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Price: US$11.01 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1825. 503 pages. No dust jacket. Brown marbled boards half bound in red leather. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Hinge are cracked. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Surface tears to leather. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. volume. Engraved plates, autographs of subjects & illustrations in text. Condition: lacks front and rear covers; spine still attached although it's worn; else good and worth rebinding. Pages: xviii, 503.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scuffs to edges of leather. Plate inside front. Hinges cracked. Stamp on first blank page. Gentle tanning and foxing.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in hal-leather with gilt lines to spine and gilt lettered label. corners and spine scuffed. front inner hinges split, but firm. occasional foxing and offsetting, mainly to the plates and surrounding pages.
Seller: Ely Books, ELY, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in green leather which has been moderately worn, rubbed, and soiled.
Seller: The Red Onion Bookshoppe, Hanover, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound by JP Gray & Son, Cambridge binders, 3/4 dark green Morocco over patterned boards, 5 raised bands with gilt titles, date and decoration, previous owner's Ex Libris label to front paste-down. Separate title page and frontis portrait for each subject, 11 b&w plates and in-text wood-cut engravings. A little rubbing to edges and a tiny bit of damage to head of spine, some foxing and offsetting to endpapers.
Seller: Scrivener's Books and Bookbinding, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$54.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copper-plates (11 as listed including the illustrated & signature plate as the frontispiece) + wood engravings as listed (52). Small octavo half tan roan (rebacked in tan cloth with fragments of old spine relaid/tips worn /marbled boards rubbed) xviii +503pp +[1]p colophon and Printed at the Shakespeare Press by W.Nichol. A few pages with minor foxing and name Prosser to fly leaf. *A significant edition with full notes and portrait of each of the 5 biographies as also many charming scenes, views and small portraits. There is an illustrated half title to each section all dated 1825. 1 volume.
Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Repaired full leather binding with tooled and gilt stamped decoration. Some chipping and wear on front and back covers. Title page is present, but detached, paste down book plate on inside front cover, marbled endpapers, text is clean with some foxing esp. on pages with illustrations. Overall a lovely book.
Seller: Green Mountain Books & Prints, Lyndonville, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good Copy in full calf with gilt decoration on covers and gilt title and decoration on spine. Light sunning to upper and side edge of lower cover. Head of spine lightly rubbed. Coloured end papers. Gilt folio edges. Free of inscriptions. Clean and flat contents
Seller: Balfour Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Description: The first Major edition. Large paper copy in crown 8vo with the plates on india paper published at £2 2s. pp. xviii,[2],503. With a frontispiece & 10 further copper plates plus 52 wood-cuts on the letterpress. Small stain to lower margin of the Donne portrait. Bound in contemporary straight-grain morocco, the spine richly gilt in five panels, the boards with lined borders & decorative corner-pieces. Aeg. Lighty rubbed. With the contemporary signature of Charles Tennant on the title. Vg. [Coigney p.388; Lowndes 2830; Allibone 2566; Slater 312]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: LARGE PAPER EDITION, engraved frontispiece and ten plates, all on india paper, other engravings in text, xviii, 504 pp.,some foxing to plates, heavier on prelims, bookplate of Hon P Ashburnham, contemporary gilt decorated green morocco, gilt edges. A NICE COPY
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
WALTON, Izaak. LIVES OF DOCTOR JOHN DONNE.[ET AL]. LONDON, MAJOR, 1825, 1825.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PORTRAITS, WOODCUTS; 3/4 MOROCCO FIRST "MAJOR" EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Major edition, large paper copy. 8vo in fours. xviii, 503 pp. Illustrated, portrait plates, copperplates on India paper, vignettes, head and tail-pieces. With the bookplate of George Allison Armour (Princeton, 1877) whose extensive library was sold through Anderson Art Gallery in 1937. Heckscher 2153. Sage, p. 233 (quoting Allibone): "This edition was intended as a companion to Major's editions of 'The Complete Angler.'" Coigney p. 387. Very good. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt, boards framed with multiple gilt and blindstamped rules, nicely rebacked, gilt spine title, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. (8836).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with 52 woodcuts and 11 copperplate engravings. Tastefully bound in full green leather, gilt double rule and blind stamped triple rule on front and back covers, gilt inner dentelles, and gilt decorated panelled spine. All edges gilt. Very good condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$267.68 + shipping
