Price: US$27.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small folio hardcover in ornate fleur-de leys type cover, VG, tight and straight spine/binding, pages bright and unmarked, bumped corner and quarter-size loss of design on front. Limited ed. To 1100 copies, signed by Bruce Rogers. ; Essays; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 190pp pages
Seller: Mossback Books, hartland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190p. Title page printed in red and black. All edges decorated blue. Includes an insert of the Heritage Club Sandglass, Number V:15. Introduction by Christopher Morley and Postscript by the great bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach. Text beautifully designed by Bruce Rogers. 4to. Original cloth spine over gold decorated boards. Gilt lettered spine. Bruce Rogers designed the covers with a pattern from a tapestry which hung in Elizabeth's Throne Room. Original slip case. Hardbound. A very nice copy. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
BACON, Francis, Baron of Verulam. The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. Heritage, New York, 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Decorated initials throughout. 190 pages. Slim 4to, cloth-backed decorative boards, dust wrapper slipcase (sturdy but worn on spine). New York: The Heritage Press, 1944. A fine copy, complete with original onionskin wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Description: Quarto, xi, 190 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus portfolio. Portfolio in green cloth, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Spine is green with faded gold print. Boards quarter bound with green cloth to spine and decorative green and gold paper to boards. Wrapped in age-toned cellophane. Text block has has gilt top edge, deckle edges, tanning to endpapers, slight occasional foxing within, paged uncut. Signed in ink by the printer on the limited edition page. Note: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. 1372683. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Francis Bacon. The Essayes of Francis Bacon. Limited Editions Club, 1944.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ISBN . B001KVGNJ0 Oversized, Heavy, Hardback in presentation box. First Printing Thus. Book is in Very good to near fine condition with minor edge wear and owners name on front free endpaper. Box is in very good condition due to stain on bottom part of front or lid of box, Tight, bright, attractive copy.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Francis Bacon -- Baron of Verulam; Viscount Saint Alban. With an Introduction by Christopher Morley. No. 1060 of 1100 copies signed by Bruce Rogers. Printed at the Press of William E. Rudge's Sons. In folding box. Gilt edged pages. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Some unopened pages. 190 pages. Measures 8 3/4 x 13. Bacon published the first edition of these Essays in 1597. Essays on: Truth; Death; Unitie in Religion; Parents and Children; Marriage and Single Life; Envie; Travaile; Cunning; Regiment of Health; etc.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
BACON, Francis. Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. , 1944.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. Orig. cloth-backed patterned boards; T.e.g. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. 4to. Limited to 1100 numbered copies printed at the Press of William E. Rudge, under the direction of Bruce Rogers, and signed by him. With an Introduction by Christopher Morley and Postscript by A.S. W. Rosenbach. Small bookplate, else fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1100 copies designed and signed by Bruce Rogers. 1 vols. 4to. Signed by Bruce Rogers. Bound in quarter blue cloth and decorated boards, t.e.g. Fine One of 1100 copies designed and signed by Bruce Rogers.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1944.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by Christopher Morley and note by A.S.W. Rosenbach. 4to. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and green/gold decorative paper over boards, green cloth-covered clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. ix, 190pp (mostly uncut). Top edge gilt. Fine/very good. Mild wear and age toning to clamshell case. Tight and handsome copy of these renowned early 17th century essays by the philosophizing statesman, 1st Viscount St. Alban and Lord Verulam (1561-1626) -- fifth title in their 15th series. Printed at the noted press of William E. Rudge's Sons, the colophon at rear notes their lower World War Two limitation of 1100 numbered copies (this #1073) signed by legendary book designer Bruce Rogers. NEWMAN 157.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First, thus, no. 615 of limited edition of 1100 copies, designed and SIGNED by Bruce Rogers (typographer and type designer said to be one of the greatest book designers of the twentieth century). Oversize hardback in folding portfolio slipcase. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Fine, with glassine jacket, in very good slipcase, a little worn at spine head.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Tall folio in gold and green hardcovers with vinyl protector; VG; minimal soiling; ex-libris taken off from back cover; age-toned parchment paper with deckled eges; text in large print; pp. 190; signed by book designer on end page; shelved in Case # 10; please contact us for shipping costs; GP consignment. 1260428. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club (# 838 of 1,100); signed.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1944.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition. With an introduction by Christopher Morley, book design by Bruce Rogers. Light foxing else fine in the original very good glassine dustwrapper which has darkened, housed in a very good clam shell box which has some fading on the spine and boards. One of 1100 copies numbered and signed by Bruce Rogers.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #834 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page. Fine in glassine and about Fine clamshell box
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$341.68 + shipping
Description: folio. pp. ix, [3], 190, [1 leaf]colophon. decorative initials. coat of arms on title. printer's device at end. title & colophon in red & black. original quarter cloth, t.e.g. (light shelf-wear, else very good). without the slipcase. Limited to 1100 numbered copies, signed by the Designer, Bruce Rogers. Introduction by Christopher Morley, bibliographical note by A.S.W.Rosenbach, decorative initials and design by Bruce Rogers, printed on Worthy special paper by William E.Rudge's Sons, NY, set in monotype Shakespeare, the design by Rogers based on the Janson type face, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY, the sides of the book covered in gold and blue paper with an Elizabethan design re-drawn by Rogers. LEC Quarto-Millenary 157.Philosophy Bruce Rogers
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Bacon, Francis. The Essayes; or Counsels Civill & Morall. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1944.
Price: US$372.50 + shipping
Description: 4to, cloth-backed decorative boards. One of 1100 numbered copies in the edition, signed by the designer Bruce Rogers; the printing was done by William Edwin Rudge. The introduction is by Christopher Morley. An elegant and appealing volume. Fine in original glassine (nicked) and folding box, rubbed.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In a handcrafted, period bookbinding by Jarmilla Sobota. Number 958 of 1100. [Colophon:] "Eleven hundred copies of this edition of The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon haven been printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Press of William E. Rudge's Sons, under the direction of [signed:] Bruce Rogers This copy is Number 958.". Size of the Sobota binding: 9" x 12 7/8" x 1 ¼ " (thick); (xii), (1)-190 pp. + colophon leaf, signed by the designer (Bruce Rogers). Half-title, title-page in black & red, with heraldic shield, Introduction by Christopher Morley, with Postscript by A. S. W. Rosenbach, Note on the text, Table [index]; Epistle Dedicatorie; printed in a large, clear type, keeping most of the original spelling; with early 17th century style initial letters. In a beautifully designed and well-executed early 17th century-style, period binding by Jarmilla Sobota, with her binder's stamp in gray on the lower leather turn-in of the inner back cover. The binding is full, white pigskin, with five raised bands on the spine, and the covers featuring a typical series of blind-stamped borders in floral or geometric tooling, with central panels in a similar, cross-hatched design, with handmade & engraved, brass clasps, mounted on pigskin straps. The outer surface of binding has been given some very light "antique" staining; hand-sewn headbands; high-quality paper flyleaves have been added, but the LEC/BR Bacon's Essays has not been trimmed down. Preserved in a sturdy and handsome, drop-back clam-shell box ( 9 3/4 " x 13 ½ " x 1 7/8" thick ); this is covered in a textured, tan cloth, with mounted panels of a lion & shield, design-printed brown & tan paper on the sides; interior is lined with a gray-green tinted paper. A few lower page margins show small, light paste spots; outer edges & inner spine of box show minor rubbing, wear spots. Binding is in fine condition. Handmade by Jarmilla Sobota in the 1990's. Scan shows the central portion of the front cover, but not the entire cover. Weight: 5 lbs.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.