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Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maroon Cloth, Beveled Edges, Embossed And Heavily Gilt, Buff Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. Brilliant Full Page Chromolithographed Pages With Small Area Of Text At Centers, Printed On One Side Only. Wear, Small Areas Of Fraying At Tips, Hinges Intact. No Names Or Marks. Complete With 20 Chromolithographed Pages, Including Title Pages And Colophon/Publisher's Page At Rear. One Page Detached, A Few Pages With Small Edge Tears And Chips Outside Of The Colored/Printed Area.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$365.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chromolith illustrations to each page by W. R. Tymms from illuminations by W. & G. Audsley. Folio purple gilt cloth with green onlays bevelled boards (tips sl.worn) 20 leaves. One page with clean 3.5" tear with old neat repair to verso and hardly visible to the printed surface. Lacks free endpaper All Edges Gilt. 2 pages with edges cut short thus approx.1cm loss to blank margins. A few other pages have a narrow dusty area but NOT touching any border illumination nor printed area. Book is tight and handsome copy of this sought after work. Printed one side only each leaf having a double or triple illuminated border with much gold which surrounds the text. Some decorative initials and headpieces. Every page differs. The binding is nice and bright. 1 volume.
Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books, Blockley, GLOS, United Kingdom
Lord Byron; Audsley, W & G (Illumination). The Prisoner of Chillon. Day & Son, London, 1865.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12.25" x 9", 20 chromolithograph leaves printed rectos only, in beautiful publisher's binding of elaborately decorated three-tone purple cloth with beveled edges, all edges gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed, binding delicate but holding, foxing to some blank pages (front and rear flyleaves, a few versos of the plates), title page appears to have been reinserted at some point and has some glue staining at the gutter. The stunning chromolithographs were desiged by the Scottish architects and designers William James Audsely and George Ashdown Audsley and printed by W.R. Tymmes, one of the leading chromolithographers of the period. In an article on the Victorian Web website, Simon Cooke writes that Day and Son were "the most influential proponent of picture-books illustrated by chromolithographs in the period from the mid-1850s to the end of the 1860s. Tymms became the publisher's foremost technician, and all of the imprints of this period give his name a prominent billing. The illuminations are extremely diverse, and Tymms was required to make accurate transcriptions which varied from the entirely ornamental to the figurative, and in a variety of styles," among them "the Audsleys' endlessly varied borders and decorative letters" in The Prison of Chillon.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. 30.5 x 23 cm. Twelve chromlithographed leaves printed recto only by W.R. Tymms. BECKWITH. Victorian Bibliomania 31. Bright, very fresh copy, front cover eleborately decorated in blind and color using medieval designs. Two toned brown gilt decorated cloth, beveled edges. Aeg. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: McLean: ÒIn 1865, Day & Son issued an edition of ByronÕs The Prisoner of ChillonÉ illuminated by the Audsleys, richly polychromatic, and richly muddled in its mixture of decorative styles, the total effect being most attractive,Ó (Victorian Book Design, p. 133) Quarto. [20] ff. chromolithograph plates (printed on one side only). Beautifully illuminated by Audsley with decorations by W.R. Tymms. Original polychrome purple cloth decorated in gold, blue, and red. Expertly recased. Expertly recased. Slight rubbing to extremities. Faint contemporary ink signature to front flyleaf. A very good, remarkably clean and bright copy. First edition thus. The poem was originally published in 1816. McLean: ÒIn 1865, Day & Son issued an edition of ByronÕs The Prisoner of ChillonÉ illuminated by the Audsleys, richly polychromatic, and richly muddled in its mixture of decorative styles, the total effect being most attractiveÓ (Victorian Book Design, p. 133).
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.