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Price: US$77.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vellum binding quite dirty, rubbed and a little warped. 183pp. Previous owners bookplate.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. (6), 183, (1)pp. With an appendix of books on Goliardic literature. Japanese vellum covered boards lettered in red & black. Spine a bit darkened and front cover slightly warped Goliards were a group of generally young clergy in Europe who wrote satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries of the Middle Ages. This work is also known under the title "Carmina Burana."
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original parchment white paper hardcover with red lettering on cover and spine. Very Good condition with some soiling to the cover but otherwise internals re clean with no markings and a tight binding
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition. 12mo. 183pp. Japanese vellum printed over boards. Corners a little bumped, and modest age-toning, a very good plus copy. Ex-James Gabler. *Gabler* G40675: "dedicated. to a fellow writer and wine-lover, Robert Louis Stevenson."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Addington Symonds. Wine, Women & Song. Chatto & Windus, 1884.
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, #42 of 50 Large Paper Copies. 183, [1]pp. Large 4to (11 x 8-1/4 inches. ONE OF FIFTY. Dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, "in memory of past symposia, when wit (your wit) flowed freer than our old Forzato.". Vellum soine and boards, paper spine label, chipped 183, [1]pp. Large 4to (11 x 8-1/4 inches First Edition, #42 of 50 Large Paper Copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2950.00 + shipping
Description: "Wine, Women, and Song" In a Fine, Near Contemporary 'Exhibition' Binding by Zaehnsdorf [ZAEHNSDORF, binder]. SYMONDS, John Addington. Wine, Women, and Song. Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs. Now First Translated into English Verse. With an Essay by John Addington Symonds. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies of which this is number 28. Quarto (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 276 x 201 mm.). [viii], 184 pp. Bound ca. 1900 by Zaehnsdorf in an 'Exhibition' binding of full red crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt with multi-line borders and floral decorations. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, red silk liners and endpapers. With the small circular 'Exhibition' stamp in blind on rear turn-in. Slight darkening to spine, otherwise very fine. This is the first edition of John Addington Symonds' translations from the Carmina Burana, a Medieval Latin manuscript of 254 poems, songs and dramatic texts from the 11th-13th centuries, being the work of the Goliards, a group of clerical students from France, Germany Spain, Italy and England, who protested the growing contradictions within the Church and satirized it through song, poetry and dramatic performances. The original manuscript contains 55 songs of morals and mockery, 131 love songs and 40 drinking and gaming songs. Symonds' selection is dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson and is prefaced by an essay on Goliardic literature. Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanæ cantoribus et choris cantandæ comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis (Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images). Carmina Burana is part of Trionfi, a musical triptych that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first and last movements of the piece are called "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" (Fortune, Empress of the World) and start with the very well known "O Fortuna". John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love (homosexuality), which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships. He referred to it as l'amour de l'impossible (love of the impossible). A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers and artists. He also wrote much poetry inspired by his homosexual affairs.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$16640.00 + shipping
Description: 170 x 111 mm. (6 5/8 x 4 1/4"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 183, [1] pp.With a preface and explanatory notes by Symonds. LOVELY DARK GREEN MOROCCO, ELEGANTLY GILT, INLAID, AND BEJEWELLED, BY ALFRED DE SAUTY (stamp-signed on front doublure), covers with double gilt fillet border, central panel with myriad swirling vines emanating from three recessed medallions, all with light green backgrounds inlaid with an interwoven strapwork wreath in dark green morocco and gilt, the larger medallion at center set with five cabochon garnets, the smaller medallions above and below it set with one, all three enclosed by pointillé gilt frames, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt tulips and leaves radiating from a central circlet, gilt titling, ESPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES with three gilt medallions framed by strapwork and densely tooled with leafy fronds on a mille-point background, these enclosed by an undulating frame similarly gilt-tooled and inlaid with circles of red or ivory morocco (a total of 64 large and 12 small round inlays on the doublures), crimson morocco free endleaves, all edges gilt. In a silk-lined, morocco-backed green clamshell box, its back with raised bands, and inlaid red morocco circles tooled with a gilt flower in the panels. âA FLAWLESS COPY, inside and out. A selection of satirical 12th and 13th century songs mocking the sanctimonious and praising riotous living, "Wine, Women, and Song" is offered here in an exuberant binding that, like the verses, celebrates beauty, opulence, and pleasure. One of the most accomplished binders at work in the first third of the 20th century, Alfred de Sauty (1870-1949) was the son of an engineer who had studied that discipline himself before taking up bookbinding, and he brings an engineer's precision to his handiwork. He not only possessed enormous technical skill (he made his own tools), but also had a refined imagination for design. He began his career as a finisher for the renowned Riviere bindery, and after leaving their employ in the late 1890s, he worked as a designer at the Hampstead bindery; in her essay "The Mysterious Mr. De Sauty," binding authority Marianne Tidcombe observes, "De Sauty was responsible for some of the best designs of the two binderies, and carried out all the stages of the craft himself, from sewing to the designing and exceptionally delicate tooling of the covers." In his "Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the 12th to the 20th Century," Nixon features a binding similar to this one in the techniques employed--particularly the intricate gold tooling on the doublure--as an exemplar of De Sauty's work, citing it as "a most accomplished piece of finishing." He further notes that De Sauty's "finishing was of a very high standard and he was a patient and careful worker." Prideaux praised De Sauty in her "Modern Bookbindings," saying that "his inlays are distinguished for the taste shown in the association of colours, and his finishing has some of the brilliant qualities of the French school, seen particularly in the finely studded tooling of which he seems particularly fond." In 1922, De Sauty left England for America: he had been recruited to become the manager of the Extra Bindery at RR Donnelly Co. in Chicago, where he did much to raise the standards of hand bookbinding in the United States. The verses here were composed in Latin by a wandering group of students and young clerics known as the Goliards. Primarily made up of younger sons from wealthy families forced into careers in the church by the laws of primogeniture, these rebellious youths had little interest in an ascetic religious life and took to the roads of England, France, and Germany as bands of singers and entertainers. Their songs mock Church hypocrisies and celebrate the sensual pleasures of a worldly existence. An accomplished scholar whose career advancement was blocked because of his sexual orientation, Symonds is best known today for writing the first account of homosexuality in English and for his open and early advocacy for acceptance of homosexuals in Great Britain.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.