Search Results: Authors starting with T from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Hagenau: Heinrich Gran for Johann Rynmann of Augsburg, 1507. FIRST EDITION. 300 x 205 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 1/8"). [165] leaves (lacking final blank). Double column, 57 lines, gothic type. Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, front cover with frame and central diapered area with round floral and banner stamps, rear boards diapered with stag and acorn stamps, evidence of corner and central bosses, since removed, raised bands, ink titling on spine. Capitals struck with red, paragraph marks and three- to seven-line initials hand painted in red. Front pastedown with bookplate of the Abbey of Andechs; early ink ownership inscription of the Abbey on title page. VD16 P1160; USTC 696152. ◆Pigskin on front cover a uniform milky brown (corners and center of boards much lighter due to removed bosses), first and last leaves with minor marginal soiling, final quire with a couple of short cuts to head margin of leaves (well away from text), otherwise quite a fine copy--clean, fresh,… Read More

London: Printed by J. and J. Jackson, Louth, for Simpkin and Marshall, 1827. FIRST EDITION. 163 x 102 mm. (6 1/2 x 4"). xii, 228 pp. LOVELY LATE 19TH CENTURY CRIMSON MOROCCO, ELEGANTLY GILT, covers with plain and decorative gilt rules and fleuron cornerpieces, raised bands, spine gilt in double-ruled compartments with urn of flowers at center surrounded by small tools, leaf garlands at corners, gilt titling, richly gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt. Front pastedown with the bookplate of S. A. Thompson Yates. Thomson 1; Ashley Library VII, 102; Hayward 244; Wise 1. ◆Faint discoloration in bottom margin of about 25 leaves, isolated insignificant soiling, otherwise A VERY PRETTY BOOK IN FINE CONDITION, the text fresh and bright, and the especially beautiful binding lustrous and unworn. This is Alfred Tennyson's first published volume, issued in collaboration with brothers Charles and Frederick when the future Poet Laureate was 18. Although he modestly removed himself from the title, Frederick wrote four… Read More

London: Edward Moxon, 1846. Fourth Edition. 170 x 100 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/8"). Two volumes.. ESPECIALLY PRETTY MOSS GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY FLORENCE PAGET (stamp-signed "F. P. 1907" on rear turn-in), covers with delicate gilt frame of tulips and daisies on curling stems, floral spray cornerpieces, raised bands, spine panels with gilt daisy bouquets, gilt lettering, pastedowns framed with gilt fillets, floral spray cornerpieces, all edges gilt. Wise 15. ◆Spines faintly and evenly sunned, tiny scuff to head edge of one spine, endpapers a little foxed and with the usual offsetting from morocco turn-ins, isolated trivial marginal foxing or smudges, other insignificant imperfections, but A VERY FINE SET, clean and fresh internally in a virtually unworn binding. This collection of verse from the poet laureate's early career was attractively bound by Florence Paget, one of a small group of distinguished female binders at work in England at the turn of the century and a binder Tidcombe praises for the… Read More

Birminghamiae: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772. 300 x 240 mm. (11 3/4 x 9 1/4"). 1 p.l., 364 pp. ELEGANT CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO, GILT, covers with French fillet border and intricate frame of volutes and floral tools, raised bands, spine compartments with central lozenge radiating lancets from each corner surrounded with small flowers and leaves, oblique leafy branch at each corner, gilt lettering, turn-ins with floral roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of V. H. Wilmot, Esq.; front free endpaper with armorial Glenconner bookplate. Gaskell 46. ◆Lower corner of front board with scarcely noticeable small patch of lost patina and gilt from insect activity, just a hint of wear to joints and extremities, but still A VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY COPY, virtually perfect internally--very clean and fresh, with generous margins, and in a refined binding with no significant signs of use. This is typographically a lovely printing as well as a distinguished edition of… Read More

Urbino: Hieronymi Mainardi, 1736. First Edition of the First Italian Verse Translation. 397 x 265 mm. (15 1/2 x 10 1/2"). XXIV, 324 pp. Translated by Niccolò Forteguerri. Modern quarter calf over boards that are covered with printed leaves from an earlier edition of Terence. Title page with the engraved arms of August III of Poland and Saxony and WITH A SERIES OF NEW ENGRAVINGS done directly from the drawings in Vatican MS 3868, and not copied from other illustrations: SIX FULL-PAGE AND 152 HALF-PAGE ENGRAVINGS by Giovanni Battista Sintes, AND 74 LARGE ORNAMENTAL TAILPIECES by Francesco Faraone Aquila after Pier Leone Ghezzi, with six others by Domenico Muratori. Italian text printed in parallel columns with the Latin. Foot of title page with perforated library stamp of Amherst College. Gamba 2165 ("magnifica edizione"); Brunet V, 723 ("belle édition"). ◆Minor foxing to first and last two leaves, mild offsetting from engravings, otherwise very fine, with only trivial imperfections--the text… Read More

