Search Results: aucassin and nicolette by f w bourdillon

Kegan Paul, Trench , and co., 1887. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1887. 245 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

T. N. Foulis. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. London, 1920; illustrated blue paper covered boards; edge wear; corners bumped with board exposed; spine edges bumped; 1 1/4 inch tear at top front edge of spine with that part of back strip detached at front joint bu attached at rear joint; 16 mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; previous owner's name on free front end paper; tipped-in illustrations; interior clean and unmarked; 80 pages.

Boston, MA: Le Roy Phillips. G/G. ca1925. ........ Boards w/DJ. 12mo., 80 pp., Dj yellowed, edges frayed, cover yellowing, bumped, inscription on ffe, untrimmed page edges, frayed .

Soft cover. Fair. Katharine Cameron. T.N. Foulis Sewn contents. Measures 3.25 inches x 6.25 inches tall. Front cover with small hole is chipped and detached. Most of spine missing and back cover is hanging (literally) by a thread. Cover illustration is intact. 4 additional color illustrations in very good shape. Some foxing of contents. Gift inscription on half-title "A birthday card with love & best wishes from your affectionate son." List of 10 Envelope Books at rear, of which this is No. 5.

Boston: Le Roy Phillips, 1913. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, gilt top edge, 79 pp., illustrated (including tipped-in color plates), clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, age-toning to the pages and the page-edges, some soiling and discoloration to the covers, some wear to the covers including rubbing and some loss especially at the spine. We've housed the book in protective mylar.

London: T.N. Foulis, 1920. Reprinted October, 1920. Book is from The Foulis Books series, and is "Rendered from the old French". Dark and light blue boards, front has illustration of knight and woman on horseback, 79 numbered, deckled pages. Spine faded and smudged, lightly bumped on ends of spine, corners rubbed and bowed. Pages darkened, ffep brittle and small piece missing on fore edge, else pages spotless and binding tight. Tipped-in illustrations exquisite and colours bright. Overall, very good plus.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No DJ. Illus. by Nash, Marjorie. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Lond. The Folio Society., 1947.. Or.cloth with fleur-de-lis design to covers. 60pp. b/w ills. Good copy. 1st Folio Society ed. Aucassin et Nicollette is an anonymous medieval French story composed in a combination of prose & verse. It is an example of a sung story, or 'chantafable' & is here rendered in English

London: T.N. Foulis, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Marjorie Nash. A VERY GOOD copy, with "Reprinted 1920" on copyright page and same date on title page. Author translated this anonymous medieval French prose about 1908. This issue is illustrated with eight (8) tipped in color plates, as well as many b/w line drawings. Fore-edge has lovely deckling, with the pages holding the color plates being a tad larger. A prev. owners book plate on inside front cover; blank front free end-paper has a 1/2" chip to tissue like paper. Very mild scattered foxing to a few pages, no other markings. NO dust jacket. Blue spine is sunned. Still a very lovely copy of a hard to find title. 4" wide x 6-1/2" tall. 80 pages + 3 pages of ads at rear. Protected in a mylar slip.

London: The Folio Society, 1947 (500 gram rate) unclipped plastic DW titled in black (as issued) with minor chips to spine ends, boards are lue and white white fleur de lys design, slippe din is a letter with Folio Society letterhead offering this as a free gift to subscriber's to mark the coronation ( of Queen Eliozabeth II), (ii) 60pp, illustrated headpeices . First Edition. Decorative Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Lettice Sandford. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 170mm Tall, 16mo. A comic masterpiece of medieval French literature dating from the 13th Century. 79 pages. Covers have cellophane covering with edges neatly glued to pastedowns. Page edges unevenly cut. Page edges slightly browned..

Printed by John Wilson and Son of Cambridge for Copeland and Day of Boston, 1896. Hardcover. Cloth over paper boards. Backstrip soiled; one letter of title rubbed on front cover; pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition. . 78p.

Hesperides Press, 2006-05-08. Paperback. Used:Good.

, [2] 79 [5] pages, 8 tipped in colour plates comprising frontispiece and 7 others, red head lettering to pages, illustrated headpieces

Edinburgh, 1910. Paperback. Good. Book is only 3 1/2" wide designed to fit into an envelope. Four beautiful colour illustrations by Katharine Cameron mounted on card .An old French Love Story. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Katharine Cameron R.S.W.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Envelope. T.N.Foulis NZ 67 pages fRIENDSHIP BOOKLET NO. IV

Boston:: Copeland and Day,, 1896.. First edition.. publisher's lettered pale blue boards; cloth spine with printed paper labels.. Tiny ownership signature and same owner's bookplate; spine and spine label tanned; very slight tanning and use to edges of boards. . 16mo,. Printed by John Wilson and Sons, Cambridge.

US: Copeland and Day, 1896. Copeland and Day 1896 Good/ Printed December 1897. Light age toning to boards, light horizontal crease to upper boards, solid sewn structure, Pages lightly tanned, deckled page edges. 10+78+8 pages.. Hardcover. Good.

15 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, and London: T.N. Foulis, [1897] Hard cover, in gray cloth with color illustration to cover, the titles and framing blocked with darker gray and gold, with title in gold to the spine. Has the original glassine wrapper, now in mylar. Also, with the original gifting to/from 2-color sheet tucked within. Contains four color illustrations upon gray card tipped in, signed K. Cameron..(4) 67,(3)pp. CONDITION: Near Fine. Some mild foxing to prelims, not affecting plates. Endpapers slightly browned. Glassine has some small losses at head and foot of spine but remains generally clean, and has done its job to keep the boards tidy.**Glasgow Artist Katherine Cameron (1874-1965) trained at the Glasgow School of Art contemporaneously with the "Immortals," famously among them the artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, in the late 1880's and early 1890's. These images reflect the Glasgow style of Art Nouveau, using watercolor, delicate pen and ink work and attenuated, twining figures. Cameron… Read More

Copeland and Day. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1896. First. Hardcover. Owner name, date (1896) on front free-endpaper. Small bookplate to inner pastedown. Beige cloth spine , blank paper spine label. Blue/grey paper-covered boards, black title. Corners very slight wear. Binding tight and straight, inner pages unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 78 pages .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1887. First edition thus. First edition thus. Tall and thick folio size (12 x 15"). Bound in full dark red crushed morocco in unmistakable Douglas Cockerell designed binding at the W. H. Smith Bindery with geometric interlocking gilt ruled patterning on both covers and spine, with four small gilt circles used as patterning on covers and spine. ONE OF ONLY SIX SPECIAL COPIES with the following holograph note by Bourdillon on facing page to half-title: "Six copies (only) printed of this size/ to take Proof sets of Bida's etchings/ designed for his own rendering into/ Modern French. (Paris, 1878)/ F. W. Bourdillon." Each of the 18 fine etchings by Bida, Alexandre is present in two states (for a total of 18 plates). The WHS monogram appears on the rear dentelle in gilt pallet. TEG, others uncut. Extremely wide margins, nearly four times that of the printed block. Some wear to corners and edges, some marks to covers but unobtrusive, usual foxing present on some of the… Read More