate, antiquary and naturalist who studied 700 manuscripts in the preparation of this work.

Glasgow: Hopkins, 1869. 2 volume set, 8 inches tall. A handsome edition in a full crushed morocco binding by Grieve with gilt bands on a smooth back, twin olive labels and superb gilt floral tooling to the panels. Gilt triple fillets and floral corner tools frame the boards. Gilt dentelles and top edges. Portrait and engraved vignettes. Joseph Ritson was an 18th century English Antiquarian who first published his 'Scotish Songs' in 1794, this mid Victorian edition is printed on hand-made paper and is in pristine condition.

London, Savoy: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for the author, 1667. Full morocco, 14 1/2 inches tall. A superb tall later binding by the great firm of Bedford, with gilt raised bands, twin labels and magnificent gilt tooling to the panels. A series of gilt fillet frame the boards, wide dentelles and all edges gilt. First edition in red and black, embellished with 5 double page engraved plates and 57 full page. With the armorial bookplates of the Hon. Hugh Howard and the Fox Pointe Collection. Slight rubbing but a very good, clean copy with wide margins.

Wien (Vienna): Verlag von H.O. Miethke, 1886. Full morocco, 26 1/2 inches tall. A colossal and superb full morocco binding by the great firm of J. Leighton of Brewer Street from the library of Alfred de Rothschild, but without his bookplate. With twin gilt raised bands and wonderful gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. With 100 copperplate engravings, as called for. A huge and very heavy volume in excellent condition.