Rheims: Jean de Foigny, 1582. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament. 235 x 160 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 14 p.l., 745, [27] (tables, glossary, and errata) pp.Translated by Gregory Martin, with William Allen, Richard Bristow and William Reynolds as revisers. Early 19th century English diced russia, gilt fillet border on covers, spine panels with gilt fleuron centerpiece, gilt titling, turn-ins with gilt chain roll, marbled edges and endpapers (very expert repair to a short portion at head of front joint). Title page with early inscription at foot: "Guil. Har." (very likely indicating the name "William Harvey"); marginal notes in the same hand on pp. 320 and 392, pointing out some inconsistencies in the footnotes; title also with 1849 owner signature of John Fairford; last page inscribed (in a different early hand) "Ei debes quod habes cui debes quod es," a slight adaptation of St. Ambrose's commentary on Luke 18:20 ("Honor thy father and mother"), meaning "To the one… Read More

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, the Earliest Issue. 216 x 139 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). xvi, 624 pp. With ad for the forthcoming "Great Hogarty Diamond" at front. Pleasing polished calf, gilt, by Root & Son (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with central fleuron, one red and one green morocco label, turn-ins with cresting rolls and plain rules, blue endpapers, all edges gilt. 40 steel-engraved plates (including engraved title), all with tissue guards, 150 woodcuts, and initials by Thackeray. Van Duzer 231; Grolier "One Hundred" 87. See Day, "History of English Literature 1837 to the Present," pp. 183-84. ◆Vague dampstain to tail edge of rear board, spine less lustrous than the covers, trivial wear to extremities, occasional minor foxing and faint offsetting from illustrations, other insignificant defects, but an excellent copy--clean and fresh internally, in a pleasing binding with nothing… Read More

1859-85. First Edition, Second Edition, Third Edition, First American Edition, and Grolier Club Edition. Five separately published works.. 1) (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA. (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859) 204 x 152 mm. (8 x 6"). xiii, [1], 21 pp. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES PRINTED, with the misprint "Lightning" on p. 4. FINE LATE 19TH CENTURY DARK BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY ZAEHNSDORF (with their oval stamp on rear pastedown), covers with French fillet border and arabesque centerpiece, smooth spine in one long and two short compartments framed by double fillets, middle (short) compartment with gilt lettering, turn-ins with intricate gilt tooling, mahogany brown silk pastedowns and endleaves, all edges gilt. In matching brown morocco slipcase. Verso of front free endleaf with engraved ex-libris of Roderick Terry. Potter 1; Grolier "English" 97. Spine gently sunned, title page with neat repair to small chip at fore edge, leaves a… Read More

1898-1940. Four separately published works.. 1) (BINDINGS - BAYNTUN). RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (London: Macmillan and Company, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898) 200 x 138 mm. (8 x 5 3/8"). FINE RED COARSE-GRAINED MOROCCO BY BAYNTUN, front cover with large gilt goblet with inlaid snake in black, brown, and green entwined around it, raised bands, compartments with snake and goblet motif repeated in gilt. Housed in a felt-lined maroon cloth slipcase. A couple negligible spots on covers, otherwise in very fine condition. 2) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM: THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA. (Boston and New York: The Riverside Press, 1900) 230 x 150 mm. (9 x 6"). Edited by William Augustus Brown. No. 198 OF 300 COPIES. Very attractive red half morocco over rose-colored paper boards, untrimmed fore- and tail-edges. Except for some light pencil notes, a virtually mint copy. 3) DULAC, EDMUND, Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, [ca. 1909]) 285 x 225 mm. (11 1/8 x 8 3/4".… Read More

1900-12. Three separately published works.. 1) (ROGERS, BRUCE, Designer). RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Boston and New York: The Riverside Press, 1900) 237 x 155 mm. (9 3/8 x 6 1/8"). No. 165 OF 300 COPIES. Attractive amateur binding of dark brown morocco, covers with heavily gilt central red oval onlay, multiple gilt-ruled frames and repeating motifs, raised bands, two red morocco labels with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a matching morocco slipcase with gilt-ruled raised bands and lettering. Designed by Bruce Rogers, using Brimmer type. IN VERY FINE CONDITION, in a pleasing binding. 2) RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [ca. 1910]) 225 x 160 mm. (8 7/8 x 6 1/4"). Imitation dark brown morocco with a heavy grain, gilt ruled border and frame, central gilt lozenge painted green, brown, and teal, surrounded by repeating floral motifs painted green, smooth spine with intricate gilt lettering and floral motif. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Edges… Read More

