[Rarebooks] FS - Leather bindings (recent acquisitions)

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

Terms of sale: prices are in USD. Payment by check, credit card, or 
PayPal. Postage and packing charge will be $10 for single volume, plus 
$2 for each additional volume. Returnable within seven days of receipt 
if found to be not as described. Note: we describe a "half-leather" 
binding as leather down the spine and overlapping to no more than one 
quarter of the boards measured from the spine. "Three quarter" leather 
is the same, except that the corners are overlapped with leather. We do 
not use the term "quarter" leather in describing our books. Photos are 
available.
   
1) [STORER, JAMES SARGANT], T/HE ANTIQUARIAN ITINERARY/, Comprising 
Specimens of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated, and Domestic.... / Vol. VI
London, Wm. Clarke et al. 1816, 2nd edition, hb. Illustrated with copper 
and wood engravings. This is a single volume of a seven volume set, 
bound in full leather. 12mo, First published in 1815. Extremities of 
boards scuffed. Binding tight. Contents unmarked except for off-setting 
of engravings.
$25.00

2)  /THE DRUGGISTS CIRCULAR AND CHEMICAL GAZETTE / A Practical Journal 
of Chemistry as Applied to Pharmacy/ / Volume XLII - 1898
New York City, William O. Allison 1898, 1st edition, hb, black-&-white 
illustrations. Beautifully bound in 3/4 leather over woven black cloth. 
Tall 4to, pp.vi,306,cxl. Contains a comprehensive Index and 151 page 
News Supplement at the end of the volume. Binding lightly worn, else vg 
condition.
¶ "A practical journal of chemistry as applied to pharmacy, and general 
business organ for druggists, chemists and apothecaries". Twelve monthly 
issues bound, with the supplement, into one volume.
$150.00

3)    [JOSEPH ADDISON AND RICHARD STEELE], /THE SPECTATOR; with a 
Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes / in Four 
Volumes/. London, Routledge, Warne, et al, 1860. Complete four volume 
set nicely bound in 3/4 leather. 12mo.
¶ "The Spectator" was a daily publication issued in London from 1711 to 
1712 by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. Each "paper" or "number" was 
approximately 2,500 words long, and the original run of "The Spectator" 
consisted of 555 numbers. In the first edition, these were collected 
into seven volumes. The paper was revised, without the involment of 
Steele, in 1714, appearing thrice weekly for six months, and these 
papers when collected formed the eighth volume. (/Wikipedia/). It is 
observed in the Preface in volume I of our offering that "Of all the 
works that have been written in the English language, the series of 
Essays under the title "The Spectator" has undoubtedly had the greatest 
influence in reforming the manners, and correcting the vices of the 
English people." The extremities of each volume are rubbed, and the 
marbled paper of the boards shows some scuffing. Notwithstanding the 
bindings are tight and the contents are exceptionally bright and 
unmarked. The set, as a whole, looks quite pleasing on the shelf.
$125.00

4) JOHNSON, E. PAULINE, /FLINT AND FEATHER The Complete Poems/. Toronto, 
Musson Book Company 1924, . Illustrated with b&w photographs, plates. 
Bound in limp suede with lettering and designs tooled to cover. 8vo, pp. 
xxxi, 166. The edges of the suede covers are frayed and turned (esp. the 
rear cover), but the hinges are tight.
¶ The first edition was published in 1912. This is the revised and 
enlarged ninth edition, published in 1924, with an extensive 
introduction by Theodore Watts-Dunton (not found in editions prior to 
1916), and a biographical sketch of the author. J. R. Seavey provides 
the illustrations. The front suede cover and spine have been tooled 
(stamped?) with the title and the author's name, amidst a design of 
arrows and feathers. Former owner's name to half title page. Contents 
otherwise unmarked and exceptionally bright. Yapped edges of suede a bit 
rolled.
$35.00

5) LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM, /AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE 
MODERN EGYPTIANS, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35./ 
London, John Murray 1871, hb, black-&-white illustrations. Complete two 
volume set handsomely bound in full polished calf. Small 8vo, pp. 386, 
379. First published in 1836, this is the fifth edition, edited by 
Edward Stanley Poole.
¶ Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British Orientalist, translator 
and lexicographer best known for his translation of "One Thousand and 
One Nights". He lived in Egypt for a number of years, often going about 
in the habit of a Turk, and took extensive notes on the language, dress, 
habits, and customs of the people amongst whom he lived. At the 
suggestion of the famous London publisher, John Murray, he condensed his 
notes into a single volume, published in 1836 by the Society for the 
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The editor of this edition was the son of 
Sophia Lane Poole, the author's brother. The boards of each volume bear 
an armorial stamp, embossed in gilt, showing a bishop's mitre over a 
book, lion rampant, two stars and 17 tiny devices. We can't identify the 
crest, but it strongly suggests that this is a custom binding for a 
bishop. The endpapers and foredges of the text block are marbled. The 
spine is in compartments with five raised bands. There are two gilt 
rules to the boards with corner florets. The leather is somewhat scuffed 
at the extremities. Volume II has several tiny spots to the top right of 
the front board. The hinges are tight and the contents are unmarked. 
Overall, a most handsome little set.
$150.00

