Sam Gatteño Books: Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings
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Description du Catafalque ... Pour ... Princesse Marie-Amalie de Saxe, reine d'Espagne et des Indes.
Paris: De Christophe-Jean-François Ballard, 1761. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. 20pp. A10. Black reliure de deuil royal, with royal arms on the upper cover. With an engraving on the title-page by Charles Nicholas Cochin, engraved by Benoît Louis Prévost. Cohen-de Ricci, 289; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 140. With a royal bookplate. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1955
USD 4700.00 [Appr.: EURO 4361.25 | £UK 3752.75 | JP¥ 732097]
Original Leaf from the Kleine Print Bybel c. 1750.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1991. 0. Hardcover. Miniature book. 20, [ii]pp. Limited to sixty copies, printed by Pall Bohne for Dawson's Book Shop. With a half-title. 2 1/2 by 1 7/8 inches/64x48mm). Quarter red calf over patterned boards by Pall Bohne. With an illustrated leaf from the 'Kleine print Bybel ofte 170 geschiedenissen des O. en N. Testaments konstig afgebeeld .' printed by Daniel Langeweg around 1750-1760. Bradley 89. Very fine copy. Very Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1875
USD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 464 | £UK 399.25 | JP¥ 77883]
Keywords: Miniature Book; Leaf Book
Le Théatre de Corneille.
A Amsterdam: chez Henry Desbordes, 1701. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Five volumes. I: [ii], XLVIII, 462pp.; II: [ii], XLVIII, 416pp.; III: [ii], XXIII, 487pp.; IV: [ii], 479pp.; V: [ii], 382pp. I: []1, *12-**12, A12-T12, V4; II: []1, *12-**12, A12-R12, S4; III: []1, *12, A12-V12, X4; IV: []1, A12-V12; V: []1, A12-Q12 [Q12 blank]. Nineteenth-century morocco. All edges gilt. With a portrait, engraved frontispiece, and 32 full-page plates. Cohen-de Ricci 254; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 119. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1878
USD 1000.00 [Appr.: EURO 928 | £UK 798.5 | JP¥ 155765]
A Select Collection of Old Plays. Corrected and Collated with the old copies, with Notes Critical and Explanatory.
London: J. Dodsley, 1780. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Twelve volumes. I: cxxxiii, [iii], 292pp.; II: [iv], 415pp.; III: [iv], 486, [ii]pp.; IV: [vi], 499pp.; V: [iv], 519pp.; VI: [iv], 556pp.; VII: [iv], 526, [ii]pp.; VIII: [iv], 513, [iii]pp.; IX: [iv], 489, [i]pp.; X: [iv], 530, [i]pp.; XI: [iv], 535, [i]pp.; XII: [iv], 436, [xx]pp. I: []2, b8-i8, kk2, A8-S8, T2; II: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Cc8; III: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Gg8, Hh4; IV: []4 (-[]1 blank), A8-Z8, Aa8-Hh8, Ii2; V: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8, Kk4; VI: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8, Mm6; VII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8; VIII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Kk8, Ll2 (Ll2 blank); IX: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Hh8, Ii6 (Ii6 blank); X: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8, Mm2 (-Mm2 blank); XI: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8, Mm2; XII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ff8, Gg4. Second edition. Uniformly bound in modern red morocco. With plates. An important collection of early drama, containing work by John Heywood, Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, James Shirley, Shackerley Marmion and John Webster, among many others. Contains 66 plays, including 10 added and 12 removed from the first edition, published in 1744. Near Fine.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1426
USD 2000.00 [Appr.: EURO 1856 | £UK 1597 | JP¥ 311531]
Justinian and Theodora. A Drama Being a Chapter of History and the One Gleam of Light During the Dark Ages.
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1906. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 109 pages. First edition. Title-page printed in orange and black. Designed by Dard Hunter. Bound in three-quarter purple crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Double-spread title page, headpieces, decorative initials and colophon all designed by Dard Hunter. Near Fine.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1265
USD 1350.00 [Appr.: EURO 1252.75 | £UK 1078 | JP¥ 210283]
Dale Dramas: A Book of Little Plays.
London: John Lane, [1923]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 125 pages. Bound in full dark blue morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, with floral designs to both covers and raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Illustrated with eight woodcuts by Fred Lawson. A fine binding. Very Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1339
USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 325 | £UK 279.5 | JP¥ 54518]
Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings
Keywords: Zaehnsdorf Binding Woodcut Illustrations
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.
Watertown, Massachusetts: Anne & David Bromer, 1977. 0. Hardcover. Miniature Book. 24pp. Edition limited 150 copies, this is No. 59, signed by the illustrator, Sarah Chamberlain. Twenty-five deluxe copies with an extra suite of ten signed and numbered wood engravings were also printed. Marbled paper boards by E.G. Parrot. Illustrated. The text is the first English poem for children intended for sheer amusement. Chamberlain's first miniature book commission and first miniature book published by the Bromers. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2208
USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 232 | £UK 199.75 | JP¥ 38941]
Keywords: Miniature Book
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem.
Edinburgh: Constable, 1808. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 349, [i]pp. Ninth edition. With a half-title. Two volumes, uniformly bound in full brown morocco, gilt arms of Vernon on covers, all edges gilt. 12 original wash drawings bound in. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2249
USD 1900.00 [Appr.: EURO 1763.25 | £UK 1517.25 | JP¥ 295954]
Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field.
Edinburgh: printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, and William Miller and John Murray, London, 1808. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [x], 377, [i], cxxviiipp. Fourth edition. With a half-title. The final leaf (q4) is blank. Brown morocco, gilt arms of Vernon on covers, all edges gilt. Six original watercolor illustrations bound in. Ruff 64. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2248
USD 1200.00 [Appr.: EURO 1113.5 | £UK 958.25 | JP¥ 186918]
Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark With engravings by Eric Gill & an introduction by Gilbert Murray.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [2], xiii, [6], 149, [3]pp. Edition limited to 1500 copies, this is No. XXX. Signed by Eric Gill. Hand set in Gill's Joanna type, and printed by Hague and Gill on dampened paper handmade by Barcham Green. Bound in full tan English pigskin by George McKibbin & Son, stamped in blind with designs by Eric Gill on upper and lower covers. With the slipcase. Decorative wood-engraved title page by Eric Gill. Initial letters throughout engraved by Gill, and with five large wood-engravings and one engraved colophon device--all by Eric Gill. This edition of Hamlet took a full two years to complete. It is considered one of the crowning achievements of the Limited Editions Club and ranks as one of the most beautifully illustrated Hamlets of all time. Very Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 1911
USD 825.00 [Appr.: EURO 765.75 | £UK 658.75 | JP¥ 128506]
Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings, Theater
Keywords: Theatre Shakespeare
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