Description: To which are added the Autographs of those Eminent Men now first collected an Index and Illustrative Notes. . London: John Major 1825. Sm. 8vo. Full black morocco (slightly rubbed). Spine gilt-titled and with raised bands. Inside dentelles. (xviii 504pp.). With frontisp. several full-page plates text-illusts. dec. initials. and illust. tail-pieces. Hinges strengthened some minor foxing and occasional pencil underlining otherwise very good. Adorned under the gilt of the fore-edge is a fine painting depicting a city street possibly London or Bath with Georgian buildings passers-by and horse-drawn carriages.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Walton, Izaak. THE LIVES OF DR. JOHN DONNE, SIR HENRY WOTTON. John Major: London, 1825.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: Illus, 7.5 x 5", gilt-ruled polished calf. India-paper mounted plates.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, xviii, 503pp with publisher's ads in rear; engraved portraits inserted; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco with elaborately gilt-tooled spine in six compartments with raised bands; t.e.g. This edition, collecting all of Walton's Lives together for the first time, followed Major's edition of The Compleat Angler by two years and was meant as a companion volume. Bookplates of H. Walter Webb and Leila Howard Codman; two catalogue descriptions pasted in; tips, edges, and spine-bands rubbed.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
WALTON, IZAAK.. The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton.. London: John Major, 1825, 1825.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in full, green, straight grain morocco, decorated in gilt; raised bands, titled 'Walton's Lives/ London 1823.' All edges gilt, bookplate, very minor wear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: xx, 503, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 16.25cm x L 10.25cm. Fine binding, probably later 19th century, likely the work of a London shop but without a binder's mark. Full light brown polished calf leather; gilt borders to boards with gilt inner dentelles; spine has five raised bands with four gilt tooled compartments; spine's dark purple title label with gilt lettered "Lives of John Donne Etc." but author's compartment missing its label with impression of "Walton" still faintly discernable; date "1825" stamped in gilt at spine heel which was a practice of the Zaehnsdorf bindery but certainly not exclusive to that renowned firm. Some scuffing at joints, spine ends, and at board edges particularly at corners. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding is firm. B/w plates. Each biographical section with its own title leaf. A few occurrences of light foxing and toning to interior pages; pencil notation "7-" perhaps by some past bookseller at bottom margin of page ii; no other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal. Still a handsome book. (Also available in a matching leather binding but sold separately is THE COMPLETE ANGLER OF IZAAK WALTON. London: John Major, 1823.)
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: John Major, 1825. 1st edition in this format. 8vo. xviii + 503pp. With 52 woodcuts and 11 copper plate engravings mounted on tissue. In full black morocco. Gilt filet borders enclosing previous owner's coat of arms. Gilt edges. Short, contemporary handwritten note on page xviii.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$494.06 + shipping
Description: 8vo (in 4s), 165 x 95 mms., pp. xviii, 503 [504 colophon], 11 unnumbered leaves of plates, autographs opposite title-page, 52 woodcuts in text, contemporary plum calf, with gilt roll border enclosed borders in blank, central panel with geometric design repeated, spine gilt with ornaments of fishing, all edges gilt; some slight wear to extremities, but a very good copy, with name of T. P. Richmond in ink on top margin of title-page. This volume was isssued to complement Major's publication in 1823 of an edition of The Compleat Angler. The present volumes was reviewed in The Monthly Review for 1825: "Of the execution of this edition, it is impossible to speak in too high terms of praise. It is beautifully printed on handsome paper.which may vie with the handsomest specimens of the art of book deccoration. On the whole, we may safely style it a beautiful book, inside and outside both!" e
