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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Bifolium prospectus, large folio; with information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Fine. "This new volume, containing a fine selection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will.be of considerable importance." Laid in is a representative color plate of Cochlospermum Gillivraei. Also includes announcements of the year's other Basilisk Editions: The Kelmscott Chaucer and The Red Books of Humphrey Repton.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the first Basilisk Press book list. Printed on 4pp cream card with black title and motif on front cover. Measures 295mm x 430mm. Includes illustrations and promotional details for The Kelmscott Chaucer and The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer on centre pages and The Red Books of Humphry Repton on rear cover. Tiny crease to top of spine and slight shelf wear to lower corners. Laid in is an unused Order Form brochure together with a 1st class Business Reply Envelope.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Repton, Humphry.. The Red Books of Humphry Repton.. Facsimile Ed. Pub. Basilisk Press. 1976, 1976.
Price: US$2081.40 + shipping
Description: Four hardback volumes in slipcases (fine condition) in an all encompassing, handsome, cloth presentation case (nr. fine condition). Three volumes oblong 4to, one volume folio. Charming bookplate of David John Gilson. High quality reproductions of the original colour & b/w. plates and the classic overlays Repton is famous for. Each volume is beautifully bound in quarter red morocco leather with marbled boards. Five hundred and fifteen sets were made of which 500 were for sale. This is set number 247. A magnificent work and a must for the Repton enthusiast. Exact facsimiles of three of Reptons Red Books - those for Antony House, Attingham Park and Sheringham Hall. The fourth volume is an explanatory text by Edward Malins. Malins sets Repton in his historical and cultural setting, assessing his contribution and tracing his work.
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Malins, Edward. The Red Books of Humphry Repton. Basilisk Press, 1976.
Price: US$2177.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please note that this is a heavy item and will require additional postage on international orders. ; Four volumes of varying size in slightly scuffed large wooden box, all quarter bound in burgundy goatskin and water-marbled paper, with individual card slipcases for each volume; All volumes in very good condition with only minor wear to ends of spines, box bumped at edges w/ small splits in paper covering, gilt basilisk design rubbed, but still visible; Three unpaginated collotype facsimiles of the hand-drawn and painted 1792-1812 editions with overlays to show the proposed changes to the landscapes, accompanied by a newly commissioned companion volume with duo-tone sepia photographs in text. The enclosed volumes on Sheringham Hall, Attingham Park and Antony House include before-and-after view watercolours which would have been show to Repton's clients. No red book was ever published prior to these Basilisk editions. ; 13.1 x 17.5" / 11.75 x 8.75"; Unpaginated pages
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
REPTON, Humphry. The Red Books of Humphry Repton. Basilisk Press, London, 1976.
Price: US$2183.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, Basilisk Press, 1976. Four volumes (one folio, three oblong quarto), printed on mould-made rag wove paper. The first three volumes are high-quality colour facsimiles, reproducing the manuscript text and numerous watercolours of the original volumes, complete with folding overlays (with tab and slot fastenings) to many of the views; the fourth volume (of explanatory text) includes 11 pages of plates from photographs by Eric de Maré. Quarter red morocco and marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spines; slight cockling to a few leaves in each of the first three volumes (possibly due to the adhesive used in mounting the plates); a fine set, each volume with an individual slipcase, and all housed in a sturdy cloth-covered box (a little rubbed). Number 99 of only 500 sets for sale (a further fifteen hors-de-commerce sets were also produced). This lavish facsimile edition reproduces detailed plans by Humphry Repton, the doyen of late Georgian landscape architecture, outlining improvements to three important properties: Sherringham [i.e. Sheringham] Hall, Norfolk (1812); Antony House, Cornwall (1792); and Attingham Park, Shropshire (1798). These are accompanied by a uniform volume of explanatory text by Edward Malins. The first volume (Sheringham) includes plans for a new house, designed by Repton's architect son John Adey Repton, in addition to Humphry's designs for the park. 'Humphry Repton (1752-1818) was the leading landscape architect of his day, a master of his craft and an expert in the arts of self-promotion. Congenial, witty, and well connected, he circulated easily in the highest reaches of English society, where he could recruit wealthy clients prepared to pay handsomely for his advice. He presented his plans to his clients in the form of Red Books, thus named for their characteristic red morocco bindings. A typical album contains his observations on the present state of a client's property and his recommendations on how it might be improved. He would compose an eloquent account of his proposals, which would be written out in a fine copperplate hand. A number of watercolor illustrations would accompany the text, some of them furnished with hinged or sliding overlays making it possible to compare before-and-after views of the same scene' (The Morgan Library and Museum website).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia