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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Quarter blue cloth over beige boards, black lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover. Illustrated with twenty-six B&W engravings by R.B. Parkes and eighteen etchings by Adolphe Lalauze. . Spine sunned, soiled, and worn, hinges starting, pages splitting on p. 189, else square and clean. FAIR. . Vol. 1. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (lxxi), 337 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 510 numbered copies (this no. 163), 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxxi, [1], 337, [1]; vi, [2], 416, [1]; original brown morocco-backed terracotta cloth, gilt coat of arms on covers, gilt-lettered direct on spine, t.e.g., other uncut; small chip out from the top of spine on vol. II, else very good and sound. Handsomely printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham and Co. Bookplate of the Signet Society, Edinburgh. First published in 1740, this new edition, with mezzotints, all original, by R. B. Parkes and etchings by Adolphe Lalauze is "interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries, the whole forming a complete history of the stage for the space of forty years"
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: [Limitation statement]: "Note. 510 copies printed on this fine deckle-edge demy 8vo paper for England and America, with portraits as India proofs after letters. Each copy is numbered, and the type distributed. No. 240" (and #224 for volume 2). Two volumes, tall octavo; size of bindings: 5 3/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. x 1 3/4 in, Volume 1: frontispiece portrait of Colley Cibber; [i]-lxxi, [1]-337 pp.; Volume 2: frontispiece portrait of Cibber; [viii]pp., pp. [1]-416 (including index), + printer's leaf. Both volumes are illustrated with 13 inserted plates with tissue guards, these are mezzotints on India paper, mounted on a thicker paper; engraved by Robert Bowyer Parkes, and 9 etched chapter headings (also on India paper, and mounted at the beginning of the chapters), "newly etched from contemporary drawings by Adolphe Lalauze" (1838-1906), giving a total of 26 mezzotints & 18 etched chapter headings. Bound in quarter, dark brown, morocco leather spines, sides and corner-pieces, by Stikeman & Co., with their stamp on the upper edge of the back of the front endpapers; featuring five raised bands on the spines, with gilt-lettered titling, volume numbers, place and date on spines, single-line gilt borders along edges of sides and corner-pieces; headbands, top-edges gilt, brown paper endpapers. Former owner's printed book labels pasted to each front brown paper paste-down. Spine ends show light wear, with a 1/4 inch chip out of the upper spine end of volume one, wear to cover corners, a few small abrasions to leather outer hinges, sides, spine bands, with a few small spots to spines of both volumes. Interior text and plates are clean. The scan shows the spines and part of the front cover of volume two. Weight: 5 lbs. Postage is extra on this item.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 199 of 305 copies. [Limitation Statement]: "305 copies printed on this fine deckle-edge royal 8vo paper for England and America. The portraits are in duplicate, one on Japanese paper in brown ink before the letters, the other on plate paper as India paper after letters. Each copy is numbered, and the type distributed. No. 199." Two volumes; tall octavos; 6 ¾ inches x 10 ½ in. x 2 in. (thick); Volume 1: half-title/limitation page; frontispiece portrait of Cibber in two forms, with tissue guards; title-page printed in black & red; prefaces; contents; lists of mezzotint portraits and chapter headings, reproduction of an early title-page; Preface, Historical Account of the English Stage; reproduction of a title-page; lxxi, [1]-337 pp. + Chiswick Press device on reverse; Volume 2: frontispiece & prelims., [8]pp., [1]-416 pp., including index + Chiswick Press device leaf. Illustrated with 26 portraits in two forms, with tissue guards, and 18 etched chapter headings. Most pages seem to be unopened. Bound in full, dark green morocco leather by The Monastery Hill Bindery [Chicago], with their stamps in the lower margins of the back leather turn-ins. The spines show five raised bands, with gilt-lettered titles, and a design of masks with laurel wreaths, crossed horns, in compartments, with gilt borders and flourishes on the covers; the inner covers feature leather doublures with a central rose leather inlay which repeats some of the flourishes and with a linked design of inlaid dark green leather diamond & spearhead forms, linked and crossed by curving gilt double lines. Facing dark green silk covered endpapers, headbands, top-edges gilt. The spine ends, outer cover hinges, and cover corners show light rubbing to the leather surface. Tissue guards show offsetting of the portrait images. A finely bound set from The Monastery Hill Bindery, the inlaid knotwork borders on the doublures, have a slightly "Celtic", or "Anglo-Saxon" art look. The Monastery Hill Bindery was opened in Chicago in 1906. "Publisher's Preface: The twenty-six portraits in this new edition of Colley Cibber's 'Apology' are all newly engraved. The portraits are copperplate mezzotints, engraved by R[obert] B[owyer] Parkes from the best and most authentic originals, in the selection of which great care has been taken. Where more than one portrait exists, the least hackneyed likeness has been chosen, and pains have been taken to secure those pictures which are likely to be esteemed as rarities. The chapter headings are etched by Adolphe Lalauze, and the subjects represent scenes from plays illustrating the costumes, manner, and appearance of the actors of Cibber's period, from contemporary authorities." Weight: 8 1/2 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.