SPINE ENDS < Back to Terminology List SPINE ENDS Feature The top and bottom edges of the spine. Often referenced when both areas are worn. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE The Haunted Bookshop OWNER: Nialle Sylvan Member since: 2020 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 15 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): nialle@thehauntedbookshop.com 3193372996 219 N Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA, 52245, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

222 year old embroidered Royal binding PRICE £2000 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Königl. Groß-Brittannischer und Churfürstl. Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher Staats-Kalender :auf das Jahr 1798 worin das Staats-Verzeichniß der Königlichen Regierungen, und übrigen Hohen Civil- und Militair-Bedienten in den Deutschen Ländern. Publication Date: 1798. [32], 264, 34, [16] printed pages. All edges gilt. New endpapers with offsetting from first and last printed pages. Bright and clean copy, free from obvious defects. 11 x 18 cm. Contemporary German or English binding of silver-wire, satin thread and silk embroidered binding, rebacked preserving contemporary front and back boards. Upper board with central Royal cypher of George iii, with four sequin and silver star corners and scrolling silk border with leaves in alternating light and darker greens and berries on stems, all on rubbed and slightly worn horizontal silver satin thread ground. Back board with vignette of silver thread and silk woven basket with foliage of different green leaves surrounding brilliant pink flower and overflowing with trail of daisies, all resting lopsidedly on leafy flourishing branch above vibrant and verdant background. Similar to the front board, with four sequin and silver star corners and scrolling silk border with leaves in alternating light and darker greens and berries on stems, all on rubbed and slightly worn horizontal silver satin thread ground. Some of the silver wire-work on the stars and on the Royal cypher have become loose. Colours of silk threads slightly faded but surprisingly intact. Edges and corners rubbed. Drab but expertly replaced spine. George III (1738-1820) , the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha became heir to the throne on the death of his father in 1751, succeeding his grandfather, George II, in 1760. He was the third Hanoverian monarch and the first one to be born in England and to use English as his first language. George III is widely remembered for two things: losing the American colonies and going mad. One of the most cultured of monarchs, George started a new royal collection of books (65,000 of his books were later given to the British Museum, as the nucleus of a national library) and opened his library to scholars. WorldCat can only locate copies within Germany & nowhere else worldwide. Rare 222 year old embroidered Royal binding, in good condition. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Camden Lock Books AN ALMANACK FOR The Year of our Lord God, 1679. John Goldsmith. >>WONDERFULLY ANNOTATED<< See Item 222 year old embroidered Royal binding See Item HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. FAIRY TALES. 12 LARGE DESIGNS IN COLOUR BY Eleanor Vere Boyle. See Item OVER 100 HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT COSTUME PLATES FROM 1814 See Item Gideon Harvey The city remembrancer: being historical narratives of the great plague at London, 1665 See Item WILLIAMS (Samuel Wells) . Narrative of the American Embassy to Peking, in July, 1859 See Item A Thelemic Tarot Baphomet Publishing 1977 See Item Danger 66,000 Volts TGM 0038 Submission Stage 2 Rem Koolhaas/Office for Metropolitan Architecture See Item JOHANN LEONHARD FRISCH 1712 Nouveau dictionnaire des passagers françois-allemand + allemand-françois See Item Hand-coloured copper engraving (1819) from the GRANDEST BOOK of VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE. See Item

PIRATE EDITION / PIRATED EDITION < Back to Terminology List PIRATE EDITION / PIRATED EDITION General An edition of a book or work that is published without the authorization of the author or copyright holder. Typically, there is no payment by sum or royalties for the use of the work. 19th and 20th century piracies were sometimes born from lax or nonexistent copyright laws between British and European nations and the United States. Thomas Bird Mosher and Elbert Hubbard took advantage of this to publish both known and obscure works without the authorization of, or payment to, authors. Previous Next

DISBOUND < Back to Terminology List DISBOUND Defect A book which has been removed from its binding (the binding is typically no longer present). The first example image shows an item that was likely once a part of a larger book. Examining the left side you can see traces of the cords and other parts of the original binding. The second example image shows a book issued in wraps, but is disbound with the wraps nearly gone. Previous Next

Pheasant Drawings PRICE $1295 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Kingston Upon Hill: Allen Publishing Company. Fine. 1988. Hardcover. "The Monographs of the Pheasants by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1872) is among the finest of all illustrated bird books. This is a facsimile reproduction of the 95 original drawings and the 79 colour plates from Elliots Pheasant. The 95 charcoal field sketches and 79 colour plates are reproduced here by offset lithography. Preface by Elanor Maclean the Head Librarian of the Blacker-Wood Library of McGill University, Montreal. Introduction by David M Lank. Half bound in fine leather with raised bands and tooled in gold leaf, enclosed in a slipcase and placed in a custom wooden box. Columbier folio (17 ¼ x 24 inches) the colour plates are Royal quarto (10 x 13 inches). Limited to 275 copies and 10 proof copies. This being 119 of 275 copies. Published in Spring 1988 at £ 950. Book and slipcase in fine condition, original prospectus laid in. Bookplate of Steve Bales in the front. Wooden display case in near fine or better condition, with a photo of Joseph Wolf, some features and the below description: In 1872 there appeared a two volume folio, A Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants. It had been written and financially underwritten by an extraordinary American Naturalist, Daniel Giraud Elliot. Of the 81 lithographed plates, 79 had been hand-coloured after the original sketches of Joseph Wolf, acknowledged as the greatest animal painter of his age. The true joy of Elliots Pheasants, starts and ends with Wolf's sketches, drawn not with hesitant strokes and brittle twigs of charcoal, but with boldness and genius, and with what Palmer, in his Life of Joseph Wolf, called good sturdy stakes that fill the fingers and will not snap under the strain of sudden inspiration; . Palmer understood the importance of the sketches: It is unfortunate that the finest of these (charcoal drawings) have not been seen are not likely to be seen by the public, for it is on them that his fame as an artist should indisputably rest. Upon the best of them, any competent art critic would doubtless agree that it would rest securely for all times; . This facsimile reproduction of those very sketches in part redresses the wrong Palmer so rightly pointed out. Elliot recognized fully what Wolf meant to the book when he chose to dedicate the ; Pheasants; : To my friend, Joseph Wolf Esq. F. Z. S. Etc. , whose unrivalled talent had graced this work with its chief attraction, and whose marvelous power of delineating animal life renders him unequalled in our times; David M Lank"; Elephant Folio 23" tall; Signed by Illustrator . PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Rare Collections Poems by Frank O'Hara See Item The Little Lady of the Big House (Signed Association Copy) See Item Strange Stories See Item Twice Told Tales See Item Nohow On See Item Pheasant Drawings See Item Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa See Item Psycho See Item Lady and the Tramp See Item Amphigorey Also (Extremely Rare Signed Association Copy - 1 of 6 First State Copies) See Item The Listener and Other Stories - Custom Clamshell See Item The God Emperor of Dune (Signed Copy) See Item

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DIMPLE < Back to Terminology List DIMPLE Feature A small indentation on covers or pages which is usually deliberately created by publishers. Previous Next

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