Parma: nel regal Palazzo, co' tipi Bodoni, 1793. ONE OF 15 QUARTO COPIES ON SUPERFINE PAPER containing the dedication to Marchesa Paolina Rosa Prati (née Sanvitale) and the text of Cebes in Greek and Italian. (50 quarto copies were printed on regular paper with just the dedication and the text in Italian, and 200 octavo copies were issued with just the Greek and Italian text.). 230 x 150 mm. (9 x 6"). 5 p.l. (title and dedication), 62 pp., [2] leaves (blank); 1 p.l. (title), 78 pp. Original orange paper boards, spine with apparently original paper label (either unlettered to begin with or titling now faded away), edges untrimmed. A Large Paper Copy. ◆Two-inch split to tail of rear joint, paper binding a little chafed and soiled, last three leaves of text with slight marginal foxing, but a very fine copy otherwise, the text especially clean, fresh, and bright--with immense margins--in a sound original unrestored binding. This is Bodoni's most deluxe printing of a Socratic dialogue on the… Read More

Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1543. 228 x 162 mm. (9 x 6 3/8"). 142 pp., [1] leaf. Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked preserving most of original backstrip, raised bands, panel at head of spine with the initial and coronet of the duke of Devonshire, second panel with brown title label, other panels with gilt lyre centerpiece. Printer's Pegasus device on title page and verso of final leaf, decorative woodcut initials, four poems printed within representations of their subject matter: a wind instrument, a battle axe, a pair of wings, and an altar. Front pastedown with bookplate of the duke of Devonshire's library at Chatsworth. Hoffmann III, 665; Schweiger I, 309; USTC 149010; not in Adams. For the printer: Greswell I, 110-12. ◆Boards a bit rubbed at edges, first quire browned at head edge, occasional mild marginal foxing, more pronounced on last two quires, but an excellent copy, the text generally clean and fresh with comfortable margins, the restored binding firm and appealing. From the library of… Read More

Paris: Édouard Pelletan, 1896. No. 9 OF 25 COPIES (from a total run of 350) WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR by Georges Bellenger and two extra suites of illustrations, signed by E. Froment. 295 x 228 mm. (11 5/8 x 9"). 3 p.l., xi, [4], 16-41, [9] pp., [1] leaf (blank). French translation by André Bellessort. Prefaced by a letter from Anatole France. ELEGANT HONEY BROWN MOROCCO, GILT, BY LORTIC [fils], covers with Greek key frame, central panel enclosed by interlocking frames of brown and gilt rules embellished with gilt volutes and flowers, oblique palmette cornerpieces, raised bands, spine compartments with centerpiece formed by drawer-handle tools and palmettes, gilt lettering, wide turn-ins with palmette frame, purple watered silk endleaves, marbled paper flyleaves, all edges gilt. Original paper wrappers bound in. Preserved in a calf-lined marbled paper slipcase. Text in two alternating decorative frames, tailpiece at end, and 12 illustrations (three of them full-page) by Georges Bellenger,… Read More

[Cambridge]: John Legat, 1598. Second Printing. 153 x 98 mm. (6 x 3 7/8"). 4 p.l., 375, [1] pp. Modern sprinkled calf, blind-ruled covers, raised bands flanked by double gilt rules, brown morocco label, remnants of paper library shelf label at tail of spine. Printer's device on title page. Front pastedown with bookplate of the Fox Pointe Collection; rear pastedown with deaccession stamp of Bradford City Libraries. STC 19736; ESTC 19736. ◆Spine just faintly sunned, leaves lightly browned (due to paper quality) and trimmed a bit close at head, grazing headline on a couple of leaves, isolated marginal stains or tiny rust spots, but an excellent copy, fresh and clean, in a sympathetic binding with few signs of wear. This was an important work in establishing distinctions in liturgy and doctrine between the Catholic Church and the Church of England, written by a moderate puritan whom DNB considers "perhaps the most significant English theologian of his age." Perkins (1558-1602) was one of the most… Read More

Geneva: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani, 1557. 172 x 105 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/8"). 4 p.l., 17-168 [i.e., 152] pp. (mispaginated but complete). Edited by Henri Estienne. Simple but appealing 18th century tan calf, covers with triple gilt fillet border, smooth spine divided into panels by plain and dotted gilt rules, gilt starburst centerpiece, gilt titling, marbled endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Renouard 116:3; Schreiber 142; Dibdin II, 500; Hoffmann I, 287-88; Hoffmann III, 524; USTC 450450. ◆Joints and extremities lightly rubbed, minor offsetting from turn-ins to endpapers and flyleaves, leaves with a touch of browning to head edge, isolated small marginal spots or minor smudges, but still an extremely pleasing copy, clean and fresh internally, in a well-preserved binding. Rarely seen in the marketplace, this collection of Greek texts printed in the exquisite Estienne "grecs du roi" type includes four parts: the 23 "Characters" of Theophrastus, along with that author's essay on the senses… Read More

