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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Impression. 6 x 8.5in. Unpaginated, complete. Publisher's vellum spine over paper-covered boards. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, spine lightly darkened, appears ever so slightly over-opened at the title page, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Set in Caslon and printed on hand-made paper at the Chiswick Press. Maize paper covered boards, vellum back in black (a little soiled). A very good copy indeed.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean tight and unmarked slender hardcover. 1/4 vellum over paper boards.A33 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [35]. Vellum-backed boards. Printed at the Chiswick Press.Rear cover slightly marked. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Cobden-Sanderson T.J.. Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful. , 1902.
Price: US$166.96 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small 4to., a good copy in original quarter vellum, lettered in black, pale brown boards a little bumped at top fore corner, fore and bottom edges uncut. London, Printed at the Chiswick Press . Sold by the Hammersmith Publishing Society. Cobden-Sanderson on his soap box, yelling in apparent frustration that ?the idea to be communicated by the book comes first, as the thing of supreme importance?, emphasizing and re-emphasizing that ?the Book Beautiful.should be conceived as a whole?.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
COBDEN-SANDERSON T.J.. Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful. , 1902.
Price: US$166.96 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small 4to., a very good copy in original quarter vellum, lettered in black, pale brown boards, uncut and unopened. London, Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society. Cobden-Sanderson on his soap box, yelling in apparent frustration that ?the idea to be communicated by the book comes first, as the thing of supreme importance?, emphasizing and re-emphasizing that ?the Book Beautiful.should be conceived as a whole?.Spine a trifle darkened and some very mild rubbing to very edges of boards, otherwise a good, clean copy. Booklabel on front pastedown.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Not paginated, but about 30 pp. of text. Bbound in quarter vellum, brown-paper boards. Title printed in black on spine. Deckled fore-edge. Both the front and the back free end-papers show brown spotting which may be off-setting from sheets of paper since removed. Dusting to the vellum. A near fine copy.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.70 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two important writings by Cobden-Sanderson, including perhaps his most famous 'The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful'. One of 300 copies on paper, from a total edition of 310. ¶ Description: Publisher's quarter vellum binding with brown paper boards, titled in black to spine. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; unpag. [19]ll. Printed on hand-made paper by the Chiswick Press. ¶ Provenance: Bookplate to front pastedown of Johanna Henrietta Doniat. ¶ Condition: Boards very lightly rubbed, internally throughout tight and clean. A near-fine copy. ¶
Seller: Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints, Zürich, Switzerland
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.. ECCE MUNDUS. Hammersmith Publishing Society, London, 1902.
Price: US$235.13 + shipping
Description: Industrial ideals and the book beautiful. Pp. [38](last colophon); demy 8vo; qr. vellum, spine lettered in black, brown papered boards, fore-corners slightly bruised; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, upper free endpaper faintly offset, a couple of light spots of foxing; printed at the Chiswick Press and sold by the Hammersmith Publishing Society, London, 1902. First edition.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Not paginated. (Small 4to) original vellum-backed boards, spine lettered in black. One of a handful of copies in vellum and boards (instead of plain blue boards with glassine dust wrapper) of the first publication of the Hammersmith Publishing Society, done in the manner of the Kelmscott press, with expressive text by one of the leading British practitioners of the Arts and Crafts movement. Printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Wittingham & Co. Light wear and soiling to binding; internally fine.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.