Search Results: Authors starting with S from Bliss Books

Introduction and Notes by Richard M. Baum. Very good plus book in very good minus dust jacket. Limited edition of 2050, this is #1142. 4to. 108 numbered pages. 23 plates including frontispiece, several are aquatint. Oatmeal cloth covered boards with brown lettering and graphics on front panel. Spiral bound. Some sunning at extremities. Age-darkened page edges. Elegant textured dark tan end-papers, previous owner's name on FFEP. Age-toning on text margins, else internally clean. Shallow diagonal creasing on upper corners from page 72 on. Cream colored dust jacket with black and orange lettering is soiled/grimy overall, spine and fore-edge folds are sunned, more so on spine. Pencilled writing in the upper corner of front panel. All folds are creased and scuffed. Loss at head and tail of jacket spine and fore-edge corners, along with adjacent tears: Loss of 1 3/4" by up to 7/8" across tail of spine and with adjacent 1 3/4" closed diagonal tear into back panel and 3 1/2" closed vertical tear up the back… Read More

Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, to which is prefixed, Some Account of the Author's Life, by T. Smollett. The FIFTH edition, in four very good minus volumes. B. Way, T. Lowndes, W. Nicoll, Richardson and Urquhart, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, J. Know, J. Murray, E. Newbery, J. Debret, and J. Fox, London, 1782. 12mo. Vol I [xl], 293pps; Vol II 314pps; Vol III [xi], 331pps; Vol IV 332pps. "Illustrated with twenty-eight Copper-Plates, designed by Hayman, and elegantly engraved." Vol I includes a two-page Dedication, and the Life of Cervantes and Preface of 40 pages. Vol III contains a Preface and Approbation, a total of 11 pages. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spines are six-paneled with gilt-stamped borders; four panels have gilt-stamped decorations, and one each for the blind-stamped lettering and volume number on small red ovals. The external edges have gilt dentelles, some of which have been rubbed off. Spine hinges on Vol I are cracked and the… Read More

Very good, first edition book. Ex-lib. Leather binding. Professionally repaired, boards reattached, new spine. Half and full title, xii, [1]-566, Errata. Sm4to. 10 7/8" by 8 3/4". Boards and edges have wear and rubbing. Pages edges are evenly trimmed, moderate age-toning and slight soiling. Very good internally, with (6) library stamps on verso to verso to title page, verso to dedication page, advertisement page, two Contents pages, and page 1 of the text. Misc. stamp and blue notes on front paste down. Text pages are clean and with occasional foxing.,
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