Lugduni [Lyon]: Excudebat Guichard Julliéron apud Antoine de Harsy, 1599. Editio Altera [Second Edition]; EDITIO PRINCEPS of books 24-28. 173 x 109 mm. (6 7/8 x 4 1/4"). 12 p.l., 349, [1] pp., [24] leaves.Edited by Isaac Casaubon. 18th century French polished calf, smooth spine gilt in compartments with central floral sprig surrounded by leaf tools, gilt lettering of owner's name (Brunck) at tail of spine, red morocco label, marbled endpapers (older repairs to joints). Printer's device on title page. Text in Greek and Latin. Title page with ink ownership inscription of Bibliothèque Villelufpen and Richard Brunck; isolated ink marginalia in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, or Latin. Dibdin II, 501; STC French 419; Graesse VII, 125; USTC 158510. ◆A couple of short scratches and two small water stains to upper board, shallow chip to head of spine, leaves somewhat browned (due to paper quality), a couple of tiny rust spots, but a very good copy, clean and fresh internally, in a sound binding. From the… Read More

London: s.n., 1730. First Collected Edition. 292 x 223 mm. (11 1/2 x 9"). 6 p.l., 252 pp. Pleasing polished calf, gilt, by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with central sunflower sprig surrounded by small floral tools, lily sprays at corners, two light brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved vignette to title page, and FIVE ENGRAVED PLATES, four with allegorical depictions of each season, the last a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. Front pastedown with bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest. ESTC T153055. ◆Narrow three-inch black ink(?) smudge on front cover, corners and edges with light wear, otherwise quite a fine copy with only trivial imperfections, the text and plates on fresh, clean, and bright paper, the margins very ample, and the binding quite attractive on the shelf. Printed on high quality laid paper and looking very much like a Large Paper copy, this is an attractively… Read More

Seven separately published works in eight volumes.All in their original bindings (see below). ◆Binding of "A Testament of Freedom" somewhat worn, including a short crack to upper joint; "A Christmas Parable with a little rubbing to extremities and tail of lower joint; all other works in mint condition inside and out.Printer and press founder Norman Forgue said in his bibliography that the Black Cat Press "has had a long and prolific life. Founded in 1932 at the height of the Depression, its only assets were an empty pocketbook and a burning desire to do fine printing and make beautiful books, and hopefully find employment." Although Forgue had printed several "little" books and keepsakes early in his career, the first true miniature book was not produced by the press until 1961. The titles in the present collection include:
1) BEWICK, THOMAS, Illustrator. "VIGNETTES FROM BIRDS, QUADRUPEDS AND FABLES." [1971] ONE OF 200 COPIES. Red leather, gilt, French fold. With illustrations printed from original… Read More

Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Maria Salvioni, 1715. 273 x 200 mm. (10 3/4 x 8"). 3 p.l., 31, [7], 31-83, [1] pp. Contemporary sprinkled sheep, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with central fleuron, red morocco label, marbled pastedowns. Engraved vignette on title page featuring a portrait of Pope Clement XI, four engraved six-line historiated initials, four decorative head- and tailpieces, large headpiece vignette of the Translation ceremony, and TWO ENGRAVED PLATES of the coffin and tomb of St. Leo the Great. Not in Ruggieri or Cicognara. ◆Joints a bit rubbed at head, minor wear to extremities, one quire lightly browned, other inconsequential imperfections, but an excellent copy, clean and very fresh internally, in a solid, pleasing binding. This is a rarely seen copy of the "Report of the Solemn Translation of the Body of St. Leo the Great which took place on 11 April 1715 in the Vatican Basilica," written by the Vatican official who served as Prefect of the Basilica. Born into a noble… Read More

Braunschweig [Brunsvigae]: typis Andreas Duncker, impensis Godfridus Müller, 1640. 163 x 95 mm. (6 1/2 x 3 3/4"). 8 p.l., 9-200, [8], 20, [8] pp. VERY PRETTY RED MOROCCO, GILT, BY CAPÉ (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with French fillet border, filigree lozenge centerpiece with centrl oval containg a cross and the motto "In hoc signo vinces" ("By this sign [the cross] you will prevail"), raised bands, spine compartments wtih central filigree lozenge, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With printer's device on title page and 24 engravings, two of them full-page, primarily showing the cross as an instrument of torture. USTC 1009871. ◆One leaf with small marginal repair, text lightly pressed at time of binding, two quires faintly mottled, but still a very appealing copy in a lustrous binding with few signs of wear. Combining macabre illustrations and an elegant binding, this study of crucifixion has a wealth of visual interest. One of the 16th… Read More