BODONI PRESS. ANACREON

Anakreontos Tejoy mele Praefixo Commentario quo Poetae Gve Traditve et Bibliotheca Anacreonteia Adumbratve. Additis Var. Lect.

Parmae In Aedibus Palatinis 1791. Small 8vo (in rs), 148 x 102 mms., pp. [iv], cxviii, [ii], 111 [112 blank], engraved portrait vignettes on first two leaves, printed entirely in capital letters, attractively bound in full vellum, with elaborate gilt roll on cover, spine richly gilt, black leather label, all edges gilt, blue silk end-papers; a bookplate appears to have been removed from the verso of the front free silk end-paper, binding very slightly soiled, but a very good to fine copy. This edition was produced by the distinguished Italian philologist Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi (1740 – 1792). Brooks: Compendiosa Bibliografia di Edizioni Bodoni (1927), no. 422, noting that Giuseppe de Lama in Vita del cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni tipografo Italiano e catalogo cronologico delle sue edizioni stated that the work was soon out of print, and that 150 copies were printed on "carta ducale," 12 on "carta di Annanay," 3 on vellum, and 3 also with the Greek text on vellum. G. P. Giani, in Catalogo delle autentiche edizioni Bodoni (1948), no. 17, states that 200 copies on "carta vergata ducale" (ducal laid paper) were printed but otherwise follows Brooks.

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N° du livre: 8792

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BRIAN (Fred):

A Very Small Book of Etiquette by Fred Brian and Others

No Place No Publisher [c. 1970] Small folio, 268 x 168 mms., unbound (loose stiff wrappers enclosing two bifolia of extremely thick high-quality art paper, the first bifolium bearing the title-page on its first recto; the second bifolium bearing the main text on its first recto and first verso, and its second recto bearing a rather elaborate colophon, with variant title at the head of the first page of text, "Conduct in an Artist's Studio." Colophon on p. [3]: "Rives BFK paper / Garamond type / a Washington hand press; / all handled by Fred Brian of the / Pilot Rock Press --- / add up to: // A Very Small Book of Etiquette." The writer, artist, and printer Fred Brian (1924 - ) manages the Pilot Rock Press, which is among the more celebrated private presses of the United States. The textsconsists of suggestions on how to conduct oneself when visiting an artist's studio. The narrative is featured on the WEN (Wood Engravers Network) website (accessible here, ), but in a wholly different version, one illustrated with woodcuts, whilst ours -- presumably earlier -- is simply text finely-printed. Brian was born in Normal, Illinois in 1924; his interest in printing started just after World War II, and he studied printing at the University of Iowa. I have not located any other copy of this ephemeral and slightly satirical guide to visiting an artist's studio. Uncommon.

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N° du livre: 9055

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Mots-clés: printing etiquette prose

CICERO

M. Tvllii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, multorum locorum correctionne illustratae, ut, post omnes omnium editiones, exeant emendatissima. In qua omnes epistolas commentarii, separdim impressi, propedim edentur, auctore Paulo Manutio Aldi filio.

Pavlvs Manvtivs aldi Filivs Venetiis, M. D. XL VIII. 1548. 8vo, 160 x 101 mms., pp. [iv], 333 + 11 unnumbered leaves, Registrum on recto of following leaf, with Aldus anchor on verso of last leaf, occasional marginal annotation, 19th century quarter sheepskin, red label; several fore-margins water-stained, front joint cracked (but firm), spine dried, corners worn. This edition was prepared by Paulus Manutius (1512 - 1574), who dedicated the work to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier. He was the third son of the Venetian printer, Aldus Manutius (1449/1450 - 1515) and took over the management of the press in 1533. This edition was first published in 1540. Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy collection of Aldine Press Books (California, 2001), no. 320. Renouard 129:2. Adams C1914.

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N° du livre: 7570

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DOUCET (Jerome), editor:

Anacreon. (Introduction et Pieces Choisies) Illustre de hit compositions de Louis-Edouard Fournier eaxu-fortes de Pennequin.