6) PALLISER, MRS. BURY, /BRITTANY & ITS BYWAYS: Some Account of its 
Inhabitants and its Antiquities; during a residence in that country/. 
London, John Murray 1869, hb, black-&-white illustrations. Bound in full 
red calf with marbled foredges and endpapers. 8vo, pp. 314.
¶ Fanny Bury Palliser (1805-1878) was an English writer on art, lace, 
and travel. She was the daughter of Joseph Marryat, M.P. and the sister 
of Frederick Marryat, the novelist. In 1832, she married Captain Richard 
Bury Palliser. This is the first edition. It bears on the inside of the 
front board the handsome armorial bookplate of William Dondeswell, of 
Pull Court, in Worcestshire. Just above the bookplate, to the left, is a 
small sticker indicating this volume came from the Pull Court Library. 
Tabbed on to the last blank rear endpaper, is a very small Hudsons Bay 
Company sticker. The contents are unmarked, if slightly age-toned. The 
binding is rubbed, especially at the extremities, but the joints are 
tight. Some scuffing to the leather.
$75.00

7) SCOTT, SIR WALTER, /HISTORY OF SCOTLAND in Two Volumes/. Paris, A. 
and W. Galignani 1830, hb. Complete two volume set bound in half leather 
over buckram. 12mo, pp. 426, 527.
¶ This title not to be confused with Scott's "Tales of a Grandfather", 
which was a juvenile history of Scotland written shortly before he 
embarked on the preparation of this more serious history of his native 
country. The first edition was published in two volumes in 1829 (volume 
I) and 1830 (volume II). This edition, published in Paris in 1830, is in 
English, and contains the author's "Advertisment" dated November 1, 
1829. It is most probably a pirated edition, as it appeared well before 
the copyright laws put an end to such practices. Notwithstanding, the 
Galignani brothers had paid Scott a royalty several years earlier for 
the right to publish an English edition of his "Life of Napoleon". It is 
almost certainly the first European edition of this work. The binding is 
scuffed and rubbed, but still tight. Written inside the front boards is 
a former owner's name and address (in Edinburgh). Another former owner 
has rubber-stamped his name and address (Edinburgh, again) several times 
to the front endpapers of both volumes. There are a few spots of foxing 
in the text, which is otherwise remarkably clean and bright.
$150.00

8) STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS / EDITED BY CHARLES CURTIS BIGELOW AND TEMPLE 
SCOTT/. THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON / Edition de Luxe/. Boston, 
MA, The Jefferson Press ND (c. 1908), hb. black-&-white illustrations. 
Complete ten volume set handsomely bound in 3/4 leather. 8vo, Volume X 
contains "A Life of Stevenson" by Sidney Colvin.
¶ Leather bound over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers. Each volume 
shows light wear to binding, mainly limited to rubbing to the 
extremities. Bindings uniformly tight and contents unmarked. Overall a 
very good set. No date of publication given, but the frontispieces are 
dated 1908.
$350.00

9) TURBERVILLE, A. S. E/NGLISH MEN AND MANNERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH 
CENTURY./ Oxford, UK, The Clarendon Press 1929, 2nd edition, hb, 
black-&-white illustrations. Beautifully bound in full tree calf 
leather. 8vo, pp. xxiii,539.
¶ The spine is in compartments and quite elaborately decorated in gilt. 
Armorial crest of Upper Canada College to front board, with the motto 
"Palmam qui meruit ferat" ("let whoever earns the palm bear it"). Prize 
bookplate inside front board dated October 23rd, 1931, "presented by The 
Old Boys Association". Later ink inscription to front free endpaper. 
Contents tightly-bound and in superb condition. Binding shows a touch of 
rubbing to the extremities and one or two slight blemishes to the 
leather. Altogether, a most attractive book.
$75.00

10) WILSON, JOHN MACKAY. /TALES OF THE BORDERS and of Scotland; 
Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative/. New York City, Johnson, 
Wilson and Company ND, hb. Illustrated with steel engravings. Complete 
five volume set bound in 3/4 dark green leather. 8vo, "A companion to 
the Waverley Novels". Each volume has extra illustrated title page, with 
steel engraved frontispiece.
¶ No date of publication given, but Wilson died in 1835, and the 
frontispiece of him in volume I is taken from a portrait "in the 
possession of his widow", so these volumes obviously printed after that 
year - probably in the 1850s, judging by type face, binding style and 
paper used. Bindings show some rubbing, especially to extremities. Final 
volume contains extensive glossary. Foredges marbled. Text is 
double-columned. Contents unmarked and hinges tight. A good, to good 
plus, set. The price is for all five volumes.
$50.00

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