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MORNING, Thomas.. One Hundred Book Plates Engraved on Wood.. London: Alexander Morning Ltd. De La More Press, n.d. [c.1900]., 1900.

Price: US$222.20 + shipping

Description: 8vo. pp. xxv, 100. 100 b/w engraved illus. half-cloth, t.e.g. (light foxing to endpapers, half-title & title and some interior pages, some wear to edges, spine ends bit frayed).

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada

Alphonse Bacheret. Une Centaine Des Peintres. George Barrie, Philadelphia, 1900.

Price: US$1995.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: One Hundred Works of Great Masters: Centaine de Peintres {Limited "Edition D'Amateur" Edition Grand Deluxe limited to one of 1200 sets, sold only to Subscribers, This being set 205, in the original deluxe 3/4 brown gilt extra Morocco with decorative boards featuring a real paint palette in multi color in center in each volume, One joint needs repair, else all is near fine, some rubbing to tips, but the interior is very fine with all steel engravings fine and clean and bright with their tissue guards. A bargain for a great set of 103 engravings. BACHERET, Alphonse / George Barrie: Publisher George Barrie; Boston, N.Y. Philadelphia 1880s, 1880. Unbound. Book Condition: Good. Portfolios with 103 b&w engravings housed in eleven (11) volumes (plates are loose as issued by publisher), the INDEX OF ENGRAVINGS list 100 engravings; limited edition of 500 unnumbered copies was sold by subscription; it is missing 3 plates: Turner, John C. Horsley, and Charles L. Muller -- BUT with one extra plate not listed in "Index of Engravings" (by Laurence Alma-Tadema titled:" Le Galerie des Sculptures"); with 5 extra "fascicule" plates (these are tipped in engravings on the same card paper); one plate is mis-titled (the Sir Landseer plate) and one plate by Greuze doesn't have the text sheet; the table of contents states these are "ENGRAVINGS"; each plate has a seperate sheet "With the descriptive text under the direction of Alphonse Bacheret"; two sheet list artists, titles, and their engravers; each engraving with tissue guards; - have the artist's names, the engravers, and titles; the two sheets of the " Index of Engravings" divides the portfolios into two Sections 1 and 2, eventhough there are 11 folders, each titled DIVISIONS 1-10, plus the extra "fasicules" portfolio; **PLEASE NOTE: to keep the 5 "fasicules" with the same image, I put them with the same image instead of the "fasciules" folder; SOME OF THE ARTISTS: I'm listing with some lesser known artists, ("eng" means the engraver): 1) Michaelangelo Buonarroti "The Lybian Sibyl" eng: Ad. Didier. 2) Canaletto "The Bucentaur" eng: J. B. Allen. 3) John Constable "The Wheat-Field" eng: C. Cousen. ) 4) Delacroix " Eexecution of Marino Falier" eng: L. Flameng. 5) Domenichino has two different engravings "Galatea" & "Samson Breaking his Bonds" both eng: A. Blanchard. 6) S. R. Gifford " San Giorgio, Venice" eng: R. Hinshelwood. 7) Jean B. Greuz has 3 different engravings "Danae", "Morning", and "Simplicity" eng: L. Flameng & F. Joubert. 8) Ingres, Jean A.D. " Angelique" & The Odalisque and Her Slave" eng: L. Flameng. & Haussoullier. 9) Gabriel Metsu "Lady at a Window" & The Proposal" eng: Levy & Rauscher. 10) n. Poussin "Arcadia" eng: Walker. 11) Raffaelle "The Cherubs" eng: Lutz. 12) Joshua Reynolds "Self-Portrait" eng: Hunt. 13) Thomas Stothard " The Vintage Festival" eng: Garner. 14) David Teniers "The Village Doctor" eng: Woernle. 15) O. Achenback "The Monastery" eng: Goodall. 16) Rosa Bonheur "Ploughing in Nivernais-Twilight" eng: P. Moran 17) George L. Brown "Sunset-Genoa" eng: Hinshelwood. 18) William Camphaussen "Frederick the Great" eng: E. Forberg. 19) Pierre L. J. De Coninck "Tambourine Girl" eng: Bourne. 20) John Faed "The Justice of the King" eng: Jeens. 21) J. Jean Henner "The Lady of the Black Divan" eng: Morse. 22) Peter Moran "American Landscape, with Cattle" eng: Peter Moran. 23) Emily M. Osborn "God's Acre" eng: Bourne. 24) Henrietta Ronner "The Last Hope" eng: P. Moran. 25) Marcus Stone "The Interrupted Duel" eng: H. Bourne. 26) Edward Ward "Dr. Johnson in the Ante-Room of Lord Chesterfield" eng: C.W. Sharpe. 27) F.F. G.P. Ziem "Venice" eng: L. Gaucherel. SOME other with just names: William Dyce, Charles L. Eastlake, Jean T. Gigoux, Naricisse Guerin, Bartolome E. Murillo, Titian, David Teniers, David Wilkie, Thomas Faed, William P. Frith, Leopold Horowitz, Jean L. E. Meissonier, Erskine Nicol, Edward J. Poynter, B. Te Gempt, Emile C. Wauters, Adolphe Yvon.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