Paris Librairie des Amateurs a Ferround, Librair-Editeur..., 1903 Small folio, 250 x 165 mms., pp. [vii], i - vii [viii blank], 28 [29 Tab le, 30 blank, 31 colophon, 32 blank], title-page in red and black, with small engraved vignette by Pennequin, 8 slightly erotic engraved head-pieces (by Pennequine after Louis-Edouard Fournier), attractively bound in full art noveau style green morocco, gilt image on each cover, gilt bands across spine and covers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. A fine copy, with the very small library stamp of the Selbourne Library on the lower margin of two leaves. Printed in a limited edition of 225 copies, of which this is no. 94. Jerome Doucet (1865 - 1957) was an active writer, collector, journalist, and bibliophile, and this is a very good example of his taste for fine publishing.

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N° du livre: 8585

Catalogue: Printing

Mots-clés: printing art literature

FOULIS PRESS. ARISTOTLE.

Aristotelous peri kosmou, pros Alexandron. Aristotelis de Mundo liber, ad Alexandrum. Cum versione Latina Gulielmi Budaei.

Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis Excudebat R. Foulis..., 1745. 12mo (in 6s), 145 x 82 mms., pp. [iv], [1] - 76 [77 - 78 errata, 79 contents, 80 blank], with the adverts leaf after the title-page, contemporary mottled calf; library stamp on lower margin of title-page and library shelf marks on verso of title-page, labels removed from end-papers, binding a little rubbed, but a good copy with the slightly bizarre engraved bookplate of William Gilpin, depicting a wild boar on a shield, with Gilpin's pencil inscription "Hunc Libellus/ Bib Gul. Gilpin/ A A D D" on the recto of the leaf before the title-page. The bookplate is probably that of the author William Gilpin (1724 - 1804), whose Essay on Prints (1768) was an 18th century best-seller. Possibly he etched the bookplate himself, or it was done by his brother Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807), who was a well-known painter of animals. The work is erroneously attributed to Aristotle; it is also the first edition of this work to be published by one of the Foulis brothers, and there were no subsequent editions. Gaskell 59.

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N° du livre: 7482

Catalogue: Printing

Mots-clés: printing association copy

FOULIS PRESS. SALLUST.

C. Crispi Sallustii Opera quae supersunt, Omnia. Ex Recensione Gottlieb Cortii.

Glasguae:In Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis..., 1751. Small 8vo, pp. [ii], 349 [350 blank, 351 - 352 adverts], contemporary calf, spine once gilt in compartments, but most of gilt gone now; lacks label, joints slightly cracked, last blank leaf frayed at fore-margin. Contemporary autograph of F. G. Straube, St. John's College, Oxford on recto of front free end-paper, with later calligraphic autograph of James Gray on verso. Gaskell 213.

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N° du livre: 3443

Catalogue: Printing

Mots-clés: printing classics prose Scottish Enlightenment Latin

FOULIS PRESS. SALLUST.

C. Crispi Sallustii Opera quae supersunt, Omnia. Ex Recensione Gottlieb Cortii.

Glasguae:In Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas FOulis..., 1751. FIRST FOULIS EDITION. Small 8vo, 153 x 92 mms., pp. [ii], 349 [350 blank, 351 - 352 adverts], contemporary calf; front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, lacks label. Gaskell 213.

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N° du livre: 7483

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Mots-clés: printing classics prose Scottish Enlightenment Latin

LONGUS.

Longou Poimenikon ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen bibloi tettares cum Proloquio de libris eroticis antiquorum.

Parmae Ex regio typographeio [Ioh. Bapt. Bodonius] 1786. Folio, 303 x 215 mms., pp. [viii], lxxiii [lxxiv blank, lxxv drop-title, lxxvi blank], 164, engraved vignette on title-page and on page [v] of prelims, recent full calf, gilt rules on spine, red morocco label, top edges gilt; some very minor blemishes on binding but a very good to fine copy. The typeface here is that designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) in the late eighteenth century, following in the tradition of the Baskerville Press. "Bodoni admired the work of John Baskerville[6] and studied in detail the designs of French type founders Pierre Simon Fournier and Firmin Didot. Although he drew inspiration from the work of these designers,[7] above all from Didot, no doubt Bodoni found his own style for his typefaces, which deservedly gained worldwide acceptance among printers" (Wikipedia). The text is in Greek, with the introductory matter about erotic literature decently obscured in Latin. Several colleagues in the trade note that 150 copies were printed on blue paper, with 10 printed on Annonnay and 10 on double ducal paper. I think the paper in this instance is double ducal.

