Dublin: Premier Print Company Limited, ca. 1980. Poster. 31" x 20". Poster. Text in white and yellow below a reproduction of the illuminated image of Christ taken from the Book of Kells. Everything printed on a purple background. The poster discusses the monastery of Kells and the history of the..... More
London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. First separate edition. Hardcover. 4to. [5], vi-x, [5], 4-660, [2] pp. Contemporary sheep over beveled-edge boards, decorations in blind on the boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and rules in blind on the spine; all edges red. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Bound..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1970), 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. [7], viii-xviii, [1], 2-359, [5] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several double-sided color plates and with numerous full-page black..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xlvii, [2], 2-399, [1], [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-444, [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with the Bohn's device on each front board, gold lettering and..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-270, [6] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. A collection of biographies on popes, emperors, nuns, and various people from the Medieval period..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xv, [1], 1-290, [6] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several full-page photographs. A cross-cultural history of how the myth of Paris was interpreted and kept alive during the Middle Ages. A name on..... More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], ix-xii, 1-147, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Part of the Literary Structures series, edited by John Gardner. A scholarly work from the..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-292, [4] pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine. Purple endpapers and pastedowns. With a few full-page photographs as illustrations. With a contemporary Cornell University bookstore price sticker on the jacket's rear panel. A..... More
New York: The Viking Press (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-207, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over patterned paper boards with grey and silver lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.95 on front flap of jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Illustrations..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. [1930], 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [6], 4-368, [2] pp. Black cloth with a decoration in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust..... More
Venetiis; Romae: Haeredem Hieronymi Scoti; Iulium Accoltum, 1586; 1570. Later editions. Hardcover. 2 vol. Folio. [12], 1-149 (foliated leaves); [12], 1-269 (foliated leaves) pp. Later full parchment with manuscript hand on the spines; all edges decoratively stained blue. Later endpapers, though volume two retains an original rear endpaper. This is..... More
New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 1880. Later printing. Hardcover. [7], x-xiii, [4], 2-331, [1] pp. Grey cloth with black decorations on the boards and spine, spine lettered in gold. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four additional plates, black and white drawings. Marshall's informal history covers London, York, Carlisle, Canterbury..... More
Ulm: Matthaus Schultes; Matthaus Wagner, 1679. Later edition. Hardcover. Folio. [13], 2-58, [123 unpaginated illustrated leaves] pp. Contemporary parchment with manuscript hand on the spine; all edges decoratively red. Title page printed in red and black. Lacks the frontispiece, else complete. Illustrated with 123 striking woodcuts. Adams 962-964. British Museum..... More
London: The Folio Society (2000), 2000. Fourth printing. Hardcover. 5 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Red cloth with gold and purple decorations on the front board and spine, gold and purple lettering on the spine; green cloth with purple and gold decorations on the front board and spine, purple..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 2-506, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [5], vi, [3], 2-521, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spines. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [2], 3-278 pp. Green cloth with red lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and line drawings by Don Pottinger. Includes an index, a bibliography..... More
Paris: Pauquet Frères / René Pincebourde, ca. 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [5], 2-4. Contemporary half blue pigskin over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold floral decorations; top edge gilt. Bound by Chatelin. Decorative grey and blue endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with 96 color..... More
New York: Holmes & Meier [1991], 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xvii, [3], 1-404 pp. Quarter grey cloth over beige cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Translated by Caroline Higgitt. Part of the Europe Past and Present Series. More
New York: Walker & Company, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xxv, [1], 254 pp. Maroon paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs on plates. Mild..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-245, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering within a black border on the spine. Jacket design by Gwen Frankfeldt. With a few full-page illustrations and charts (all in black and white). A name on the free..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], viii-x, [3], 2-440, [2]; [9], 2-395, [1] pp. Green vertically-ribbed cloth with gold lettering on the front boards and spines; top edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and several plates, black and white photographs, also with a map..... More
London: William Pickering, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. Page dimensions 27.5 cm x 19 cm. Both volumes unpaginated. Contemporary pebbled red morocco with the spines in six compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spines, boards with gilt decorations and rules, gold rules and tooling to the..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], ix-xvii, [5], 3-176, [4] pp. Red and black patterned paper boards with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Part of the Centers of Civilization series. Tape ghosts on the endpapers and pastedowns; jacket is price-clipped..... More
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Firenze [= Florence]: G.C. Sansoni, 1917. Later edition. Paperback. Small 8vo. [6], vii-xlviii, [2], 3-290, [6] pp. Beige paper wraps printed in red and black. An illustration of Dante on the front wrapper and on the title page (an engraving of his profile). With the publisher's stamp and price sticker..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], v-x, [6], 3-413, [1], i-viii, [8] pp. Quarter blue cloth over red cloth with gold lettering on the spine, blue topstain. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Illustrated with..... More