LAMB, Charles; CHIVERS, Cedric, binder BROCK, Charles E., illustrator. Essays of Elia, The. London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1900, 1900.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: A Fine Cedric Chivers Vellucent Binding LAMB, Charles. CHIVERS, Cedric, binder. BROCK, Charles E., illustrator. The Essays of Elia. [and] The Last Essays of Elia. With an Introduction by Augustine Birrell and Illustrations by Charles E. Brock. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1900. Two volumes bound in one. Small octavo (6 15/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 177 x 103 mm.). xxii, 294, [1, imprint], [1, blank];, xii, 254, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations, including decorative head and tailpieces, all by Charles E. Brock. Bound ca. 1906 in a fine pastel "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers (stamp-signed in gilt on rear lower turn-in), with a delicately hand-painted 'Art Nouveau' floral design. The front cover with three red flowers and a green vine design enclosing the title "The Essays And The Last Essays of Elia. Charles Lamb". Lower cover with a similar design but with just one red flower. Smooth spine similarly decorated and lettered in watercolor and gilt, gilt ruled turn-ins, mottled pale-green liners and end-papers, all edges gilt. Neat ink inscription dated "Xmas 1906" on front blank. A very fine example housed in the original fleece-lined, green cloth slipcase (missing the movable spine panel). This binding is No. LXXXV on page 34 of the Cedric Chivers catalog "Books in Beautiful Bindings" "In his large bindery at Portway, Bath, Chivers employed about forty women for folding, sewing, mending, and collating work, and in addition, five more women worked in a separate department, to design, illuminate, and colour vellum for book decoration, and to work on embossed leather. These five were Dorothy Carleton Smyth, Alice Shepherd, Miss J.D. Dunn, Muriel Taylor, and Agatha Gales. Most Vellucent bindings were designed by H. Granville Fell, but the woman most frequently employed for this kind of work was probably Dorothy Carleton Smyth" (Marianne Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920, p. 86). According to Bernard Middleton, the first vellucent binding dates to 1903. In these bindings the painting is on paper under the vellum, rather than on the underside of the vellum as in Edwards of Halifax bindings (History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, pp. 146-147). Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. Lamb's essays were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers; the essays "established Lamb in the title he now holds, that of the most delightful of English essayists." Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck. Critics have traced the influence of earlier writers in Lamb's style, notably Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Burton- writers who also influenced Lamb's contemporary and acquaintance, Thomas De Quincey. Some of Lamb's later pieces in the same style and spirit were collected into a body called Eliana. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was born in London in 1775. He studied at Christ's Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When Lamb was twenty years old he suffered a period of insanity and was confined to a psychiatric hospital. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar issues and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but was eventually released into the care of her brother. Lamb became friends in London with a group of young writers who favored political reform including Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt, Henry Brougham, Lord Byron, Thomas Barnes and Leigh Hunt. In 1796 Lamb contributed four sonnets to Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects (1796). This was followed by Blank Verse (1798) and Pride's Cure (1802). Lamb worked for the East India Company in London but managed to contribute articles to several journals and newspapers including London Magazine, The Morning Chronicle, Morning Post and the The Quarterly Review. He is best known for his pseudonymous essays for London Magazine, collected and published as Essays of Elia (1823), and for the popular evergreen Tales From Shakespeare (1807), his collaboration with his sister.

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.