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N° du livre: 9970

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LUCRETIUS.

Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex.

Birminghamiae: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1773. 12mo, 178 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], 214, contemporary lightly speckled calf, gilt borders on covers, spine gilt to a crossed arrows motif, olive morocco label; front joint cracked, but a very good copy with the bookplate of John Wightwick, with old listing from bookseller's catalogue, tipped in, autograph "Henry James Sparks/ 1837" on top margin of title-page. Gaskell 50.

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N° du livre: 8456

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PROSPECTUS. NEWCASTLE PRESS

Prospectus to the People. In the Course of a Few Weeks will be Published, The first Number of a New Weekly Newspaper, to be called the Newcastle Press.

Newcastle: Printed by Eneas Mackenzie, 129, Pilgrim Street, n. d. [c. 1832]. A broadside proposal for a new weekly newspaper, 250 x 170 mms., printed on one side only. A very good copy. The man named Eneas Mackenzie who printed this prospectus is Eneas Mackenzie Junior. His eponymous father was Eneas Mackenzie (1777-1832), famous and prolific topographical writer of Newcastle. As Alan Bell explains, this elder Eneas Mackenzie was "a strong radical, a secretary of the Northern Political Union, and the leading founder of the Newcastle Mechanics' Institute in 1824. His publications (all from Newcastle) contain much statistical information aimed at providing grounds for local self-improvement. They include An Historical and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland (2 vols., 1811, revised as 'historical, topographical and descriptive' to 2 vols. quarto, 1825); A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2 vols., 1827); and An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham (1834), which had been completed after Mackenzie's death by Metcalf Ross. His other writings included compilations on the history of Egypt (1809), on the life of Napoleon (1816), and on modern geography (1817). More substantially there was An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the United States of America, and of Upper and Lower Canada (1819, with a second edition the same year); this encouraged emigration by including letters from recent settlers in North America. Mackenzie died of cholera on 21 February 1832 at Newcastle. His son, also named Eneas, started an unsuccessful radical newspaper there in 1832" (Oxford DNB). That last sentence of the Oxford DNB article referencing a "radical newspaper" started in 1832 is definitely the newspaper called the Newcastle Press which is the topic of the prospectus on offer. In Men of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed (1895), Richard Welford explains further, saying that the elder Mackenzie indeed "fell a victim to a visitation of cholera which afflicted Tyneside in 1832," and that he "died on the 21st of February in that year after a few hours' illness, at the age of fifty-four, and was buried in Westgate Cemetery. His eldest son, named after him Eneas, carried on the business for a few years, issuing, among other publications, a newspaper, the Newcastle Press (which lasted from July 20th, 1832, to October 4th, 1834), and ultimately emigrating to Australia, where he died. One of the daughters, marrying Mr. Furniss, became the mother of Harry Furniss, the caricaturist" (p. 118). The proposal begins: "Englishmen! We are in the midst of a great political crisis, upon the fortunate or unhappy termination of which it depends, whether the People of England shall be FREE, or the SLAVES of a tyrannical oligarchy. Ireland is already delivered over to military dominion, and an armed police has already been established in England. The Intentions then of our present rulers are plain. It is contemplated to establish upon the ruins of constitutional freedom a government of force." Mackenzie continues in this vein, stating that "Our motto is, LIBERTY AND EQUALITY, fear[ing] the eye, and dread[ing] the tongue of no man. We wish solely to serve the people." The copy on offer of this prospectus is the only copy I know of. It seems unrecorded bibliographically. No copies appear to be listed in the British Library online catalogue, COPAC, or WorldCat. Uncommon [sic].

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N° du livre: 6508

Catalogue: Printing

Mots-clés: printing radicalism prose