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$795.62 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Major Edition, Large Paper, with a copper-engraved frontispiece mounted on India Paper, 10 fine copper-engraved plates mounted on India Paper, and 52 woodcut illustrations and embellishments in the text; handsomely bound in later nineteenth century red full crushed morocco BY MYERS, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt to a geometric floral design, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, a splendid, crisp, clean copy in superb signed period binding. With a fine nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate and binder's ticket on front paste-down. LARGE PAPER STATE OF THE FIRST MAJOR EDITION of Walton's great biographical collection, issued as a complement to the same publisher's 1823 edition of The Compleat Angler. Walton lived in the parish of St. Dunstan's where Donne was vicar; his life of his friend was written in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of the poet-clergyman's sermons. The other subjects were also personal friends; their biographies were first published in 1651 (Wotton), 1665 (Hooker), 1670 (Herbert) and 1678 (Sanderson). The plates are all early proofs on India Paper; the plate 'The Advocate' is engraved as 'The Pleader'. A LOVELY, BRIGHT COPY IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED CONTEMPORARY SIGNED BINDING. JOHNSON RATES THE WORK 'AMONG HIS MOST FAVOURITE BOOKS'.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1154.94 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Major Edition, with a copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, 9 copper-engraved plates and 52 woodcut illustrations and embellishments in the text, one or two plates very faintly foxed (with some resultant faint offsetting to facing leaves); most handsomely bound in late nineteenth century navy blue crushed full morocco, sides with triple frame border in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt to a geometric floral design, all edges gilt, elaborate gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, a splendid, crisp, clean copy in superb signed period binding. With the engraved gilt trade ticket of Pickering on front paste-down, and the binder's stamp 'BM Pickering' on front free endpaper verso. The first Major edition of Walton's great biographical collection, issued as a complement to the same publisher's 1823 edition of The Compleat Angler. Walton lived in the parish of St. Dunstan's where Donne was vicar; his life of his friend was written in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of the poet-clergyman's sermons. The other subjects were also personal friends; their biographies were first published in 1651 (Wotton), 1665 (Hooker), 1670 (Herbert) and 1678 (Sanderson). In this copy the portrait of Henry Wotton (called for at p.87) is placed as frontispiece to the volume as a whole; the portrait of Hooker (called for at p.161) is placed at p.166; the plate 'The Advocate' (called for at p.377) is engraved as 'The Pleader' and placed at p.378. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM EDWARD COMPTON AUSTEN LEIGH TO LORD FRANCIS HERVEY WITH THE FORMER'S NEAT HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED 1865 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Austen Leigh was Master at Eton while Hervey was a pupil. A UNIQUE AND QUITE OUTSTANDING ETON ASSOCIATION COPY OF A WORK RATED BY JOHNSON AS 'AMONG HIS MOST FAVOURITE BOOKS'.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1539.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A beautifully bound edition of Izaak Walton's 'Lives', sumptuously bound by Riviere and Son, complete with detailed plates throughout. The first John Major edition.In a striking morocco binding by Riviere and Son.Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and engravings.Collated, complete.A series of insightful and concise biographies by Izaak Walton, commonly known as 'Walton's Lives'.This volume explores the lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Robert Sanderson.Bookplate of W. A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to the front paste down. In a full morocco binding by Riviere and Son. Externally, very smart. Spine is a little faded. Very light bumping to the extremities. Very light rubbing to the spine. Bookplate to the front paste down. Tipped-in note from prior seller to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2066.81 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. xviii, 503 pp. [+ 11 unpaginated copper plates]. Small octavo. 5 volumes in one. Bound in green leather. Decorative gilt boarders on front and back boards. Very minor staining on front board. Gilt decoration, title and publishing date in roman numerals on spine. Gilt edges. Dark red coated end papers. 52 B/W woodcut illustrations throughout text. 11 tissued guarded copper plates, which includes 6 frontispieces. Some minor foxing throughout. Fore-edge watercolour painting by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) depicting "Fishing in a Punt" featured in "The National Sports of Great Britain". In very good+ condition. From the Estate of Randall J. Moskovitz, MD, Memphis, Tennessee.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada